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NOVEMBER 2, 1939

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“SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2—A. {friend of mine is manager of ,the Hertz Drivurself station here in San ~ We got talking about his work one evening. He is tone of those infrequent souls who can see all the = drama and glamour in his own job. The little details of this Progaic « sounding business of ing out automobiles kept me entertained for hours. So I reckon I'd better set some of it down for you. - The Hertz people have 100 cars for rent in this San Francisco area. On the average, about 40 are rented every day. But this summer, during the Expositibn, they had to turn down 15 people a day for lack of cars. Autos are traded back in when they've gone 10,000 miles. Consequently customers always have new cars to drive. The company has a time limit of one year

for a car. Which ever arrives first—the 10,000 miles,

or the year of use—ends the car for Hertz. About 60 per cent of those who rent cars are people who come into town on vacation, The other 40 per cent are salesmen and businessmen, usually working for big companies. : Most all the big oil companies and other national concerns use Hertz cars. The companies, of course, keep cars of their own. But if there's a. sudden peak in business, or an unusual number of salesmen in the territory, it’s cheaper:to rent just for those occasions

“than it is to buy enough cars for the busy periods,

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Our Town

IF YOU'RE ANYTHING like myself, you've done a lot of stewing about the photograph submitted by W. H. Beck in the recent Camera Show at the Herron. It was the one labele& “Just Garlic.” Set yourself to hear. the: worst. Mr. Beck shot his 3 subject right here in Indianapolis —somewhere around W. 52d St., where Lawrence Eby has a farm called “Larry Lane.” To look at the place from the outside, it looks innocent enough. Once you get inside,- however, you'll discover that he has a patch of no less than six rows of growing garlic (Allium sativum). Each row is every bit of 80 feet long. That's some garlic, folks. Even so, it isn’t enough to fdianapolis. I dug into that, too, to get at It's worse than anybody suspects. Last instance, Indianapolis got away with 15,000 the stuff. Enough to venture a guess that, rlic is here to stay. . w » 2

Concession From California

To be sure, the quantity of garlic consumed doesn’t look like much’ compared with the hundred thousand pounds of snuff put away in Indianapolis last year, but it's pretty alarming when you consider that a pound of garlic goes a durn sight farther than a pound of:snuff. : Well, that leaves me to tell you that California— Heaven help her—makes up the differehce and supplies Indianapolis with the garlic Mr. Eby isn’t able to provide. California, I'm told, grows three-fourths of all the garlic consumed in the United States. It amounts to 15 million pounds a year, or 499 freight cars full. Next to Mr. Eby, California grows the best garlic in the world. I got the Californians to admit it. Spanish garlic is the best of the foreign growth. It surprised me, too. Here I've been living all my life secure in the belief that Italian garlic is tops. Well, one lives fo learn. The truth of the matter is that real-for-sure gourmets will have none of it. For some

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Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Surface calm inside the Democratic Party is deceptive and actually does not go any deeper than neutrality legislation. Underneath, the party is split as before. On one side you have a group of New Dealers anxious to renominate Mr. Roosevelt, moved no doubt partly by devotion to him and partly by the fact that he is their mealticket. When he goes out they go out. The most aggressive organization work of this group, in Washington State and in California, has been conducted by young left-wing Democrats on the Pacific Coast. Leadership of this largely has been in the hands of Norman H. Littell, an Assistant Attorney General, aided by: Marshall E. Dimock, second

" Assistant Secretary oi Labor John Boettiger, Seattle

publisher, and his wife, Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, daughter of the President, have been-active in this movement. ; The explosive letter of John L. Lewis, refusing to have anything to do with the 11-state Western conference arranged for January by this group, has Jprobably damaged its usefulness as a means of launching a grassroots third-term movement. At least the party-regulars think so and for that they are grateful, for the first time in years to John L. Lewis. ® " #

Bitter Fight Indicated

On the other side, you have the regular politicians .of the. party dead set against a third term. Vice President Garner is now considered to be a real candidate and he may have one of the largest blocs of delegates at the convention. Another. considerable

FT. WORTH, Tex., Wednesday.—Before we left the train in Oklahoma City yesterday, we saw a newspaper which carried a most amusing account, written by a newspaper reporter who acted as though he were

a detective describing his day’s efforts in extracting the information concerning the time of my arrival in Oklahoma City. It always seems a little “unfair on these lecture trips to tell people every detail of your plans so far ahead that they feel obligated to look after you and try to do something for you. If no one is quite sure until the last minute, except the sponsors of the lecture, then the plans are left enfrely to them as they should be. We were greeted on arrival by some members of the Altrusa Club. It was to find myself again with group which seems to attract particularly active business women. They made their regular business reports, and I was struck by the useful work they are One committee was arranging a series of six’ discussions ‘and talks for young working girls at which their problems will be discussed and advice given by women who have eady tablished

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fact, if you rent a car and steal it, you haven't actually stolen it, according to the laws of California. It's this way: Suppose you walk into.the Hertz garage, go down the ramp, get in a car, and drive it out the door without anybody seeing you. That is stealing it. But if you rent a car for a day, and then start to New York in it—you’ve morally stolen it, but legally you've merely “converted” it. Hertz reports that people take pretty good care of rented cars. The average tourist is more careful than the commercial man. In its one year of life for Hertz, each car will average one busted fender. Serious accidents run about two a year. You must have a driver’s license before they'll rent you a car. And, although California gives driver's licenses at 16, Hertz won't rent you a car unless you're 21. About a third of the transient renters are women. i

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S tudy in Psychology

The steep hills of San Francisco frighten some |

out-of-towners. Occasionally Hertz has to send out an instructor for half an hour or so with a renter from the East, to teach him to drive on the hills. There has never been an actident because of the hills. About 40 per cent of the people who apply for cars are turned down. This is because the manager figures they're drunk or going to get drunk, or that they're not good drivers, or that they're criminals. Each rental is a little psychological study between the applicant and the station manager. He knows human nature pretty well. His decision on practically all his refusals is made while the prosactive renter is walking across the garage floor to: ward him. He admits that he probably loses a lot of good customers on this quick judgment, but he also avoids a lot of bad ones. The Hertz men work closely with the Police Department and the FBI. Many criminals have been caught this way, because criminals seem to be big renters of automobiles.

By Anton Scherrer

reason, foreign garlic is harder and harder to get. Seems the steamship schedules don’t function right now. Which, of course, leaves California and Mr. Eby having everything their own way. Garlic growing got its start thousands and thousands of years ago on the plains of what is now Russia where most of our troubles have their beginning. Then it spread like everything all over the world—except ‘ancient Greece. When it reached the New World, it made the pioneers awful mad because the cows ate it'and the milk tasted of garlic. Over at the State House, if you ask them, they’ll tell you that if a cow even smells garlic her milk is no. good. Outside of that, though, garlic can flavor anything

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Greeks Had a Place for It

To clear up the finicky old Greeks: They wouldn't have. anything to do with garlic. Just wouldn’t put up with it. Not in their kitchens, anyway. They kept the stuff in their stables where the. dogs bedded. Maybe you don’t know it, but garlic is fine for worming puppies. . And, apparently, the Greeks didn’t know that garlic was good for voice culture. If they had, Demosthenes wouldn’t have fooled with a pebble. He would have reached for a clove. smell garlic over at the Jordan Conservatory of Music. Instead of buttering their toast in the morning, the singers over_there put a little olive oil on it and rub it with garlic. . Heroic, all right, but it works.

Garlic eating doesn’t get going good in Indianapolis until sometime around October when the

“Italians celebrate the discovery of America by Christo-

pher Columbus. It’s helped along a lot, too, by the start of the Portfolio suppers and the opening of the Jordan School of Music. The taste for garlic kind of peters out around June: Which doesn’t mean, however, that you don’t have to be on your guard the year round. Our restaurants never take a vacation and keep right on serving dishes marked “a la Provencale.” Every time you see a dish dolled up. like that, you can make up your mind that bos mostly made of garlic. I thought you ought to now.

By Raymond Clapper

bloc will be influenced by Chairman James A. Farley and still others will be supporting Secretary of State Hull. It is possible that these three - figures, with their allies, will among them account for close to a majority of the delegates. ‘ There will be no third-term nomination without a fight and a most bitter one. Vice President Garner may be counted as one of the leaders in that. And probably Chairman Farley. President Roosevelt’s intentions remain an unknown factor. Some feel it likely that he will make his position clear soon after the new year opens. These believe he will decline to stand for renomination, although with them the wish may father the thought. : 2 » ”

The President's Problem

His difficulty is this: He wants a liberal candidate and a liberal platform. He can obtain the liberal platform quite easily. To get a liberal candidate ,%ill be more difficult. He has a limited choice. Supreme Court Justice W. O. Douglas would satisfy some of the New Dealers but mention of him brings only an indifferent smile from regular party leaders. They can’t see his delegates. Paul McNutt, the best bet to bridge the party gap, is never likely to be acceptable to National Chairman Farley. . Who else? Senator Wheeler? He has a long way to go. Secretary Wallace? His pplling power isn’t rated high enough at the White se.

: Already the forces against a third term are well organized. , They are fairly well along in their undertaking to control the next national convention. They are far enough along to make it probable that the President either will have to make a deal with them or else go to the country over their heads in a fight for delegates that would be as bitter as any the: Democratic Party has ever seen, and that's something.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

: : ' themselves in some business or profession. Another committee chairman reported on the work ‘done to

help older womén who have to go to work in middle

life with comparatively little training. The particular procedure they follow originated in Dallas, Tex., with the Altrusa group there. The chairmim told the story of a woman who wanted employment in an office, but who after careful interviewing was found to be primarily interested in sewing for her own home. A number of people had her make slipcovers and drapes for them and she made such a name for herself that one of the big shops in the city in which she lived finally employed her. .She was able to save her home, which was her main reason for wanting work. The third report dealt with a project which might} be termed pure charity. The support of a room in the home for unmarried mothers. After a press conference, the WPA and NYA representatives came to see me. The construction programs being carried out by both of these agencies in this state seem to be extraordinarily successful. On the train yesterday a gentleman spoke to me who is connected with the training of Indian boys in their CCC camps. Some 7000 of them are doing soil conservation work. Yesterday afternoon the representatives of the WPA administration presented me with some bead work done by their Indian girls’ project. This project has meant a revival of the old

By Ernie Pyle|

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Overworked Soil Rebels In Farm Belt

(Last of a Series) By Charles T.-Lucey

Times Special Writer . VV ASHIN GTON, Nov. 2. —When the dust storms—the “black blizzards”’—rolled out of the Great Plains area a few years ago, leaving abandoned farm homes and millions of barren acres behind them, there were few, probably, who related them to

the World War. When thousands of Midwest farmers, desperate and defiant, rose up in the depth of the de-

| pression against an onsweep of

farm mortgage foreclosures the country didn’t set down these up-

risings as an aftermath of war. But .both conditions, in considerable part, did stem in fact from the great inflationary spree the country knew in 1917, 1918 and in the immediate years thereafter, when the United States entered the war and began a tremendous job of supplying the Allies with foodstuffs. They stand among the innumerable more obscure, but no less costly, burdens this country has had to bear as a result of that war. Thousands of farmers, hurrying to grasp the golden, opportunity presented in farm prijes gone sky. high, took millions of acres out of grazing, turned them before the plow, worked them to the limit, left them lying idle when the boom days passed. Droughts pulverized loose topsoil through the years and the winds came to whirl tons of dust from the Mississippi to the Eastern seaboard. ; When the farmers took the profits from wartime - harvests they turned, in thousands of cases, to new farms, better farms, farms bought at war-time inflationary prices. As long as prices held they met their mortgage payments, and ‘continued to pay even in the prosperous twenties, when little of the prosperity seeped - down to the farmlands. But® the contracting forces of the depression caught them. The wave of foreclosures that swept the country brought disaster not only to those who had bought at wartime prices, but to banks which held ' the mortgages. . Economists say this situation contributed measurably to the bank failures of 1932 and 1933 in many sections. g : Post-war deflation paid for wartime inflation. .

aw... GAIN, it isn’t possible to place a dollar-and-cents figure on these costs that grew out of the war, as it is on pensions and vet-

ESTERLINE GETS COMMITTEE JOB

Chairman of Group Which Will Arrange Municipal League Convention.

New York headquarters of the National Municipal League yesterday announced the membership of Indianapolis committees arranging

for the 45th annual League conven-|

tion in the Severin Hotel here beginning Nov. 15. John W. Esterline, Indianapolis ! is chairman of the general committee, to be assisted by Mrs. Walter S. Greenough, Mrs, John W. Moore, Mrs. Lowell Fisher, Mrs. Clayton H. Ridge, Mrs. Lehmand M. Dunning, William H. Book, Miller Hamilton, William R. Remy, Henry T. Davis, Don E. Warrick, Howard Friend, Edward J. Green, J. Russell Townsend Jr., Roy W. Steele, John F. White and Virgil Sheppard.

Peel Aids Arrangements Dr. Roy V. Peel, Indiana University, and a group of graduate students in the political science department there, represent the League in convention arrangements. Mrs. Dunning is chairman of the reservations and ticket sales committee for the annual banquet to be held Nov. 16 in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Committee members are Mrs. Ridge, Mrs. Fisher, Mr. Townsend and Mr. Steele. Mr. Book is chairman of the program committee and Mr. Sheppard

work for a state-wide attendance at all sessions. Mr. White is in charge of the hospitality committee and will be assisted by 100 Indianapolis men and women who will attend a reception at the Severin Nov. 13. 3-Day Convention Planned

Members of the headquarters staff will arrive in Indianapolis from New York next week to assist in prep-’ arations.. Delegates - from all sectiohs of the United States are expected to attend the three-day convention. : Dr. C. A. Dykstra, League president and president of the University of Wisconsin, and Dr. Herman

dent, will speak ner.’

PAVING PLANS ‘MAPPED

City Engineer M. G. Johnson today started plans for the paving of Pershing Ave. from Morris to Howard Sts, , Se Long requested by South Side residents, the improvement was or-

at the annual-din-

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erans’ hospitals and the billions in foreign credit Uncle Sam put on the cuff—and still has there. But even aside from the tremendous losses to the farmers, the Govern=ment has spent millions on the “shelter belt” built through the Midwest. Some of these expendi--tures can be charged to runaway wartime farming policies. ae Agriculture was drawn far out

. of line by the war. Even before

America became a belligerent, the . Allies, with large sections of their farm populations at ‘the front, turned to the shortest, most practical highway across the Atlantic to fill its larder—to the United States. . Not in 30 years had it been so dependent upon this country for its foodstuffs. Ex- ° ports in wheat, oats, rye, beef and pork products swept upward. Wheat prices went to two and one-half times their: prewar level; cotton that had averaged 11 cents a pound in the prewar decade averaged 28 cents in 1917-18. Most other farm prices Yollowed suit. Production costs reased with the use of inferior lands and farm wages mounted steadily, Figured on prewar averages, acreage devoted to the five chief grain crops increased by 22,000,000 acres by 1918, potato acreage jumped by 600,000 in the same period, and the land given to tobacco was expanded by nearly 400,000 acres. The grazing lands held 9,000,000 more head of cattle in 1918 than they had in prewa years. : : ” 82.2 NCREASED demand came not . alone from Europe, but from shipyard, factory and railway workers who were drawing down silk-shirt wages as they worked overtime to- supply our army at the front. The Government swung behind an agricultural war program, put agricultural advisers in more than 3000 counties to direct and stimulate increased production. : The plow that broke . the plains ‘carried Uncle Sam’s bless-

Wa tch ‘Found’ After 28 Years

- On Jan. 4, 1911, Walter R. Kemper, 5776 Washington Blvd., sales manager for the Furnas Ice Cream Co., notified police of the theft or loss of his watch. ‘Today, police notified Mr. Kemper that they had found the works of the watch—inside another" case—at a downtown pawnshop. He can have the works on demand and the case, too, if he cares to make the purchase.

Numbers of the missing watch have been carried on police records more than 28 years and De-: tectives George Hubbard and Dennis Houlihan made the discovery during a routine check of pawned articles.

WPA PROJECTS IN 5 GOUNTIES APPROVED

The State WPA office has approved - projects for five counties calling for an expenditure of $463,220, John K. Jennings, State administrator, announced today," The projects, which will be forwarded immediately to Washington for approval, he said, include: Whitley County road improvements, $87,698; Carroll County road improvements, $203,789; Shelby and Starke Counties grade and high school improvements, $107,099 and $52,345 respectively, and a Sullivan

~.clamored for the production which ‘converted vast new areas in this

A town in the Dust Bowl, a scene duplicated many times over hundreds of square miles where the precious topsoil, overworked for war

production, finally rebelled and was

. War's end did not stop the vast production. Productive forces were demoralized for a time afterward in some European countries, and the United States was on the job extending credit to finance purchases. Farmers bought good automobiles and trucks, pure-bred livestock at. fancy prices, and land hooms developed in some parts of the country. Everyone hoped, of course, that the level of high pro‘duction and high prices could be maintained. Some were predicting $5 wheat. But surpluses and skidding prices brought a collapse in 1920. = The nation’s agricultural economy- had been expanded beyond all previous bounds by war de-

mands and the temporary stimu-

lus of foreign credits, and it is axiomatic in farming that it is easy ,to expand but difficult to contract. When prices fell subsequent to the war, often more acreage was planted to offset these ‘slumps and the increased production only. acted further to keep prices depressed. Farm organizations exerted pressure to provide more credits to allow Europe to continue to buy our produce, but these attempts were beaten. Other restoratives provided no lasting, effective answer, % When American agriculture was trying to emerge from this wartime production surge, millions of new acres were being turned to crops in such agricultural countries as Canada, Argentina and ‘Australia. + Europe, : which had

country to cultivation, was increasing its output similarly. United States food exports declined steadily and by 1932-33 had fallen to pre-war, levels. Since 1933, the Roosevelt Ad-

“ministration through the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, has carried on an acreage curtailment program, paying out hun-

CITY RED CROSS SEEKS WORKERS

300 Volunteers Sought to Knit Garments for Polish Refugees. ar

The Indianapolis Red Cross appealed today for 300 volunteers to knit garments for Polish refugees in the Balkans. : Five hundred pounds of yarn have been ordered for workers who will knit sweaters at home. All gar‘ments are to be completed by Jan. 1 for shipping. J Numerous Indianapolis residents have offered their services, chapter officials said. Among the first to volunteer was Mrs. Emily Touchette, 536 S. Keystone Ave. Mrs. Touchette said that when only 12 she sewed for soldiers during the World War.

GEN. JOHNSON ON FT. WAYNE PROGRAM

Times Special ; FT. WAYNE, Ind. Nov. 2—Gen. Hugh Johnson, former NRA administrator, will speak on current events Nov. 27 in the Shrine auditoriim under sponsorship of the Ki-

wanis Club as a benefit project. Gen. Johnson is expected to discuss neutrality, the European war and the international situation as it

County index of deeds and mortgages, $12,289. : e

G. O. P. Veterans

County

George R. Jeffrey, Indianapolis attorney, will speak ‘at the first of a series of meetings sponsored by the Republican Veterans of Marion County, at 8 p.. m. Wednesday at the. Claypoel Hotel hve. ! - ‘Opportunity will be given Republican candidates for Governor, Senator. and other offices to express their views, according to Frank E. Live , organization chairman. “Representatives of various movements will be heard by the veterans in order to gain as much information as possible concerning all activities bordering on politics or which ay have an effect on

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zation vice chairman; George F. Dickman of Greenfield, 11th District chairman; Carl Vandivier, Marion County Republican chairman; Arch N. Bobbitt, Indiana Republican State chairman, and the Rev. F. C. Huston of Indianapolis, a representative of the Townsend Old-Age Pension Plan. = Sie ‘Mrs. Pauley will discuss the part the Auxiliary can take in the approaching campaign. The Rev. Mr. ‘Huston will explain the Townsend movement. : hh _ Organization officers include Mr. Livengood ; L.. Volstad, vice chairman; Otto T. Ferger, personnel secretary; Ernest T.

day. The City will seek for the work, Mr. Johns

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dreds of millions of dollars in benefits, whose cost’ must be charged in part to America’s share in the World War. .

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T is elementary, of course, to:

point out that nations which go t6 war must fall back on their natural resources, just as it is need and desire for more natural resources which send nations to war in the first place, as witness Europe today. To the United States the World War meant not merely a use of natural resources but a costly waste of them. There were no conservation laws of any consequence, and in the name of patriotism there was a displacement of resources from which there has not yet been. complete recovery 20 years later; indeed, there was a waste of some resources which never can be replaced. This waste began even before this country entered the war, in some cases. There was one great Puget Sound forest area of Sitka spruce and Douglas fir into which went representatives of the British General Staff to buy timber. High prices were being paid, owners were willing to sell, and trees were cut down and never used. There had been legislation in Congress to make the area a national park. But this was beaten. There was a rising war market for timber and men wanted the business. It took 20 years to make up some of that lost ground. It was 1933 before the national park was The waste of natural resources which turned grazing land into crop land and brought on the dust bow! has’ been cited. But at the same time there was pressure to permit Western cattle raisers to graze herds in the national parks. The Government granted the permission with the understanding that the cattle would be taken out immediately after the war. But it

By ROGER BUDROW

The 600 operators of the Indianapolis Railways, Inc. reduced accidents 27 per cent last year, by talking things over with officials and then taking action. hat’s why the president. Charles W. Chase, will talk things over at four safety meetings today with streetcar, trackless «trolley and bus operators. 2 : His subject, “The Meaning and Significance of the Brady Award,” refers to the Anthony N. Brady Medal which the transit company here won - recently in competition with street railway organizations in cities with more than 300,000 population. The contest is conducted by the American Transit Association.

Others to Speak Other speakers are to. include James P. Tretton, vice president and general manager; E.-H. Pflumm, superintendent of transportation, and Edward McCreadie, superintendent of bus transportation. One part of the safety program ost the company $3300 last year, ut Mr. Chase said the company was “delighted to spend it.” The money was used. to buy uniforms for drivers who operated - without accidents. : Under the uniform award plan, a

driver operating 1100 hours without an accident is given a uniform cap.

trousers when he reaches 1650 hours without an accident and on the completion of 2200. hours free from an accident he receives the uniform When ‘he has an accident all his accumulated hours are cancelled and he must start over. :

146 Are Acgident-Free

Last year 146 operators had no accidents at all and 431 operators qualified for at least one award. “Another phase of our safety program is personal investigation by officials,” Mr. Chase said. “They try to investigate every accident as soon as possible after it has occurred. Superintendent McCreadie takes pictures of damaged 'vehicles and

ent Pflumm either goes to all major accidents or has one of his staff there.” : !

discuss the ¢ furnish information regarding ds gerous intersections, poor street lighting and other accident-causing

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the accident location. Superintend-|

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took 10 'years™WEGording to Department of Interior officials, to. get’ the herds out of the parks, and another 10 years—right up to today — to-eradicate the damage that was caused. he

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N ‘were opened to. make room for additional herds totaling more than 1,000,000 animals. The justification was that it was “helping to win the war.” Both the British and American navies went to oil-burning ships about World War time, and the demand for fuel increased tremens= dously. The resultant jump in crude prices brought a flush and wasteful production of an irreplaceable and limited natural ree source. ; . Looking for so-cailed strategic war , metals which we pre-

viously had procured abroad, the =

government inspired a period of prospecting for minerals for which it has been paying ever since. Waste of natural resources under a wartime pressure of “helping to win the war,” and derangement of agricultural economics by over=

production and a greed for profits a

when prices are at peak do not affect merely the farming come munity or the Eastern section of the country, Government officials point out. The whole nation has

a stake here, and war-bred pros-

tration in these fields is costly in

its relation to the whole com=

munity. Not only has the weakness in

agriculture, attributable in great

measure to the expansion of the . war years, undermined attempts at.recovery through the depr

“years, but the Test of the taxabl

‘eommunity has had to pay a ‘share of vast benefits ladled out to the farmer. The dust bowl of the Great Plains is a burden not to a few states but to the nation. Department of Agriculture and Department of Interior officials spend millions that are as much a’cost of the World War as the guns and munitions the army carried into France.

Operators for Railways 7 To Hear Talks on Safety

— ] ; also rides with operators and makes suggestions to improve operations.

cussed from all angles that the officials and the operators can think of,” Mr. Chase said. Proper care of equipment also

cidents. Superintendents Gordon Anderson and Charles H. Woods supervise inspection of carriers. Last year the sys carried 66, 653,192 passengers and traveled 14,729,993 miles, Mr. Chase reported Streetcars had 50.8 per cent of the accidents in traveling, 31.4 per cent of the mileage. had 29.7 per cent and covered 38 per cent of the mileage. Motor coaches had 195 per cent in travel

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—On "which thermometer scale is 32 degrees the freezing point of water? . .

Bulgaria? *

Declaration of Independence named Benjamin Harrison?

'4—What place is known as the

Mosquito Coast?

cy do the initials FSA stand? - 6—What is a theodolite? T—What is the correct pronunciae tion of the word modiste?

Where was Thebes? 8 » ”

an Answers 1—Fahrenheit, 2—Black Sea. wh 3—Yes. :

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* |4—A strip of territory on the

coast of Central America. 5—Pederal Security Agency. 6—An instrument used in surveying,

8—On the Nile River in Egypt, _ Ce em AN) ASK THE TIMES

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In addition to, conferences: with drivers, monthly round-table meet ings are held and ‘safety is dis<

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ing, 30.6 per cent of the distances,

2—Which sea lies to the east of

3—Was one of the signers of the 5—For which new government agen

the ancient city of

7—Mo'-deest; not mo'dist or mod'-