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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1940

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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Feb. 5—We were back in the air today, for the first time in months, and we felt so at home I guess we must be part sparrow. It is 460 miles, air line, from Panama to San Jose.

. There is no way to make the trip by train or auto.

You can make it in a day by boat, or in three hours by air. The one-way fare on Pan American Airways is $51. Planes run each way three times a week. They are the big planes that fly between Texas and Panama. A Pan-American car picked us up at the hotel. The man weighed our baggage right there, and we were seven kilos (about 15 pounds) over our limit. I had to shell out $3.57 extra.

“And how much do you

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weigh?” said the man. “It isn’t

nine kilos,” I said. (That's 108 pounds.) possible,” he said. “Get on the scales.” So on his own scales I showed-him. He still doesn’t believe it. I think he felt ashamed to charge me extra

on 15 pounds excess baggage, but that’s the rule.

When we piled out at the airport, we saw a short young man in a uniform coming to meet us, and we recognized him. I think maybe that’s the greatest fun in [all our traveling—running onto people you've met before. This young man was Joe Escalante, a flying steward of Pan American. We had flown with him more than a year ago along the north coast of Colombia. He remembered me, too.

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Another Old Friend

| While they were checking our tickets, there came another man in uiform, a tall handsome man, and we knew him too. We had flown two whole days with him on the Clippers, from Rio clear up to Para, at the mouth of the Amazon. | He was co-piloting when we rode with him last, but today he was captain of the ship. Capt. Joe Britton. I don’t know what could make a flight over faraway foreign countries happier than to have a cgptain and a steward that you know,

Our Town

| IN A SPIRIT of friendly inquiry, I dropped around to see Mother Superior Mary Augustine of the House of the Good Shepherd the other day. For three reasons: (1) because of a certain curiosity to know

whether the Sisters are still running a laundry the i way they did when I-was a boy and (2) to learn whether there is ‘still a call for the exquisite needlework for which the nuns were famous 50 years ago.

My other reason was, more or less, a private one. If you must know, I just love to listen to Mother Superior Mary Augustine. I'd rather do that than anything I know unless, perchance, it is to listen to Sister Agnes who helps her with her work. Every time I see the Sisters it confirms a pet notion of mine that much of the world’s beauty lies within the compass of my daily walks. The laundry, I am happy to report, is bigger than it ever was. As for the call for needlework, it’s slumping a bit notwithstanding the fact that the nuns are turning out work as beautiful as ever. Mother Superior has it figured out that the reason for the slump is because the women of the world aren't wearing as many clothes as they used to. She laughed dike everything when she made her point:

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Recalls Amusing Incident

Mother Superior Mary Augustine was in fine fettle the afternoon I met her. She ransacked her store of memories and brought forth incidents of the cloister that I'll bet nobody knows about. For instance, she recalled that, once upon a time, when the wagon in charge of a driver and a nun went out to deliver a load of laundry, the nun fell off. Honest, right in the middle of the road, mind you. The driver, intent on the horse ahead of him, didn’t miss the nun until a long time after—as a matter of fact, not until it was time to unload which was a good way off from the place where the nun took her spill. It happened a long time ago, but to this day the Sisters rock with laughter when they think about it. There was \the time, too, back in the Seventies

- DALLAS, Tex, Feb. 5.—Confidence of the Garner-for-President agegers here is sustained by two things. 1 First, they see that in the polls he runs ahead of any Democrat except Mr. Roosevelt. Second, they believe—on the basis of many promises—that if Mr. Garner were nominated, hordes of Republicans would leap at the opportunity to vote for this Texas Coolidge. Republicans who have never scratched a ticket write in to say that if Mr. Garner is nominated they will cast their first Democratic vote. , The Garner people whistle quite confidently that the curse which John L. Lewis pronounced upon their candidate will help him. I suspect| that they wish they could be certain of that. They hope William Green of the A. F. of L. will come to thejr support. Outside of those directly interested in the Garner candidacy, one [hears in various Texas communities, and even here|in Dallas, the frequently expressed thought that the pride of the Lone Star state can’t get the nomination, and that he is primarily serving as a barrier to a third term for Mr. Roosevelt. That defeatist sentiment is the most difficult fact with which the Garner people have to deal. .

Point to Gallup Poll

Their answer is first to point to the Gallup Poll, which gives Mr| Garner a broad lead over everyone except the President. That is their most convincing point. But if Mr. Garner comes up at the finish line as the hero of ah anti-Roosevelt movement, and thus incurs the opposition of the bulk of the Roosevelt following, he loses his lead. The lead man will be ‘™

HYDE PARK, Sunday—Here it Is Sunday and I

‘have had a little \ more than 24 hours in the country.

Frankly, I feel a trifle guilty about it, for on Thursday, just before|I left Washington, I received a letter inviting me to testify on Saturday evening before the Congressional Committee which is investigating the District of Columbia institutions, I thought that I should return to Washington and give up coming here, but the President felt that the committee could do quite well without my testimony. Of course, I think one of the

really useful tasks performed by

husbands is to remind their

: think they are. However, I am : so interested in this congressional investigation, that I hope'the committee will give me another opportunity to talk to them about some of the problems of the institutions I have seen these last two weeks: ; In the meantime, on ‘Friday afternoon, I went

"to the Gallert St, Etienne on W. 57th St., New York

City, where some really beautiful photographs taken by Dr. Hannau, an Austrian, were being shown.

- Some of the scenes, to be on sale later as postcards,

are startlingly lovely. Later, Mrs. Heywood Broun, Miss Kay Thorne, who with a group of other young

: people Is producing a play ofl her own, and Mrs. June

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: Hoosier Vagabond By Ernie Pyle

We hopped across the Isthmus of Panama and landed for 20 minutes at Albrook Field, on the Panama side. The weather was clear, and on the way across we had a magnifient view of the Canal. We flew right over it. ’ Boy, was it hot there at Albrook Field! We were just smudges when they rang the gong to get aboard. I took off my coat as soon as we got on. And within 20 minutes, when we got up high, I got right up and put it on again, for it was cold up there. We were over mountains all the way up. Vicious but marvelously beautiful green mountains of the Panama jungle. Sometimes we could see smoke coming out of the ragged cone of a peak. Sometimes we could see little hanging burro trails, and thatched huts. Some of the time we could see both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, Two Costa Rican customs men were standing ‘behind a bench at the San Jose airport. The local manager of Pan American stands there to interpret if you can’t speak Spanish.

The customs men were nice, and hardly looked in- |

side our bags. Costa Rica wants tourists, so they are polite, and have abandoned all the nonsensical

red-tape.

A Too-Rapid Change

Everything looked neat and. clean on the way. Even the farmers’ houses were neat, and the people had good faces. And I was startled to see an orange tree. That’s how you get balled up when yeu travel around. Coming up out of the intense tropics of Panama, I had somehow got the feeling we were too far north for oranges. The man at the hotel desk spoke English. Our room is nice. The view perfect. But somehow we are distraught, nervous, maybe even a little homesick. An airplane transition is sometimes too rapid. From the violent tropics to a temperate zone in three hours is too swift a change. Up here we are cold. This afternoon I walked for two hours, alone, around the outskirts of the city. Finally I walked myself warm outside, but still there is that chill inside me. Maybe adjustment will come in a few days.

By Anton’ Scherrer

when the House was used as a prison to take care of the dissolute women who turned up in Indianapolis as a result of the Civil War. (The jail was too small to hold them.) On that occasion a group of vicious women staged an insurrection. That wasn’t so funny. The leader of the group had a knife and threatened Mother Ursula, then in charge -of the place. Mother Ursula stood her ground and refused to hand over the keys when, all of a sudden, the door opened and there stood Dr. Brennan (“of blessed memory,” said Mother Mary Augustine). Seems that the doctor had just arrived to make a sick call and, as luck would have it, had his buggy whip with him. When he saw what was going on, he whipped the rebels into submission. That’s not all, though. The best part is still to come. The woman who caused all the trouble saw the error of her ways and under the tutelage of the Sisters became a very saintly woman. (“To bring the lost sheep back into the fold is our mission,” said Mother Mary

Augustine.)

Inquires About a Legend

All of which gave me a fine chance to ask about a legend I heard when I was a little boy. That was a long time ago, but as near as I recall the story went something like this: Once upon a time the Sisters of the Good Shepherd needed a cow and wondered how in the world they were going to get it. Quick as a flash, one of the Sisters drew what she thought

looked like a cow and hung the drawing on the wall |

outside the convent. That would fetch it, she said. And sure enough, that same evening the doorbell rang and there stood a man who said he had seen the sign. He pulled something from beneath his coat and produced—a cat. Sister Agnes said she didn’t know whether my story was true or not, but inasmuch as I had brought up the subject she might as well tell me that the Sisters are somewhat in the same fix today. What they need more than anything else right now,

" she said, is some apparatus with which to equip a

gymnasium—for the girls in their charge, of course. They're wondering how. they are going to get it. I told her I'd tell the world and after giving the matter some thought, she said that maybe that would be a better way than putting too much faith in homemade signs.

By Raymond Clapper

the one upon whom the bulk of the Roosevelt following lights. As to the hope of Republican support, unquestionably Mr. Garner is the favorite Democrat among the Republicans. That would mean more if he could be sure that they would vote for him. (sarner managers have a large and active headquarters on the 16th floor of the Baker Hotel here and are active in many states. They are already seeking delegates in New York, Massachusetts, Oregon, California, Florida, and they will go into Georgia if a primary is held. They are staying out of these favorite-son states: Alabama (Bankhead), Indiana (McNutt), Missouri (Clark), Montana (Wheeler) and Tennessee (Hull). They are debating whether to go into Illinois, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Ohio.

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Log-Cabin Candidate

There is all the money that is needed. It is not fair to class Mr. Garner as anti-Roosevelt. But Roosevelthaters are with him, and the oil group here which is pulling for Mr. Garner is as bitterly anti-Roosevelt as businessmen in most other places. E. B. Germany, the Garner co-chairman, a former schoolteacher, now an independent oil man and Mayor of Highland Park, a suburb, is trying to keep the Garner candidacy balanced on a tightrope. He calls Mr. Garner a liberal, says he is not running against anybody. 3 Mainly it is the Coolidge type of campaign, with the spotlight on “the old mud-chinked cabin” in which Mr. Garner was born. Will he state his position before the convention? - Why should he, they answer. His position is known. It would be out of character for him to speak. He shouldn't say anything. The idea is, obviously, that the old log cabin is good for one more President before the generation that was born in unpicturesque hospitals grows up.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Hamilton Rhodes, came to tea with us. Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, Jr, arrived from the country and Miss Thompson and I went to a play with her before attending the front page .ball of the New York Newspaper Women’s Club, at which I again gave the prize awards for the year. "I always do this with considerable trepidation, but I cannot help being pleased by the. fact that they asked me to present them. The fact that Miss Kathleen McLaughlin is ‘president of the club this year was an added pleasure, for she is my son-in-law and daughter’s friend. Miss Ruth Millett, Miss Virginia Pope and Miss Helen Worden were all’ preset to receive their awards, and there was real sense of thrill when the fourth winner, Miss Sonia Tomara of the New York Herald Tribune,

whe handed to Mrs. . eid, spok wives occasionally that they are whose award I handed to Ogden Reid, spoke not really as important as they |

to us from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where she is at present. We also heard the voice of Mrs. Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times, who had just joitied Miss Tomara in this city so far away from ome. : £ Earlier we had attended the play “Too Many This is one of the best musical comedies we have seen this year and we enjoyed every minute of it. Since I can probably never thank all the girls in the cast individually for their charming gift of flowers, which was brought to me in an entr’acte, I want to do it here and, at the same time, tell the

| entire cast that we grieved at having to leave before

‘the end of the play in order to be at the ball in time ‘to go on the air. Sh : on he

The Gallup Poll— Majority Vague on Hull Pacts

By Dr. George Gallup ; PRINCETON, N. J., Feb. 5.—Members of Congress! are preparing for what may be one of the bitterest: disputes of the session—and of the Presidential campaign—whether the power given Secretary Hull to negotiate reciprocal trade BE should be renewed. ) There will be thunder aplenty over the issue before next November, but the real value of the trade treaties as a campaign issue may be far less than either the Republicans or Democrats now suppose. Actually, as a new survey by the American Institute of Public Opinions shows, there are two good reasons why the tariff question may play a minor part in the switching of votes between the two great parties: First, the survey shows that the whole matter of trade agreements—particularly in its present form—is beyond the immediate interest and understanding of the average American. Second, among those who have definite views on the question, even a majority of Republicans are in favor of them. To understand just what is happening, it is important to turn the attention from Capitol Hill to the American voting public. Just where does the voter stand on Mr. Hull's treaties, 22 of which have thus far been signed with various countries in Europe, South America and the Near East? To obtain a picture of what the man-in-the-street is thinking, the American Institute of Public Opinion has conducted a countrywide survey, reaching a carefully selected miniature electorate so chosen as to reflect with a high degree of accuracy the views of: the entire voting population. Voters in the survey were asked three simple questions: “What is your personal opinion about Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade treaties? “Do you think Congress should give Secretary Hull the power to make more such treaties? : “What is your understanding of the term ‘reciprocal trade treaties?”

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BACK. H. 3. A. A, SPORT CONTROL

Superintendents Vote Opposition to Interference by Legislature.

Control of high school athletics by the Indiana High School Athletic Association has been indorsed by the Indiana City and Town Superintendents Association. This indorsement was voted Saturday at the superintendents’ meeting in the Lincoln Hotel during which De Witt S. Morgan, superantendent of Indianapolis public schools, was elected president. The school leaders voiced opposition to any legislative interference

| with the control of athletics and’

commended A. L. Trester, athletic commissioner and the I. H. S. A. A. control board for its conduct of basketball tournaments.

New State Post Urged

The Association adopted another resolution urging creation of the office of State Commissioner of Education, to be appointed by the State Board of Education for a term of five 0 more years. Members said the movement was not to abolish the office of State Superintendent of Public Instrucion. " They said the commissioner would serve under the superintendent, but would be appointed for a longer term than the superintendent’s elective two-year term and would assure greater stability in administration. Floyd I. McMurray, state superintendent, said that the creation of the office of commissioner might be accomplished, but that his powers would have to be clearly defined so there would be no conflict with the superintendent. ‘

Explains Action Necessary

He said that the idea had been considered before and that a resolution to establish the office passed the House in 1937 but “was lost in politics.” : ‘Mr. McMurray said that to change the Constitution and elimi-

would require five or six years. He explained that legislation’ to do so would have to be passed at two sessions of the Legislature and then voted on by the people,

SURGEONS’ CONCLAVE TO HEAR DR. LAPENTA

Dr. Vincent A. Lapenta, Indianapolis, will speak before the International College of Surgeons at the Florida Medical Center, Venice, Fla during its convention Feh. 11-14. Dr. Lapenta, who will discuss the examination of candidates for entrance into the college with a view of raising surgical standards, left for Florida yesterday by motor. Surgeons from throughout the United

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Council Debates Parking

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RRERREBEERS

AMERICAN AUTOS

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Orne of the bittterest debates of the current session of Congress may center about the renewal of Secretary of State Gordell Hull's powers to negotiate reciprocal trade agreements with other mations. Chief beneficiaries of the trade agreements thus far, according to Administration witnesses, have been American auto marufacturers and producers of other U. S. manufactured articles. When Secretary Hull (left) was negotiating for a treaty with Argentina

recently, some cattle-raisers complained at the expected lowering of duties on Argentine cattle.

derstood the principles on which reciprocal trade agreements rest. In other words, when either the Republicans or the Democrats attempt to make a popular issue out of Mr. Hull's agreements, they are, in reality, ad- - dressing only about six million of the nation’s 60 million eligible voters., 2. With a large majority of those

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Mr. Hull's treaties are popular at this time. In answer to the question, “What is your personal opinion about Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade treaties?” 71 per cent of those with opinions gave answers which could only be construed as favorable, while 29 per cent disapproved. In answer to the question, “Do you think Coness should give Secretary Hull e power to make more stich eaties?” 57 yer cent with an understanding of the issue said

$100 Brings Nickels to Bar

ROCHESTER, Ind, Feb. 1 (U. P.)—The Nickels were in court today over a matter of $100. Walter Nickels of near Roches-

ter charged his cousin, David Nickels, forged the former’s name as guarantor to a note given to the Farmers and Merchants bank. He said he didn’t know of the transaction until the bank notified him the note was due. David contended that Walter signed the note and that the signature was not forged.

BROOKSIDE LEAGUE PLANS FETE TONIGHT

Brookside Civic League members and their guests will meet at the Brookside Community House tonight for a social and musical program. William M. Calvin, League president, said more than 200 were expected. He reported that the League's membership drive may set a new record with 500 members. After tonight's business meeting, at which Mr. Calvin will present the social and entertainment program for the next six months, musicians from the Honolulu Conservatory of Music will furnish music. Mr. Calvin said civic improvement committees will be named later this week when the League's program is formally adopted.

DR. BENSON TO SPEAK

Dr. John G. Benson will address the annual young people’s banquet meeting of the Capitol District Christian Endeavor tomorrow in

“Yes, Hull's power should be renewed,” 43 per cent said “No, it should riot be renewed.” 3. The survey found no substantiat difference in the attitudes of Republicans and Democrats on the question. Even among those without well defined ideas about the treaties; a majority expressing themselves indicated a favorable attitude.

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RIENDS of the trade treaties offer the following arguments, in order, their comments show: (1) that the treaties have been an assistance to general American trade, (2) that they will contribute to world commercial development and world understanding and (3) that they will specifically benefit U. S. trade with the Americas. Foes of the treaties: complain that they have hurt home in- . dustries, especially the farmer,

STATE TO OPEN $1,811,000 BIDS

Two Grade Separations and 18 Bridges in Projects Scheduled.

Bids for the construction of two grade separations, 18 bridges and the paving of 50 miles of road at an estimated cost of $1,811,000, will be received by the State Highway Commission tomorrow. $ One of the grade separations is a new overhead bridge on the road connecting Road 40 with the Municipal Airport. This road will be numbered 100. Other projects are a grade separation on Road 1, Municipal Airport; grade separation on Road 1 north of Hagerstown; a bridge on Road 40 near Belleville; completion of a three-lane pavement .on Road 1 between Bluffton and Ft. Wayne and the replacement of a number of narrow, weak bridges. This is the first of a series of lettings planned by the commission to place the remainder of the 1940 construction program under contract. Bids will be taken on other ccnstruction. work as: vapidly as plans can be prepared and approved and other preliminary work completed, commission officials said.

RIVERSIDE LEAGUE TO MEET

The Riverside Civic League is to meet for its monthly meeting at School 44 Wednesday night. Mrs. H. P., Willwerth, president, will preside. A talk by Miss Constance Strauss of the eVterans Hospital on “Better Housing” will be accompanied by a motion picture on the subject. Evan B. Walker of the Indianapolis Railways, Inc., also will alk. .

And Bicycle Fee Tonight

Parking . . . bicycles . . . milk - Bas. ; : - The words went ‘round and ‘round in the minds of City Councilmen today in monotonous cadence. They'll echo and re-echo in the paneled Council chamber tonight when members meet to con-

sider. Parking . . . bicycles . . . milk

. . «i888. First, bicycles. There will be a public hearing on a measure to register bicycles for a 50-cent fee, The Safety Board wa it to help trace

'| stolen cycles, prevent thefts. Does

the public want it? The Council wants to know. | Parking! Harmon Campbell, Republican member, will seek to repeal the all-night parking ban which the Safety Board is slated to

States, Canada, Cuba and Mexico

Aare to attend.

enforce Feb. 23. It will get the Board out. of a “bad spot,” he says.

The Board must enforce the law which, he says, is unpopular. Gas. Councilman F. B. Ransom, chairman of Council’s committee on an ordinance to acquire the Indianapolis Gas ‘Co. properties, will announce the date for a public hearing on the measure. ' Councilmen two weeks ago heard from advocates and opponents of the plan by which the City would purchase the Indianapolis Gas properties through condemnation proceedings. Last, milk: The word keeps going around the City Hall that Council is going to drop the Health Board’s milk grading ordinance. But the members won’t take action until they hear from the public. ‘The ordinance would set up grades of milk, A, B and C, on the basis of bacterial .count for the first time in the City’s history. Councilmen have been studying the experi-

ence of other cities, like New York, with milk grading laws.

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and that they give too much power to a small group of government officials. Earlier light was shed on the question of trade agreements in November, 1938, when the Institute reported replies to the question, “Do you approve of Secretary Hull's policy in seeking a reciprocal trade agreement with Great Britain?” Although here again the bulk of the voters were classified as without opinions, the majority of those with definite views were more than 4 to 1in favor of Hull's attempt. In a survey of voters chosen from Who's Who in America, conducted shortly before, another 4-to-1 majority was registered for a reciprocal treaty with Britain. t » ” T may well happen, of course, that the popularity of any particular treaty will collapse due to circumstances which occur

Introducing Mr. Wickard—

Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—If the Senate gives its consent, a 47-year-old Hoosier dirt farmer with a Purdue education, will take over the job made famous by Rexford G. Tugwell. Dr. Tugwell, when he was Undersecretary of Agriculture and New Deal Glamour Boy No. 1, appeared before the Senate Agriculture Comrittee to deny that he was just a prain-truster economist from Co-

lumbia University and proved that he raised some apples once on his father’s fruit farm. The second man to hold the $10,-000-a-year job was W. L. Wilson, from Agriculture Secretary enry Wallace's Iowa. Now he has moved out and President Roosevelt has nominated Claude R. Wickard ef the AAA to take over. ’ Mr. Wickard is.the antithesis o the first Undersecretary. He is a farmer and looks like it, even after six years here and attending plenty of Washington parties in first class evening clothes. He was born on the farm, called “the old Wickard place,” at Camden, Ind. His father was born and still lives there and superintends the farm, now that the-son has to “help the, Government.” Mr. Wickard attended the Camden schools and graduated in Agriculture at Purdue University in 1915. He went back to the farm and worked there. He married Louise Eckert from the neighboring city of Logansport and they have two girls, one in Purdue and the other in high school here. When the Democrats took over Indiana from the Republicans in 1632, Mr. Wickard made hjs first and only political effort. His father’s name is Andrew Jackson Wickard, so he ran for the State Senate on the family ticket and was elected. After serving in the 1933 legislative session under then Governor Paul V. McNutt, he resigned from the State Senate in 1934 to take his first job with Secretary Wallace. Soon he .was put in charge of the AAA corn-hog program and

‘|later in charge of the entire North

Central program. His present promotion was based entirely on merit apparently, as there were no political indorsements sought from either Senators Frederick VanNuys or Sherman Minton, both of whom heartily approve of the appointment, however. 7 Several months ago Mr. and Mrs. Wickard were driving in Minnesota when their car'was catapulted into the ditch by a collision. Both were] in the hospital for several weeks. Today Mr. Wickard says he is “all wired together in good shape.” A man with a thorough knowledge of farm problems at first hand, the new Undersecretary has none of the ven for innovation which marked Mr. Tugwell. Commenting on his appointment, a colleague in the Department inquired of him: :

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later, or due tothe terms of the treaty itself. It may happen that the Republican opponents df the trade treaties will be able to prove | their charges against the treaties | in specific cases, and thus develop | a clear and simple argument for | campaign purposes. Some Republicans are already | emphasizing what they believe to be the adverse results of the | treaties in particular communities—among the dairy farmers of

the upper\ Mississippi valley, the shoe manufacturers of New Eng-

. land and the lumbermen of the

Pacific €oast, for example. But nothing can be clearer at the present time than that the average American has not yet consciously felt the effect of Mr, Hull's treaties in his own experi- | ence, and is not aroused to do | battle either for or ‘against their | continuance. |

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ical as you get Tugwell’s old job?” | The weather-beaten Wickard’s | face beamed this reply: | “You know I am not well-known.” |

Wickard to Speak | At Flora Tonight |

T'imes Special ! FLORA, Ind. Feb. 5—Claude R, | Wickard, the Indiana dirt farmer | who recently was appointed Jndere secretary of Agriculture, will speals | at a banquet at the Community ¢ Building here tonight. | Farmers and husinessmen are to attend the banquet, sponsored by Carroll County farmers. Mr. Wick ard is to explain the agricultural conservation program in Indiana and the 1940 national farm program. : .

ALPHA PHI OMEGA IS CONVENTION HOST

The Butler University chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, national serve ice organization, will be host to an all-state Alpha Phi Omega (convene tion here March 17. H. Roe Bartle, national president, * will be the guest of honor at the convention. Chapters from Purdue, Indiana, DePauw Universities and Indiana State Teachers College will be represented. Max Wildm~n is president of the local group.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What: is another name for the game of ping-pong? 2—Kaolin is used to make porcelain, purple dyes or artificial silk? : 3—Under- which river is the Hole land Vehicular Tunnel? 4-With which major league basee ball club does Bob Feller play? 5—What is archeology? 6—Name the capital of Venezuela. 7—A magnifying glass makes things look bigger by refraction, ar. ! sion or irradiation? ; 8—What is the horizon? ;

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: Answers 1—Table tennis. 2—Porcelain. . 3—Hudson River. : 4—The Cleveland Indians. 5—The science of antiquities. 6—Caracas. T—Refraction. 8—The apparent circle around which the sky and earth seem to meet,

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