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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1940

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Hoosier Vagabond By Ernie Pyie

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Feb. 19.—San Jose lies on what they call the Central Plateau, and the bulk of Costa Rica’s 600,000 people live up here. The city itself is only 60,000. But all over the rolling plateau are small towns, and hundreds of little coffee farms.

Coffee is Costa Rica’s No. 1

product. Bananas are second. And there is a lot of cattle-rais-ing too, but sheep are so rare they have one in a cage at the Zoo here. Good paved roads lead out from San Jose in all directions, but the longest one goes only about 55 miles. There is no highway to either coast, nor up and down the length of Costa Rica. : : You can go to Puerto Limon on the east coast by rail (daily) In about six hours. Or to Puntarenas on the west coast (also daily) by electric railway in four hours. The shifting of the banana plantations from the east to the west coast has made a dying city of Limon. And its Negro population (descendants of the Jamaican Negroes brought over to build the Limon-San Jose railroad) are left without jobs. As a result they are leaving Limon and collecting in villages to the south, along the tropical coast. They have little law. They .fish and raise a few things. They do a great deal of smuggling from Panama. . They are really reverting to Africanism, people tell me. Voodooism is beginning to get a foothold. Costa Rica has traditionally declined to do anything about or for its Negroes. But now it seems to be something Costa Rica better start worrying about.

Study of English Required .

In San Jose traffic goes on the right-hand side, just as at home. There are lots of -bicycles, and the riders constantly squeeze on a little peep-peep horn that drives you nuts. . Little boys with shoe-shine boxes and old women with lottery tickets approach you on the average

Our Town

SOMETIME AROUND the turn of the century, Mrs. Mattie Dillard Dangerfield was Mrs. Meredith Nicholson’s maid, ahd it is largely because of her good memory that I am able to give you the story of the start of the Women’s Improvement Club. Seems that back in 1902 or thereabouts, the Propylaeum people contemplated giving a big reception to which they. invited Mrs. Lillian Thomas Fox, a leader of her race and the first around here to write a newspaper column devoted entirely to the activities of Indianapolis Negroes. Mrs. Dangerfield remembers that Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Mrs. Ovid Butler Jameson and Mrs. ; Meredith Nicholson were. especially anxious to meet Mrs. Fox, having heard so much about her. Following this meeting, Mrs. Fox conceived the jdea of organizing a cultural club and on Feb. 7, 1903, the Women’s Improvement Club was ready for business, with Mrs, Fox as president, Mrs. Beulah W, Porter as vice president, and Mrs.” Roxie Bell as secretary. (Mrs. Porter, principal of School 40, was the first woman Negro doctor in Indianapolis.) Almost immediately the women were convinced that they should add some work of philanthropy, with the result that in the spring of 1904 the first Convalescent Camp for the treatment of tuberculosis was established in Indianapolis. It was situated on Oak “Hill, in Brightwood, on ground generously donated ‘by Mr. and Mrs. William Haueisen. Paralleling this work was that of the Flower Mission people who, in 1903, opened their 25-bed building on the grounds of the City Hospital. 3 » 2 ”

Gain Public Recognition

During the administration of Mrs. Ida Webb Bryant, the camp became too small to handle all cases. She made a successful appeal to the public for homes in the country. By this time people were beginning to take notice of the work the women were doing, with the result that in 1912 the club received $100 from the Marion County Tuberculosis Association. The next year they got $150. Prior to that time all funds were raised by giving concerts, lectures and the like. In 1905, for instance, Mary Church Terrell, the famous lecturer, was brought te Indianapolis. Paul Dunbar was engaged, too. He was scheduled

Washington

_ WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Republican Party leaders attending their national committee meeting here seemed strongly in favor of keeping all Presidential candidates guessing until the nominating convention

"meets in Philadelphia on June 24. They are listen-

ing to all the candidates, wishing them the best of luck, but are making few promises. The leaders are advising each other to work for convention delegations that will be unpledged and free to swing to any candidate upon whom the spirit of brotherly love may descend after all are assembled in Philadelphia. This is rough on the candidates, keeping them on the anxious seat, and it is not exactly a scheme for permitting the rank and file of the party to sefect the candidate. But it isn’t much worse than what Mr. Roosevelt is doing by way of dictating to the Democratic Party. : Once a good many people had the idea that it was not fair to deny them a part in selecting the candidates, that it wasn’t fair to confront them with two hand-picked figures, thus letfing the people in on the affair only in the finals. So the Presidential primaries spread until in 1916 they were held in 24 states having 70 per cent of the population.

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Electorate Out in Cold

Now only 16 states hold primaries, and a good many of them are being made meaningless. Illinois is a key state in the coming election but there will be no real test of what the Republican voters of Tilinois want because only Dewey will be voted upon. Taft and Vandenberg declined to go in. Democratic voters in numerous states will be denied a real opportunity to choose because Roosevelt slates have

My Day

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Sunday.—I left Washjngton yesterday morning by air at 11 a. m. Senator and Mrs, Pepper came to see me off. I think they

wanted to be quite sure that I actually started on my trip to Tallahassee, We took off under blue skies, but before long, clouds appeared on the horizon and I began to . worry as -to whether we would ~have bad weather before we reached Jacksonville, Fortunate= ly the wind and rain did not bring us a very low ceiling and I was able to change in Jacksonville’ to a smaller plane. The weather grew worse and the clouds seemed to close in ahead of us. We were flying very low and every now and then the ground. would disappear under . the scudding clouds. We landed in Tallahassee in a downpour of rain, and I was worried about a group of girls who evidently came to see the plane come in and stood in the mud with little rivers running all Br them. ,

of one every 20 seconds. It keeps you busy saying no. There are no really tall buildings in San Jose. The tallest, I believe, is the Gran Hotel Costa Rica, which is four stories plus a roof garden. It is nine years old and a first-rate hotel. There are about a dozen others here, all named Gran This or Gran That. Quite a few celebrities come through San Jose. ‘Admiral Byrd stayed here several days after his last trip, from Antartica. MacKinlay Kantor was through recently, and George O’Brien, the movie actor, stopped off since we have been here. ? ~The study of English is compulsory in the senior High Schools of San Jose. And there is an English school here where foreigners, and Costa Ricans too if they wish, can have their children taught in nothing but English from kindergarten orn up.

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American Movies Popular

There are three very good movies, and about a dozen cheaper ones. The newest films aren't far behind the United States. They show other foreign films too, but American talkies in English (with

Spanish sub-titles printed on the bottom) are the favorites. The top price I have seen is 75 centimos, which is about 14 cents in our money. On the street you see quite a few two-wheeled carts, pulled by horses. This is the main means of freight conveyance, next: to motor trucks. In the country they are drawn by oxen, and are called bullcarts. Ne Every year each community has a big contest and the fellow who has the nicest cart gets a prize. The farmers also take their carts to church and have them blessed. For some reason there are no burros in Costa Rica. Just horses and oxen. The country is full of venomous snakes. There is a law that every country household must have a serum pack. If there's an emergency, and the nearest farmer doesn’t have one, he gets arrested. The law is eight years old, and has reduced snake fatalities almost to nothing. So that’s my story on Costa Rica. We leave this country feeling it is a credit to the Western Hemisphere. I wish somebody could say the same for me.

By Anton Scherrer

to give a reading on March 29, 1906. He died on Feb. 4 and what promised to be a lively event turned out to be a memorial for the dead poet. In 1914, the Convalescent Camp disbanded. To take its place, Mrs. Daisy Brabham was engaged as a social worker to do home and bedside nursing. She had her hands full because besides her new job, she had six children of her own at home. Her husband was pretty busy, too. On week days, he was a clerk at the Postoffice. On Sundays, he was pastor of the Ninth Presbyterian Church. ” 2 2

Open Charity Hospital

In 1918, during the administration of Mrs. Lena Kirk Bivens, the club had a stroke of luck. The Pot of Gold came their way—honest. Maybe you remember the War Chest on the Circle in those days? When the war ended, there was still some money left in the Chest. When it came time to distribute it, the Women’s Improvement Club got $500. And right away Mrs. Brabham’s salary was increased. Up to that time she had to get along on $10 a week. During the administration of Mrs. Mary Johnson now dean of girls at Attucks High School) the omen’s Improvement Club ran a charity hospital at Michigan and California Sts. About this time, too, they acquired a club house at 535 Agnes St. On Feb. 28, the Women’s Improvement Club is going to present a pageant portraying 37 years of service in tuberculosis work among the Negroes of Indianapolis. It’s to be held in Attucks High School. Two retired schoclteachers, Mrs. Bivens and Mrs, Irene Bagby Ecter (also.a founder of the club) are the authors of the pageant. They are going to have the help of Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, Mrs, May Stuart and Mrs. Marian Brabham Burch, who turns out to be not only an Attucks teacher, but one of the six children brought up by Mrs. Brabham, the nurse I was telling you about. As for Mrs. Stuart, she is the wife of Dr. W. W., the dentist, who at one time was John Philip Sousa’s valet. The present officers of the club are President Mrs. Ethel Roy Cox, head of the cafeteria at Attucks High School; V. P. Mrs. Alice Brokenburr, wife of the attorney; Secretary Mrs. Rose Hummons, wife of the doctor; Assistant Secretary Mrs, Artye Taylor, a practical nurse who was in charge of the first tuberculosis ‘clinic at Flanner House, and Treasurer Mrs. Frances Berry Coston, a public schoolteacher, who now writes a newspaper column like the one started by Mrs. Fox, the founder of the Women’s Improvement Club,

By Raymond Clapper

been filed despite the fact that he has not indicated whether he would accept renomination. Garner has been bold enough to go into Illinois against a Roosevelt slate but other Democratic candidates are ducking. | So it is- likely that the Republican convention will meet with only small groups of delegates openly pledged by the vote of party members. More will come pledged privately to various candidates. But the chances are that the bulk of the delegates will be unpledged, except nominally to favorite sons. The votes will be scattered widely over a large field, leaving no candidate in a commanding position at the start. That, at least, is what the insiders are trying to bring about. : : . ” ® 8

Disadvantage for Dewey

If the convention can be kept open in this way, then the party leaders will go into a huddle during the convention and attempt to decide the nomination. In such a process, the candidate who has the most friends among the convention insiders will have the best chance of winning. Vandenberg and Taft probably would have some advantage over Dewey in such a situation. There may even be another Harding lurking off-stage. A handful of leaders may decide the Republican nomination. But nobody can complain, because one man apparently will decide the Democratic nomination. A Democracy works in mysterious ways its wonders to perform. There's the list of fat cats, the special Republican group named to raise money to wipe out the deficit. All of them are Big Business—George Wharton Pepper, Philadelphia corporation lawyer; Sewell L. Avery, corporation official; Jeremiah Milbank, capitalist; Edgar M. Queeny, corporation official; Silas H. Strawn, corporation lawyer; E. I. Weir, steel. They and their friends raised $600,000 for the Republican National Committee. That was only a trifle more than John L. Lewis forked over .for Roosevelt in 1936. ; :

‘By Eleanor Roosevelt

of which are some.of the most beautiful oak trees, none of them less than a hundred years old. There is no doubt about it, trees like this make any park space really beautiful. We reached the Florida State College almost an hour late. They have a fine campus with many new

_ buildings which have been added under PWA or WPA.

The Federal Government seemed to have contributed something of real value here under its emergency works program. We paused in the gymnasium to greet a big group of girls who could not get into the auditorium, and drove directly to the auditorium for the exercises. On our return to Mrs. Moors house, the children fell upon me with requests for autographs in books and on sheets of paper for themselves and their friends. I did not mean to stay for dinner, but since my hosts were to drive me over to Jacksonville, and they were kind enough to assure me that the meal would be short, I stayed and dined very sumptuously before leaving. Piloted by the state highway patrol, they drove me into Jacksonville through heavy rain and we arrived safely at about 12:30. This morning the same patrol drove me to Daytona, for the section of the train on which my secretary, Miss Thompson, was . was three hours late. 3

aah | Party Lines Reversed On Budget

By Dr. George Gallup PRINCETON, N. J, Feb. 19.—After a decade of Government-in-the-red, a majority of Americans approve the tendency toward reduced expenditures which —except for the recommendation on national defense—was evidenced in President Roosevelt's budget message last month. But the majority is not as large as it might be, and many Americans believe that the proposed cuts are too great. : Moreover — Whether President Roosevelt anticipated it when he sent his budget estimates to Congress or not—the public's first reactions to the proposed slashes in work relief, farm benefits and public works show Democratic and Republican party lines curiously reversed. For the first time in seven years, perhaps, the President's course has been far more widely approved by the deficit-conscious Republicans than by Mr. Roosevelt's fellow Democrats. These facts are indicated .in a nation-wide sampling study just completed by the American Institute of Public Opinion, as Congress tackles the election-year task of satisfying “economy” sentiment in general and the spe-

cial claims of the farmer and the unemployed in particular.

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ERE are the high spots in the public's reaction: 1. Of all the proposals in the President’s budget message, the most popular has been the suggestion to further increase the size of the Army, Navy and air forces. While there is probably little agreement in the American mind ‘as to what constitutes an “adequate” Army and Navy for present needs, the gathering series of crises in Europe and Asia —culminating in World War II— have convinced the average American voter that money spent for warships, warplanes and armaments is well spent. In the current study the Institute found four out of every five. voters. with opinions gpproving the President’s $300,000,000 boost for national defense. Overwhelmfrom Republicans as well as Democrats. ~ 2. The President's proposed slashes in work relief, farm payments and public works—which have caused “liberal” journals to call FDR’s budget the “Budget of Inadequacies”—also win majority approval in the survey. Like the President himself, many Americans are counting on improved business conditions stretching through 1940. “Business is improving” . . , “conditions are getting better” . . . “a lot of reliefers should be able to find jobs” , . . these are the reasons they ad-

SOUTHERN PASTOR NOON-DAY SPEAKER

Dr. Prentice A. Pugh, rector of Advent Episcopal Church at Nashville, Tenn, will speak tomorrow through Friday at noonday services at Christ Church on the Circle. His topics in order will be “Your Place in Life”; “Your Place in the Church”; “Your Place as a Man”; and “Your Place if Healthy.” On Wednesday at 7:45 p. m. he will preach on “Your Place in the Home” at Advent Church here. The responsibilities of the Christian sentry were discussed by the Rev. J. C. W. Linsley, vicar general of All Saints’ Cathedral, at today’s noon services in Christ Church. The Very Rev. John Doyle, professor and chaplain at Marian College, opened a series of sermons on “The Virtues” at noon at downtown St. John’s Catholic Church. It will continue through Friday. Recollection Day will be conducted by the Rev. Fr. Bernardine Shine, ©. S. B., of St. Meinrad Abbey, Sunday, March 3, at Marian College. It is expected that Catholic. women from all over the city will be present in addition to students and faculty. :

CAB IN ACCIDENTS, LICENSE IS REFUSED

Times Special : : GARY, Ind. Feb. 19.-Five accidents during 1939 involving his cab in which two pedestrians were injured and one. killed has cost a Gary taxi driver his taxicab driver’s license this year. : Upon recommendation of Chief of Police William J. Linn and the tdxicab board, City Controller John A. Sabo refused to grant the man his license. : “In view of the fact that it is quite evident that the man is an accident-prone driver, I recommend that he not be issued a license to drive a cab in the city of Gary,” Oat Linn’s letter to the Board

WITTENBERG CHOIR IN CITY MARCH 13

The Wittenberg College acapella choir, directed by Prof. J. T. Wil-

‘Words of Christ” at the First United Lutheran Church March 13. The choir of 60 voices is making a Lenten tour of Indiana, Michigan

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Work Relief—Cut 28% oe

Republicans approve, Democrats are divided, a public opinion survey indicates.

vance for cutting relief and public works to the President's figures. But the majorities favor= ing these cuts are considerably smaller than the majority favoring an increased Army and Navy. 3. Finally, the vote on the President’s domestic slashes shows that most of Mr. Roosevelt's support comes from an unaccustomed source—rank-and-file Republicans —while the Democratic public is evenly divided between hostility and approval. Indeed, had the proposed slashes come from anybody but. Roosevelt himself, it is reasonable to assume that the Democratic opposition would be even greater. ” ” ” HILE the temper of public opinion will probably give comfort to the economy bloc in Congress, the strong minority sentiment against the President's budget cuts will give the New Dealers an embarrassing question to ponder: Will the farmer, the relief voter and the laboring man—heretofore major sources of the New Deal's voting strength—object to the proposed retrenchments? Much will depend, of course, upon whether American business continues to improve. No one can be sure what is ahead. President Roosevelt told Congress that his estimates were based upon the assumption that recovery would continue, and that orders from abroad would replace “pumppriming” to a certain extent. If recovery does not continue, he implied, his budget figures may have to be increased.

No Wonder Her Car Wouldn't Go

Times Special : RICHMOND, Ind. Feb. 19.— “Darn,” said Miss Madonna Lamb when her automobile failed to start as she was going home from work. - Every attempt to coax the motor into running failed. She couldn’t even get a minute sputter from the engine, so she called the nearest garage. : “You don’t need me,” the gar= ageman told her after a brief investigation. “What you need is the police.” The carburetor had been stolen.

BANK WILL RECEIVE FINN DEFENSE FUNDS

The Indiana National Bank of Indianapolis has been named local depository for money contributed to the newly formed Finnish Defense Fund. The Defense Fund differs from the Finnish Relief Fund in that money collected may be given to the Finnish Government for the purchase of airplanes, guns and other war material. ~ : The fund is headed by a Boston group, including Karl T. Compton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology president; O. M. W. Sprague of Harvard University, and Oscar W. Haussermann, ‘Boston Chambe of Commerce president. The Indiana National Bank will receive contributions from this area and forward them daily to Hjalmer J. Procope, Minister to the United States.

Annual election to the Board Directors of the Hoosier Athletic Club will be held Wednesday, Thontas W. Kercheval, club president, announced today. Club polls will open at 11 a. m. and close at 7:30 p. m.: - Two tickets of candidates will be

Ticket includes: Leo F. Steffen, Earl Githens, Norman Schaffer, Leland Johnson, L. T. Rankin, John Raftery and James I. Liebert. Red Ticket candidates are: Leonard Breen, John Scherer, James

Rose, Herman Kramer

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. Public opinion itself is likely to change if the country’s economic circumstances alter. : ” ” » American farmer is not likely to raise strong objections to the President's slashes in work relief and public works. Indeed, farmers reached in the Institute study are more emphatic than nearly any other national group in approving the cuts in relief and public works. On the other hand, a large ‘majority of farm voters are agreed that the President’s' $300,000,000 slash in agricultural payments should not be carried through. Since the House of Representatives has subsequently cut this figure further, the reaction of the Farm Belt is likely to be even more emphatic before the present session ends. : In contrast to the farmer, a majority of American labor are opposed to all three of the President’s proposed slashes—including slashes in farm payments. Many of them say they would approve a smaller cut here or there, but that the proposed cuts are too severe. Of all the economic groups _reached in the Institute study, the groups which have been most pleased by Mr. Roosevelt's budget are those groups which pay the largest individual sums in government taxes. The following figures show the votes of some of these important groups.

REVISION OF BUILDING CODE SOCIETY'S AIM

The Indiana Society of Architects pressed its drive today to gain cooperation of the building industry in the Society’s program for legislative and building law revision. The revision program was presented to the Construction League last week and is scheduled to be presented to other Indiana building organizations in the next few weeks. Clarence T. Myers, chairman of the Society’s ways and means committee, leaguers that building codes are of such importance in the finished product that the public, financial institutions, and public officials must “of necessity be definitely interested in our building laws.” When the codes increase cost, or prohibit use of new materials, they have a far-reaching effect on mortgage lending and new construction, he said, adding that low building cost is recognized as a definite stimulant to construction in both the home and the commercial field.

CAPITAL-N. Y. LINE “BLOCKED BY WRECK

ELKTON, Md. Feb, 19 (U. P).— Twelve cars of a south-bound Pennsylvania Railroad freight train were derailed near here today, disrupting main-line service over the road between Washington and New York. Railroad officials said no one was hurt and cause of the derailment was not immediately determined. j Three tracks were blocked, although j overhead electric lines were not damaged.

H. A. C. Members Will Ballot

Wednesday in Director Race

Following the election, at 8 p. m., the annual membership meetings is to be held. Present directors are Mr. Kercheval, president; Charles R. Ettinger, first vice president; Leo P. Gauss, second vice president; Frank P. Huse, treasurer; Leo PF. Steffen. recording secretary; Albert Herann, corresponding secretary; Joseph Farmer, J. Herbert Hartman, Dr. Emil Kernel, Dr. Paul Kernel, James -I. Liebert, L. E. Grayson, Carl Lich, Charles ‘Maddux, Anthony B. Montani, Fred Morrison, Thomas Murray, Joseph Sexton, Chauncy Jaylor, Carl

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F. D. R’S DEFENSE ITEM For Against 15% 23

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Democrats .... Republicans Farm Voters Small Towns...... 80 City Voters........ 80 Upper Income..... 75 Middle Income.... 78 22 Lower Income 17

F. D. R’S WORK RELIEF ITEM

For Against

Democrats 51% Republicans ...... 7: 2% Farm Voters ...... 28 Small Towns 39 City Voters........ 55 45 Upper Income..... 79 21 Middle Income 33 Lower Income 62

F.D.R.’S PUBLIC WORKS ITEM For Against

Democrats ........ 52% 48% Republicans ...... 74 26 Farm Voters 71 29 Small Towns 64 36 City Voters........ 58: 42 Upper Income..... 79 21 Middle Income.... 68 32 Lower Income..... 44 56

" F.D.R’S FARM ITEM : For Against

Democrats ........ 45% 55% Republicans ...... 63 37 Farm Voters . 45 a5 Small Towns...... 53 47 City Voters 54 46 Upper Income..... 69 31 Middle Income.... 52 48 Lower Income 55

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Persons obtaining the recordings of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C. Minor are showing considerable interest in the life of the composer, according to those in charge of Music Appreciation headquarters at 245 N. Pennsylvania St. Distribution of the four doublefaced, 12-inch records began Saturday. Hundreds already have acquired them. : Ludwig van Beethoven was born on Dec. 15 or 16, 1770, in the town of Bonn. His earliest years were spent in a home where the violent moods of his hard-drinking father alternated with reconciliations with his gentle, long-suffering mother. Normal, peaceful domesticity was unknown. ; Perceiving early that he had a musical genius in his son, the father exploited the youthful prodigy. In his greed and haste to capitalize his son’s talent, the father to a great extent killed the boy’s pleasure in his art. Many a time young Ludwig

‘ment to practice. . His first success was in Vienna, where, in his youth, hé was hailed as a great pianist. Little by little, Vienesse music circles realized his genius and his reputation as a com-

His Horse Lost But He Won!

Times Special” =~ ’ GARY, Ind, Feb. 19.—Because he proved in Lake County Criminal Court that he had bet on a horse last summer, a 30-year-old Chicago man was acquitted on a chaige of robbery. The man was arrested and identified as the-bandit who held up the Personal Finance Co. of Hammond and obtained $400. The

four witnesses who saw him in a Chicago tavern receiving a tip on a horse at the time of the holdup. At the time, the horse he bet on only ran third, but .it saved the man from a 10 to 25-year prison

PROVES HIS THEORY RENO, Feb. 19 (U. P.).—Marcus Rice's heirs today admitted the worth of his theory that “anybody

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"On each question the Institute found a small group who were une decided or without opinions. The number averaged one person in 10 on the first three items and one person in seven on the farm item. 8 8» > OLLOWING are the questions and national totals in the public opinion study on - Roosevelt’s proposed budget: President Roosevelt proposes an increase of 28% (about onefourth) in ‘spending for national defense. Do you approve or disapprove of this increase?

Approve .........eeneen 79% Disapprove ....cceeceess 21

The President proposes.a 28% ‘(about - one-fourth) reduction in Federal Government spending for relief. Do you approve or disapprove of this cut? Approve sasescessnpsnne 59% DiSAPProve . i. oaivs ss case 41° The ‘President proposes a 21% (about onme-fifth) ' reduction in Federal Government spending for public works. Do you approve disapprove of this cut? ADDPIrOVEe ..coieencesass 62% . Disapprove ....i........ 38 The President proposes a 30% (about one-third) reduction in payments by the Government to Do you approve or disapprove of this cut? ApDrove ....ceecseeeees 52% Disapprove .....c.ecco. 48

Beethoven Records Arouse Local Interest in His Life

poser grew until it equaled his fame as a pianist. When only 30, as he was acclaimed as both a composer and pianist, he

was attacked with partial deafness which hécame permanent and when he was 49, he no longer could hear. The composer's last years were crowded with afflictions and his

composing was limited. He died in

1827 as he had lived—painfully but with courage. Beethoven was the first composer to stand up to his publishers and demand his rights. He was a 10manticist who distrusted women; a gregarious soul who had no intimate friends; a thorough aristocrat who sneered at the aristocracy. He was an 1ron-willed tyrant who beat down everyone who opposed him. :

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

River empty? : : 2—Name the President of Finland. 3—In units of length, how many links are in one chain? 4—Which state in the U. S. is named for the brother of ~ Charles II? ; : 5—The compression of an automo- " pile motor can be employed as a shock absorber, brake or self= starter? 6—With what sport is Mme. 8, Mathieu associated? 7—Name the first U. S. Secretary of the Treasury. 8—For which state is “Peninsuly - State” a nickname?

8 8 = Answers 1—Black Sea.

4—New York, named for the Duke - of York, 5—Brake.

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