Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1940 — Page 10

| ROY W. HOWARD ‘RALPH BURKHOLDER

Teau of Sireation..

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VER! year for the last decade ohgress for public edification a comical t goo of iga 1 a which. Soule be titled “The Budget: s Bust.” : It! isa three ct, play, v3 rie to yea: | In Act Oné th President lglmits a e Vadeet anil] warns ithin the limits or levy new taxes. “This year’s variation came when the President pointed out. that even Congre s kept within the budget new taxes would be necessary because the 45-billion-dollar legal debt limit is now in sight, But the Congressmen spoke with the same lines, in ‘the ‘sam ‘stentorian| voices. There would be ‘no

new taxes; absolutely na. .In stead, there would be drastic .

And with the customary apain fell on Act One. ! way when the Senate, in one afternoon last week, added nearly $300,000,000 to the Agricultural Supply: BL thereby iping out. all that remained of the paper savings achieved) by the House of Representatives in two and a half montis’ work on the departmental appropriations. But we have! t yet reached the climax of Act Two. That is oming—iait House, to which the scene now shifts. ; a The “farm-district representatives constitute a strong minority. They haven't enough votes among themselves to get what they want for their constituents. But:another strong minority, of city repr sentativey, wants larger appropriations for WPA. So, ag usual, there is talk of a deal —a deal to merge these two minorities. - The urban’ boys, it is proposed, will help the rural hoys get money for farm ‘parity | payments, . and the ruralites will help the urbanites more money for ‘WPA. Each for both and bot for each. That is logrolling, a practice as ancient as parliamentarism. Every tariff. law ever “written was logrolled. After Act Two will. conte Act Three—a performance All the xhilarating, vote-winning excitement of logrolling’ will be have approprigted more than for. It will have spent mor or can legally borrow. - The to tax—and a Capitol “huil contemplating the - Slegtions November. Th |

RAILROAD INTELLIGENCE

economies; absolutely yes. plause from taxpayers, the cu

‘than the the dilem

'reasury: possesses

to come with the frosts of

ASTERN railro ds, excepting thé B. & 0. Spposed the i

Interstate Commerce: ‘Commission order by which their basic: coach passenger fares have just been reduced from 2p cents a mile to 2 cents.

Yet these roads have joined in a vigorous advertising ~ campaign to Sd new-low fares. “ In‘ addition, they £0 the I. C. C. one better by. offering round-trip fares, figured on the principle that “the farther you go the more you save,” which work out to a rate of only 115° cents a mile for trips of more! than 500 miles ‘each way. For instance, the one-way fare from Chicago to N ew York is cut to $18.20, while a 60-day round-trip ticket costs only $27.25. |

The Eastern’ railroads are showing real intelligence here. Most of them have maintained that the 2-cent fare

is not the answer to their problem. But, instead of sulking e

because the.I. C. C: overruled them, they are ‘pitching in to promote the 2 cent fare with as much apparent enthusiasm as if it: had been their own idea, | If their campaign. succeeds, it will prove that their past attitude has been mistaken. We hope it will succeed spectacularly, and we believe it can.. The theory that many passengers at a small profit on each will produce more revenue than few: passengers at a higher profit: on each is deserving of a fair-trial.: The railroads have done much to speed up their schedules and improve their equipment, and the: low: ‘fares should enable them to compete successfully with any. ghfer form of transportation. : :

AMBITION 2

OE. WILLIAMS reports from Florida that Joriss M. Cox |

and James ‘A. Farley have bitsfed to buy the N ew York Yankees. i Their bid is said to be tod low to:interest the three women who, as heirs of the late Jacob Ruppert, control the team’s financial destiny. But Messrs. Cox and Farley may - offer more, ne e being, Spstently; no limit to the ambition

: as the Democratic nomination in ihe year of the Harding landslide., Mr. Farley is after that same nomination .in 940. The average American boy. might find it hard to choosé between living in the White ‘House. ‘and ‘being owner, or even part owner, of the world’s! champion baseball team. | Mr. Farley, it seems, wants to do both. « And Bi that would be too much glory for any mortal’ man—well, “the sports triu ph would be a niighty handsome consolation for a political defeat. {. Indeed, for the next; four years or eight, owning the Yankees is likely to be a is more fun than being President.

HORS DE PAROLE |

T= hors d' loetivre. is he ors de combat. Midwest | ‘hotel. men |are rushing to the aid of those myriad J who have sprained their tonsils trying to make som thing of that word HORS D’OEUVRE when the hostess goes around with the tray of gimeracks \before the party r ly gets going. ! The hotel men offered a prize for a new word to take the place of the French verbal concoction that has proved a pronunciato y. Waterloo to 5, many Americans, The best they could get was “apit ‘ mericans;=with ic usual Inventiveliss in hat age, will probably continue to say, “Hey, s lover a few of them little gadgets on the tray,

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Price in Marion’ Coun- | : 3 cents a copy; deliv-} ered by carrier, 12 cents |

“Matt” Sibsctption rates | in Indiana, $3 8 year; |x ‘Indiana, 65+

‘| American investments

over. As usual Congress will | tthe President’s budget called | |

1a—to tax or not | ng full of dejected Hamlets |

year-old local blind girl could go to New Jersey and

F © Well, the folks at the. Employing

Latin America By John Thompson

Key to Greater U. S. Trade Seen In the Production of Commodities ' We Now Buy From Africa or Orient. (Last of a Series) ~ . } Jf

i manent increase in our trade with Latin Amer-:

F ‘jean countries are not bright unless we -are prepared ;

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7 ei | tion of German and other European buying, if we Log PoE want, to have the business formerly enjoyed by: Latin -

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| loans, preferably both, and an increased flow of into ‘those regions. Al of this| 9

to buy more of their products. hs ‘ We must take up the slack created. by the cessa-

rica’s European customers. e only alternative. is governmental or private}

would create new enterprises in Latin America which ' would in turn open up new ayenues for exports. | buying would ‘be not only the best but the most lasting procedure which could dreating a permanent and safe outlet for . '| American products, and capital. : 8's #1 OVERNMENT loans are but ER SC mpoTaY oSpediG ent; their usefulness is Jagd confined to pointcapita

surplus

ing the way for private | The other alternative,

fone crops that we can use. We have a superab

ete. However, we are ready, even anxious, -to buy in| ‘Latin America some of the things we are now compelled to buy in the African and Oriental tropics. We must import rubber, jute, cocoa, tea, kapok, sago, etc., from Africa and East Asia, but we ‘would rather buy them in Latin America. All these products can ‘be .grown in Latin American countries which are

American nations.

certed and large-scale effort’ fo produce these tions in the Amazon and the Goodyear plantations in

before even these plantations can begin to yield commercial quantities-of rubber.

tal will go into the American ‘tropics and begin to produce the necessary tropical items so essential to

take several years before we can begin to receive any returns.

America for this purpose may help bridge thé gap between planting and production, but that question of security needs'to be settled first. It can be done.

(Westbrook Pegler gler Is on Vacation)

Inside Indianapolis

Match Folder Story Proves a Dud; And the Fort's Polo Difficulties.

o™ day in the middle of January the proprietor

‘ployment Service and asked for. aid in the collec= tion of 225,000 paper match folders so that an 18-

get a seeing eye dog. It was a promotion by the ‘match company, said the soft drink presario, and ' was the real McCoy: ; Service were od.» But «they

‘411 steamed up to really do Soe. % they called up

figured they'd better _investigate. 1.the match EO lative around town only to find out that one of the companies had already spent a lot of Toney trying to put an end to the gossip. "It seems that the story had spread. over the East and many blind persons had been. collecting matches -only to find out there was nothing to the story. The

: Employment Service folks found out that there were at least a dozen people here busy collecting the match

folders. But not a one had checked the rumor. The -soft drink store proprietor was turning hers over to ‘a friend in al big department store. That person then handed them to an individual who works in a dairy and he, in turn, gave them to a nut shop oper‘ator, who then delivered them to a postal worker who gave them to the blind girl. Match folders are sul worlh nothing, Remember that. ” ” 8 '*. MOVING THE 19TH FIELD ARTILLERY from Ft. Hatrison to Ft. Knox is giving the polo-playing sofficers here some of. the jitters. Unless the ‘officers buy their own mounts (fat. chancel), .the | socialite: Rolling Ridge team may ‘have—no competi-| tion this summer. . is trying to do something about it, we hear. . . . There is a movement under way to have the local Benjamin

| Harrison Memorial Committee recommend to Con-

gress that the Hoosier National Forest in squthern “Indiana (be nathed the “Benjamin Harrison Memorial National, Forest,” ” ” ” YZS, THE PARK DEPARTMENT does have a sort of modified espionage system. . . .’A one-man system, the * plainclothesman who checks up on whether the community house employees are doing their work or loafing. . The local Census Bureau put up a big sign yesterday saying “No mere job applications received.”. . . But somebody tore it down and they kept piling in. . . . They're going to employ 300. They've already turned down just about that number. . There were some ardent sighs of relief around the State House yes-: terday when the Governor announced his ‘hands off’ the Democratic convention. . . . Some of the boys were Bpwing on getting fired; for backing Mr. S.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

GomEBODY is always taking the joy out of life for married men. Now comes Elaine Sterne Carringfon, author of our sweetest radio serials, reminding husbands to remember birthdays and anniversaries with presents if they know what is good for their domestic tranquillity. - “Women love all sorts of foolish and sentimental gifts,” she says, which is good advice so far as it goes. ‘We would like to point out, however, that such gifts are only supplementary lures to ‘the main business of keeping a home happy. Other things are more important, and for want of a better hame we can call them “foolish and sentimental wor The man who forgets to whisper sweet notaings into his wife's ear occasionally will waste his money

smiles infrequent, the Little. Woman can’t be bought off with Beribboned parcels. “Beware of Greeks bear ing gifts,” she says to herself, or words to that effect,

memory to find some personable young lady with whom Friend Husband may lately have been thrown:

i finer the offerings the deeper . ‘grow her suspins. "There comes a time in the life of every wife when she is reconciled to conjugal forgetfulness in the matter of birthdays and anniversaries, provided her hus-

words. Men could save themselves money if they spent more time talking nicely to their wives instead of cajoling Bolf caddies and being sweet to bookies. - Yet some of our greatest financiers are singularly

secretaries to buy expensive presents for the Mrs. when the Mrs. would rather have some of the great 8nancier’s time. The fellow who kisses tie Blarney stone’ ‘gets by on a small cash outlay with the ladies because he

ASHINGTON, March 27.—Prospects ‘for a per-|

A combination ‘of loans and increased American] “Possibly be devised for|

ance of. meat, - Wheat, corn, cotton, oil, copper, SEAT, |

closer. to. home, and the trade would benefit all

HE trouble is that’ there hasn't been any con-|-jtems, with the exception of the Ford rubber planta-|

Costa Rica and the Canal Zone. It will take years rl ven sufficient assurance of safety, American capi6ur industry. But even with the best of help, it will|

The movement of American capital into Latin||

of a soft drink parlor came to the State. Em=| ‘things that happen as they do?

. . Brig. Gen. Dana T. Merrill]

Jringing her presents. If compliments are absent dnd {

and upon receipt of another will immediately comb her| 2

If she spots one, the jig is up, After that the more] }"

band has kept his versatility in’ the use of wooing}: :

Jderstandsg)

understa women. :

ie human heart better than he inks] "ln

r Poces YOOR' {rusBand cnrewplare A CHANGE

EPLOMENT/

that of buying more Latin American products, is beset with difficulties.. We-are| .. ‘already Jbuying more: coffee that all the other eountries|: ' & put together, and there isn’t. much else ini ‘the wa of i

em NR OR —

The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree ‘with what you say, but wil - defend to the death your right to say it. Velie.

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CLAIMS DRIVERS IGNORE BELT WARNING LIGHTS By D. K. : : We have another bad accident

on the Belt, one dead and another|

in a condition: ‘that you or I would not like to be in. : Who gets ‘the ‘blame for these

Nearly always the railroad, too’ fast, no lights. I do wish that those who condemn the roads had the opportunity to ride with the ones that are doing all the killing. J run a freight that mikes .use

‘of the Belt from one end to the

other almost each night’ and you should see what we see’ from the cab. Inbound on No. 98 a tew days ago I made a. count of all machines that went over crossings from 16th St. or Speedway Road to the Pendleton Pike at Brightwood. There were 76 automobiles ran red lights at South Shelby Street: alone with the lights working; 16 machines went over this crossing before we did. Do you expect us to miss all of them year in, year out? About two years ago when the death Fase for Marion County was getting beyond reasen the public began to cdll a halt through your paper and owing to the pressure, the judges sat down on the reckless driving on the No. 2 speedway of the city, “E. New York St.” Machines cut the speed from 50 to 25 miles an hour .and:it made a very|iq sudden: change in the death list. . The police. will bring them in if we had sométhing to back them up after they get them in. . Some evening to pass the time away drive your car near the railroad where you can see the lights and still be out of the way and judge for yourself.

: ree WS . REBUKES EXTREMISTS

IN CAPITALIST. DISPUTE

By W. H. Edwards, Spencer, Ind.

In reading the opinions expressed in The Times Forum there comes the thought: “Is there no possibility of a united. thinking and. a united purpose among the people of this land bringing back an era of sane and ‘permanefit prosperity? At present, some ultro-conserva-tives seem blind to the evils which carried us down into the bog of

the mire.

(Times readers are invited . to express. their views in these columns, religious controversies . excluded. - Make - your ‘letters short, so all can - have a chance. Letters must - be signed, but names will be - withheld on request, )

despa, while others want to foist |. upon us some alien nostrum which would probably sink us farther [in

The: theory of caplishsa is all

right, but, like ‘too ‘many other

theories, -evils creep in which turn the ‘whole ithing: sour in practice. Instead. of ‘overthrowing - the capitalist system of economic government we should. concentrate all of

our -abilities in correcting the system |

of capitallsm “until it became the servant, not the master, of the people.

If we should foolishly allow the|

entire capitalist system to be discarded without trying first to throw out the many evils which crept into it, we would be courting a long period of ‘such chaotic conditions that nothing but a ruthless dictatorship could correct.. We certainly don’t hanker for any Hitler-Stalinism in these United States. None of our political parties is to be Wholly trusted to correct the

| evils? "thigugh « which we are. suffer-!1

ing; neither party will cease playing party politics long enough to play

‘some real economic politics.” But

there is | a growing tendency: among

the electorate to vote -indepéndent |

of party: in that tendency: lies our hopes, .of sifting. the ‘rotten grains out of the capitalist system, retaining the sound grains for the “uses to which. it should be: put. SIR PREDICTS ROOSEVELT WILL DECLINE 3D, TERM By E. E. P. With no intention whatever of |-

venturing deep into prophecy. Tam: fa risk |

nevertheless willing to by suggesting that President |Roose-’ velt some Hime back wrote, sealed and pu. away a statement in which he renounced all intention of: seeking a" third term, addihg:. that: he would refuse a renomination: if of fered ‘to him. He will spring this

declaration before the Democratic |

Convention convenes. 1 base the possibility of such 8 decision upon. my belief, held for over a year, that Mr. Roosevelt, precedent breaker that ‘he Is, has genuine reverence. tradition. My judgment is anchored on his inordinate love for the:dramatic, plus his penchant’ for’ hauling white rabbits out of hats. | ° : Yet one reservation must be made —that the international situation does’ not develop’ a erisis, for. the United States, = dd

New Books at t the Library

iE Jest robbers. of the Old West were no place for blue bloods, : either man or beast, Sue

‘Sanders knows. Sixty years ago she

was born on a Texas farm, youngest of eight children. She was 5, and Fannie, the ‘only other child at home, was 9 when their father died; from “then on" they shared their mother’s heavy burden of wresting a living from the unpredictable soil.

They plowed, planted, harvested. girls

They raised cattle. Sue recalls that the drought of ’93 killed their costly pure blood Jersey cow, while the

Side Glances—By Galbraith -

dumb on that subject; they hand checks to their| ja

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id diet

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common. nerd “ “serubs’ ‘pulled

prizes red blood. above blue. Certainly she’s proud: that herself belongs to “Our Common Herd” (Garden City), for her hardy ability: to take bad luck without a ‘whimper has been her greatest asset. = At 14 she married a migrant farm hand from whom she separated -a few ¥ yours later. With two little to. support, she worked the “Dust Bowl”. states as hoarding house keeper, cook, hotel maid. For

the wolf wasn't always at the door, sometimes he was on her lap!

| Twenty-five years ago she invested lher entire fortune—$100—in OKla-

homa oil, later ‘selling for $5000. Ever since she’s been an oil “man,” making, losing, remaking her fortune, vised by doctors to “put her hause in order,” she finds her greatest interest, next to her daughters, is|_ airplane travel. Sue Sanders tells her story with

| | spicy good humor. in the rapid ver-

paeiiad ‘of ‘the “Short Grass” region She attended school only | two hs in her: life, but her book is distinctive for its robust :word pic-| tures. of Texas frontier life, oil. and} boom towns, and the squalor and pathos of migrants 40 years ‘be

B “The Grapes of Wrath. »

SILENT GUARDSMED 0 Fo Bys RUTH KISSEL.

| pe busy street crossing stends

- sentinel at bay;

“Going noisily ‘on their way. A quiet,. but forceful ‘ reminder, That you ean’t push on through,

: Bu you: must stop. for the other |

man; ‘° And he will ‘stop fo you. ssity :filled our need, Until we have come to know That the whole plan of a great town = ruled ‘by “Stop and Go.”

- DAILY. 'HOUGHT.

Who! isa Wisé man’ and endued with knowledge ° among you? let shew out of a good conversal fon - his

. om, Janu 3: 13. ue LECT of the wise 1s ts

{ Army. . “That eould result in:

x appropriations, to. huild--up- the Navy. - *.| so much’ stress has :

.} safe line of defense. $38 8

" |'we haven’t got it at all.

for the: two-term :

‘the. cash to change hands.

through. That's ‘one ‘reason she |’

Now. in failing health; ad-| :

- When nutritionists get together, hoy

| seems. a very clear fashion. in “alph abeti : follows: fa

ks with meekness | mu

(Gen Johnson /

National Tragedy Could Result it. Election Year © “Politics Imperil* “Funds Needed to Modernize Army,

F ASHINGTON, ° ‘March ~Unless’ the country” becomes more alert,” gress is. going to cuit tha”

heart -out of the . ‘appropria ons- to. modernize the ational tragedy, but the’.

Orphan Anne. The Navy. o what; it. asks for. The

Army takes what it can get. i k There -are ;several teasons- for this, = ‘one I ats

| the Navy is our fixst “line. of defense. Nothing in ’

this column should be construed as_arguing against. “But. because

‘been -put - on - the -first- line of. defense, we forget that-it is far from: ‘being our only; line of defense, or, without a modern “Army, even: a

On present plans, our Navy will eventually pe able

5 eA ‘deal With any possible combination of ‘naval eneniy

powers. if either. the Pacific or Atlantic. = But not:

| againsf. any possible conibination in‘ both -at-the same ..|.time. With. uncertainty over the outcome of this \-.} war and the final: He: 4p. .and strength ‘of the dictator | powers—Germany, I taly,

“Russia and Japan—-a two-’ ocean problem Jds-a possibility. A two-ocean Navy is -not, within the: time=limits’ involved. There is, theres -

fore, a a possible. great gap in our first line of defense,’ 5

2 8. 8 UT. it need’ not be a dangerous gap, not if we have a small swift. and properly equipped modern

| Army, such as the general staff is now. trying to

create, and. adequate harbor and coast defenses. ‘With, our interior lines, magnificent. roads. and vast ine. dustrial capacity and that ‘kind of land force, any invasion of our shores or even any serious raid would bé impossible, even with only a one-ocean Navy with enough left over ‘to scout, patrol and. fight: ‘delaying

‘| actions in the other ocean. Without: that: kind -of any

| Army, the security: does not: exist. .. Such’ an Army is an absolute iressity to ‘our des fense in, the present world chaos and that is exactly . what we do ngt have. If. isn’t merely that what we have isn’t good enough—in ‘the ‘sense ‘hire discussed | Now, while - the Navy is!’ building up, our need for’ ‘the Army is at the maxi ; mum, We can build it much quicker than we can | build additions. to ‘the Navy. Disputed appropria= | tions in the present War Department budget are ine . tended to do. this—far too slowly in my. -ohinjontstiug | ! atleast to make ‘a ‘start.. Le i Jick oh He ir . S matters: stand now, Congress is: serdiy Boing to cut the heart out ‘of them. . It. is going to cut ‘them in order to avoid taxing or borrowing and to give the money. to farmers because this is an election "year. It is going to cut them in order to buy or persuade. votes and because neither Congress: nor the country tully understand the defense dilemma -and danger. . . This is, neither ‘the’ time nor the place for Such monkey business. -You-can’t deal with these problems after disaster.comes. It takes too long to do this kind of job.. The - failure : of France and England. to recognize this danger? ‘is. the Sole Teason' Tor. war. in -the world: today, We. have -an exadlly: “similar problem. We are mufling 4 ‘in exactly: thie same: way.

Business

| By JohnT. Flynn

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~The Country Needs Selatan but Only Speculation of the: Right: Type.

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NHICAGO, ‘March 27 George P. Res, president; of the New York Curb ‘Exchange, told Harvard siutents that the-way:to:- bring back recovery was. to remove the restrictions on speculation. “This is one of those statements which is both true and false. ‘It all’ depends on what you mean by “specs ulation. 5. Tea “When ‘a’ vallfoad.. .gempany issues a brand new | share of stock for $100°and I buy that share of stock -ffem tie road for: $1007gnd the road uses the $100— . along with many other huntireds—to buy & locomotive :ta improve the road’s-service, I am speculating in a railroad. I hope that that railroad will be so much improved by my investment and that of others, that the road's profits will be increased and I will. olla good dividends. That is speculation. & If instead ofthat I go.into the stock market and buy for $100.a share a railroad stock that was isst years ago, that.now belongs to Jones, then the $100 which I pay out for that stock goes to Tope. and not to a railroad. A The only thing that has happened as” “Be result of that operation is for the stock to change hands and Before the operation I ‘had the $100 and Jones had the stock. After it I the stock and‘Jones the $100. The $100. is’ in Jones’

Ee pacmpien pre

‘hands, and so. far. as industry is "concerned it- isi L

uninvested. That is speculation too, but iF that cis

tm speculating, not in a railroad, bug: in‘an exist 4

road stock. “No Restrictiéns’ in Law

«

In.the first kind of tyvestmentewhen + bug a geal share and put. the money into the'railtoad; my s spegti= | lation ‘aids “business, aids the railroad. business

_the second case, where my purchase .of .the toa

merely effects, exchange of ownelshiy. and. cash, i kind of ition which aids business. sh . What the country needs is speculation in: railroads: | as well as othéfthings. And Mr. Rea is tight when. he says the rest¥ictions upon that kind of speculation a

will hurt business. But what are the restrictions oh |

‘speculation in’ railroads? ' They are not to be found...

a quarter of a century, she says,| in the SEC or'the Truth-in-Securities Act. They are .

/to be found in the: condition: of the railroads them= iselyes. The’ way 10 revive railroad speculation—that is the ventarRy ‘of risk capital in railroad building | or extension or rehabilitation-—is to straighten out the railroad situation. And this situation was not. created by the SEC, but by Wall ‘Street domination of rail‘roads long before the SEC was heard. of. - | _ There is. plenty of confusion in [the loose use of words. And no word has been Toe sloceely. & 4 than this word omeeniation, 5 F. i of

Watching

By Jane Staffor

"ITTAMINS are 1

uses being found for. some of: the ‘mp talk is devoted to. another imports elements. These are the amino. 2 ‘containing them are the Drowsin 4 1 DOK “people mean meat and fish. : "The amino acids are often ; blocks of - protein. Gove Hambidg editor of the . - s them -in what > “terms as

“AS the: letters: of the. alphabet comb : words, these amino &ecids: combine to f as ‘different words combine 0 form

taken. live letters, or "amino acids. The je

. are carried by the bleod to all organs, all

cell or organ takes the particular | enters it : .rearranges . them into new words, or new I ‘which make néw seriten : SAA