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TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1941
NOW FOR REAL REMEDIES | o work after Easter the defense- | industry-labor situation has so far improved that there is better prospect for calm consideration of the problem. | We can't agree with those who keep saying that the | country shouldn't be concerned about a few strikes when | £0 many men are working without interruption. Full power from the industrial machine is needed as never before, and we can ill afford even one or two missing sparkplugs, a mere pinch of sand in the bearings or a few tacks in the tives. We hope much less will be heard about drastic govern- |
S Congress gets back t
mental crackdowns—Ilaws to prohibit strikes, laws making | it treasonable to strike, commandeering of strike-bound | industries and other dangerous measures. But we hope there can now be clear-headed discussion of real remedies. | The President's Mediation Board has | ht strikes and proved its ability to end stubborn
after thev are referred to it by the Secretary
new Defense
settled eig controversies— of Labor. Why not give that board authority to intervene
on its own motion, where that seems desirable, so that It
can get busy before controv ersies turn into strikes? | No argument so far has convinted us that the Railway | Labor Act principles should not be extended to defense | : es, Which do preserve peace on
1 These principle ld give mediation more time to prevent
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MR. CHASE'S PROMOTION I? was almost inevitable that sooner or later the services of Charles W. Chase would be sought elsewhere In the tracHis job of rebuilding the Indianapolis Railways
tion field. Qvatem was too outstanding to be ignored hy other cities And
<vstems on their hands.
with problem street railway he goes to head the Chicago S sce who had come to know Mr one else who nad come to N¢ MY. Not merely
£0 urface Lines.
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Along with every
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1anapolis. had done for Indianapolis of the sort of person Mr. |
, 1 1 a v ~ we dislike seeing him leave Ind 1 iy Ih} ] the magnificent Job he
01 hss ther heealige Dut rather necause
He took an interest in the community
Ine is personally < enterprises far bevond any requirements of his He had the town's welfare genuinely at heart. He to pitch into any civic project where he felt he
ling ti F service yest of good fortune in his new field, |
not escape voicing regret that a very
wish him the
we can
f course, but ran
swell person is leaving us.
ALASKA DEFENSE MOVES PBEFOR E next winter enough of six new Alaska airports to he usable will be in operation. You may hear more of the rather picturesque names they hear: Juneau, Cordova, Boundary. Big Delta, West Ruby and Nome They are a part of the £3.300,000 worth of new defense airports which are Alaska and link it to Canada and the United
3 goon to aot States \ 3 easily
gram got under wa)
ile-long runways required by modern bombers are not So when one realizes that this proIv last fall, it gives hope that real progress is being made. The United States is determined to defe ermost boundaries and to reach out its defen-
or quickly built
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Its n in everv direction from which attack might come. reasons. Alaska's defense is vital, and it is en-
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sive ari For Whaitls
couraging to see it move forward.
NEGLEY D. COCHRAN ON E upon a time our worries were about the Fourth Ward—not Dakar, Greenland, the Red Sea or Outer Mongolia. That was before the First World War. The Shame of the Cities” was being written. Corruption was rampant—Tammany and all points west. Municipal reform was issue number one And, if a large measure | of reform had not been accomplished when it our nation would have been much less able to withstand the
Was,
shock of international crises which followed. loledo was one of the toughest spots. It was a hideout the yangsters of Chicago and the larger cities of the Domestic gangsters then, not inter-
for East and Middle West. national. but nevertheless full of the same poison for the bodv nolitic that now threatens from Berlin, Moscow and Rome In that Toledo scene appeared Negley D. Cochran, editor. | Those were the days of awakening civic consciousness— | the days of the great Tom Johnson, in Cleveland, and other | advocates of municipal decency who turned the tide for
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better and safer living, at home. Through Cochran's militant journalistic leadership and support the Toledo clean-up era was made possible—the careers of Golden Rule Jones and Brand Whitlock. » » 4 » ” { Labor was not strong then, as it 1s now. It was weak, with few friends in either Government or the press. Utilities operated on the Jay Gould formula. “The public be damned” was accepted as merely a clever quip. And, generally |
were on the side of the “haves.”
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gpeaking, the courts Against high-widesmnd-handsome privilege for political | bosses and organized capital, and in behalf of labor’s right | to organize, Neg Cochran threw his weight. He was of the | personal journalism sort-—but a personal journalist who | never failed to realize and accept the responsibility that went along with the great power he wielded. | No man in his time did more toward accomplishing a | job that had to be done. It is hard to write a headline that will epitomize a life | so full of action as was Cochran's. Much of a tribute could ! be expressed about his later years, his work in close asso- | ciation with E. W. Scripps in the World War, and the con- | tribution he made to his country then. But to the writer, who knew him so long and so well, it seems that his epitaph should he—*"One who fought for and attained cleanliness in his own home town.” For, in! such a fight always is the beginjng of national strength. |
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| children who are American citizens
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Refugees
By Thomas L Stokes
Growing Practice of Hiring Only Citizens Viewed by High Officials As Likely to Harm Defense Effort.
(Last of a Series)
ASHINGTON, April 15—In connection with the general alien problem in the United States, Government officials recently have noted with concern a tendency to restrict employment of aliens. They say this trend may interfere with the defense program, in view of the need of technical skill. The restriction policy among industrial corporations seems to have developed concurrently with the registration of aliens recently completed, which showed an alien population of 4.471971 This served to dramatize the aliens, though the number represents the smallest percentage of aliens in the total population that has ever existed This tendency first was called to the Government's attention a few months ago by Gen. Robert E. Wood, chairman
| of the board of Sears, Roebuck & Co, who said in a
letter to Attorney General Jackson that he had been informed “a number of employers apparently consider
| it their patriotic or legal duty to discharge all alien
employees simply because they are aliens “I believe,” he wrote, “that this is a most short-
| sighted policy, and I doubt very much whether its full
implications are realized. I speak, of course, only of
| law-abiding aliens who have proved their competence
and loyalty. Many of them have husbands, wives and I cannot see what national interest is served by discharging such employees.” In reply. the Attorney General said that such discrimination if it became general would create “a grave problem” and explained that neither the Alien Registration Act nor anv other Federal law banned employment of aliens, except in a few specified defense industries
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Ko on a recent investigation made for the National Defense Advisory Commission, Earl G. Harrison, Special Assistant to the Attornev General, said “there is a disturbing and apparently increased tendency on the part of many employers to Insist upon citizenship as a prerequisite to employment Mr. Harrison, formerly Director of Alien Registration, said that this discrimination had appeared despite the friendly spirit of the alien registration
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| program. Restriction has gone to the point, he said,
where it may defense program
easily interfere with our national
The Government restricts the employment of aliens |
in only two situaticns First, where the emplover 1z engaged in work under “secret, confidential, or restricted Government contracts In such circumstances, the law provides that no alien “shall be permitted to have access to the plans or specifications, or the work under such contracts.” Second, no alien can be emploved in the manufacture of aircraft and parts It may be.” Mr Harrison said
“that some em-
plovers have a mistaken impression as to the legal |
requirements and that this accounts for the policies adopted, but the results are nonetheless disturbing.” = = N analysis of the status of workers hired between Nov. 1, last vear, and Jan. 1, 1941, for a few kev industries shows: Iron and steel. number hired, 11,910, citizenship required, 6914, or 58.17, average for the whole country, though in Pennsylvania, big iron and steel center, the percentage was 80.37; ship and boat number hired, 6603, citizenship required 6212 or 94.177; electrical machinery, number hired 7128, citizenship required, 6325, or 88.77%: machinery, number hired, 16404, citizenship required. 12607. or 76.97; industrial rubber, number hired. 626, citizenship required, 361, or 57.7% Discussing the results of the alien registration. Mr. Harrison pointed out that the present alien popu-
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pares with 6284613 10 years ago, or 5.127% population then ® A sampling indicates that about 407. of those aliens eligible are in the process of becoming citizens. It also indicates that the median age of the alien population is 48.19 vears, while that of the total population 1s 28.8 wears.
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(Westhrook Pegler is on vacation)
Business By John T. Flynn
‘Pay as We Fight’ Was Slogan Of Now Forgotten War Profits Bill
EW YORK, April 15.—In 1936 the U Senate considered through three of its committees what was known as the War Profits Bill. That bill was prepared under the auspices of the Senate Muni-
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tee, the Military Affairs Committee and, in principle, by a subcommittee of the Finance Committee It was subsequently duced ito the Senate by 49 Senators—a clear majority of the Senate In the hysteria which has a‘tended the present crisis that bill has been completely lost sight of But the British tax plan just presented to the House of Commons bring it up once again The one thing that was said and 1s important about the Senate War Profits Bill is the principle on which it was based. It is a principle which has the approval of the vast majority of economists. Here is the principle: Wars cost money. The war itseli—its physical and psychological shocks—are sufficiently destructive of any scciety. But if we add a dynamic economic shock to the physical and psychological shocks, the result is apt to be a complete disaster, even though the war be won. Therefore the Government must carefully guard the economic structure with the greatest care
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» ” 2 HE greatest shock to the economic structure comes from the cost of the war—though there are other origins of shock. The cost of the war is generally vast and must in its nature be vast. But this cost of war is enormously increased hy the process of paving for the war out of funds borrowed bv the state. This is particularly true if the funds are borrowed from the hanks In fact, if borrowing is resorted to it is almost imrossible to keep the loans one wav or another out of the banks These loans tend to create enormous floods of new purchasing power which get into the hands of the people and cause credit inflation and great price rises. And these price rises in the end swell the whole cost of the war to gargantuan pro-
| portions
When the war ends and the inflation ends. the result is disastrous. If this should occur this time,
the result would be far more disastrous than last time, |
because the economic system is more out of joint.
The onlv escape from this dire consequence is to |
pay for the war as we fight it. “Pay as we fight"— this was the slogan of the War Profits Bill. This means to pay with {ax money. The taxes must be heavy and severe. But in the end the cost of the war will be far less; the losses to individuals less, and the shock to the whole economic system less. trying to do this—though a little late.
So They Say—
ECONOMIC agreements likely to be kept are preferable to political agreements likely to be broken — Otto T. Mallery to the American Academy of Political and Social Science. - x
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QUICK, electric courage is good to start a fight, but it takes patience to win a campaigh—Ralph W. Sockman, pastor, Christ Church, New York.
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wholly disagree with what you say, but will
defend to the death your right to say it.— Voltaire.
FAVORS U. 8S. TAKING OVER DEFENSE PLANTS
By C. 0. T., East Chicago, Ind
In talking about drafting men for the Army and not for industry I want to go on record as willing to be drafted for the work I do in the steel mill where I work now. I wish I could live in an Arms post, wear Army clothes and eat at an Army mess hall and 40 hours a week in the mill here and be paid like a private, sergeant, according to my ability as a worker; sleep night and work in the daviime I can't quit the mill } more than I could quit the Arm and I would rather new ciean Army eat In a mess hall than where I do live Just because man makes 26 In the steel mill much. It 1s how much save that counts You put
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FANTASTIC PROJEC] Br Meade C. Dobson. Managing the Long Island Association, New After study
Lakes
Director York
several of the St
vears of careful Lawrence-Great Waterwav project the folfacts regarding this fantastic proposal stand out clearly This project cannot be slightest use to Canada United States in anv wai during the next six vears Its ultimate cost will be to three times greater than the estiWitness excess costs of Panama, Welland and Chicago drainage canal, ranging from 100
of the the
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or
two
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It will require hundreds of millions of dollars additional expendifor military and naval de-
Construction of and delav tional defense program sion of labor, material portation facilities Additional power
this project will main naby diver-
and trans-
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faciiities, if Lawrence vallev can be supplied more quickly and
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cheaply by steam-electric ana from Niagara Falls It will critically injure the ports of Buffalo. Albany and New York City, the state barge canal and the railroads operating in New York State The agreement between Canada and the United States, transmitted to Congress by President Roosevelt, provides for the approval of Canada regular procedure usual in the ratification of treaties, but in respect to the United States. Section 2 of Article II of the Constitution nf the United States is suspended for political expediency The entire project seems to be a glaring exampie of diversion and
plants
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evasion.
= THINKS NATION NEEDS REBIRTH OF FREEDOM D. C.
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By EF
Our nation is beset ous strikes complicated by ruthless lawlessness and violence. Facing these conditions I am reminded that the Administration encouraged and tolerated such acts for the last eight years Radical leaders uncovered bv one government agency or committee have been protected by another. We are being shattered from within by forces which were given life, power &nd encouragement by the New Dealers Law-abiding Americans, who cherish their freedom, and opportunities in the United States and oppose our entrance into war abroad, are vigorously assailed by the master politicians as dupes Recent events show approximately 49 million Americans were duped in November by two leading Americans. These leaders are continual advocates of steps toward war, They have joined hands to create fear and hvsteria in the United States Why don’t thev endeavor to arouse courage in America?
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Side Glances=By Galbraith
Neer oe COPR. 1541 BY NEA SERWCE, RC, T. M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.
re plasty,
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"Naw, I'm never going to get married—it would be too much ot a
disappointment to the other women | know."
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and a rebirth. The New Deal, which has
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1941 | Gen. Johnson Says—
Draft Limits Likely to Be Lowered
To 18-23 After Present Law Has Built Up Reserve of Older Men
HICAGO, April 15—There have been some creaks and some resulting criticism in the administra«tion of selective service but, considering that the organization has to reach into millions of American homes with an almost inquisitorial process and deprive hundreds of thousands of them of a robust young member of the family, the remarkable slenderness of the number of complaints is an astonishing tribute to the intelli gence and common sense with which this great democratic sifting process has been done One criticism is that the age Iimits—21 to 35—are too wide and include too many family men and that the ages should have been 18 to 21 No better answer could be made than the one given by Gen. Louis B. Hershey. who has carried most of the load. Gen. Hershey showed that, while the younger age-limits used by long-established European systems of universal service are an eventual goal, we had no such vast reserve of trained men of all ages as those systems have built up over many years and could not have confined this draft to kids alone, in building up this great emergency army, without depopulating ou colleges in particular and our youth classes in generz Gen. Hershey has made a life-study of the Wor. War and other conscription systems. He is as near a specialist as we have on the subject of the draft. Don't forget that the War Department didn't write that draft act It didn’t want age-limits so wide but neither did it want 18 to 21, for the simple and scientific reason that the broader the field, the more liberal and gentle can be the application of this sacrificial law
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EN. HERSHEY had a bill on tap that was the result of those vears of work. A bunch of civil« ian kibitzers beat it to the gun with an improvisation which Gen. Hershey's general staff division were able to get passably amended in crazy-quilt fashion, but not to compare with the balanced perfection of the law he wanted He says, “When we have enough reserves for our immediate and prospective needs, it is my personal opinion that the limits should be changed to 18 to 23. Furthermore, when such a change is made, registrants within those ages should have some privilege of decid« ing when they would like to take their year's training. An 18-year-old boy just out of high school could begin his training right away, or wait until he 1s 20 if he wants to get in a few years of college That is the kind of liberal, common sense that proves the absence of any Nazi-Fascist hardboiled attitude in this man's army of 1941 The most legitimate complaint about draft administration is the acceptance of men by the local hoards’ medical examiners followed by their rejection by Army doctors. The man loses his civilian job and 1s then rejected by the Army. This can be corrected by a closer co-operation between the Surgeon General’'s office and the draft office as 1t was in 1917 and by getting out an understandable examination
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| manual for civilian doctors We need a rebirth of freedom, |
sound moral and spiritual |
reigned as long as Hitler, has not |
made the United States strong. Remember, “only the strong can be free’ said Willkie I urge
Americans to cause a rebirth here, |
and make democracy work the United States strong
Make | within, |
and it never will be threatened from |
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FINDS OUR PATRIOTISM KILLED BY PROPAGANDA
By A. Sanford
“Soldiers, your hour has come,” | said Hitler, And long, unremitting]
prepaganda showed 80,000,000 ‘superior’ men women waited for news of coming victories Suppose that order had been sent out by President Roosevelt American soldiers
certain Senators would the radio to broadcast been sent to die
rush “You have Roosevelt 1s a Peace fanatics would
{ nicket soldiers’ barracks with signs
| reading: come
have
“‘Soldiers, to die!” Since 191% unremitting ganda from extremely ple—Communists and travelers—has killed our patriotism and made us pacifists We believe in fighting domestically but not beyond our borders. We
your hour has
propavocal peotheir fellow
international
believe in all forms of national diz-|
cord, elec
revolution, strikes,
boycotts, | Our laws granting freedom of}
speech have given a green light to| any fanatical militant and extreme-|
Iv enthusiastic group to dominate
the arena of discussion and dissemination of ideas to think mainly along the lines laid| down by that group most aggressive | and most active in furthering their|
We have come
ideas—the Communists and their
fellow travelers.
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CLAIMS DRAFT LIABILITY TO SINGLE MEN
By M. X
Why do men between 31 and 453 to be turned down day in
land day out because we are single? | Why don’t they give us a chance
to learn a skilled job?
|give us an opportunity to earn, so
we can get married? Why not
make the draft age 21 and 45°?
If you are not skilled in some line |
of work today industries and manufacturers will no are
hire you. If you skilled and single, and I am both, they say, “We need a married man for this job.” If we don't]
Why not |
have that chance to learn a skilled |
| job, we don’t have a chance to earn|
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that dollar to get married, so we won't be turned down.
The draft made every single man
[a liability to every manufacturer. |
SPRINGTIME GLORY
By OLIVE INEZ DOWNING Come, take a stroll with me, my friend, In springtime beauty bright— And hear birds trilling overhead, In swaying treetop height. The robins sing their madrigals, And when they pause, we hear The melody of catbird’s call— Song sparrow’'s note of cheer, The croak of frog is heard in pond, There fair anemonies— And blue and yellow violets, Are seen at foot of trees
Then as we merge from out the
woods A rainbow’s arc we spy— When all these beauties we perceive, God's trailing robes are nigh.
DAILY THOUGHT
A blessing, if ve obey the commandments of the Lord vour God, which I command you this day.— Deuteronomy 11:27
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Questions and Answers
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EN. HERSHEY is also fighting an: emptions—such as those urged for firemen and medical students. He is right The greatest blunder in the World War draft was a blanket exemption for workers in shipyards and Jack Dempsey was photographed as a steam riveter —in spats! That wasn't Jack's fault It was 3a publicity stunt but it emphasizes the fault of blanket exemptions. Essentiality in a local civilian job is the only criterion and the local draft boards are the best tribunals to determine that in respect of their neighbors If we begin exempting occupational classes by act of Congress, there will be no end. Pretty soon it will be suggested that adagio dancers are essential to keep up public spirits. That actually happened in 1917 at the instance of the great Pavlova. The argument is persuasive but some mothers’ sons have to sacrifice and suffer as soldiers. This is the last place to make class distinctions. And, by the way, now that Dr. Dykstra has resigned to take over a full time job in the new War Labor Board, why can't Gen. Hershey, who has done this outstanding job, now be acknowledged and appointed Director of Selective Service? Gen. Gullion, who is the only other qualified candidate, has recommended this
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Editor's Note: The rtews expressed be columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times,
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
ARRIAGE has always been a diffigult business, and men and women being what they are, there 1s no reason to suppose it will ever become a perfect state. Individually and collectively, however, ws deal with it as someone said we treated the weather —always talking and never doing anything about it. Apropos of this, a wise reader suggests we should take a yearly inventory of our wedded bliss, the replenishment of her pantry Just as the housewife goes about shelves and the merchant looks over his stocks. It's a swell idea and ought to jerk many a grouch out of the matrimonial dumps. For nothing 1s a failure until we give up trving to make it succeed, When you put down the assets and liabilities of your venture you can determine for sure whether vou are wholly blameless if it has become a dull and drab affair. And certainly the very first item should be a reminder that marriage has never been a magic cure-all, but be sure to add this postscript—neither is divorce. Given a reasonably good husband, almost any woman is able to create a happy-ending plot for her life story. She can be the author, director, and glamour girl of her domestic scenario which, when she wills it, is so much more rich and satisfactory than any she sees upon moving picture screens “Never expect too much of the man,” should he the bride's first lesson. Give him the right to be a human being as well as a husband, and by thinking more about his virtues than his faults it is astonishingly easy to persuade yourself you have drawn a prize in the matrimonial lottery. And the chances are you have. Indeed, maybe you got a good deal better than vou deserve. If we are truly honest with ourselves, such an inventory might prove that most of us demand more out of marriage than we're willing to put into it. We hope for enormous bvrofits on a meager investment, In short, we expect something for nothing—and that
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FOR BLESSINGS ever wait on|
virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.—Congreve, v
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Q—After completing a yzar of military training, will a trainee be transferred to a reserve component? A—He will become a member of the reserves, sub-
ject to such additional training as may be prescribed
by law, until he attains the age of 45, or until thes expiration of a period of 10 years after such transfer, or until he is discharged. : Q—What did Thomas B. Reed say about Henry Clay's famous words, “I would rather be right than President”? . A—Congressman Springer quoted Clay's words, and Reed arose in Congress and said, “The gentleman need not worry, he will never be either Q—Has Italy had a war with Austria during the last 100 years? A—Yes, in 1862-1866, and 1815-1918. -