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The Home Market Next

Since the Hoover tariff-tinkerers worked such
mischief with Americas foreign trade a rival wreck
ing crew has taken the field to smash with equal
thoroughness the home market.
The country is indebted to Hugh Bancroft, pub
Usher of Barrons Weekly for his frankness in vocing
the philosophy Of these new raiders upon the Amer
lean living standard.
wages and salary scales must be reduced at least
to a degree corresponding to the fall in commodity
prices and the reductions must be taken in good part
by all concerned" he writes. cor we must face the
closing down of all industry and its starting up again
with new labor secured from the 100000 now
out of work, who will be willing to- take work
at any wages they can get"
There is scant danger for such general lockout Of
American labor here is suggested There is danger
that employers foolshly might adopt this false
economy and hasten the destruction by general wage
slashing of the only remaining market left for Amer
lean goods.
The usually accurate American Federation of
Labor statistics reveal that the defation of labors
wages already has been nearly twice great that
of living COSTS The decline in the average income of
factory workers who have kept their jobs has been
224 per cent since 1929 and up to last September In
the same time the decline in living costs has been
IL per cent.
Rate of destruction of the home market is shown
by the fact that wage-earners' incomes, including
those of the unemployed have fallen $20,000,000,000
in the last two years. $1 in the last year
Compared with this other losses due to the depression
seem insignificant.
Bank failures in the year ended last Oct resulted
in the closing of banks with deposits of only $780,
OO0OOO much of which does not represent depostors
net LOSSES All business failures for the last year in
volved only $75O,OOO,OOO
If the United States gave away its entire foreign
trade matter of S. 15OOOOOOO in exports in the peak
year of 1929 this loss still would be less than one-half
that of the inroads being made into American buying
power through defation of wages
Every new wage cut increases the havoc AS we
watch our foreign trade melt away under retaliatory
foreign tariffs, let at least save the home market
from the same fate
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A Poor BACKGROUND

NOR was M. Laval's pronounce
~ ment the only French incident
to cause diSquiet.
Last Friday night a great crowd
OF PariSianS broke up an interna-
tional peace meeting, and the next
day Partisan newspapers condoned
the offense by Scolding promoters
Of the meeting for going at it in
the wrong way.
Whatever else may be said of it,
such an occurrence forms a mighty
poor background for the efforts
which M. BRAND is making to COM
pose the Orient.
Neither can the gratuitous insults
offered such distinguished men as
Lord Cecil, Senator Borah and for
mer Ambassador Houghton be re-
garded as without significance.
Admitting that the proponents of
peace might have made mistakes in
their zeal, there was no call for
Paris to stage an exhibition of
hOOdluuiSn1.
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In Machine Design

MUCH copper is used in machin
1Y1 design, It's greatest use in thi
field being in the form Of cope
alloys for bushings and bearings.
Some Tobin bronze, loaded phos
phor bronze and special free-cuttine
phoSphor bronze rods are used fol
bearing purposes" DR.. Hubbard says
1.-THE special free-cutting phos-
phor bronze has nominal compost
ton of SO per cent copper, per
cent each of zinc, tin and lead,
with a small amount of phosphorus.
'Tobin bronze, which is an alloy
containing approximately 60 per
cent copper, rs per cent tin and zinc
remainder, is used for boat shafting,
pump Innings, piston rods and die
pressed parts and drop forgings.
"In the form of welding rod, it
is used to repair machinery. 1t is
used where a tough, elastic, uni
form material with high resistance
to the action Of corroding agents is
wanted.
"Die-pressed parts are made from
forging brass, an alloy with a nom
inal composition of go per cent cop
per, 38 per cent zinc and 2 per cent
lead.
"Some Of these parts used in ma
chine design are handles, knobs,
caps, covers, valve bodies, gears, etc.
This alloy has good machining prop
critics.
Large quantities of slim brass
are used in the assembling of ma
chinery, and brass screening is used
for separating chips from the lu-
bricants."
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* TO-DAY 80
WORLD WAR \
ANNIVERSARY
fM 0fA4E
LANSDOWNE'S PROPOSAL
November 80

NN Nov. 80, 1917, Lord Lansdowne
~ precipitated furore by a dec
laration in London urging the allies
to restate their war aims in an at
tempt to bring about peace before
"the prolongation Of the war leads
to the ruin Of the civilized world"
He suggested that an immense
stimulus would be given the peace
party in Germany if it were under
stood that:
l. We do not desire the annihila-
ton of Germany.
2. We do not seek to impose on
the German people any government
other than that of their own choice.
3. We have no desire to deny to
Germany her place among the great
commercial communities of the
world.
4. When the war is over we are
ready to examine, in concert with
other powers, a group of inter
national problems.
5. We are prepared to enter into
an international pact for settlement
of international disputes by peace
full means.
Lord Lansdowne's statement pro-
duced a violent discussion in Eng
land, and with few exceptions in
fuential newspapers and publicists
condemned his suggestions, criticised
the action as untimely, and as like
ly to create impressions OF divided
counsels in influential quarters.
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Democrats and the Tariff

When Representative Rainey of Illinois declares
for tariff reduction it should mean something.
Rainey is the prospective Democratic floor leader of
the house of representatives When congress meets
next week the Democrats will be in absolute control
of the house, and through cooperation with the Re-
publican progressives can control senate legislation
Raneys lower tariff statement of today is the first
declaration of its kind to come from Democrat in
key tariff position. The fact that this statement
was put out by the Democratic national committee
adds to its Importance
Whether it is true as this statement seems to in
dictate that the Democratic leaders have decided on
definite tariff cuts at this session of congress, we have
no way of knowing. But we hope it is true.
If it is true it means that these Democratic lead
ers are preparing to fight not only the Republican old
guard which has the effrontery to call for an even
higher tariff but also the high tariff faction in the
Democratic party.
Hitherto only a small and valiant Democratic
group has opposed directly the high tariff course
charted by Chairman Raskob and candidate Al
Smith in the last campaign. The Hawey-Smoot
law, against which Rainey and some other Demo-
Gratis protest was enacted with the aid Of Demo-
cratic votes
Only the most courageous and intelligent type OF
leadership will be able to recapture the Democratic
party from It's high tariff spree.
AS Rainey says the high tariff largely is respon-
sble for our heavy losses in foreign trade. Interna
tional trade slowed up last year five billion dollars.
It will slow up this year. in all probability than
that In imitation of tariffs, or in retaliation,
foreign governments have increased their tariffs
that in many instances they are higher than ours,
and back of those foreign tariff walls American in
dustry with American capital is establishing branch
plants"
Rainey proposes:
I'VE should, in my Judgment pass bill. and both
parties ought to support in congress- lowering tariff
rates with reciprocity clause providing that none
of the rates be called into effect unless and until
as to item group of items, foreign nation
shall establish the same tariff rates lower tariff
rates"
On most items and on the products of most coun-
tries we would not have to wait for such reciprocal
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Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

%" ME men," remarks Mr.. Fulton Ousler, "are
thinking long thoughts these days over the way
women lead them around by the nose"
can imagine they are. And these thoughts prob
ably end in gleeful chuckeS when they see how they
pulling the wool over our eyes.
For with all the masculine cries of distress and
the gestures OF rebellion modern strangely
Supine in their bonds Of slavery. They may think
about it, but their thoughts not too disturbing
since they do nothing at all to free themselves.
The truth is that the American man never was
more comfortable so far as his women are concerned
than he is today. It's the first time in many gen
erations that he's had breathing spell from sup
porting a passel of females.
We. to be sure make great fuss about our work
ing independence without realizing that we have
good deal more of the first than the second. And
the men wisely keep still or talk about how sup
pressed they are and let us take on more and more
jobs-
TINE rich man sits in his walnut paneled Office,
with women stenographers and secretaries 70
do his bidding and to wait upon his whnns while
the poor man out of job usually has some feminine
relative willing to support him.
Men have less real responsibility today than they
have had for centuries They far more skittish
about marriage. Getting one Of them to the altar
is the hardest task faced by the modern girl
And once persuaded TO make the trip the slightest
little unpleasantness will cause them to walk out
the ladies.
1t follows naturally that with just so much work
to be done IN the world, the more women do the
less men will have to do Perhaps this is one of the
long thoughts the male is bordering.
II things keep on shall not be surprised to see
us landed right back plump into the dark ages with
the women doing everything and the gentlemen en-
joytng complete leisure. a
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| 46 per cent had what is called the
Parkinsonian syndrome, because of
its resemblance to the condition
called Parkinson's disease or shake
ing palsy.
The disturbances of behavior in
Guided nocturnal excitement, out
bursts of temper, propensity of de-
structiveneSs, vagrancy, stealing,
precocious egotism, and in general
a loss of mental control over ele-
mentary instructive reactions.
The physical disturbances includ-
ed tremors and spasms of the
muscles, assurances of respiration
and vision, paralysis and at times
commissions like those of epilepsy.
Obviously patients with this type
of condition are best treated in in
Stitutions where they are away
from the kind of contacts that they
have at home.
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Suspected

NEXT they wanted to know if
i I suspected anybody. Natural
ly you can't lose $500 without sus-
pecting a lot of people. Some years
ago had a secretary who just had
finished his third term for forgery.
But couldn't suspect him, he had
another weakness. When he started
on the job I said: eff it's Just let
ter saying I liked your Wednesday
column don't bother me with it.
Just write Thanks and sign my
name. Or if it's I didn't like the
Wednesday column you attend to
that by. only saying Sorry instead
of Thanks
I'm afraid I couldn't do that,
Mr.. Broun," said the forger. "You
know, I write such a rotten hand
that nobody can make out what
I'm trying to say"
Maybe that explained the three
terms.
And in the long years, of course,
there have been other people
passing by with the confession of
one jam or another.
But I had no means of knowing
whether it was an acquaintance
or some total stranger who had
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u, S, Stocks Sac
NTHER news was less encourag.
~ ing.

nTHER news was less encourag-
~ ing.
On Wednesday, Premier Pierre
Laval Of France let it be known that
he stood for the priority of repara-
tions, meaning that, Of all German
debts, the allied claims for war
damage must come first.
Those who have loaned Germany
the cash with which to pay large
position of these claims thus far
hardly could be expected to applaud
M. LavaPs view.
AS general proposition, the
effect of his remarks was bad
throughout the world. American
stocks sagged and the pound sterl-
ing suffered a sharp decline.
Maybe, that is exactly what M.
Laval and his associates wanted.
that it is their idea of peace to in
duce other people to grant Ger
many credit with which to meet
her reparation payments and then
declare that they can not get their
money until the reparation account
has been satisfied.
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NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS

In Spite of All the Fine
Gestures, One Gets the I'M
preston France Is Inter.
ested only in Profit and
Security.
NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-First,
IN Secretary Stimson made no
such statement as was accredited
to him by a japanese news service
and has caused all Japan to get
more or less hot and bothered.
Second, that japanese spokes-
man." who grabbed the spotlight
so promptly to act as chief de-
nouncer, turns out to have been
representing the army, not the gov
eminent.
Third, the offensive against Chin
chow not only has been called off,
but, If press reports are correct,
the japanese forces are being drawn
in all along the line.
In other words, the prospects for
peaceful settlement of the Man
churian situation are brighter than
they have been at any time during
the last six weeks, and this is due
largely to such a series of silly
plumbers as walked people up to the
real danger, especially people in
responsible positions.
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Sleeping Sickness Takes Heavy Toll

A fairly large number of cases
began to appear in the United States
in 1919, and since that time the
epidemic has been worldwide. The
peak of the condition seems to have
been reached in 1926.
Early, it was recognized that pa
TENTS did not tend to recover COM
pletely from this disease, but rather
that recovery from the acute attack
was followed by gradual degener-
alton.
About one-third of the patients
died, and from one-half to two
thirds of the survivors developed
conditions which are permanent.
In a series of 265 cases studied by
G. A. Barthwick, a British physi-
clan in charge of a large institution
for mental disturbances, it was
found that As per cent of the cases
had disturbances of behavior and
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Questions and
Answers

How did the Dead Sea get its
name?
Because its waters are so thor
oughly impregnated with salt that no
fish or shell fish or any other ami
NAL life of any kind, except the low
est forms, is known to exist in it,
it was named Dead Sea.
When was the state of Colorado
admitted to the Union and how
many states were admitted ahead
of it?
Colorado was the thirty-eighth
state and was admitted in 1889.
In what county in Virginia is the
city of Alexandria?
1t is an independent city, not in
any county.
Where are the headquarters of
the Camp Fire Girls organization?
Al Union Square, New York.
How many radio stations are
there in New York, Berlin. the
United States and in the world?
New York has Z, Berlin, 6; the
United States, GIL, and the world,
1,341.
Why is fOur-leaf clover supposed
to bring good luck?
The origin of the superstition is
that the four leaves are arranged
in the form Of a cross, for which it
is supposed to have some special
charm or luck for the finder.
Where is Indian Lake?
In the eastern part of Hamilton
county, New York. 1t is about seven
miles long.
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erty rights. So I said to the au-
tnoritieS, Lets forget it,"
l hope the gentleman who forged
the check is a newspaper column
ADDICT. 1 don't want him to try it
again.
l believe he would be caught the
next time. And that might be dur
ing week in which I lost in the
poker game.
Copyright, 1881. by The Times)
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IT SEEMS TO ME BY HR RES2%

A YOUNG man hailed me at a
N stage door a few nights age
and said: "Can I have your auto
graph?"
just had been in to call on Alex
ander Woollcott, the actor, and it is
likely that the curio collector mis-
took me momentarily for that lead
ing man.
This might explain his startled
surprise when I profanely showed
him aside and knocked the album
from his hands.
A little later it seemed to me that
I owed the handwriting expert an
apology and an explanation. But
it would have taken too long. I will
make it now.
On a crisp October morning in
the year 1881 a man of middling
stature walked into a bank and
drew the sum of $500 out of my
meager account through the me-
dunn of a check in which I had not
co-operated.
On account of my personal lack
of facilities, the forgery did not
come to my attention until a month
later.
In the beginning it seemed the
natural thing to do to rush around
to the bank and yell bloody muir
der.
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Peoples Voice

Editor Times-In regards to an
editorial in The Times some time
ago regarding the characterization
meeting held in Cadle Tabernacle
under auspices Of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States,
I wish to state that you are very
narrow-minded in regards to an or
ganization of real service men who
had real foreign service in all wars
from the Spanish-American war
until the World war, or you are a
pro-Communist yourself. I prefer
to believe the latter.
The V. F. w. has fought for
American principles at all times and
has fought for and put through
practically all bills in congress that
nave benefited eX-service men of all
wars These include the wonderful
compensation certificates. the nom
service connected disability laws. an
increase III Spanish-American war
veterans pensions, and G. A. r.
pensions and, with the D. A. v
they got the so per cent so-called
bonus and had the CUTS in their
national convention at Kansas Citv
to go on record for the rest of II i,
the next congress.
l am not writing this as a Maid
publicity man, like another service
organization maintains, but as an
eX-serVlce man who left a good lob.
a wife, and two small sons to enlist
and be a good enough American as
my relatives were before me. to %
INTO foreign countries, away from
my family. for nearly two years, and
hight for the protection of the men
women and children left behind
AND now you come out with the
statement that there are no Reds
IN the country, just men CRYING for
jobs. You either are lust plain
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BY DIR. NORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia the
Health Magazine.

a FEW years ago newspapers
"A contained many accounts of the
disease popularity called American
sleeping Sickness" which technically
is called epidemic lethargic en-
cephalitis, and now called epidemic
encephalitis.
Unquestionably the disease was
known hundreds of years ago I'M
der the name of mona" In 1915
cases appeared in Rumania, and
the first careful study Of the con-
dition was made by the Austrian
physician, Won Economo, in 1917.
He described the mask-like ap-
pearance Of the fact, the lethargy,
the disturbance of vision, partic-
ularly double vision, which are
characteristic of the disease.
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

Industry Uses T4oo Billion
Pounds of Copper a Year.
Most of it IN Alloys.
THE present age frequently is
Il called the age OF steel But it
is also the age Of copper. If steel
forms the skeleton OF modern civil
ization, then copper forms its nerv-
Gus system. For copper wires unite
She telephones and telegraph ma
chimes of the nation.
Copper wires carry the current
that lights the electric lamps and
runs the electric motors. And a
radio station, although once called
a wireless station" nevertheless
contains some miles Of copper wire.
The Importance of copper was
discussed by DR.. w. r. Hubbard of
the American Brass Company at the
recent Conference on Metals and
Alloys" held at Case School of APP
piled Science.
Just as iron is today the basis of
countless alloys-simple steelS which
contain carbon as well as iron, and
more complex ones which contain
chromium, vanadium, tungsten and
so on-so copper is the basis today
Of many alloys.
Copper alloys include copper-zinc
alloys ranging from Sc per cent cop
per upward, copper-tin with
maximum of 10.5 per cent tin, cop
per-zinc-led. copper-zinc-tin, cop
per-zinc-nickel, copper-aluminum,
copper silicon-Ianganese and vari-
Gus notifications of some of these
alloys by additions of manganese,
silicon, aluminium, iron and includ-
ing the use of such deoxidizerS as
phosphorus, silicon, manganese, cal
cium boride, ETC." says DR.. Hibbard.
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Considerations

CTILL there is no point in my
~ Striking high and mighty at
titude. The true reason for my lack
OF enthusiasm about the man hunt
probably lay in the fact trials are
things invariably held way down
town at 10 o'clock in the morning.
Moreover, just when it seemed
as if the authorities had hit upon
a pretty good clew an omen
bobbed up. have not grown out
of a belief in signs and portents.
It was like this: The night be-
fore the Investigators came to say,
well, what do you want us to do
about this?" I played in a poker
game. And I won precisely $500.
I have said that most of our
criminology is cock-eyed, and that
goes for other institutions, too. I
had not really earned that $500.
There we're two women in the
game.
L could not honestly take a stiff
and vindictive attitude about prop
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dipped into the Broun estate. It
worried me great deal.
Naturally I would not nationally
contend that society can be admin
istered without prisons and jail
sentences. But hate them just
the same.
Our prison system is so insane
that I would hate to act as COM
plainant against anybody who
comes to my mind. 1t is an ideal
oVerpowering to the point of i'm
practically, but I have never for
gotten that Eugene V. Debs once
said: while there is a soul in
jail I am not free"
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Two Billion Pounds

TINE annual consumption of cop
i per is more than 100000, 900
pounds. The last available figure
is for 1929, DR.. Hubbard says. The
consumption that year was 2,319,-
100000 pounds.
DR.. Hubbard furnishes the follow
ing figures from Metal Statistics to
show the amount of copper used by
various industries in 1929, the fig
ures given being for millions of
pounds:
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Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writers and are pre-.
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude Of
this Daper.-The Editor.
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Chose a Bad Time

THERE has never been in the
Il entire history of the United
States a period of prosperity so
great as to anesthetize me against
the loss Of $500. 1t is always a
painful extraction. And this time
the culprit picked a moment most
Singularly inappropriate. 1t was not
what I would call a tactful crime.
The niScreant massacred my
balance, but more than that, he
led me into endless interrogation.
First of all they wanted to know
whether anybody was familiar with
my signature. Unfortunately,
never played the. role of Button
Gwinnett.
In my time I have signed menus,
radio applause cards, newspaper
clippings and looseleaf pages for
persons who thought they were on
the way to autograph collection
by beginning with Uncle Don and
Haywood Broun. I was a sucker
for return postal cards.