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FuSel Oil

N the refining of the alcohol.
A certain impurities are drawn of.
These are of great interest to the
chemist because of their special
properties.
one group Of impurities contains
the so-called higher-boilin alco-
hols. These include propyI alcohol,
butyl alcohol and anlyl alcohol.
Amyl alcohol is better known bv
the name of fusel oil. It is a valu-
able substance to industry, finding
many uses in the making of lac
quers, films and plastics.
The production Of fusel oil in the
United States is not sufficient to
meet the demand and chemists in
many laboratories are working upon
the problem of obtaining it as a di-
rect product instead of merely as a
oy-product in the manufacture of
ethyl alcohol. So far, however. thew
have had little success.
The fusel oil does Mt seem To be
direct product Of the fermenta-
ton caused by the yeast, but an in
direct one, in which certain nitro
gen compounds used as food for the
yeast enter.
Butyl alcohol, another one of the
impurities already mentioned. finds
an important use in the manufac-
ture Of artificial musk, an ingredient
OF some of the finest and most ex-
pensive perfumes.
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Hoover Gets Peal Test

COMETIMES, it looks as though
- President Hoover could not step
foot inside the White House without
being confronted with trials and
tribulations.
Maybe it's wnirn of ironical fate
to test those qualities which were
advertised so widely as fitting him
for the presidency.
Certainly, no peace-time chief
executive has been called upon to
meet more peculiar or unexpected
problems.
The depression set in less than
seven months after he took office,
to be followed in rapid succession by
drought, political discord, and dis
couraging conditions throughout the
world.
Just now, the President feels
strong and buoyant after a short
trip to the West Indies, but within
two weeks he won't know he had a
vacation.
He comes back to find his party
torn with dissension and confused
by intrigue, the treasury facing a
deficit of 100000, with the tc5k
of writing eight speeches within ten
weeks, not to mention the routine
duties of his office which are
enough to overtax most men.
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Indian Rurean Reform

It would be un1air to Secretary Wilbur and his two
Philadelphia Quaker reform Indian commissioners,
Charles j. Rhodes and J. Henry Scattergood, not to
express qualification at the steps they have taken in
their twenty months incumbency to improve the
Indian service.
1t would be Just as unfair to the nations 100000
Indians to say that more than beginning has been
made to clean up the they inherited from years
of nismanagement, greed and neglect
Tbs Reorganization plans and promises OF funda-
mental reforms mean little unless thorough house
cleaning is made in personnel. Welcome is the ap-
pointment OF such splendid men as Dr. w carsoa
Ryan as new educational chief. Robert LansdaIe as
head Of the new human relations" division. A G.
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We Grow More Helpful

TINE one encouraging sign is a
< constantly growing disposition
to help people in distress, no mat
ter who or where they are.
Though we Americans will not do
all that we might, or all that the
situation calls for, we still will do
something to assist the unfortunate
city Of Managua, which our marines
have occupied for the last nineteen
years.
If the assistance we render is
sufficient to Offset some Of the irri-
tation and ill-feeling our meddling
has caused, we should not regard it
in the light of charity, but as a
necessary and profitable investment.
We have shown the Nicaraguans
our worst side all too long. Inso-
far as this misfortune gives us a
chance to reveal a better side, it
represents real opportunity.
President Hoover is to be con-
graduated for rendering immediate
aid through the Red Cross.
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Presidents Break

TINE fact that we have only one
L ex-President alive speaks for
itself. The office has grown almost
beyond human endurance, and
chiefly because we have imposed
social and political duties which
the President never was meant to
shoulder.
During the first half century, our
Presidents were able to go through
the grand comparatively untouched.
During the last half century the
ms ority have come out of it broken
men.
Shaking hands, running the party
as well as the government, attend
ing dinners and receptions, patting
this movement, campaign, or enter
prise on the back, and performing
other political and social stunts,
have combined to make the Pres
ident's life hell on earth.
When Mr.. Hoover left the Arizona,
he couldn't sit down in the boat like
common men, but had to stand up
while twenty-one guns were fired in
his honor.
If thousand school children visit
Washington, he is expected to show
himself, if not lay benign hand on
each curly head, like other trained
seals.
Worst of all, he is expected to
straighten out every kind of a dis
pute or row which occurs among his
followers, and if he fails to do so
promptly and effectively, it is taken
as proving his unftness to occupy
the office.
Hasn't the time come to ask our
selves what a President is supposed
to do?
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-DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
Bile Spread Causes Jaundice

bile out of the body. This is called
catarrhal jaundice and usually
clears up with careful medical treat
ment.
1t may be sometimes associated
with similar Inflammation of the
stomach and of the intestines asso-
ciated with absorption of bile and
there may be itching of the skin
and perhaps even a depression, such
as melancholia.
When the bile begins to discharge,
these symptoms begin to disappear.
There are other conditions asso-
ciated with jaundice, however, which
demand surgical attention.
Stones can form in the gall blad-
der and block the passing of the bile
out of the gall bladder. In such
cases only a surgical operation will
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Questions and
Answers

Who wrote Quo Vadis?" When
was it published?
1t is a story of Rome, in the time
of Nero, written by Henry Sienkie-
wicz. The book was published in
1895, and has been translated into
more than thirty languages. It was
first dramatized in 1901.
What is troglodyte?
A cavenan or cave dweller Of pre-
historic Europe. The name is also
sometimes appliest to the larger
apes.
What is the meaning of the term
racketeer?
1t is a colloquiaI generic name ap-
piled to persons who are engaged
in large scale operations in defiance
of the law, especially of the prohi-
bition and vice laws.
What is a banshee?
In Scotch and Irish mythology
it is a fairy visitant, usually taking
the form of an old woman. whose
wailing under the window Of a
house is said to foreteu the death
Of one of its occupants.
To whom does Hong Kong belong
and is it a single word or two
words?
1t is a British colony and is pre-
ferably written as two words.
What is the worth Of an 1873
dollar gold piece?
1t is valued at $1.50 to $3.50.
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H444s1 E
BISMARCK'S BIRTH
April. l

ON April 1, 1915, Karl Otto Edu-
~ ard Leopold Won Bismarck
Schonhausen, German statesman ana
the creator of German unity, was
born at Schonhausen.
After university training and army
experience, Bismarck began his Dip
lomatic career in 1851, when he was
appointed Prussian member Of the
Germanic diet at Frankfort.
There he showed the zeal for the
interests of Prussia that guided him
thereafter.
He was the guiding spirit in the
reorganization of Germany under
the leadership Of Prussia and he
logically became chancellor in 1857.
During the Franco-Prussian war,
which he helped to bring on by
falsifying a telegram, Bismarck was
spokesman for Germany. He die
tated terms Of peace to France
which included the cesSion Of AL
SAGE and Lorraine to Germany.
The sole aim Of Bismarck's pol
icy, domestic and foreign, was to
consolidate the empire by stabiliz-
ing its institutions and by making
it secure, through alliances and po-
litical combinations, from attack by
other nations.
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The Thousand and One I'm
necessary Duties Forced on
the President Make His
Life q He'll on Earth.

NEW YORK. April 1.-The Ma
4 nagua earthquake just is one
more of those natural disasters we
have not yet learned to foresee,
much less to forestal
There have been twenty-six ma
jor earthquakes in the last twenty
five years, involving the loss of a
lalf-million lives and an incalcu-
liable amount of property.
Besides, there have been floods.
droughts, famines and fires, not to
mention the continuous ravages of
disease.
From common sense, if not 2
humanitarian, viewpoint, it would
seem as if such disasters produce
enough trouble, without men at
tempting to manufacture it on their
own account.
It would be wonderful thing if
we could devote more of our am
bition, energy and ingenuity to the
one worthwhile struggle of liberat-
ing humanity from its natural peril
and waste less of it in the futile
attempt to win success by trampling
down one another
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Cooley as chief of agricultural extension and the half
score Of new superintendent.
There remain, however, among the bareau's 5000
employees too many Of the old bureaucrats habituated
to indifference.
And fundamental reforms still are ahead. The
S430O00o0 Of Illegal remburseable debt, much Of it
loaded upon the backs Of the Indians only to benefit
whites must be scaled down.
The vicious allotment system, under which 100000
Indians have become dispossessed and sent into the
world as near paupers, must be changed so that on
the death of an Indian aottee his property does not
fall into the hands of whites through forced sales
Some method Of caring for the 100000 dispossessed
Indians must be evolved.
The boarding school evil should be abated entirely
and decent local school system provided The Swing
Johnson bill should BE- passed. to permit states to adj
minister relief, health, and education. Coercion,
corporal punishment, and child labor should be wiped
out New Indian laws must be written and their just
administration insured
Doubtless Commissioners Rhodes and Scattergood
would be the first to admit that their task is just be-
gun
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result in complete removal of the
stones.
Indeed, it is customary in such
cases, because of the fact that the
stones tend to form rapidly, to re-
move the gallbladder entirely.
A person can do without a gall
bladder, since it apparently acts
merely as storage place for extra
bile and when it is removed, the bile
goes directly from the liver to the
inteStineS.
Tumors in the liver or tumors
in the region of the bile ducts
may cause pressure upon them or
close them OFF in such manner as
to prevent a discharge of bile into
the intestines. Jaundice also occurs
in cases of this kind.
Copyright. 1881. by The Christy Walsh
Syndicate and The Times)
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From Cuba
MoLAssEs from the sugar mil

MOLAsSEs from the sugar mills
w of Cuba is brought to the
United States in tank steamers
similar to oil tankers. It then is
transferred to storage tanks.
In the alcohol plant, the molasses
is diluted with water, to which a
little acid has been added. Purified
yeast which has been grown under
conditions to eliminate contamina-
ton by bacteria is then added.
The yeast causes the fermenta-
ton which changes the molasses
into alcohol.
During this process, carbon diox-
ide is released. This carbon dioxide
is not permitted to go to waste.
however.
1t is collected, purified and stored
in cylinders under pressure. It is
then used for the manufacture of
carbonated waters and for opera
ton of soda fountains.
This carbon dioxide also finds an
other important use. Biscuits and
cookies manufactured in this coun-
Try Tor Shipment abroad are packed
IN alright tin cans. To insure fur
Their the safekeeping of the prod
ucts, the free spaces within the cans
are filled with carbon dioxide.
The fermented mash, which re-
mains after the yeast has done its
work and the carbon dioxide has
been removed, then is put into a
still and the alcohol distilled from it.
The residue left in the stills is
thick syrup. This then is burned
IN furnace. The resulting ash
contains about IS per cent potash
and as a result has a ready sale as
fertilizer.
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know too much about the regu-
lated liquor business ever to want
to see it restored. They remember
it in the term of disrupted homes,
interrupted schooling, inadequate
food and clothes. They are for
prohibition because Of the human
dividends it pays. They know that
liquor never has contributed an
idea, an ideal, or an ounce Of
energy to human progress.
CLAUDE HARSHBARGER.
Ladoga, Ind.
Editor Times-I have been a
reader of The Times for quite a
while. In the main, I approve your
stand on most questions relating to
the welfare of the people at large,
but not all. Any condition that af-
fects all the people for good or for
evil is matter that should be
largely under the control Of the gov
eminent.
The eighteenth amendment is one
intended to eliminate an unques-
toned evil. The failure Of this
amendment may be because Of the
plan. 1t may not be the best plan.
However, a second best plan, if en-
ergetically enforced, will be more
effective than the best plan lacking
support.
There are thousands of law en-
forcernent officers who are traitors
to the causes for which they were
elected and paid. This includes Gov
ernors, mayors, and others. There
are Governors who favor repeal or
control by states, although all have
sworn to support the Constitution.
This attitude is allied closely to
treason.
Local option, in either large or
small units, has been and always
will be a failure. Put good and rot
ten apples together in Darrell and
the rotten apples, by contact, con-
taminate all the good ones. The wet
states invariably are bad, trouble
some neighborS of the dry states.
The eighteen amendment may
not be completely enforcible.
Neither are the laws against muir
der, Swindling, rape, etc. Well, that
being the case why not repeal them,
too, and give the people freedom to
do as they please, regardless Of their
relations to their neighbors and fell
low man?
You know that there are many
fathers, mothers, wives, brothers,
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ.

The Machine Age Is an Age
of By-Products, Of Which
Alcohol Is a Striking Er-
ample.
THE Chicago packing house that
u once boosted it made use of
every part of the pig but its squeal
set the slogan Of the machine age.
The elimination OF waste in manu-
featuring processes is one Of its
chief aims.
The machine age is any age OF by
products. A good sample o. that is
the manufacture of alcohol.
Alcohol is chief topic of CONVEX
sation in these days OF prohibition
and the natural affinity of certain
alcoholic products and ginger ale -
too well known to need comment.
But it is probably not known that
the manufacture Of carbonated wa
tiers really some of the by-productS
Of the manufacture Of alcohol.
OF course the reader must re-
member that ethyl alcohol finds its
greatest consumption in industry.
not whoopee parties. Only sulphuric
acid and caustic soda surpass it in
number and variety. of industrial
uses.
Ethyl alcohol is made from the
fermentation Of sugars. Its chief
source is sugar cane molasSes. Corn
is the second most important source
in America. Sugar beets are used
for the manufacture of alcohol in
France. while potatoes are used in
Germany.
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Daily Thought
The hOary head is a crown of
glOry.-Proverbs 1881.

Inc hOary mead is a crown of
glOry.-PrOverbs 1881.
Age either transhgures or petrifies.
Marie Elmer Eschenbach.
Where is Paris island?
1t is located just off Port Royal.
S. c., and is a marine corps train
ing station.
How large is the airpIane hangar
at Lakehurst, n. j.?
1t is 300 feet long, 172 feet high
and 258 feet wide.
What is the title Of Blanche
Sweets latest picture?
1.-THE Silver Horde"
What is the difference between
an emigrant and an immigrant?
A person emigrates from the land
he leaves, and immigrates to the
land where he takes up his new
abode.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHREIN

BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the Health
Magazine.
TAUNDICE IS the result of the
u spread of bile throughout the
body.
Bile is formed in the liver and
passes from the liver into the gall
bladder and into the intestines. If
anything happens to prevent its
passing in this manner, it is picked
up by the blood and carried
throughout the body.
The skin and the whites of the
eyes turn yellow and most of the
excretions are coIored.
There is a condition of mild in
Illumination of the bile ducts which
temporarily prevents the passing of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-01
A Key to Foreign Trade

While Senator Borah in Washington deplores our
lack Of development Of foreign trade the prince Of
Wales and his brother are engaged in a super
salesnen's tour Of South America In these coun-
tries lie many of the plums of commerce just ready
for plucking. Germany wants them so do we. So
does England.
Meanwhile, President Hoover returns from the
Caribbean, where Governor Theodore Roosevelt Of
Porto Rico has been telling the chief executive of
unique service which he feels young Porto Rcans are
especially qualified to render
Standing in the position Of American citizens
speaking our language but never forgetting his owr
native Spanish the Porto Rican is particularly fit
ted to go into South America as commercial repre-
sentative. He understands the ways of the Latins
He understands our ways too.
Big manufacturing firms, desiring to sell their
goods in the countries to the SOUTH we'll might con-
slider employing welleducated energetic Porto Ricans
in their branch offices in Brazil the Argentine Chile
Peru and other key countries
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Times Readers Voice. Their Views

sisters and children Inundated, and
not only Inundated, but impover-
! ished, because of alcoholic intoxi-
cants. If home education and in
f1Uence is not a deterrent to the
habit of drinking, then the govern
ment surely is justified in the right
to control it by all proper means.
Our great and glorious country
is far behind many others in civic
matters. In some respects, Mahatmi
Gandhi and his heathen people are
ahead OF us. SOL. M. CLICK.
Editor Times-If it is true that
Mr.. Ford said "the average man.
however, won't really do a days
work unless he is caught and can
not get out Of it. There is plenty
Of work to do if people would do
it" then I hereby challenge Mr..
Ford to prove to me, IAN average
man. and millions like myself, the
truth of such statements.
S. A. Nelson, I agree with you,
as will millions. that Mr.. Ford cast
insults on millions of unemployed.
Statements like that breed Boil
sheVism. I am for true American
principles and ideals. There are
enough rats of corruption" gnaw-
ing at our ''feed-cribs" that an in
suit from Mr.. Ford makes us grit
our teeth.
This is what Mr.. Ford looks like
to me. Every time he opens his
mouth it is frothing with dollar
signs. When dog with rabies
bites you, they kill hint Even when
Mr.. Ford, with wealth and power
made for him by the average man,
shoots out poison, it will come back
into his own coffee.
I'm no radical, just American.
Thanking you for your splendid
editorial articles.
STEADY TIMES READER.
How many So gold pieces has the
United States government coined?
The total amount of SO gold pieces
was $1,619,376.
Who is the author of the poem
"OstIer Jo?"
George r. Sims.
How long is the term of a United
States senator?
Six years.
What is Photographic will?
A will that is written, dated and
signed entirely by the hand of the
testator.
Where is Jesse James, the famous
outlaw, buried?
At Kearney, Mo.
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Then there was the young bride who grew sudden
~ Jealous when her husband revealed he was in love
with his work.
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Now that a movement is on foot to Anglicize
operas, hope is high that train announcers may be
induced to use understandable English
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gin party is sometimes like prize fight, tn
Office sage observes. Two rounds and you're out.
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1t is the hope of every baseball manager. o
course, to make jack OF all trades.
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A birdie in hand is worth considerable to al
golfer.
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Then there's the facetious tonsorialist who refer
to dandruf as chips off the old block
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southerners who dunk corn pone in potlikker may
be heartened by the fact King Albert of Belgium dips
his toast IN coffee. They know at least the custom
is fit for king.
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Beauty shops now are said to rank sixth in Aneri-
can industry. The business has advanced many good
features.
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II Cal Coolidge accepts that 100000 job as head
Of the New England dairy interests he'll doubtless
make his own hay while the sun shines
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The man who has designs girl usually is archi
tect of his own fate
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Where is Paris isIand2

Age either transhgUres or petrifles
Marie Elmer Eschenbach.
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How many So gold pieces has the
United States government coined?
The total amount of SO gold pieces
was $1,619, 376.
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How long is the term of a United
States senator?
Six years.
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Who is the author of the poem
"OstIer Jo?"
George r. Sims.
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What is a Photographic will?
A will that is written, dated and
signed entirely by the hand of the
testator.
Where is Jesse James, the famous
outlaw, buried?
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1931-05-02
Co Frs GUILD
o. N Y0k MS
Blue SKY Ell Z

NEW YORK. N. r.. May 2
LIN it's semi-mOnthly report 70
subscribers. the Consumers Guild
Of America. Inc. says among
other things:
we are studying the develop
ment Of Blue shy legislation,
which We find synchronizes exact
" with the Better Business bu-
reau movement. both being 30
years old. We have definitely de-
termined that the main purpose
for the organization OF the In
veslment Bankers association was
the promotion Of Blue Sky laws
In the various states. which has
now covered 40 Of the as states.
1t Il interesting to note that all
OF these laws exempt the secur-