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ANA<A AoOA Lands

WTE do not take any stock in the report of the
w Fish congressional committee that we are in
oanger OF being taken over by the Communist party
and we believe this committee has done the very
worst thing 1t could have done-given this movement
the very advertisement it loves
And the severe measures the committee suggests
absurd nations long ago learned that the best
way to handle such eruptionS is to let them blow of
steam.
London let's them scream their heads off and that's
all there is to it, but if she had bottled it up long
ago. there might have been an explosion.
1t is Interesting to note that many very rich gen.
tleen bitterly crtciSe the aliens who have brought
the red gospel here, when those very gentlemen
brought those very aliens here to cut the wages of
American workmen.
WE should Of course. stop this vicious stream of
VVimmigraeion, even though many great manu-
facturers are against it, and we should deport all
desirabeS. but the way to protect this government
against all who undermine it. is for us to take an in
terest in public affairs
We mean for those who like to call themselves the
best people to fight for decent government instead Of
letting everything go by default and sharing in the
plumber of the common herd now and then.
When you remember the long line of public scan
dalS we have had, when you recall the number of
statesmen who have been indicted when you recall
the notorious steals which have been and still are
being practiced in public affairs, you wonder that
the spirit of Communism is restricted so largely to
the foreign born.
THE Fish committee is not entirely candid when
it seeks to explain the existence Of Communism
in land.
It should have said that the oil leases involving
FALL Sinclair and Doheny caused men to uues-
ton the honor of their government than all the jum-
bled oratons of soap box orators from Maine to Cali
fornia.
Dishonest men in public Office, who graft of
public contracts, priviIege-seeking outfits which pill
lage everybody-these are the real breeders Of Com
munism: yes these and the failures Of our courts to
transact business against high and low without favor
and without delay.
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The Short of It

Many dercus and lengthy pieces on what's
wrong economically are being printed day by day and
week by week. But this from business man in the
United States to his agent in South America, tells
pretty much the whole story in exactly 100 words:
Il don't think everything is going to hell quite so
fast in the U. S. Del Norte, but do feel that some
thing bound to happen Or later unless our
capitalist mogus face the fact that, when one man
with a cheap tractor produce more than three
men with teams. it is bound be demorazing simply
to fire the two extra men and let them sit around
and brood in soup kitchens and speakeasies.
"Our whole show is geared to lots of luxury con-
sumption. But in the absence of an important war.
the fact that few rich men have only one gullet
apiece makes it impossible for them to do all our con-
Stunning for u.s."
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
HEALTH SERVICE ----
Heat Gives Some Relief in Sciatica

and last only few days, but in
severe cases they go on for weeks
and months, incapacitating the per-
sons entirely for work and eventu-
ally making it necessary to under
take serious measures to get relief.
The exact cause of Inflammation
of the sciatic nerve or its related
tissues is not known. There are,
however, cases in which removal of
visible infections in the nose and
throat and the teeth have brought
about some relief from sciatica.
Certainly one of the most valu-
able methods of help to a person
with this condition is application of
heat to the region affected.
Unquestionably the person does
better if he is able to lie quietly
in bed and not to exercise the
affected tissues.
Unfortunately far too often these
people fall into the hands of rub
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Pioneer independents

TITO q measurable extent, we have
4 been talking about this de-
preston as though organized indus
try chiefly were to blame and as
though it was organized industry's
job not only to pull us out Of the
mud, but devise a plan which would
keep us out of the mud ever after.
1t goes without saying that Or
ganized industry can do great deal
to steady conditions, but I doubt
whether it can do as much as some
people think, or whether it should
be allowed to if it could.
It strikes me that the problem
still includes a lot of small, indie
pendent people, who either are
working for themselves, or for pure
ly local establishments.
Further than that, it strikes me
that they are very important, not
only because of their number, but
because of what they contribute by
way of character, outlook on life
and the pioneering spirit.
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the country and that even if there
had been no smashup we hardly
would have reached the house before
3:15.
In the ross-examination he kept
leveling an accusing finger at me
and saying: Where you late?" But
I had sworn to tell the whole truth,
and neither Eyes" nor mo" would
have been entirely adequate.
wanted to give the metropolitan
members of the jury short fifteen
minute address on the habits of
hostesses in Westminster county. I
wanted to bring out the fact that
an 8 o'clock dinner in Stanford or
Whereabouts means that, with the
greatest good luck in the world, you
may get dab of caviar on biscuit
at 9:15.
But each time I ran against that
rubble barrier Of irrelevant and i'm
material
It seems to me that an excellent
way of arriving at a good decision
in any legal action would be to make
a careful examination of all the tes-
timony which is barred out and then
throw the rest away.
Copyright. 1881. by The Tines
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bers' or manipulators, who vibrate
or massage the affected portion of
the body and thereby make the con-
dition worse instead of better.
One of the certain methods of
controlling the pain in this condi-
ton is to inject about the affected
nerve a solution of some substance
which will block off the passing of
the pain sensation along the nerve.
The procedure is a technical one
which must be carried out by COM
petent physician. The substances
used include salt solution, water,
local anesthetic substances, or
various other chemicals.
In an earlier day it was customary
to attempt to stretch the nerve by
manipulation Of the tissue, but this
measure has been discarded because
of large number of failures COM
pared with the possible successes re-
SIIlting from its use.
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II AW courts seem to be the most
IL peculiar places. Out in Cali
fornia young woman was tried
on the charge of misappropriating
funds, and during the course Of the
proceedings the defendant was al
lowed to testify that her employer
dyed her hair, ordered liquor in
great quantities, and bought ex-
pensive presents for gentlemen
friends.
fail to see just how any of this
bears upon the issue. Or Is the no
ton being formulated that nothing
matters if it happens to have been
done to somebody who violated the
Volstead act?
Still less can I understand the
headlines of horror which swept the
country when it was asserted during
the trial that Clara Bow bought
rings for a couple of men.
I don't suppose that this actually
is being set down as crime, but
the moguls of the motion pictures
seem to feel that in some way it i'm
pairs the romantic lure Of Miss Bow
for screen purposes.
They reason, assume, that it is
more blessed for an "It" girl to re-
ceive than to give.
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FREDERICK'S BIRTH
Jan. "a.

an Jan. "a, 1712, Frederick the
" Great, Or Frederick II, king of
Prussia, was born in Berlin.
At the age of 10 he tried to
escape from his fathers tyranical
control, but was caught and sent
enced to death as a deserter. He
was pardoned, however, through iu-
tercession of Charles VII Of Austria.
When he assembled the throne in
1740. Frederick adopted vigorous
military policy and in five years
found himself in possession of Dres-
den, capital Of Saxony, and in a
position to dictate terms of peace
to Austria and Saxony, thereby con-
f1rning himself Of the possession Of
Silesia.
In the next ten years Frederick
concerned himself with the develop
ment of industrial, agricultural and
educational projects.
Frederick took a great interest in
the American Revolution and was
one Of the first soTereigns to con-
clude q commercial trekty with the
United States.
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$3.50 a Word

Authors have told us that unless book is success
full, it costs the writer personally between two and
five thousand dollars to write it.
OF course they are figuring in their time which
might have been diverted to more lucrative channels
in the meantime.
The wickersham report is about the length Of a
novel and is apparently going to be best seller But
it took eleven authors to write it, and cost
1t has 10000 words and at 100000 that's $3.50 a
word for the eleven authors or so cents word for
each Only Gal Coolidge can match that
OF course the taxpayers paid the 100000 But they
ought not to kick They buy the book at IS cents
a copy. And it is interesting reading
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Big Business Part

DY every rule of the game, San
ID Diego should be suffering more
than the average because of present
conditions. That portion of its
people who live on stocks and bonds
should be cramped Sorely, while that
other and large portion that serves
them should be out of work.
do not find it so. Conditions in
San Diego strike me as about on a
par with those in other places. A
little better If anything, and that
brings up a thought which has
occurred to me more than once
during this trip across the United
States.
Admitting that big business, or or
ganized industry, has come to play
a stupendous part in our economic
affairs, just how big part does it
play, and just how far can We de-
pend on it to prevent unemploy-
ment.
In spite Of all the massing, merg-
ing and mechanizing, there is still
a surprisingly large number of folks
in this country not connected with
big pay rolls. There is even a sur
prisingly large number not con-
nected with any pay roll.
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Questions and
Answers

When did P. T. Barnum, the
Snowman, die?
In 1891.
Who is the author of Rhymes of
a Red Cross MANI"
Garrett Putnam Serviss.
What are the botanical names for
maidenhair and asparagus ferns?
Adiantum pedatum is maidenhair
fern, and asparagus plumosus is as
paraguS fern.
Is it true that after snake has
been killed its tail win continue to
live until shutdown?
There is an old belief to that eff
feet, but there is no truth in it..
Owing to the reaction Of the snakes
nervous system the tail continues to
wiggle long after the snake is other
wise apparently dead. But there is
no truth to the notion that It win
continue to wiggle until SHUTDOWN
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Trial and Error

DR. HOWE'S summary, however,
~ is not overoptimistic about the
speed with which the world will
learn to prevent depressions.
"Let nobody think that we shall
learn enough this time to prevent
another depression in seven or
eleven years." it states. t'Production
will climb to overproduction and as
Sembly lines will be replaced by
bread lines many times before man
learns by the simian route of trial
and error how to organize his con-.
dicting efforts.
Besides being the year of
Planned but not Produced Pros
perity, 1880 will also go down in.
grandfathers' tales as the Year
when America Went Dry.
Historians of a future age doubt
less will be confused by the term,
but any one who spent the summer
under the unclouded skies of the
middlewest will know which type
OF drynesS is meant"
The year 1890 was one of those
during which business is somewhat
disturbed by the uncertainties Of a
revised tariff, it is pointed out in q
discussion Of the international.
chemical situation.
The outstanding development was
the retention Of American valuation
as the basis for levying tariff on
coal-tar chemicals.
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ut Is Essential to Protect
and Encourage Every Form
of Small, Independent En-
terprise."
GAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. "a
~ Fronting great natural harbor
only fourteen miles from the Mexi-
can line, with naval base, army
base and marine base, and popu-
lated largely by men and women
who want a pleasant place in which
to live more than a chance tot make
more money, San Diego is one of
our few really unique and interest
ing towns.
To begin with, it lacks some of
those things which most other towns
consider absolutely essential, such
as tall climneys, big factories and
concentrated pay rolls.
On the other hand, it is equipped
splendidly with those recreational
facilities which most other towns
regard as of secondary Importance.
You would not only have to go
far, but seek a much bigger town
to find the equal Of Balboa park,
with its square mile of landscaping,
its 160-acre zoo, its museums, rogue
courts and Switchboard layouts.
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SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-.

Americas Future Prosperity
WI Be Based on Scientific
Findings, Says Dr.. H. E.
Hot0e.
THE future prosperity Of America
4 will be based on scientific re-
search, in the opinion of DR.. Har-
rison F. Howe, editor of Industrial
and Engineering Chemistry" one Of
the official publications Of the
American Chemical Society. ~
Research. which provided the
tools for the last wave Of prosper
ity. will in time show industry how
to avoid depreSsions, DR.. Howe be-
lieves.
Hidden in the technical and
scientific publications of the year
lie developments which ten or
twenty or fifty years from now will
rank as fundamental contributions
on which new industries and new
schools of thought were based,
says DR.. Howe.
Looking back on 1880, DR.. Howe
points out that the year was not
without its bright side. Chemistrys
organized attack on the problems
of industry and public health con-
tinued uninterruptedly, he says,
and, despite unfavorable business
conditions, research stats gener-
ally were kept intact.
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Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Tirnes-From the news as
published in our city disseminators
of information that is supposed to
be of interest to the residents Of
this city, county and state, it would
appear that the new heads of gov
ernmental departments have ap-
pointed quite number OF mar
ried women to various positions in
the several departmental offices.
It probably would be of interest
to the taxpayers Of this city, county
and state if you could publish a list
of all the new office holders, giving
their names, Office, salary, married
or single, and their relationship to
other office holders or employees,
especially the women employees to
whom the prefix Mrs. is applied, and
with particular refernce to the mar
vied women who, with their hus-
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Good and Bad

ID USINESS in 1880 was not so
ID good, but industry on the
other hand not so bad" says sum-
mary in Dr. Howe's magazine. The
summary continues:
"One of the notable contrasts be-
tween the current depression and
that in 1921 has been the general
maintenance of research and devel-
opment stats during the last year,
Relatively few industrial scientists
and engineers have been thrown to
the crocodiles.
Behind slackened production, a
great deal of inward activity has
been going on. Naturally enough,
much of this activity has been di
rected at lowering production costs
because the hope of quick re-
covery has pretty well changed to
the viewpoint that business condi-
tons, while bound to improve, will
do so only gradually over a period
Of several years.
Eminent industrials Join with.
the men of theory in emphasizing
the vital need for the coordination
of industry. In so far as Com
munism may succeed in this objec-
tive, it will offer a challenge to our
present economic system which can
not be ignored.
Nobody, not even the Soviet
leaders, know today how industry
may be co-ordinated, but many in
dustrialists should be allowed and
encouraged to try to find out.
"The same patient enthusiasm Of
research which has been response
bic for the splendid growth of some.
of our industries eventually must
be applied to limiting competitive
production, so that modern man will
not be thrown out of work and into
distress by the bitterly paradoxical
ability to make too many goods"
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Too Much System

TINE more I see of this country
l. the more unwiSe I think it
would be for us to toss its economic
problems into the lap of billion
dollar combines, and the more es-
sential I think it is to protect and
encourage every form of small, in
dependent enterprise.
We must not forget the endless
procession of inventions, discoveries
and innovations that have made us
great. SO, too, we must not forget
the ultimate effects of too much
system as disclosed by every phase
of human experience.
The. moment we undertake to
make this country safe through sys-
tenn, that moment we lose the capa-
city to change step, to assimilate
revolutionary inventions, to stand
the loss which goes with the de-
Struction of important trades and
industries, that has played such
an important part in our progress
thus far.
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STAYING on the Pay Roll

4 NEVER have been enthusiastic
Il for the trust-busting idea per Sc.
There are certain activities which
call for monopoly. There are 9TH
erS which demand mass production
for the sake of efficiency.
At the same time there are ac-
tivities which do best on individual.
or small-scale effort, and the main
tenance of which is necessary to
social and economic health. I think
most people would be surprised to
learn just how many.
Not only in our greatest cities,
but right under the shadow of our
tallest skyscrapers, thousands are
making good in an independent way,
not to mention the 100000 farms
ers, or, perhaps an equally large
number Of small tradesmen and
mechanics scattered throughout the
country.
Maybe one of our greatest mis-
takes consists in teaching so many
young people that they need not
worry so much about taking care of
themselves or doing anything on
their own account, because we have
discovered a system which reduces
the problem of life to the simple
task OF finding a good boss and
staying hitched to a pay roll.
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4 Object

MY own complaint about the
1V1 courts has nothing to do with
anything being introduced concern
ing my Squandering of money on
other people. In my case it has
been the challenges and elisions
which ranked.
For instance, was a witness for
a defendant in an auto accident, and
the lawyer for the plaintiff made
much of the point that we were
heading for an 8 O'Clock dinner in
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bands, are enjoying lucrative living
as employees of the taxpayers.
TAXPAYER.

Editor Tines-Knowing your in
terest in the cause of labor and the
laboring mans problems, wish to
call your attention to certain al
legged conditions and practices in the
distribution of food to the needy
families of this city.
In the first place, it is said by
the most vitality affected, that when
help is solicited from trustees, in
many cases, where immediate help
is most urgent, several days pass
before investigation takes place,
thereby causing much suffering
and privation.
It also is claimed that there is a
great variation in the amount Of
food received from different stores,
that clerks in stores where chart
table organizations purchase sup
plies for the needy people of the
community have in some cases been
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IT SEEMS TO ME BY HE EEoSS

Clara Bow. Is it conceivable that
the female sex contains no butter
and egg women? It must.
After all, the opposite tradition
what might be called the Peggy
Joyce motif-has had more than it's
share of public attention. Why not
encourage women to dream Of being
lavish spenders and of showering
their friends and acquaintance
with expensive gifts?
Some good might come of it. It
will be better and a sweeter world
when some feminine equivalent for
"fall guy" gets into the language.
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Turn About

r THINK they are all wrong. TO
Il me this advertising Of Miss Bows
lavishness suggests a brand new
type of wish-fulfillment for audi
enceS.
Even motion picture people have
taken up psychology and they know,
or think they know, that the young
woman or the young man in the
audience goes into a fantasy in
which he makes himself one Of the
characters in the story which is be-
ing acted before his eyes.
Thus a lad in Des Moines may
for the duration of eight reels be
the very hero who is taking Clara
Bow to a night club and making
violent love 70 her while the band
is playing.
And just before the final flicker,
when she says, "I loved you from
the start" his is the diamond en-
gagement ring which slowly Is
slipped upon her finger.
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PavIova Cannot Die

Pavova can not die While any of us who saw
her dance still lives, Pavlova lives.
Into this world Of Embellishments, half-convic-
TONS half-artistry, Pavlova brought complete and
satisfying beauty
1t viii be forever a part of those who saw her
dance.
Emotion crystallized into visible, vivid life, ex-
pressed with exquisite perfection not be forgot
ten; can not trying forever to break through
INTO being, once more in every humble effort to those
whom it has touched
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instructed by their employers Ia
give short weight. Rob not tho
poor because he is poor"
Surely it is bad enough for a man
to steal when he is hungry and yet.
under certain conditions. society is
inclined to be merciful in such
cases. But who will dedne for me
the utter depravity of the person
who dips his hand in the lap Of
charity and snatches lew crumbs
Of bread from the mouths of hun
CRY little children?
The people who give their money
for charitable purposes and those
who receive its benefits deserve bet
ter treatment. e. F. MADDOX
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So Ear So Good

A S far as the movie men have
N gone in their tIfeorizing they
are sound enough. Undoubtedly
millions of young men would like to
buy Miss Clara Bow ring-in fan
tasy.
But, as Hollywooders will learn in
time, it takes all sorts of people to
make a world. % far, they have
neglected one important element in
the population.
I mean that there are millions OF
young men who would like to have
Clara Bow buy them ring. Again
we deal in fantasy.
In fact, although I never have
had the privilege of seeing this par
ticular star in any of her super epics
I rather think I might fall into this
second category myself.
I think it would be extremely
pleasant to sit alone in dim-ht
temple of the silver screen and say
to myself: Nov, she's ordering
wine; now she's ordering lobster;
now she's asking the waiter to bring
her the check. And now S.le's ask
ing me what sort of automobile
would prefer for my birthday"