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RELIEF REFORM

Assurance that the new administration will act
quickly to make unemployment relief effective was
given the Governors conference in Washington
We now know that President Roosevelt wants
more orderly and co-ordinated disposal OF federal
hunger funds to the states and that the Governors
as we'll as the President prefer work relief to doIes
Since last July the federal government has poured
into the states some $24OOOOOOO On the spending
of this great fund the government has had little
check. tiny corps of five Reconstruction Corpora
ton field men has tried vaorously to prevent waste
1t is little wonder that many states lacking prop
er relief machinery have allowed precious dollars to
seep into political pockets OF flow down rat holes of
inefficient administration
UNCLE Sam has set up strict standards in federal
aided road building. But there is no American stand
ard for relief
In some southern states relief is limited to Sc and
81 family month; in Chicago it is $40 Work
relief wages range from 20 cents an hour to 81 day.
There should be minimum relief standard below
which no state can sink and expect federal aid
10 maintain this standard, the federal govern
ment should contribute leadership as well as money
human beings are as important as highways
Inc Governors resolution, favoring federal aid
Tor work relief administered by states paves the
way for immediate action on a great state-federal
public works program This, too is understood to
be the RooSevetian policy
Inc new congress is expected to evolve a con1bi-
hatlon OF the Costigan-La Toilette and Wagner
oiS adopting the best features of both Federal aid
an emergency essential should be administered To
the states under expert federal board, working
with and through state boards to feed clothe and
mouse the needy under national standard
work relief on a scale contemplated in the Wap
ner bill should be speeded not ONLY to prevent hun
ger ouV TO stimulate through public works stagnant
private industry and commerce.
generously and speedily the government should
give and loan. But it need not do so wasteful1v
And 1t should not allow states to waste money
waste IN relief funds means more hunger.
one thing can be said for iiw-saw nuzzIers
they have to have a sense of the fitness of THINGS
Inc collector of rare coins certainly finds wide
field for his endeavors these DAYS
In all that talk about beer, does anv one recall
what has became of light wine?
Banks finding it advisable to impose limitations
on Withdrawals are hopeful that bandits will he
conSloerate and observe the spirit of the rule
When the bars are let down on beer thereu be
Just as many go up.
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has been fostering for four years President Hoo
vers administration rghtfully was criticised for the
sterilization" or price-pegging experiments Of the
farm board but he and his regime should be given
due credit for bolstering the nations system of
cooperative farm marketing
Morgenthau apparently plans to unity the farm
finance agencies under the board hquidating per-
haps, the nearly useless joint stock land banks and
the Reconstruction Finance Corporations sub
salaries that charge such high interest
The new system must be prepared. at the outset.
to be lenient with delinquent farm borrowers. 1t
should offer the strength to support them until agri-
cultural prices have reached more normal levels
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T HAVE endeavored to say during
1 the last couple of days that
did not believe we we're stand
ing at the edge Of the end of the
world.
Just around the corner" has not
proved to be the happiest Of all
phrases, but somewhere there are
cakes and ale and good red herring.
The embalmer whom have met
over the week end annoyed me not
little, but 1 must say that, next to
a funeral director, the most de-
pressing thing in the world is a
professional cheer leader.
Returning last night to my bed
and board a little earlier than is
my custom, I found a telegram
stuck under the door. 1 never have
become sufficiently sophisticated to
treat such messages lightly. In
Variably I feel that this may be
some communication about the glass
! slipper and promise whereby l may
cash my pumpkins in terms Of
coaches.
After all, Uncle Alfred's kidneys
are not so good, and I am always
worried about him, since he has
no living heir I was the one who
advised him not marry the tall
blond girl who stood the third from
/ the left in "Hot-Cha.'
Message From Garcia
a ND so whenever I open a tele-
IA gram I steel myself for
/ shock of good news or bad. With
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trembling fingers I fumbled at the
envelope and tore it open.
1t proved to be no personal
message, but a form of greeting
from Mr.. Wash Young, who wrote
A Fortune to Share" and Let's
Start Over Again Mr.. Wash
Young, I might add, is to litera-
ture what Uncle Don is to the
radio.
No moratorium can be declared
upon my outlook on life, said the
telegram, and I began to have an
uneasy feeling that perhaps that
last round Of lobster NeWburg was
mistake
mo holiday can be declared
upon my bank of right thinking"
the pep message continued, and I
was almost sure that I had in
dulged too freely in some bad
celery.
And, although I had spots be-
fore my eyes and embarrassment
in the presence Of any sex, I con-
tinued to read this stop-the-
presses announcement and found,
This morning I cashed a big
check, which gave me an imme-
diate supply Of courage, faith and
tolerance"
At this point, I asked to be ex-
cused. I don't object to anybody's
being cheerful, but I must say I
am i'll prepared at o'clock in the
morning to get kilograms from
people who are making an osten-
tatious display Of large wads of
right thinking, faith and toler-
ance.
Confederate confidence seems to
me just about as valuable as
confederate money. am neither
shivering nor whining. but when 1
ask for bread, L mblamed if I
want to get a wall motto embroi-
dered in colored yarn.
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Times Readers
Voice Views

Editor Times-The article by
Mrs. Walter Ferguson discusses
THE World We Made for Our
Children" and the cry What
Future Is There For Our Girls?"
should say the cry should be
What Is the Future Of Our
Boys?"
The future OF our nation is very
dark until the girls give up jobs in
industries which our boys should
have at wages that would permit
marriage and the ability to sup
port a home. Then the cry no
longer would be who is there for
our girls to marry?" OF course as
long as the girls do the mems
work at woman's wage, there
will not be enough income to sup
port a man and children.
But let the man support the
women and children, and there
will be vast difference. 1t is high
time we get cur heads out Of the
sand. The reason the cries against
women taking the place in in
duStry that has been sacred to
men is tht they took them at such
low wage that it cut the purchas-
ing power Of the industrial work
er until the result has been de-
preston such as never before was
known in this country. And it is
only in the restoration of man in
industry that a cure can be
effected.
Since We now have a secretary
of labor who is in favor of
thirty-four week, and the removal
of children and the aged from the
labor market, all should get be-
hind the cause and do what they
can to help create the laws for
which she stands and our coun-
try will see better times than we
ever have known before.
On account Of mass productions
of machines, it must be better I
certainly agree with Mrs. Fergu-
son that some of us dash our
heads against the rocks.
WILLIAM LEE,
R. r. 6, Anderson. Ind.
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men, and above all with God. Of
course, in a way, he knew that
before, but not as he knows it
now. So much that was dim in
other days he now sees with an
awful clarity
Today his one passionate belief
is a belief in love-love of friend,
love of neighbor, love of God, who
now seems very real and near.i
With this is joined the absolute
faith that we are all of us, from
the lowest to the highest, knit to-
gether with chains of nearness to
each other and to God, now, here
after and forever.
For the first time he wishes he
might live his life over again, if
only to grade the things worth
while.
What does it matter what folk
say about us? Why fret about a
few blasted plans? At the door of
death he has learned what life is
and what are the things worth
living for.
(Copyright. 1888 BY United Features
Syndicate. Inc.j
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Paris Green

TN 1869 some one whose name is
i not known hit upon the plan
Of busting the potato plants with
a poisonous powder known as
paris green, which contained ar
senic.
Since that time farmers have
been able to keep down the raw
ages Of the potato bug and GER
tain other insects as well by the
use of certain poisonous sprays.
But continual activity and vigi-
lance are required.
In 1923, in the United States
alone, more than 100000 pounds
of calcium arsenate, 100000
pounds of arsenate of lead, and
100000 pounds Of paris green
were used to fight potato bugs
and other insects.
Authorities say that it would be
impossible to raise potatoes any
where west Of the Rocky noun
tains without spraying the plants.
The potato bug is ready to grab
mans potato crop at the first
opportunity.
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Every Day Religion
BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

"uAVE you ever been down at
IL deaths door?' writes a
friend who has been desperately
i'll. ut is profound experience.
One sees more clearly than ever
before what life really is and
ought to be. Big things shrivel
up, little things loom large.
"Honors one longed for, victories
won by having our own way, thirst
for revenge, exacting our rights,
pride, and ambition-how petty
these things become. One discernS
the meaning of life. what true
values are, and the folly of run
ming after false ones"
In remarkable letter, my
friend goes on to tell what he
learned in an illness that lasted
some two years. At first he was
sad and hopeless, as if under a
dark cloud of detection, unable
to see any way out. Then, sudden
ly, he came to believe-practically,
not as nice theory-in the per-
sonal Immortality Of the soul.
At once everything was diff
ferent, as if a light had been
turned on in a dark room. He saw
that he had been living life with
an entirely wrong idea of what life
is.
I'm the light of a flash he saw
Il that his standard of values
had been wrong, and it staggered
him. He had been ambitious for
power, covetous Of place, eager for
comfort and praise and respect,
and these things about which he
had fretted became trivial.
He saw that what really matters
is his relation with the souls Of
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in all sorts of nervous upsets Of
one type or another.
The tongue is primarily respon-
sible for the sense Of taste which
is, at the same time, a composite
of the sense Of smell and the feel
of food on the tongue.
Loss Of the sense Of taste may
result from Inflammation or
swelling of the tongue; it may be
associated with hysteria.
In the same way there may be
exceeding sensitivity to tastes, SO
that a person constantly is tasting
sweet, sour. salt, or bitter; and
in other instances foods taste diff
ferent from what they should.
In every such case it is neces-
sary to make a most careful study
Of the entire patient, his sur
roundings and environment, and
particularly his emotional condi-
ton.
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Questions and
Answers .


Estate the difference in COM
bustibility between kerosene and
gasoline.
A-BOth burn much in the
same manner, except that gaso-
line produces combustible vapors
at a lower temperature than kero-
sene. For example, the vapor
from few drops of gasoline on
a clean plate or tin dish can be
lighted readily with a match be-
fore the match flame touches the
surface, but to ignite kerosene the
plate must be heated.
Q-HoW many men lost their
lives when the battleShip Maine
was blown up
A.-TWo hundred sixty.
Q-WaS the airslip Italia, used
by General Mobile, wrecked before
or after it reached the north pole?
A.-She had circled the pole,
and was on the way back when
she was wrecked.
Q-How many counties in
Ohio?
A.-Eighty- eight,
Q.-Does the lame duck
amendment" make provision for
succession to the presidency in
case the President-elect and Vice
President-elect should die before
their Inauguration?
A.-Section of the amendment
reads in part as follows: IF at
any time fixed for the beginning
Of the term Of the President shall
have died, the Vice-President-
elect shall become President.
and the congress may by law pro-
vide for the case wherein neither
a President elect nor Vice
President-elect shall have quail
fed
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

sect bites, and occasionally associ-
alton with such serious infectious
diseases as scarlet fever, typhoid
fever or smallpox.
Whenever the tongue is infected,
the lymph glands in the RECON
also become infected and swollen.
In serious cases death may result
from such inflammation, but in
most cases mild treatment tends
to lead to recovery.
There are nervous disorders or
conditions in which there is pain
in the tongue or burning Of che
tongue without any visible evil
dence in the neighborhood Of the
tongue iself.
This condition sometimes occurs
in locomotoss ataxia, in hysteria, or
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-11
In Which | Tell All

7 HAVE done many evil things
L. in my life, and once upon a
time I agreed to interview ten
authors over the radio. I was to
tackle one author a week, and the
sponsor was to name the authors.
I should have known better
They did not assign me Shaw or
Chesterton or Villa Gather. I got
Wash Young.
Now, I was more than 40 years
old, and I had led a compare
lively active and normal life, but
1 never had heard of Wash Young.
The sponsor said, Why, his books
sell by the tens and hundreds OF
thousands" and I was ashamed
that this portion Of bellies ettres
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-11
Gold Reserve Must Be Protected

ME system not designated for immediate iqda
Il ton No involving the a
The gold must be protected suspend
gold payments to do it, and the investments
eguarded even if it becomes them
The stupid idea of HQuidity, which
preached
enbargoe and clearing house certificates
1t will wind with dozen times if
we do not take imitation hand
likely to put show that will the
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DUT let waste time spilled trying
ID come to grips with an ener-
in which the demands disciplined sacrifice
President Roosevelt suggested in
Somebody be affairs and
the rest must follow his guidance Such
ing imminent disaster through restoration of
Rightly wrongly have banking
faith Theoretically have
deposit in various banks but
billion dollars moneygod silver paper
hardly enough
hardly enough oneenth Anything like
fore out of the question and be avoided
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So They Say

Congress has had more than its
share of hunor and criticism dur
ing the last two years.-Repre-
sentative Ruth Bryan Owen Of
Florida
I am confident I voice the needs
Of industry in urging the necessity
Of assuring q bottom level Of
wages so as to avoid the contin-
uous downward spiral of lower
wages, lower prices, lower pur-
chasing power. and higher unem-
plOyment.-GOvern0r Lehman Of
New York.
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Daily Thought

Behold therefore the goodness
and severity of God; on them
which fell, severity; but toward
thee, goodness, if thou continue in
His goodness; otherwise thou also
shalt be cut of.-RomanS 1:22.
XXTE are only vulnerable and
w ridiculous through our pre-
tentions.-Mme. de Girardin.
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NJ. E. Tracy Says:
EXCHANGE SYSTEM IS WRONG

MO matter what happens, please remember
' that the country has lost nothing in man
power. land raw material and equipment. All
that has gone wrong is the system by which
handle exchange, and that has gone wrong in
technique rather than principle. Scared bankers
and scared depositoTs have put us in a temporary
jam
Too many people have tried to save them
selves, regardless of what their various moves
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the public could
suaded boarding
holiday
the whole country became involved should have realized
every act indicative of fear would breed
the ball began to roll Michigan
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crop. 1t had discovered that pota-
to plants were excellent food.
BY 1859 it had reached Nebras-
ka. 1t crossed the Mississippi
river and by 1865 had invaded
Illinois.
An H5Uadjng Arn1y
DENJAMIN DANE WALSH,
~ Illinois state entomoIogist in
1866, reported that progress of
the potato bug through the state
was like the march Of an invad-
ing army moving in many separ-
ate columns.
BY 1869, the potato bug was
found in Ohio and by 1870
throughout the entire middle west.
1t reached the Atlantic coast in
1874, spreading all the way from
Connecticut to Virginia In 1900
it was found in Florida and Lou
isiana.
During the World war, it was
carried into France with potato
shipments and is now spreading
so fast there that all hope of
eradicating it has been given up.
EntomOlogists see no way Of
preventing it from spreading
throughout Europe.
Until 1869 no successful method
of fighting the insect was known
except that Of picking them off
the potato plants by hand or
brushing them into pan of
water or oil.
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altogether had escaped my atten-
ton.
1t seemed to me a good idea to
read something the current radio
writer had done before attempt
ing to interview him, and I sent
out and got copies Of "A Fortune
to Share" and Lets Start over
Again" I read forty-fve pages
of the first one and said to my
self: This is a swell bourlesque,
but 1 think it's a little overdone.
Still, we might get up pretty
good program kidding about it"
The plan of the program was
that I got the necessary author
to my fiat and gave him a cigaret
and a drink, and then we talked
as informally as possible, while
stenographer jotted down all the
pearls and bits Of oyster shells.
Mr.. Wash Young did not drink or
smoke, and I feared the worst.
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He Becomes Courage

could muster, you say something
in your book about how to start
out in the morning. When l get
up in the morning 1 feel as if I
were falling apart. In other words
1 feel terrible. What should I do
about it?"
And, as heaven is my witness,
Mr.. Wash Young replied: When I
get up in the morning, instead Of
studying about courage, I become
courage. Instead Of thinking about
patience, and so on down through
a list Of endearing qualities.
In other words, instead Of
leaving my home in the morning
an agitated human being, 1 go
out as a bundle of the best quail
ties 1 can think Of, and then 1 let
these qualities carry Wash Young
through the day. This simple OPP
Grafton has solved all my problems
very nicely"
50 when I stand before the
judment seat and hear the pen
atty of 1000 years in Purgatory, I
viii accept it as a just decision. I
went TO the radio studio for the
hope Of gain and sat silent while
Wash Young said precisely this to
the men and the women and the
Riddles of the invisible audience.
I knew it was wrong, and l
shouldn't have done it. Indeed, !
couldn't have done it but for the
fact that while "all endearing
qualities" turned his head away
for minute l filled the ice water
glass with straight gin.
icopyright. 1888. By The Tines
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In all that talk about beer, does any one REGAL
what has became of light wine?
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BANKS hnolns it advisable to impose limitations
oH "ltnoraWaIs are hopeful that bandits will be
conSloerate and observe the spirit of the rule.
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"a STRAIGHTFORWARD NEWSPAPERl

Give Lfght and :hs
People WHI Find
Their OUn Way
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The collector of rare coins certainly finds a wild
held for his endeayors these days
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one thing can be said for iiw-saw puzzlers-
lhey nave to have sense of the fitness of things
The Washington times., 1933-09-12
Played Here as Kid

"Lots of stuff. You know I've
been coming here since I was a
kid Il think someone of my
family Snickered when I said
that). 1 first played here at
Chase's as the male member OF
Laurie g. Bronson. Then later I
played here with my own shows,
musical and legitimate, and have
played here many times as a
monologist. i introduced my ia
ther and mother, sister. nleces
and nephews. L played here with
George Bancroft when he did a
singing act, Bancroft & Brodsky
+ also played here with Joe
Brown, the picture comedian
when he did a straight acrobatlc
act, Provost & Brown. Walter
Houston, the great character
actor, was the male end OF the
team of song and chatter act OF
Whipple & Houston, and hun.
dreds of others. . so you see !
know plenty about this town. -.
I looked at them all challengingly
The Washington times., 1933-09-12

Andrew r. Kelley lave ooAA OAAAV
only Noel Coward and the Lunt-
Fontanne acting team could play
this brittle. and brazen comedy;
that it was a piece whose sue
cess depended upon the footlight
personalities rather than the
sharpened wit of the playwright.
It was refreshing to find group
of principals who demonstrated
that, after all, the plays the
thing.
Design for Living" is smart
and clever piece of writing. It
presents Playwright Coward tell
ing the story of three morally
loose people who love each other
very, very much. Their philoSo-
ply of life is away from con-
ventional and normal standards;
their casual defiance Of public
opinion and utter assurance in
their own distorted viewpoint is
fascinating, if slightly fantastic.
Do Well by Coward
AS one who passed upon the
original performance with all of
it's traditional perfection in cast
and knowledge, it struck me last
night that Noel Coward would
have led a bit of cheering had he
been present. For Corinne Grif-
fifth and company gave a COM