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THURS ~. JAN. 70. 1888.
A NOTABLE VISITOR

Today this city is being visited by Edward A.
Flene, builder of one of the largest department
stores in this country.
Founders of other such stores would be welcomed
by merchants who respect success But it is not be-
cause of his remarkable success as merchant that
makes his visit notable.
Very early in the history of his store, he estab-
lished rigid principles of dealing with his employees
which shocked those who inclined to the theory that
labor is a commodity He actually insisted treat
ing those who worked in his store as human beings
He discovered that it not only paid rich rewards
in satisfaction but even richer rewards in dollars and
many of the customs of enlightened merchants
be traced to his experiments in human justice
But it is as the founder of Credit Unions that he
has earned and receives distinction all over the land
He believed that the problem of small loans in
emergencies could be solved by groups who would
lend their own money to themselves and evade the
sor etimes extortionate interest rates charged by
private enterprises
The Credit Union idea had been tried in
European countries with success. 1t Mr.. Filene
who introduced it to this country and started the
nationwide movement.
The idea is simple. Those who work in the same
store. the same factory or are joined by some COM
mon bond such church, farm bureau, even
parents of children attending the school, put
their savings into common fund. The funds are
under the control of officers elected by themselves.
When loans made, they are passed upon by these
officers, who know both the necessity and
the safety. No Credit Union has ever failed.
Each branch becomes mutual credit organization
with funds always under the control of those who
own them and have saved them.
In this city. there are many such branches In
of the larger stores, the assets reach far
into six figures. In eighteen months, the plan has
taken the fire department away from the hockshop.
The farm bureaus of the state have successful
branches in many counties.
Today Mr.. Filene spends his own funds and his
time in explaining the plan to those who may wish
to take advantage of its simple way to solve social
problem.
Men who devote themselves to unselfsh projects
all too to be overlooked. They alone leave
an impress upon their times and the future.
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securing the cooperation Of such governments as
the President deems necessary"
This point we stated wednesday. is very i'm
portant Unrestricted embargo power by the Presi-
dent as desired by Secretary of State stimson, but
overruled by Mr. Hoover, following protest from the
munitions makers, De effective. Restricted en-
barge power subject to the veto of any foreign gov
eminent, would be futile gesture.
American munition interests persist in aiding
foreign wars, in violation Of Americas official treaty
and peace policies. Unless this scandal can be
stopped by the embargo method from endangering
world peace and American foreign relations, the
government will have to take over the armament
business.
Doubtless the senate will pass promptly the reso-
luton Of the united committee, clarifying the grant
of unrestricted embargo power if any question is
raised as to its meaning.
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from different nations, concen-
trating on the signals from the
United States naval observatory
and the Greenwich observatory of
England.
Now there is a difference in time
between Washington and Green
wich dlue to their difference in
longitude. But this difference al
ways should be the same.
The two experimenters found
that the difference as given by the
radio signals varied, sometims by
as much as a tenth second.
1t is incredible to think that
trained astronomers, using the
best apparatus in the world could
make errors as large as that. So
the two studied variations and
found that they kept step with the
motion of the moon across the
heavens.
II the moon distorted the earths
crust, then it would change slight
ly the longitude of the observa-
tories, causing the astronomers to
get slightly different time deter
limitations.
On the basis that this actually
was happening, the two calculated
the amount of distortion necessary
10 cause the observed variation in
the time.
1hey found that it amounted to
a change of sixty-three meet in
the distance between America and
England.
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about The Everlasting Arms
Where are they?"
CHE burst into storm of tears,
~ her slight figure shaken by
sobs. No word was said for
moment, for tears are a release
of pent-up pain and sorrow-it is
the dry-eyed grief that is most to
be feared, for that way madness
may lie. Then, very gently, the
friend standing behind the chair
drew his finger tips lightly down
the arm of the old woman, which
held the girl in close caress, and
said:
The Everlasting Arms? They
are here. They are around you
even now. These arms are the
human arms of God. How else
could He come near you to COM
fort and succor? Where is He,
you say? Be still, I beg you.
What if this friend happened to
be God?"
Thus with gentle. healing hands,
anointed of God, in deeds Of low
ing kindness is wrought the creed
Of creeds, more profound than
philosophic thought, as deep as
infancy and old age. stronger than
love and death. o, my soul, re-
member and obey
Copyright. 1888 United Features
Syndicate. Inc)
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AN ARMS EMBARGO

In granting the President power to embargo arms
shipments when necessary to preserve international
peace. the senate foreign relations committee would
20 beyond Mr.. Hoover's request.
He asked in his special message-in event Of
anticipated failure of senate ratification of the &C.
reva arms traffic treaty of 1925for embargo author
ity only in cases Of joint action with all other prin-
cipal exporting nations.
The resolution reported unanimously by the sem
ate committee would not place that restriction upon
the President but would allow him discretion to act
alone if other nations declined to cooperate.
At least that is the Interpretation by committee
members of the somewhat vague provision After
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Times Readers
Voice Views

Editor TimeS-Now while cur
good superintendent of public in
struction is making some cuts in
office, etc, I should like to voice
my opinion of some places where
some worth while cuts could be
made and the people never missed.
I am not in favor of any teacher
ever having her pay cut, in fact,
I think that our teachers are our
most needed asset and we should
not lower the standard of the per-
sons who educate our children,
but our school city does employ
several special people that we we'll
could do without.
For instance, the social service
investigator, who knows nothing
about children, in fact, one who
takes small offenseS of children
and goes about with her investi-
eating work and her insuferable
prophecies regarding the ultimate
end to which these children are
headed. These women usually do
not understand the traits of chill
dren at all and are actually I'M
fit for these positions, and then,
too, most mothers are raising good
future citizens; they are not
reaching the mothers who actu-
ally are raising the boys who are
thieving and killing today.
I would venture to say that
these boys mothers never have
been visited by one of these in
vestigators, but it is usually
mothers who have raised several
boys and whose boys are grown
and have become good, honest
citizens.
ONE WHO KNOWS.
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Every Day Religion
BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

7 EFT me show you a picture. It
- is darkened room in
hushed house, where hardly
word is spoken above a whisper.
In one corner is an old white
haired woman sitting in a low
chair, her face half hidden by her
hand. Her other hand is on the
shoulder of young woman, little
more than girl, sitting at her
feet, all crumpled up. There is
fire in the CRATE, but it scarcely
knows whether to burn or not.
Yet, when the fire does flicker
up, f1tfully, it lights up the white
hair Of the old woman and the
pale face of the girl. The young
woman had been married only
few months, then death suddenly
took her husband away.
1t is the day after the funeral,
a dull, dreary time when life is
at its hardest. Suddenly the girl
turns almost ferociously to
friend, standing behind her, look
ing down upon the two.
Where is God?" she demands.
''I've prayed to Him. I've asked
Him to come and be near me in
my sorrow. Where is He? Away
somewhere above the sky, or
somethingl Why doesn't he come
near me and make me know that
He is near? You preached once
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Emphasis has been placed by
many economists and politicians
upon the complex nature of the
difficulties which now face the
world. Il see no hope" said a
British leader, unless we can
achieve international co-opera-
ton"
Well, why not go out and try
to achieve it? 1t should be a
simple matter for the peoples of
the world to meet in conference.
We could if we would join hands
upon the shore of Jordan.
am less impressed with the
variation among the views of
men than with the multitude of
things which we hold in common.
Very few are now alive who even
profess to find our economic sys-
stem good. 1t ought to be easy to
find millions intent upon discard
ing it.
During the national campaign
which closed a few months ago I
received several letters from peo-
pie who said, in effect: Il don't
like this world in which I live.
want to change it. But what
can I possibly do about it?"
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ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES
An Editorial in the Philadelphia Rec,


Advice to senate vets On the matter of repeal:
ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES.
The Blaine repeal resolution, fayorabIy reported
by 10-to-4 vote of the senate judiciary committee
is substitute for the kind OF repeal vets everv-
where have been fighting for. AS such, it should be
turned down.
This resolution repeats the eighteenth amend
ment. But it provides for continued federal control
over distribution of liquor and specifies ratification
of the repeater by state legislatures not bv state
conventions.
This is not even good as the Republican Plat
form plank on prohibition For the Republican plank.
tlmld and complicated it was, declared for ratd-
cation by state conventions not legislatures
The Blaine measure certainly does not renre
sent the victorious, outright repeal Democratic
plank
Repeal must return liquor control lnreservedlv
back to the states. National control having failed
"here is the point in setting up hybrid creature
halt-federal half-state? Let the states solve the
liquor problem they think best, unhampered by
rigid federal DEGREES.
Further, no repeal amendment should be
passed in congress unless it specifies ratification bv
state conventions, members of which are to be
elected solely on their promise to vote Eyes" or
mo" for unqualified repeal
Don't throw repeal into the arena of state poll
tics Let the people decide by electng delegates to
a convention on the liquor issue alone
Accept no substitutes for real repeal
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In the army of 1918 there we're
only seventv-two deaths among
more than $4,000 cases.
In recent articles, the usual
treatment of infectious diseases
has been described. The same
treatment ordinarily is used by
good physicians in cases of
mumpS.
Attention of the physician is
necessary, so that he very care
fully may detect possible compli-
cations at the earliest possible mo-
ment, to prevent spread or extern
sion, or to prevent increase in
severity.
People who have had mumps
ought to be kept under observa-
ton for at lease three weeks, to
make sure that the condition is
healed fully and that no further
complications are Likely.
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Other Nations Seem to Find Wdy

IMITATION of offers solution
the
have tried to make ourselves believe
ter of choice and that accept
of all
We rather have been inclined to look imitation
weakness or stupidity Boosting gold has
us Until recently have been rather the
stood
But strange people going
to work and finding
them foreign markets
Some OF our conservative leaders beginning whether
boosting gold and maintaining
really is such bright idea whether nfa-
ton would not recfy
affairs. $500
Also they are beginning wonder
this country is not the result of manipulation
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Rise of Gold Is Striking Feature

IF true that the by
rremedial defects in
over which we had control the outlook would be hopeless
hardly admissible
The thought that have the supply
demand represents type of philosophy
tt logical arbitrary
terfered with that law
function normally
OF all the phenomena that occurred
spectacular slump in business the of probably the
spectacular.
Virtually everything else has
toes other bring
the get anywhere nearly for his
Meanwhile our debts payable either gold
value OF determined
debts have doubled and that the people finding
harder
capital
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SCIENCE
New Moon Feat Found
BY DAVID DIETZ

ENGLAND and America are
II closer to each other by six
ty-three fet at some times of the
day than others. 1t all depends
upon where the moon is in the
heavens.
ing the convention of the Amer
This startling fact, revealed dur
lean Association for the Advance
ment Of Science in Atlantic City
by DR.. Harlan T. Stetson and A.
L. Loomis, is only one of num-
Der of interesting connections be-
tween terrestrial avents and celes-
tial activity which DR.. Stetson has
pointed out.
1t has been known for several
centuries that the moon is the
cause of the tidesin the oceans.
1t also has been surmised during
the last few decades that the moon
has some tidal effect upon the
lane as we'll as the sea.
But it is doubtful if anyone
ever suspected as much distortion
in the earth's crust as much oc-
cur if this latest finding of Stet-
son and Loconis is substaniated.
The old astrologers studied what
they thought was the influence of
the stars on mankind DR.. Stet-
son, in studying the effect of the
sun and moon on the earth, has
founded a new astrology.
However, he doesn't care for that
name particularly and perfers to
call it "cosmic physics"
Some years ago, in collaboration
with DR.. Greeleaf w. Pickard
the radio engineer, he made a
study of the effect of sun spots on
radio transmission.
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Radio Ceiling

TIE found that sun spots shot
II out electrons which affected
the radio ceiling" the so-called.
Heaviside layer or layer of cleo
trifed air from which radio waves
are reflected.
AS a result. radio reception gets
worse as sun spots increase and
better as they decrease, Since sun
spots go in an eleven-year cycle,
this made it possible to predict
radio conditions for several years
in advance.
Next DR.. Stetson found that re-
ception from various radio sta
tions in different parts Of the
country varied through the night
as the moon moved across the
heavens.
Accordingly, he was able to
work out a relationship between
radio conditions and the position
of the moon.
He also showed that the ups
and downs of the business cycle
for the last seventy-five years, as
computed by Colonel Leonard P.
Ayres, famous statistician,
matched the ups and downs Of the
sun spot cycles for the same
period.
He has declined, howveer. to at
tempt any explanation of this
strange coincidence.
In his present experiments, DR..
Stetson, director of the Perkins
Astronomical observatory Of Ohio
Wesleyan university, has collabo-
rated with LOOMS, a successful
business man of Tuxedo Park, N.
Y, who turned to science a sa
hobby.
LOOMS, because of his interest
in science, has constructed one of
the finest private scientific labora-
tories in the world. He has been
interested par ticularly in clocks
and the study of time and it was
this study which led to the results
just announced by him and DR..
Stetson.
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This is the second of two articles BY
DR.. Fishbein on mumps.
DEYOND the stiffness of the
ID jaw and the pain on opening
the mouth, associated with swell
ing of the glands, the person with
mumps usually has little trouble.
There are. however, cases in
which the mumps seem to spread,
particularly to the glands of sex
When this occurs, it is a serious
complication.
There are instances in which
the ability of the human being to
have children has been irrepara-
ably damaged by this secondary
complication.
incidentally, the complication is
more likely to occur in grown peo-
pie than in children. With the
complication Of this character,
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Questions and
Answers

Glow much is a United States
halt-cent, dated 1882 worth?
A-They are cataIogued at 5 to
10 cents.
Q-Can a man in the United
States army retire after twenty
years of service?
Amen in the army must retire
after thirty years service. but no
retirement is provided for shorter
periods Of service In the navy
man may retire on what is known
as graded retirement" after six
teen or twenty years service.
Q-Who played the leading male
role in the silent motion picture
Seven Keys to Baldpate?"
A-Douglas Mclean.
Q-What was the date Of the
Johnstown flood?
A-May 81, 1889.
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Too Fe1U Took AdUice

T USED to advise them to vote
l. for Norman Thomas. Many of
them never had thought of that.
Most of them soon forgot it. They
seemed to feel that this was too
simple thing.
And in these days I get letters
from radicals who assail me as
either foolishly sentimental or
consciously crooked because I still
believe that man can change the
world entire through the ballot.
Like Naanan of old, this seems
to them too small thing. They
rather would have something more
fancy, like a Civil war.
But we will not now or ever be-
come Of clean flesh again through
the might of any Syrian chariots
or horsemen of the plain. The way
out is the easy, the quick. and the
direct way of seeking the living
waters OF mutual understanding.
Copyright. 1888 by The Tines
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So They Say

A T least 1 have the attitude of
L n prince have lived cour-
ageousIy and have, I think, put I'D
The stock Of princes.-Harrv r
Gerguson, adventurer, self-styled
Prince Michael Romanof."
WOULD rather gaze at an ape
Il all day than have to look up
on the face of the average female
move star during my breakfast.
DR.. Max Kunitz, Berlin Psv-
chiatrist.
7 is becoming increasingly true
L that the efforts of relief
agencies do not go much beyond
tne objective of seeing that mo
oooy shall starve. H. L. Lurie.
social research expert Of New
York, before Senate committee.
A STRANGE revival since the
4 n war of a stubborn and
sWashbuckling nationalism is to-
Gay making virtually impossible
the operation of an effective econ
nolnlc system either within the
hatlonS or between the nations.
-Dr. Glenn Frank, president,
University of Wisconsin.
HERES a couple of Reds.
IL They're cooking up a meet
ing 10 talk technocracy-John
shannon, Chicago patrolman, ap-
pearing at police station with two
men arrested passing handbills
Tor democracy meeting.
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
BY DR.. MORRIS F1SHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

there may be fever that is fairly
high.
There is not much that can be
done about mumps, except to
make certain that the person is
absolutely quiet, and that there is
no secondary complication in the
form of pus infection.
When this occurs either in the
glands in front Of the ear or in
the sex glands, only the most ju-
dicious and careful attention of
competent physician can be Of
much service. Fortunately, such
secondary infection is rare.
.
TN the majority Of cases the con-
i dition gets well without any
complications. Usually it is mild.
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Time Signals

THE principle government OBJ
l. servatories Of the world make
accurate time determinations from
the stars nightly. Official clocks
are kept by these determinations
and time signals then are broad
cast by radio daily.
Stetson and LOOMS made use of
extremely delicate recording APP
paratus to compare time signals
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Daily Thought

Thus saith the Lord, Let not
the wise man glory in his wisdom,
neither let the mighty man
glory in his might, let not the
rich man glory in his riches
jeremiah 9:23.
THE more honesty a man has
l. the less he affects the air Of a
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sent out word by messenger that
the captain Of the Syrian host
should go and wash in Jordan
seven times.
And Naaman was Wroth, for he
had expected some miracle of
more majesty and pomp. He
turned and went away in rage.
But his servants said: IF the
prophet had bid thee do some
great thing, wouldest thou not have
done it? How much rather, then,
when he saith to thee wash and
be clean?"
Naaman went down to Jordan
water and dipped himself seven
times in the stream, and Ibis
flesh came again like unto the
flesh Of a little child
e
A Sermon for Our Times
IF I were preacher, I would
4 write sermon for today out
of the story of the mighty man
of valor, for it seems to me that
we of the world are kinsmen of
Naaman. We admit our woe and
the tribulation Of our times, but
we will have naught to do with
those remedies which are simple
and lie close at hand.
Rather than go down into Jor-
dan, many would have us wade
again in bloody rivers, and few
will follow any creed of necessary
change until it has been given
some Understanding name and
trapped with Technology and pit
falls for the heretics.
Like the sick Syrian, we ask for
a prophet whose legerdemain will
darken the face of the sun and
set the planets prancing in their
courses.
have done many evil things
in my life and may do more, but,
thank heaven, 1 never gave any,
body cause to call me a scientific
Socialist" Or a scientific any
thing else, for that matter.
I said not long ago, and still
believe it to be true, that no radi-
cal party in America ever will
come into power until it presents
its platform in 200 words. And if
it uses 100, its chances will be
doubled.
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England and America sometimes are closer to
each other by sxtythree feet because of the moons
influence And bottle of it sometimes will make
old enemies get down and cry together
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about ninety billion dollars Right estimated
than half that amount.
superficial thinkers must realize that condition
not continue much longer without the graves
They must realize Also that
measures Of economy and charity drives
In the end must find
power not only must get the people back
price level which will insure appomatng
preceding the depression.
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NJ. E. Tracy Says:
IS OUR GOLD IDEA WRONG?

CPEAKING loosely, the economic structure of
~ this country rests on a framework of indebt-
edness consisting of bonds, mortgages, notes and
contracts. In other words, the earning power Of
the people. whether as individuals or as stock
holder corporations, has been borrowed against
for five, ten or fifteen years
Obviously. that earning power can not be
reduced for any great length Of time without
threatening the entire structure In 1929. the
Of