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economic profits. Most of these
women were reared in the tradition
that the wife, the mother, the home
maker, the person who cleans and
dusts and cooks and washes and
irons and scrubs and sews, and is
supposed to raise an excellent
family between whites, shall receive
for all this no regular stipulated
wage.
A good many of them, after
years of arduous toll, end their lives
in charitable institutions or depend
upon the generosity of their chill
dren. They have not received a
square deal at the hands of the
state. Quite literally they, too, have
worked for nothing. And as they
have received, so they give.
No woman, long have con-
tended. should be considered fit to
run home until she has had some
experience in the business world
until she has earned money and
knows the value of labor. Other
wise, she never will develop a social
sense. .....
There is one credit for the cruel
housewives, however. They may be
living off unpaid labor, but they are
piling up profits from that source
like certain SweatShop owners.
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WHAT CHILDREN DREAM ABOUT
XXTHAT do children dream ahout2

WHEAT do children dream about2
Columbia university psychologist, DR..
Arthur T. Jersild decided not long ago to find
out. So he interviewed some 400 youngsters,
asking them about their hopes, their wishes.
their dreams and their fears-and he learned
some rather surprising things.
To begin with, the bulk of childhood's
dreams are not happy or pleasant ones
Children reported more unpleasant than
pleasant dreams" he says. Fewer than half
when questioned, expressed a desire to con-
tinue to dream"
Furthermore, fear plays big part in these
dreams; and this fear usually ignores such
actual dangers as accidents Illness and the
like, and deals with ghosts. corpses, murders,
and eerie darksome places where nameess
terrors lie in wait.
The realm of childhood is queer sort of
place; and although all of us have been
through it, we nevertheless have way of mis-
interpreting it, and our memories of it are rot
always very accurate.
We like to tell ourselves that it is an
idyllic and enchanted place. We use such ex-
pressions as "carefree as child" as superla-
nveS; we like to talk of "a childs happy
laughter" and few of us are free from peri
odic desires to go back to childhood and shed
our troubles.
Part of the time, of course, childhood really
is like that. But there is another side to it,
and few people but children realize the fact.
For child is facing world which is ut
terly unknown; world which may contain
bright miracles but which also holds plenty
of shadowy corners where practically any
thing can happen
There is much in it that child can not
hope to understand it is world to be ex-
plored distrustfully, lest it disclose hurtful
things Unexpectedly.
AS We pass out of childhood, we forget
about the hobgoblins and remember only the
sunny places; we forget that every enchanted
land has its ogres as we'll as its fair princesses.
But children know and we might remem-
her that almost every child wants. very badly,
to grow up.
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A HISTORIC MONTH

Federation OF Labor
A times IN nations history, years of prog
ress are collapsed in a few months The
present is such time.
Our people have been rudely brought to face
realities in the last month and have seen that
fundamental changes are needed Lasting
progress can be made. The Presidents forceful
leadership gives opportunity to accomplish
much. Emergency measures came first. but
more basic adjustments are now beginning
The bank crisis was severe shock to bust
ness. 1t increased unemployment, reduced
buying power, brought business to new low
levels Even three weeks after the crisis. domi-
mating forces still are deflationary. Reliable
business forecasters state that business still is
on downward trend, with no immediate i'm
provement in sight
This downward trend is our worst enemy.
Government examination has re-established
confidence in the $4,000 banks that are open.
but unless We check deflation at once they
soon will be threatened again with shrinking
assets
Stock prices have declined 10 per cent in
way we can reverse the downtrend is to get
back to work producing goods and employing
men.
If we act at once while 70 per cent of our
banks are still sound and railroads and insur-
ance companies still can be saved We can pull
out OF depression. Time is an essential factor
1t is not an exaggeration to say that every day
lost makes the task of reconstruction harder,
for every day more mortgages and debts are
detaultlng, more men are thrown out of work
national income declines still further.
After the banks, the railroads and insur-
ance companies are threatened, and even the
tax resources of the government dry I'D when
income is cut away. Those who believe that
affairs can be left to take their natural course
dare not forget that the natural course" now
is the course of destruction.
This can be reversed only by direct govern
ment action to start production of wealth
again.
To pay off debts, we must have income:
to raise prices, we must have income and buy
ing power; to pay taxes to the government,
we must have income.
Yet for three years the government has fol-
lowed policy of giving out relief, and taking
no measures to start the production which
alone can create new funds and get men back
to work.
1t is time now to use government credit for
direct stimulation of our industries by loans
or underwriting on a large scale.
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GIVE HIM A MEDAL

TINE President has been asked to cut army
u expense. The appeal is not from a paci-
fist 1t comes from Ma or- General johnson
Hagood, commander of the Eighth corps area.
He is not only one of the highest ranking
officers in the army, but one of the most re-
spected. In charging the army with extrava-
gance, the general says
1T needs close trimming to make it fit the
pocketbook of the man without job. 1t
takes $500 100000 to run the army under its
present organization. We can get better or
ganzation for less.
so far as the army is concerned, we have
too many bureaus and we could spare six or
eight of them, with advantage to the national
defense and to the JOY of the taxpayer.
There is no duplication between army and
navy. But there is duplication within the
army, and it is to be hoped that the President,
with his extraordinary power, will be able to
accomplish consolidation and simplihcation
within the army itself that could not have
been accomplished with the complicated ma
chnery set up by congress. -.
Il have twice as many staff officers clerks
and orderlies as I need, but can not get rid
of them under the existing set-up.'
General Hagood is brave officer. indeed.
For a soldier to attack the armys inefficiency,
or to propose smaller expenditures instead of
larger, requires more courage than storming an
enemy stronghold. We hope he is not shot
for treason to the bureaucracy.
The generals demand is from a military
exnert The civilian budget experts can add to
the generals indictment of army expenses by
showing that the army gets more than its
share of the total federal budget and that it
has not taken its fair share of economy cuts.
The army and the navy each get about
per cent of the total federal expenditure, COM
pared with the agriculture departments 315
per cent, interior department / 81 per cent, JUS
tice department. 119 per cent, commerce de-
partment l per cent, labor department 35 per
cent and state department "a per cent.
In the federal personnel and salary reduc-
tons for the period 1928, the cut in total
military pay rolls was only s9,257S29, or
per cent, compared with a decrease in the
civilian services of s53,379,OS 7 or 10 per cent;
In personnel the military cut was l,247. or 4
per cent, compared with the civilian decrease
of 1928 or II per cent.
Every person familiar with the federal
budget knows that, while many small econo-
mics are possible, only two large cuts can be
made One is the veteran appropriation
which President Roosevelt with great political
courage and wisdom is reducing by s4oo, OOO.-
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THE SUPREME POWER OF
SOCIETY

WE are assuming for the purpose of this
w story that you are a holder of fourth
Liberty loan bonds in the amount of $4,000
the date of issue being Oct. "a, 1918.
We also are assuming that it is your in
tention, on May 2, 1888, to appear at the treas
ury in Washington and collect the first half
years interest of s21250, which becomes due
on April Is.
The language of the bond reads: The
principal and interest hereof are payable in
United States gold coin of the present stand
ard of value"
On May 2, therefore. you show up at the
treasury and ask for gold. We are going to
assume further that you get it. But if you
take it. the same government which issued the
bonds and promised to pay you in gold viii
prosecute you, and you will be subject to
Imprisonment for ten years and a fine of
$4,000 or both.
That under presidential order just issued,
becoming effective May l. a.
When city is on FIRE and it is deemed
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necessary to dynamite a building to check the
fire, the building is dynamited For that is
an emergency, and therefore the police
power" supersedes all other power All consti-
tutional limitations about taking property
without due process of law are off.
When President Roosevelt entered office
an economic emergency was raging So a
long unused law book was busted off and out
came Section So of the Act of 1917. Under
that act, and without further legislation, it
now is made crime to possess more than 500
in gold.
All this is merely lesson that citizens
have to learn on occasion, in times of stress
and danger, that the power of society to act
in its own protection is, in the final analysis,
unlimited
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It Seems
to Me
BY JOE WILLIAMS
Batting for Haywood Bronn)

NEW YORK, April s.-Speed is
~ one thing. Safety another. In
these Garganuan sky-liners. IL
seems, you never can be sure of
either. This being so. you are dis
posed to inquire, Why keep on
building them?'
Not so many hours ago the safest
airship ever built" snapped like
dry twig, plunged into the sea. and
carried Seventy-three men to
watery tomb.
You are told such sacrifices of
life are necessary to progress, that
even the birth of the horse car WAS
not completely free from tragedy.
that exploration and the black angel
ride tandem most of the way.
Even so. when the empress of
the ether, by all accounts the most
substantial lighter-than-air ship
ever conceived, is reduced to the
helpleSSnesS of flimsy toy in what
appears to have been a rather com
mon electrical storm, It may not be
altogether irrational to ask. What
price progreSS?"
There doesn't seem to be any 1,q-
ical reason for pressing the develop
ment of the dirigible. At best. thew
do not generate a much greater
speed than our top notch railroad
trains, and people who fly, do so
mainly because they want to change
miles to squares and hours to min
utPS
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M.

business can not be said to have improved
- much thus far but there are signs The
most reliable of all these signs is new note
of confidence
For the first time since 1929, people believe
that times are going to be better, and they
believe this to such extent that they are willing
to take chance
A few effective measures recommended by
President Roosevelt and passed by congress
have served to turn the psychological tide The
idea that this country could no nothing for
itself until or unless the whole world had been
salvaged gradually is giving place to one OF SELL
confidence.
Faith in American ability and American re-
sources to provide for American needs is reassert-
ing itself
This does not mean narrow or intolerant
outlook but merely the abandonment of that
profoundly stupid notion that the United States
could make progress only by hollering for other
people to pull it out of the mud, when most of
them were begged down worse than We were.
Each government, our own included, must put
its own house in order before anything worth
while can be accomplished toward putting the
world in order.
THE endless parade of international con-
l. ferences by which statesmen have tried
to solve domestic problems has been handi-
cap rather than a help and nothing would
do more good than to call it off for while
The world is in much the same condition
as community struck by cyclone. That
community could not put itself in shape to do
business as long as it frittered its time away
holding conferences with each citizen ne
glecting his own affairs.
Ever since the war. and especially since the
crash four years ago, governments have shown
a tendency to lean on each other and to look
for recovery through plans and efforts which
put the burden on somebody else.
1t was all part of the dumb dream that
II society only could be made to do the right
thing, no one would have to work or worry
THE good work done by the Roosevelt admin
istration thus far hinges largely on the fact
that 1t has minded its own business from an
international standpoint and concentrated on
purely domestic problems. 1t could do no better
than go right on with that policy
When our house is in order and when some
other governments have shown some capacity
for putting their houses in order it will be time
enough to resume palavering.
The Hoover administration failed to right
| conditions at home because it devoted too much
of its time and energy to righting them for the
whole world.
That simply was too big contract for any
one government to assume. or for all govern
mentS to assume, unless they began with the
idea of attending to their own affairs first
Foreign trade can not be stimulated except
through improvement of domestic trade It is
ridiculous to imagine that the people of coun-
try can do an increased business abroad on de-
creased buying at home
Such conception belongs to the category Of
witch medicines.
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SATURDAY. APRIL 3. 1898.
AN IMPORTANT UNDERTAKING

AN IMPORTANT UNDERTAKING
DRESIDENT ROOsEVELTS preparations
for attack on our foreign problems are
necessary to support his partial victories on
the domestic front. No amount of artificial
emergency farm relief, unemployment relief
railroad relief and business relief long will
sustain our economic structure unless our
foreign markets can be revived.
Our entire productive machine is geared
to produce surplus. Unless we can dispose
Of that surplus abroad it will pile up and
smother us-just as it did in the beginning of
this depression
The alternatives are to scrap much of our
productive machinery or cooperate with
other nations for restoration of world trade
We are dealing not only with an American
depression. but with a world depression, and
we shall not climb very far unless cher ma
tons go with us.
This is the hard reality which necesstates
the series of personal conferences which the
President now is arranging with the heads
Of other foreign governments or their special
representatives. Following Mr.. RoOsevelt's
conversations in Washington with Prime
Minister Ramsay Macdonald of Great Brit
ain, the latter part of this month, he will con-
fer separately with spokesman of France, Italy
Germany and other countries.
The range of problems for discussion in
cludes political military, trade and monetary
questions, along with war debts. Though a
reconciliation of the political and territorial
friction. which Prime Minister Macdonald ex-
plored on his recent visits to Rome and Paris,
is in a sense basic to any general economic
accord, there is very little that the United
States can or should do with the distinctly
foreign political problems.
The President can do little more than en-
courage the foreign governments to make
their own political adjustments meanwhile
making clear that the United States will not
participate In any so-called security pacts for
Europe
But on the other questions, the President
doubtless will assume the leadership which is
inherent in Americas position as the worlds
largest commercial and largest creditor.
That there must be a virtual cancellation
of war debts, however sugar coated the proc
ess, generally is admitted But it would be
absurd to attempt world rehabilitation
through lifting the debt burden, without at
the same time lifting the much larger burdens
of armament waste and of tariff and other
trade barriers.
All these Oppressive factors are part of an
interreated world situation, and therefore
must be dealt with enthusiastically if not
formally.
No job undertaken by the President dur
ing his administration will be more important
than his effort to bring international order
and cooperation out of the present chaos of
competitive tariffs and ornaments.
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A Woman Viewpoint

IRON the New York state de-
l. partment of labor comes a ter
rIble indictment of the housewife.
She is" says the report, the most
unfair employer in the city of New
York. Some of these women work
their maids nine hours a day, six
days a week, paying $25 a month.
They ask 15-year-old girls to
take complete charge of a seven
room apartment and to do the cook
ing. washing, ironing and clean
ing"
This charge, damning though it
may be, undoubtedly is based upon
truth. The American housewife,
whether in New York City or Po-
dunk, is the worlds worst employer.
She is concerned with getting her
work done for nothing, if possible.
But to be fair to ourselves we must
seek q reason for such behavior.
And the average housewife in this
land has worked for her own room
and board at some time. if she still
does not do so. The majority of
our home women, even in this CEN
tury, get nothing for their labor
except a few clothes and the food
they eat.
The American farmers wife has
been known toEoil for twelve hours
q day through he four seasons for
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incidentally, a series of determi-
nations of blood pressure showed
the lowest average figures in a series
OF prisoners in an American prison.
Presumably they lead a life with
out strain or tension, and this is
reflected in their blood pressure.
In fact, the blood pressure of the
wardens and guards was on an av-
erage above that of the prisoners.
When the systolic pressure is low
compared with the diastolic, the
likelihood Of heart failure is more
probable.
A gradual increase in blood pres
sure is more important at the ages
of 40 to 40 than at other periods
Of life, and certainly much more
serious than arises in older persons.
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600. The other is the military naval expendi-
ture
With the federal government during the
last two and one-half years running a deficit
OF nearly five billion dollars, with the govern
ment now in debt more than twenty billion
dollars and many more billions of necessary
bond issues in the offing. the groaning tax
payer will welcome the Presidents antici-
pated army expense cut in the name of
economy and efficiency.
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Blood Pressure Isn't Disease, It's Condition

blood pressure is a condition
- and not disease. Every one
has some blood pressure, exactly as
every one has some temperature
however, not every one has a fe-
yer; also, not every one has either
high or low blood pressure.
1t is only when the blood pres
sure is approximately high in rela-
tionship to the general condition of
the person concerned, or abnormally
low, that it requires medical atten-
ton.
There are numerous devices for
recording the blood pressure accu-
rately, and any competent physician
can make measurements.
1t used to be thought that blood
pressure of 100 plus the age of the
person concerned could be consid-
cred normal blood pressure.
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The Message Center {:

; The heavy traffic travelling north
and south must halt for long pc
RODS to give way to the east and
west traffic, which usually is very
little, if any
1t is proverbial that the smaller
the town, the more stop and go
signs according to population. In
dianapolis should grow up.
BY n. B.
What has become of our estimable
police chiefs proposed ordinance to
prevent all-night parking, by pro-
hibiting parking in the residential
section longer than four hours at
any one time?
Could it be that one of his own
f1atfeet has tipped him off that such
an ordinance, limiting parking to
six hours, already is on the statute
books and has been for many years?
This ordinance, if properly en-
forced, which it never has been and
probably never will be, would take
care of the situation of which Chief
Morrissey complains.
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whom he was in love. 1t was first
written in Spanish under the title
"Sobre Las Olas" Rosas received
less than $50 for it.
GLOW many banks suspended
in 1892?
A-Complete figures are not yet
available, but preliminary to-
tails give the number as 1853.
Q-What is fiat money, and is it
issued in the United States?
Att is paper money which is
made legal tender without gold or
silver or any security, except the
credit of the nation back of it.
The United States treasury has
no authority to issue fiat money
under existing laws.
Q-Name the Italian minister of
finance who Immediately preceded
MuSSolini in 1922?
A-Signor Giambattista Bertone
of the Popular party.
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Tenement and Sin

A LONG stretch of old tenements
N on the east side are to be torn
down. They are to be replaced nv
trim, modern apartments, inexpen-
Sively fairfield. "This is a fine thing
for New York" the earnest sociolo-
glSts say. THE new deal in hous-
ing will help eliminate disease and
crime"
1t is elemental that foul buildings
poor ventilation and assorted filth
aod little to longevity, but the belief
mat lgnoble surroundings invaria-
Oily breed immortality and desperate
characters is sheer fiction.
But the sidewalks of New York's
tenement districts are going to re-
main pretty much the same in the
matter of human beings.
They will be the same sidewalks
that produced Al Smith, greatest
liberal of his time, one of our finest
statesmen and an esteemed candi-
cate for the presidency of the
United States
irving Berlin, pennileSs youngster
with an emotional soul who blazed
new trail in popular music and
married into one of Americas arts
tocratic families
Gene Tunney of the docks. fiat
chested Irisher who came on To de-
mollsh the most popular fighter of
modern times and win the heavv-
weight championship of the world.
an intimate of Shaw, a Shakespear-
can addict, millionaire
And these same sidewalks proba-
oiy Will go on spawning their newt.
able quota of Gyp the Bloods. Ieftie
Louies, Kid Droppers, and Monk
Eastmans.
The Smiths, the Berlins and the
Iunneys will continue to flourish.
So will their less sanity neighbors.
But the southern exposure and the
modern plumbing of the new apart
mentS won't have much to do with
the final score.
1t takes more than an architects
blueprint to mold a life in New
York or Ashtabula.
Copyright. 1888. by The Times)