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Questions and Answers

Q-What holds the atmosphere
to the earth and makes the air at
the earth's surface denSer than
that in the outer layers?
A-Gravity.
Q-What is the address of Fritz
KreiSler?
A-32 Bismarck Alice, Berlin
Grunewald, Germany.
Odd Adam and Eve have
daughters.
A-The Biblical narrative names
only three sons, Cain, Abel and
Seth. It does not mention any
daughters.
Q-Who were the leaders of the
dance orcheStraS that played at
the Roosevelt inaugural ball?
A-George Gaul, Eddie Duchin,
Eli Dantzig, Guy Lombardo and
Rudy Vallee.
e-WnO wrote Jhe novel FIFTY
four Forty or Fight?"
A-Emerson Hough.
Q-What is Xenon?
"A very rare gas occurring to
the extent Of one part in about
100000 parts Of the atmosphere.
1t was isolated in 1893 by Sir w.
Ramsay and M w. Travers, who
liquified it at minus 100 degrees
Centigrade, and solidified it at
minus 40 degrees Centigrade. It's
atomic weight is 1902.
Q-What is caviar?
A-The roe of sturgeon, strongly
sailed in bTine and pressed.
Q-Describe a lutte.
Alt looks very much like a
mandolin and has a pear shaped
body, and strings in pairs, tuned
alike.
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Under Butter Knife

TIE was fond Of Boosting that
4 L he knew as many different
kinds Of people as almost anybody
in New York and that he could get
himself received on terms of equal
ity by hooters, radio announcers,
baseball players and the editors Of
the nation.
But here again he expose. him.
self to the devastating spread Of
the butter knife. Having casual
contacts with many groups, he never
really understood any Of them. He
seemed to think that it was enough
to know the jargon.
If you understood feeders
choice that made you a baseball
expert, and if you thought you I'M
derstoOd surplus value you at once
were a MARKHAM scholar
But We suppose the most ironic
thing in the life Of Haywood Broun
was the fact that he flunked even
the one subject to which he had
given close attention and in which
he had specialized. He didn't re-
ally know himself.
If Mr.. Broun had lived until the
first of August he would have been
So years old"
fCoDyrighr. 1888 BY The Timesl
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MONDAY. JULY ,. 1893.
L. S. FINANCES

THE treasury announcement Of the public
Il debt as the new fiscal year begins stresses
the vast and important financial operations
which must be undertaken by the admin
istration.
On June 30 the national debt stood at
slightly more than twenty-five and one-half
billion dollars, equal to s18782 for each Of our
12O00OOOO people. The total is only little
below that of 1923, and comparable to the
twenty five billion dollar public debt of 1919,
resulting from the World war
Within the last twelve months the debt
has been increased by slightly more than three
billion dollars and now incorporates the i'm
mense treasury deficits which the Hoover adj
mnistration permitted to accumulate in the
first three years Of the depression.
The post-bellum Republican adninistra-
tons actually did a brilliant job in reducing
the public debt almost eight billions in the
ten years just after the war. But their later
juggling with budget figures, eXtravagant ex-
penditures, failure to demand additional taxes
in time, and failure to build up a rainy day
reserve resulted in accumulated deficits that
sent the debt total towering to wartime levels.
Hard times have cut deeply into tag rev.
enues especially those from levies in incomes,
and at the same time untold millions have
escaped the federal government through loop
holes in the laws revealed by the admissions
of the Morgans and the Kahns that they had
paid no American income taxes for these last
three years
how fI,n hoe
of our revenue system but these must in time
be repealed An eventuahty that may be
fastened by the recent chinking up Of the
holes in the income statutes.
President Roosevelt has undertaken his
great fiscal task in workmanke manner.
First. he has separated current operating eX-
pepses from capital expenditures, putting the
governments accounting on the same sensible
basis used by business.
Second, he has made stern effort to re-
duce operating expenditures, aiming at a total
decrease of about billion dollars in this new
fiscal year.
Third, his administration has levied new
taxes to care for interest and sinking fund
charges on the bonds that will be issued to
the SO, 300 OOOO 600 for public works and relief.
+ Fourth the senate with his approval passed
q resolution requesting the treasury to start
converting its largest wartime bond issues
into new securities bearing rates of interest
to accomplish further savings
Above these things the new dealer has in
stituted a domestic economic program in
tended to increase mass purchasing power in
cities and on the farms, and our tax revenues
will go up as spending power rises.
In this connection the most pressing tax
problem before the country now-and one
that can be settled with large benefit to the
treasury-is prohibition repeal
Striking the eighteenth amendment from
the Constitution not only will bring into the
federal treasury large sums now diverted into
Illicit channels. 1t likewise will mean presi-
dental repeal of the new nuisance taxes just
levied to finance public works bonds.
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(TimeS readers are inrited to express
their rieicS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to $50 ecords or less
BY Still Unemployed.
Although the prices Of foods and
commodities are going up, there
still are a large number of unem-
ployed laborers. Other laborers have
had their wages cut so much that
it is impossible for them to main
tain a decent standard of living, or
even bare subsistence, unless their
wages keep pace with the cost Of
living.
Even back in boom times, a large
number of people received very low
wages. while the moneyed classes
were investing their excess profits in
worthless bonds.
If the new industrial program is
to be a success, there must be jobs
for every one, paying something
more than a bare subsistence wage.
Wage slavery is contemplate, and
should not exist in the midst of Il
civilized nation. Workers will not
complain when they receive a fair
share from the income produced by
their efforts.
1t is said that America has enough
factories and raw materials to sup
ply the whole world, working on a
thirty-hour week basis. Why not,
then, do the sensible thing and
work only thirty hours a week,
spreading the work so that every
one will be employed?
Keep on using the machines
they are already installed-but en-
ploy the men anyway to see they
are well tended. There should not
be a mad rush to turn out a large
quantity of poor quality products,
but careful painstaking in making
articles of high quality
Meanwhile, a large number of us
still are unemployed We need to
earn wages to support ourselves.
When will there be work for us?
CHARLES S. DAVIS.
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Whenever ar injury from fire.
works occurs, get q doctor as soon
as possible. He Will open the
wound, clean it and treat it with
suitable antiseptics, and in ques-
tionable cases inject the antitoxin
against lOckjaW to prevent that
disease.
Never wait until lockjaw develops
After the disease has developed, it
is one Of the most serious affecting
a human being.
SO serious is the possibility Of
lockjaw that in many cases health
departments provide antitoxin
without charge to make certain
that cases Of lockjaw do not de-
velop.
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Guard Against Lockjaw in July 4 Burns

A MONG frequent emergencies
IA demanding prompt attention
are injuries due to fireworks
Twenty years ago hundreds OF
people we're killed and injured in
celebrating Independence day. Fol-
lowing campaigns of education, this
type of celebration has been largely
displayed by pageants, plays and
exhibits of fireworks under control
of experts.
Air rifles. BIB guns, shotguns and
other small caIber rifles, blank
cartridges and cap pistols, sling
shots and rubber band flippers, ar
rows and stones, are responsible for
one-third Of the accidents resulting
in loss of eyeSight to children.
Firecrackers, tOrpedoes, bombs
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Q-How long has the metric sys-
tenn of weights and measures been
used in Soviet Russia?
A-Since Jan. l, 1927.
Q-Give the number of bank
suspensions in the United States
in 1912, 1922 and 1892.
AIN 1912 there were 81; in
1922 there were 354, and in 1892
there we're 1856.
Q-Define pork barrel" used as
a political term.
At describes a certain class of
appropriations that do not serve
a general public necessity, but are
of a peculiar interest to the po-
litical machine in a particular
district, because they provide work
frequently ecessary-Which
can be parceled out as political pa
tronage, at the expense Of the
government.
Q-What is pasteurization?
Alt is the process devised by
the French scientist Louis Pasteur
for preventing or checking fer
mentation in milk and certain
other fluids by exposing them to
temperatures ranging from 1871 to
1873 degrees Fahrenheit.
Q-Are the salaries of public
school teachers exempt from in
come tax?
Ayes.
Q-Where and when was Mae
West, the actress, born?
AIN Brooklyn, N. Y, in 1900.
Q-Was the U. S. Shenandoah
built entirely IN the United
States?
Ayes.
(Which country has issued
the largest number Of patents?
A-The United States.
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Rlpples on Surface

" A CCORDING to his own opin-
Il ion, he went through a dis
tlnct change in mental attitude aft
er his fortieth year. That was about
the time he stopped writing COL
umns concerning his son, bullheads
and pseudo Airdale, Captain Flagg
and went in for pieces about unem-
ployment and cOllectiviSm.
But the change was more shall
low than he surmised. I have seen
a woman burned to DEATH! cried the
chaplain in ShaW's play Saint joan
and went out shaken. But Mr.. Shaw
never has dealt with the later life
OF that same prelate. Probably the
chaplain forgot.
Very few men are made over by
any single experience. There was
once a great light on the road to
Damascus, but it has not happened
since.
"Broun saw breadline in the
winter Of 1929 and was stirred. but
not enough. Something must be
done ne said. and for a little while
49, WI M WIN hA4tC q Olk VI I'll
ergy in running a free employment
bureau 1t took him two or three
months to discover the futility of
any such individual enterprise.
And even then he had not learned
his lesson, for later, when he was
moved by the plight Of actors. his
naive remedy was to get up a show
and star himself.
This was wholly characteristic of
Haywood Broun In his unconscious
mind, at any rate, he always saw
the billing as Haywood Broun'
and, in much smaller type, with
the universe No tree in any track
less forest fell unless the sound was
something within his own immediate
sensations.
Possibly he was dimly aware Of
this falling and sought at times to
fight against his inevitable DISPOSE
ton to magnify everything into
something which touched in an
acute way the life Of Broun.
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mediocre, it makes its strongest ap-
peal to the talented, the extraor-
binary.
Students go to it voluntarily, and
it fulhlls need that can not be
met elsewhere.
The only wealth that ever sur
wives the ravages Of time are those
things that spring from the artistic
urge. Dynasties are remembered
chiefly, not because of their con-
quering kings, but through the
greatness Of their philosophers, art
lists, musicians and poets.
Phidias is ancient Greece to us.
Because Of Socrates, we remember
Athens, and the brilliant genius of
Leonardo Da Vinci shines out of old
Italy, cleaning steadfastly down the
gl9om Of centuries.
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The Obituary of Broun

FLEETWOOD BROUN was asso-
IL ciated with this paper for
many years. and so we are in duty
bound to express sorrow about
what has happened He was born
IN Brooklyn in 1888. In spite of
the fact that he had no mechanical
gilt beyond operating a typewriter
with two fingers, Broun was dis
tinctly a product of the machine age
and a victim of mass production. In
his later years he was syndicated-
not widely, but too well. In other
words, he was spread out pretty thin.
He brought to newspaper work
one intense preOcCupation. From
the very beginning his most impor-
tant interest was the subject of
HeyWood BrOun. This is not to saw
that he was much more than ordi-
narily vain. Rather, we would sug-
gest that BrOun was a barometric
commentator on the affairs of his
day.
He had about as much detach-
ment as a barnacle. Even the ma.
- NFNAASe VI d lAOublcQ ana SuIDu-
lent age were reduced in his writ
ing to an expression of his own in
Stlnctive reactions. After the man.
ns Of tourist in an art gallery. he
didn't know much about life, but
ne knew what he liked.
And so any record of his opin-
ions and judgments became a sort
OF fever chart of sudden leaps and
swoops. He was incapable of close
scrutiny and careful study in any
political or social field. He be-.
came a Socialist by instinct and left
the party in the same way.
He picked Karl Marx to win. lust
as he might have had a lunch that
Brokers Tip would take the Ken
lucky Derby.
1t would be unfair to suggest that
the man who feels it in his bones
must be invariably wrong in all his
choice Of causes. He has at least
an even money chance of being
right. So it was with Broun.
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VXTITHIN the year that Chicago
w advertises to the world "A
Century of Progress exposition" its
library budget is cut to zero.
Millions of American sightseers
who will stand in awe before the
wonders of art and science well
might ponder this wonder Of colos-
sal stupidity. A nation in which
every city has cut public library
appropriations from 40 TO rs per
cent has no reason to be swollen
with pride over its strides.
1t occurs to me that however
many mechanical gadgets We are
able to show, we can not be pro-
crossing toward any very high goal
when cultural advantages are dis
appearing so rapidly.
How may we measure the results
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Counsel
BY LAWRENCE E. SCOT

BY LAWRENCE E. SCOTT
o youth, impatient to traverse
Lies pathway, pause to know
That It's not idle gossip
That you'll reap just as you SOW.
You may not harvest fortunes
Or be ranked with the great.
And you will learn to realize
Not all can rule the state.
Your glory need not spread so far
AS the stars that shine above,
He hvethe we'll who 5erveth well
And helps I'LL life with love.
Keep faith in God, keep faith in man.
Let trivial fault not break it,
Your life is yours to shape and mold,
Twill be just what you make it,
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81 WHEAT AND THE FARMER

before we all get too jubilant over the
~ advent of dollar wheat, it is worth re-
Numbering that a lot of wheat belt farmers
won't be helped a great deal by this price
level because Of the simple fact that they
have very little wheat to sell.
Last years crop has been sold. A heavy
drought has damaged a great deal of this
years crop. The farmer who still has some
of last years wheat in his bins, and the
farmer who has been lucky enough to get
good yield this year in spite of the hot, dry
weather-these chaps are due to cash in
abundantly.
But lot of farmers, unfortunately are
going to find that dollar wheaton the time
being, at least-leaves them just about where
they were before.
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hundreds O. thousands of young men They
brought civilization measurably nearer to col
lapse.
They paved the way for those injustices
in the Versailles treaty which today are
tremendous menace to world peace and world
stability.
Is it not one Of the great tragedies Of all
history that that peace movement of January,
1918, could not come TO flower?
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BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association Of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

and various types Of fireworks are
responsible for one-fourth of the
cases Of blindness.
The germs of lockjaw develop in
soil and on dirty clothing. Any
time an injury occurs in which dirt
is forced into wound and sealed
in there is danger Of lockjaw.
That is the kind of accident that
occurs in explosions of cannon
crackers, blank cartridges and toy
cannOns. The size of the wound
is not significant.
The tiniest puncture may permit
the germs to enter the body.
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A WOman's Viewpoint
by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON.

Of these curtailments upon the fu-
ture Of America? That will be hard
to do, although we can not over
estimate the loss. Art, music, litera-
ture, research, if brought to a
standstill for one decade, will create
a damage that IS permanent.
The physical body can go without
rich foods and still survive. But
when the spirit has no sustenance,
it dies and nothing ever can revive
it again.
q
WHO can guess what Towering
w Of genius may be stopped by
such a lack? The public library
system in America is and has been
one Of the finest Of educational ia
cilities. In many respects it is
more important than the public
schools. because. while it serves the
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say your say

and on with the new" in the
movie profession.
All the sympathy Of the picture
fans will be with Miss Pickford,
if the cause of the rift turns out
to be that Doug is SO enamoured
Of the nobility that he wants to
stay in England and nobnob with
titles.
1t looks to me like this will be
the finish Of Doug with American
film fans. And he once was the
outstanding hero Of them all.
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D02t.g's Finish?

By Movie Fan.
This mornings paper carries the
story that Mary Pickford and
Doug Fairbanks are about to sep
arate, after years Of happy mar
ried life. What is it that makes
film folks think so lightly of the
marriage tie? 1t is becoming
national disgrace, disease, or
whatever you may want to call it,
the way they "off with the old
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Daily Thought

Blessed are they that mourn; for
they shall be conforted-St Mat
thew 5:4
Z ARTH hath no sorrow that
IL heaven can not heal.-Moore.
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Billy Sunday must feel terribly disap
pointed. The greatest revival the country ever
knew now is under way and he isn't leading it.
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The time for motorist to begin worrying
about losing control of his car is when he is
two installments behind.
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The Washington times., 1933-02-23
-FOUR OVERCOME
| BY GAS FUMES

-Four persons are recovering to-
day from effects of gas by which
they were overcome in their
homes yesterday.
Philip De Grouchy, SO, was
A1eld by police for mental OBJ
Servation in Gallinger Hospital
following an alleged suicide at
tempt at his home in the 800
block of Eleventh Street S. w.
de was found unconscious with
gas flowing from a kitchen stove.
John H. Grey, %, 300 block
Fifth Street N. E., is recovering
in Casualty Hospital from effects
of gas which felled him at his
home. He was found in a bed
room.
Mrs. Gloria r. Cole, "a, over
come in a bedroom at her home in
the 100 block South Carolina Ave
nue. S. E., was taken to Providence
Hospital.
Huey Grigsby, As, was stricken
in the 800 block D st. N. w.
after he released gas by hanging
a towel on a fixture, opening it
accidentally. He was revived by
the Fire Rescue squad.
The Washington times., 1933-02-23
BLANTONDEN|ES
APPOINTMENT

Representative Thomas L. Blan-
ton CD of Texas, took the floor
of the House yesterday to reiter-
ate his denial that he will sue
ceed Representative Clarence
Cannon CD OF Missouri. as
chairman of the appropriations
subcommittee for the District.
Blanton did not go into details,
but branded the rumors as an
effort Ito injure me and the able
Congressman from Missouri"
The Texan intimated that Can
non was in disfavor locally be-
cause he had held down ap-
propriations for the District. He
declared he, too, had been crit
icized because he had assisted
Cannon in defending the 1884
District supply bill and fighting
amendments which would have
restored it to the Budget Bureau
estimates.
The Washington times., 1933-02-23

Managed RooSe-
velt'S campaign for
the Democratic NOM
ination and Presi-
dency.
Credited with be-
ing one Of Roosevelt's
chief campaign as
sets.
Big, sn Apply,
friendly; has per-
sonal following Of
thousands.
Born in Rockland
county, New York,
Republican strong
hold, in 1888.
Became Democratic
county chairman,
served term in State
assembly, defeated
for reelection.
Appointed member
of State Athletic
Commission by Gov.
Alfred E. Smith in
1924. Soon became
chairman, a position
he still holds.