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MARcH 2. 1893.
DEBTOR RELIEF

A half way and hasty compromise on debtor re-
lief and bankruptcy reform has been passed by
congress and sent to the President for signature.
The special session Of congress, under leadership
of President Roosevelt, can enact a much fuller and
better measure, as our bankruptcy law is the worst
on earth.
With the depression emergency Increasing, it was
decided to let the general reform wait and con-
centrate on quick passage of selected parts Of the
original amendment. The idea was to give relief
to three cIasses-individual and farm debtors, COM
mercial corporations, and rairoads-by facilitating
legal debt settlements and company congratulations
without the delay, expense, and humiliation often
connected with formal bankruptcy proceedings.
The amendment as passed leaves out corporations
altogether. That certainly is a serious defect.
The railroad provisions are exceedingly COM
plicated. Experts disagree as to some of the i'm
p~lications. While the amendment seems to make
appointment of a receivership trustee recommended
by the interstate commerce commission optional
with the court, at least one author OF the amend
ment interprets this important provision as manda-
tory upon a judge.
In view of costly experience under which the
bones of ruined roads have been picked under the
guise Of reorganization, in view Of the desperate
state Of so many railroads today, and the heavy
government stake IN those lmplng roads through
Reconstruction Finance corporation loans, more
complete control by the expert I. c.. c. over rail-
roads in process of reorganization would afford
about the only adequate public protection.
The weakness of the farm section of the bill
is that it rests entirely on voluntary action. The
farm mortgage victim, under the amendment as
passed, essentially is still at the mercy of his
creditor. Experience of the last three years demon
strates that too few farm creditors are willing, with
out compulsion, to reduce mortgages.
All classes have been Debated except the creditor
the dollar will buy more of everything except
debts. Economists agree that the American public
never will be able to pay out Of its indebtedness at
the present fictitious figure.
1t is this injustice, this economic unbalance,
which is behind the movement for currency initiation
"a quick way, but a dangerous way, to pay off
debts.
Unless the new congress can find some COM
pulsory method for reduction of farm and small
home mortgages to a figure payable in present ex-
pensive dollars, the movement for cheaper dollars
through currency initiation probably soon will reach
overpowering proportions.
The so-called bankruptcy amendment lust
passed by congress does not go far enough toward
debtor relief.
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lows the call of a silver trumpet
which may sound suddenly at
night, and on that instant the
forces of destiny, the horsemen
and the footmen, gray as cats and
big beyond belief, change sides,
with banners flying.
Above the heads of this shad-
owy army on the march there
flies the bird of victory, circling
about and seeking some new STAN
dard upon which to perch.
Destiny never moves in straight
lines but twists and turns, and,
though the arc be great, it will
return to its own citadel, which
bears the curious name of the
Beginning Of the End.
And in the great hall one may
see the tattered banners of proud
brigades and some other dim
mementoeS Of empires that once
cluttered the earth with their ma
jesty and might.
The light is thinly filtered in.
The dust lies deep upon the floor,
but all who pass by may read
upon tablets of brass the names of
the men and of the nations which
once were things of sound and
fury.
And there is some strange en-
chantment in the place, for it is
possible for no one now to speak
Of these dead and forgotten ex-
peditionary forces above a whis-
per. There is no echo.
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man Of Columbia. one Of our foremost authorities on
the science Of taxation. His distinction in this line
long has been recognized.
He was called in as special adviser to the United
States treasury during the trying times Of the World
war. In 1929 he was president Of the National
Tax Association. In his own profession he attained
the highest possible position by serving as president
Of the American Economics Association in 1927.
He joined to his expert knowledge in the field of
taxation a markedly liberal point of view. a rare COM
bination indeed. This he had gained in part from his
early studies Of labor problems and OF taxation poll
cies in Wisconsin.
He was a member Of the original faculty of the
New School for Social Research in New York City,
thus giving evidence Of a sympathetic attitude to-
ward educational experiments. He had little acade-
mic solemnity and was known for his good hulnor
and urbanity.
His death is a real loss, not only to Yale univer-
sity, but to public finance in this country. He i'll could
be spared at a time when our whole taxation system
must be overhauled and revised.
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Rabies Spread Is to Be Feared

or even on the hands, it is wise
to commence immediate treatment
because Of the short time which
usually elapses when bites occur
in these places.
The wounds should be cauter-
lied Immediately with carbolic or
Tuning nitric acid. The Pasteur
treatment is administered by any
private or state laboratory.
Moreover, it is available to ply
sicians in any village or town
through material that can be sup
piled by pharmaceutical houses.
Its success is almost certain.
Failures occur in less than one
half of l per cent Of the cases in
which it is used.
Notwithstanding the fact that
information concerning this dis
ease has been widespread for
many years, there still are more
than one hundred deaths annually
from the disease in the United
States.
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An Epoch IN History

1T has been said of the League
l. Of Nations that it has proved
impotent in the present crisis. I
disagree. 1t seems to me that the
reading of the roll, in which every
nation except Japan and Siam
voted for cenSure, marked a new
manifestation of world solidarity.
I will grant that it did not on
the instant check the armies as
they moved over the frozen ter
rain toward Jehol. But it has put
Japan upon the defensive in an
important way. Even within the
borders Of the island empire doubt
has been soWn.
I do not expect to see the out
side powers thrust Japan back
from selfish adventure. I believe
with all my heart that the better
way will come from within the
Japanese people themselves.
Public opinion may seem to be
no more than a fngertip laid
upon the wrist in the beginning.
But its force grows. 1t tightens.
1t is a mightier ring than that Of
men and machine guns which en-
circles the golden city.
They will come back.
Copyright 1888. BY The Tines
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Fills the Bill

THE bunch that scientists had
was that there ought to be a
particle in existence just like the
electron in size and weight, ex-
cept that it ought to have a posi-
tive electric charge instead of a
negative one. The positron seems
to fulfill the bill.
1t is of interest to note that
the existence of the neutron also
was predicted from theoretical
considerations before it was dis
covered.
The neutron is a particle which
exhibits no electric charge at all.
1t is believed to consist of a close
combination Of a proton and an
electron. While this meets the
theory satisfactorily, it remains
to be demonstrated experiment
tally.
If it is so, the neutron does not
rank as a fundamental particle
as does the proton, the electron,
and the newly discovered positron.
1t occupies the same sort of
particle which is thought to be
a combination Of four protons
and two electrons.
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SCIENCE
Position on HunCh
BY DAVID DIETz

scientific news of 1888, just as dis
covery of the neutron was the big
gest scientific news of 1882.
Until 1882, scientists we're &C
quainted with two constituents of
the atom, namely the proton and
the electron. The pvoton possessed
a positive electric charge, while
the electron possessed q negative
charge.
This was just what the scien-
lists expected. But they were sur
priSed greatly by the fact that in
other respects the proton and the
electrOn we're SO very different.
For one thing, practically all the
mass or weight of the atom was
found to be due to the p%rotons in
it. The proton turned out to be
1850 times as heavy as the cleo
iron.
A still bigger surprise was that
the protOn was very much smaller
than the electron. The electron is
pretty small to begin with. It's
diameter is estimated 20 be about
one NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of an
inch.
But the proton has a diameter
Of only about one-eighteen hun
dreths Of that. Its diameter, there
fore, is about one forty-hVe quad
rlIllonth Of an inch.
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Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A S we look upon the world we have made for
n our children, it seems strange that adults do
not go forth and dash their heads against the
stones. For frightfm havoc c~onfronts those for
whom we have professed to labor and in whose
name we have sacrificed ourselves.
1t seems to me that only the most Economically
sentimental of optimists can think about the plight
of the modern girl without experiencing a sinking
of the heart. OF all the groups among us that face
bitter problems. hers are the most woefully tragic.
What in such a world as this is a girl to do?
Upon every side are thunders of anathemas by
those who would keep industrial and professional
America safe for men. They cry out that it is trea-
son for women to work at tasks that hitherto have
been preserved as sacred to males.
MARRIAGE, our girl is advised, is the proper
4VA sphere for her. Yet who is there for her
to marry? Upon what frail and c%rumbling foun-
dalton is she to build herself a home? Is there a
place where she may rear her babies in compara-
tive security?
With thousands of potential husbands without
work. the future looks dark for the maid domes-
tically and materially inclined. And it looks even
darker for the efficient miss who desires a career.
In our whole social and industrial system there
seems to be no place for the ambitious girl or the
homebody. Both are outcasts from the established
order, with their problems unheeded by men who
for years have cried aloud their admiration and
veneration for noble womanhood.
The land that has listened to more speeches about
the purity Of our sex than upon any other subject
is doing least to preserve and protect that purity.
The soil that has been fortified by the tired bones
of the pioneer mother offers no haven for her
granddaughter.
Community chests, rehabilitation programs, made
work campaigns. all ignore the American girl. upon
whom must rest the future stability of America.
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This is the second of two articles by
Dr.. Fishbein on rabies or hydrophobia,
BECAUSE of the great danger
II associated with rabies, every
thing possible should be done to
prevent its spread.
At times when hydrophobia, or
rabies, is prevalent in any COM
munity, the lives of both dogs and
children may be freed from men
ace by protecting them from x
posure to the bite Of a mad ami
NAL.
Homeless animals should be
picked up and disposed of by the
usual methods.
The dog that is kept in a good
home usually is watched careful
", kept from contact with saw
age dogs, and is not so likely To
be involved as the one that runs
free.
However. any dog suddenly may
bite a human being, under provo
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"a ND we are not coming back!"
"A shouted a spokesman of
Japan.
He was announcing the decision
Of his nation to leave the league
and retain Manchuria. There
came from the galleries some APP
plause at this gesture of defiance.
But in spirit at least there was
present an old gentlemen full of
dignity and years. He carried an
hour glass and a scythe.
And We are not coming back!"
shouted the orator, filled with
the fervor Of aggression and the
nascence of nationalisn.
us that SOP" said the old man
under his breath. For he had
seen the elephants of Hannibal
go up to the Alps and over. He
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COSmic Ray Photos

THE POSITION was discovered by
4 DR.. Anderson while conduct
ing experiments with cosmic RAYS.
Apparently, the cosmic rays.
which possess very great energy
and penetrating powers, knocked
the POSITIONS out of a block of
lead in the apparatus which he
was using to photograph the paths
Of the rays.
The POSITIONS were identified
from the fact that they also left
their tracks upon the photographs.
1t seems that the positron en-
joys an independent existence for
only a brief length of time, dis
appearing from sight when it
collides with an electron.
This introduces a n o t h G r
question; namely, does the union
Of a POSITION and an electron
create some type Of particle
similar to the neutron?
Scientists plan to attack that
problem al soon as they know
more about the p~ositron.
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TRUSLOW ADA

NAMES IRUSLOW ADAMS, IN
d his Epic Of America" draws
a picture of our national charac-
ter which, if not the whole truth,
is true as far as it goes, warts
and all.
The qualities emphasized are
our disregard of law, our I'M
thinking optimism, Il seIf-as-
sertion, our nervous haste, our be-
lief in money-making as a virtue,
coupled with a -careleSsness about
money when it is once gained, our
racial rancor, our religious big
otry, our quantitative rather than
qualitative standard of values, our
resentment against critics and
foreigners, our utilitarianiSm or
aimlessneSS in education, our con-
viction that good manners are
undemocratic, our preference for
slipping out from under a difficult
situation, instead of thinking it
out and fighting it through; and
so on, like an untouched photo
graph.
All of which is true enough, as
we are willing to admit in the
family, in hours when we talk to
each other in the married voice."
as IONA Gale would say; but we
do not like foreigners to say so.
None the less, in spite of our
defects, in the heart of America
there is a mighty dream which if
we obey it, will redeem US yet,
provided we quit passing the
buck" and face the facts.
So far, when we have not the
courage to blame ourselves for
our failings, we put the blame on
our institutions, on the spirit Of
the age.
It is, so much easier to shift
responsibility and saddle an i'm
personal institution with our de-
l%inquencies, rather than point the
indicting finger at ourselves as
we look in the mirror.
II II II
TOR example, we are too busy
Il money-grabbing to attend to
the duties of citizenship-many do
not even register, much less vote
SO we put the onus of political
corruption on the politician, and
talk vaguely of the breakdown of
democratic institutions.
In the same way, We fail in our
religious duties = not SO much
through wickedness as dull ne
glect-and then blame the church,
the clergy, the skepticism of the
age; everything but ourselves.
Men and women lack tn e
strength of character to welcome
the restraints of pure family life,
p~referring the laxities of indul-
gence and self-pampering, but the
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traditions.
From time immemorial poets and painters have glonhed individual
acts. especially acts Of violence.
Blood has been associated definitely with the march of progress
blood not only as spilled in great quantities on the DatueheId' ot as
made to flow from some one person by another.
While processing horror at homicide, We have built up a faith IN
the individuals power to accomplish great results by killing something
or some one that interIered with the good OF mankind
Legendary heroes slew dragons Or minotaurS, while those Of a aHr
period did away with brgandS or usupers.
Goliath and Judith IN GldmOrOuS Roles
COUNTLESS generations of boys have wished they could play the
~ part Of David in his ver-o-be-forgoten victory over the great
Goliath, while countless generations of girls have enyied the courage Of
a Judith.
We still heaye a sigh of relief when the hero Stays the villain on
stage or screen. and most Of our best sellers hrt with the same old
theme.
If some brain-sck fool carries the thought too far, is he entirely to
blame? I am not entering a plea for mercy u trying to soften the
unreasoned righteousness of this latest ofense. We have wasted too
much time on zangara already and, during the years to come, Florida
will waste too much money.
While on the subject, however, it is just as well to recognize one
phase of the origin of such fantastic and dabolcal conceptions as
appear to have modvated his act.
You can't exalt murder as a remedy for one thing without rskmg
its trial as a remedy for something else.
P0tb of Violence Given Primrose Hue
THAT is what we have been doing, however, especially in song,
l. drama and street conversation.
To correct the bIunder, we find it necessary to keep the ganows
or electric chair, and we are not going to find a better way out
over night.
AS Lincoln said, Every drop of blood drawn by the lash must
be paid for with one drawn by the sword .
The lash of tradition, poetry, and play still give the path Of
violence a primrose hue for those who think they have a grievance or
a cue-aL.
One of our most needed reforms is to take the glory out of blood
letting, and teach youth that progress is a matter of constructive
thinking rather than brute force, that about the only way an lndi-
knowledge, and that the most exalted form of courage is not to face
death emotonaIy, but to face life puposefuly.
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DISCOVERY of the "positron"
- by DR.. Carl D. Anderson of
the California Institute of Tech
nology, while photographing cos
mic rays, fulhlls a hunch which
scientists have had for more than
a decade.
This discovery, as I pointed out
the other day, may be the biggest
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Questions and

Answers
Q-Doe5 gold have a fixed
price?
A-The price is established by
law at $2O.6718 an ounce OF pure
gold.
Q-Who designed the Christian
or church flag?
At grew out of the Legend
about Constantine the Great at
the battle of Milvian bridge Ca.
D. 312) against MaXentius. Con-
s~tantine's standard on this cele-
brated battlefield was the Chris
ttan cross. He had been led 10
adopt this emblem by the APP
pearance, while he was praying TO
the sun god, of a cross over the
setting sun, with the inscription
above it, by this sign conquer.
Obedient to the celestial vision,
Constantine at once made lne
cross his banner, and it was be-
meath this new emblem that his
soldiers marched to victory at the
battle of Milvian bridge. The
vision. it is said, caused him to
adopt the Christian religion.
O-What is meant by the ex-
preston brown study?
Alt mean deep thought, and
some authorities think that it was
a misspelling for brow study;
but the consensus is that it is
one of a group of similar phrases
in which colors are employed to
designate characteristics or tenn
per. as "black melancholy" "blue
devils" "green-eyed monster" and
yellow streak"
O-How many persons were con-
fined in hospitals for mental dis
eases in the United States IN
1880?
A-291,077.
O-What is the salary Of The
Governor of New Jersey?
A-$2O,O0O.
O-On which finger should a
class ring be worn?
A-They generally are worn on
the little finger, or on the third
finger of either hand.
O-Where was the first per-
manent English settlement in
America?
A-Jamestown, Va, founded
May 10. 1907.
O-Name the five largest cities
in the world in their order.
A-London, New York, Berlin,
Chicago, and Paris.
(Which books Of the Bible
are known as the sixth and
seventh books Of Moses?
A-The ~so-called sixth and
seventh books Of Moses deal with
Egyptian black Magic, and are
not included in the Bible.
O-What role did Joe E. Brown
play in the motion picture
"Sally?"
A-Connie the Grand Duke.
Q-Why do smokers tap the
end of a cigaret before lighting
it?
A-To pack the tobacco so that
it will not be drawn into the
mouth.
BIAS Oklahoma City always
been the capital Of the state?
A-From 1890 to 1910 Guthrie
was the capital.
Q-Where is Mount Blanc?
At lies within French, Swiss
and Italian territory. The summit
is wholly in French territory.
Q-What does the name Ken
meth mean?
Att is a Celtic name, meaning
"a leader"
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A ND we are not coming
l. n back"

A ND we are not coming
IA back"
Oh, yes, you will, Japan, There
is a force, and the empire of
which you dream will trickle down
until it is one with the lost lands
Of Julius Caesar.
Not in Japan alone, but in many
other quarters it is held that the
word of the wise men matters lit
tie and that destiny is on the side
OF the big guns and the tanks.
Read history" cried Matsuoka to
the league.
Look well, oh, men of Nippon.
Read history. Read it and weep,
for it tells in every chapter of the
downfall of imperial adventure
and the strong tides which set for
human rights. A decent regard
for the opinions of mankind is not
a thing lightly to be thrown over
board.
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Every Day Religion
BY DIR. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

fault is not with them; no, mar
riage is to blame for it.
Just now we blame the World
war-rightly so, perhaps, in part
for the present economic de-
bacle; whereas we ourselves-our
selfshness, our covetousness, our
downright dishonesty - are at
fault.
1t is not the fault of things
that we arr where we are; things
can do no wrong. The source lies
deep in our own hearts-in our
~self-seeking, our injustice, our
over-reaching. Let us quit pass
ing the buck" and face up to the
facts!
Copyright, 1898. by United Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHREIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

cation or sometimes without pro-
vocation.
Because of the terrible possibili-
ties of rabies, there is only one
course to follow after a dog bite.
The animal should be penned
up or kept secured for at least ten
days, during which time it will
either die or develop the symp-
toms of hydrophobia, If it has
that disease.
= = =
EAR too often when police are
Il called to kill a dog suspected
Of hydrophobia the dog is shot in
the head or the head crushed with
a club.
This should not be done, be-
cause it makes it difficult for a
laboratory to examine the brain.
If there are bites on the face