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FEB. II. 1888.
WHY THE MONTH?

Is it possible that one month more of prison will
turn Theodore Luesse from a riot-inciting Commun-
ist into a conservative flag waver?
That would seem to be the explanation Of the
action of the prison farm board in chopping down
his fine.
AS a matter Of law, Luesse is now in prison be-
cause he is broke and without funds. When ar
rested for making a speech at an eviction proceed
ing, he was taken to police court and sentenced to
sixty days. That seemed TO be the limit of his Of
sense in the opinion of the city court.
He protested his innocence and appealed. When
he got into the criminal court, the judge made a
speech and Luesse was sentenced to a year in prison
and fined $500. His year sentence was served long
since. For eight months or more he has been held
because he could not pay the fine, working it out
at a dollar a day. If he had been, a dangerous
~gangster, he would have had money to pay the fine
and would have been free months ago.
Governor Leslie refused to remit the fine on the
theory that Luesse refused to recant his weird eco
nomic theories.
Now the board has consented to cut down the
fine so that he can be free in one more month.
During that month he will, of course, reform.
He will come out sweet and good natured. He will
undoubtedly tell his friends of the benefcent law
that gives freedom for money to those who can pay
fines and gives Jail to those who have not been
thrifty or acquisitiye.
Let it be hoped that in his reorganization plans,
Governor McNutt will not overlook the 1. @. of
members of a board which deals with human beings
in this manner.
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our Views on Debts Is Absurd

a S with regard to so many other problems, we have talked about this
IN one until we actually imagine that its solution means prosperity
to the American laborer, the American farmers and the American
business man.
What is even more absurd, we have reached a point where we
imagine that European governments are in q mood to grant us return
favors when they do not have to.
European governments want their debts written down; nothing
more. The only question for us to decide is whether tins is necessary.
We certainly are not going to get any tariff concessions, nor are We
going to drive any other kind of bargain that vii afford us an ad-
vantage which European governments are not compelled to sanction.
Ideahsm is not, and never has been, the basis of this debt issue. A
few people approach it from the standpoint OF virtue, righteousness
and saf-sacr1fce, but those who are most concerned are moved by
hard-headed considerations.
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So They Say

Poets are reporters OF human
souls.-John Masef1eld, England's
poet-laureate.
Chaperons can not take the
place of characteristics. Franklin
D. Roosevelt, wife of the Presi-
dent-elect.
Preachers are talking about
moral questions without knowing
what the word moral means
Clarence Darrow, Chicago attor-
ney and agnoStic.
Men are timid. A woman is
more reckless, particularly when
she cares about something.-Edna
st. Vincent Millay, poetess.
Unless PROSECUTING disappears
from intercollegiate football, the
game will be dead in ten years,
or else frankly in college, as a pro-
fessional sport.-Professor Philip
Badger of New York university.
Whether in the home or in the
church, eXhortation to goodness is
about the most idle waste of
breath. People do not want ex-
hortationS. They want ex-
amples.-The Rev. DR.. Harry En-
erson Fosdick, pastor Of Riverside
church, New York.
My philosophy is to enjoy all
good things on this earth. Don't
miss anything, but be moderate in
every respect; then you will live
long and be happy. DR.. Adolph
Lorenz, 70, noted Viennese sur
geon.
Individuals who die exist no
more than they did before they
began life; no more than they
did before the species to which
they belong had been produced in
evolution.-ProfeSSor Herbert S
Jennings, geneticist of Johns Hop
kins University.
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EMERGENCY FARM RELIEF

Senate" says a headline, ito concentrate on
emergency farm relief"
That means that a senate subcommittee on bank
ing and currency has made the only intelligent de-
clslon: To report some emergency bill to ease the
farm mortgage debt burden, rather than to try to
write and report a full-bodied measure within three
weeks. Permanent relief must wait for the new
congress.
From a senate subcommittee to the White House
Tor signature is a long and rocky road for any bill,
especially in the closing days of this last lame duck
session.
However, if senate Democratic leaders actually
want to do something for farmers who are about to
lose their farms and homes through foreclosures,
and If house Democratic leaders have the same de-
sire, there isn't the least doubt that such bill as
the senate now is concentrating" on could be passed
in a very short time.
Obviously. it's time to act; and if congress wants
to act, it can do so quickly.
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THE WORLD AND P

Despite the defiant attitude of her official
spokesman in Geneva and Toxic, the Japanese gov
eminent should think twice before rejecting the
leagues demand to withdraw from conquest in
Jehol and Manchuria.
In making these demands, the leagues commit
tee of nineteen in effect is speaking for the world
not only for league members, but also for Russia
and the United. States.
No one nation, however powerful, can defy the
rest of the world and survive. She can do so for
a while. but in the end she will find her position OF
isolation impossible.
In forming their united front against Japan, the
neutral nations are not acting in any hasty or
partisan spirit. Japan has been given many months
to recover sanity. Instead, she has continued and
widened her conquest.
Neutral nations are concerned only mildly with
what happens to Manchuria as such, either as to
the welfare Of the Manchurians or the loss of neu-
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a T the present time more than
IA 5000 alloys are used by the
industry. An alloy is a mixture
of metals, and it is possible to
make wide variations in such mix
lures so that actually industry
has tens of thousands of sub
stances to choose from as a re-
suit of such variations.
But industry is far from salts
fed. The continual cry is Tor
new alloys.
Most important of all alloys is
steel. In it's simplest form, steel
is a mixture of iron and carbon.
In addition, however, there are
many so-called alloy steels in use
today which contain in addition
such substances as chromium,
tungsten and the like.
Iron and steel are classed by
metallurgists as the ferrous
metals"
The most important non-fer-
rous alloy today is brass, a mix
ture Of copper and zinc. Alum
mum alloys continuously r
growing in Importance. Duralu-
min, used in construction of
Zeppelins and other aircraft, con-
tains about "a per cent of alum
mum.
The principal elemental metals
in order of tonnage production are
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Times Readers
Voice Views -.

Editor Times-Since William
Grove has taken it upon himself
to prove that Communism is not
a foe to Christianity, I wish to
say that Mr.. Grove is poorly in
formed as to the aims and am
billions of organized Communism
or BolsheviSm.
Mr.. Grove says that Commun-
ism does not permit teaching Of
"Chauvinism and hatred" He
is absolutely mistaken. Com
munism teaches hatred of God
and all forms of religion" class
hatred, and race hatred.
1t teaches war, revolution, and
slaughter and its history from the
French revolution to the Russian
revolution is one long trail of
bloodshed and horror.
Mr.. Groves article proves that
he is not qualified to define either
Christianity or Communism. He
gives evidence that he does not
understand either. He says that
Communism does not starve peo-
pie, but, according to my informa-
ton, the Communist government
of Russia actually is starving the
Russian people to put over its
program of Bolshevism and athe-
ism.
Mr.. Grove intimates that the
United States is prosecuting the
jew, the Catholic, the Negro and
the foreigner. The history of this
nation proves the falsity of the
charge, but 1 wish to say that in
the future all foreigners and those
Americans who choose to ally
themselves with any foreigners
and those Americans who choose
to ally themselves with any
foreign organization, such as
Communism, will find themselves
as they deserve to be-regard-
as traitors and enemies and will
receive the kind of treatment
which such treason deserves.
In closing, Mr.. Grove says:
Communism will sweep the world
and there will be peace on earth,
good will toward all men,"
Communism is organized and
operating in defiance of God and
so, also, Of Christianity.
Better informed men than Mr..
Grove say bluntiy that Commun-
ism and Christianity are in a war
to the death.
AS for me I will take my stand
for Jesus Christ and His teach
ings and those institutions root
ed and grounded in the Christian
faith.
Communism is a foreign inStitu-
ton, come to destroy all that our
forefathers have bequeathed to
US by 156 years Of toll and scri-
fee. Communists follow the red
flag and worship Lenin. I win
stick to the Stars and Stripes and
Jesus Christ.
Who will stand with me for
God and country and use his voice
ard, if necessary, his sword, to
rid u fair land of these danger
Gus fanatics and inldels who call
themselves Communists?
E. F. MADDOX.
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It Seems to Me by Haywood Broun

TT is written in the Book of the
l. Prophet Ezekiel in The thirty
seventh chapter that the hand of
the Lord was upon him and set
him down in the midst of a valley
which was full Of bones. And the
prophet observes, There were
very many in the open valley;
and, 10, they were very dry"
And the Lord said unto him,
Son of man, can these bones
live?" And Ezekiel answered, 20
Lord God, thou knowest."
Then did God cry out in a loud
voice that these fragments should
live again and breathe. There
was a noise, and behold a shaking,
and the bones came together"
Before the astonished eyes of
Ezekiel "the flesh came up upon
them"
But" adds Ezekiel, "there was
no breath in them"
Then said he unto me,
Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy,
son of man, and say to the wind,
Thus saith the Lord God; Come
from the four winds, o breath,
and breathe upon these slain, that
they may live. So L prophesied as
he commanded me, and the
breath came into them, and they
lived, and stood up upon their
feet, an exceeding great army"
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Don't Neglect Pain in Your Arm

DAN is a symptom and, in it
l. self, not a disease. 1t usu-
ally is an indication that some
thing is wrong somewhere, and it
is the duty of the physician to
determine the underlying cause of
the pain.
Most of the causes of chronic
pain in the arm, as pointed out
by DR.. w. R. Brain, are trivial, in
the sense that they do not threat
en- life.
They may be responsible for SUI
fering and disability and, by in
~terfering with work and with rec
reation, make life ~distressful.
The pain itself is not so signih-
-eant as the details of its nature.
In other words, exactly where is
the pain felt? Does it move about?
Is it constant or does it come at
intervals?
Is it gradually getting worse?
Is it relieved by motion or made
worse by motion? 1t is relieved by
warmth or does it become worse
with changes in the Weather2 Is
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trail trade which has resulted from japanese die
tatorship.
The issue for the neutral nations goes much
deeper than that. The choice for them is whether
they shall permit Japan to scrap the world treaty
machinery, or whether they shall save that ma
chinery. Self-interest dictates that the neutral ma
tons to go to war with the treaty breaker, Japan.
That is not contemplated, and should not be. They
can save the treaties by showing that they them
selves respect the facts sufficiently to withhold Dip
lon1atic recognition and economic and financial sup
port from the violated territory.
Events are working for the neutral nations
against japanese militarism. Internally, japan is
weakened by the strain of war expense and sacri-
fee; wars breed revolution. In Manchuria. Japan
has conquered only in name; as long as she remains.
she must wage virtually continuous war to keen
down the revolving patriots.
Meanwhile, she is provoking her two giant neigh
bors, China and Russia, to prepare for war
against her. (.
All that the neutral nations have to do is to keep
their own record straight in peaceful enforcement
OF the treaties-and wait. Time will bring japan
to her senses.
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Every Day Religion
BY DR.. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON

the mother and the boy behind the
man, giving us a glimpse of what
life means, of what lies hidden in
the hearts of the lowliest, of the
worth and dignity of all noble hui
man living.
In those deep-set eyes that
never lie, in the suggestion of a
smile that has tears in it, in fea-
lures marked with the seams of
hard struggle, the light of high re-
solve, and the tenderness of pity,
we see what America is, what it
means, and what has made it.
For Lincoln embodied the genius
of our country as no one else has
done, uniting the Sagacity Of Ben
jamin Franklin and the sensitive
sympathy of John Woolman. With
a mind relentless in truth, he
joined a heart limitless in charity,
and this union of mind and heart
has made him a star to follow, a
type of that to which men would
entruSt their very souls.
OF the soul of America, its
" blend of moral idealism and
practical mysticism, Lincoln was so
complete ar incarnation that he
at once is a symbol and a
prophecy, and his very name sug-
Cocfc +ho epiri+,1oJ yo0orinr 0f o,,r
national life.
No man of the White House
ever made so profound a religious
impression and appeal as Lincoln
did in his last years, when a
nameless, haunting grace chung to
his words and acts. If religion took
this form in his life and char
acter-an unfailing justice, an in
corruptible honesty, an exquisite
and moving compassionate was
prophecy of what the men of this
land must do and be if our dream
is to come true.
A mountain is a mystery; so was
Lincoln. 1t is tall, rugged, iso-
lated; so is he. 1t has crags and
crevices which would disfigure the
beauty of a hill, but which make
no blemish on its massive sub
Unity.
There are sheltered hooks where
flowers grow and streamlets flash
in the sunlight, but also huge
masses of denuded rock which tell
of the harsh attrition of earlier
time. The clouds that veil its peak
lend it an air of melancholy, and
the storms beat upon it with the
swift strokes of lightning and the
deep cry of thunder.
Yet it remains unmoved, I'M
shaken, and its mission is the
same in all varying moods. The
God who made the mountain
made the man, and His ways are
past finding out.
Copyright. 1893. United Features
Syndicate)
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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE
BY DR.. MORRI FISHBEIN

Editor Journal Of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
there associated tingling Of the
skin or numbness, or muscular
weakness?
= = =
CPECIFIC answers to each of
- these questions enables the
physician to localize tie cause.
However, it is impossible merely
from the patients answers to
these questions to tell anything
definite.
There must be actual examina-
ton of TIE patient with all cloth
ing removed from the upper half
of the body at least, 30 that the
arm may be examined in relation
ship to shoulder and chest.
Each Of the joints must be
studied, the nerves must be exam
ined from the point of view of the
actions of the muscles depending
on them.
1t may be necessary to have an
x-ray picture to find whether
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Questions and
Answers $500.

(Which merchant vessel is
the largest in the world?
A-The new French liner Nor
mandie," recently launched. It is
1924 feet long and has a displace-
ment Of 10000 tons.
O-Are men who served in the
American army during the World
war exempt from federal income
tax?
A--No.
Q-what is the food value Of
mushrooms?
A-Mushrooms, as purchased,
contain 3.25 per cent protein; Oh
per cent fat; 6.8 per cent carbohy-
drates, and have a food value 10
the pound Of 204 calories.
Odd the Boswell sisters take
the roles OF telephone operators
in the The Big Broadcast"
A-No. They we're billed as
Major" Sharp" and Minor"
GLOW many United States
patents were issued in 1881?
A-51.76s.
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Varied Requirements

"XXTE need the softness of lead
W for foil and the hardness of
steel for cutting tools" DR.. Jefries
continues. I'VE need the mag
netism Of iron and certain of its
alloys, and we need other metallic
products which are nonmagnetic.
we need aluminium and mag
nesium in part because they are
SO light in weight. We need cop
per because it is such a fine con-
ductor of electricity.
we need gold, platinum. nickel,
and so-called noble alloys be-
cause they are SO resistant to at
tack by air, water and chemicals.
TO the metallurgist who ex-
amines metals with high-powered
microscopes and even determines
the very positions Of the atoms by
X-ray analysis, the interior Of a
metal becomes an active micro
scopic world, exhibiting wonders
comparable to those which we see
about US"
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changes have taken place in the
bones.
The blood vessels must be
studied to see if there are any alb
normal stoppings of the circula-
ton OF any swellings due to slow
ing of the circulation.
q II =
IN arthritis or Inflammation of
4 the shoulder the pain may be
in the joint or in the muscles
over the joint.
Such pain is an aching which
tends to become worse in cold,
damp weather. The joint is ten
Ger on pressure, movement is
limited, and there is more pain on
movement.
Far too often. mild pains, even
though coming repeatedly, are
neglected or the patient tries to
overcome them through the tax
ing Of Sedative drugs.
Sometimes such pains warn of
the beginnings Of more serious
conditions and it is not well to
neglect them.
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these are boundaries, and each
square or triangle or circle has
its own name, and it is forbidden
that any one should pass from
beyond one boundary to another.
The Lord God of Ezekiel called
through the valley and out of
particles as dry as dust he made
men. And out of men he made
a great and united army.
Is it fanciful? To me it is a
true story, while the tale of
strength through even greater dis
solution seems a myth not worthy
of belief.
I think it is an echo of the song
which the dry bones sang, each
one separately, under the stars in
the valley of death before the
coming Of the Lord.
Copyright, 1898. by The Times)
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Relief Is Merely a Dream

THEORETICALLY European taxpayers would be relieved greatly
L if the war debts were scaled down. but practically they would not
During the last fifteen years, debtor governments have paid us
very little. How much would they gain in a money way if they paid
us nothing during the next fifteen years, or even the next fifty?
Theoretically, debtor governments ought to rearrange their tariffs
ard open their markets in exchange for a further reduction of what
they owe. but they won't, because the can achieve about the same
result by defauting, asking for a continuance of the moratorium, or
merely stalhng.
Considering what we have received since the war. or even since
1925, and what Europe has paid out, cancellation of the debts would
represent nothing of vital consequence in a money way.
One can admit that the debts should be cancelled. or sharply re-
viscd, and still realize that such action would do very little to improve
trade, stimulate business, or promote worldwide recovery.
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A MYSTERY, a strange per-
y vasive appeal to the latent
nobility in us, a ~sanctity half
tragic and half triumphant, lin
gers about the memory of Lincoln.
If one would know what America
means, one need only look into
that familiar face, SO rugged, so
hornely, so human, SO strong, now
lighted up with laughter, now be-
Swallowed by melancholy.
1t is a face neither rudeiy mas
culine o softly feminine, but
something in it makes one think of
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tin and nickel.
Properties of Alloys
INDUSTRY needs so many alloys
l. because each alloy has a par
ticular set of properties which suit
it for some particular use.
An alloy may so be manufac-
tured and treated as to yield a
large number of properties says
DR.. Fay Jeffries, consulting metal
lurgist of the General Electric
Company and the Aluminium
Company of America.
Suppose we consider a steel
with OF per cent carbon as an ex-
ample. 1t may be melted and
poured into a mold and result in
a steel casting.
THE steel casting may be used
as cast or it may have its prop
critics changed in a number of
ways by heat treatment. Or the
steel may be rolled hot and used
for the structural members of
buildings or bridges, or pipe.
ut may be rolled cold and used
for machinery parts, such as
shafting, 1t also may be drawn
into wire.
ANY of these operations is ca
pable of changing certain phys
ical properties throughout a con-
siderable range without changing
the chemical composition, that is,
without changing the alloy.
so it is to a greater or lesser
extent with each of the 5000 diff
ferent alloys. Instead of 5000
different sets of properties, there
fore, we have tens of thousands
Tt is this richness of physical
properties of metals and alloys
which makes possible our modern
civilization, in the opinion of DR..
Jeffries. Each metal or alloy con-
tributes something which modern
man needs.
We need the low melting point
Of mercury or quicksilver, which
Is 40 degrees below zero, for Their
mometers, gauges, ETC." he says,
while we need the high melting
point Of tungsten for lamp fila
ments.'
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4 TeNt From Ezekiel

KEANY devout readers of the
I'VE Bible probably have passed
over this episode with a certain
skepticism. They have decided
that it was an ancient allegory
and that it never happened.
l don't think it has happened,
but 1 believe it can and will. for
Ezekiel is describing with a high
degree of accuracy the world in
which we live. We are standing in
a valley, and it is the land of dead
things, because the elements of
life lie scattered across the floor of
the plain. The dust has come
across them. And they are very
dry.
The miracle of bringing breath to
the bones was performed, you will
observe, not by the Lord, but
through the voice of Ezekiel, a son
OF man. But first it was necessary
Tor the process of indignation to
take place. Death lay in division.
+ Il Il
IN Valley Of Dry Bones
MO doubt a fierce light beat
~ down upon that sun-baked
valley, Sc that the white frag-
ments seemed almost to dance be-
lore the prophet, but with his
own eyes he saw them rise up and
come together. Not till then was
1t possible to call upon the winds
from all the quarters of the world
to complete the task of ANNA
ton.
There is nothing particularly
fanciful in finding a present-day
text in this scripturaI story. One
need not be a prophet like Eze-
KEEL to see with his own eyes that
we have not yet even begun to
bring life back into the valley of
destruction and despair. We are
content to let the fragments lie
scattered until they bleach.
AT the moment we still CRY out
not for a coming together of