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ms continues to avoid what she
calls vain posing.
In despair, camera men con-
trived to set up a camera in a
room in which she was to deliver
a radio address. AS they were
about to shoot, she discovered the
ruSe and scowled.
The resulting picture was I'M
fair to her, but it is the only re-
cent picture available.
Even more successful in eluding
the lens is May Cecilia Waterbury
Cummings, wife of Attorney-Gen-
eral Homer Stille Cummings.
One of the most delightful la
dies of the cabinet, she is deter
mined to keep herself out of print.
She has, photographers complain,
a sixth sense in detecting their
approach, always thrusts fan or
a program over her face when they
take her by surprise.
Strangest player in the game is
the attorney-genera himself, who
conspires with the cameramen in
their efforts to steal shot. He
has been known to tip them off
in setting a trap for her, always
lodges when she tries to duck be-
hind him.
So the panel of cabinet wives
being prepared by a local pho
tographer is likely to be minus
Mrs. Cummings.
TUCKED away in the first call
l. report" just issued by the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corpor-
alton are three separate and in
conspicuous items, which, when
brought together, throw an illum-
mating spotlight on the reason for
muttering in banking quarters
against recent treasury policies.
In the FDIC statement are
these three figures:
Total depOsits-S35, 813, 594, 900.
U. S. government securities
$780,, 976,000.
SecrItIeS guaranteed by the
gOvernment-S593, 524, 900.
What these figures mean is this:
That out of s35,813, 594, 900 in de-
posts, the 1896 member banks
of the FDIC, comprising 90 per
cent of the financial institutions
of the country, have $40, 301 SOC, 900
(the combination of U. S. securi-
ties and guaranteed securities or
approximately Is per cent Of their
assets invested in government
bonds.
Add to this the more than ST.
500 900, 900 held by the twelve
Federal Reserve banks, and you
have about half of the govern
ment's $4,000, O0O,0 900 in securities
held by the bankers.
This explains why:
% The bankers are so touchy
about charges that they are not
cooperating with the administra-
ton, and
Al per cent difference on 3d.
900 100000 runs into big money,
especially in these days when gilt
edge securities are few and far
between.
(Copyrizht. 1854. By United Featurl
Syndicate 1ne.1
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A Lost Tradition

IF a liberated America uses leisure for mass paint
ing it merely will be returning to native tradl-
ton which has been lost. When I bought farm
house in Connecticut several years ago got the tur-
niture and two oil paintings. They harked back to
an earlier period One a portrait of crosS-eyed
child and the other still life containing two OF the
6eadest egg plants I ever have seen. 1 asked the
Sr1ner as to their origin and he told me that when
he was a lad it was not uncommon for wandering
painters to drop in and ask for lodging for the
night In return for bed and board and breakfast
the artist would do either a landscape or a por-
trait If he got a second piece of pie he would
throw in a still life.
The idea fascinated me. It still does Last sum-
mer seriously considered the project of travelling
from New York to California and back on my easel.
was discouraged by friend. He said, III lay you
$50 to five that you can't paint your way from here
to Pelham Manor"
And so I gave it up Next summer I may risk
the trip but will my knowledge OF both the
histronic and graphic arts 1t will be my endeavor
to get from New York to Bridgeport supporting my
self by landscapes and lectures To be on the safe
side probably will take trained bear and my own
dice
Copyright. 1884. by The Tines
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EIEnouNh
BY
WESTBROOk PEGLER

GAN FRANCISCO. CAL Oct. 31.-Au good people
~ will rejoice to learn that the devil. who has not
been feeling at all well lately, has determined to
change his ways and take up monsstic life.
This is plainly apparent in the campaign utter
ances of prominent Republican statesmen in Cali
forna the contest between Governor Frank
Merriam, the old horseshoe pitcher. and Mahatma
Upton Sinclair draws to a close 1t will be under
Stood OF course that the public remarks of Governor
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when it is declared by the legis-
lative arm, to override it. q. If
a legislature decides conditions
or practices in an industry make
unrestricted competition an in
adequate safeguard of the con-
sumer's interest, produce waste
harmful to the public or portend
the destruction of the industry it
self, appropriate statutes passed
in an honest effort to correct the
threatened consequences may not
be set aside"
II
A NTI-NEW DEAL lawyers
[ N argue that the Minnesota
and Nebbia decisions apply only
to state police powers reserved
from the federal government and
to emergency legislation.
But in addition to the sweeping
new dicta cited above, the Nebbia
opinion gave an important redefl-
milton of due process" by stating
that it demands only that the
law shall not be unreasonable,
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Paint for Leisure

DUT in the course Of time it may be well for men
ID and 10 find activities for recrea-
ton which have no connection with their workaday
Jobs I think the world would be better of if every
body spent some part of his leisure in painting
America contains hosts of amateur poets and
actors but the Sunday painters still insight
icant army.
I suggest painting not only because it is great
fun but also the ground that it has a therapeutic
value. Although adequate statistics lacking, am
convinced that very few painters suffer nervous
breakdowns. The explanation is easy. More than
any other art painting releases all unconscious
urges.
The lines of type. or the lines of your hand for
that matter, reveal very little, but take up brush
or pencil and mar piece of canvas and your true
inwardness has been set down. Possibly great tech
ncians can lie. but the amateur makes confession
with every brush stroke.
When the picture is completed he can survey it
and with a little study ascertain precisely what is
wrong with his ego, his unconscious and sub
terranean machinery. Only yesterday I stood in
front of early BrOun with moderately friendly
art critic.
We'll" he said, '"that picture has good inten-
tions" 5anched a little, for he had put the story
of my whole life in a single sentence
A few feet farther down the gallery wall friend
Of mine was exhibiting the portrait of a lady who
was quite evidently friend. She pictured as
reclining next a radiator. What do you make OIL
that?" the critic inquired. wish fulhlment, l re-
piled. The artist would have his friend little
warmer"
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ator David A. Reed, in Pennsyl-
vania's hot senatorial contest, the
White House seems to have with
drawn its welcome for the
PinchotS.
A few days ago the Governor
telegraphed the President excit-
edly that armed conflict impendeu
between two rival unions in the
anthracite coal region. He urged
immediate federal intervention.
If Pinchot expected respond
ing White House furry, he was
disappointed. The telegram was
referred to the national labor re-
lations board, which after an in
quiry, found no cause for govern
ment action.
n
TWO ladies of the cabinet one
Il a member, one the wife of a
member, are camera shy.
Frances Perkins, secretary of la
Dor, objects strenuously to being
photographed. With a mobile eX-
preston of face which photogra-
pliers say would make her a re-
markable subject, Madame Perk-
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SON PROTESTS TERMS
OF C. E. COFFIN WILL
Charges Bulk of Estate Left to
Other Relatives, Church.

Objection to probating the will of
the late Charles Emmett Coffin by
which he disposed of a 100000 es-
tate, today was on file in Marion
probate court.
Clarence E. Coffin, a son of the
civic leader and business man who
died Oct. IS, charged that his father
was of unsound mind when the will
was made and that it was made
under dureSs and undue influence
and was the result of fraud.
The complain sets out that the
plaintiff and his sister, Mrs. Carolyn
Coffin Bradley, are the only lawful
heirs and that they are entitled to
share equally in the estate.
The will, Mr.. Coffin alleges, dis
tributes most of the estate to other
relatives and the Meridian Street
Methodist Episcopal church of In
dianapolis, to his exclusion.
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lQOuSJ1ldl dUO SOCldl leSloldbIOll.
Invoking due process" it ia
vored wealth and property by in
validating federal gift and stock
dividend taxes, and in both the
Baltimore and OFallon rate val
uation decisions.
THE Brandeis-S Stone Cardozo-
Il Roberts Hughes liberal ma
jority" already has begun to
stick pins in due process" how
ever, when Mr.. Blaisdell and Mr..
Nebbia came along, paving the
way for New Deal cases under
new federal laws.
Blaisdell had borrowed $4,000
on a mortgage in 1926 from
building and loan association. He
had defaulted and been foreclosed
when the Minnesota legislature
passed a law extending redemp-
ton periods.
A court order extended Blais-
deu's redemption period two years
and was upheld by the state SUI
preme court, which said Blaisdell
could stay if he paid $40 a month
rent.
The association contended the
law violated the due process. con-
tract and equal protection clauses
Of the Constitution-due process
because it arbitrarily withheld
from the purchaser possession OF
his property.
The supreme court previously
had held such laws unconstitu-
tional. 1t now turned a liberal
Somersault, holding in a five-to-
four decision that states might
suspend enforcement of contracts
in an emergency and postpone
property claims.
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Merriam have little. if any, bearing
on the situation. Mr.. Merriam is
merely a steady man who has been
selected by the old guard Repub-
licanS of California to perform the
perfunctory duties of the governor
ship.
He is very sure hand at snip
ping the ribbons at the dedication
of new bridge or highway and
you could search the wide world
over for his equal at standing be-
fore an audience of parent-teach-
ers and laying down the PROPOSE
ton that education is a wonderful
thing. For the sort of duties which
are required of a Republican
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The rest of the Democrats will
be in the position of the electo-
rate, subject to cajolery, argu-
ment and intrigue from now until
the end of December when a party
caucus will decide on a Speaker
and a majority floor leader.
Southern members, certain of
election after their state primar-
les, already are being lined up. A
third of the house Democrats
come from the south, but most of
the candidates for Speaker are
from the south too, and there is
no immediate prospect that this
section will vote as unit for any
one.
In the present congress eighty
of the Democrats come from the
middle west and northwest, thirty
two from the far west, twelve from
New England, forty-one from Dor
der states. and forty-Six from
middle Atlantic states.
All the districts have their cam
didates, and every candidate is
pledging as much support as pos
sible. for trading purposes if moth
ing else.
n AUNT. good-natured Joe
" Byrns of Tennessee, majority
floor leader at the last session, has
a head start by virtue OF that po-
sition. Both John Garner and
Henry Rainey stepped to the
Speakers rostrum from the po-
sition of leader.
But he has handicapS, also.
Several fumbleS at the last session
obviously annoyed the adminiStra-
ton. although stories that ByrnS
would be promoted" to some ap-
pointive office were denied.
Also his record on water power
is not in accord with administra-
ton policies. On fourteen test
votes selected by the National
Popular Government L G Il e,
covering a long period Of years,
ByrnS voted on the private power
company side eleven times. When
the Norris Muscle Shoals bill Of
1880 was pending in the house,
ByrnS voted for the Reece sub
stitute and declared he never had
been in favor of the federal gov
eminent entering into business in
competition with its citizens"
Byrns was Speaker of the Ten
neSSee legislature thirty-flve years
ago. He has been in congress since
1909. part of the time as chairman
of the important appropriations
committee.
Sam Rayburn of Texas also has
had practice as a presiding officer.
He was Speaker of the Texas house
of representatives until he came TO
congress in 1918. He makes no
speeches but he gets things done.
AS chairman of the interstate
commerce committee. the admins
tration relied on him to handle
much of its important recovery
legislation in the house. He IS on
terms Of close friendship with the
President.
DUT a Texan already preSides
ID over the senate and Texans
head six major house committees.
And although ne pushed through
securities and stock market legis-
lation, railroad labor and railroad
pension bills and the commppica-
tons act. Rayburn refused to push
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o. E. S. MEETING IS SET
Degrees to Be Conferred at Officers
Advanced Session.

Naomi chapter, No. 13l, Order Of
Eastern Star, will hold an officers
advance meeting and comforting Of
degrees Friday night at the Masonic
temple. Illinois and North streets.
Mrs. Gertrude NJ. Gray is worthy
matron and William r. Gray is
worthy patron Of the chapter.
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, 31.-Ever the
w Pennsylvania ganglng
caller
his dynamic tanhared wife have
of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
political
Pinchot.
the bitterly administration
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Gard Party Scheduled

The drill team of Marion council,
No 1873, Security Benefit Association,
will hold card and bunco party at
tonight at Castle hall, $50 East
Ohio street. The party is open to
the public.
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
Copyright. 1894. NEA Service. Inc.l

WASHINGTON Oct y United supreme court
w did in the cases Minnesota Mr. Nebba Of
lawyers who must de-
end New constutonality
quoting those decisions in of their
The due process" right in the
being careful however the window Due
whack New Deal measures on the head but
doubtful and certainly won't ever be the corpora
darling used to be-
person." Fifth amendment shall be deprived Of
of fourteenth
amendment a similar prohibition the states
process anything five justices chose to make it. In
decided that corporations were persons
legislature passed them by
large would due of law most OF
of welfare tax laws price
valuation labor and all sorts Of
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Personally I KNOW OF lew Things
which are more fun than to wander
down to the paper by which you are
employed. on the afternoons when
you have no work to do. like TO
sit on the desk of some rewrite man
who is tipping away for dear life in
the effort to catch an edition and
interrupt him now and then by ask
ing, Have you get a match and
cigaret?"
a friend informs me that he saw
two Staten Island ferryboat captains
spending an Idle Sunday with a pal,
who was on duty in the pilot house.
Each time the working member of
the trio came into the shin his vaca-
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told Norman he must accept the
$22.50 in currency.
THE Amazon Petroleum Corpo-
Il ration and the Panama Re-
filming Company of Texas, aSso-
ciated with other oil companies in
separate suits, are appealing from
federal court refuSalS to restrain
Secretary Ickes from enforcing oil
production control regulations
issued under MIRA.
They charge violation of the
fourth, fifth, eighth, ninth. and
tenth amendments. claiming both
MIRA and acts under it are I'M
constitutional. Alleging illegal de-
legation of power, violation of the
commerce clause and confiscation,
they say there's nothing in MIRA
the act-which regulates pro-
duction, and then ring in due
process"
Due process" pops up again,
along with the issue of separation
of state and federal powers. in
suits brought under Section IA,
the labor section. of MIRA. One
suit brought on those grounds in
Richmond to set aside National
Labor Relations Board order for
collective bargaining election will
come before Federal Judge John j.
Parker, whose appointment to the
supreme court the senate re-
fused to confirm.
MO collective bargaining case Is
~ likely to be decided by the
supreme court, however, before
congress enacts some permanent
collective bargaining legislation at
its next session.
The Weirton steel case, in which
the government seeks an in
junction to allow an election to
be held, can hardly reach the
court before next spring. The
government is still only preparing
it's case against the Houde En-
cheering Corporation, defying an
order on collective bargaining.
Before it's recess next June,
however, the court is likely to
hand down an important collective
bargaining decision which will
strengthen or weaken whatever
laws congress passes in the mean
time.
Due process" is also invoked in
the court test of the Frazier
Lemke farm bankruptcy act, on
the ground that it violates the
creditors constitutional rights.
Federal Judge Chestnut at Balti-
more has upheld that contention
in a decision declaring the act
"subversive of the most funda-
mental principles of the social
contract"
Next-Are congress and the New
Deal guilty of unconstitutional
uSurpatiOn of power?
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THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP
By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON Oct 3For Democratic members of the
w of representatives next Tuesdays election
Of electioneering
them
the show their
sion they will roll their campaigning
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II Seems hoM
BY
BROIN

CERTAIN leaders Of public thought seem to feel
~ that American character and stamina will de-
cay If there is any further reduction in working
hours They are not even too well pleased with
present curtailments. These proponents Of the ant
and the busy bee believe that will be unable to
handle his new found leisure
Some months ago 7 listened TO the complaints Of
a newspaper editor who argued that the fve-day
week a failure because reporters always we're
hanging around the city room their extra day off
1 quite ready TO accept the factual accuracy Of
his finding. but I think that the editor missed its
inner significance The bus of tradition has
chosen for himself one excellent sort of holiday
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Governor in California Mr.. Merriam is genius. He
will hold still without hitching, mind his busi-
and do as he is told. His temperament and that
which might be referred to his intelligence are
such that he does not even realize his status in the
situation,
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High Courts Ve,icts Spur Hope for Final Stamp of Approval

Of a o
suprem Court al its sesson
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tioning companions would shake their heads sad
and say. That was a rotten landing" And th
sounds to me like extremely pleasant afternoon
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Questions and Answers

Q-Who wrote the ode "On the Death Of Fa-
yourite cat"2
A-Thomas Gray.
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1884, By United Feature
:. Syndicate. Ine.l
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told Norman he must accept the
$3.50 in currency.
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DUT a Texan already preSides
ID over the senate and Texans
head six major house committees.
And although he pushed through
securities and stock market legis-
lation, railroad labor and railroad
pension bills and the commppica-
tons act. Rayburn refused to push
The Washington times., 1934-01-17

BERKELEY, Calf, Jan. IL
Discovery Of new ray, more
penetrating than either radium or
X-rays, has been made by two
scientists at the University Of
California here.
While the ray is invisible and
is the most dangerous, potentially,
ever produced, it has great pos
sibilities for experimental work
in the field Of medicine and
chemistry.
The ray is caused by a flow
OF neutrons, ultimate particles Of
matter discovered by English SCI
entiSts three years ago.
Limit Of Radium
Constructing a huge electrical
apparatus, Prof. E. o. Lawrence
and DR.. M. Stanley Livingston set
up flow Of 10000, 900 neutrons
a second, causing the ray.
This neutron ray will pierce the
body more readily than the x-ray
or the radium ray. The use Of ra-
dium in cancer has been limited,
due to the burning action Of ra-
dium on the flesh before it reaches
the spot.
Scientists believe now that the
neutron ray may be used in deep
cancer cases with great success.
merry Go Round"
The neutron ray was set up
through use of a gigantic magnet
weighing IS tons In the mag.
netic field metal disk, its interior
a vacuum. is placed.
In the vacuum is 0 round
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WEIGHT ,
BUT AMARVEL

Weighing only one-thousandth
the weight of a drop Of water,
an instrument in the Mt. Wilson
Observatory of the Carnegie In
stitution is responsible for much
of our. recent knowledge Of con-
ditionS, particularly temperatures,
on the planets.
Known as the theremocouple,
it is attached to the 1O0-inch re-
flecting telescope at the observa-
tory, and is so sensitive that it
can "catch" the heat of a candle
100 miles away.
According to DR.. Walter S.
Adams, director of the ObServa-
tory, the Instruments extreme
sensitivenesS is illustrated by the
fact that it will record the change
in brightness of q star in less
than one minute.
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KRE|SLER HERE
IN RECITAL
ONCE MORE

There are violinists and violin
lists. But there is only one Fritz
Kreisler, and a huge audience
welcomed him back to Washing
ton at Constitution Hall yester-
day afternoon with enthusiasm
such as is rarely seen here.
Under the spell Of this enthu-
siasm Kreisler gave recital
which was superlative. And the
program was a happy one, for
it gave him every opportunity to
display his mastery of the violin.
The opening selection was per-
hapS the weakest bit on the pro-
gram, a sonata in C minor by
Grieg. Good music, but not
great, it served to whet the appe-
tite for what was to follow.
The number that followed was
a triumph, that tremendous Cha
come Of Bach. Kreisler played
it. That is all that is necessary
to say. He gave a brilliant rendi-
tion of this powerful work, and
when he finished the audience
gave him a tremendous ovation.
Then followed a group of lighter
numbers. There was TSchaikow-
sky's Andante Cantabile, that
beautiful bit which has suffered
so much at the hands of amateurs
and radio performers. But wearied
of hearing it ruined, one needs
only to hear q Kreisler play it
again to enjoy it's beauty.
And the brilliant Hymn to the
Sun" of Rimsky-Korsakoff also
was given a new Interpretation by
KreiSler.
But it was in the very last
number on the program that
Kreisler gave the gem Of the pro-
gram. It was a Caprice in A Minor
by Paganini, and here were heard
some of the most startling and
marvellous tonal effects ever to
come from a violin. Mellow and
pure, one could have sworn it
was not a violin but a flute that
gave the effects.
It was growing late when the
concert ended, but the audience
just would not go home, insisting
on more. Kreisler generously
gave a number of encoreS.
&C. E B, P,