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DepOrtS Himself Like Hero

IN circumstances such as those which prevailed
Il during my first experience as a cup race kibitzer
it is generally possible to go below and fortify your
self into a complete state of neutrality against all
fear and woe. Even that boon was denied me. One
Of my bosses was already in part possession of the
only available cabin space. This is not said in bit
terneSS for on that afternoon Mr.. X deported him
self like a hero. Damon RunyOn hailed him shortly
after We ventured out into the raging hurricane,
which the weather bureau insisted on referring to
as brisk southwestern winds" Mr.. X" said Run
yon. Il want You to meet MIR. Y, the walking dele
gate Of" "a maritime union which shall be
nameless). L think" added Runyon. that you
two gentlemen as the representatives of capital and
labor should have much to discuss together"
And they went below TO discuss. I feared for my
boss. The walking delegate was a huge and muScu-
lar man who looked as if he could easily consume a
LOttle at one sitting. Poor Mr.. x 1 thought TO
myself. for this was in the days before reporters had
become class conscious. Not until the race was over.
OF. at any rate. appeared to be over. did the two
spectators reioin us experts on the deck. My boss
was in good shape. That is he looked about as
usual. The walking delegate could hardly stand up.
Neither could I. what with the wind and weather.
And so I shipped no more during that contest. OF
course I covered the rest of the races. I am too
loyal a reporter ever to beg of from an assignment.
Put 7 found that I could do Just as well or better by
sitting at home and rewriting the excellent accounts
in the evening papers. In fact there was one adj
vantage. I did know who won
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SOcked by q Brat of 10

"COULD I use the phone" Mr.. Merrick said, in
PRODUCING himself, ito call the state troopers. 1
have had an accident"
Mr.. Merrick was short, bowlegged, and so long
in the arms that his fists hung almost to his knees.
His voice was a roar and he was shaken in his emo
tons.
"An accident" he beloved. "Seventy-seven years
old and that young brat of a nephew Of mine he
knocked me down and put the boots to me. Booted
me in the head and booted me in the ribs and he
did it again last winter, and me II, and him only 40"
Mr.. Merrick waved aside an ice-pack and an
iodine swab and yanked from his hip pocket to dab
at his cuts, a handkerchief so long from the laundry
it was brown.
Il shouldn't take a drink because the police will
say I was drunk and I'm not drunk, but I will take a
drink. 1 came up to spend the weekend with him
and he knocked me down, and he did it again last
winter, 1 want him arrested and want his head
examined, and 1 don't mean for fleas. When I was
40, I could take a whole roomful of him and throw
them over the yard-arm.
I'm an old Yankee barnacle. Coastwise and
deep water I sailed fifty years, and I don't need no
doctor. I can lick any doctor you bring me. I raised
five boys myself, all of them live timbers and no dead
wood among them, and 1 could lick them altogether
and I did"
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What a Man! What a Man!

MR.. drew out his wallet and displayed
an old sailing license. He began to sing hoarse-
ly: ooh, I'm old and I'm racked and I'm ruined, so
what's to become of old John?"
We'll, there's nothing the matter with me except
I'm a little old. You 60 stick your face in the mirror
and figure out how you are going to look when you
are my age. You'll have a hump on your back as big
as a bushel Of clans. I'm a clammer by trade.
Clammer and lobsterman.
MY uncle built Brooklyn bridge, and I busted
rock for the job" old John said. I'm a tailor by I
trade and I can make you the best pair of pants you
ever saw. Or a boiler. I'm a boilermaker, too. 1t
makes me laugh to hear Al Smith sing The Side
walks OF New York What does he know about the
east side? I busted rock for Brooklyn bridge and I
sailed all over the world and I don't live anywhere
except on a houseboat. But I came up to spend the
weekend with my nephew and look what he did to
old John. He did it again last winter, too.
I can still jump higher, squat lower, dive deeper
and come up dryer than any man on this coast"
The state police arrived about here and took the
complaining witness up the road to interview the
brat OF forty regarding his hospitality to his old
uncle.
love it up here" Mr.. Gordon said. "I love to
listen to the crickets and the rain on the roof"
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A Good Weather Risk

IRON the beginning it was difficult for me to be-
IL come interested in the race because my mind was
so much more acutely concerned with a problem
nearer home.
As far as betting went the destroyer gave oppor-
tunitv for more interesting wagers than the yachts
afforded. Each time she rolled over on one side I'd
say in a tense low whisper. IN lay ? to l she doesn't
come up In a sense the trim gray ferret OF the
foam was most accommodating. When she got to the
furthermost reach of the arc she would hold the
pose for quite a while so that it would be possible
for al spOrtsmen 10 get their bets down.
I do not wish TO exaggerate. Probably it would be
a gross exaggeration to state that the destroyer lin
gered on her left side for as much as ten minutes
Maybe it wasn't even ten seconds, but there was an
appreciable period during which the ship, much in
the Kipling manner. carried on a conversation with
herself. You could hear one of the plates which had
gone down under the green water chattering with
another. And once I caught two of them saying in
unison. Wouldn't We be the fools to come upl"
In swinging back from one impulse there inva-
rably was a tendency TO go just as far in the other
direction. Her skipper boosted that she was a good
rough water risk and I suppose he knew. 1 felt that
she could do anything but stay on even keel.
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fornia Democratic gubernatorial
candidate called on the interior
chief and explained his plan to
end poverty, Ickes listened with
polite attention.
But when Sinclair remarked
that one of his major projects if
elected would be the irrigation Of
the arid, hot Central valley of
California, Ickes really got inter-
ested.
Mr.. Sinclair" he said, Il am
with you 100 per cent that the
valley should be irrigated. I know
from personal experience. I passed
through there once when it was
about 100 degrees. Every time 1
touched the car with my fingers,
it left a blister.
Il think the valley should not
only be irrigated-it should be
equipped with icebergs."
4 MOTHER major administra-
IA ton vacancy is in the cards
at an early date.
This time, insiders say, it will
be a brain truster-Professor Will
liam I. Myers, governor of the
farm credit administration.
Cornell university, which in 1888
gave him what it thought would
be a short leave of absence, is in
sisting that Myers return to the
classroom.
Myers has told close friends he
expects to heed the call.
With the organizational work Of
the FCA completed, and the ma
chinery in full motion, he con-
siders his work finished, feels the
time has come for him to step
out.
Big Jim Farley, ever on the alert
for patronage plums, already has
a candidate for the vacancy. He
is tall, bald, buck-toothed w.
Forbes Morgan, now deputy gov
ernor of the FCA.
Morgan is distinctly persona
grata with the administration.
A former wall Street broker, he
is a very distant relative" of j.
P. Morgan; and his first wife, the
former Edith L. Hall. was an aunt
of Mrs. Roosevelt. Several months
ago he married Sarah Branch
Jackson, daughter of Robert Jack
son, until recently secretary of the
Democratic national committee
and still potent in party councils.
MEMBERS of the senate NUM-
4F1 tions committee we're dis
cussing the extraordinary interna-
tional arms operations of Sir Basil
Zaharof.
Why with this record of his he
should be called the mystery man
Of Europe is beyond me-" observed
Senator Homer T. Bone Of Wash
ington.
Mystery" exclaimed Senator
Bennett Clark. The only mystery
I can see about him is how he
kept out of jail"
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Todays Science
: BY DAVID DIETZ

EUSEL oil, a popular subject of discussion during
= the days of prohibition, held the stage for a brief
moment at the convention of the American Chem
ical Society in Cleveland, while a paper on the
Origin of Fusel Oil in Gin" was presented.
While fusel oil is no longer the cause for active
apprehension that it once was, readers may never
tnelesS De interested in hearing about it. DR.. J.
Mitchell Fain and George Beth of Brooklyn, N. Y.
the two chemists who presented the paper, began
with some remarks upon the nature of the substance.
"tusel oil is not a single chemical compound or
substance" they said, but a mixture of MANY. It's
chief constituent is iso-amyl alcohol. Other alcohols
present IN tusel oil are propyl, butyl, active amyl.
hexl, and heptyl alcohols. These are alcohols that
Doll at a higher temperature than ethyl or grain
alcohol.
IN large quantities, the two chemists said, fusel oil
l. is a harmful ingredient.
They examined eleven samples of branded gin,
bought in the market in trade packages with gov
eminent seals unbroken. They were all English type
gin. =.
The amount of fusel oil found in the SAMPLES
analysed was not sufficient to be harmful. they re-
ported. 1t ranged from one to nine parts per
100000.
Having settled this point, they nevertheless de-
clded TO continue their researches to find the origin
Of the fusel oil. Consequently they proceeded to
analyze the alcohol which was the source of one of
the brands OF gin. This was found to contain only a
small percentage Of the fusel oil present in the gin.
Hence, they concluded, the fusel oil must have
been contributed by the 4avoring agents used in
making the gin.
- ECTIFIED spirits used IN the manufacture Of
gin are obtained by the refining Of alcohol pro-
duced by the fermentation Of sugar solutions. the
two chemists explained.
This includes mashes obtained by converting
starch to fermentabe sugars" they continued. IN
matted cereals such as corn are crushed and made
into a starch paste which is then converted into
sugar by means of malt.
THE yeast is added and the mash allowed to fer
ment. The alcohol is then distilled of. Distillation
consists of evaporating or volatilizing the alcohol in
the fermented mixture and then passing the vapors
to a condenser In which they are cooled and con-
densed." 4
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900, 900 for 1884, which has been
met by borrowing from the banks
and the public, so that the fed
eral debt now stands at about
$27, 900. 0OO, 900, an increase of
$4,000, 900 1000 for the year.
This $4,000, 900 900 of "emer-
gency" expenditures in 1884, al
though enormous, was, however,
only a little over one-half that
estimated in the Presidents
speech of Jan. 4, 1884, namely
$1,000, 900 5000.
The difference arose principally
ID from actual OUTLAWS of only
81, 500, 900 900 for the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation ex-
penditures against original esti-
mates Of almost $4,000, 000, 900;
Gid public works expenditures
were set at almost 81, zoe, 900 900,
against actual OUTLAWS of $1,000,-
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divided into two parts, regular and
emergency.
The regular" as distinct from
the emergency" budget was bal
anced for the year ending June 80,
1884, total receipts and regular eX-
penditures both being about S.
900, O00, 900. This balance was
reached by an increase of over
81, 1000, Doc 1000 in revenues and a
reduction of over $1,000 100000 in
budget expenditures as compared
with the previous fiscal year, when
there was a deficit of ST. 86, 10000.
This balancing of the regular
budget did much to restore con-
fidence in the government and in
government securities.
II n Il
TAKING the regular and emer-
Il gency budgets together, how
ever, there was a deficit of $4,000
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Of these two, the latter is the
chief source of alarm. A secret
check of the bonus demand with
in the legion has just been con-
Guided and the President has been
advised that a resolution favoring
the payof is certain of passage
unless an attractive counterpart
posal is offered.
Legionnaires among the PreSi-
dents advisers are urging him not
to take an unyielding attitude on
the bonus issue.
They say that such a stand
would play into the hands of adj
ministration foes at the conven-
ton, and weaken his position in
dealing with the question in next
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turned to his source of revenue,
and a federal tax imposed on top
of theirs might seriously handi-
cap business.
Another rumor has it that tax
exemptions will be lowered to a
point where most citizens of the
country, even in the lowest income
classes, will be called on to help
support the government.
MORE probable is an increase
WI in taxes paid by citizens of
intermediate income. Both Ros-
well Magill, the treasury's tax ex-
pert, and L. H. Parker, expert for
the house committee, spent con-
siderable time this summer in
England, where tax rates are
much more severe for persons of
comfortable income.
A single man with $4,000 a year
who pays $40 income tax in the
United States pays S311 in Eng
land. With $1,000 taxable income
he pays 500 here. Sill there.
When the taxable income gets to
be SIS, 900 this country collects
$3.50. Great Britain 1889. The
difference continues till the in
comes mount to 100000.
Considerable sentiment devel-
oped in the last congress for tax
alton of securities which are now
tax exempt, and the next congress
is almost certain to consider this
source of revenue whether or not
the treasury department so rec
ommends.
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Fair Enough
by
WESTbROOK PEd[ER

ID DGEFIELD, Conn, is a rich and refined COM
IN munity ard so exclusive that the citizens long
ago declared even the railroad to be a nuisance,
whereupon it was abandoned. The countryside
around is a land of fat houses with the pompous
manner of the private sanitarium. The estates have
private brooks, groves and race tracks and color
press herds of amateur COWS. There also are num-
erous peasants houses for the accommodation of the
private farmers who add homely pictureSqueness to
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road near Ridgefield your correspondent was invited
for lunch by Leon Gordon, an artist who had bought
this foothold among his betters in which to get
away from it all on week-endS. The rain was drip
ping off the trees and fragrant whifs of pine smoke
impaired to the little occasion in the woods just the
correct away-from-it- all aroma. Then there came
a knock on the door and old John Merrick stood
there with his right eye shot and purple and plugged
cut the size of a golf ball, and gore trickling from
multiple bruises and decorations about the head and
face. 1t dyed his stringy walrus mustache and his
white hair on his temples.
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AOACASAA - o9SS~AAS
The treasury may attempt to re-
wise existing tax methods as well
as increase revenues. Secretary
Morgenthau served notice early in
the year that he would summon
state officials to Washington to
discuss dividing the field of tax
alton between state and federal
governments.
Whatever program is agreed up
on will be we'll under way before
it reaches Senator HarriSon's
finance committee. He will not be
able to block it without abandon
ing a long record of party regu-
larity. His Hyde Park statement
is being interpreted here as an
expression of his wishes rather
than as a forecast.
THE Presidents new budget IS
IL certain TO contain large
amounts for continuing relief and
is equally certain TO contain rec
concentrations for defraying part,
at least. Of the cost of taxation,
according to every indication here.
So far there has been no limit
as to what new levies would be
proposed.
Recurrent rumors that the Pres
ident would turn TO a Sales tax
seem TO be without foundation.
He was urged TO recommend such
a tax to defray carrying charges
for his public works program and
fatty refused TO do so. Liberals
in the house and senate. upon
whom he has relied for support OF
much Of his legislative program.
bitterly oppose sales taxes. In adj
dition twenty-five states now have
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congress, where it is certain to be
revived with increased support.
They urge instead the following
compromise offer:
Partial cash payment, with
the remainder in negotiable
paper.
Inside word is that the Presi-
dent is favorably impressed with
the suggestion and that when the
time comes it will be laid before
the convention as a formula &C
ceptable to the administration.
THERE is one phase of Upton
Il Sinclair's EPIC program that
has Secretary Harold Ickes' I'M
qualified support. When the Cali
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banks, the expenditure of such
money among the public enlarges
the credits Of the member banks
with the reserve banks and they
are thereby also enabled to in
crease their own loans or invest
mentS because of the increase in
their So-called reserves.
Such an increase in banking
lending power tends to cheaper
money further, so that there ma
lures the curious phenomenon
that although a government is
borrowing more, the extra borrow
ing, instead of raising interest
rates, tends to lower them.
THIS is what is happening in
Il America today; and though
the time lag between the cheap
ening of money and the noticeable
beneficial after-effects may be
considerable Gas it was in England
it is bound sooner or later to make
itself felt in the way outlined
above.
We have seen how redundancy
of money can be deliberately fos-
tered by government and central
bank action. We have also seer
how a great deal of the effective
ness of such a relation may be
lost if confidence is too lacking
for the recipients to spend freely
their increasing idle balances. 1t
is here that the significance of
government expenditure as a
primer comes in, and it may be
useful here to get a general view
of what has been done, and what,
under existing grants, al be done
in this category.
The American budget is now
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the scene and perform the use
full work of consuming the
milk, potatoes, radishes and
sweet corn. The identity of
the local barons is a tantalizing
mystery, for they do not post
their names on their lodge
gates. In time, however. one
may come to learn who lives
here and who lives there. One
is then reminded of famous old
brands of paving, roofing, chow
der and what-not, for a roster
of the region would be reminis-
cent of the fat old days Of the
Saturday Evening Post and
prosperity. To a quaint, white
c1on-bOor ri cOttoCa I'm q Il
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MISSION GIVING CONCERT
Vocal and Instrumental Numbers
Included on Program.

A sacred concert will be given at
the Wheeler City Rescue Mission to-
night. Vocal and instrumental
numbers are included on the pro-
gram.
A series Of MONDAY prayer meet
ings, opening at 10 and ending at
2, began yesterday at the mission.
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
The
By DREW Pearson and Robert S. Allen.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18-The American Legions annual conven-
w ton in Miami next month has administration master-minds
worried.
There are two causes for this closey-guarded concern:
]. A secret movement by the small clique known as king Makers
to elect a militant anti-New Dealer as national commander.
2. Widespread sentiment among the rank and file for a fiat declara-
+in fr rnrnediat cash nayment of the bonus
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international toys engaged IN
their blOOd-curdling drifting
match. That was many years
ago but the memory fingers on.
I do not suppose the assignment
was punitive. Indeed, when 1
protested that I was not quail
fed 70 accept the grave response
bility the editor said. That's the
trouble with you, Broun. You're
always belittling yourself.
MOdesty in moderation is all
right. but I'm not going 10 let
YOU ruin yourself for a possible
newspaper career by always run
ming yourself down. I have every
confidence in you. You can do
as good a yacht race story as
un~-HoIv in tho chon
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Haywood BROUN

A o any day now I am going to break out
IA into Wild praise Of some person, Institution or
thing. Readers are complaining. I even am begin
ming to look a little cautiously at myself Conce a
highly regarded object and ask. Isn't there some
thing you're for2" I'd ike % assume the new atti-
tude today. but the papers are full Of yacht racing
and with the best effort in the world I can't pretend
20 care who wins the cup. Mariners viii say severely
that people who don't like yacht races don't have TO
watch them OF even read about them. The law which
made attendance compulsory has been repealed. But
I speak with the old bitterness Of a conscripted COM
modore. Against my wishes I became the yachting
expert Of a big New York newspaper the last time the
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THE
By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18-New tax legislation IS being prepared Tor
w the next congress in spite of Senator Pat Harrisons prediction
that none will pass. The treasury department is hard at work on a
program for raising another S5O0O00OO0. Its recommendations will be
submitted to the house ways and means committee where all tax legiS-
lation originates. The house committee is making some studies of its
own. Both bodies have had experts in Europe all summer examining
FO-aSoo fv SvStanS
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I swallowed my humility and the gross libel on
an excellent staff and boarded a torpedo boat
DESTROYER al the Battery. This was my first expert
ence with one Of these slim ferrets of the foam. Oh,
I forgot TO say that I don't like destroyers any more
than yacht races. I am not a good sailor. When l
ship for a voyage I like to book passage on a builder
upper.
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The theories of Major L. L.
B. Angas, in THE Coming
American Boom" are presented
by The indianapolis Times to
its readers as a journalistic
function of service. Publication
of the series of ten articles
written by the noted British
economist does not imply an
Endorsement of his views by
this newspaper.
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OO0, 900; Gid the civil works adj
ministration for which 5000, 0 5000
was appropriated in February,
actually spent but one-third of
that sum. This underground
ture was a1ainly due to the delay
caused by the technical difficulties
in getting large government plans
under way. 1t takes months to
get out plans for a building or a
power station, and public money
can not easily be spent much
faster than the works are erected,
which takes time.
TOMORROW-HOw ROosevelt's
discretionary power to initiate en-
abIes him without further author
ity from congress virtually to
double note and deposit currency.
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Inc: distributed by United Feature Syn
dictate, Incl.