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work on substitutes and compro-
misses. It hopes to avert a break
with congress and even the sort of
row which would be unsettling to
business.
The President may present his
full program to the country when
he speaks over the radio early in
December. If not, he will have it
ready for congress as soon as the
members have hung up their hats.
Enough congresSmen-elect are
on record for the cash bonus to
override a presidential veto. The
Roosevelt compromise has not
been decided on but the veterans
bureau and fiscal officers Of the
government are at work on it. It
may call for cash payment to vet
Grams now on relief.
The American Federation Of
Labor has not announced the
number of congressman it sue
ceeded in pledging for the thirty
hour week, but has expressed sat-
isfaction at election returns.
THE administration alternative
l. may follow one of two lines.
1t may take the form Of a thirty
hour week from which some de-
partment of the government is
empowered to grant exemptions;
or it may follow suggestions made
recently by a number of business
men that quotas Of unemployed
be assigned each industry for abb
sorption. The industrial emer-
gency council is in charge Of set
Ting this problem.
No sooner had the reelection
of the two leading proponents Of
a central bank-Senators La Fol-
lette and Cutting-been assured,
than the President moved to fore
stall them on this issue.
One of the chief complaints of
central bank advocates has been
the opposition of the federal re-
serTe board to a greater expansion
of the currency. The President
now has put at the head of this
board Mariner S. Eccles, who be-
neves that an expansion of money
supplies, together with increased
velocity Of circulation, is necessary
TO bring about sound recovery.
A federal reserve BOARD with
new powers bestowed by the last
congress and dominated by New
Dealers will be able in the next
few months to accomplish many
Of the things the central bank
bloc wants done. Financial jour-
mails have commented approvingly
on Eccles' appointments
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Just the Usual Conversation

r TOOK this as a tradelast and answered You
i know who that woman is who IS sitting at 'iie
next table2' e,,.
Travelled with us lots Of times 80
And subsequently he did take occasion 10 WaiueI
over 10 her table TO ask whether the coffee was al
right and 10 remark that it certainly most IN
pleasant morning But he asked me the same ques-
tio, and made the same observation The waiter
TOOK everything in his stride and nobody koWtoWeo
or sDread ont the red carpets. Mrs Roosevelt was
Just fellow traveller. -.
a little later in the lounge the man to my right
remarked That was Mrs Roosevelt who Just went
Through" He gave it out merely as news report
and as another reporter I would like 10 AID tnat
have not seen any person in the public eye go ABOUT
her business with less swank and ostenJaJloh.
Quite possibly somebody will write in to inquire
whether believe that all the ills OF the world VIII
b solved promptly because of the fact that the vile
of the President IS exceedingly well hammered
Let me reply now that I do not think So NOT am
7 ready to assert that many dangerous trenoS are
not foot in spite Of the fact that the First Lady is
a person who manages to be democratic without
effort or condescension merely say that 10 me II
seems a small but useful indication OF the ha'lOnal
temper And can't We let it go at that?
tCoovrirht 1884 By The Timesl
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Your Health
by DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

z VEN those who most eager to have some kind
II of sickness insurance in this country freely adj
nit that none Of the systems in use abroad would
do here. One reason is that Americans like to
choose their own DOCTORS
Many systems of sickness insurance in foreign
countries do not permit man to choose the doctor
he wants. After all, the link between doctor and
patient is one of the most intimate Of human re-
lationshps
One reason why American doctors have been OPP
posing state control over medicine is the likelihood
that it will interfere with this personal relationship
American doctors are proud Of the service they
have been giving to the American people. Our sick
ness and death rates about low as, if not
lower than, those of most of the large countries of
the world
A MOTHER reason why American doctors are OPP
N posed to sickness insurance is the fact that
the quality of medical given under such sys-
TENS in foreign countries is far below the average
care given in this country
In most of these systems doctor gets list Of
about 1000 to 1900 persons whom he is supposed
to look after. He gets so much person each year.
In addition in many countries, he carries on
private practice.
Now doctors are only humanl BY the very
ture of the circumstances, there is a tendency to
give less attention to those who come under the in
surance system than to those who are directly re-
sponsible to the doctor for payment.
The Germans say that insurance service is Sec
ond class that the leading doctors will not do this
kind Of practice.
For this reason it is frequently found that even
patients who sickness insurance lists will go
to outside doctor and pay his fee when they think
anything is seriously wrong with them.
TINE tying upAof sickness insurance with unen-
l. pIoyrnent insurance in some countries has null
tplied the evils tremendously. 1t has caused pa
tents to their doctors repeatedly for minor
illnesses just to get their unemployment Dement'S
Thus it is found that there IS much more sick
ness among persons who insured than among
those who are not insured Actually, there is really
no more sickness than there was before.
Those who promote sickness insurance in this
country insist that there is advantage IN having
the patient see the doctor often, because then the
doctor NAV find disease in It's earliest stages
OF course many doctors who practice under the
insurance systems take their work conscientously
and try to study their patients But, If the persons
who favor sickness insurance could produce ngures
to show that the insurance doctors have detected
great many more cases Of Bright's disease tuoer-
cuoss or cancer than detected by doctors IN TINS
country. their argument would be better.
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symptoms. America is not yet ready finder for any
Fascist movement Surely there is no other land
IN which the wife 81 the Chief Executive could travel
with so little futter and connection.
am not enGeayOung 10 stress the fact that Mrs.
Roosevelt Is possessed happily Of a high degree of
ease and independence This I believe TO be the
fact. but at the moment I am more concerned with
crowd reaction. ANY one of two dozen motion pic
tme stars would have created far more stir in the
station In fact a minor Hollywood luminary
would have been disappointed gravely if her leave
taking had attracted little notice And this calm
acceptance Of the fact that The First Lady" was
taking solitary trip the ll:40 from New York
10 St Louis had nothing to do with any lack OF
recognition. Even Mary PickfOrd in her long curl
DAYS was no more easy to spot than Mrs Roosevelt
Ny original conception was heightened and con-
nrmed by breakfast in the diner. The only hint OF
chromosomes in the manner CT Eleanor Roose-
Welt is the rapid way which she strides through
PuIlnans and this think is less 70 be attributed TO
the fact that she the wife Of the President than
to the circumstance that she is a shade aware OF
her taIiucss.
The table which she took was Just ahead OF NINE
"Grauefr1it I said Orange juice, was the
order If M Roosevelt With certain bitterness
assumed there would be little breakfast Tor COM
raouers until the First Lady had been served AS
matter Of fact beat her by thirty seconds on the
frrit and ~ a fun minute the scrambled eggs
The steward ssuntered over and said: sometimes
7 read your column with great interest
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Norris, the town the IVA built,
probably will become headquar-
tiers for co-operatives in this Sec
ton.
Chairman A. E. Morgan of the
IVA is enthusiastic about such
projects because he regards them
as a way to increase the income
of the farmers of the valley by
helping them to help themselves.
TVAC was given 100000 at the
outset and it has used only a
small part of the money.
Most Of the co-operatives either
cost little or paid back quickly.
Copyright. 1884. NEA Service. Inc)
NEXT: NOrris-the kind of
town most people have only
dreamed about. There were mis-
takes, but the government learned
by experience, and the result is
the prettiest, most livable town
you'd care to see.
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tiles into government bonds. Now
you are the administrator.
(Signed PHIL"
THE President sees newsmen
l. twice a week in his office in
the White House. One hundred
strong and more, they gather in
the lobby every Wednesday and
Friday. scrutinized as they enter
by police and secret service men,
VINO know every face. There is
more than a scattering of women
in the group.
When Bill Collins, press gallery
chief. claps his hands. the rush
for the door of the Presidents
office is like the rush for New
York subway train entrance.
Places close to the desk are
coveted. for Roosevelt is a man
to see as well as to hear. Never
taciturn, as Hoover was, he is al
ways informal, engaging in pleas
antries with those near at hand
while others assemble.
When the last man is in, Col
Inns calls, "All in" and chatting
stops. 1t is the Presidents cue.
He leans back in his chair.
smoking a cigaret. Ee announces
that he has signed a bill, or We
toed one. or appointed a commits
sion. or issued an executive order.
Then the questions pop. Here
is the difference between Roose-
veit and his predecessors. Both
Coolidge and Hoover required that
questions be submitted in advance,
in writing. Roosevelt is less eau
tious but entirely capable OF
avoiding pitfalls.
Mr.. President - -" a news
man tries to draw him into dan
gerouS ground.
The President grins.
That's like asking a man If
he's stopped beating his wife"
Mr.. President =" a question
is asked about a technicality in
the housing bill.
Frankly. 1 don't know. /
haven't the foggiest idea"
For the most part. his ideas are
far from foggy. He gives the press
an even break, and better. He is
not afraid to confide, TO talk "off
the record" to say things which,
If reported by any one Of the
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DOTATO growers of four west
Il ern North Carolina counties
formed a cooperative at Banner
Elk, borrowed $4,000 from TVAC,
and bought two carloads of seed
potatoes from Maine. They dou-
bled their money on the first crop,
paid back TVAC, and have seed
potatoes stored in their ware
house.
Seed potato growers of Maine
have protested, but the potato
growers of Ashe, Watauga, Avery,
and Mitchell county say that from
now on they are going to grow
their own seed potatoes.
There are creamery co-opera-
tives at Norris, Tenn, and Brass
town, N. c.; woodworking CO.
operatives at Cranberry and
Hardwood, N. c., and Norris,
Tenn; a mineral cooperative at
Johnson City, Tenn, and a noun
tain crafts cooperative will be
organized at Norris.
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BY JOHN T. MOUTOUX
written for NEA Service

II NOXvILLE 15-From IS to 30 Of the
N villages
living farming Any program to better the conditions
Of consider their special problems
Valley Authority that land
Valley the of Daniel the
condition that thousands Of
thousands down that they
small Of the they once did
The Of the IVA agricultural division is Save the Soil
the valleys agriculture Cotton
will have to give egumes and
Until has been the main cash Under the New Deal
livestock the
Under the IVA they will be fed
legumes
The system of cropping will do big things
will build the soil instead Of destroying it.
It will enable the to feed itself
foods such ntraes out
Legumes epedez
covering preventing erosion
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Count on Shrinkdge

II ME senator has been active in connection with
Il the football program at Louisiana State for sew
eral years that any relief which the Louisiana poor
might receive from such game, after the deduction
of the Shrinkage naturally would be associated with
the name of Huey P. Long. Your correspondent
feels some delicacy about abiding to Shrinkage but
citizens of Louisiana who have yearned to know
something about the state revenues collected under
the dictatorship have learned to expect no better
answer than "a certain amount" quite lot" of
none of your business" They will appreciate the
factor of shrinkage in any moneys, charitable or
otherwise, which are administered by the Dictator
ship However it will be time to consider the shrink
age if and when the Minnesota game has been played
and the receipts have been collected and Shrunk.
The senator has announced that he will stay
home and keep his band and rooters away, leaving
Louisiana State to play Tennessee at Knoxville with
out benefit of cheering section unless the athletic di
rector of Tennessee is able to produce for him vim
dicaton of his motives in football He disowns any
desire to advertise Huey P. Long, a denial which
would suggest that the publicity which he seemed to
court, and undoubtedly received in connection with
the Vanderbilt game repugnant to his nature.
His disclaimer would seem to imply also promise
to refrain from parading making himself more
conspicuous than the team, itself, which might give
the Louisiana team chance to break into print. In
view of the conditions which the senator has laid
down, however, the reinstatement of the junket to
the Tennessee-Louisana game seems remote pos
sibilty. The athletic director of Tennessee is not
in a very good position to produce retraction.
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a 48 per cent superphosphate,
which means that one carload of
IVA superphosphate contains as
much plant food as three cars of
superphosphates now on the mar
ket and six times as much as the
ordinary phosphate.
MYTH freight costing the
w farmers of the valley 81 to
IS ton, bagging $3.50, and han
ding $3.50 a ton, it can be seen
that reducing the tonnage to one
third will mean big saving even
if the cost of phOsphates them
selves is not reduced.
The IVA plant is big enough to
show commercial feasibility of
manufacture by processes worked
out by Curtis and his aids. When
these processes are proved prac-
tical they will be made available
by IVA to the fertilizer industry.
The IVA land terracing, fer
tilizer, and new crops program is
being applied TO fiat and rolling
land in the valley. But thousands
of acres of hillsideS are now gull
lies. Farmers had stripped these
steep hillsides of their trees and
put the land in crops. Bad erosion
followed.
To meet that problem the IVA
has a forestry and soil erosion
department whose men are di-
recting the work of 5000 CCC
boys in 25 camps in the valley.
Beginning in October, 1888,
these boys, during their first year,
built 10000 check dams, eXca-
waited 10000 yards of diversion
bitches, laid 100000 square yards
of brush mating, developed two
nurseries in which millions of
seedlings are growing, and planted
100000 seedlings last spring.
THE boys worked on $4,000
Il acres of land, most of it in
hilly East Tennessee where hillside
cultivation has resulted in the
most severe erosion. Stopping
erosion, in addition to restoring
the land, will lessen the mud de-
post in Norris Dam reservoir,
thereby frightening the life Of the
dam.
Farmers who were skeptical-
even hostile-to the soil erosion
work have now come around to
it and welcome the CCC boys on
their farms; others, using iva
methods, are doing their own soil
erosion work.
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A IVA subsidiary, Tennessee
Valley Associated Co-operatives, is
working along another line to
benefit the farmers Of the valleys.
1t is setting up co-operatives
which aim to bring the farmers
more for their produce. Already a
number have been set up, and
others are planned.
There is the cannery group,
with plants at Soddy, Tenn, and
Murphy, Waynesville, Hopkinsville,
Green Mountain, and Cranberry,
N. c. Farmers bring their fruits
or vegetables to these plants and
receive cash.
To mention one item, sixty tons
of blackberries we're canned at
these plants last summer. IVA
raised the price of blackberrieS
from Is to IS cents a gallon SIM
ply by paying the higher price,
thereby compelling other buyers
of berries to pay as much or go
without.
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And it has more significance
than merely the opposition of
southern congressman. For Roose-
Welt and his administration de-
liberately have courted Negro sup
port.
Interior Secretary IckeS once
was an officer in the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement Of
Colored People. oscar Chapman,
his assistant. had been a strong
rooter for more funds for How
ard university CNegro). which is
run by the interior department.
Harry Hopkins. relief administra-
tor. has operated on the aSSump-
ton that black men can be just
as hungry as white.
Finally. Mrs. Roosevelt has con-
ferred frequently with Walter
White. executive secretary of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
It has escaped the attention Of
most. but this is the first time in
history that the Democratic party
has sent a Negro to congress.
WHEN James Roosevelt.
w 4ather of the President.
died. he left his son an estate
which was invested carefully and
nets about $4,000 annually.
The administrator of this estate
is Philip Roosevelt. a partner in
Roosevelt & Sons. investment
bankers. He is a cousin of the
President and also a close friend.
Some time ago he wrote his
cousin in the White House regard
ing the various stocks and bonds
in which the trust fund was in
vested. He suggested that II
Franklin would give him some
general information as to certain
elements of the administration
future fiscal policy. it would help
him, Philip. as administrator, OF
the trust fund with more benefit
10 the President.
To this the President sent the
following reply:
Dear Phil:
You are the administrator.
(Signed) FRANKLIN"
Some days later. the President
received from his cousin another
letter which read as follows:
Dear Franklin:
II have converted al your secur-
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The IVA agricultural DIVISION,
headed by Director H. A. Morgan,
has a staff of men working with
experiment stations, extension
workers, and county agents in
selling the program of a balanced
agriculture to the Tennessee val
ley farmers.
To prevent further erosion,
farmers of the valley are trying
something new to agriculture of
this notwithstanding the land,
which checks the runoff.
Long neglect and improper
cropping has left the land in such
poor condition that a tonic is
needed to build it up more quick
~ than the new crops can. This
tonic the iva is about to provide,
in cheap fertilizer.
The three main ingredients in
fertilizer are nitrate, phosphate,
and potash. Nitrates are already
cheap and potash is used in small
quantity. The big job for the
IVA was to lower the cost of
phosphates.
1T asked twenty-five of the lead
Il ing technical institutions and
chemical societies of the country
to recommend a man to head the
chemical engineering and fertilizer
program. The first choice of
eighteen of them was DR.. Harry
A. Curtis, then working for an oil
company. He came to the iva
for a smaller salary.
Pilot or laboratory-sized plants
were set up at Knoxville and at
Muscle Shoals. Curtis and his
aids went to work. Phosphate
rock form beds in middle Tennes-
see were brought to the laboratory
and processed. with a view of con-
verting them into superphos-
pilates.
On the basis of these expert
ences. a new plant was designed
for Muscle Shoals. Plans called
for utilizing parts of nitrate
plant No. 2 at the Shoals, convert
ing two of the old carbide fur
naces into electric furnaces, and
building a new plant costing APP
proximately S1,250,000.
The plant has been completed,
tests run, and is ready for Presi-
dent Roosevelt's inspection on his
trip to the Shoals.
Up to now. commercial super
phosphates have contained 16 per
cent phosphate. while ordinary
phosphates have been only half
that strong.
IVA chemists have worked out
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the football team of Louisiana State
university for purposes of political
ballyhoo. He had led the team and
the varsity band as we'll as the stu
dent body on a junket to Nashville
for the Vanderbilt game. He had led
the parade through Nashville, at
tended by his armed bodyguards and
he also had led tho newspaper sto-
ries of the occasion.
Following that exploit, the sem
ator had put in week challenging
the University Of Minnesota to an in
tersectional game with his team the
proceeds of which, minus natural
shrinkage, would be devoted to poor
relief in Louisiana with the COM
pliments of Huey P. Long.
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scores of listeners, would be dis
astrous. But his trust is sound.
He is never betrayed.
Roosevelt's press conferences are
largely and eagerly attended not
because he is a charming man,
but because, knowing the value
of a favorable press, he takes
pains to hand out good copy"
to repay every newsman for every
visit. They can't afford to miss it.
1884. by United Feature
Syndicate. 1nc.)
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EIEnough
BY
WESIBROOK PEGLER

MYTH deep regret your correspondent learns
w that he has wounded the feelings OF United
States Senator Huey P. Long and has him announc-
ing he will keep his band and rooterS at home and
absent himself from the football game which his
team is TO play but may not be allowed to play,
with the University of Tennessee on Dec. in
Knoxville
Your correspondent recently wrote little COM
position pointing out that senator Long using
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Prosnect O. E. S. to Meet

Prospect auxiliary 542, Order of
Eastern Star, will hold al all-day
meeting with a pitch-in dinner at
noon Friday at the Prospect Ma
sonic lodge, State avenue and Pros
pect street. A business meeting will
be held at 2 p. m.