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. wits. People who have things
l too easy, who do not have to
Il work for what they have, who
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n Y B. C. has made elaborate
nj preparations to broadcast
VI the Army and National
4 Ns Guard maneuvers at Pine
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WOMEN. married. with spare time; earn
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Today S Science
by SCIENCE SERVICE

A SLIGHT decrease in the cancer death rate dur
L ing the first nine months of 1885 has been
noted by lie insurance company SatsticanS. The
hgures showing the decrease apply only to the COM
panyS industrial pOlicyhoders but are considered in
dcatlve of health conditions among the countrys
wage earnerS, II not Of the entire population.
Here is encouraging news For years health au-
thorltles physicians and the public have been dis
couraged by the continuous increase in cancer deaths
despite the strenuous fight being made against the
disease. Part Of this increase was more apparent
than real many authorities felt. Improved methods
OF detecting cancer especially in internal organs or
other parts OF the body not easily observed have led
TO more and more cancer deaths being reported In
former years probably many of these deaths would
nave been aScribed to other conditions
Now that the fictitious increase has been checked
or at least caught up with further decreases in the
cancer death rate whenever it appears can doubtless
be hailed as the beginning of real triumph
The entire health outlook for this year is bright.
according TO the Metropolitan Life Insurance &C. S
hgureS. The general death rate is low. Deaths
from heart diseases decreased more than per cent
tuberculosis chronic nephritis kidney diseased
conollonS associated with childbirth and alcoholism
all caused fewer deaths this year than last Death
rates from most OF these conditions have been de-
Ginning for some time but the drop in deaths from
diseases OF the heart surprising
me only conditions which showed increased
oeatns Tor both white and colored policyholders dur
ing the first nine months of 1885 were scarlet fever
hnuenza meningococcuS meningitis diseases of the
coronary arteries and angina pectoris, and homi-
cideS.
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BY ERNIE PYLE

nETROIT, Nov. 1.-THE bot
~ tom of an ore boat in the
Detroit River is funny place for
a fellow to find himself within
two hours after he arrives in his
city.
This was a great big boat,
block and half long. I suppose.
1t was a Great Lakes freighter,
the long Snaky kind that has
little bump of a bridge right up in
the bow, and little superstruc-
ture back on the stern, and all the
rest is low and flat, like tanker.
Well, the way I happened to get
on this boat was like this; A street
car marked "Fort-W. jefferson"
stopped, and I got on it and paid
cents, and rode a couple of miles
and got off in front of the Detroit
Harbor Terminal, and walked
down to the dock and up an or
binary carpenters ladder leaning
up against the side of this ship.
And there was. on this boat.
Nov. ever since I first put to
~ sea as a mess boy before
the mast, I had heard stories
about the Great Lakes freighters
how filthy dirty they were in
side, and how the men were treat
ed like dogs, and how the officers
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The Very Cause Itself

DUT now there arises prophet who purposes to
I'D strike the shacklcs from the millions of Minicks
In fact the economic rehabilitation of the United
States is to reVoVe around the 5000 a month to be
paid to persons go the stipulation that they
spend it within the appointed period.
1t did not seem to me that the old gentleman
whom I heard talking about our beloved Town
send plan actuated to any considerable extent
by mercenary motives Whether the plan ever got
to first base or not, its very existence had remade
his life.
No longer was he restricted to pitching horSeshoes
or filling in at the bridge table when one of the
regular guests failed TO arrive With the proper pride
of an agitatOr dedicated to mission he could rise
from the dinner table each night to say And now
l must be my way to talk for the Townsend plan
And If the scheme or any part of it ever is en-
acted in legislation rather fear that certain snow
haired OthelOs will find their occupation gone They
Will lose the thrill of bronchO busting the back of
a theory. They will have won security and lost the
excitement of proselyting
| wish I could have been converted but. at any
rate, l understood what in the mind of the
old man he reached out with both hands toward
the glitterng moon and spoke like one newborn of
our beloved Townsend plan"
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That Affair of the Ice Bill

IN Madrid your correspondent hopes to look into
the celebrated affair of the ice bill in which poor
Senior Daniel Strauss the Mexican cabalero. under
TOOK to operate game OF skill called the Strapero,
somewhat similar to roulette and was shocked and
dlSmayed to his tools tossed into the after
he had made what he thought were necessary ar
rangementS with the authorities
The Spanish cabinet resigned when Senior Strauss
complained to the president of the republic and two
eminent patriots and statesmen were missing from
the ministry when 1t was sworn in again.
The affair OF the ice bill in Spain seems almost
as obstreperouS as the notorious affair of Lapos-
Iophe Oncle StaviSky the Russian immigrant who
became pawnShip king of France some years ago and
almost caused a revolution when he failed to take
down the shutters his place of business at the
sign of the three balls in Bayonne.
When inspectors entered to take inventory of
banJoS, boxing gloves, medals and other stock
which had been placed in pawn with Monsieur
StavlSky they discovered that he had lent an ex-
travagant amount of francs to his political friends
And because French paWnshops are state instiu-
tons the loss fell the ctoyens Lapostrophe Oncle
Stavisky fell Ill of bullet wound and died.
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Times Books

CONSIDERABLE attention has been devoted to
~ the activities of labor spies, but up to today
fu-length portrait has been done of their brethren
the imported strike breakers. Edward Levinson has
done the job in fast, Well-told recital of the history
of modern strike breakers in the United States II
Break Strikes: The Technique of Pearl L. Bergoff"
(McBride).
The so-called workers are "fnks" and the ever
present armed guards mobiles" in the argot OF
this loathsome crew. Levinson writes his history
around the career of one Of the business shining
lights who handled the biggest jobs in his day.
BergofS career as told by Levinson is a damning
indictment Of big business stupid and cruel in
labor relations The fnks universally loot and
plumber Their unskilled hands destroy more than
uarly horrible incidents. The ony function Of the
fnks is to break the spirit Of the strikers.
HOMESTEAD, McKees Rocks. Ludlow and Herrin
blacklist pages in labors history are retold here
with particular relation to the leading part Of the
agents provocateur-thef fink and the nobe-re-
cruited from the lawless and the iterate and left
free to beat and rob and kill under the protection
of law and order"
And Levinson, veteran New York labor reporter
reminds that the fink is not embamed in history
like the dodo. The strikes Of 1934-35 are marked
by frequent violence resulting from the unhoy and
Odorferous shipped into troubled areas by large
employers
He has traced the underworld careers of Bergof's
particular staff in a convincing and rrefutabe man
ner-from police records-and his big revenues (such
100000 from the Erie Railroad, 100000 from
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. for job from
the official records.
How any employer seeking to break a strike with
imported workers would shudder to read these dis
closures Of how the fnks enlisted and captained,
and what manner Of men are the nobes
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Then the mate showed me a
couple of cabins the company Of
ficials ride in sometimes. and they
were just as nice as the finest
liners.
The mates name was Roland
Brown, and he had sailed the
Great Lakes for % years. The
only time he was ever on salt
water was when he was in
friends little sailing boat once off
the coast of Massachusetts,
LIES mighty proud of the clean
l. l. way his boat is kept up. He
said he saw some big liners in Los
Angeles last winter, and if a
Great Lakes man let his freighter
get in the shape those liners were
in he'd lose his job in five
minutes.
Mr.. Brown says sailing the lakes
is more Of mans job than sail
ing the ocean, because the waves
up here throw a ship, instead of
rolling it, and the lakes are so
small you have to navigate all the
time
When I finally got off the boat,
I walked around to the edge of the
pier, and took the marlinspike I
had hidden under my coat, and
threw it just as far as I could out
into the Detroit River.
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The ReIOUed Townsend Plan

THE elderly gentleman who eXpounded the
il scheme poor speaker in so far as his
exposition went, but under the tropc his sin
Certy gloWed like lighthouse AS he talked of what
he called our beloved Townsend plan" he seemed
suddenly to become not one old gentleman but
million or more impulsvey leaping down from the
shelf to take active part in the nations affairs
There is and has been for a decade a youth
movement in America. All venerable persons stand
accused Of being responsible for the maladjustment
of the world.
They charged with the crime of having TO-
mented the wars in which the young men died. In
deed, by curious paradox the elders have been
identified fierce and effective fabricators of evil
and impoent warriors for liberty and justice
But in all truth the age of go has been shot
through With men and dropped into kind of
limbo where they fingered en-, unhonored and unre-
garded Miss Edna Ferber wrote a story once of old
man Minick, and he sticks in my mind the perfect
symbol Of his generation. He lived with his married
son and received an impatient hospitality in home
in which he was both an emotional and an economic
kibitzer.
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French, Those Funny People. Get Mad

THE amount involved is said to have been no
Il more than 20 million dolIarS-a trivial sum
compared to the losses which American citizens suf-
fered in the failure of Mister Sobbng Sam insults
enterprises and in numerous other mishaps
But the French. they funny race and they
were so incensed that riot broke out in Paris on
Feb. last year in which troops killed 20 people to
prevent their marching on the Chamber of Deputies
and the lynching of leading statesmen. The
French are still seriously annoyed about the affair
of l. Oncle StaViSky
1t is unlikely that the jury will agree on verdict.
Both the affaire de Ia glace in Spain and Lapos-
trophe Afalre Stavlsky in France may be regarded
as solemn warnings to the United States to avoid
entangling alliances and the combination of Amer
lean ideals with the corrupt morality of Europe.
No American Cabinet would ever resign merely
because the police had broken up the tables
which games of skill were played and even when
American banks were popping like balloons in the
gay haunts of pleasure at the witchng hour of mid
night on New Years Eve there concerted
movement toward the national Capital to lynch any
body.
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Your He alth
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

TWENTY thousand people die every year in the
United States from appendicitis The rate is
increasing gradually It was ia for every hundred
thousand people in 1910 1874 in 1920 and 1871 in
1880
The average age at which death occurs from
appendicitis is 324 years in contrast to an average
age of 1858 years for tuberculosis GOT years for can
Ger, and 647 years for heart diseases. Obviously
appendicitis takes away human beings at a more
productive age than any of the other serious diseases
Several factors are primarily responsible for this.
First people wait too long to find out what is wrong
with them. Second they postpone operation as long
as possible. Third, while they are waiting, they try
to get rid of their pains by taking purgativeS or
else they quiet the pain by taking injections of soda
tive drugs or morphine. Lastly some cases are dag
noSed too late or wrong diagnosis is made and the
appendix ruptures before the operation can be per-
formed.
|TNHE one symptom which practically always is
present in appendicitis is pain. If the pain is
very severe and stops suddenly, one should not feel
too happy about it
In many instances mis- is because the appendix
has ruptured and the next occurrence is pertonits
PertonitiS is an infection and Inflammation of the
inning Of the abdominal walls This is a far more
serious condition than appendicitis
Other signs of appendicitis are severe tenderness
over the spot where the appendix lies Doctors also
place much weight the appearance in the blood
of an increased number of white blood cells or
leukOcyteS
In at least so per cent of cases of appendicitis
the leukocyeS rise from an amount around 1000 for
each cubic millimeter of blood to figures like 5000
10000 or more.
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Great Lakes Ore Boat Just p and Span as an Ocean Liner
and Ernie Who'd Heard Dire Tales losses Away His Marnspke

themselves were just a couple of
jumps ahead of the apes, and
what a low form of life in general
Great Lakes freighting was.
So when I saw the red side of
the George R. Fink" in front of
me there, I picked up a marlin
spike off the dock, having in mind
that I'd just lay it alongside the
captains ear the first time he
opened his mouth at me.
So I climbed up to the top of
the ladder and there was man
standing there, wearing glasses
and a civilian cap and green
shirt and a lumber jacket, and he
says, How do you do?" and I
says, rs the captain or mate
aboard?" and he says. I'm the
mate" and I says, We'll, I'd like
to look around your ship and he
says, Go right ahead. Go any
where you like. just so you don't
turn us on full steam ahead"
And he grinned.
Well blow me down. sir. YOU
could have knocked me over with
a stern sheet.
60 I wandered around and
~ stumbled down half a dozen
flights of steel ladders, and the
first thing I knew I was down
there on the bottom plates with
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over by a strong, aggressive ma
ton. Australia would not permit
it, even if Britain had no other
interests in that quarter to con-
slider. And she has plenty of other
interests.
Holland, too, is tremendously
concerned. To a lesser degree, so
is France. Also Russia. Here
then, many believe, may be the
key to Philippine security and to
a new Pacific balance of power:
That is to say, on agreement
among America, Britain, Austria
liza, Holland, France, Russia and
Japan, among others, to preserve
the new Philippine status quo.
The alternative might be a disas-
trouS conflict in the Pacific which
nobody wants.
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coal behind me and six big boilers
IN front Of me, talking to MI. o.
son, or maybe it was Johanssen.
Anyway, I said it feels mighty
good and warm down here after
being up there in the cold, and he
said yes, it's nice down here this
time Of year. But the trouble
with it, he said, is that in the
winter when it's so nice down
here, the ship is laid up on &C
count Of ice in the lakes, and 4
fireman can't find any kind of job.
And in the summer time when
it's nice outside we're down here
firing. and it's really hell firing
down here in the summer time.
Mr.. Olson didn't seem dis
couraged, but he did give the i'm
preston that he thought it was a
queer way for nature to arrange
things.
NE talked quite a while and
w finally I said, We'll, thanks
a lot" and he said, Why, that's
all right" And I said, We'll. I'll
be seeing you" and he said, Come
down again any time"
nosed around into the engine
room, the galley. the coal passer'S
quarters, the bridge, and you
never saw anything so clean and
Shiny in your life.
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Of the islands. Privately and off,
cially, there is real JOY in the
Philippines approaching natal day
as a commonwealth. All Amer
lea is glad, especially for the sake
of the doughty President Quezon,
whose entire life, boy and man,
has been devoted to the cause sig
nified by the events of Friday.
But elation is tempered with
anxiety. The world has seldom
been 50 topsy-turvy-even during
the great war. Nations are out to
grab what they think they can get
away with. There is increasing
suspicion the postwar peace ma
chinery may not function in every
case. 1t failed signally in North
China. Would it do any better
if the Philippines were attacked?
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Literary Notes

DR.. Logan Clendening's new book is called The
PickWick Pilgrimage" and is record OF the Journey
he made through England, visiting all the places
made famous by the Observation-Disclosures Ip-
switch, Bury ST. Edmunds, Bath Bristol Towcester
DR.. Cendening calls it a memorial to the centenary
of the publication of The Pckwick Papers" in
March, 1855 guideboo1 and bible for all true
Pckwickians. The book will be published spring
by Alfred Knopf.
Both Harrington recently bought a room. 1t is
JacObean room, which he discovered in Philadelphia.
He liked it, bought it, and had it moved up to his
home in Kennebunkport. Me. He had an additional
wing of stone built TO his house where the room,
which is about IS feet long and 30 feet wide, is
housed and now he does all his work there
Ben Aronin. widely known Chicago lawyer, lee
turer and teacher, has just written book called
THE Moor's Gold" 1t is a fanciful recreation Of
the cSsing years Of the fifteenth century in Spain.
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For the next 10 years the United
States is sovereign in the Philip
pines, virtually in dep en- d emit
though the islands already are.
That means this country remains
responsible for their security. Yet
last summers naval maneuverS
proved that the United States
Navy can not function effectively
in the Western Pacific. 1t is like
making the New York fire depart
ment responsible for the safety of
Philadelphia.
II Il
THERE are factors, however,
L which tend to discourage
Wanton seizure of the Philippines.
Britain could not afford to stand
idly by and see the islands taken
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THEY took of their gloves in
a the hearing before Judge
Coleman, to the dismay of MI.
Davis, and charged that he was a
party to collision of big utility
interests which had brought a
trumped-up case.
They still insist there was col
fusion, despite Judge Colemans
finding that there was none. and
they will raise this charge in their
next appearance.
Just where or when this will be
remains to be seen. The govern
ment was not permitted to be a
party to the original case, because
Of the way it was brought. One of
the concerns involved. the Berco
Co. can appeal the decision and
has indicated it will. In that case
the government can do what u did
before, submit arguments and
briefs as friends Of the court"
But the young men will get
their chance before the Supreme
Court.
Thank God for the Supreme
Court" one Of them said when he
learned of the Coleman decision.
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far from home-even if the other
fleets remained as they are. Which
they have no intention of doing
On the contrary, Japan has
strapped the limitation agree
ments and come out for al ar
mazda equal to Britain's or Amer
ica's, A naval race involving
Japan, America, Britain and con-
tinental Europe lies ahead.
Many Filipinos who led the
campaign for independence are
afraid today they may haul down
the Stars and Stripes only event.
ually to have an invaders flag
raised in its place.
MEANWHILE, from the United
1VI States sincere congratula-
tionS are going out to the people
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in two other important acts of the
New Deal aimed at entrenched
financial and industrial power
the 1888 securities act and the
1884 stock market regulation act,
the latter of which created the
commission which is so deeply in
volved in this issue and of which
Mr.. Lands now is head.
NXTALL Street knows them we'll,
w for Wall Street has learned
to fear them.
The utility interests with their
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aWZnouNh
BY
WESIBROOk PEGLER

I'm ROUTE TO BARCELONA Nov 1.-THE train
Lyour correspondent boarded for Spain leaves
Geneva at in the evening. There are no Seepers.
so passengers arrange themselves on shelves which
are called CouChetteS and merely turn in like va
grants on a bench in the park or subway subject TO
the intrusion of other passengers there being four
couChetteS-tWo upper and two lower
The condition. however is that the subject has 10
tip 10 French francs. 90 cents 10 the conductor
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WONtH OF iowa, OREGON and COn-
necticut go when they are about to
Gle or make fortune
Indeed, Florida in its entirety Is
not a typical Southern state, out
one Of the most characteristic cross
sections Of America TO be found in
the entire atlas All this was i'm
pressed upon me as I listened to
the speeches and studied the audi
ence at the anti-War meeting.
I have seldom seen a more diver
gent group Of speakers on any plat
form It was composed of a rabbi,
a rector, an I. w. W, a Communist,
a suspect Republican, a couple of
Socialists, visiting newspaper
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BY THOMAS L. STOKES
Times Special Writer

NNASHINGTON, Nov. IA
w -Four young men, three of
them original Brain Trusters,"
are doing the heavy duty for the
New Deal in the attempt to save
the holding company act from
death in the courts.
Day and night since Federal
Judge William c. Coleman at
Baltimore branded the act I'M
constitutional, and thus started it
on the legal path which ends al
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sion, which is delegated to ad-
minister the act; John j. Burns,
SEC counsel and former member
of the Massachusetts Supreme
Court, and those Administration
legal twins who largely drafted
the act and helped to push it
through Congress, Benjamin V.
Cohen and Thomas G. Corcoran,
the former attached to PWA, the
latter to RFC.
This is not the first big battle
for Lands, Cohen and Corcoran.
Their handiwork was dominant