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All, Those Good Old Days

CORRESPONDENTS in Manchura also exposed
~ themselves to risks and great personal inconven-
fence to get the story Some of them were captured
by brigands whose hospitality was not the most
cordial and one English journalist lost his life be-
cause he became burden to his captorS
1t was difficult for the early reporters in the first
Is months OF the big war, too and the MesSrs Cobb
Richard Harding Davis, Jimmy Bennett and John
McCutcheon had some stirring experiences Some
headstrong commander of an isolated army unit was
always on the point of shooting them as suspicious
characters. intending to apologize afterward if it
should turn out that he had made honest error By
luck they were spared, for the United States had
some prestige abroad in those days but they often
had to sleep in barns with leaky roofs and nobody
made them feel welcome anywhere.
But as the war went into 1916, thanks largely to
Lord Northcliffe of England who knew something
about the value of propaganda, the Allies and Ger
mans alike decided to treat the correspondents as
paying guests of their armies The regular CORE
SpondentS gathered into section with pleas
ant quarters and servants to wait them, and the
tranSlentS-Or cooks tourists, they were called
were put up in other accommodations also with serv
ants to to their comfort The armies also placed
fast automobiles at their disposal driven by SER
geantS and they free to go anywhere within
reason, being escorted sometimes by officers who had
been wounded or sick
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out redress. Their unions say the
landlords have all the law and
have also been getting all the
money under the New Deal
There are 100000 tenant fami-
lies in the cotton belt
DR.. Rupert B. Vance Of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, lead
ing authority, has estimated that
the average annual income per
cotton growing family was $216 in
1928. A survey showed it was
$212 in eastern Arkansas in 1884.
pY the time the cropper pays
~ for his furnish" from the
landlords commissary there is no
cash left, and he must be staked
again for the next years crop.
Both Negroes and poor whites"
these choppers live in shacks on
the plantation and men, women
and children work in the cotton
patch. They seldom deal with the
landlord except through the rid
ing boss" Ignorant, usually vote
less, often in danger of eviction,
they are described by many in
vestigatorS as broken in spirit.
On the other hand, here is the
attitude of the planters as frank
ly expressed by prominent
Southerner:
Il am not worrying so much
about the sharecropper. I think
there is a lot of foolish sentiment
in that direction. The average
sharecropper in the South gets
all to which he is entitled. He
couldn't make a success n any
line Of work. He does better in
raising cotton than any other en-
deavor that might be his object.
The average sharecropper is
supported by his landlord. If there
is a good crop both the share
cropper and the landlord make
money. If the tenant fails in his
crop the average landlord fur
nishes him food in the winter in
Ine nope 10 90 DeJter next year.
ut is true that some heartless
landlords have evicted their ten
ants. That happens in all lines
of business. But it is not in any
sense typical of the South, be-
cause Southern men of brains and
hearts take care Of their tenants
the same as our slave-holding an
cestors took care of their slaves
q
ENCOURAGED by Socialist
IL leaders, the sharecroppers have
become articulate in Arkansas.
But their pleas to Washington for
a share in the New Deal have
merely been heard with polite
ness.
There arises The question #
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Today S Science
by DAVID DIETZ

THE settler who clears away the brush builds a
farm, shoots troublesome animals and takes
steps TO eradicate insect pests. do harm as we'll
good This is the warning pointed out by Prof
Walter P. Taylor senior biologist of the u S. Bio
logical Survey.
AS man occupies the land, his tendency is to elm
mate native plants and animals. And this is not
mixed blessing In so doing upsetS the balance
of nature and thereby makes future trouble for him.
self Prof Taylor warns
Both the primeval forest and the animals In it
were regarded by early settlers in eastern North
America serious obstacles to progress he saws
Our sturdy and Self-reiant ancestors reSolutey cut
down the forests great and in the process
crowded out many of the forest animals.
THE consequences of single disturbing acts may
be far-reaching When a plant is removed all the
fauna dependent on it goes too-birdS mammals,
insects, and the lesser forms that dwell in
roots bark. or foliage Similarly with an animal-all
its parasites, within and without are taken away
when the animal disappears"
TINE extent to which mans occupation has gone"
l. says Prof. Taylor, and the degree of disturb
Of nature which has resulted are little realized
The changes for which irrepreSSble species man
is responsible not confined to closely occupied
areas They extend even to the far-flung forested
districts to the plains the mountains, the deserts
and the waters of the sea
Mans exploitation reaches far beyond the sound
of his voice or the touch of his hand at any one
time"
AS sample of how unexpected results can be
obtained, Prof. Taylor cites the campaign to reduce
the number Of alligators in Florida The first result
of it was to reduce the supply of fish
similar mistake, he says, was the attempt to kill
the Georgia marsh hawk as a means of protecting
quail. Study showed that this hawk lived largely on
cotton rats, the worst enemy of the quail So actu-
ally, the hawk was one of the quail's best friends.
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Your Health
: BY DIR. MORRIS FlsHBEIN-

WE congratulate ourselves in the fact that
w the infant death rate in the United States has
dropped from 300 thousand to from 60 to 70 thou
sand in the last few years. But don't get too exhub
Grant
There are still 100000 babies dying every year in
the first month Of life, and there are still 100000
every year born dead
Furthermore, $4,000 to $4,000 women die
every year in the United States from conditions as
ISOLATED with childbirth Education in prenatal care
will cut down these figures still further.
There are several reasons for the still great num-
Der of deaths from childbirth
1t has been estimated that two t.llrds of all the
deaths could be prevented if the of the mother
had been proper in all respects.
BY proper care include not only the medical
attention given at the actual TIM of childbirth, but
the conditions under which the women live and par
uculary the care given to the women preceding
childbirth.
Il VERY woman ought to see a doctor lust as soon
II as she knows she is going to have child She
every two weeks during the first few months, and
once each week during the last few months, before
the child is born.
Regardless of the vast amounts of money that
have been spent in educating women in the import
anCe OF such care. there still tremendous num-
berS who do not know the necessity of prenatal
and who fail to understand what proper prenatal
includes
Such people disregard persistent vomiting bleed
ing, nausea, and difficulty with their vision
although every of these symptoms is a warming
that great danger is near.
When eXpeCtant mothers learn more about the
conditions of childbirth and take proper care of
themselves and their babies the death toll from this
cause Will be further diminished
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whether it is possible to increase
labor costs of American cotton
production and compete at all in
the world markets with such low
wage countries as Egypt, India,
China, Brazil and Mexico.
1t takes the average American
grower and his family from 1874
to 270 hours to produce a 500
pound bale of cotton. At - cents
pound this would mean $50 for
the work, if the laborer got all the
money-which of course is not the
case.
Forty to As per cent of the time
consumed in producing a bale of
cotton is in the back-breaking
task of picking. No count has been
made Of the number of back
aches in bale.
Obviously here is a job for ma
chimes. But should mechanical
cotton-picker be perfected to the
point where it is economically
practical, what becomes of the
more than eight million hands"
now employed in picking the
crop?
That is but one of the problems
which the industry is leaving for
the future to solve.
IRON the opposite pole to that
L of the sharecroppers comes
criticism of the AAA cotton pro-
gram from the textile manu-
facturers, whose economic strength
adds weight to their political
effectiveness.
In resolutions passed by the
cotton textile industry, they ask
to be relieved of the burden of
processing tax payments. Failing
this, they urge that the same tax
handicap be extended to such
products as jute, sisal, rayon and
other competitive commodities
through increased tariffs.
They contend that high wage
payments in American mills make
competition sufficiently keen with
out the extra tax burden. And
that unless the processing tax is
lifted cotton goods will be largely
displaced on the market by cheap
er textile substitutes.
Meanwhile a rayon factory at
Parkersburg, w. Va, is making
cotton" out Of wood. Should that
infant industry grow. the planters
themselves might be forced into
forestry
On the other hand, new uses for
cotton are being developed The
latest is as a base for road build
ing Such cotton padded roads
prevent the hard surface from
stretching and slipping, expert
mentors report.
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portant. They are, to be
sure, enormous-for the
coastline is almost 1000
miles long
But as to importance-why,
virtually that whole distance is
composed of sand and thorn DIES
ert or bare Sun-baked mountains,
running down and leveling off
into a hot sea.
In all those thousands of miles,
there is not one river which
reaches the sea. The harbors may
be counted on the fingers of one
hand. The natives are savage,
or semi-savage, never having been
put under control by any white
power.
And except along the Egyptian
coast, and the railroad that goes
inland from Suakin to the Nile,
the only feasible way to reach the
interior of this tremendous region
is by the ancient rickety little
railroad that starts at Djibouti
and ends at Adds Ababa, the
capital city of Ethiopia.
TINE railroad is internationally
Il owned, and the French con-
troll it. They put it up in 1906
and ran two trains a week over
the line. The service is con-
sistent. Two trains still run a week
in peace time.
Look out of the windows and
sandy wastes and scrub desert
greet the eyes of every traveller.
This fades away into a chaos of
sharp volcanic rock. Just to the
north of this railroad, is the ter
rible and devastating Danakil
Depression.
Actual records show that tenn
peratures as high as 100 degrees
have been recorded in this awful
region. This Depression takes in
part of the Province of Aussa.
And AuSSa was that strip of
land which the Emperor of Eth
opia, in last final effort to avoid
war with Italy, offered to sell to
Mussolini.
To be sure it does adjoin
Eritrea and would bring Eritrea
and Italian Somaliland a little
closer together-but its fringes to
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the Danakil tribe, who practice
barbarity among their captlves Of
war.
And the Danakils, together with
the wild animals of the region,
are chiefly responsible for the fact
that it takes the train three full
days, sometimes as long as a week,
to travel 500 miles. The tribes
men tear up the railroad every
now and then and make off with
strips of rail to beat into a new
batch of spears. The telephone
lines they snip with disgusting
regularity.
The gay young blades of the
Danakils can give their best girls
some fancy ankletS or armletS
fashioned from copper wire!
TINE animals prove too much
l. for the train crew Every
now and then the train may jerk
to halt. Stick your head out to
see what's the matter, and you'll
see the train crew, making off into
the tall grass, toting rifles, out to
bag the lion thai just disappeared
behind that hillock over there
And the passengers are obliged to
wait until the engineer and the
conductor have finished their pri-
vate big hunt before they move on
the next 30 miles or so toward
Adds Ababa!
1t got to be so that the train
crew did more hunting than rail-
reading and so the French au-
thorities cracked down on them.
But still, if some important big
wig is travelling over the line for
the first time, and indicates he
wouldn't mind bagging an antelope
or leopard to take home with him,
even now the train crew will slam
on the brakes most willingly and
hold up the works-and plunge
into the wilderness.
Lie Idlli Odu WdS IoFeI WdllGSu
by the Ethiopian tribeSmen. When
the French and other Europeans
built the line-a small army of
troops had to fight off the bands
of wild, fierce raiders who at
tempted to rip up ties and rails.
To some extent, the tribesrnen
are now used to it, tolerate it for
what they can steal from it-but
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Liberal Viewpoint
BY HARRY ELMER BARNES

TINE most fundamental thing in the economic his
tory OF the twentieth century, especially in the
United States, will probably be the collapse of
finance capitalism In spite Of the inherent adj
vantages of vast combinations of industry and the
large-scale methods of production, the system is
blowing up as the result of financial piracy and
legalized robbery from within
This has LED not few able commentators to turn
their backs on recent economic tendencies and to
yearn for the old era of small-Scae industry where
finance capitalism would have no part. In recent
article in the American Mercury Ford Maddox Ford
predicts that very the small producer shall
again inherit the earth" This small producer Mr..
Ford envisages as
THE man who can mend or make rough chest
of drawers; he will make shift to mend a shoe or
make passable sandal; he will make or mend hur-
dies, patters scythe handles, sites, shngle roofs,
harrows. But before all he produce and teach
his family TO produce good food according to the
seasons To produce enough to keep his family
supplied independent if the need arises of the hux
of currencies and the tides of world suppies-and
to have if necessary, certain surplus for his less
fortunate neighbor"
The menace of chronological unemployment, Mr.
Ford believes, will make this necessary.
DAVID CUSHMAN COYLE, in brilliant article
~ on the decentralization of industry in the
Virginia Quarterly Review likewise finds the major
evil of contemporary capitalism lie in the extreme
Capitalization of industry:
The illness Of capitalism from which our radical
friends derive such keen satisfaction closely con-
nected with the tendency of capitalism to
IRENE Capitalization. Wealth tends to concentrate
itself into few hands This is the first and most
dangerous aspect Of the disease, leading to over
building, inadequate spending, stock market booms.
and Repubicanism generally.
The second aspect of concentration is the growth
of centralized control over business operations. The
third aspect is geographical concentration indus
try moves from rural areas into a ring Of towns
within trucking distance of the great metropolitan
centers
Centralized wealth, centralized control. and CEN
trazed location three separate but interrelated
aspects of the development that leads capitalism into
communism If the American people want TO avoid
communism they will have to tackle capitalism and
force it to decentralize"
This solution, as Ralph Borsodi and others have
already pointed out, will be valuable for marginal
groups who may lose their grip upon the industrial
world What we need to do is TO gain all the pos
sble advantages of largescale and power production
and impose upon this a social control which VIII
make it operate for the advantage OF all mankind.
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they still rush south over the road
bed and descend on some small
village in French or Italian So
maitland
THEY travel, these wild tribes
Il men, in large bands, some
times numbering as high as 1000.
They burn, pillage, destroy and
commit the most appalling atroci-
ties on the captives, mutilating
men, women and children, Selling
cattle and then making off back
to their own lands before foreign
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All for q Civilized War

THE correspondents paid for their quarters and
mess and, in the American Army at least paid
$50 week for the automobile service They
were mostly conscientious men with a serious sense
of responsibility but the assignment was not
attended by danger any more and life in the corps
OF Journalists in the big much Different
than of the men in Africa, China and Manchuria
Although many French towns had been badly shot
up, there were still comforts and diversions to be
enjoyed in such cities Amiens, Chaons, Compiegne
and Nancy, and of course in of too acute bore
DOM there always Paris.
And on days run in the high-powered army
car in search of story for the cable there was
always restaurant of some sort where the French
woman and her daughter could shake together an
omelet.
II one is to cover the war, by all means let one
select war between civilized nations on civilized
territory. The business of jogging around on mule
back and dining raw hunks bitten out of the
mans OF live pig violates the high standards which
were established in Europe after the nations adjusted
themselves to war.
Copyright. 1895. by United Feature Syndicate, IncJ
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EuZnouh
BY
W'ESIBRO0K PEGLER

TINE task of covering the great Italian drive to put
l. pants and shoes on the Ethopians seems to be
traught with hardShips and inconvenience One
reads of correspondents riding on mules and the
state of the country such that almost impos-
sibe to obtain decent bed a good bottle of wine
for dinner. Paris is long way Off SO that when
a man grows weary of it all and feels the need
OF little relaxation there is no such thing as
calling for his army car. driven by his army chauf-
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Plantation peonage prevails,
with the "hands" producing the
landlords crop and living from
his commissary. Many of them
have found themselves dispos-
sessed when they cried aloud for
their share in the new prosperity
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Ieur, and arriving away to The
New York Bar and Maxim's and
the FollieS Bergere.
Possibly. if the great CAMPAIGN
to civilize the Ethiopians oragS on
into extra innings the authorities
on both sides will find time to or
ganize the corps of correspond
entS into camps where they may
be kept under observation and,
incidentally, made more comfort
able. They did the right thing in
the big war. but the lessons seem
to have been lost, for the report
ers who have worked in the cam
paignS since 1918 have related
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punitive columns can catch them.
Within the last year, raiding
Danakils crossed into French So
maitland, bumped into a small
outpost of French troops, and
wiped it out to a man, simply by
sheer weight of numbers.
Paris grew furious. Protests
flew to Emperor Halle Selassie.
And with commendable prompti-
tude, he dispatched his oWn best
troops, recaptured the weapons
seized from the French and
hanged few of the Danakil
chieftains.
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my Shean in his biography. Personal History" tells
OF terrible hardShlpS IN mountains and desert Africa
he got coolies and malaria and he covered long
Journeys afoot and alone in a hostile and suspicious
country being shot at frequently and held captive
from time to time while the chiefs sat around eating
hunks of boiled goat with their fingers which they
then wiped on their boards, debating whether to kill
him That is truly what could be called sleeping
ones self in the atmosphere of the story
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that Federal aid has brought to
the South.
This year the harvest has found
some of them organized into
unions, which have staged Spo-
radio strikes.
These so-called sharecroppers
may be driven from the soil with
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Nov, I think that Mr. Green runs the grave risk
L OF putting himself wholly in the power of those
lcft-Wngers whom he abOminates. In order to get
William Green to do the things they want they
thus conquer by ricochet rather than direct fire.
! do not think that organized labor in America
any branch of it, should lightly reject the forma-
ton Of a labor party simply because the Commu-
nists are recently on record as favoring it, I think
that Mr.. Green ought to keep in mind some of the
groups which are against such a movement
Indeed, some Of the proposals coming from At
lanic City against industrial unoniSm have for the
moment made me feel that possibly I was looking at
the wrong page of the paper and that this was
meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce
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Plantation Toi|ers Find No Balm in AAA and Some
Of Them Dare to Demand a Better Share Of Product

This Is the second of a series of
articles on the cotton situation.
BY DANIEL NJ. KIDNEY
Times staff Writer
XXTASHINGTON, Oct. IL
w AAA has not aided the la
borerS in the cotton field.
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But this is the port OF entry tor
Ethiopia for Ethiopia has seaportt has no coastne
at ALL And is at Djibout the outside world of Europe
gets its first contact with black Africa.
The boat boys and the native coolies are Somas Of the
ssa tribe. But they not true Negroes If
to bleach of the best Somal trbesmen, would
produce of the finest facial features in the world
Many Of them big men, with bodies which would
delight the most exactng SCULPTOR and heads of magn
cent proportions. These blacks originally came from
Arabia, on the Alden side of the bay
II is possible to get into Ethiopia through the port of
Massowa Eritrea just north of French SOmalland.
10 the south lies British Somaland and still farther south
is Italian Somailand
On the map these places look enormous and highly i'm