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A VAUDEVILLE act was staged
L n on the floor of the House
the other day when Townsendite
Congressman Werner w. Main of
Michigan protested against allot-
ting $4,000 for the Townsend in
vestigation.
Waving his arms wildly, Rep.
Main shouted: 1.-THE Bell Com
mittee comes seeking a loan of
$4,000. The chairman of the
committee comes from Missouri. a
state that specializes in dogs -
hound dogs-that howl. The gen.
tleman from the hound-dog state
seeks boon of $4,000.
Mr.. Speaker, the proposed ap-
preparation is one of the finest
examples of boondoggling that has
come to the attention of the
American Congress-
Here the gavel fell. His time had
expired.
Rep. Main turned from the
rostfum, bent over as if calling a
dog, and proceeded whistling up
the aisle. Between whistles, he
called: Come Boon, Come Boon!"
u
THE Supreme Courts next ma
l. jor decision-on the consti-
nationality of the Guffey Coal Act
will determine more than Just
the future Federal regulation of
the coal industry. 1t will vitality
affect the plans of several other
key industries-oil, textiles, lum-
Der, steel.
Should the Guffey Act be up
held, these industries plan to seek
legislation similar to the coal
measure. 1t is entirely possible
that the present session of Con-
gress may be prolonged to rush
them through. The oil and textile
industries already have their bills
drafted.
On the other hand, negative ac-
ton by the court will spur the
drive to limit the number of work
ing hours per week.
=
CHAIRMAN WILLIAM CON-
~ merry JR. of the House La
Dor Committee is marking time on
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in private business to increase production and en-
ployment. Therefore let leaders in each indus
try organize to increase employment. The
cess of this will determine how the government
get out of relief.
The idea is partly Donald r. Richbergs drawn
out of his experience with NFA and his belief that
the solution be achieved without constitutional
amendment.
UTHAT are the facts behind this situation?
w In the Federal Communications Commits
Sions investigation OF the American Telephone and
Telegraph Co. this week it shown that the
company, while maintaining dividends during the
last six years, reduced employment 80 per cent
and pay rolls 20 per cent While operating revenues
dropped only Is per cent, the number of telephone
stations dropped 10 per cent and the average num-
Der of daily calls dropped only per cent Al
though the A. T. g. T. is enlightened in its
ploye policies, it curtaied employment and the con-
sumner buying power carried in its pay roll to far
greater extent than its had been curtailed
L means n"li'' - -i0' al ''0'"''O ono y any
Last year was rich one for industry. Some
300 of the leading corporations increased profits
469 per cent above those of 1884. Alltime records
were set in electric power, rayon, wool consumption
Shoes washing machines, oil burners electric refrig
orators gasoline consumption plate glass air trans
port cigarets electric lamps and radios Highs since
1929 were reached in machine tool orders automo-
biles, vacuum cleaners mail order sales petroleum
production and hosiery production Highs since 1880
were achieved in steel ingotS, pig iron, zinc fer
tilizer, shipbuilding foundry equipment and paint
Yet in spite of this burst of activity the A. F.
of L. estimates that only 1024 900 at work
last January than in January 1885, Twelve and
half millions were still unemployed it estimates Pro-
duction increased IA per cent but workers buying
power increased only per cent Profits of 100 cor
portationS-Standard Statistics igures-ncreased l41
per cent during the last half OF 1885, Yet those on
relief rolls outnumbered all employed in the five
largest industries-textiles and clothing railroads
building machinery, and iron and steel and its
products.
Average hours OF work per week have increased
5h per cent in the last year. The surplus of labor
would suggest that the hours of work per week
should be shrinking instead of expanding
so we have production about halfway back to
1929 and relief load still within three quarters Of
the peak.
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his 30-hour bill pending the out
come on the Guffey Act The
Senate has voted favorably on
30-hour measure, and Rep. Con-
merry says he will press immedi-
ately for vote in the House if
the Supreme Court throws out the
Guffey Act.
Government attorneys in the
case are hoping that, regardless of
what the court rules, it will lay
down some definite general rules
as a guide to the tangled skein of
industrial regulations. The court
did not do this in the NRA de-
cision.
Assistant Atty. Gen. John Dick
inson, in his three-hour argument
before the court-during which he
was paid the unusual honor of not
once being Observation-Disclosures
strongly for such a Qualification.
ut is strongly to be desired" he
urged, that the powers of the gov.
eminent to permit positive action
to prevent industrial chaos be
clearly defined. In the past such
chaos has necessitated military ac-
ton to preserve peace. Is our
government only a military gov
ernment?"
n 4.
CALIFORNIA; lanky Senator
~ William Gibbs McAdoo was
chatting with newspaper men
about Roosevelt's corporation sur
plus tax plan.
1--WE got better plan than
that" he said solemnly. Put an
excise tax of one cent copy on
every newspaper sold in the coun-
try. That wouldn't be a punitive
tax like Huey Longs but a legiti-
mate tax. 1t would raise as much
money as this corporation tax"
At this moment Senator Carter
Glass walked by.
ooh, I forgot" McAdoo laughed.
MY friend Carter is newspaper
publisher. Well, guess we can't
tax newspapers. Well have to
abandon the idea"
Copyright. 1885, by United Feature
Syndicate, Incl
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With hand cupped to ear, he
says, "You know I'm not sensitive
like a lot of folk are about being
hard-of hearing but I believe
smoke in this city results in
catarrhal conditions and affects
respiratory passages.
ST have lived below Fall Creek
and now live at 32d-st, but I find
no improvement in either smoke
conditions or my hearing. Smoke
is over the entire city.
"Years ago." he added, at was
a member of the indianapolis
Chamber of Commerce. I tried
to interest them in abating the
smoke nuisance. They were hos
tile to it. I resigned from the
Chamber.
1.-THE whole town burns Indiana
soft coal. It isn't fit to burn. I
burn oil, but on damp nights my
house is filled with the SCOT and
smoke from other residences and
apartments. AS long as we have
soft coal and burn it as we do,
we'll. have coughs, colds, sinus
troubles and other ailments" he
said.
Comparing indianapolis pneu-
monia death rate to those of other
cities, shows that while Oakland,
Cal, Fort Worth and Houston,
Tex, range from IS to rs deaths
per 100000 population from the
disease yearly, Indianapolis has
not had a death rate less than
100 except once since 1920, and
that year was 1888 when the NOR
tally was 96 out of 100000.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Smoke Chest
and What Happens to House.
wife's Hope Chest.
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spreading as we'll as causing dis
ease"
Smoke, besides making an ugly
town and depressing every one in
it, has a tendency to obscure
Vitamin D rays in sunlight, says
DR.. Thurman B. Rice, assistant
health director of Indiana. Lack
of Vitamin D often results in
ricketts, in children, physicians say.
"And that sends us to cod-liver
oil for ourselves as we'll as the
children" DR.. Rice adds.
DR.. Rice and other physicians
tell how persons who have lived in
clean cities and have pink lungs
can remain in indianapolis for
five to seven years, after which
time their lungs become dark and
notified. y
"This is called anthracosis. It
has no immediate serious results
but tends to fill the tissues with.
inert matter, lessen the elasticity
OF the lungs, and make breathing
harder" he said.
Sulphur fumes he terms as
Irritating" to the residents of
smoke-filled cities.
II a
DR. MORGAN sees an indirect
~ relationship between deaf
ness and a sooty and dirty atmos-
phere.
He is borne out in his conten-
ton by George G. Calvert, "a, Sec
rotary manager of the Indianap-
oils Clearing House.
High in his Office in the Mer-
chants Bank Building and sur
rounded by oil paintings which he
keeps under glass to prevent air
spoilage, Mr.. Calvert wishes for
glass house of his own.
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He declares pneumonia is one
. of the most important respiratory
diseases in which SCOT and "smog"
can make a difference between life
and death.
DR.. Andrew Hall of the I'LL
nois State Health Board, in trac-
ing the deaths due to pneumonia
in Illinois and Chicago in the
year of 1929 said Chicago's death
rate from pneumonia was 80 per-
sons for each 100000 population.
indianapolis, in the same boom
year, with manufacturing plants
at full blast, had death rate of
1919, or 80 more persons to die in
each 100000 than Chicago.
TN 1885 the city's death rate from
l. pneumonia was 159 persons out
of each 100000, higher rate even
than in 1929.
Although an excessively cold
winter can be blamed in part for
the higher rate, it is shown in a
peruSal of vital statistics that in
the 1882 and 1888 years of the de-
preston that the death rate was
down to 100 for each 100000 popu-
lation. However, malnutrition, it is
pointed out by some physicians,
was more prevalent during the de-
preston years.
Former Health Commissioner
Kegel, of Chicago, said on one &C.
casion: "The highest pneumonia
rate is in the smokiest cities"
Pittsburgh, notorious for years
as the Smoky City" until it began
a strenuous smoke abatement
campaign, had a death rate of BAL
persons for each 100000 persons in
1920, 1913 in 1923, 243 in 1881 and
172 deaths in each 100000 popula-
ton in 1882. Indianapolis ranged
about 10 to 140 deaths less than
Pittsburgh in 1881 and 1882.
TRACING Indiana as whole,
L. the pneumonia death rate
from 1923 remained, with the ex-
ception of the comparatively
warm year of 1926, at an average
of 300 deaths yearly until the
first year of the depression. Then
it dropped Is per cent and re-
manned at around $500 until 1885.
The only exception during de-
preston years was a drop of COG
in the death total in the warm
year of 1888.
Industry gained ground in 1884.
General business conditions i'm
proved and, oddly, the pneumonia
death rate increased. The year
of 1934-1935 showed 3074 deaths
against 1881 for the winter of
1888 1884.
Some physicians assert that the
carrier" or person immune from
the ravages of pneumonia, but
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EzhZnouAk
by
WESTBRO0K PEGLER

Darts, March 1s.-It begins to look as if the
British diplomatic service has the correct idea
of the only satisfactory way TO deal with the Naz
government. The British diplomats are taught to
believe that the Nazi government is afflicted with
chronic throat trouble, the baseball players say,
and will choke up in the presence of determined
resistance.
On the theory that any who seeks to ntimi-
date an opponent by roaring will himself be ntmi-
dated If the opponent roars back twice loud the
representatives of His MajeStys government have
been ordered to take no fooishness from Der Fueh-
rer or any of his subordinates They are instructed
to move right in and bull them around whenever
one of His Majestys subjects is
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employment, While upward, IS IN
adequate. Private business
is asked to extend its operations
to absorb an increasing number.
There is little evidence that
employers can do this by indi-
vidual, unco- ordinated action. :.
Vigorous effort On a national
scale is necessary, by voluntary,
concerted action of private in
dustry. The Supreme Court
forbids the government to assist
employers in restraining chiselers.
But antitrust laws, pro-
hibiting restraint of trade, do not
sa,.nlaikit the reNnrSe cn-nnera tim
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Washington Merry-Go-Round

XXTASHINGTON, March 49,
w Chairman Jesse Jones of the

WASHINGTON, March 10
w Chairman Jesse Jones of the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. has
a contagious smile and fund of
good stories which have softened
many a political attack. But SEN
ate Progressives say Jesse will have
to do lot of smiling to cover up
his latest appointment.
Here is the reason:
The Frisco Railroad is one of the
few companies which has default
ed on its payments to the RFC. 1t
is paying neither principal nor in
tereSt. Despite this, Jesse has ap-
pointed a director of the Frisco as
head of his RFC railway loan divi-
sion. Among other things, he will
pass on the Frisco loan.
Frank c. Wright, the new ap-
pointee, is unique N two other re-
spects. Although occupying an i'm
portant government position pass
ing on railway loans, he continues
TO be an official of the Bangor and
Aroostook Railway.
FURTHERMORE, while he
l. served as director of the
Frisco, Wright represented the
banking firm of Lee. Higginson
g. Co.
Lee, Higginson held a large in
tereSt in the bankrupt railroad,
and minority bondholders made
sensational charges of improper
diversion of earnings to the ma
jority holders.
The entire question was aired
before the Securities Exchange
Commission, which, however, had
no power other than TO expose the
situation publicly.
The bondholders then asked
Jesse Jones, as a major creditor
of the road, to cooperate with
them. But he refused.
Now Jesse has gone one better.
He has placed in charge of rail-
way loans the man who repre-
sented Lee. Higginson on the
Frisco Railroad board of directors.
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TN the days when I used to jump from Wilkes
IL Barre, Pa, at in the morning in order to make
the Theater Study Club of Madison, Wis. the next
night I living in fools paradise.
Being poor lecturer particular handi-
cap because you never expected to make the same
town twice. Why, there cities in this country
which 1 wouldn't dare revisit again for another
six years. and one of them is Easton, Pa.
But for all its virtues it a lonely life. At
the end Of a couple of years began to hate that
lecture and imagine it felt the way about me.
The crash and the depression came and it
longer possible to get bookings. In fact, as I re-
member, the bottom fell out of my bookings at a
time when everything else was going to 300.
But talking we were about speakers 1 was in
terested to across Variety's report on the
Browder broadcast Variety tries, and often sue
ceeds in taking no position whatsoever in the class
struggle. 1t attempts to view all performers and
performances from the straight angle of Snowman
ship In thumbing through this interesting weekly
/ found, Film Canaries Faced With Dearth of
Popular operate Arias for Pix" Lent in st. L. A.
Real Denter, Quins Is c. and then the following
caption and description Earl Browder. Talk Is
Minis. Sustaining"
Variety Looks at BrOIoder
"DROWDER," reports Variety, belongs in the files
- as radio first He is the first of the Com
muniSt Party to get nation wide network oppor-
tunty. Columbia Broadcasting chose him as
means of dramatizing its position on free
speech. To permit leftist to be heard CBSs
way VI oHoWlLS JHdC complete VerDal liberty is an
actuaty its network 1t was well-publiczed
and controversial first that will also probably be
quiet and careful last
"Browder is not good radio speaker. Probably
smart showmanshp to studiously follow an excess
sively mild tone and cautious line of argument,
but otherwise he lacks what it takes in the United
States of America to WOO votes"
I'm afraid that on this occasion Variety failed to
live up to its standards. 1t is no part of critics
function on that magazine to attempt to make po-
tical representations Moreover, this is one of the
first times have caught Variety propaganda
ing against the social structure in which we live.
What does Land mean by putting quotes around
"free speech? Does he think it's phrase from
q gag?
Copyright 1886
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tons of SCOT dropped on In
dianapolis for each square
mile during each year from
1888 through 1885.
Each ton of coal making that
SCOT gave off from to per
cent sulphur fumes.
Smoke is visible because of the
tar or carbon which gives it its
obnoxious character.
Hard" Goals contain silica, and
it is silica which recently caused
nationwide headlines as an en-
tire town suffered from the rare
disease known as "silicosis."
VOUR neighbours Smokestack
Il also is an outlet for numerous
gases, ranging from carbon
monoxide to nitrous and chloric
vapors of certain types of manu-
featuring plants.
For the most part, these gases.
because they are lighter than air,
are easily dissipated, but one gas
-sulphur-because of its heavi-
ness, descends on buildings and
people.
Sulphur destroys vegetation and
affects stone structures. 1t reached
its most drastic stage in Belgium
IN December, 1880, when IS lives
were taken by fumes from the
stacks of the industrial city of
Liege.
The European catastrophe caused
a probe which discovered that the
noxious fumes of sulphur an
hydride gas had affected the
bronchial tubes of residents and
caused fatalities.
Fog acted as the agent or jailer
of the sulphur in that it accumu-
lated the fumes over Liege for
period of four days.
A probing commission held that
factories producing the fumes were
blameless, but declared the combi-
nation of the gases coupled with
cold and foggy weather caused the
mysterious catastrophe.
Il
FOURTEEN thousand tons of
l. sulphur, or an estimated rs
pounds for each resident of Indi-
annapolis, is the yearly output of
chimneys.
DR.. w. A. Brend, English physi-
clan, says: "A smoky and dusty
atmosphere transcends all other
influences as a cause of infant
mortality"
DR.. Herman G.. Morgan, Indi-
annapolis health officer, says:
ut has been proved conclusively
that cities with the highest per-
centage of atmospheric density are
those which have the highest sick
and death rate from respiratory
diseases such as common colds.
bronchitis, sore Threats and pneu-
monia.'
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Solution to Previous Contract
Problem

Solution to Previous Contract
Problem
BY w. e. M'KENNEY
Secretary American Bridge League
TINE annual western New York
l. tournament, held at James,
town, N. Y, March IA and Is,
was in charge of r. E. Needham
of Greenville, one of the directors
of the American Bridge League.
Needham has been active in
league affairs since its organiza-
ton and conducts a number of
the leagues important master
point tournaments during the
year. Each year, through his eff
forts, new communities are given
opportunity to hold major tourna-
mentS.
r. R. Richards of Detroit,
founder of the league, sends this
interesting hand from one of
Needham's tournaments.
Some players opened the ace
of clubs and then shifted to dia-
mond, hoping to get their part
ners in SO they could ruff a club.
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who spreads the disease, is re-
Sponsible for the low ebb of pneu-
monia in depression years. A re-
turn of good times causes the car
rier to travel, with the natural
result of increased cases of pneu-
monia, these doctors say.
In turn, a second physician Off
sets the carrier" theory by point
ing to the high death toll of
pneumonia among infants, and
the fact that children under l
year old are not normally taken
into crowded buses, cars and Of
fees.
Pneumonia is the cause of
death of one out of every six
children who die in Indiana I'M
der year of age.
DR.. Harvey sees in the infant
mortality statistics the possibility
that SCOT may be one of the
agencies promoting the dissent
nation of disease.
I'm muggy, smoggy mornings,
~ carbon deposits from the air
load the membranes, he said.
Constant use of handkerchiefs
is necessary and splitting is prev
alent. We want to expectorate
more in winter, and maybe SCOT
indirectly spreads disease by caus-
ing us to expectorate. A shoe steps
in the mucus elected and it may
be carried into the home where
infants play on floors" he says.
eve know" he adds, "that we
can't use sleeping porches, even if
we have them, because of the at
mosphere. We talk about polluted
water. It seems the time has come
when we should talk about
polluted air and it's possibility for
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remembered that until quite recently Herr Htler,z
government was very tough in its dealings with
various other nations. The Nazs assassnated Enpe-
bert DollfuSs, the Austrian chancellor and organ
lied revolutionary party in Austria through their
embassy in Vienna. Inasmuch as the German am
baSsador is no other than old friend Capt Won
Papen, who got his early training doing the same
thing in Washington 20 years ago. it will be seen
That the work of melting disorder in Austria is in
pract1ced though not necessarily able hands
Inc count is widely regarded by other diulo-
mats OF various nations as the dumbest consprator
that the world has known. He always kicks
over the goldfish bowl with loud crash lust As he
is climbing out of the window with the papers and
once he was SO dumb that he almost got himself shot
by his own gang in Germany.
We used to have umpire in the American
League at home named "Dogface' Guthrie who NAV
have had Capt. Won Papen in mind when he COM
posed little poem to quiet the squawk of certain
pail players. When a player with Prussian name
would squawk at one of Mr. "Dogface" Guthries de-
cisions "Dogface" would rock on his heels peer at
the sky and say: Dutch and dumb If YOU wasn't
Dutch you wouldn't be dumb and if YOU wasn't
dumb you wouldn't be Dutch"
1t sounds like personal tribute to Capt Won
Papen.
However, this is depression from the theme of
our story, which is that Herr Hers government was
exceedingly tough with the neghbors until he closed
his Olympic army maneuvers at Garmsch-Parten-
klrchen and moved his army into the Rhine
Herr Hitler threatened the Swiss because they
would not lynch who had shot one of his con-
Splrators against the Swiss republic. He openly de-
Scroed the Republic of CzechoSlovaka as rebelious
province to be conquered by conspiracy and force
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HtSS. COuIu IeddlIy WTlUe a DOCK
entitled, Audiences Have Been
Kind" only F. P. A. would GER
tainly amend it and suggest, you
mean kinda dumb" And that
would be unfair to both listeners
and speaker.
When the lecture business blew
up for everybody save very prom
inent persons severa' seasons ago,
I was prepared to ST. Unit myself
to life of silence. In those days 1
was naive enough 10 assume that
If you didn't talk for money you
couldn't talk at all. The vast field
open to the. amateur was unknown
Il D.. 7 ..c.li..<. 4l..t ~
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AidMessage Should
Be Read Carefully
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER'

WASHINGTON, March 19-Busness men, par
w ticuary employers who complain about the
cost of relief, will find the alternative stated in
President Roosevets relief message. 1t should be
read in full for it goes to the heart of most stub
born domestic problen-the failure of recovery to
bring unemployment.
Without epithets, tory-bating emotion, Mr.
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II Seems hM
BY
HEYWc0 /

NEW YORK March 19-No, I will not make
v speech. won't be chairman. wouldn't even
take three minutes national hookup if it were
offered
In other words I'm getting ready to go on my va
cation at the end of the week The destination is
unknown to me, but trust it is possible to find
altitude where toastmasters do not flourish and
where nobody says, Who'll start off with s100?"
All this is set down in sorrow and not in bitter