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tragedy can be avoided Discussion as to how it may
be avoided is going on not only among the politi-
clans in power in many capitals but among the
people who will have to fight for them if they fail.
IRON every European capital we are told that
Il war is not wanted England dependent upon
world trade to sustain her small island does not
want It, Russia, engaged in building vast indus
trial nation in generation, does not want to
be distracted to fight war. France, knowing as
keeny any people what means, does not
want it, and we told that after the French
elections a few weeks hence, French politicians
will their saber rafting and try to contribute
toward collective peace Hitlers spokesman tell us
that Germany. like England. must have peace and
foreign trade to live; that would be suicide with
France on one side and on the other side Rus
STA, with three times the population So it is being
suggested with increasing emphasis that these
tions gather and talk it out instead of fighting first
and talking afterward. Washington hopes they
will.
EoR us the question is, what should be part9
Il The Scripps-Howard newspapers say we should
go into the proposed European conference to help
lay the foundations for peace Many think
should go into the League of Nations We have
responsibility, 1t is said and should not evade
1t when the outcome much concerns U.S.
But it can not be said that haven't tried to
bring peace in Europe We turned the tide that won
the war. We supplied important proportion of
the money materials and men,
Yet within few months after the victory
peace treaty was written that so obviously full
of the seeds of new that We refused to ratifv
1t or join the League of Nations set up to en-
force il.
But our effort was not abandoned with that
failure. We sought through the Washington Anna
ment Conference to prevent another dangerous naval
race. That effort has finally failed We sponsored
the Kellogg Anti-War Pact-and in its first test in
the Manchurian affair, We were not supported in
Europe.
1T can not be fairly sale that the United States has
n not done its part toward trying to improve world
conditions simply because 1t refuses again tn EN-
proh ITSELF In european politics. How much has
Europe done In IL years to bring about real peace7
Must 1t always be our turn to save Europe?
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asking his partner to select one
of the major suits, North then
correctly bids four spades, as the
bidding has marked his partner
with five spades.
Vests opening diamond lead of
the king was won in dummy with
the ace, and the ten of hearts was
discarded. Hoping TO find the
spade honors split, declarer played
the jack. When East failed to
cover, the finesse was taken and
West won with the king.
West returned a spade, intend
Ing to keep dummy from trumping
hearts. East went up with the
queen and South won the trick
with the ace.
The ace of hearts was cashed
and now the jack of hearts ruffed
in dummy. Since declarer had no
more entries in dummy, he played
the queen of clubs and took the
finesse.
Here is where West made a nice
defensive play. He did not win this
trick, but played low.
When declarer made the mis-
take of taking the second finesse,
West took this trick with the king
and returned club, which East
ruffed with the seven of spades,
holding the contract to four odd.
fCopyright. 1895. BY NEA Seryice Inc
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Times Books

MORE early American history is the fare in Ethel
IVA Hueston's new book THE Man of the Storm"
Bobbs Merrill indianapolis; So. Mrs Hueston
again has based her story the famous Lewis q
Clark Expedition and has interviewer a delicate
romance between several characters in the book
The Man of the Storm" blurbed romance
of Golfer who discovered the Yellowstone. seems to
be rather the of Tempete Man of the
Storm, the mysterious, grayeyed Indian who spoke
in the studied tones of Englishman.
John Golfer who accompanied Lewis and Clark
on their terrible trek into the vast urknown. later
on his own discovers and brings back cviirzation
in st. Louis the incredulous story of the Yellow
stone Most persons inclined to believe the
geyser merely the product of his imagination.
The principal part of the story, however. Is con-
cerned with Tempete and the beautiful Dona
Teresa. The unwinding of their romance, coupled
with that OF Golfer and Sally Dale the young
American orphan who has been living in the house,
hold of Don Fernando Pernas, Dona Teresa's half
brother is delightfully."- told and quite change from
the bold and modern love story.
Mrs. Hueston brings to the reader vivid picture
Of the exciting life in the frontier DAYS and easily
combines enough romance with the historical setting
to make this thoroughly delightful book. tBy
Dorothy Ritz
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Gen. johnson SAYS

WASHINGTON, April 10.-Treasury experts
w are said to have demolished" opposition to
the undivided profits tax.
The demolition" consisted in saying that it Is
unfair to partnerships and individuals not to inn
pose the tax on corporations, since partnerships
and individuals must pay surtaxes on all earnings
whether distributed not; that stockholders
"evade surtaxes by allowing earnings to accumulate
in the corporations whose stock they hold and that
revenue from other sources is so thin that this is
the only way to bring home the bacon.
2 IT partnerships and individuals had really been
much aggrieved, most Of them could have incor-
porated. 1t is not "evading" taxes to comply with
the law assessing taxes. The demolition" does not
answer the principal objection. Our basic problem
is unemployment. Unemployment depends on in
dustrial expansion especially the expansion of new
and improved industries, which can only be built
out of earnings. There lot more unanswered
objections
IMPLICATIONS overlapping regional and group
- inequalities general inefciency and insuficiency
the evil is oppressive and generally recognized
that it offers persuasive plank for the platform
of either party: IAN immediate convention of rep
resentatives of all taxing authorities to propose an
equitable and effective system of taxation both
Federal and non-Federal, throughout the United
States"
Copyright, 1886. by Feature Syndicate 1ncJ
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early political days to Eugene
Fields famous peach:
"a little peach in garden grew,
Kissed by the sun, warmed by the
dew"
HE looked to be just what we
wanted" continued Smith, 80
soft and nice. just waiting to be
picked.
But" Smith. adds with a wry
face, We picked him too green"
TT is not often that an Ameri-
Il can ambassador has to ap-
pear in public only when accom-
panied by two armed cars, but
Jefferson McCaffery, envoy to
Cuba, has attained that distinct
ton. Cuban guards, waving sub
machine guns, precede and fol-
low him everywhere.
Reason is the many threats and
attempts against CaffeW's life.
Though one of the ablest mem
berS of the career corps, and
although he has done a good job
in Cuba, Gallery has suffered the
unpopularity which every Ameri-
can ambassador experiences in
that country.
He will be transferred when
ever the State Department can
pry loose another ambassadorial
opening.
nN recent field trip, Paul a.
" Porter, lanky Triple A cot
ton expert, was called aside by a
small-town banker whom he
knew.
Paul" he said, I'm worried
about all this government spend
ing. I think the President has got
to balance the budget. Why does
MT he do it?"
Porter observed that a number
of economy measures were under
consideration, among them a plan
to cut in half all benefit payments
to cotton farmers.
"Oh, Roosevelt can't do that"
said the banker. THE farmers
won't let him"
We'll, there are other methods,
such as calling in all government
loans to banks, railroads and in
dustry"
The bankers hands shot up in
alarm. Why" he exclaimed in
horror, ''that would ruin the
country"
Then you really don't want the
President TO balance the budget
after all, do your"
"All I've got to say" insisted
the banker, is that this boom
doggling stuff has got to STOP
Copyright. 1886. by United Feature
Syndicate Inc
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shares to members, this
capital to be used for short
term loans to members.
Started in 1921, the movement
struggled along. The Hobbies of
the loan companies made the
Shedding hard at first, for, it was
necessary to get legislation en-
acted before credit unions could
be set up.
THEN came New Deal legisla-
Il ton. The credit union lead
ers went to Washington and were
successful in getting a Federal
Credit Union law, under which
any group in any part of the
United States could set up it's
own bank under Federal charter.
Therefore, any group of 20 or
more people in the United States,
workers in an industrial plant,
members of a rural community, a
lodge, church parish, or a fra
ternal organization can set up
their own bank, make loans to
their own members, and so ban
ish the menace of the loan shark
from their own group.
Up till this time, the movement
was headed by the Credit Union
National Extension Bureau. This
bureau was supported by Mr..
Filene, who paid the bills for or
ganization work. Following enact
ment of Federal law, the credit
union movement stepped out into
independence.
The Credit Union National AS
ISOLATION was formed. Directors
and officers were elected by the
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church. although not too solid;
be a Mason and married man.
All these things suggest native
virtue and regard for our tradi-
tional institutions.
Did you ever hear of Stain
going out for ssilfish? Every time
Franklin Roosevelt catches a mess
OF mackerel he gives the lie to the
charge that he is Communistic.
But the Presidents newspaper
popularity rests upon the fact
that he fishes in such pleasant
places. 1t is an agreeable change
for a reporter used TO Washing
ton, Warm Springs and Pough-
keepsie suddenly to find himself
on white beach under a Florid
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Solution to Precious
Contract Problem
BY VIM. E. M'KENNEY

BY VIM. e. MKENNEY
Secretary American Bridge League
TN duplicate bridge, you have to
Il play for the extra trick. But
do not try for it beyond the point
OF discretion. In other words, do
not take a gamble on the extra
trick if the odds are against you.
George Hoef1er of Cleveland IN
today's hand made the play that
tricked declarer into making only
his game contract, rather than
adding an extra trick. The hand
is cold for five odd.
In the bidding, North's double
of two diamonds tells his partner
that this is the response he would
have made to the spade bid, had
West not interviewed. OF course,
North and SoIith are vulnerable,
and South reasons that the pen
atty would rot be sufficient to
justify his giving up what looks
like a sure game.
Therefore, South, properly bid
two hearts. North's bid of two
no trump also shows club control.
South's bid of three spades is
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Torna d oes

By Science Service
WASHINGTON, April TO-
The South's second spring tor
nado in five days, ripping
through four states Monday.
was typical of its kind, c. L.
Mitchell of the United States
Weather Bureau informed Sci
ence Service.
These fatal storms can be
looked for when certain pat
tern in the weather is set up.
Mr.. Mitchell said. The ele-
ments in that pattern are
big, circular low barometric
pressure area moving in an
easterly or northeasterly direc-
ton, plus high temperature,
plus a lot of moisture. This
sets up strong turbulence in the
air, with boiling, overturning
movements.
The result may be nothing
worse than series of vio-
lent thunderstorms, but all too
often the vertical twisting gets
started, and where this spin
tightens up into a narrow point.
perhaps a quarter or a half
mile, tornado like MONDAYS
is the result.
The Arkansas Mississippi
Alabama Georgia tornado fol-
lowed this pattern almost me-
chemically. An enormous mass
of warm. tropical air, soaked
with moisture, moved UP over
the Southwest on Palm Sunday
weekend, and started to mi
CRATE toward the Northeast. BY
Monday morning it was over
Kentucky. Tornadoes are apt
to result with highest intensity
between 200 and 500 miles of
such a center, and that is just
what happened in the present
instance
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various state leagues. Then came
the real expansion of the move
ment.
TN the first ID years of its exist
l. ence, the credit union move
ment built up some 5000 unions
with total membership of
around 10000. In the last six
months nearly 1000 new credit
unions have been added and the
membership has jumped to 825,-
600. Savings total more than
$4,000 900.
Membership is now growing at
the rate of 5000 week. In ii
months the Credit Union National
Association expects to double the
work of the first ID years.
AS the movement grows, more
and more money flows into the
Golfers of the credit unions. And
with more money it becomes nee
essary to open new fields of &C
tivity.
One credit union in Massachu-
sets, started in 1921 on a capital
of $40, now is doing a loan bust
ness of more than a million and
half a year. But that business
isn't big enough. The credit union
today has 100000 lying idle. To
use this, the directors are plan
ming a direct move into the in
stallment buying business.
With a membership approach
ing the million mark and grow
ing by leaps and bounds, the ma
tional association sees big
chance to get into real financing.
Already plans are laid for what
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and keep control in their own
hands.
The record of the credit union
is little short of amazing. 1t came
through the depression without
single failure. The people had
proved that they could handle
their own money better than
could the bankers.
This record has given them con-
fidence, so they are building for
the future. And that future, they
declare, is one in which the people
themselves will own, control and
manage their own business.
These people are open in their
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN

WTASHINGTON, April 10.-It
W is almost unprecedented
for two Senators from the same
state, especially from the same
party, to lock horns so ohstreper-
ously in public as the two from
West Virginia.
However, when the real story
of the Rush Holt Matthew Nicely
row develops it is going to be
even more side-splitting and SEN
Sational.
The fact is that the youngest
member of the Senate was care
fully hand-picked and hand
groomed by Senator Nicely and
friends. They needed a good,
rabble -rousing utility = h a er;
some one who could fay the big
gas, power and coal companies of
West Virginia.
Young Holt, to them, seemed
the ideal man. Then only %
years old, they were sure they
could control him later.
At first, after Holt was elected,
there was nothing Senator Nicely
would not do for his young friend.
He almost got down on his knees
to beg the Committee on Privil-
eyes and Elections to seat Holt
despite his election before the
constitutional age of 30.
"Alva," he told Senator Adams
of Colorado, you can have my
vote on anything for Colorado
you want, if you'll only help me
to seat that boy"
Nicely even helped to hush an
= ' alienation of affection suit
which an irate husband threat
ened to bring against Holt, just at
the crucial moment when his seat
ing was before the Senate. Holt
Claims tnaC MS One-tlme friends
are now trying to smear him with
this.
THE whole thing is a generated
political attack" says the youngest
member of the Senate. There's
nothing wrong with my relations
with this woman, and I'd swear
to that on Bible"
He explains that when he first
met her, she was in the company
of a lawyer whom she was con-
sulting for divorce. That divorce
subsequently was granted. He adds
that on a recent Sunday in
Charleston he saw the lady Tin
company with a witness) and she
told him she had been offered
money to reopen the case.
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EhZuou1h
BY
WESIbROOK

THERE are many reasons why the Brit
ish crime rate is a matter of national
pride with them and, by comparison.
matter of national reproach to the United
States, but the stupidity of the British
criminal and his half-heartedness in his
work never receive proper credit
To be sure, their courts are run bv honest men
and their counsel for the defense are restricted ia
the evidence and forbidden to employ bribery
blackmaii, physical intimidation
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kind on through the darkest dis
enlargement.
On a Good Friday 10 years
ago, the United States went into
the World War, with the hope
that It's sacrifice would end all
wars and bring justice and a
better life to people of all nations.
That hope has not been realized.
Years Of disillusionment have fol-
lowed, eliminating in the present
widespread belief that the world
again sways on the brink of an
other general war.
Yet this Easter season sees a
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II Seems hM
BY
HEY,WOODBROUN

MIAMI, April 10.-Through the Presi-
dents proclivity for fishing Miami
for little while became the capital of the
nation. To be sure, Franklin d. Roosevelt
was in boat good many miles off these
shores, but all the White House CORE
spondents were at the Blltmore 1t here that the
daily messages came about the executive catch.
One Of the reasons why Mr.. Roosevelt is per-
sona)ly popular with the newspaper men is his pas
sion for fishing. OF course he is not the frs, of
our Presidents to fish. Every American President
must fish just as he must belong to a good solid
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these men predict will be one of
the biggest life insurance COM
panies in the United States.
THEY base their predictions on
Il the fact that they already
have the prospective customers
in their membership. They feel
that with their huge reserves of
cash, they can cut insurance costs
to the bone and make the same
success of this business that they
have made of the small loan
business.
But, even as the credit union
movement towers above the coop
field financially, there are other
coop insurance and finance plans
under way and in operation.
The Country Life Insurance was
started in 1929 to bring low cost
insurance to members of the I'LL
nois Agricultural Association. In
the first so months of it's exist
ence, it wrote $50000,000 worth
Of policies. This since has been
run up to $75,500,000 and is ex-
pected to reach 100000 before
the end of the year.
The Ohio Farm Bureau Service
Co. turned toward automobile in
surance in 1926. 1t began with a
capital of $4,000. In 1896 the
Farm Bureau Mutual Autcmo-
bile Insurance Co., carried policies
to the total of $4,000,000. 1t has
moved up to take its place with
the first 10 mutual companies
writing automobile insurance in
the United States.
DACK of this growth of insur-
o ance is the understanding of
the co-operators that insurance is
the secondary banking organiza-
ton. So the "co-ops" are building
their own secondary system, on
the theory that whoever finances
a business controls it. So they in
tend to finance their own co-ops,
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hysteria. political influence or
other familiar blackjacks and
Jimmies which enlarge the pro-
fessionsl kit of those American
attorneys who dedicate themselves
to the sacred rights of the GRIM
inal.
Moreover, their country is
small and the native population,
though dense, is stationary. So
the British police are spared the
problem of the restless millions
who rattle around the United
States in aimless wanderings,
often changing identity as they
go.
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If Nicely drags up this case"
threatens Holt, "I1l spread
out the record of his affairs back
in 1911 and 1913"
And so on, far into the night.
It's one of those good old-fash-
Toned feuds, no weapons barred,
and no truce until one side or the
other is wiped out.
MED SMITH, former West
Virginia editor, now men,
Der of the Guffey Coal Commits
sion, compares Rush Holt in his
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THE men who write about the daily doings OF
Il F. d. r. for little while become idlers at the
race track, the dog track and the pool. However
1t Is not easy to throw off the habits of an occupa-
ton. The reporters remain reporters, and small
part of their waking time is spent talking politics.
The almost unanimous opinion of the White
House corps is that Mr. Roosevelt will be reelected
There is general agreement that he has gained
strength in the last two or three months.
The general feeling is that the Gettysburg of the
campaign occurred when AL Smith came to Wash
ington TO make his big speech. That Pickett's
charge. 1t failed. And the Republican drive re-
coded from its high point
To be sure, AL hurt Roosevelt this time in New
England, but that already lost land or at the
very least doubtful territory
1t is we'll to remember that the prediction of
White House correspondents must be taken with
certain amount Of salt The reporters around Roose-
welt very much want him to win and therefore, they
think he will. He has been a good newspaper
President. The honeymoon is over and not all the
news gatherers naive enough to be taken in
constantly by the Roosevelt charm and the Roose-
welt smile. Indeed, they joke among themselves
about the manner in which Mr. Roosevelt can turn
on the oil when he is disposed. Still, knowing
how the trick is done does not necessarily confer
complete immunity.
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u. S. Has Done It's
Bit Toward Peace
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON, April 10.-No has to be
w religious to feel the moving spirit OF Easter.
It does not matter much whether the Easter story
be history or legend springng out of the faint
racial memory of pagan rites For the story it tells,
as did the ancient phoenix legend without such
beauty, is of the eternal faith of the human
that out of our failures out of our own self-made
tragedies we shall some time live in better world.
1t symbolizes the spirit of hope which spurs man
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BY BERTRAM b. FOWLER


pERHAPS the biggest and most significant cooperative
activity in the United States is the credit union
ment.
few years ago this just system of cooperative
credit which aimed to wipe out the activities of the loan
shark and the high cost personal loan company Today it
emerging the financial heart of the cooperative
ment
1t has gone ahead its loan shark drive But today,
with millions of dollars in these workers banks there is
distinct and coherent toward taking the install
men buying business of cooperators and providing coop
societies with financial support
The credit union idea was imported to the United
States by Edward A. Fene Boston merchant In it Mr..
Filene real system of democratic banking.
The idea took hold. Workers in industrial plants set
up their banks. Capital raised by sale of S.