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of hundred cities were studied,
and their composite experience
used in the program.
TN choosing sites for it's demon
4 STATIONS, Resettlement stressed
diversity of industries and near
ness to jobs, housing needs, pre-
vailing wage standards, probable
cost Of land, nearness to good
roads and availability of sewers,
water, electricity and gas.
Certain industrialists came to
Washington in the early days of
RIA, seeking construction of prof.
ects near their factory towns.
They frankly admitted that If
they could get their workers we'll
housed at low cost, it would dis
courage requests for higher wages
and union organization.
Resettlement officials think
they're avoiding any possibility of
substituting low wages by choosing
high wage cities with diversified
industries and leasing homes in
stead of selling.
In all probability there will be
an element of subsidy in these
"greenbelt communities. Nobody
knows how much the government
will spend over and above what
it can collect. Nor can any one
be sure how much rent Resettled
families will have to pay.
The community residents also
will be unable to tax big indus
trial and commercial properties to
help support their schools, sewers,
Fairgrounds, and other commu-
nifty facilities.
No one suggests that these four
demonstration projects are more
than a pin-prick in the national
housing problem.
But" says Tugwell, 1--WE hope
we are pointing the way
NEXT-Resettlement Admins
tration's biggest job-rural reha-
bilitatiOn.
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Times Books

THERE'S fresh. earthly tang to BEYOND SING
THE WOODS" by Trygve GuIbrannsen put
nam; $3.50 which makes the book pleasant con-
trast to runo mill problem novels of the day.
Its story is set in the northern wilderness Of Nor
way. at some indeterminste day in the past: and it
tells about strong. brutal successful clan Il woods
dwellers who fought and schemed their way riches
and power in their lonely frontier manor house
There is. at times, little too much starkness
about the thing; trifle too much of the darkness
and Oscillation of the chilly northland. But tbs
author handles nicely and he does have an inter-
estng story to tell.
That story is concerned chiefly with tough head
OF the clan Tough. He goes to kill bear with
AK. Carrying on his houses long feud with civ
zed folk 10 the SOUTH he goes for frontier finance
and becomes mortgage-holder and money lender,
well as dominant landowner, of the countryside.
In the course OF long grasping life. he event.
ualy gets TO the point where he put the squeeze
on the whole neighborhood. And then. just as he
gets ready to do so. he swskens to the delights OF
human kidness and pity.
In the end his plans for general breakdown are
forgotten and he becomes q sort Of benevolent
despot. under whose ruls all hands are happy d Cd
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i. This argument against military
training OF college students is
often strongly advanced, but C.
Terrence Pihlblad. psychologist,
gave the Thurstone Peterson .Atti-
tude Toward War Test" to 535 stu
dents of the University of Mis-
souri, t34l men and 1914 women)
where military training OF men stu
dents is compulsory. and to 100 men
at Franklin and Marshall College of
Pennsylvania. where there is no
military training The tests showed
ne difference in war spirit" be-
tween either the men who received
military training in Missouri Uni
versity and the women who, OF
course, had no training, also no
difference between the men students
Of the Western and Eastern institu-
tions. Furthermore, members of
distinct military organizations such
as the National Guard and C. M
T. c. showed no more war spirit"
by this test than non members.
2. Certainly she can. or at least
her family can enable her 10 do so.
Bows run about more. get into more
scrapes and difhculties, and are
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usually called on to use their wits
more than girls, especially girls be-
low normal. AS Everett Dean Mar
tin, social psychologist, has pointed
out, among the we'll to-do and
wealthy moron girl can be some
how pulled through q private school.
given good manners and often
secure a first class husband who
isn't looking. He thinks in this way.
wealth tends to preserve moronity
among our upper economic classes.
3. Nothing in this world and
probably in the next will ever in
tereSt any human being as mucn
rs himself. He looks more at him.
self III the mirrcr and more ~
tently than he does at any one else
and enjoys his own photograph
unless he thinks it is not as good
looking as he iS-more than look
ing at the likeness of any one else.
A person who did not do this would
be distinctly abnormal.
Tertorrow-Shculd We have high
ey standards Of conduct for men
than for women?
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The National Resources Board says the losses
care nobodys fault in particular for the individual
operate is driven by economic pressure. -. This
great underlying is destructive competition.
I'm many the prevention of loss, while
trely possible from the point of view of engineering.
involves substantial increase in cost. In such
it may be years before change in present
practice is possible.
But there remain many other losses which
be avoided with slight additional expense as the
practice of the better companies in normal times has
already shown. Prevention of such losses depends
on relieving the conditions OF poverty which have
surrounded the industry. The members of this COM
mttee convinced that the necessary first step
in reducing the waste in coal mining is to aid tbs
industry in establishing itself stable and proits
BILE basis.
of profit stimulates conservation. The valuable
coal becomes the men tend to il.
A financially stable company afford competent
engineers and adequate supervisors; that is an i'm
portant factor since large tonnages lost in
squeezes due simply to lack of engineering control
Reduction in waste may also be expected from
other results of program of prodution control.
check upon development will prevent premature
abandonment of mines before they worked out.
With check the expansion OF capacity.
steadier operation of mines remaining will ensue
thereby increasing the percentage of extraction
Moreover if reasonable prices made possible.
the coal industry may be asked to give OF
reducing the waste
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Vice President Marshall, in
Woodrow Wilson's day, became
famous for his remark: What
this country needs is a good s.
cent cigar"
Charlie Dawes was famous for
his Hell m Maria" profanity.
Charlie Curtis became famous as
diner out. and Jack Garner
probably will go down as the
greatest poker player in the his
tory of Capitol Hill.
Jack is a member of the Bears
Club, where the stakes are high
and the sky is the limit. The
minimum pile of chips with which
you can enter a game costs $500.
AT the end of one congressional
season, Jack figured up in his
little black book that 500, 600 still
was owed to him. All of it, in
cidentally, was paid, except for
few hundred owed by one man.
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BY saving his winnings, and by
careful investment in real es-
tate, Jack Garner at one time just
before the depression was reputed
to be worth 81 900, OOO-chiefiy
from poker.
On the trip to the Philippines
last Autumn, Jack was engaged
in poker game. when at mid
night Mrs. Garner tried to in.
duce him to come TO bed. But
Jack was between $500 and $500
in the hole. He refused.
About a. M, however, he came
into his stateroom.
How much did you lose?" in
quired Mrs. Garner sleeepily.
"a hundred dollars"
Go back there and win it
back" said his wife.
And he Gid.
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Syndicate Inc1
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gram: Greenbelt, at Ber-
wynn, Nd, near Washing
ton; Greenbrook, at Bound
brook, N. j.; Greenhills,
outside Cincinnati, and
Greendale, at Milwaukee.
ALLEGATION of 100000 from
the work relief fund has been
made for these developments.
Greenbelt and Greenhills will each
provide homes for 1000 families;
Greenbrook AM Greendale for
750 each.
CONSTRUCTION is speeding
~ along at Berwyn, where
nearly $500 men-mostly WPA
workers-are engaged and where
government workers will live. 1t
has barely begun at Cincinnati
and Milwaukee and the Bound
brook project is temporarily tied
up by litigation.
Situated near industrial cities,
these communities are being built
on raw land within committing
distance of factories and Office
hIIiIHinnc NIT ha 81
ting every acre to maximum eco
nomic use.
They are planned for families
in the $1,000 to $500 range and
it is hoped that the houses can
be made available at about Sc a
month room. The detectives
are good housing and a healthy
environment at minimum cost for
families which now can afford
only sub standard homes.
New homes are beyond the
reach of about 70 per cent of CITY
families and Administrator Rex
ford G. Tugwell says that if the
philosophy of these communities
drawn, they are bound to affect
II
TN general, the idea has been
Il recommended by many bodies of
experts, including committees of
Herbert Hoover's conference on
home building and home owner
ship in 1881. Relief of slum
congestion is primary objective.
Suburban land can be bought much
cheaper than slum real estate and
in wide tracts it offers far bet
ter opportunity for scientific
planning.
The "greenbelt" is a protective
area of farming and forest land,
perhaps half mile wide, which
surrounds the community. Farm
ers operating there will sell their
produce inside the belt to the
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community jewellers, and there
will be garden plots available for
those among the latter who want
to raise their own vegetables.
Farmers and city workers will
share the same recreation areas
and community facilities, with an
exchange of fruits of agricultural
labor for wages of industry and a
reduction to minimum of trans
portation, distribution and middle
man charges for food.
In the center of the commune
ties will be stores, schools, post
office, town hall and Fairgrounds.
Homes around them will be laid
out in super blocks" saving for
interior parks and play spaces for
children the land which ordinarily
might go into unnecessary streets.
THROUGH-TRAFFIC streets
Il will bypass the town proper
and circulatory streets will link
the various neighborhoods and
residential streets, many of which
will be dead-end. Protective I'M
derpasses are planned at highway
crossings to eliminate traffic haz-
ards for children,
A flood of applications for
homes at Greenbelt, near Wash
ington, has been received. wash
ington rents are about a third
above the national average)
Homes for thousand families
will be up by the first of the year,
it is claimed, detached and semi
detached houses of from four to
six rooms. A hotel and apartments
also are planned. About $4,000
acres of land are being used.
Houses are being laid out in
large parks, with many trees
around and numerous Fairgrounds
among them and maximum of
sunshine and open space. A small
stream on the project will be used
to make lake. Parks and open
countryside will be within a short
walk of everybody's front door.
Greenbelt will be turned over
to a nonprofit corporation soon
after it is finished, which will re-
pay the Federal government. 1t
will then pay its share of local
taxes on land and buildings.
Charter provisions will assure
permanent administrat ton of the
community as planned.
Thorough research and study
preceded the beginning of Green
belt and the three other COM
munitieS. Economic backgrounds
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TN time, if the industry be placed stable
Il basis and competition between districts held
within reasonable bounds, the Legislatures of tbs
coal mining states may be expected TO enact con-
Servaton laws lessen waste of their coal
analogous to those already adopted in jurisdic
lions for oil and gas. Hitherto action has been
impossible because of cut-throat competition.
Meantime the first and indispensable step is to 50
organize the economic forces of the industry as to
relieve the extreme pressure of competition"
This country has vast reserves of Ignite and low
grade btuminous COAL but the supply of better btu
minous coal is limited The board reports that with
production at the 1929 rate, the life of the magni-
fcent Pittsburgh bed in Pennsylvania is limited to
100 years.
Reserves in West Virginia would be gone in Is
years at the 1929 rate. The highest grade gas and
metallurgcal Goals ii per cent exhausted in
Kentucky and % cent exhausted in West Virginia
and Virginia.
THE END.
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Sbendthrift
America
BY RUTH FINNEY
(Westbrook Fegler Is on Vscation.D

WASHINGTON, May 15.-If the Guf-
fey-Snyder Coal Act goes down in the
general Supreme Court attack on New
Deal measures, waste of the countrys coal
resources will become, once more, an i'm
mediate and acute problem.
Though the act does not deal primarily with con-
Servaton, this is of its ma jor purposes II fol-
lows recommendations OF the National Resources
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WASHINGTON, May IS
w White House Secretary Mar
win Mcintyre has new role. Not
only is he handling the Presidents
appointments, as always, but now
has also voluntarily assigned
himself the job of adviser on
shipping legislation.
This question is the most strife
ridden one of the congressional
session.
The ship operators, backed by
Secretary Dan Roper and Senator
Royal S. Copeland of New York,
are trying to put through bill
that would throw the Treasury
wide open to their demands. Sem
ator Joseph F. Guffey of Penn
sylvania, with the support of the
Postoffice Department, has Of
fered a measure abolishing the
exorbitant ocean-mail grants, sub
shutting instead a moderate and
carefully safeguarded ship sub
sidy plan.
Copeland, by quick parliament
tary strategy. got his bill reported
to the Senate. But progressives,
both Democratic and Republican,
have announced that if he at
tempts to secure enactment they
will filibuster.
And TO emphasize their deter
mination to end shipping raids on
the Treasury, the progressives
struck the $4,000, 900 item for an
nual ocean mail payments under
the existing contract system out
of the Postotfice Appropriation
Bill.
This maneuyer put the ship OPP
orators, and their champions Rop-
er and Copeland, III a dilemma.
They have got to come to terms
with the progressives-or there
will be no more Treasury taffy.
The shipping lobby, one of the
most active in the capital, has
been moving heaven and earth
pEtlttlO tuc SLC1ltc III cn blIUki W
get the operators out of this hole.
And few days ago Mcintyre
brightly volunteered a solution
to the President.
He proposed that a rider be at
tached to the Second Deficiency
Appropriation Bill. now in the
Senate, restoring the $4,000 600
ocean mail item for u temporary
period"
NOTE-Close friend Of McIn-
tyres is Jim Barnes, lobbyist for
the ship owners association.
VICE PRESIDENTS Of the
United States usually are
best known for their homespun
qualities.
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paper boys"
Why. naturally" All NJ. Lam
don explained; Il am always glad
to see the representatives OF the
press and TO answer in the frank
est and most fortnight way any
queries which they may put to me
on political subjects. 1 believe
that the coming campaign should
be one of complete candor."
Forget it." said the old friend.
Were not talking about the same
thing. I'm talking about enter
tanning the newspaper men. And
I mean the regular working news
paper men, not Hearst and Bris-
Csicrin rlnAHn..rnr, III,
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Gen. johnson Says

Jew YORK May 15-There is Fair Hair
y at the White House. in the long line of sue
cession from Ray Moley through Donald Richberg,
with intervening lesser lights to the present incum
bent, Stanley High.
1t is like the Sultan of the Arabian Nights who
married houri every day and cut off her head
next morning Scheherezade came along, and each
day fascinated the Sultan with fairy story,
too long to be told in single evening, that she kept
her head for 1901 nights of fictitious palsyer.
Although every of the 1eeting Administration
Sultanss has had tale too long to tell in
single evening has lodged the Ak for as long
as 1901 nights-some not for l01 days.
DUT the heat of campaign is no time for change.
an evangelist and once ran church paper. 1t is
Arabian Nights entertainment, but not for our
serious problems.
Steve Early found him and dropped him at tbs
foot OF the throne do little job in the line of his
speciality and he stole the show He already sits in
the seat of Louis Howe His ideas played the
Presidents Baltimore and New York speeches-one
of which promised Federal bread and circuses" to
the distressed among the very old and the very
young, while the other held hope for the New York
clothing workers
The 1896 speech wangling works ia all lined no.
Stanley is the Ray Moley. Ben Cohen. hot
eyed anti-utity zealot: Tom Corcoran the abest of
the Frsnkfurters; and Harry Hopkins are the cam
paign back field The ball is about to be snapped.
Down the field. Democracy. But calling that bunch
Democratic" is just like calling the modern Notre
Dame football team "a-Irsh"
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II Seems nM
BY
HEYWO0@D.BRoUN

NEW YORK, May 15.-They say that
the Governor of Kansas is in a guam
Diary. One of his advisers put him there
only few days ago.
"Alf." said his friend, II don't see how
they can stop you for the nomination"
Gov. Landon replied with becoming modesty. Il
wonder" continued his well-wisher, whether you've
thought ahead and made any plans for the news
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fellows in private cars can look after themselves"
What do you mean?" asked the Governor OF
Kansas
Have you ever stopped to consider that Topeka
IL pretty terrible place in summer"
why no." said the Governor Of Kansas. us it?"
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Board That waste can be prevented
only by stabilizng the industry.
In 1928 the United States was
losing. permanently, $50 million
tons of coal a year-enough to
supply the entire requirements of
Germany. The loss has increased
steadily through the depression.
More than IS per cent of every
bed mined is lost, the Bureau of
Mines has estimated, and at least
20 per cent of this loss is avoidable.
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It's Result of Competition

TN nine recent years 1902 bitumi-
Il nous coal mines were shut down
or abandoned, and only few of
them had been worked out. 1t is
estimated that hundreds of mil
lions of tons of coal we're per-
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Part of Back-POrch Campaign

MOT to you, maybe, but remember the newspaper
men will be coming out here in droves after
you've been nominated. And If it's going to be
ack-porch campaign they'll have to stick here in
Topeka. Some OF them will be men from New York
and Washington and Chicago Some of them
used to places like the Rainbow Room and the
Shoreham Hotel and the Stork Club.
Now. some of the people in your crowd have got
to that they get what they want, or along about
August all the stories from Topeka going to be
Just a bit sour 1 don't mean that the boys won't
try their level best to play fair but you can't get
snappy stories except from contented correspond
ents."
You don't mean that they'll expect to be able
to get" and the Governor Shuddered and
unable to name the vile stuff which steals away the
brain.
Exactly" said his adviser "They most decided
y will be interested in reasonable ration of those
beverages which slake the thirst and make speech
the protective tariff endurable when it's 10 in
the shade"
But Kansas is a dry state" answered Gov Lam
dom and you forget that in my radio interview,
although I said that prohibition is longer is
sue, 1 did emphasize the fact that the Federal
government must give aid to those states which wish
to enforce total abstinence"
The well-wsher made immediate reply.
What are you thinking about?" asked ALI M.
Landon anxiousy.
"I was just thinking" said his friend, "how
peculiarly those stories from Topeka are going
to be about the beginning of September. But, as
you say, Kansas is dry state and you know your
stuff. So long, Aft"
wait just five minutes" replied the Governor
"and come with me into the private Office"
IT'S n Real Qudnddry
TIVE words which have been assigned to All M.
= Landon wholly imaginary. I hope that
they faithful in spirit for the quandary is real
and actually has been discussed with the Governor
according to my inside information.
Lsndons associates fond of saying that their
candidate is highly talented fixer and the pres
ent problem will be solved Buttermilk will remain
the choicest beverage in the Executive Mansion and
ALI M. Landon will have personal knowledge of
any other dispenSation elsewhere but some kind
friend will risk his reputation for the good of the
cause and dare the rap.
Copyright 1880
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oil snd rural
mystery
this the fourh
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
Times Special Writer
Copyright. 1895. by NEA Service. Inc.

copyright 1896.
WASHINGTON, May 15.-Most spectacular of all actv-
tiles of the ambitious Resettement Administration is
its program for "Greenbet suburban resetement COM
munities
There it would rehouse thousands of city families in
rural surroundings at low cost and under conditions
ideastic than any ever before planned such
scale in this country.
Whether you concede that the Federal govern
ment has any business demonstrating the feasibility of
such projects while carrying out it's workreef program
you can't help admit they're interesting.
These communities, government experts say, prob
ably represent the best and most carefully planned deve
opment of land for homes begun taking into account
the assurance that they will be permanently protected
from entertainments.
Four of them will be developed in the present pro-
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VICE PRESIDENTS Of the
v United States usually are
best known for their home5pun
qualities.
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|. U. EXTENSION
SETS DATES FOR
PUPIL CONTESTS
First Achievement Test Is
to Start Feb. 20 With
County Meets.
Special


BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Jan. al
Dates for a series Of Indiana nigh
school achievement contests. spon-
sored each year by the Indiana Uni
versity Extension Division, were an
nounced here today. Several thou
sands pupils participated in the
competitions last year
The annual Latin contest, enter
ing its thirteenth consecutive year
will start Feb. % with county
meets. District meets are scheduled
for April 4, and the final round of
the contest is to be held April II, on
the university campus
The eighth annual solo music con-
test has been enlarged to include
not only piano violin, cello and
voice, but practically all band in
struments. 1t will constitute a part
of the Hoosier Music Festival to be
held here, the third week in April.
Sectional meets for the music con-
test are scheduled for March 20
to 81 and April a. s. The state meet
is to be held April Is.
County meets for the twenty
third annual discussion league con-
test are tentatively scheduled for
March d. District and state meets
are to be held April and "a, re-
spectively.
The mathematics contest, in its
sixth year, is to consist of two di-
visions, algebra and geometry. Sec
tional meets will be held April 4
and the state meet April "a at
Bloomington.