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rovw THE EVENING INDEPENDENT (Founded 1863) Published Dully Except Sunday By The Cecelia Company B. OHIDESTER Editor -E. A. NEUTZENHOLZER Business Manager Subscription by carriers, Dully Per Week, 16t! By Mall (In Advance) In Ohio, One Year. $3.00: Six Monthi, 41,75 Outside Ohio.

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Chicaqo. Detroit Mamfcer of Audit Bureau of Circulation, Anoeiated Ohio pally American Newapaper Ohio Select List. Private Exchange, All Dejsartmenti 3U1 MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Preit is exclusively entitled to the for republlcatlon of all newt dispatches credited to it or not and alto the local news published herein. Entered at Pestoffice. Maislllon, Ohie, Ser.ond-Class Matter THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1938 A BUSINESS WITHIN BUSINESS An insipiu i mo what President may expect fwrn a Mudy of the duplication and complexity of report? required of business by government, now being conducted by the Central Statistics hoard, is revealed in the answers received by Forbes Magazine to a poll of in hundreds of companies in the automotive, banking, chain and department stores, iron and steel, oil, public utility, railroad and other industrial and commercial The business organizations responding to the Forbes.

Survey agreed unanimously thai the statistical reports demanded of them by the government form a tremendous Burden. Many indicated that they spend more time and money filling out government forms than they do in conducting their own business. A summary of answers shows that in ten years, the number of government reports the average company has to file per year has pvra- mided 865 per cent, and the cost 440 per cent. Today. 67 companies file 6.21 7.972 reports a year, an average of 92.806 reports per company.

It costs 54 of these companies $6.630,803, or SI 22.793 each, to do so. Five years ago, 42 companies submitted 786,288 reports a year, an average of 18,721 reports per company. It cost 29 companies in this group $1.358.350, or 546,840 each, to turn in their share. Ten years ago. 27 companies turned in 259,749 reports, an average of 9,620 reports per company.

Twenty-one of these companies paid 5477,653 or 522,745 each, for the privilege of doing so. How many reports must individual companies annually file: According to the Forbes study a food-products company estimates 510,000. A York City bank counts up 280,000. A meat- packer. 141.628.

A public utility. 75.000. A railroad. 102,360. A string of chain stores, 627.261.

To an oil company, the Forbes Survey points out. falls the distinction of filling out the greatest number of returns annually. It compiles 1.135,000 reports at a cost of 51,250.000. To a public- utility holding company, strangely enough, falls the equally rare distinction of filling in the lowest number of forms. This year it will send 32; five years ago, it sent in six; and ten years ago it sent in five.

But a subsidiary of this company reports that this year 406 reports will be made at a cost of S41.000; five years ago, 224 reports were compiled at a cost of ten years ago. the totals were 159 reports, and 500 in expense. Regardless of the findings of the Central Statistical board and remedies it suggests, the problem is still far from solved, the Forbes studv point out. for the statistical board can concern itself only with federal agencies. It cannot deal with the agencies of state and municipalities who can go blithely on asking as much information and as many reports from business men as they choose.

Business' only hope is to educate local authorities to the fact that much of the information they seek has already been submitted to the federal government where thev merely have to look it up. In this country they are seeking the prostration of America by inadequate armaments and pacifist philosophy hoping- that this country ultimately may fall easy prey to their assaults. they do not plan an invasion from without they plan the of America from within and the most fertile field for the development of their noxious philosophy is a people harassed by economic distress and weak in national spirit and defense. Thus, the decision of President Roosevelt to expend an additional $150,000,000 on national defenr-e will be greeted with approval. The president knows and the people ultimately must realize that in the future only armament adequate for the defense of our borders will protect the country.

Treaties and brotherly love are out. The hands across the st-as, in the end, will carry cold steel. THE EVENING MASSTT.T HXT ONLY THE FIT CAN SURVIVE Prophets now warn of the day when Germany, feeding upon the fruits of conquest, will again seek world supremacy as in 1914. they sec aright time will tell. But one thing is certain.

Combustibility is increasing rapidly in Europe and a great conflict is looked upon as inevitable. Vi ith Japan waging undeclared war of acquisition across the Pacific and Germany preparing to seek her place in the sun in the Atlantic. America ultimately will find itself in thr middle. Only might will rule and only those fit to defend themselves can survive. It is safe to say that many American people are beginning to see what is happening, what the possibilities of the future are and to swing around to the support of strong national defense.

While it is not fair to say that all persons who preach against adequate national defense and in behalf of peace are communists, it is a well-established fact that all communists arc preaching against increased armament and for peace. They are doing in this country what they tried to do in F.urope but in another wav. Newspaper readers will remember how the communist government of Russia denounced the Munich accord and the four countries which reached it. The soviet leaders did everything in their power to precipitate a general war in F.u- rope believing that when both sides were prostrated they could march in and establish a communist government. WHO GETS THE $400? United States Senator H.

Styles Bridges, of Hampshire, gave citizens and especially the millions of WPA workers in the country something to think about when Tuesday evening in an address in Cleveland, he said that it cost the government an average of about $994 yearly for ecery worker in this country. the -wages paid in my said the senator, "the average worker gets about $528 a year. does the other $400 go? I'll tell you where it goes. It goes into the palms of democratic politicians." Of course there is nothing citizens or WPA workers can do about it. The WPA is operated by a powerful bureaucracy in which the people have nothing to say and over which they have no control.

As for the WPA workers" themselves, they simply take orders. The bureaucrats make the rules and the WPA workers obey them. If they go on strike they are striking against the government. The government is the largest and most powerful the country. It possesses almost a monopoly on jobs.

If a man leaves WPA he runs the risk of starving. It all shows what might happen, if. as and when government and its bureaucracies took over industry. Many men today are working for the government at wages they would not accept from private industry. Indirectly, slowly and imperceptibly general wage levels are being lowered and standards of living are falling.

This is the inevitable result when government supplants private industry as an employer. STEEL PRICES AND BUSINESS THURSDAY. OCTOBER 13. 1938 To the Editor of The Independent: Now that the chief of police has held that laws requiring motorists approaching from front or rear to stop when a school bus Is taking on or discharging passers, I think that law to We see so many reckless drivers ssing our house that when the school bus stops it is a miracle that children aren't killed or hurt. You know how children are.

They run and chase each other and often step out from behind a bus without thinking what they are doing. I think we should make the city law Jlbo with Hie sta.te law. If children arc protected in the country they ought to be protected In the city where there is more traffic. MOTHER OF TWO. Massillon, Oct.

12. Your Heart And Home Problems By BEATRICE FAIRFAX (Copyright, lajg. King Peaturea SynUlciue, inc.) Massillon will interest the results of the reduction of th price of steel sheets S4 a ton. Ohio producers were not responsible for the cut. The change made by United States and Bethlehem Steel companies, the two largest producers, to meet competitive conditions.

Mr. J. M. Schlendorf. of Cleveland, formerly of Massillon.

assistant vice president in charge of sales. said at Cleveland Tuesday that Republic Steel will be compelled to "be competitive." The steel industry was thrown into turmoil by the price reduction. United States and Bethlehem Steel both declared it was not dictated to attract larger orders from -the automotive industry. Steel men believe that that industry will buy when stocks are needed regardless of the price cut. Xor-was it believed that the re- would greatly stimulate automobile duction buying.

What was intimated was that the action of the industry was preliminary to a discussion of possible wage reductions. Steel companies have been complaining that they can not pay wages and reduce prices. Most of them are operating at a loss. Meanwhile economists agree that never have they been less certain about the future than today. Industrialists reflect that thought in their extreme caution.

They know not where they will wind up and hardly know which wav they are going. The steel price reduction would seem to add to the uncertainty of the times and render more precarious the future of business. MY TOWN Whatever a citizen may think of Massillon. it is after all his home town and he is a part of it. In a recent issue of the United States Municipal Xews, published by the United States Conference of Mayors, appears a few anonymous paragraphs which deserve to be passed along" to every citizen of every city in the country.

The title ''It is My Home Town and I am a Part of It." Says the author: "My town is the place where loumled: where my business is my home is situated and where my vote is cast: where my children are educated; where my neighbors dwell, and where my life is chiefly lived. It is the home spot for me. Cyclorama By C. E. CHIDESTEK In the current issue of a popular weekly magazine the story of W.

W. Heffelfinger. who wears the title of "All-time, All-American Guard." Mr. Heffelfincer ng fn ea at the age of 70, played his game of football when he was 65. He began plav- ing when he was 15 and earned his title when he played on the football team of Yale university.

Mr. Heffelfinger once was in Mnssillon but not for the purpose of playing football. He came here to be a member of the wedding party at the marriage of the then Miss Edna McClymonds, daughter of the late Mr and Mrs J. and the late Arvine Wales M.r. wales and Mr.

were classmates and very close friends at Yale. Mr. Heffelfinger, at the time, had been but a few years out of school and his name was known to all. His fame traveled with him. Sports writers, fans and small boys followed him wherever he went.

We remember distinctly of seeing Mr. and Mr. Wales walking in Erie near Lincoln Way, tne day of the wedding. A group of urchins was following them. We gazed in awe at the figure of the greatest guard of all time.

To us he seemed a giant of proportions which never had seen before and which we have always believed we have never seen since. We were sur- From Independent Files SIXTY-NINE YEARS AGO In lieu of the loss of the excellent services of Prof. Kimball, our board of trustees are fortunate in securing Mprifv UaPei UendenCy Prof BOmund A. Jones, of Ease Meauay, a graduate of Amherst college, the same at which Prof. K.

secured his diploma. Prof comes to us, we understand, recommended in the most nm- acquainted and others who his qualifications and abilities. No aes. douot he will be welcomed by every lover of education ana we hope he will be sustained in all his laudable labors as to elevate the cause of education among us. THIRTY-SIX YEARS AGO Edward Mross entertained a party of his friends" at the home of his brother, north of the city, Saturday evening.

There -was a dance, at the conclusion of' which lunch was served. Mr and Mrs. William of Canal Pulton, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gribble of East Main 'st.

Frank Wittman has taken out a building permit. He will erect a frame dwelling of six rooms at a cost of Sl.oOO, in North st. 3 cio i cititriiiuci him, he was all muscle and bone. He was in command wherever he went and those who did not follow turned to look at him. Today, as Mr.

Heffelfinger says in his story, 200- pounders are common on a football squad. In his day, the average weight of the Yale team was about 176. The McClymonds-Wales wedding was a notable affair. Besides the celebrated Mr. Heffelfinger, there were present, as guests, the president of the United States, William McKinley and Mrs.

McKinley and Secretary of State and later Supreme Court Justice William R. Day. The bride's table was in what now is the shop at the Massillon Woman's club, formerly the McClymonds residence. It is interesting to note that after nearly 50 years, the great Mr. Heffelfinger is still a person of interest to football fans.

Certainly having seen him once we, for one, never forgot him. TWENTY-SIX YEARS AGO andX a of Mr Edas we remember I Behind the Scenes in Hollywood By HARRISON CARROLi. Copyright. 1938. King Features Snydicate, toe.

breathes a sigh of relief as Danielle Darrieux sails for Hollywood on the 15th. During the war scare, it wasn't known when the star would be able to report for her second picture. Her husband, Henri Decoin, already had been assigned to instruct aviation cadets in combat flying. Decoin is now the ranking French ace of the World war. One of his exploits was to shoot down Goering.

The teaming of ex-sweethearts, Wayne Morris' and Priscilla Lane in ''Brother has an equally ironic sequel. The Hollywood pair, whose romance couldn't be now have to fly together to Lexington, and lead the V. M. I. dance given in honor of the opening 3f the picture.

were married at the parsonage of the United Brethren church this morning at 10:50 o'clock, the Rev H. H. Davis officiating. The bride was attended by her sister. Miss Edith Perry.

Clyde Karrer, brother of the groom, served as best man. An elaborate four-course breakfast was served to a large number of guests immediately after the ceremony. The young couple were the recipients of a large number of handsome presents. Mr. and Mrs.

Karrer will go to housekeeping immediately in their newly furnished home at 300 Maple st. Mr. Karrer is in the employ of the Massillon Rolling Mill Co. A Canton firm has just installed, gratis, a new steel silo at the Massillon State hospital and will test it out. It is the first of the kind used in this part of the country although steel silos are used extensively in the west.

This increases the ensilage capacity of the Institution to 650 tons but there is so much corn this year that even such ample accommodations will not be sufficient to take care of it. The ensilage crop at the hospital this year is valued at about $7,000. TEN YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Albrecht and Mr.

and Mrs! Robert McLain, of Wales NE. spent Friday evening in Cleveland, where they attended the performance of Miss Ethel Barrymore, in the play, "The Kingdom of God." At an evening bridge of attractive appointments, given by Mrs. Andrew Butler, of Mansfield, recently, the engagement of Miss Kathryn Hamel. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Sebastian Hamel. of 1010 State NE, to Joseph A. Fabian, of Bucyrus, was announced. The ceremony will take place November 27, at St. Mary's church, and the Rev.

N. A. Hassel will officiate. Miss Hamel received gifts of crystal and linens. YOUNG DREAM' Dear Miss Fairfax: I'm 18 years old and very much in love with a girl of 17.

She says she's love with me too and has' agreed to marry me. DO you think we're too young? We've Known each othei for more than a year now, and are anxious to know what you think about our marrying. Our mothers asked us to write to you and see what you think about such early marriages. JACK When the poet wrote "there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream," he spoke the truth. But along with the glamor and witchery of being young and in love here stalks the grim question of whether one is able or not to yield to this magic influence -Your mothers advise you to write me.

Well, let's consider things. Do -ou earn- enough money to support his Or will you have to live vith your parents after you're mar- And will you be required to pay in money or work for the board- Jill? Can your 17-year old sweetheart cook or keep house? Is she trong and healthy? i know our grandmothers, even mothers were able to many at-16 and 17. But conditions have changed. Since you ask my advice, I'm going tell you to wait a year or so at east. FEARS FOR THE FUTURE iear Miss Fairfax: We've been married eleven years and all we have to show for it is a smoking stand and a run-down car Also the sweetest three-year old little daughter the world.

I wouldn't mind the one poverty- stricken room if I saw anything ahead. But my nusoand has no am- oition and is content to go on as we are going. He didn't want any children but I insisted, rnd now he loves the baby. I should like to have another child, as I think the lot of an only one Is'nt hnppy. I bee him to save a little lo- wnrd a new home that I could fix up and make attractive.

But he won't let me save, and gives me Just enough to get by on. is there any way to let a stubborn man see that we can't get ahead? not young anymore, and I fear for our future. WORRIED i When a woman finds herself In this plight, the only thing she can do is to try and get some work to do at home. If you will send'me a 3-eent stamped, self-addressed envelope; I will give you the names of a couple of 'books that have some suggestions. Perhaps you may have to take a little training to make even a little money.

That could be arranged through some of the government classes. TOO MUCH TO BEAUTY PARLOR Dear Miss Fairfax: My wife is undeniably pretty. And she'd be just as good-looking, if she did her own facial, hand-painting frizzing, curling and rail-tinting. But ail these things she has to have done for her make a pretty big hole in my weekly pay envelope. Apparently she is satisfied with me and hasn't an.eye.out for any other fellow.

Why does she feel obliged to have her primping done for her? She doesn't have to court me so hard. LOSING INTEREST. I wonder if the signature you've given yourself doesn't explain matters, in spite of what you tell me. Does she think, you're losing interest, and does she have her hand-painting, nail-tinting -done to keep you? Why dou't you tell her, as you have me, that satisfied with her without all these embellishments? Also, remind her of the adage that when you've once caught the streetcar, you stop running. By LOGAN CLENDENING.

M. D. TWO TYPES OF Disorders Of Spleen And Bone Marrow Bring On Blood Condition When we consider the entire blood system, with the bone marrow a the place of origin of the blood cells and the spleen as the place of their destruction, it is easy to visualize the conception that the blood can be impoverished either by lowering the activity of the marrow or increasing the activity of the spleen. In actual fact, both of these things occur and anemias of both types are known. The activity of the marrow is depressed by a number of things.

Any infection wul do it. It is well known that after even a sore throat or tonsillitis, there may be a weakness and pallor due to a mild anemia. As soon as the poison is eliminated, the marrow function is resumed again and the condition rapidly rights itself automatically. We have gained great insight into the anemias from the work done by Whipple, Minot and Murphy, work which gained them the Nobel prize. Described Anrmia About a century ago an English Physician, Thomas Addison.

described a peculiar anemia that came on without apparent cause, and usually Diet and Health Author of "THE HUMAN 'BODY" ANEMIA progressed fatally. Ifr? was pernicious anemia. In the course of iime it was found that in this disease the walls of the stomach are completely atrophied. Then Whipple Minot and Murphy, in 1935, showed that the stomach secretes a substance that stimulates the bone marrow to 'blood formation. So the stomach is also a part of the far- flung blood system.

This substance, known as the anti- anemic substance, is stored in liver Naturally, when the stomach is atrophied, the marrow ceases to work and anemia results. But the important findings of this work were that -liver extract would entirely replace the missing substance and completely cure so-called pernicious anemia, which is now no longer pernicious. It is now called Addisonian anemia, after its discoverer Besides liver extract, iron will stimulate the bone marrow. And so will Vitamin B. A number of my readers write in to ask me where they can get Vitamin B.

Ordinary yeast furnishes good quantities of it When the spleen becomes overactive and destroys too many red cells, an anemia known as sptenie anemia results. It is treated by Xray of the spleen. At 17, Billy Halop, leader of the "Dead End'' kids, will head an important business enterprise. Part of the money he has saved from stage, radio and screen' has been working since the aee of four be invested In a series of five service stations New York. The first is now being built the corner of 110th street and Central Park west As president of the Halop Enterprises.

Billy wiii take an active part in the management of the chain. A pair of spectacles may identify the thief who Uole Jack Haley's car and left a message on the steering wheel declaring he was one of the actor's fans. The spectacles, dropped in the bottom of the car. were made for a very near-sighted man and police are hopeful that the clue will lead them to an arrest. Don't know why all the surprise over Joan Crawford's acceptance of the lead in "Ice It's the Read 'em and Laugh Not Guilty "My town has the right to my civic loyalty.

It supports me and I should support it town wants my citizenship, not my Hup; my triendimcss. not my dissension; mv Grand you know that It took millions of years to carve out this great abyss?" goodness, I didn't know this was a government job." House Detective "Mummy, I want to whisper something." "Darling, big girls that are nearly five never whisper before company." "All right, then, but that gentleman over there took another cake when you weren't looking." Economizing On the Piano A tramp paused outside a large house, and as he did so another of his kind came shuffling out of the gate. i sTmgin rt slle has teen waiting for. In the story, "Any luck mate?" asked the first tramp. i Joan is the member of a skating trio.

Her voice is "It ain't no use tryin' there." was the replv "Its better than her skill on the ire and this leads her to a a poverty-sticken ole. There was a couple o''women 1 ympalhy. not my criticism; my intelligence, not my indifference. My town supplies me with protection, trade, friends, education, schools, churches, ami the right to free, oral citix.cuship. ''ft has things that are better than others; the best things should sock to make better, the worst things should help to suppress.

Take it all-in-all, it is my town, and it is i.entitled to the best there is in me." One of the many results of the war scare in Europe is a shortage of hair for movie -wigs. Peasant women of Bulgaria. Slovakia and Rumania grow hair specially for the film market and are the principal sources of supply for the brunette variety. According to the Max Factor wig department, there hasn't been a shipment in three months. Factor will try to supply Hollywood's needs by turning to South and Central America.

Like Lupc Velez and Johnny Weismuller, the Jon Halls are investing their savings in apartment houses. They are now building one north of Beverly Hills Will call it the Halliford Plaza and will feature individual barbecue pits and sun decks. tryin 1 to play on one blinkin Tatler. Benjamin Franklin, when he was in England as agent of the Colony of Pennsylvania, sent home silkworm eggs and mulberry cuttings to start the silkworm industry. Seattle, Washington, requires that ail beef lamb and mutton sold within the city limits must be graded and stamped.

Milwaukee claims to have the lowest burglary rate of any American metropolis. The King ranch, In Texas, Is larger than the state of Delaware. Washington At A Glance By CHARLES P. STEWART. Central Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct.

13. The official version is that Hirosi Sailo is retiring as ambassador in Washington of poor health. Diplomats, state departmental folk and others who consider themselves really "in the know," pooh-pooh this explanation unqualifiedly. Their account is that His Excellency is being recalled due to military influence hi Tokio. 'Or else, may be (as an alternative guess), he is quitting voluntarily, being personally so completely out of sympathy with his home militarists' policy.

Nippon's activities hi China unquestionably have made the islanders extremely unpopular in this country. Their unpopularity is something of an injustice to the bulk of the Japanese. The Japs generally are a very likable people. As a one-time news correspondent in the Far East I met several of their cabinet members and found them as intelligent and peaceable as that kind of gentry anywhere. Their Samurai class, however, is homicidally cuckoo.

It isn't comparable to any other estate on earth. Two-Gun Men The Samurai are a survival of what, in our own wild Western days, were referred to as two-gun men. Says a poem on the subject: "The cow town's dead. "It's many a year since spurred heels trod its walks, "But on Boot Hill rthe cow town cemetery) at night, "They say the two-gun man still stalks." Well, the Samurai were two-swordsmen. And they still stalk, with modern improvements.

They're not ghosts either. To illustrate: A few years ago, when the Japanese campaign against China was in its incipiency. then Premier mukal pointed out that Nippon hadn't the funds to wage a prolonged war. Thereupon a Samurai committee called in to assassinate teach him to have funds when required. Somehow the militarists get away with this sort of thing, it has an intimidating effect upon rational Japanese statesmanship.

Japan's Peculiar System Here, our war and navy departments are governmental sub-divisions In Japan militarism is as independent 01 tne rest of the government as the well-known ho? on ice. It docs as it pleases, regardless of the cabinet, of parliament, of the mikado himself Disagreements result. Genuine Japanese statesmanship may reason that militarism has gone if it insists on it too hard, it's liquidated The whole thing is a throw-back to i ne dark Yet it exists Civilization Gone To Hades Retiring Japanese Ambassador Saito is civilized. I suppose he has tried to defend, in the United States a Japanese cours that he doesn't believe m. He's clone his best at a bad joe.

He a mililaris. His health's all right. But recently. Foreign Minister Ugaki of Japan resigned. Ugaki was one of the reasonable crowd in Japan, and Saito was cnp of his foremost supporters in the foreign field No wonder that Saito threw un his hands.

Kensuke Horinouchi gels Mr Saito's place. Mr. Horinouchi has been -H ex-undersecretary of Japanese foreign affairs. But what faction Japan or the "bugl house militarists? eaven knows! not being sure of politics in Japan! Florida officials announced plans a S6.7oO.000 road building pv 0 gram to be completed in 5930 contingent upon approval of fedor-il ngenoies which would provide half of the money..