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THE mXGHAMTOX PRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 193G. The Binghamton Press And Some. Folks Might Even Prefer to Go Back to Walking. By CARLISLE ah intnir evrenr KiimlMV Ths to establish, first, that the tax will be of actual benefit to the farmer in the protection of New York state's butter industry and the increase of dairy revenues; next, that it is a real tax and not a confiscatory anil prohibatory measure ami, third, that it can and will produce revenue. CONSIDER IT SETTLED.

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Prisoners are not permitted to talk one with another. The other rule is "no work, no food." Revolting against the stern discipline which is enforced by Warden James A. Johnston, 100 of the individuals confined there for the safety of society find themselves in solitary confinement. They went on strike in the laundry where Al Capoue works and the strike spread from the laundry rapidly through the prison. As fast as the men refused to work guards hustled them into solitary confinement cells which stand apart from the main prison on a 12-ncrc farm.

As the warden very aptly puts it, "The strike raises the question as to who is going to run the prison, the prisoners or the Department of Justice." That sounds like business. About 18 months ago a strike of the same sort developed and was promptly put down. The question which the warden says is raised by the latest ebullition obtains in every prison everywhere. It is merely a continuation of the same question that is raised by the criminal on "the outside." That question is quite simply whether society is going to run things or whether the criminal is going to run them. As far as the Alcatraz strike is concerned the question may be considered as answered.

Society at large has still to demonstrate conclusively the answer to the same question on the outside. And that question will not be answered until the last of the gangsters, whoever he may be, is safely put away, to afay. Our particular difficulty has been and is that our lawmakers, courts and juries have been working on the theory that when the elements of crime are turned loose again upon society they are cured of their previous predatory attitude and that they have no thought of again engaging in the business that sent them into durance vile. As a matter of fact they very rarely have a notion of taking up a new trade. They have found the old- one, on the whole, too easy and too profitable.

So they go back to it again and society has the business all to do over once more. END OF AN EPISODE Thanks to the highly ethical notions of Dr. Leroy L. Hart-man of the Columbia School of Dental and Oral Surgery it seems likely that more millions of teeth will be filled with less apprehension than ever before in the history of dentistry. It is evident that Dr.

Hartman is lacking in "money brains." If be were not, he would have kept the formula for his desensitizing lotion to himself. But. he doesn't keep it to himself. lie makes his formula public and at Ihe same time announces that there will be no patent on the discovery and that he wants to know about it if any dentist; undertakes to charge a patient a big price for using it. Comprised of two parts of ether, one part of ethyl alcohol, 95 proof, and l'i parts of thymol, all by weight, the lotion seems to be, as Dr.

Hartman says, quite the most simple thing that ever came out of dentistry. Applied to the dentine of the tooth which is to be prepared for filling it creates a condition of local anaesthesia from which no rain results either in the application or as the effects of the lotion wear off. Tests made here at the request of this newspaper indicate that it is wholly workable. It may not entirely remove the discomfort of drilling, but it does reduce that discomfort to an almost negligible quantity according to Binghamton patients on whom the tests were made. And so we come to a new era in American dentistry and in fact the dojitistry of the world.

Anything which decreases the pain and discomfort of oral surgery is certain to result in better attention for tne teeth of the human race. Nine persons out of 10 let their teeth get into bad shape because of carelessness or fear of the dentist chair." That very fact accounts for the amazing amount of business done by socalled "painless" dentists until the patients discover that painlessness is, after all, largely a relative term both as to time and place. Here, however, it would appear, is a simple formula which may be inexpensively prepared, liberally employed and used without any danger whatsoever. The ultimate effect of its discovery should be considerable as far as public health is concerned. So many ills result from bad teeth that anything which encourages regular attention to them by the individual proprietor is nothing short of a boon.

In this case the scientific unselfishness of Dr. Hartman has paved the way for more and better dentistry. JANUARY 23, lOSG. TO DREAD UNCLAIMED LAND A PURPOSE? To all intents and purposes the diplomatic episode which began when Sir Samuel Hoare and Premier Pierre Laval put their feet under the table of council at Paris and arranged a peace which would have partitioned Ethiopia for Duce is now at an end. Marked by an outburst of general public indignation rarely paralleled in world history, punctuated by the resignation of Sir Samual Hoare as British foreign minister and the near fall of the Baldwin government, it now comes to its last chapter with the end of the Laval government.

Tihe LnVal resignation comes on a technical point which, on the- face of it, has little or nothing to do with the Ethiopian faux' pas. There may be no doubt, however, that the confidence Of the French people and the Chamber of Deputies was shattered by that ill-advised arrangement to reward an aggressor for aggression. "What with one thing and another it will be a long time before any ministry or department of state undertakes to settle diplomatically the affairs of another nation without respect to the desires of that nation or even without respect to justice THE WORLD'S LAST By FRANK R. KENT LjCwUhl. IMS, ay Tht altlmrt liial I Is This Relief? Washington, Jan.

23 FHOM various sections reports come that sentiment against the Roosevelt administration Is due largely to the conviction that public funds are being recklessly wasted. To that, more than anything else, 1 attributed the significant result of the recent Literary Digest ballot. It seems to be sinking Into the public consciousness that nobody In authority here counts the cost. THE size of that (4,100.000,000 relief appropriation last year was staggering at first, but the nation a a whole accepted Presidential assurance that It was all needed to care for the unemployed, that none of It would be wasted, that no tinge of partisanship would enter Into Its expenditure. The WPA has not lived up to these assurances.

In many states appointments have been made on a political basis. Charges of the saturation of the organization with politics and of ridiculous waste on utterly futile projects are being widely made. WHEN this huge sum was first placed In the hands of the President, belief was widely expressed that It would be a great political awet. The common comment was that "You can't beat five billion dollars." It would be an Ironical thing If this supposed asset should turn Into a liability and the five billion prove a dead weight around the" administration neck. There seems a fair chance this may happen.

Within the past week, for, two things Uktly "to intensify feeling on the subject have occurred. One Is the Investigation Into the Florida Ship Canal now being conducted under a resolution span-sored by Senator Arthur Vanden-berg of Michigan. The conten-tentlon of those who have studied this scheme Is that when the facts are fully revealed It will become nationally famous as the most expensive, most economically unsound and completely futile project yet undertaken by the government In this era of unprecedented costly futility. IT Is contended, among other things, that this proposed canal, 208 miles long, between the Atlantic ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, commits the government to an ultimate expenditure of that there exists no economic justification for It whatever: that of the 81 ship companies, potential users of the canal originally queried, only nine expressed themselves as favorable and eight of these nine now refuse to say they would use It; that It would take a ship longer to go through the eanal than around by sea; that there is a strong public sentiment against It In southern Florida: that Mr. Ickes of the PWA rejected the project, which has now been taken over by the WPA; that furnished from relief funds is being feverishly spent with the Idea of making it neces sary for the government to go on; that the original backers of the Idea are politicians who helped deliver the Florida delegation to Mr.

Roosevelt In 1932. All this and more Is being said of the project at the outset of the hearings. THE other WPA development of the week, which some think well calculated to fan public resentment, was the revelation that the Nye Munitions Committee, after expending the 1125,000 given it by the Senate, had obtained of relief funds. This is the committee headed by the great snooping senator, Gerald P. Nye, of North Dakota, whose diiiprence in trying to besmirch the memory of Woodrow Wilson got him so soundly trounced on the Senate floor last week by Senators Glass and Connally.

Whatever the strained explanations. It Is safe to say that relief money would be spent in this way. It seems safe to say. too. that, whatever the justification for the ship canal, the financing with relief funds of a Senate investigating committee does not.

fit Into the puhlic conception of what this was for. So far as the amount Is concerned, it is trifling; but so far as showing the kind of thing that is being done. It is important and significant. AND there Is another side to It. There are plenty who see raw politics In the fnnnpling of relief funds to the Nye committee.

If, it is claimed, this were a committee headed by a regular Dem- and equity. IN TODAY'S NEWS The TownsencJ sParty From th Wanhington Evening 8lar vv It was probably inevitable rb-t the Townsend old-age pensioniter would undertake to form a political party. If and when the party is formed It will put forward candl dates for Congress and for presl. dent, it is said. If the party ia to get anywhere in the long run It will have to get down to the grass roots and nominate candidates for sheriff and clerk.

The supporters of national prohibition long ago organ-ized a nat(pnal party and put forward their choice for president every four years. The Socialists have had a presidential candidate for a long time. When Dr. F. E.

Townsend announced his plan for a two-hundred-dollar-a-month pension for every person in the United States sixty years of age or older, it sounded to a lot of people liks the promised land. Unsound as the proposal is, thousands of persons have fallen over themselves getting in line for it, encouraged by clever propaganda. Because, like other perpetual-motion-machine ideas, the Town-send plan would bog down and place disastrous burdens on ths people, neither the Democratic nor the Republican party has espoused it. In Congress too many members on both sides of the aisls have temporized with It; too many have spoken words of encouragement to' the proponents of ths plan. But, generally speaking, the two major political parties have kept their skirts clear of this Utopian plan to hand $200 a month to all those who are 60 years of age.

So Dr, Townsend has now announced that a new third party the Townsend plan party is to be set up. Probably that is the best way to get rid of the Townsend idea If the Townsendites were eon-tent to bore from within there might be more daanger that this dream of affluent old age fnr every one might be tried out in a country that already has trid a lot of experiments. But the Townsendites are likely to find that Republicans and Democrats will think hard before they hop to the new standard and to new candidates carrying that standard. After all. a political party must have more than one single plank and that one which may not appeal to the youth of the country.

That the whole population under sixty years of age should bear the burden of keeping the millions sixty years old and mora on pension of $200 a month is the real proposal. One of the provisions of the Townsend plan is that no one after he or she is pensionable and pensioned shall do any work. The Idea, of course. Is that this will make more work for the rest of the population not of pension age. The cost of the Townsend plan has been estimated annually at many billions of dollars.

That is, tho cost that will be saddled on the whole people in the form of sales taxes. A cheerful thought! In his first extended message from the Antarctic following his rescue by the Discovery II, Lincoln Ellsworth tells a story of much greater importance than the hardships which he and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, pilot of the Polar Star, experienced in their weeks of isolation. It is the story of a new continent, the world's last unclaimed land, He tells of great mountain 'ranges with peaks 12,000 feet above sea level on which eye of man 80 ar 88 is known, never rested until tt- -t'olar Star flew across them. They lie between Hearst Wd and Marie Byrdland between the degrees of 80 and lWvv est Longitude. Landing on November 23 at 6,400 feet above sea level, Ellr-orth and his pilot stood at Longitude 104:10 Latitude upon the only unclaimed land in the whole world.

Having the permission of the Department of State he raised the American flag and named it James AY. Ellsworth land. There he camped until November 24 when he took off and was forced down by low visibility. On November 27 he tried it and was forced down again by thick weather, and it was there that a blizzard broke upon them which held them snowbound until December 7. TRANK REALE, once a sculptor in wood and now a bartender in Brooklyn, considers his present status "amusing." Explaining that it takes two or three months to turn out a single piece of wood work in the fine arts category, he said that $500 for the material and labor represented a fair profit, but when people pay only $5 or $10 for the same thing "what can you do? You've got to live." "When a millionaire bought an elaborately carved bookcover, listed at $300 in an exhibition, for 25 that was the final act which brought Mr.

Reale to drop his life work for his present position. However, he gets much enjoyment and amusement out of his occupation but intends to return to his sculpture in wood when the market for it shows signs of improving. JUST FOLKS A DAILX VERSE By KDCtAR A. GUEST PIIESEATS A PROBLEM He turned a corner strange to him And wandered from the paths he knew, Prompted, he thought, by Just a whim. Or having little else to do.

He strolled along at easy pace. Not caring much what he should see, When he encounteded face to face That thing called fate or destiny. A shot rang out! He heard a cry. And life was changed upon the spot! He saw a fellow being die And knew the man who fired the shot! Now all nigrht long he lies awake Tormented by the thing he knows. Which is the proper course to take: Should he or not the truth disclose? Time was he thought that he had learned To solve what problems he should meet.

But that was Just before he turned The corner of that little street. (Copyright. Lrlgar A. Guest) New Dealers' Day From the Nfw Tork Sun If the New Dealers are able at ajiy moment to tell what way they are going they possess a sense of direction far more sensitive than that with which the ordinary mortal is endowed. In the morning they toil for the destruction of pigs, the abandonment of wheat land, the plowing under of cotton patches.

In the afternoon they labor by reducing duties to create new markets for products of lands outside the na tional boundaries by letting in In great quantities at lower prices to fill the gap their matutinal exercises have created. At dinner time they strive to isolate the country by providing penalties for sale of gooda to customers whose needs have been increased by the extremities to which war has forced them. In the hours when all the world is supposed to hang over the radio they dedicate themselves to peace, proclaiming their intention to insulate the land from the corrupting influence of the contentious among the nations, but they temper this withdrawal from the world by addressing to the rulers and the peoples of other lands senteniously admonitory messages cast in the most irritating word and uttered in the most patronizing manner. When bedtime draws close they recall that at some moment in a busy day they have beta guilty of a great repudiation and so they call on the public to put faith In their Integrity. Such beinp their waking hours, what can their dreams be? COCKATOO STOPS It ACE Sydney.

N. S. W. (VP) A cockatoo stopped a horserace at a spnrts meeting at Willenbrina. Victoria.

After the horses had traveled a short distance, they pulled up. The riders said they heard a loud whistling and thoupht it was a false start. The whi6tling was from a cockatoo. ocrat. Investigating any phase of governmental activities, never a nickel could it have gotten from relief funds.

But Senator Nye is a New Deal senator of the Progressive Republican type. His game of publicity pillorying the House of Morgan, cheap as It Is, is right up the administration alley. He is furnishing fine New Deal campaign material. That, It is claimed, is why Mr. Nye, the great snooper, got relief money for his committee expenses.

If there exists a more logical reason it has not been advanced. The Once Over By H. PHILLIP! IZZAT SO? (A reaction to the Nye Inquiry) I thought the World War was a fight To "keep the Vandals To tearh the world that right was right Boyonil the slightest doubt I thought that honor played a part. Thai Justice swayed us all, But, no; the Nye committee says The bankers gave the calll II Somehow I seem to recollect A flame of righteousness That swept along the city itreets, But I was wrong. I guess; I thought that Belgium wa outrsged That things held dear were hit.

But now It's out; war came because Some bankers wanted It I III I thought there was a Luxemburg And that there was a Rhelms; I thought there was River Marne, But these were crazy dreams; There were no places suoh as thoae There never was a Hun The world went forth to war because The Morgans wanted onel IV I thought there was a Nurae Cayell Slain in the dead of night; I thought long lines of refugees Were brutalized in flight I thought men fought for sacred things When all seemed dark snd grim, But, no, it aeenis it merely was Some wicked banker's whim I I somehow think I can recall Defenseless towns aflame; I heard about atrocities That filled the world with ahame; I thought a love of righteousness Stirred in the hearts of men, Bnt. no; the war was brought about By bankers, five or ten. VI I thought I could remember days In these United States When millions shouted, "We want And nourished frenzied hates; I thought the Lusitania Was sunk In bloody seal. But, no: we merely went to war Some banking house to pleaael VII My recollection seems quite clear, I thought such deeds were wrong 'Twas my idea the weak should not Be slaughtered by the strong; I thought. I yelled for Wllhelra's scalp And sought to speed the brawl, But.

no: I've heard from Mr. Nye The Morgans did it all I A Correction hr a Radio Fan "Colonel Rooseyelt charged that such phrases as 'the ampler life' were hollow and misleading." News item. The colonel's quotation is misleading. It's "the 'mere abundant as every radio listener knows. The Sew York State.

Judicial Council again recommends that broadcasts and photographers be barred from the courts. But the recommendation win be opposed end defeated. It is only a question of time when photographers will sit on the bench, when radio electricians will hare charge of the prosecution, and when Jurtgea will be barred from court except when needed for a speech or a photo. H. H.

K. thinks that what this country is suffering from it too much thisa and data. A Farley sees It, the coming election is jst a fight hetween the Democrats and the Brigands. In fact, probably thinks It should be called Che Repubrigand party. Granlland Rice Is indorsing milk.

Rice and milk, a great team. A pitkup In the furnlturi business 1 widely reported. The way those chairs were worn out by in-laws who came over to camp during the depression was a caution. (eopyrijtit, 19M) FAVORITE BIBLE PASSAGE "Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace." Proverbs 3: 17. RAVES OT.T CONVENT Madrid iITii Th an clseo convent at Rae7ji rrxcr.t, as having artistic importance, will be acquired by the Spanish state as a natinnnt i Academy of Fine Arts recently reported that the proprietor of the "Id mnvent had transformed it into an olive oil factory.

Uncommon Sense By JOHN (Conrrlfbt. BLAKE list) From that point on it was a battle to reach Little America and the Bay of 'Whales where they found fuel and food. But the important thing about the flight must be reckoned as the unveiling of that new land, last of the blank spaces on the world's map, of no particular use now but perhaps of untold value to later generations. Quite properly the Livingstone award of the American Geographical Society goes to Mr. Ellsworth for what he has done.

He and his pilot took every chance that men may take in the interests of science. DOES IT SERVE THE MIRACLE OF INSTINCT AS I WRITE I can Bee a great elm tree whose branches, brown and bare, swing to and fro in the wind. On one of the highest branches Is what looks like a bundle of leaves that some gust has deposited there. It is the nest of an oriole, whose owner Is somewhere down Florida way, where the weather Is more pleasant, and the time of sunshine Is longer. Here is a miracle, a miracle of Instinct.

Either these same orioles or some of their friends or relatives are yearly visitors to that elm tree. I can hear the clear call of the father bird early in May. He usually flits around till the leaves begin to fall. Often I have taken apart a nest which has been felled by a heavy gale. It is quite like all the others, woven with a mastery which awakens admiration and wonder.

The robins, which are a bit lazy, content themselves with a house composed of a few twigs and a little mud which takes the place of mortar. The wren and the bluebird, both of them anxious for security, will hunt for holes In trees or man-made bird boxes with entrances so small that no predatory bird can get Into them. But none ot them can match the skill with which the oriole fashions his habitation. I think, dear readers, that a study of these feathered visitors would interest you. Get a bird book some day, with pictures of the summer visitors, and study It.

Better still, go on an observation tour with somebody who, with the aid of field glasses, has followed birds big and little as they busied themselves getting their daily meals for themselves and their children. With luck you may see a circling hawk, or even an eagle, sweep-In? high through the air, and both of these birds may he worried by the little, swiftly moving king birds, which are so fast on their wings and so vindictive that not even large birds dare to molest them. Two years ago a bill was introduced into the New York Legislature proposing a tax of up to 40 per cent per pound on oleo margarine. The theory of the measure was that it would protect the state's butter industry. Some of the leading newspapers throughout the state made no bones about calling it a tax on the poor.

They pointed out quite briskly then that, the tax would not help the New York state farmer because if every pound of margarine consumed in New York state were replaced by butter the state would still have to import 200.000,000 pounds of butter annually. Those who opposed the tax urged further that the measure would not increase the state revenues because the tax was too high and that what it amounted to was confiscatory legislation. Perhaps the best point of opposition made at that time was that if as a result of a prohibitive tax the poor were unable to buy margarine the measure would then amount to definite class legislation. The point seemed to be well taken at the time. In any event, the bill was not passed.

Now another bill proposing a tax of five cents per pound on oleo margarine has been introduced in the Assembly and referred to the Ways and Means committee. It is approximately the same bill as that which got into trouble two years ago. In view of the case made at that time bv the press of the state it would seem incumbent upon the sponsors of this new measure Troubles at Home From the Petrolt Newi The rumbles of domestic dlssen sion In Italy, now that the drive into Ethiopia goes forward with less than the expected speed, remind us again that a stab in the back is a commoner fate for any Caesar than death at the hand ol an exterior foe. The germ of defeat for a tyranny lies in itself, not in an infection it breathes from the outer air. Earlier in his rceime, it was) fashionable to ask, "After Mussolini What?" and the question again becomes timely.

II Duce's method has been to court the antagonism of the neighbors to harden morale at home, in pursuance of the physical law that solidity is achieved by pressure from without. But in this, something depends on the reaction ot the material under pressure. And. of course, releasing a little of it to spend itself on such an enterprise as the African expedition disturbs the entire mass. To carry the physical analogy a little farther, it contemplates a gradual explosion, which is something new In phys ce.

The leaders of the Townrend plan claim thev have five million members. They sav that the total number of persons favorable to th plan is as high as 2s.000.000. I.