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Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou ehalt low neighbour as thyself. t. Matthew 19:19. Never Again The examination of Mr. Morgan and his partners, by a senatorial committee, generated the usual amount of horseplay, political oratory, and time wasting generalities.

But it did prove one thing: It proved that Mr. Morgan and the money he controlled DID have an inordinate influence in getting this nation into the World War. That is wrong, and it should be stopped. If the country gets into a war, it should do so through the beliefs of its citiixns, NOT through the desire of one man, or a small group, to protect their dollars. I In other words, we should, by hook or by crook, prevent Amer ican money from becoming interested in the outcome of any foreign war.

The minute any man "invests" a dollar with a warring nation, he becomes a partisan of that nation. If the nation is in danger of being beaten, then the "investor" is tempted to move heaven and earth to swing his own nation into the battle line to protect his dollar. He seldom, however, shoulders a gun to do any personal protection work. That is left to others. It is easy to say: "If people want to invest in wars, that is their business." The trouble is, however, that they soon make it our business and the rest of us have to pull their chestnuts out of the fire for them.

Just Starting Perhaps the most significant statistic in America today is the one showing we are now using more electric power than ever before. We think we use electricity more widely than any country on earth only we don't. The average man in the United States uses only one third of the amount the average Ontario, Canada, citizen uses. Dividing the pupulation into the number of kilowatt hours used, each citizen of the United States burns up 1025 hours a year. That's a lot but the average Canadian uses 2124 hours; the average Norwegian uses 3560 hours.

Even little Switzerland beats us. We're always talking about power; some other countries go efliead and use it Millions of our farmers don't yet know what flipping a switch means. If we used as much power, per capita, as some nations, there would not be enough plant capacity in the country to produce it. We're a long, long way from being an electrified country yet, But we are awakening to the foolishness of doing things by hand when a cheap, silent, efficient servant can be hired for a few cents a day. It won't be long before we'll be looking back at the power consumption totalr of today and wondering how we ever got along with so little "juice." Bombers Can't Call Shots There came to hand recently a photograph of the Ethiopian town of Dessye.

The picture was taken by an Italian aviator during the bombing raid of December 6, and to look at it is to understand why aerial warfare will always bring its sorry tale of the bombing of hospitals and the killing of noncombatants. For the photograph looks like little more (ian a glorified map. The keenest eyed observer who ever sat in a plane would be hard put to tell which of its tiny dots represented a private house and which a barracks. It told where the town was, where the open country was, where woods and hills and streams werebut little more. Aviators, in other words, cannot pick their targets with hairline exactitude.

They must fly high to avoid anti aircraft guns; flying high, they just naturally can't call their shots. That being the case, they are pretty certain to kill a number of innocent people they didn't mean to kill. That sort of thing apparently is an inescapable part the use of bombing planes. New York Day By IDay Out of Step Over Leap Year NEW YORK, jail. 15 This being Leap Year, Broadway's comely chorines are again at odds about their customary prerogative the right to propose.

The lovely ladies are bickering about this matter, already, backstage of George White's "Scandals," as if these maids ever will have to take the Initiative. The chorus, I am advised by a reliable Stage Door Johnnie, Is now divided into two camps, those who will spring the question and those who won't. Jw4 this latter group is headed red headed Bert Foth who has enrolled sixty of the gorgeous coryphees ir her cause. "Ridiculous!" Mii Foth is said to have sniffed. girl who proposes to a man will never live it down." "Stuff and nonsense," retorts beauteous Lois JEcknardt, self appointed president of the "Scandals" Leap Year Club.

"Most proposals come the men a girl doesn't want to marry, anyway, so she mighf, as well do the proposing herself 'and get the kind of man to whom she really can say yes." Just thought like to know the way giris' minds run these days. f. Among the pa its at night clubs, the most annoying are the amateur cameSa fanatics who focus their lens upon an entertainer in the loidst of the act. And later, forward the photo to the subject to (be autographed. One performer has rebelled against this practice and whenever an unsolicited picture arrives, sends it back to the sender with a bill for $25, his usual fee for posing.

i The Denver Rocky Mountain Neva summarizes the rise of American civilization as follows: 1929 Ma raj hon Dancers. 1930 Tom i Thumb Golf. 1931 Tree Sitters. 1933 Jigsaw Puzzles. 1934 Hog Balling Contests.

1935 "Scra tch out the top name and send a (dime." The yearf? only a few weeks old, but already it is safe to add this: i 193ft "Th1 Music Goes 'Round and Around." New York liquor dealer declare that they iill press their protest during this congressional session against thi law which permits spirits und.er $100 in purchase value to pass the customs, free of duty. It iis hurting their trade considerably. The traffic of liquor from Havtina and Bermuda has been especially heavy since the inaugural of repeal and many cruise passengers have discovered that by cringing back a case or two, tax free, they more than pay the expenses of their voyage. This practice, "as a matter of fact, has become business with several gentleman who contract, before proceeding toward Havana, to return wirjri a case for a customer, at a prf.ee lower than the stuff would Mist here. If only out of resentment.

1 would Ir.ave supposed that when the town liquor dealers arranged this year's convention, they hardly would (have selected Havana as their meeting place. But they did and wen they came back on the Statendam last week, what, would you guess, did they bring with them? Duty free liquor? Not on your We. It's against their principles. They returned with a vast armada of toy aeroplanes, trt motorad. that thpy purchased in grows from a Cuban souvenir vendr GEORGE ROSS.

Thte. Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Yonkers, N. has Just completed tests to prove that ultra violet rays are not at all necessary for plant growth. Dr. John M.

Arthur has completed the experiments using arc, lights, using monochromatic llghits tone colored) of the sodium vapiir variety. The plants grew welj and to maturity. These bulbs hawe one feature not to be overlooked. They are inexpensive. An ingenious English Inventor has Just patented a duplicating machine, which works by electricity, and which does only one thing sign your name.

An official or executive signs his name on a plate, puts it in the machine, and then checks or important documents are signed at high speed. It is all done in facsimile. The Idea of duplication la thnucht to have started with tkie Emperor Charlemagne, who years ago had a gold seal trade of his signature so that he could do away with the laborious Job of signing documents. Experiment at Leningrad, says in correspondent of the Journal of Hhe American Medical association, (show that trees absorb street noises, in addition to paving the streets with wooden paving blocks, automobile horns will be regulated in the Soviet capital. Trees will also be et nut at regular Intervals In an effort to further curb the d'sturbing sounds which shatter the city dweller's nerves.

I Scientifacts Shaft i QiitmM $ase The voice of parents la the voice of gods, for to their children they heaven's lieutenants. Shakespeare. THURSDAY JANUARY 16, "1 936 A Nwpapar to PatSc Serrioa Walter Winchell Trad Mark Retliterl On Broadway Notes of New Yorker On This and That Greta Garbo says she is not ill Actor Charles Bickford rated one of wealthiest. IN THE AMUSEMENT pages of one of the gazettes the other day, one movie temple's attraction was announced in this wise: "I Dream Too Much With Lily Ponds" Which recalls the gag: "A movie magnate is a guy who knows what he wants but cant spell It" The last quote of praise by Andre Sennwald, the movie critic, who died Sunday, Was about a flicker called: "The Ghost Goes West" Overheard definition cf Broadway: "Where the Toast of Today is the Bread Pudding of Tomorrow" The trial of the Morro Castle disaster offers this irony: The defense to show parts of the ill fated ship, display large white cards with huge black borders The Wilkes Barre (Pa.) Times Leader features a snappy column called: "Parting Shots," which is conducted by the editor, E. G.

Smith A subscriber complained long and lustily about our column. To which the editor replied: "At his best Winchell is good. At his worst he is entertainingly rotten. That happens to most of us Were we to attempt to reform Winchell, we would be informed that all we had to do was to cancel the contract for his services. There are plenty on the waiting list." THAT ISNT TRUE.

AT ALL About the indifference on our part We welcome criticism, sweet or sour To the many who have "taken the bother to counsel us about our faults we owe much for helping us improve "Then why haven't you?" the hecklers shout, and then we are stuck Greta Garbo says she isn't ill Just bored. That's what happens when you spend too much time with yourself, honey Phil Baker says Broadway is a place where they rip your rep with raps Leo Reisman heckles: "The difference between the President and the rest of you fellows who talk'' on the radio is that most of you get into listeners' homes but he gets into listeners' hearts" And, one presumes, many a Republican's hair What Elsa Maxwell, the best thls or that list makef upper. doesn't know that most of us would be more interested in a list of the ten best undressed women Excluding, of course, Elsa Maxwell. WE RECEIVED a telegram from Sidney, Nebraska, recently. It was signed: K.

W. Williams It stated that he could explain J. J. Faulkner once and for all We are weary of that iwrt of thing so we turned it over to John Edgar Hoover's department And this is what happened in less than 48 hours! Federal agents queried the telegraph office in that town They remembered the sender's description because of the addressee's name "who is on the radio isn't he?" The sender, they said, was a stranger in that town, no doubt. But he looked like this and he wore, etc.

The hotel clerk recalled that sort of person. He was a beer salesman from Chicago In brief the agents learned he lived in Denver. When they found him he admitted he was intoxicatedand that it wasn't his real name and he was Just being silly "He no doubt was trying to impress people," said a federal man, "that he knew somebody in New York" "Yes. perhaps." said a towner. "he had one of the bad girls with him." ONE OF THE SCREEVS highest salaried movie stars has two children who have been on relief in New York city for two years One of the astrologers societies is petitioning for the expulsion of a member who predicted the death of F.

D. R. this year On Broadway, observes Arthur Murray, irritation is the sincerest form of flattery The gossip column, which was first shouted down in 1924 when It started the vogue In town, has invaded the sacred columns of The Dally Worker, the communist organ which now once weekly sees all, hears all and tells ail about everybody, but themselves That chorus girl lawsuit against Max Baer comes up In supreme court here sometime this month Baer posted a bond of $500 and said he would be in court on a certain day. but wasn't He forfeited the $500 and also, as a penalty, he is not allowed to make any defense. A BICKFORD, the actor.

Is one of the wealthiest men in Hollywood But all his ready cash, about $4,500. was used buying the needy out there Christmas meals and he is practically "broke" Walter Winchell of Newark. Ohio, according to the Advocate in that city, was fined $25 and costs for fighting the other day It Isn't the first time our namesake has landed In the papers there And each time the editors headline It: "Winchell Arrested 1" put B. Hand cubbed with George Ade and Dick Little and other news pa per 1 1 a. He knew Postmaster Farley Things were tough Hand wrote a note to Farley saying he'd appreciate a Oov't Job you don't come through." said the kidding note.

"Ill blow your head off!" Clerk saw the letter first When Hand called he was subdued by nervous sleuths, who put him in handcuffs The other day they found Hand In his rooming house room There was an unopened letter, signed by his pal Farley assuring him of a good Job a broken sprlnged coueh. puiled from the wall, had disconnected SIDE GLANCES 1 jr 'um. vrv, tvt: runt "Yea, Mrs. Meekly, I have Creates Own End Play Woman Star Provides Means Whereby Opponent Is Forced to Lead Tenace Perhaps one of the most loyal supporters of duplicate bridge is Mrs. Robert B.

Fuller, of New York city, newly elected vice president of the Women's auxili ary of the American Bridge league. Her duplicate game at the Mayfair club is one of the outst a 1 weekly perfor Contract Bridge By William E. MeKunnty mances in New York. Mrs. Fuller seldom misses a national tournament and rates as one of the outstanding women players of the country.

This year she was runner up in the women's national pair event and was on 4 3 QI 8 5 AJ10 A AS 6 VAK 9 7 8 1 A 6 4 Void Duplicate None vul Xorih KmM 2 N. 3 4 A 5 6 Pass South West 1 PasH A Tass 5 Pass Opening lead 4 9 the winning women's team of four at the national tournament in Chicago in December. An end play is one of the most valuable weapons of the declarer. Some end plays are quite easy to perform. Others have to be created.

In today's hand Mrs. Fuller outlines a wry interesting end play which assisted her in making six odd. The Play Against the six heart contract West opened the singleton diamond, the first suit bid by his A 10 9 1 A 5 4 3 1 0 in 7 7432 32 Dealer i i 5 Preparing Vegetables Cook Them Slowly, Declares An Expert, and Don't Discard Water, to Get Vitamin Here's a cooking and health hint, combined: If you want to get the most out of your vegetables, and still have the vitamins In them, cook them slowly In a tireless cooker. That saves both the Juice of the vegetables and the vitamins, vitamin especially. Vitamin Your Food and Health By Dr.

Merru 13 soluble in water. Therefore, when vegetables are cooked and the water in which they are boiled is thrown away, as much as half of the vitamin is lost. Very high temperatures, also, will destroy vitamin therefore, vegetables should not be cooked in boiling water, if that vitamin Is to be retained. Manay housewives add soda to the vegetables to preserve their color. But soda acts to destroy vitamin l.

Drying, however, does not Inter file gas heater hose dows were closed The wln JAN RL'BINI describes The Big Street as a place where more people talk about you than to Part of a letter from the Capitol: "You'll think rhi Is hooey, I know. But several people here told me the Roosevelt boys like you a lot and admire you for groaning about their recent escapades on the highways" Aside to Heywcod Broun: The tooth was what dentists call "a Jacket" the real tooth is underneath the Jacket. The jacket was the one broken. I didn't like it. anyhow.

(Copyright, 1936) By Qeorge Clark tmja JWiWWCl. me. gu 1fT always been my husband's pal." Today's Contract Problem South is playing the contract at six spades. West's opening diamond lead is trumped by East. Can declarer still make his contract? A A 6 VQ83 10 6 3 9 6 4 A Void 3 10 6 2 9 7 4 10 7 3 KQJ 10 85 A 7 5 A 5 Void All vul.

Opener 4 9. Solution in next Issue. 10 partner. The trick was won by declarer with the ace. Three rounds of trump were taken, picking up the outstanding trump.

Now, hoping that the spade suit would break, so that only one spade trick need be lost declarer cashed the ace of spades and then led the five, winning the trick in dummy with the king; but East showed out, discarding a diamond. Now, East had bid clubs and diamonds, which practically marked him with the king and queen of clubs. So declarer led the Jack of clubs from dummy to establish an end play position. East was forced to play the queen, declarer trumping with the seven of hearts. Two more hearts were played, dummy discarding two spades.

East released a club and a diamond. Declarer next played a diamond, winning in dummy with the king, and returned a small diamond, forcing East to win with the queen. Now, as East held nothing but the klngr nlne of clubs, he had to lead Into dummy's ace ten of clubs, and the small slam contract was made. (Copyright, 1936) fere with the presence of vitamin l. Experiments prove that yeast, tomatoes, spinach, milk, cabbages, and turnlps may be dried without any loss of the vitamin.

If therefore, you eat a diet containing fruits, vegetables, milk and eRgs, and if half of whatever bread and cereals you use are taken In the form of whole grain rather than refined cereal and bread, you will get an ample supply of vltatmln l. Doctors have to be careful about vltatmin with patients who are on a diet. A patient with typhoid fever or undulnnt fever, eating a diet that is greatly modified, will fall to get the vitamin that he requires. There are Instances of neuritis developing in such patients, after they have recovered from the fever, simply because they did not get the necessaray vitamin l. Persons who have been overdosing themselves with thyroid extract to reduce weight may get the symptoms of neuritis, and people ho overindulge in alcohol, and thereby avoid food, may also develop these symptoms.

Those who are on restricted diets, therefore, should get extra amounts of l. Various concentrates have been developed for this purpose. The prospective mother and the nursing mother, who do not wish to eat extremely large amounts of food, and thereby to gain excess weight, may well find out from the doctor whether they ought to take extra vitamin l. Yeast and yeast extracts are among the richest substances in l. However, many manufacturers are not satisfied with furnishing vitamin alone, but they 9 7 4 2 9 4 void AKQJ Dealer 8 5 2 In Washington Rodney Dutcher Yearn to Turn Barrage On Court New dealers don't yet dare make the plunge want to break down awe of high tribunal.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 There is something almost pathetic about the administration crowd's yearning to challenge the U. S. Supreme Court and make the tribunal's decisions a campaign issue. The New Dealers are moaning and groaning because they Just don't dare yet.

President Roosevelt decided to let the issue ride for awhile. He is believed to have assumed that the wide sweep of the AAA decision read by Justice Roberts meant the annihilation of the Guffey coal act, TV Social Security, and everything else on the New Deal list. After awhile his constituency Mtflll 1 1.1. court and summon itself to a loud squawk. Meanwhile, he has made it evident that he wouldn't burn his fingers again as he did in the famous "horse and buggy" statement.

The President's attitude Is reflected among practically all the pro Roosevelt Democrats and Progressives here. Most of them evince a yen to go charging into the arena to advance the belief that the conservative majority on the supreme court has asserted an unprecedented usurpation of power and an unwarranted political prejudice against all New Deal measures. Yet in practically every case senators, representatives, official politicos. and brain trusters the fact is admitted o. deplored that the voters aren't "educated" up to the New Dealers' point of view.

The New Dealers contend the court votes its economic and political prejudices, yet they admit that the people at large stand in awe and reverence of a supreme court majority as something sanctified and deified. WAIT FOR TURN OF TIDE So there the administration stands, tense and alert, waiting for indication that public opinion has reached the point where Congress can be persuaded to pass a law that will curb the court or a point where Roosevelt can safely suggest that the court Is allied with the "forces of entrenched wealth." Indirect efforts, carefully' gauged to what seems to be the trend of opinion, will be made to "educate" the public. The administration will seek to convey the idea that it is operating strictly within supreme court constructions of the Constitution but at the same time do all it can to turn opinion against the attitude of the court as now constituted. If you know your opinions, you will enjoy the public utterances of administration spokesmen, for their act will be much like that of the performance of walking on eggs. The New Dealers don't dast break the eggs but they do hope the eggs will hatch! RICHBERG TURNS "EDUCATOR" Whether or not you've noticed that Donald R.

Richberg has made a couple of "educational" speeches warning that the supreme court has upset the balance of legislative, executive, and judicial functions, please don't mind my telling you that Richberg is going to make a series of epeeches on the dangers of Judicial dictatorship. He is embarked on an effort to destroy what he privately describes as "the mists and temple Incense" surrounding the supreme court majority interpretations of the Constitution. After his speech to the Chicago university alumni. Richberg is billed in Boston. February In New York on March 7.

and over a national radio hookup March 24. And then some more. FIRST SHOT IN CAMPAIGN Richberg 's campaign is only the beginning of a program of "education," not officially sponsored by the White House. Richberg Is one of the most brilliant lawyers in the country. Not long ago he was known as the "assistant president" and was closest of all to Roosevelt In the latter's councils.

He was shunted to the sidelines when his mission that of conciliating "Big Business" proved impossible. Yet he remains in Washington, in Intimate contact with adminlstratlonists. He solemnly denies to me that he has di.scu.ved his speaking campaign with Roosevelt, and various White House Intimates offer similar assurance. Yet Rich berg's sales talk that the nation must be saved within the limits the Constitution if possible, but that the ultimate decision depends on whether a given thing Is right and ought to be done exactly expresses the present White House attitude. Richberg and others feel that the "horse and buggy" statement should have been made for Roosevelt rather than by Roosevelt.

Roosevelt is said te feel likewise. So you can expect to hear the trial balloonist found off while the White House and all the rest of the political world tunes Its ears to the popular reaction. (Copyright, 1938) The tongues of the traditionalists now curb and tie the tongues of biologic truth. Dr. Oscar Riddle.

Carnegie Institution of Washington. add mineral salts and other vitamins, with the hope of making something resembling a perfect food. There is no warrant for shotgun mixtures of this type. (Copyright, 1M By the Way By BYRON BYRD A timely, and how, hint or two Including Sundays, Decoration Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day and Thanksgiving there are only 343 more shopping days before Christmas. Certain that his readers procrastinate as much as he does your correspondent is passing on this warning so that none of you will find yourself In the perplexing predicaments you found yourselves in back in 1935.

Before you know it the Reading Merchants bureau will have strung lights along Penn street from Third to Tenth, the community Christmas tree will have been erected on Penn square, "Jingle Bells" and "Silent Night" will be filling the chilly night air, social page personal columns will be full of names of those who are returning home from school and college, advertisers will be running photographs of Esquire men and Harpers Bazar women stand ln th. An am m.r in superlatives the fine old lager beer they are about to toss off with delicate relish and aristocratic appreciation, and automobile salesmen will be suggesting that nothing could possibly be more ducky than to hide a $4,000 sedan in your wife's stocking. Without douobt you will be suffering from a cold at that time and won't feel much like battling your way through the holiday crowds, so it is advisable to act now, and for one time in your life, look forward to Christmas with Christian cheerfulness rather than heathenish dismay. Your correspondent arrived at the postofflce too late last night to learn from Mr. Horace H.

Hammer, the postmaster, when the last holiday mailing will depart for Europe, but you can rest assured that it will be some time in the very near future, say a month. It is now too late to catch any boats for Australia, China, India and the Philippines. Yet, it might not be a bad idea to get your cards off now for Christmas of 1937 if you happen to know anyone living on the other side of the international date line. The business of Christmas cards is always a problem that ruins Christmas. First it is a problem to decide what type of card to send, then to whom to send the cards, and then what to do with those you receive.

Something different, quite novel, very easy, suprislngly inexpensive and startlingly effective is to insert a classified add in the daily papers of the cities in which your friends, relatives, business ac quaitances and people to whom you owe money live. Something like this would be nice: Mtmer Si wf ext dr fms Spkdle mry Si yr nw ly ant Ep. Translated it reads: Mr. and Mrs. Z.

Cackle Mortimere extend to all their dear, dear friends in Sparkledale a Christmas that is merry and a year that Is new, oodles of love to Aunt Eppicak. Another message including the practical and the sublime might read: Hrty wshs prsp ny yr dp a pet al kndns red drg pst yr fr Brks Ir Ply Brs Bm Co Inc afctnt gts al wo nt In ir ply brs bm lv xx no wo. Which means, of course Hearty wishes for a prosperous new year with deep appreciation of all kindnesses received during the past year from the Berks County Iron Pulley Si Brass Beam company, incorporated, and affectionate gretings to all who re not in the iron pulley and brass beam business, with love and kisses to you know who. In the lonely hearts column there is always the opportunity to express one's sympathies in a touching, succinct fashion. Thus: Joe Xmas love Ann.

Or: Lizzie you know Ike. Again: Xmas dear love kisses Pete. If you haven't enough money for cards or classified adds there is an excellent method of making known your sentiments without spending a cent. Just wander away from home, leaving a note behind stating that you will communicate with your dear ones only if they notify you by way of police short wave radio that all is forgiven. They won't know what to forgive you for and so they will notify police immediately.

At the bottom of the note instruct the family to use the following as a code message so that you will know it is really they who are seeking you and not a creditor: Merry Christmas from Hanf Gompf to all his friends throughout the world. Your friends listening to the police calls will be delighted and amu. no end at this novel manner of expressing your holiday wishes. Another very effective, although somewhat expensive, method of spreading your individual cheer to a multitude of friends or enemies is sky writing. If the message is too long to be spelled out in exhaust smoke, an aviator can be hired to tow a banner.

To be certain that everyone will be awake when your message files over the city, a fleet of persuit planes from the Philadelphia navy yard could be hired to perform a series of power dives before the banner towing plane makes its appearance. Of course, the easiest way out Is to send to each of the persons on your list a world almanac. Inclosing a card saving: Mrry Christmas and a Happy New Year from 1936 to 19M) Inclusive. In 1950 you can revise the list and extend the greetings to 2000. If von live until the year 2000 you will be considered an excentrtc old rcn of a gun and so no one will expect you to end greetings.

Very few of the leaders of the nation possess character, brains, and experience sufficient to Inspire and to maintain for long the confidence of the people. Dr. Edward Spencer Cow lea, Johns HopLna university. It Seems to Me Heywood Broun Norm Project Not a Socialist Project Swell while job lasts, but workers have many worries, just as on a private enterprise. While waiting for the final word from Washington I would like to set down a few notes about TV A.

I hope they will be in a helpful spirit because I made a promise. One of the officials of the Tennessee Valley Authority said to me when I was in Knoxville. "You seem to be friendly to what we are trying to do. but some of the things which have hurt us most have been said by people who were friendly. "I think that maybe Norman Thomas hurt us the most.

Norman Thomas came down to see the Norris Dam, and he was very much thrilled by it and went away and wrote, 'Norris is the first and brightest flower of American or words to that effect. Believe me, that has come home to roost. It has furnished a text for every Tory." Strictly Not Socialist As a matter of fact, the TVA la not an experiment In socialism, but it does illustrate how effective man can be when he co operates on an intelligent and a large scale enterprise. The pride in the Job seems to go up and down the ranks of all who have contributed to Norris. I was talking to a construction man, and I asked him how the dam compared to Dnieperstroy.

He said that the Russian dam was bigger but that the work on Norris had proceeded at a much faster pace. "I know." he added, "because, we have several men here who worked over there." "How about the incidence of fatal accidents?" I inquired. "Our record is much better," he replied, "but It Isn't a fair comparison because our mert are much more used to work of this kind. We've had six deaths since the construction of the dam began. Two were killed over in the quarry.

We don't like to count that, but even on the total figures it's just about a new record for any job of this kind. "But it always seems tragfe that anybody should, be killed. We've used every safety device known to man. We've operated on a six and a half hour day to avoid the risks of fatigue, and yet every now and then things happen. "Nobody is allowed to work on the side of the dam until an inspector has made sure that his safety belt is fastened, but one worker decided to readjust his in midair and fell sixty feet.

The Strangest Accident "The strangest accident we ever had was right over there where those little cars with concrete come along that track. We've always had a man on guard at that stop, where they dump their load, end his entire Job ha been to see that nobody got in the way of the car. "And then one morning he got in the way himself and was knocked down into the gorge. We couldn't account for that. "We made all kinds of inquiries.

The best we could do was to find out that in the morning. Just before coming to work, he had a bitter quarrel with his wife. It was still on his mind. He didn't notice the approaching car. We really couldn't have prevented that." "You know." Mid the construction man.

"there's one thing I've noticed on Jobs of this kind. You get more accident toward the end than at the beginning. Of course, people can say that after a while men get careless and fori get to take the precautions which they did at first. "I'm not sure that's true. Tve got another theory.

I've watched this at several places, and I think workmen begin to get hurt or knocked off toward the end of a Job more frequently than at the start because they've begun to worry. 'Where Is my next Job coming from? Where do I go from The Loss of Security "They begin to get scared. They've lost a sense of security, and when anybody loses that he isn't secure in his home or on that catwalk down there over the river. It's a funny thing." And so. as you see, Norris Dam and the TVA project aren't really socialism at all, because the best they can provide In the matter of reasonable hours and good wages is a temporary security.

There are so many things to worry The Job may end In the natural course of events or at the hands of a federal judge, or the supreme court may call a halt on the construction. The risk of private enterprise have not been eliminated. So when and If the beautiful little tewn of Norris disbands, with its neat house Instead of construction shacks, the best the worker can aay Is, "Well, It was swell while lasted." So They Say Quotations from Great and Near Great When you remove the restraints of popular judgment, you not only have taken the first step, but you have taken the last step, toward absolute dlrtorlal power. Senator William E. Borah.

The government 1 more eager to get out of business than the American Lobby league li anxloua to have it get out of business. Postmaster Oen. James A. Farley. Sex has nothing to do with the pulpit and pants do not make preachers.

Aimee Sempla Mc Ph arson, evangelist..