(cbt thinks about: How to Be Fair. ANTA MONICA, CALIF.— Every time the heirs to an undivided estate start litigat- ing, I think of a decision which had in it more wisdom, more common sense and more fair- ness than even King Solomon's inspired justice. I can't remember whether twas a ruler upon the throne or a judge upon the bench who handed down this ruling. But two brothers fell out over a proper divi- sion of their father's possessions, Accord- ingly, they carried the dispute to a higher court of the land. So his majesty, or his worship, or his honor, as the case may have been, said: “Let the older brother apportion the younger brother have first choice of the shares.” But, of course, the was too beautifully any lawyer in any age. The Ameri- can Bar association would just nat- urally despise it. * * * Cemetery Salesmen. RECEIVED a letter from one of our plushiest cemeteries. Ve have some of the plushiest ceme- teries on earth; it's a positive pleas- ure to be dead out here. sand smackers; or buy a perfectly lovely crypt—slightly more expen- sive, but most luxurious. Through some private whim or pique, I failed to answer this tempt- ing communication. Today I re- ter. I gather that, if I neglect this splendid opportunity, I'll live to re- gret it. Or maybe I won't. Such thoughtful attention merits response. I'm replying as follows: “Dear gents: Space in a grave- yard is the last thing I shall require. When that time comes, somebody else will do the shopping. Trusting these few lines may find you the Same, yours gratefully.” But if a representative calls in per- son—as he will—-I'm a gone gosling. me. lection of oil stocks. Now, there's something that doe: need burying * tf ® Making Juleps. reopen the ancient debate over decline the invitation. Dred Scot decision nothing has stirred up as much bitter contro- versy south of the Ohio river. North of the Ohio river doesn't count. The Yankee conception of a julep is calculated to make a host of sleeping Kentucky brigadiers rise up from their respective Bourbon casks and start giving the rebel hiss. . Naturally, the only perfect julep is the Paducah julep. next summer and sample the real product on its native heath—not at a saloon, where the bartender is putting the sugar syrup in first, ~but in the private home. . 9 * Western Superiority. average number of persons who will en 12 months. In India, owing to the refusal of any living creature, 20,000 inhabi- tants annually are killed by venom- ous serpents, whereas, in this coun- try, in 1936, we spent only 15 billions for crime, or 18 times as much as we spent on national defense, yet managed to let many poisonous hu- man snakes go free to build up mur- der statistics. In Japan, geisha girls are govern- mentally licensed and protected, which is indeed an affront to the principles of an enlightened people who patronize so-called world’s fairs that are dependent on unabashed nudity for popular favor, and shows dependent on foul lines and nasty situations, IRVIN 8S. COBB. Copyright. WNU Service. 500 Women at Science Meet Not a single man among the 300 scientists at a conference in Mos- cow, Russia. All the speakers as well as all the members of asso- ciation were women. One was V. P. Lebedeva, a professor of medi- cine. Awother, Professor M. L. Rokhlin., stated that the number of women students in the univer- pities had grown from 16,700 in 1914 to 183,000. Half the total nume- ber of doctors in Russia are wom- Most of the women ‘“‘scientists”’ in medicine, chemistry found biology. ROPER HITS Says Profits Levy Has Not TAX SETUP Fulfilled Expectations . . . a Tax Setup Needs Revision [DANIEL C. ROPER, secretary of | commerce, says the entire tax | structure of the United States should | be revised. He was speaking at a banquet of the Busi- ness Advisory coun- cil in Chicago, and his statements ap- peared to meet with general approval. “A general revi- sion is necessary to simplify determina- tion of tax liability, to distribute the bur- den of taxation more equitably, and to | Sec. Roper ,roaden the base of | taxation to include a larger per- | centage of our earning population,” | Secretary Roper said. He asserted that the undistributed | profits tax had not entirely fulfilled its proponents’ expectations that it | would “bring about a higher veloc- ity of money through larger and | more widespread distribution of cor- | porate earnings.”’ Mr. Roper expressed confidence that a '‘constructive approach will | 3 a ties dilemma and that significant | results will be forthcoming." That this confidence has a sound indicated by two an- | nouncements made the same day by prominent utility executives. Floyd L. Carlisle, chairman of the the New York state public service commission that his company plans | a $25,000,000 expansion program. | The development came during hear- | ings concerning a proposed $30,000,- 000 bond issue. administration, Wendell L. Willkie, president of proposed a | general truce between business and the Roosevelt administration. Will- kie's company has been involved in some of the bitterest controver- sies with Washington. en R EVISION of the existing housing law in order to facilitate a building boom was asked by Presi- dent Roosevelt in a special message to congress. He said such legisla- and open great reservoirs of idle capital to fight the business slump. on labor and industry. Specifically, the President recom- mended changes in the housing act which would: 1. Reduce from 5% per cent to § per cent the interest and service charges permitted by the Federal Housing administration on loans made by private institutions. %. Authorize the housing admin- istrator to fix the mortgage insur- ance premium charge as low as % of 1 per cent on the diminishing balance of the insured mortgage in- stead of on the original face amount, and to % of 1 per cent on the diminishing balance of an in- sured mortgage where the estimat- ed value of the property does not exceed $6,000 and where the mort- gage is insured prior to July 1, 1939. 3. Increase the insurable limit from 80 to 90 per cent in cases where the appraised value of the property does not exceed $6,000. 4. Facilitate the construction and financing of groups of houses for rent, or for rent with options to pur- chase, through blanket mortgages. 8. Clarify and simplify provisions for the construction of large scale rental properties through facilitat- ng their financing. 8. Grant national mortgage asso- ‘ations “explicit authority to make oans on large-scale properties that ire subject to special regulation by he federal housing administrator.” 7. Remove the July 1, 1839, limita- tion on the $2,000,000,000 permitted to be outstanding in mortgages, with congress eventually limiting the in- surance of mortgages prior to the beginning of construction of individ- ual projects. 8. Permit insurance for repair and modernization loans as provided previous to April 1 of this year when this provision of the housing act expired. on posal that a single administrator be substituted for the three-man civ- institution as tending to The institution report, drafted by ibility of service commission out of politics. Religious and political affiliations would present difficulties in selec tion of a single administrator, the report pointed out, adding that the proposed plan would represent too individual. ann SENATORS O'Mahoney of Wyo- terstate commerce. authors, and other senate “liberals” ministration's de- mand for revision of the anti-trust laws to curb monopolies. The Borah-O'Ma- honey scheme is de- signed not only to eliminate monop- : olistic practices but O'Mahoney , abolish child la- bor, prohibit discrimination against women employees, guarantee collec- tive bargaining, serve as a basis for further legislation dictating the wages and hours of labor, and reg- ulate the financial policies of cor- porations. The measure would require the immediate licensing of all corpora- tions doing business in interstate commerce and would direct the fed- eral trade commission to submit rec- ommendations for a federal incor- poration law. Under existing stat- utes corporations are created only by the states. — Farmers’ Grain Corp. Quits A RESOLUTION calling for dis- solution of the far-flung farm marketing agency — the Farmers’ National Grain corporation—will be put up to stockholders at a special meeting next January 24, J. O. Me- Clock, oe president, announced. Ceo g to the proposal, mar- keting operations now conducted by the national group would become the independent functions of the in- dividual state groups, probably cen- tered around the 11 regional offices of the association. The federal government has fur- nished most of the money to finance the corporation activities over the last eight years and will be the prin- cipal loser through the dissolution of the corporation. nnn Helps Anti-Red Pact JTALY formally recognized the government of Manchukuo, pup- pet state set up by Japan, and To- kyo was delighted. It was that Manchukuo would now join in the Italian-German-Japanese pact against communism, and its geo- graphical location would make such action of considerable importance. Bus Strike Settled JNCREASED pay for drivers but no closed shop were main fea- tures of the agreement by which the six-day strike of 1,300 drivers of the Greyhound Bus line was brought to an end. The strike had disrupted transportation in the northeastern section of the country and was ac- companied by numerous incidents of violence. The wage increase, effective next July 1, will be one- fourth of a cent a mile, and no minimum milage is guaranteed. The union had demanded a flat rate of 5.5 cents a mile with a 200-mile-a- day guarantee, = Snaring Uncle Sam THAT Great Britain is seeking po- litical as well as economical ad- pact with the United States was in- Derby before the Liverpool Cham- ber of Commerce, of which he is president. He told the Chamber that America cannot keep out of Euro- that the trade pact would tighten the links between the United States and Great Britain. Derby's speech followed one given by Herschel V. Johnson, American charge d'affaires in London, during which Johnson warned indirectly that the Americans would not per- mit the pact to have political strings. ls Farm Bill Reported M ARVIN JONES of Texas, chair- man of the house agricultural committee, submitted the house's farm bill, together with a majority report defending the measure and calling for speedy enactment so that the rise of mounting crop surpluses which are depressing market prices may be offset. The house bill is less drastic than the senate version, but it was de- nounced vigorously in a minority report which declared it was ‘“‘un- constitutional, unsound, un-Ameri- can,” likely to “work to the detri- ment of American agriculture,” and threatening to ‘‘dislocate’ foreign and domestic markets. Both house and senate bills, it was predicted, would be modified be- cause of the President's implied threat to veto the legislation un- less it was put on a “‘pay-as-you- go'' basis. He insisted the farm bill must not interfere with his plans to balance the budget. a ““ HERE is no use kidding the country,” said Senator Bark- ley, majority leader of the senate, as he gave out the sad news that it would be impossi- ble to formulate and pass a tax revision bili in the brief time remaining to the ex- traordinary session of congress. The senator had just been conferring with the President, and — his statement dashed BR. the hopes of those who believe ailin Sen. Barkley ines is in dire need of such assistance as revision surpluses and capital gains. Mr. Roosevelt had said he as congress was ready for it. But such legislation must originate in the ways and means committee that has been studying the subject had not yet reported. So it appeared which starts in January. psy, Vinson to Be Judge resentative Fred M. Vinson of Ken- tucky to fill a vacancy in the United States court of appeals for the Dis- trict of Columbia. a salary of $10,000 a year, the same as paid a representative, but the ap- tirement privileges. Mr, expert of the house, is forty-seven term. His home is Ashland, Ky. sociate Justice D. Lawrence Groner of Virginia to be chief justice of the court, Croner will be succeeded by Henry White Edgerton of New York, whose nomination also went to the senate, one Small Town Spending UTOMOBILES, more food and better clothing are the most urgent desires of small-town fami- lies. That was the implication pre- sented in a matter-of-fact analysis of surveys of the spending habits of families in 46 villages in Pennsyl- vania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa. The study, made by the bureau of home economics, showed that when income increased among these cross-section village families, it was usually followed by a rapid rise in expenditures for food and clothes and even more marked jumps in the proportion of income spent on automobiles. In income ranges from $250 to $2,499, food expense for wage-earn- ers’ families jumped from an aver- age of $180 to an average of $539; clothes from an average of $25 to an average of $186; expense for the family car from an average of $14 to an average of $315. W.10 SEW by— Ruth Wyeth Spears « 39 IIIT TTL Make This Attractive Ottoman, G ET a wooden box from the gro- | Making lampshades, rugs, otto- ¥ cer It should be about as! mans and other useful articles for of the chair with | the home. Readers wishing a copy, is to be used. | should send name and address, hould be osing 25 cents, to Mrs. Spears, wridi} width long as the which the ottoman The depth of the sides she four inches as shown here at A. The legs should » made of two tw by or you “Favorite Recipe of the Week ~ Pumpkin Custard a Real Treat, "TREAT the family to a pumps kin custard as a change from the usual pie. Canned pumpkin is suggested because it is already "| cooked, mashed and ready to use, | wi saves considerable time Bake the custard in 0 large or too deep. would be one which cotton will or six layers op, cutting our inches the top he center. wr th gies . n the sides 1 have no favorite recipe he following: Pumpkin Custard. nned § teaspoon ginger le teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon salt 3 egg 1 teaspoon cinnamon 215 cups milk is waspoon cloves Beat pumpkin thoroughly with dry ingredients. Beat eggs slight lin, then m | ly, add to milk and combine with band to go all around and add the | pumpkin mixture. Pour into bak- ruffle to it. |ing pan, set in a pan of water Every Homemaker should have | (4 inch deep on pan), and bake a copy of Mrs. Spears’ new book, | for about 45 minutes in a moderate SEWING. Forty-eight pages of oven (375 degrees), or until a knife step-by-step directions for making [ comes out clean when inserted slipcovers and dressing tables; |in the center. Chill before serv- restoring and upholstering chairs, | ing, unmold onto chop platter, and couches; making curtains for ev- | garnish. ery type of room and purpose. i MARJORIE H. BLACK. avy muslin to tly over the cotton. Cut of the muslin as at heavy thread as at k as at G. orners E. Sew F and then tac To make the cover, stretch the op tightly over the muslin and sew | it along the sides through the mus- 1 ake a straight four-inch , part writs wilh ‘ . Be considerate! Don't cough in the movies. Take along a box of Smith Brothers Cough Drops for quick relief Black or Menthol™$¢. Smith Bros. Cough Drops are the only drops containing VITAMIN A This is the vitamin that raises the resistance of the mucous membranes of the nose and throat to cold and cough infections. A Resolution l Perfect Virtues Shall we make a new rule of | Industry, economy, honesty and life from tonight; always to try | kindness form a quartette of vir- to be a little kinder than is neces- | tues that will never be improved sary?-—-James M. Barrie. | upon.—James Oliver. os
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