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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.
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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
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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.
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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 . . .
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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““ 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,
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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
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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.
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