NATIONAL PRESS BLDG
Washington.—Congress has just
passed another relief appropriation
for the current
More
year. This, like
for Relief
the earlier vote of
funds, was done at
the request of the President. The
new sum is $250,000,000. Since the
first appropriation for the current
year was a billion and a half, we
now find that federal relief during
the current fiscal year will have
cost at least $1,750,000,000. It may
be added that the sum mentioned
is in addition to local charity, com-
munity chests, etc., and also that
it has been, or is being, spent in a
period five years after we were told
that the nation was about to be re-
made under New Deal ideals.
Now, it is a rather far cry from
relief, the care of the aged and in-
firm, the destitute, to the question of
politics. That is, it appears only to
be a great gap between those two
phases of national life. I insist it is
very close; that there is no gap at
all. I reach that conclusion because
never before in history has there
been such use of basic economics
as in the last four or five years.
That is to say, politicians have
turned to questions of economics for
their political buncombe—and it
ought to be added that when a poli-
tician tries to do something with
fundamental questions, just there
begins a grand mess.
All of which brings us to the
point of this discussion. When Pres-
ident Roosevelt went into the White
House in March, 1933, he was con-
fronted with probably the most un-
favorable conditions, insofar as
business conditions were concerned,
that any President ever has faced.
He called for a New Deal in han-
dling the situation and he obtained
almost unanimous support. Indeed,
as we look back at that situation,
the support was too nearly unani-
mous. He had no opposition to point
out weaknesses of what was pro-
posed by the responsible officials.
I think I recall having written at
that time that a stronger opposition
would have been
try. Some of the pit s would
have been avoided, I am sure, if
congress had not been so subservi-
ent and if the President had not
yielded so completely the
good for the coun-
to
tical experience
The people of the nation were in
a mood to listen to anyone. They
heard new phrases of what can and
should be done—the more abundant
life, the economic royalists, the
crushers of the poor, and on and on.
But the trouble with the professor-
advisers was that
did not know of another side to the
story. In short, they believed that
human nature had changed over-
night and that a nation could be
managed or directed or ordered as
an individual. It has taken sev-
eral years to re-establish natural
facts and natural laws, but they
seem now to be approaching that
re-establishment through the proc-
esses that normally must be fol-
ijowed in a nation, as distinguished
from an individual.
So, what do we have? I think the
answer is that we have an admin-
they
the victim of the advisers he select-
ed. 1 believe it can be
politically President Roosevelt is
just as uncertain about where he is
going as is the rank and file of citi-
zens about where the nation is go-
ing. But he selected those advisers
and, for the most part, continues to
give them his confidence. They are
still on the job. And
way has it been shown that they
are utterly incapable of meeting na-
tional problems than is shown in the
business of relief. Relief is more
than just the care of those who must
have help. Relief is a condition re-
flecting other conditions. The Pres-
ident and his theorists, therefore,
must be charged directly with hav-
ing failed. We have almost as many
unemployed or under government
aid as we had when Mr. Roosevelt
took office.
. * *
1 suppose someone will write to
me asking what can be, or what
. Should be done
Need Drastic shout it. Antici-
Remedy pating that query,
I will attempt to
answer now, but I want to illustrate
it.
A friend of mine has been ill for
several years with an intestinal ail
ment. Physicians to the number
of a dozen or more have studied the
case. Finally, the use of a drastic
remedy, a potent and almost poison.
ous drug, was prescribed. The doc-
tor began by ordering the patient to
take three drops, only three, at the
start. The dose was increased grad-
ually. In the last few weeks, my
friend has taken fifty drops of the
drug each day.
There is no assurance that the
ailment will be eliminated. There
can not be a determination for
many months because the treat-
ment is entirely new in medical an-
nals. Thus far, there has been no
appreciable change in the patient's
condition. But the point is, after
all, that a professional man who has
Be
devoted years to the study of a
science would not attempt to cure a
basic condition without first provid-
ing opportunity for the human body
to adjust itself to the new condi-
tions.
Now, I am somewhat old fash-
ioned and hold to the belief that a
whole nation of people, after all,
will make progress if given the
chance to do so. 1 further believe
that their collective reasoning in the
end will be right. They can not,
however, be turned inside out unless
there has been some preparation for
the ordeal and they can not take a
vidual, could take it and live.
making that statement, 1
needed. A few of them were badly
needed. On the other hand, I think
never were usable or workable.
They were poisons not intended by
national body.
We can go further. It can be
said that no individual who is il
can work efficiently, if at all. That
is true of our economic life which
includes business. And business is
everywhere—from the smallest gen.
eral store at the crossroads near
my Missouri birthplace to the gi-
gantic Marshall Field company in
Chicago, General Motors in New
York, Aluminum company in Pitts.
burgh, or hundreds of thousands of
others. Business can not get going
at its proper pace if it is ill.
The business of the country has
something more than its own body,
however, as a problem to constantly
That general store that 1
may not be much con-
cerned about Washington affairs,
it feels the impact of things
or not. The larger
concerns, of course, feel Washing-
ton actions much more directly. So,
in addition to the influence of mar.
kets, buying and selling of or among
the general public, business is in-
what is done here in
and that may be bad
medicine or good medicine,
two ex-
One of
the New
for a law
theorists were
security."
Let us take just one
amples of what I mean.
the Biblical proverbs of
Deal was the nec
providing what the
pleased to ‘social
That includes old age pensions. New
Deal campaigners sang many beau-
tiful songs caring for the
aged, and certainly there are mil-
lions who have needed help. When
it came to practical application of
the plan, however, the beys started
looking the necessary money.
Thus arose the so-called payroll tax
for unemployment and old age pen-
or
essity
call
about
for
It sounded workable to many per-
It was a thing for the future
and there was not
too much worry
about the problem
of where those
Practical
Problem
however, where the beautiful theory
The first year's ‘‘take” by the
Some of it,
envelopes of the workers; the re-
of the employers. It is turned over
to “Washington” and when money
gets into government hands it be-
comes unproductive. The
has been taken away from its own-
would have added at least a billion
dollars to the buying power of the
proper owners.
big reasons for the Roosevelt de-
pression, as distinguished from the
Hoover depression obtaining when
the present administration took over
the reins of government. It was a
dose of 50 drops when the country
was able to stand only a few drops.
To get back to relief: I have ar-
gued in these columns many times
that relief should be handled by the
states and, equally, I think the old
age pension and unemployment ben-
efits, if they are to be used, should
be handled by the states. My point
is that Professional Reliever Hop-
kins, here in Washington, can not
know through any organization he
may build what the facts are sur-
rounding any of the thousands re-
ceiving help.
Something that can be done
is to eliminate about one third of
this general money spending that is
going on here in Washington or out
in the various states under direction
from Washington. I wish Mr. Roose-
velt had stuck to his campaign
promise of 1932 to cut federal ex.
penses by 25 per cent. The tragedy
of this spending is that it saddles
debt on the younger folks and those
yet unborn for several generations.
It has to end somewhere,
© Western Newspaper Union,
Historic
Hoaxes
n
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
© Western Newspaper Union,
The Lost Explorer
ROM Ladysmith, Wis., in Jan-
uary, 1926, came a story about
an important historical discovery
which caused something of a sen-
sation in the Middle West. Two
woodsmen, Art Charpin and Walter
Latsch, had found in a hollow tree
a petrified body which was identi-
fied, by the clothing and a piece
of paper in one of the pockets, as
Pierre D'Artagnan, lost member of
the Marquette-Joliet expedition of
The story, first published in the
Rusk County Journal at Ladysmith,
all sections of the country. But aft-
er two months it was exposed as
a hoax.
A bulletin of the Wisconsin His-
torical society pointed out the many
absurdities in the tale—the claim
that mineral matter in the sap of
ing fluid, that the clothing of the ex-
plorer should have been preserved
and the piece of paper in his pocket
should have been readable after 250
years.
After this expose, M. D. Hinshaw
and Edward Richardson, publisher
out to be the ‘“‘woodsmen’”’
tale, admitted that the yarn had
been concocted as a promotion for
the newspaper. But they also point-
ed out what had been obvious to any-
one who had read the first story
carefully—that, although it was
printed in the Rusk County Journal,
it was credited to the Rusk County
Lyre!
® * *
Columbus’ Diary
N 1924 Angel Delmote, a Mexican
lawyer, announced that he had
document,
certain that
be shipwrecked in a storm near th”
Azores in 1493.
Thereupon, the experts on historie-
al documents laughed long and loud.
“So the original log of Columbus
has bobbed up again’ they said.
“Well, it's about time—it comes to
light about every two years." They
know it's a fake for the very good
reason that the diary is written ir
German and, so far as is known,
Columbus could neither speak nor
write German. More than that, the
language of the ‘diary’ is excellent
spoken in the Fifteenth century no
today resembles the
Chaucer's time.
A year previously this
had made its appearance in San
Francisco. The two men who had
bought this “500-year-old document’’
tests. The tests were made and
proved that the paper on which the
“diary” was written was scarcely
30 years old!
What's the answer?
forgers of
to buy their spurious “‘antiques.”
» * *
Lieut. Reflipe W. Thenuz
URING the Spanish-American
war Joseph Pulitzer's New
“pirates.
in battle. This list was a
long one and the World had paid
expensive cable tolls to get it.
Included in it was the name of
Lieut. Reflipe W. Thenuz. Imme-
diately the Journal came out with
the same list of names, including
that of Lieut. Thenuz. Then the
World printed a story featuring this
mythical officer, whose name
spelled backward reads “We pilfer
the news,” and the Journal was
caught red-handed.
Similarly, the Jacksonville (Fla.)
Star was caught during the Balkan
troubles of 1912 when it appeared
with a front page story about an
airplane battle near a Greek town
named Temehtmorfnelots which it
had “borrowed’’ from the Jackson-
ville Metropolis. The next day the
Metropolis announced that the name
of this Greek town when spelled
backward, was “Stolen from the
Met.”
Oddest Hall of Fame
Probably the world’s oddest hall
of fame is in Genoa, Italy, Estab-
lished some 500 years ago, says
Collier's Weekly, it allowed any cit-
izen to elect himself and to deter-
mine his “fame” with a gift of
money. More than 100,000 lire en-
titled the donor to a statue in a seat-
ed position, between 50,000 and 100,-
000 lire to one in a standing position,
between 25,000 and 50,000 to a bust
and less than 25,000 to a tablet.
Food Provides
Mental and
sideration.
dangers. His quest for food
world and colored the history
the Key to
Physical Power
New York,
has changed the map of the
of nations. But in all of these
strong, healthy and wise.
It can be truly said that
your food is your fate. It has
the power to shape your body
—to make it strong and beau-
tiful, or weak and ugly. It has
the power to influence your
language, your gait, your tone
of voice, in short—your life.
With the right food, life be-
comes a glorious adventure,
for it increases your leader-
intensifies your mag-
netic qualities, strengthens your
morale, and increases your physi-
days—never realizing even
Food—the Fuel of Life.
The human body is a machine,
chine devised by the mind of man.
Food is the fuel which runs this
Food is also
out parts, and to keep the intri-
The body machine cannot
more than a
gas, or a
without oii,
fuel any
without
could be heated coal
or wood.
Food also has the power to speed up
nerves, the swoarmth of our affections, the
type of characters we possess
Finally, the
strong, healthy
on proper food.
scientists have
the wrong food can
us the greatest
Nature has
immortality
us of
who will
have
yased
power to
childrer
And m ti
discovered that
take
bless-
bestowed —
from
ing that
can deprive the ability
are gone.
Six Groups of Food Substances.
What food substances are neces-
to build and maintain top
develop the greatest
physical and mental power?
There are six groups of food sub
stances which must be included in
health, happiness and
1. PROTEINS which build
and repair body tissues. These
are found in such foods as
milk, eggs, meats, fish, cheese
and nuts.
2. FATS which yield heat
and energy. The fats are rep-
resented by butter, cream, oils
and the fat of meats.
3. CARBOHYDRATES — the
starches and sugars. These
also supply heat and energy,
and are found chiefly in such
foods as bread, potatoes, cere-
als and sweets.
4. MINERALS which build,
repair, protect and regulate
Among the minerals which are
absolutely necessary to health
and vigor are calcium, phos-
phorus, iron, copper, iodine,
sulphur, manganese, magne-
sium, sodium and potassium.
These are found in varying
amounts in milk, eggs, fruits,
vegetables, whole grain cere-
als and meats.
5. VITAMINS which are nec-
essary for body regulation, and
as a protection against dread
deficiency diseases. Six have
been discovered to date—A, B,
CD, E and G.
6. WATER which is a part of
all body tissue and must be
present in order to have the
other food elements function
properly.
The ideal dietary is one that in-
cludes a correct proportion of the |
different food
to supply bodily
of them being supplied in excess,
or in insufficient amounts.
Danger in Omitting One Essential
To illustrate how important it is |
that not one of the necessary food
substances be omitted, let me tell
you how an eminent bio-chemist
proved in his experimental lab- |
pratory, in one of our leading uni- |
versities, that the difference be- |
tween stupidity and genius de-
pended upon the presence or ab-
sence of one vitamin.
He placed a pregnant animal
upon a diet adequate in every re-
spect, except that it lacked one
| of the six vitamins. As soon as
| her young were born and weaned,
| they were fed a completely ade-
| quate diet,
| Then the scientist tested the
elements required |
needs without any |
1
nentality of the young animals
He wanted to find out whether or
| not their mental power had been
injured in any way by the fact
| that their mother—during preg-
| nancy—had been deprived of one
vital food element, So he put them
in a runway. To get out of this—
and reach a tasty at the
er end-—they had to make their
ages
morsel
He
them
mothers
never took
trials to learn their
maze. Most of
14
oul
15
19
af
after
na w SO
ha been deprived of
food! The stupidity of
» pathetic little creatures was
the maze and
even after as
to thread
reach their goal,
| many as 250 trials. They were
ing given—at the time—every-
ng that was necessary to their
But they had entered
minds totally unequipped to
with the world-—because
mother had not been prop-
learned
life
their
Nor is this power of food to af
| fect mental activity confined to
| prenatal life. Even if a child en- |
ters this world with a strong body i
and a clear mind—the wrong food |
during childhood has the power
to wreck health,
Investigation after investiga-
tion, by leading specialists
throughout the country, has prov-
en that a surprising percentage of
| retarded children—those who can-
inot keep up with their school
| grades—do not really have infe-
{ rior minds. They only seem stu-
pid because the action of their
{ minds is clogged and slowed down
{by sluggish, under-fed bodies
Their brains are like machines
which cannot attempt the speed of
which they are capable-—because
the proper fuel had not been pro-
vided.
Physical fitness is a far greater asset
than material possessions. For in times
of stress and trouble, those who can
stand up under the physical strain win
the battle. For those who collapse, all
is lost.
| The Homemaker’'s Responsibility. |
Every wife and mother is there- |
fore faced with the tremendous |
| responsibility of keeping her fam- |
|ily mentally and physically fit. |
| kind of food in order to earn a |
| living. Her own diet must be |
| adequate and well-balanced
{ she is to have the energy, wis-
| dom, and patience required of a
mother at all hours of the day.
C. Houston Goudiss, outstanding
food authority, author, and radio
lecturer, author of “What to Eat
and Why.” He knows food from
soil to serving, from table to tis-
sue. Watch for his articles each
week,
Her baby will not grow into a
healthy man or woman unless he
nourishment
of
the moment
their classes without the
food.
If you will follow this series of
articles, and put into practice the
principles of correct eating that
1 advocate, | can promise that
you will increase both mental and
physical efficiency, and as a re-
sult, achieve greater health and
happiness for every of
your family.
Food Affects Your Body and Mind
right
member
a new life is ahead of you.
Whether that day and the days to
follow will be better or worse
those that went before, de-
pends largely upon what you eat
is
the
than
performed at every meal.
Within a few hours the bread,
meat, vegetables and liquids that
you swallow are transformed into
your personality. They begin to
think, feel and act. They become
YOU. What was food yesterday,
is carrying on the impor-
business of the world.
Each meal that you eat helps or hin
ders the efficiency and ease with which
performed
today
tant
vans
various duties are
dnd that is why | say that three
bi SIT
Nien # day, al your la
DOWN TO LIFF
© WRU. -C. Houston Goudiss
How Often Should Your
Furniture Be Polished ?
Housewives diffe ques-
eC, You
i838.
r on the
dsy~—whi
Others dedi-
this
ce a week
a year to
y frequent
can not be polished too often!
True, the outward benefit of the
best oil polish—the luster—will
last through a single week-—and
more—but this same po with
its light oil base, preserves and
prolongs its life! So that every
application is highly beneficial to
woodwork and the various pieces
of fine wood in the Our
advice, therefore, for the sake of
endurance, well as appear-
ance, of your furniture, is “polish
up’’ with a good oil polish at least
twice a month!
home.
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