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Business Hits
New False
Note
Reciprocal Trade Criti*
cism Fails to Cement
Administration Tie.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
r:E “declaration of principles”
adopted by the National As
sociation of Manufacturers
made in some respects a favor
able impression here, but on the whole
Is regarded by various members of
the New Deal as a futile attempt to
©omprenena tne
purposes of the
Roosevelt Admin
istration.
Take one out
standing plank—
the one dealing
a-ith the tariff and
reciprocal trade
agreements. 11
will be found that
the National As
sociation of Man
ufacturers has
simply requested
here the terms of
the Republican
national platform
David I,a»rvnr«.
which was repudiated at the polls.
Attention was called by this corre
spondent before and after the last Re
publican National Convention to the
dangers which thla plank held with
respect to independent votera.
There is, of course, always support
for the persons or institutions who
stand by their convictions, but the
National Association of Manufactur
ers is not supposed to be, at the mo
ment. a political instrumentality but
a vehicle for co-operation between
Government and business.
Plank Headed for Dead End.
Such a plank on the tariff which
was included in the “declaration of
principles” will get exactly nowhere
with the Roosevelt regime or with
Congress, because it would attempt to
upset the whole structure of the Hull
reciprocity treaties, which have be
come ingrained in the foreign policy
of the United States and have been
accepted in principle by the leading
nations of the world. The declara
tion by the National Association of
Manufacturers says it has “favored
reciprocal tariff agreements," but
adds:
“We believe such agreements should
be negotiated with specific countries
with corresponding benefits to both
the United States and the foreign
country involved and that such agree
ments should be ratified by the Senate.
"We believe continuance of the un
conditional mast-favored-nation pro
vision is inconsistent with the theory
of reciprocal truth. They extend the
benefits of reciprocal tariff provisions
to those not parties to' the agree
ments, giving the benefits and getting
nothing in return."
Seen u Unworkable.
The trouble with the foregoiing.
from the New Deal viewpoint, is that
such a plank is simply unworkable.
For years the United States Govern
ment has been at the mercy of the
more flexible governments of the world
who could overnight make tariff
changes. The system of delegating
within limits the tariff-making power
to the Executive in our own country
has been forced upon us by the con
ditions abroad, and to go back to the
log-rolling between groups and sec
tions, which would be inevitable if
the trade agreements were to be sub
mitted to the Senate for ratification,
would merely mean to turn back the
clock for generations.
As for America ‘'getting nothing in
return,” this is a fallacy, according
to the administration's argument, be
cause other nations cannot make any
more favorable rates to a third power
than they make with America. This
merely means that, if France, for in
stance, which has a reciprocal agree
ment with the United States, should
ever make a reciprocal agreement with
Belgium or Germany or any other
country and should grant some trade
concessions, every one of those con
cessions must automatically be granted
to the exporters from the United
States.
Consultation May Be Provided.
There is, to be sure, a rightful criti
cism which the National Association
of Manufacturers makes as to the
opportunities for American business
men to be consulted when tariff duties
affecting them are under consideration
by the State Department, and some
Improvements in the negotiating
process may be expected. But to
flaunt before the New Deal an abso
lute contradiction of the reciprocal
tariff policy of Secretary Hull and
to propose now, in effect, the repudi
ated system of tariff making which
gave us the Hawley-Smoot law is to
be as tactless as business men could
possibly be.
This, at any rate, is the reaction
In administration quarters and pre
sumably the National Association of
Manufacturers wanted to produce a
favorable impression on Congress and
the Government. To the extent that
the “declaration of principles”
breathed a new spirit of profession.
It was hailed as a step in the right
direction, but the tariff plank illus
trated more than anything else the
diversity of interests, indeed the con
flict of purpose, which often influ
ences the platforms of business groups
as well as political bodies. The docu
ment “pledges industry’s co-opera
tlon with Government in the promo
tion of economic and social progress,”
but does not say a word as to how
the low income groups, who wielded
the balance of power In the last elec
tion. are to have their pay envelopes
Increased or how the unemployed are
to be given jobs.
Broad Formula Lacking.
The New Deal takes the "declara
tion of principles" as being a good
beginning, perhaps, in setting down
in black and white some basic truths,
but industry has not yet come for
ward with a broad formula for im
proved wages and increased employ*
uient, nor even with a specific an
alysis of the barriers which today
retard the growth of employment.
Until business organizations can re
veal a “national plan” that gives,
gome hope of accomplishing the ob
jectives on which both Government
and business are now agreed, it is
most likely that, for some time to
come, industry and business will be
occupied with negative statements
which seek primarily to curtail the
area of "controlled economy" marked
out by the New Deal and Its brain
trusters.
Some day business leadership may
get the jump on the legislators by
presenting a plan that will appeal
to the masses much more than the
hodgepodge of conflicting proposals
and laws that emanate from political
Government, but the "declaration of
principles” has in it no such 'initia
tive or challenge.
(Copyritht, 1936.)
News Behind the News
Administration Developing Untried Methods to
Halt Boom Runaway.
BY PAUL MALLON.
A 8AOS economic mechanic around the White House sised up the
situstton now confronting the President in this apt way:
“President Roosevelt spent his first four years setting a sick
hoss started. He will spend the next four trying to keep it
from running away." The important thing about that is the second purpose
requires an exactly opposite technique tram the first. You operate at a
different end of the horse.
The methods used for getting the beast going are: Inflation,
spending, credit expansion, on unbalanced budget, seisure and dis
tribution of corporate earnings, seisure of big incomes and distribu
tion of them to the needy, artificial stimulations to develop purchas
ing power.
But the generally known method of dealing with a runaway
call for: Deflation, contraction of spending and credit, a balanced
budget and abstinence from stimulants.
If these fundamentals are desirable, as is now said, you are going to see
an entirely different New Deal in the nett four yean.
* * * *
The experts who plan ahead are already discussing what can be done.
The first thing would naturally be to pass around the word that the
immediate outiooK is none too good,
that prices are going too high and
may cause reaction. This tends to
hold things down. It has already
been started. The New Deal news
writers are beginning to speculate
'about It. Official spokesmen are
taking it up.
Next, you can hike the require
ments on banks so they will have
to keep a large amount of cash In
reserve and cannot lend it out.
This also has been done, it will be done again next month.
Then you ran move to limit the Influx of foreign capital Into this
country from war-frightened Europe, and cut down that stimulant to our
markets. Mr. Rooeevelt has talked about this. Steps will be taken very soon.
a a a a
These preliminary steps are the known ones. There are others which
have not been mentioned in public. They can move to Increase interest
rates through the Federal Reserve Board and Treasury policy. They can
enlarge Mr. Morgentliau’s authority over the stabilization fund so he can
manipulate it in an anti-inflationary way. They can buy fewer Govern
ment bonds in the open market and thus put out less cash. They can
start to cut down gradually on Government spending, and move toward a
balancing of the budget.
All these and some other minor technical steps have been discussed,
and perhaps these will eventually be taken.
A significant thing about them is that virtually no new legisla
tion would, be needed to carry them out. A technical amendment
might have to be adopted by Congress to enlarge Mr. Morgenthau's
stabilization powers and the rate of spending, of course, will be
partly determined by Congress. But no new big legislation is being
discussed at this time.
The big question is how effective these moves will be. Nobody knows.
They have never been tried before. Consequently, no one can possibly
Steady 8cy//
have any provable notion of how
much they will accomplish. Their
application requires very careful
handling, because the purpose is
not to stop the progress of the old
hose, but to moderate his gait so
he will not again exhaust himself
and collapse.
It is true the Government could
not handle him before, and the
reins now are not as strong as
they might be. But Government
nas learned a lot in the last seven years. It is alert and knowing. All
of these fellows here in charge of thinking for the New Deal are not
Tugwells. They have found out more about practical economics in the last
four years than Government officials previously learned in a lifetime.
They have the fresh experience in their minds of what happened before.
It is anybody's guess how successful they will be. The main thing
is they are determined.
(Ooprriaht, in is)
KNIFE-THROWING
MODEL TO TALK
Will Describe Reactions to Dan
gerous Thrill Act of
Circus.
OR the benefit of thane people
who have always wondered
how the woman in the circus
sideshow feels when the knife
thrower draws her silhouette in
knives against the wall, Edward Ever
ett Horton will bring one of these
brave souls to the microphone during
the Chateau program on WRC to
night-at 9:30 o'clock.
Horton's guest will be Bertha Mat
lock of the A1 Barnes Circus, who not
only serves as a knife-thrower's
"model,” but does 10 other stunts, in
cluding a slide for life and a tight
rope-walking act across an open cage
of Hons and tigers.
pD WYNN will have Morton Downey,
J tenor, as the guest on his program
over WMAL at 8. Downey will try
his hand at clowning and sing a med
ley of his best-known numbers. Wynn
will try to sing.
piNE music will be the keynote of
the Speed Show on WJSV at 9. 1
The guest artists include Efrem Zim
balist, violinist, and Conrad . Mayo,
baritone. Zimbalist will play Brahm s
“Hungarian Dance in P Minor," and
"Flight of the Bumble Bee,” by
Rimsky-Korsakov.
DUDY VALLEE will be the guest
master of ceremonies during the
Saturday Night Party on WRC at 8.
Jane Pickens, "Follies" star: Walter
Cassel, baritone, and Stuart Chur
chill., tenor, will be the featured so
loists.
'T'HE 100th anniversary of the first
performance of Glinka's Russian
opera. "Life for the Tzar.” will be
celebrated by the San Francisco Opera
Co., in a broadcast which WRC will
carry at 12 o’clock midnight. Only
the third act will be on the air.
'T'HE Carnegie Institution will begin
a series of broadcasts on WMAL
at 6 with a discussion of "Super
Gravitation.” The program will take
the form of a round-table discussion
led by W. F. G. Swann of the Bartol
Foundation of Owarthmore, Pa.
Cod Liver Oil Urged for Hens.
Pennsylvania farmers have been ad
vised that giving a hen 2>i cents’
worth of cod liver oil vitamin D each
year would add 88 cents net profit a
year.
cj’HS opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not
necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in
The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of Interest to its
readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s.
How Long the Victory ?
Abdication for Love May Bring Reaction on
Many Phases of Crisis.
BY MASK SULLIVAN.
W[AT follows now? What are
the consequences of the
abdication of a British
King, coming in the pres
ent state of the world?
Borne of the consequences can be
surmised with fair certainty. Others
can only be sug
gested, In the
form of questions,
of which the an
swer will only
emerge with time.
First In Impor*
t a n c e, parlia
mentary govern
ment retains its
Integrity, even
increases its pres
tige and strength.
There was con
flict between the
King and parlia
ment as repre
sented by the
Mark Sullivan.
prime minister The King lost, lost
so definitely that he waa obliged to
abdicate Today, parliament is su
preme over the monarchy to a greater
extent than at any time in the seven
centuries during which parliament
has been rising.
Parliamentary government Increases
its strength in Britain. But how
about elsewhere? In the world-wide
conflict between parliamentary gov
ernment and personal or dictator gov
ernment, is the prestige of parlia
mentary government increased by the
spectacle the world has Just watched
in Britain? Possibly yes; but the an
swer cannot be known until we see
how the world reacts.
Tradition, Too, Wins.
Parliamentary government wins.
But. paradoxically, so does the power
of tradition win. What King Ed
ward had to yield to was parliament—
but what parliament relied on and
stood for was a body of British tra- j
dition—about the relation of the
King to parliament, about the place
of the church in British government
and society, about divorce as a thing
which the Established Church of Eng
land disapproves. The paradox here
lies in the fact that in England the
monarch is supposed to be the per
sonification of tradition.. In this case,
tradition wins, but the monarch loses.
The monarch loses—but It may not
be that the monarchy loses. It may be
the new monarch will be more se
cure upon his throne by reason of
what has happened. It may be—
but it may not be. That is one of
the questions that must wait for time
to answer. The British people have
just passed through what must have
been a serious and widespread dis
illusionment about a king. Will they,
after that, have as much regard for
the new King? Will they to the
same extent respect the King as a
symbol, accept him. not as a man
but as a personification?
What tf World Influence?
Will Britain, as a result of what
has passed, have greater international
influence, or less? Will she be more
compact at home? Will she be more
powerful in Europe? The answer to
that will be important. For Britain
is the outstanding exemplar of lib
eralism, the principal reliance for
peace, in the present European strain
between contrasting ideals—between
liberal government and autocratic,
between preservation of peace and
ambition for conquest.
There may be a curious indirect
effect on the peoplea of Europe that are
dictator-governed. Germans learned
of the British crisis for the first time
when King Edward abdicated. That
news the Hitler Government could
hardly keep from the people. But
the German Government had forbid
den and prevented all previous men
tion. After this, will it be as easy as
before for Hitler to impose censorship
on the German press? Will the Ger
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6:00 Dinner Dance Carnegie Institution ;Tony Wakeman A1 Roth’s Orchesra 6:00
6:11 " " Dinner Club fihoch Light's Orch. Arch McDonald 6:16
6:30 “ “ Home Symphony News—Editorial Victoria Drake, Organist 6:30
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man people be aa willing to accept
what the Oerman preaa does?
Reaction to Church Possible.
What will be the effect on the au
thority of churches everywhere? Por
the moment, the authoritative concep
tion of the church hM won a victory.
The Eplacopal Church, which ia the
Established Church of England, for
mally disapproves divorce, does not
marry divorced persons. To this nils,
the British monarchy. In some degree,
now submits. Will this victory for
ecclesiastical authority last? Will the
authoritative conception in other
churchea profit? Or will there be,
now or later, reaction?
What will be the effect on individ
ual standards everywhere? Mrs. Simp
son lost the opportunity to be Queen
of England. She did not lose It be
cause she was an American—that did
not stand In the way. Sha did not
lose it because she was a commoner—
that did not stand In the way. It
may be she would have lost it because
she had been through one divorce.
Yet if there had been only one, she
might not have lost—Parliament and
the established ohurch might have
yielded. It was the second divorce
that was too much, especially since
it had the appearance of being an
arranged divorce for the purpose of
making poislble her marriage to the
King.
May Affect Divorce.
It was because of what ths London
Time* called "the circumstances."
Will all this have the effect of less
tolerance for divorce, or more? Will
the world, especially America, con
tinue the approval or acceptance of
divorce that has become more and more
general for more than 40 years? It
hardly seem* likely that the informal
opinion of the world will turn back
to the standard* of Queen Victoria.
It may, after a while, react in the
anti-Puritan direction.
Anyhow, the world hu seen a
great drama. For the price of a daily
nemspaper the man in the street
has been able to follow a historical
event as momentous as any that
Plutarch or Olbbon or any other
classic historian ever described. Not
only is the drama unexcelled in his
tory. Fiction and the stage have few
equivalents. When fiction, the stage
and the motion picture busy them
selves with royal romance, they usually
present it as an improbability, and lay
the scene in some anonymous kingdom,
such as Richard Harding Davis did
in "The Princess Aline," and Anthony
Hope In the ‘Prisoner of Zenda,"
which he located in "Ruritania.” The
drama of actual events can be so
melodramatic that fiction feels it can
not ask the reader to believe any
thing so fantastic.
(Coprrlibt. 3 Milsj
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We, the People
New Deal to Fight Old "Homesteading” Idea in
Farm Program, Observer Says.
BY JAY FRANKLIN.
* the unemployed hu again bogged
a man unemployed/ The problem
blocked bv any auch Intellectual
BtfurBU/.miaiicw. * i.o »uiiu«imv« ation knows its statistics on agri
culture.
The simplest definition of a farm tenant is a farm operator who
cultivates land which ha does not own. This definition is the key to the
report which the President's Farm Tenancy Committee will begin to pre
pare about the middle of the month. For under this definition, the "in
dependent'' yeomen of Iowa and the debt-ridden "cropper" of Arkansas
ere blood-brothers.
The Bureau of Agriculture! Bconomics has prepared some ominous
charts. One of these shows ths average farm operator's equity In the land
he tills, Btate by State. The man who works to earn interest for a mort
gage-holder is Just as much a tenant—economically speaking—as the man
who goes shares with the owner of a big plantation. Iowa farmers, for
example, own only 10 per cent of the value of Iowa farm*; Oeorfla farmer*,
only 4(1 per cant. In the caae of Iowa, much of the 70 per cent balance is
held In Hartford, Conn., and Los Angeles, Calif., so that the prosperity of
New England and fiouthern California depends in part on the prosperity
of these "independent” farmera.
The average for the country as
a whole is: 42 per cent owned by
the farmer, 58 per cent by banks,
insurance companies and private
investors. The 40-year trend is
away from unincumbered farm
ownership.
The bureau also has a chart
showing a similar trend in the
rise of tenant fanning. In 1880,
25.6 per cent of all farmers were
tenants; in 1935, 42.1 per cent—or
nearly every otner iarmer—were tenant*. The proportion of tenant farmers
1* highest in the South—A4 per cent; lowest in the West—24 per cent; in
the North, tenants account for 32 per cent of all farmers—one out of
three.
Another chart shows the proportion of tenant and cropper farms
to all American farms. Nearly three million farms are cultivated by
tenants. The richest land of the Mississippi valley shows the highest
percentage of cropping; in the delta region, four out of five farms sre
tenant farms. Thus we have the ghastly paradox of the worst social
and economio conditions among farmers arising on the finest farm land
In America.
This is alarming. We cannot duck the issue by pretending not
to know the facts. They are unmistakable, threatening, stubborn.
These facts, particularly in the South where racial sentiment
complicates all public life, have led to the Bankhead-Jones bill for a
swift, wholesale and expensive solution of a situation which threatens
to breed an agrarian revolution, once the mechanical cotton picker
goes to work and starts displacing human labor in the South.
The 28 members of the Tenancy Committee are pondering these fact,,
but the actual work of the conference will be handled by a subcommittee
headed by Dr. Lewis c. Oray of Resettlement and Agriculture, and Includ
ing A. O. Black, head of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics; Dr. Will
Alexander, Tugwell’s choice to head up Resettlement, and M. W. Thatcher
of the Farmers' Union.
The committee will recommend a slow, experimental tenancy program,
costing about 815.000.000 a year, which will work out. region by region and
by types of farming, a flexible and practical solution. They believe that
Senator Bankhead and hi* Southern friends are In too much of a hurry
and that there is no easy solution. Tugwell and Secretary Wallace are
In agreement on this point.
The tenancy program will be
Intrusted, at least In its early
stages, to the Resettlement Admin
istration as part of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. Resettlement
has already made some important
“tenancy security” experiments in
the Southern States, graduating
the farmers on “rehabilitation” into
•conomic solvency.
Of the program as a whole, two
things can be predicted:
The dangerous old “homesteading Idea, the 40 acres and a team of
mules" bunk will be fought tooth and nail. The old-time Southern planta
tion will serve as a model for the future: A center for technical equipment,
for wholesale purchases and sales, for social and medical facilities—with
co-operative cultivation of cash crops under a beneficial form of private
ownership. Any other method would be perilously uneconomic.
In the second place, the Government will seek not to end
tenancy, but to increase it, working with the tide and using credit
and other financial sanctions, under public control, to lower Interest
rates, extend periods of repayment and introduce desirable elements
of supervision and management in the interest of the tenants
In other words, the New Deal's tenancy proposals will make sense
This means, under “the American way.” that they will be bitterly attacked
and opposed, not least by those who stand to gain from them.
(Ooerrisht, 19'iS.)
BRIGHTWOOD GROUP
SUPPORTS CLAYTON
Indorsed for People's Counsel
Post—Withdrawal of Dollar
Pats Hit.
William McK. Clayton was in
dorsed lor people s counsel and also
recommended tor the trophy to be
presented to the outstanding civic
worker by the Brightwood Cltisens'
Association at a meeting held last
night in the Paul Junior High School.
The association adopted a resolu
tion opposing an increase In street car
and bus fares and withdrawal of the
$1 pass. The lack of authority on
the part of the Public Utilities Com
mission to prevent Increases in trans
portation rates was deplored, and
steps were urged to be taken to give
the commission greater powers in this
respect.
The Public Utilities Committee of
the association, of which Clayton is
chairman, was authorised to con-*
tinue its activity protesting against
the removal of the street car tracks on
Third and Kennedy streets and sub
stitution of a shuttle bus service be
tween Takoma Park and Fourteenth
street and Colorado avenue. The
meeting was advised that it would
be impassible to furnish sufficient
busses to serve the Takoma Park and
Brightwood areas in the event of the
removal of the tracks.
Improvement in the grounds at Fort
Stevens was urged in a resolution,
it being pointed out that the work
has been left unfinished and present- i
ing an unsightly condition at the in
tersection of Thirteenth and Quack
enbos streets.
The meeting concluded with an ad
dress by L. A. Hince. administrative
assistant of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, who told of accom
plishments of the F. B. I. Schools
throughout the country are co-operat
ing in the crime-prevention work to a
noted degree, he said.
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Quarrel With Girl Disastrous.
LACROSSE. Wis. (4*).—A quarrel
with his girl friend had disastrous
results for Ralph Sladen, 35. and the
girl's sister.
Sladen told a judge he stole his girl
frend's clothes, set fire to her room,
punched her sister and threw a bicycle
through a plate-glass door. Now he
awaits sentence on his plea of guilty
to charges of robbery and arson.
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Headline Folk
and What
They Do
Babson Holds Declin
ing Birth Rate Peril
to Church.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.
ROGER BABSON warns the Fed
» era! Council of Churches that
the church In general Is en
dangered by the declining
birth late. With his usual vigor and
assurance he shore* up his argument
with statistics and urges remedial ac
tion.
Mr. Babson Is so prolific and versa
tile—it Is doubtful whether he or
Walter B. Pitkin takes in more terri
tory—that it is hard to keep the
balance - brought - forward in his
prophecies, analyses, critiques, for
mulas and corrective devioes. For in
stance, in July. 1935. he was urging
birth control as one of three specifics
to cure poverty. Possibly for non
churchmen only.
Dean Swift proposed to make great
literature by a giant abacus which
would mechanically combine and re
combine all the words In the language.
By the laws of permutations and com
binations, great prophecy would iesue.
However, not all of Mr. Babeon'a bull’s
eye* csn be credited to calculus or
quantity output. His shrewd predic
tion of the 1020 crash was a logical
dissection of events which turned out
to be the one dependable horoscope
of that rollicking Bummer.
The brisk, dapper goateed sage of
Wellesley Hills Is, so far as the records
of this department show, the one
major prophet of the business world
who systematically takes time out for
thinking. He devotes each morning
to a thinking session, taking notes
when he gets a good idea. Here are
Just a few of the subjects which have
concerned him in the last few years
and which he has carried Into the
public forum:
A three-ply cure for poverty: (1)
Keep people out of debt (2) Produce
and distribute more. iJi Reduce the
number of wage earner*, possibly by
birth control, so there will be enough
, wealth to go around. ,
Self-finding golf balls: harnesslnc
tides: a dependable method of pre
dicting earthquakes; watches run by
radio; the regulation of sex. height,
weight and other physical character
istics by electric air waves: strict Sun
day observance, changing birch Into
mahogany; practical eugenics; double
deck street cars; a street car, invented
by Mr. Babe on. with no motorman:
hard work and Intelligence to pull out
of depressions: an automatic translator
of languages: draft workers in time of
war; scientific diet and exercise; fresh
air.
Mr. Babson thinks it is about fifty
fifty whether we slide into fascism,
although he Is a loyal believer both 1n
American Institutions and Adam Smith
economics and doesn't want anything
like that to happen.
At his great statistical and research
plant, Bateon Park, in Massachusetts,
he brings the whole universe to the
pager focus of his rimless spectacles.
He thinks everything probably will
come out all right, If we Just behave
ourselves, although he does see a pos
sibly troublesome spell of inflation just
ahead.
The medieval scholastic* proposed
a round-up of all known knowledge,
with the belief that when they closed
In on It they would And at last the
mustard seed of truth. Mr. Babson
seems to have the same Idea. Years
ago, Parson Uzell provided a literal
application of this method. His pet
rabbit had strayed. He put on a
round-up of all the rabbits of North
ern Colorado, with hundreds Of men
closing in on four sides. Among hun
dreds of thousands of rabbits, they
finally found the stray. The rabbit
rodeo became an annual affair—to
feed the poor, however, rather than to
find runaways. Even if Mr. Babson
doesn't find the ultimate truth, there
should be some such useful by
product from his prodlflous research.
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