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_Monday. December 31, 1334 ECONOMICS ALONE CANNOT END THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS W« have a way of talking these days as if all that stood between the human race and complete earthly happiness were a faulty economic system. It is only natural that we should talk that way, because the depression has caused some very' tragic things to happen and they aren’t quickly forgotten. But every now and then me get a path etic little reminder that the quest for hap piness isn’t going to be solved too easily. Even after we find a way of banishing hunger and want from the earth forever, there will still be those sad, life-wrecking a* (ideate that people blunder into when they try to solve the personal equations that human society presents. These things have nothing to do with unemployment or the price of wheat ; they happened^ people back In the days of the pyramids, and tbey probably will keep on happening after the last stone has been removed from the bread-winner's path. That recent case of the aviator and the girl parachute jumper is an illustration. The aviator was a young man who flew a ship on a commercial line in the east. The girl knew him and his wife—had, in fact, worked at one time u their maid. The aviator and his wife separated and planned to get a divorce; he and the parachute jumper became sweethearts. Somehow the course of the romance didn’t nan so smoothly. The sviator and his estranged wife had two children, and they kept the break from becoming com plete. The parachute girl found she had to share her man with the other woman. Finally, after heaven knows what dis couragement, anger, and desperation, she ended the whole tangle by killing herself. Now here is the sort of tragedy that all the economic readjustments on earth will never touch. The quest for happiness is a strange and perplexing thing, and there will always be pitfalls along the road; be cause people cannot always be wholly wise and controlled when they grope out for tnose human contacts which give life its meaning. All of this, perhaps, is self-evident? Perhaps. And yet we forget it. We talk a# if the grim fight for economic security were the only fight we needed to win. After it is all over—after the fear of hunger and poverty has been obliterated —file will still be a mixture of splendor and dark tragedy. Some of us will be lucky, and find the love and comradeship we must have—and some of us will reach for them, fail mis erably, and go down in defeat And when that happens, we who have been lucky can only try to be understanding. RIDING FOR A FALL Senator Huey Long, having been given a great deal of rope, seems to be bent on j doing the traditional thing with it His latest exploit in striking at the father of one of those Louisiana State University students who was expelled for protesting the senator's censorship of the university paper is just naturally the sort of thing that does not appeal to an Amer ican's sense of fair play. Having the boy kicked out of college for speaking his mind was bad enough. To bar the boy’s father from using the New Orleans-Baton Rouge highway with his motor truck service, as Senator Long did, is a great deal worse. It is a direct blow’ at the man’s liveli hood; in simple words, it was a mean, despicable thing to do. Stunts of that kind w ill hardly Increase the senator's popularity. Many Causes Possible If You Can t Swallow By DfL MOEicXS F1SHBEIN Editor. Journal of tbo American Medical AMortalhm. ■M of Hygrta. the Health Magarino MANY CAUSES POSSIBLE— 8ISHBE1N. Probably you’ve come across a person who sudden ly found he couidni swallow hi* load It's a dis- : tressing experience. The trouble may be more senous than merely that of hurting. Difficulty with swallowing may happen to people of any age and may vary from inability to take In large mouthfuls ol foods to trouble in swallowing even liquids. Furthermore, it may be due to a number of causes. Sometime* n is simply that the throat ha* been scratched by a fish bone or a small meat bone, so that swallowing is difficult until healing occurs. Sometime* a small portion of a bone will become lodged m the wall of the throat or of the esophagus. ' the tube that leads from the throat to the stomach. It may be difficult to detect the presence of such a splinter of bone even with the X-ray. • • • A clever British doctor worked out a way of find ing out about such particles of bone. He had the 1 patient swallow small pieces of cotton soaked In banum emulsion. The little fibers of cotton get caught on the edges of the splinter of bone, and then, when the X-ray picture Is taken, the tn uale can be located. Ingenious instruments have been developed which permit the doctor to fish such splinters out of the place in which they may be lodged. There are other cases in which troubles with swal low-jag occur because of disturbances ol the nervous system. For instance, in lockjaw it Is not possible to open the mouth because the infection in the ner vous system holds the jaws together. The mouth may be so dry from lack of saliva, that swallowing is difficult because the food is not moistened. There may be paralysis of the palate such as oc curs in dipthtena, or there msy be a cleft palate failure of the bones of the head to grow together oroperiy at birth There may be severe swelling of the tonsils, which will cause swallowing to become diflimit and occasionally in older people tumors de velop which obstruct the swallowing passages. Sometimes little pouches are formed off the eso phagus. When food Is taken, it gets into these pout nr- with pressure, and there is pain and re sulting diflicultv m eating Obviously, it is necessary to investigate every case and to take care of the condition that Is found, realizing at tne same time that difficulty in swal lowing is just a symptom rather than a disease itself These are tunes when what is done or left undone may make or break our country' and our «G O P i party .—Theodore Rooserelt. Jr. The ability to analyse and a good memory are the two important things which make the difleience be tween a good checker player and an expert —Asa Long world checker champ. SCOTT'S SCRAPBOOK.By R. J. Scott » ' r _ZET a fatal DAy To^e RoyAL PAMlLy of ENGLAND WILLIAM JH-<JUEEN ANNE - CEORCE x- G&ORCEH SEORCE m - <tORCEIZ - DUCHESS oF KENT PRINCE ALBERT, AND PRINCESS ALICE ALL DIED ON M<*e WORLP George jr SATURDAY/ l^-TodaySJ | rnjPl CoAncu WMMhI ftrt Surater wIU J>e 1 defended. kltoaper' l§»?cpocaUpeUt Mexican volcano, ia cpedal Mew Year's eruption, k/tocpee! The Worldl At a Glance By iXaUB tlCHLL Central Frew Staff Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 31—Reduction of the maximum interest rates that banks may pay to depositors may drive some idle money into in vestment. At least, that is a govern ment expectation. How much, no body knows. The federal reserve board direct ed that 2 1-2 per cent shall be the maximum which could be paid on any thrift and time deposits by banks which have insured deposits, —which means virtually *u banks. . In New York City, thrill interest rates have been much lower than that for some time—and there has been no decrease in deposits. Belief is expressed in New York that increased spending may re sult m smaller communities Bank>. of course, cannot find safe investments for their funds at rates which will earn money. There is a plethora of money for lending pur pose*—but the normal channels re main frozen. Wall Street constantly calls for • the opening of the capital secur ities market’ —meaning a less se vere capital securities regulation law. • • • Passing It On Some banks, in reducing interest paid on deposits, also have reduced interest exacted on mortgages In brief, idle money means low er interest rates all around. This lias been an unusual holiday season in the world of money. Cir culation failed to rise to anything like seasonal heights. And check' velocity—sometimes cabrd the ba rometer of prosperity—continued to { decline. Yet retail trade increased! considerably over last year. Maybe people and corporations have decided to “law away” or hoard—unul personal security or business security becomes more ap parent. The trend is world-wide, except in England—where trade and sec urities have continued advancing in an orthodox mannet. 9 9 9 Postal savings Rate Postal savings banks still pay two per cent—but banks are making a1 determined effort to force that rate i dow n to one or one and a half per, cent. Bankers say the government can- j not afford to pay two per oent. The government manages to pay i two per cent by exacting 2 1-2 per cent from banks where it deposits postal savings money. • • • Co-Operative State A co-operative commonwealth is envisioned by one commentator if President Roosevelts 20-year plan, is carried through The writer is! Thoma* W Phelps, chief of the Wall Street Journal's Washington; bureau, wno says: *’Fore.\liadowme legislative re com-! mendations involving regimentation • on a broader scale than heretofore! publicly avowed by any of the New Dealers, the National Resources j Board, including half the cabinet.! has unanimously reported to the president a kmg-range plan for the nation. "A vision of the United States as a vast co-operative enterprise cen trally directed is outlined by the board in its prospectus for conserv ing and utilising the natural re sources of America as tne heritage of the whole nation. “ Human resources and human: values are more significant than the land, water and minerals on1 which men are independent, the report asserts. It iOtlows that the social directives back of such tech nical programs should be develop ed by persons competent by training and point of view to appraise the human values involved/ ‘The signers state their belief in the great importance of this study and the initialing step, toward the accomplishment of the broad pro gram outlined. "The program outlined makes I clear the shift from emergency to permanent planning that is now < occurring In the minds of admin istration leaders. The proposal to set up a finan cial balance sheet for the federal government seems to foreshadow a new method of govern men book keeping on the bauos of offsetting mounting federal debts by assets acquired through government lend ing and spending rbe old-fashion fc income account paid attention only to revenues and expenditures/’ • • • Trade Part? In these day* of extreme nation alism in virtually all countries that wtyich is abnormal is likely to be declared patriotic. Thus, when nations trv to re sume normal trade relations, to re lieve distress among the 'masses of all countries, prejudice and nation alism sweep aside the efforts. And treaties that ought to be ne gotiated in the open a e negotiated seemly by frightened and timid politiciana who pull the string, of statecraft. We quote a mail piece from a London paper: Lieutenant Cclonel Colville, sec -clary of overseas trade, refusaa to fivulge in the house of commons ast night whether the government sere planning a trade agreement nth America ‘ The government, he said, must le the judge of which countries hey intend to open negotiations nth. and tt ts not in the public merest to make a premature dis stoaum. * News Behind the News WASHINGTON By Gwrp Darn* Barrage—Thre* factors are giv ing thoughtful labor leader* the cold shivers as they watch progres sive developments In the knock down. drag-out fight now current in the building trades and metal trades department* of the American Federation of Labor. First, of course is the senousna&s of the split in the ranks and the effect it will have on the whole organised labor movement. Armed with the stout spear of 1A of the National Industrial Re covery Act. the unions have been moving forward an all fronts for over a year. Even with unemploy ment rife and millions of workers unable to pay dues if so minded, the A F of L. has been making long strides toward the ultimate goal of speaking for all la bog. And now the labor atrtliery finds itself throwing a barrage on its own shock troops. • • • Civil War—A second considera tion Is that the family quarrel has reached the point of mayhem just at a time when employer?, are de manding lower wages in the build ing trades. The federal government is striv ing desperately, through the Fed eral Housing Administration and the Public works Administration, to revive the so-called heavy in- j dustries by giving impetus to cons-1 traction irork of all kinds. On the! rise and fall of heavy industry de pends prosperity. The employer has been screaming that the work-! er must make concessions also to start the ball rolling. With the bricklayers carpenters, electricians, teamsters hodctmers. hoisting engineer? and marble set ters lined up against the plumbers, sheet metal workers, painters, ele vator constructors, iron worker*, boiler makers and asbestos work ers —among others— somebody Is going to get hurt. Chances are It will be the man wltn a union card rather than the boas There are an awful lot of unemployed men in this country who don't, and never did. belong to a union. • • • Warned — Which leads to the third and all-important danger in the situation, aa viewed by a union man. In the approaching session of congress there is going to be a well-directed demand for legisla tion limiting or denying the right of labor to strike on government projects. When you remember that Uncle Sam is financing directly or in-1 directly the bulk of construction work now in progress any such action would be a solar plexus blow to the A F of L • • • This legislation many not finally pass but smart labor leaders saw the hand wri ling on the wall back in the fall of 1933 when the A. P of L had its annual convention in Washington. D C. At that time. Ed McGrady. tor years the A F of L.'s legislative agent, had been made a principal assistant to General John* son in NR A He is now Assistant Secretary' of Labor. Delegates to the convention gave; a dinner in McGrady's honor Cons truction work on several o! the big new federal buildings here was tied ud by strike.’, jurisdictional and otherwise, at the moment McGrady in responding to the toasts of his old colleagues warn ed them bluntly that trouble lay ahead if they permuted ui tying up government work This labor vet eran may have been speaking sole ly on a basis of his long expert-1 ence. but he mas then an import-, ant member of the New Deal fam ily. He had been sitting in on offi cial councils It was in the cards he should become Assistant Secre tary of Labor. • • • Profiteers—If Senator Gerald P Nye gets a new lease on life from the incoming congress for his mar profits investigation he is prepar ed to startle the naliou. according to word from inside the Senate Committee. Newspaper reading about the machinations and huge profits of the munitions manufac turers has been interesting and en lightening. but committee investi gators have evidence in other fieldr. on file that will make disclosures to date very tame by comparison. The shipbuilding industry in par ticular is due for a strafing if the inquiry continues. • • • Committee sleuths have brought in sensational evidence concerning » member of the Roosevelt cabinet For reasons which seem fairly sound to those who have been letj in on this development the com mittee tentatively has decided to burv and forget about it. On the other hand Investigators have uncovered what looks to them like a trail directly connecting cer tain shipbuilding interests and one Sally s Sallies ! i£TS & S -1?tAT >wtu i you. BAB* | ‘LET’S SEE WHAT YOU'VE GOT FOR ME, FIRST , PvnsHcfiBiiBawMcai^^rr« . , ~'r?TTya*~ I I of the president* close lieutenant* This one may be pursued. In any event, the wartime and postwar profits of the shipbuilders are said to be something for any man to envy. British shipping men aet an example which was out paced hare when the chance came. • • • Whooper ■Wash ngton, the na tions capital, used to be known as a model city. Panhandlers always marked the town with a special cross-mark. It aemed that Wash ington. of all other cities, wa* above the depression Government work ers drew relatively larte pay des pite their vatoadiiy reduced > salary cut. The old town haa a distinctly dif ferent flavor now It Is overrun with what used to be known as kutter-and-«ci men here for a vi sit to battle with NRA PWA TWA. and sundry other alphabetical or ders They either have plenty of lauch-and-play money of their own or they' operate on nealthy ** penae accounta Aa a reauit auid old hotel* are Cturafn ami to Waarmifion. *KH PflMj. final UDblM HKAB TODAY | ABK HOLLMTEI krrtk* Wt ia TORY UCKIA ito — c day that PI DA LX toll* VAI1EMIA NNETT. aact ktiaata th«at. i •kt Mill Ittit Taay aa Hmt he etlll Wat wfcea r ha are the let t««ethee aad ■terry They te k'lortd* mmm hayyy thee*. Thea Peter le n> called heatr. Mu toattly Aaa aad Valeria trice te tree hie hetweea Am aad •he aaeeeede aad Am aeee away, leeelac ae hlat at her trhete ahoats. Peter to dtoreaeelatc. ktUettof Am hae dtoeerered hto le«e tee retara It. Hto ederte te dad hee are trainees. Oae day he taaaleea a-g~ te ne» te a eeeteia addreee aad rashes there, heptac te dsd Aaa. k»« GO Oh Uk'ITM THI STOMY | CHAPTER XXXII rpHE add res* on Bond street. when Peter Arrived there, proved to be en eaimpreseive brick apartment building. There was something depressing about the ex terior end something infinitely more depressing about the interior. But to Peter it appeared as s green oasis in s barren desert. He would find Ann here! He was sure the telephone message had come from her. He ran up the uncarpeted steps, hearing voices a Dove. The door to one room was open. It must be filled with e great many people, for some of them had spilled out into the hell. Tatar recognised them, ae reporters. He scowled blackly. If they were giving Ann trouble— And then he stood for a moment, weak from disappointment, lean ing against the door. An angry young men. with pil lows at hie beck, was sitting up ta bed talking very croeely to hie vt* ttors. who grinned cheerfully back at him end went on taking notea The angry young man was Law rence. the former chauffeur, but he wore no uniform. Then Peter sew Cerol. Oh. Peter darling’ I’d aboet given you up—what e time yon took to come! Peter, these men know the whole story about my slipping off the train and coming back to marry Larry. How do they find out things like that? Peter, cant you keep them from putting it in the paper r* Carol bad rushed into bis arms. Then, by degrees. Peter heard what bed happened. His sister had mar ried the young football hero who bed been dropped from college lest spring for eome escapade sad whose disappearance bed stirred the sport world. "I bsd n tip that Ames wee la town, working ns s chauffeur or taxi driver.” one reporter s*iJ te Peter. “The seme fellow told me , when Ames lost bit Job. tipped me off to where be was staying. 1 recognised your sister, did some sleuthing until I found out about the marriage end then came here , to get the complete story. And what do I find? Reporters from < •aery sheet in town «sMpfig ■ must have told everybody olec «oeh. what a tough brook wboa £. thought l_ had u oxcianlvni* “Now, If m will tMt POM wtth your orm about bis abeaMer.” a ly to Oarot -Tbs 14m! I will aoc* *1 guess they'll bar* a pktere of you in tbo society flies. Aad 1 know tbs flies are toll at pic tures of Ames. “What d<Ms It awtler? A hat d* ference doss K maker Paler bed •aid later. -All that ms Mere Is being happy. Tha nest thing la is get you youngsters hiaei.* Carol followed him te bln car. “Patar. something bM happened te yon. Why didn't Aaa mmP Peter told her. And then be wm bearing about Ann's visits, bar pledge to secrecy. No use now to bo nabs mod of bln unjust doubts, when n more terri ble doubt wm tormenting him. • • • THE neospnpers apparently thought Carol Kendall wm to bo cougratulatod for winning tbo young man whose foot boll playing had made him aa idol His father had received the news of the mar riage over talopboee and wm oom ing at once. It was upon tbo note of. *1 mm forgive everything eleapt your not taking me into your eon Aden re." that Mrs. Kendall met tbo man ways She bad bsen influenced by ment Lawrence Ames, and net his marriage to Carol, was the doml aunt theme of all the articles Peter went oat to break the newt to his grandfather and stayed all night. The older K«o dull was genuinely shocked by tbs change in bis grandson. Peter looked this aad warn. His eyes wars stricken. But the great set change was not phyekaL He •bowed a weariness of spirit, n let ting down mentally and spiritually. Peter didst seam te cere what hap petted. The world could go to smash. It already had smsshad far Peter. The labor trouble at tha factory had been cleared up. PrkM were rising sad his grandfather had re vised the salary scale, with mb slant ini wage Increases. The arbi tral ion committee had ha feme a permansat organisation aad dif ferences bad hMa Ironed owl, tor tbo time, at least. Peter's grand father gave hie grandson tbs credit. “WhM bo. starts something.** oM Peter said with pride, "be daaaa*t step until ho inishm U-* • • • V KS. matters bad heM righted. * but tbo old aMtleanaa thought this only half-heartedly. tooling that things were tor trem right when young Pater wm m unhappy. *T wish yo« had never anon that girt. Peter.** be Mid. He bed blamed Aaa for marrying Pstor. but asvsr as bn blsmsd her new for leering bis ley. She nut bn mad te tonve s bus bey like Pater Peter wMt hack to town aast H# bad an early dinner and re turned to the etoea. The April day lib*. No night broeM bed spmng pleas he had aarottod lay un touched upon bis desk. The telephone mag. Valeria* pleading voice said. "Peter. I'm lonely. It's deadly hers." Pstsr wm lonely, tow And B wm deadly whore he wen “Piceoe. I need to .Vent pan neater _