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Show THE WASHINGTON STAR hqre Abraham Lincoln DAY JAMI Abeat DR. GoesioWashinqtorL Talks W. BARTON EVERY overweight has given the re- body. It la only recently that they are realising that liquid while not storing tat, nevertheless are held in the body by the tat and so greatly increase the total weight of the while knowing that body. Thu water Is needed by the body for a number of pur- pose they also know that they do not need to drink 9 JMtUMtY, IM)' ... a day la America! calena holiday In moat of dar the atatea of the Union a day of remembrance of oology, of "flinging hla nama i galoot tha atari.' For thla la Lincoln! blrth- red-lett- ... LincolrtS Arrival in Washington. But let na go back to another Lincoln! birthday . . . to February 12, 1861. A short, little locomotive with a amok ea tack, la pulling along the alngle track that wlnda among tha g hllla of Ohloi Back theta In ona of the wooden eoachea a tall, gaunt man dta by a window yailng out over tha bleak winter landscap Yesterday he had atood on the rear platform of a train at tha brick railway atatlon in Spring-fleld- , I1L A crowd of nearly a thouaand people allent, bareheaded In the cold, drlaale of rale had llatened to these words: "Frlende no one who has never been placed In a like position can understand my feellnga at thla hour nor the oppressive sadness 1 feel at thla parting. For more than a quarter of a century 1 have lived among you, and during all that time I have received nothing but klndneas at your hands. "Bert I have lived from my youth tin now I am an Here the moat sacred trusts of 'earth were assumed; here all my children were born; and here one of them 11 ee buried. To you, dear friends, I owe all that I have, all that I am. All the strange checkered past seems to crowd now upon my mind. "Today I leave you; I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon General Washington. Unless the great God who assisted him shall be with and aid me, I must But if the same omniscient mind end the almighty arm that directed and protected hall guide and support me, I shall not fall; I shall succeed. Let us all pray that the God of ouf fathers may not forsake us now. To Him I commend you alL Permit me to ask that with equal sincerity and faith you will all Invoke Hla wisdom and guidance for me. "With these few words I muat leave you for how long, I know not Friends, one and all, I must now bid you an affectionate farewell" (moMwnwmNo sr nastm) Just eating a little butter or cheese or drinking a little milk, the body will use for Its needs the tat they have stored In the body, thus decreasing gradually their store of tat and so their weight How Nature Uses It Striking examples of how nature uses stored fat can be seen in animals such as the bear whose body Is covered, with tat In the autumn and while It sleeps during tlie winter this stored fat supplies the body with nourishment By spring the bear la quite lean again. Another example Is wliere a very fat fish, during certain periods of Its yearly lire, eats nothing whatever, yet Is kept alive during these periods because its body uses up this l. denoslt of fat which It has gently-rollin- Btatert ... Biz weeks after hla election South Carolina had passed its ordinance of secession. During tha nest month Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida had followed the Palmetto states lead. On February 4 representatives from these states had met at llontgomery. Ala and organised the "Confederate States of America. Five more, Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansas were almost certain to Join the sis that had already departed from the Union. The future course of three "border states, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, as well as the northern slave state of Delaware, was doubtful. And always In. the background loomed the threat of a fratricidal war between the North and the South. So much depended upon what he said and how he said It that he bad tolled, night and day, for three weeks over his inaugural address. "He wrote It as a composer writes a symphony, says Don Glassman in the Washington Star. "He marshaled all the melody la words, all the rhythm of speech and euphony of language to build a monument out of cold syllables He weighed every one on a musical scale. He employed them as fall notes and half notes. He would pronounce eech word eepsrately and fed convinced of Its necessity both as to thought and style. By the time be finished a sentence ft would harbor no contradictory thought or costae note. The words were riveted together, so that to strike out an adjective or syllable would upset the thought and leave a gaping hole fa the sentence." Bver since his election, his mall had been tall Some of letters hearing southern postamtk ware signed with the names and addresses of tho senders; others were anonymous. They wen Ailed with such words as "Black Republics " "rascals" and "mulatto scamp" "thieves." Caesar bad his Brut ns I Charles the First his CromwelL And the President may profit by ... Jail-bird- water would be. But one of the big points overweights have not fully realised la that if they cut down on the tat foods by as much as 90 per cent. d "Bow I am an old man, be had mid. Tea, Abraham Lincoln la fifty-tw- o yearn old this twelfth day of February, 1861. But he has come a long way in those 02 years. This should be a happy birthday for Abraham Lincoln. But bis three boys, Bob and Willis and Tad, hear the sigh that escapes from hla Ups as he turns from the window and they hum their play. And Mary Todd Lincoln sees In the yes that look of sadness which will shadow the face of this "Han of Sorrows for tha next four years. of the United States Yes, he la President-elec- t or should he say "the Disunited of America much the body will use the extra water held In the tat tissues as it Is needed. These overweight Individuals have learned one other thing, and that Is that while tat food butter, cream, tat meat fat fish, egg jolks do not store tat In the same manner or to the same exetent as starch food nevertheless they do help to store tat, and prevent the tissues of the body from being worn or used as rapidly as' they otherwise nwrauum tmm (noH M By ELMO SCOTT WATSON EBBUABr 12, 1036 accum-ulaift- ' Tha Krst Inauguration. fete ai 4-- A Letter & 4- - from the South. their example," warned another, which was signed "from one of a sworn band of 10 who have resolved to shoot you from the south side of the avenue in the inaugural procession on the fourth of March, 1801." And stin another declared: "This is to Inform you that there Is a club of 100 young men in this place who have sworn to uiui ler you. It was hard for him to believe that anyone should desire hla death. But conviction came at last Mors disturbing, though, were the rumors of men hi high places who were about to turn traitor to their country and who might have guilty knowledge of plans for reducing It to a state of anarchy. So he sent the adjutant-generof Dllnols to Washington to sound out Gen. Winfield Scott, head of the army. Scott waa a Virginian and his loyalty was suspected. Back came the reply from that doughty old lighter: "Tell Mr. Lincoln that If necessary, I'll plant cannon at both ends of Pennsylvania avenue, and If any show their heads or even venture to raise a Anger, IT! blow 'em to hell I But not even such reassurance could bring peace to Lincoln's troubled mind. As the train bore him nearer and nearer to the capital and to the day when he would take the oath of hla despair deepened. "To the anxious, listening country hla speeches on the Journey to Washington were disappointing, writes Nathaniel W. Stephenson In "The Chronicles of America. "Perhaps hla strangely saltire mind felt too powerfully the foteful-s- e of the moment and reacted with a sort of lightness that did not really represent tha real Arriving In Philadelphia he waa Informed that u Allan Pinkerton's Secret Service men bad d table evidence of a plot to alnate him. He was urged to leave the City of Brotherly Love that night His reply was: "I have promised to raise the flag over Independence hall tomorrow morning and visit the legislators at Harrisburg. Beyond that I have no engagements. After the Harrisburg riceptlos a special train consisting of a locomotive, baggage ear and coach sped back to Philadelphia. There Allan with a Pinkerton met the President-elec- t carriage In which he waa taken swiftly across the city to another station where he boarded a sleeping ear. On the mordlng of February 28 tho wires with tho news that the new President a secret entrance Into the capitnL Prince of Balls sneaked In under the cover uncor-lndlsp- well-lai- d of night, sneered some of his enemies. Others called him "that Illinois ape. Thus Abraham Lincoln came to Washington. enNever before nor since has a President-elec- t tered the nation's capital to assume the duties of his high office under such circumstances. The next eight days were a nightmare of perof sistent annoyance by a borde of rumors of disasters that were about to befall, of threats, of sneers, of countless Indignities. March 4 dawned a blue Monday. It bad been raining. Pennsylvania avenue was a broad highway of spattery mud. Silence hung heavy over the crowd massed arennd the Willard hotel Linas President Buchanan and President-elec- t coln entered an open barouche and started up the avenue toward the Capitol. Sharpshooters with orders to stationed on the house-top- s the avenue with their lire if there wae any uprising. In the side streets troops were reedy for action. Other detachments stationed beside the Capitol stepe and the north entrance a battery of artillery was ready to unleash a blast of death If need be. Still unfinished, the Capitol dome was surmounted by huge derricks held In place by steel cables. "People might have drawn a striking .Ion of the republic parallel between the r . . On a level with tho and its chief build!- -" spectators stood the uronxe figure of Liberty which would later surmount the dome. Perhaps she was making silent appeal to the man in black. He stepped forward until he stood beneath canopy surmounted by the 8 tars and Strip! For the fiiet time a wave of cheering swept over the crowd of 80,000 massed on the Capitol steps and la front Fellow citizens of the United States I There was emphasis on that word "United. The murmur of the crowd wu hushed as I firm, clear, forcarrylng voice went on: no state "The Union will endure forever upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union I therefore consider that the Union Is unbroken . . . there need be no bloodIn your hands, my dissatisshed or violence fied countrymen, and not In mine, la the momentous question of civil war . , . The government will not assail you . . . You have no oath registered la heaven to destroy the government, while I Shan have the solemn ona to preserve, . protect and defend And so on to the end: am loath to dose. We are enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of me ory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, win yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." A roar of applause . . .from friend and enemy alike. Chief Justice Taney stepped forward holdBible. Then two men repeating a ed together: T do solemnly sweer that I win faithfully execute the office of President of tho United State and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend tha Conatltutlon of the United States. Bo help me God I Abraham Lincoln waa President of tho Untied States. Waatn Mewepepet Biha ... ... ... ... 1 nt gold-clasp- C. UTLEY - bo fun of ' tha laid to the total Inability Treasury department, tha tanka and tha people In general to estimate tho duration of the depression. When Incomes slumped, ao And when tha "primdid reverue ing" tailed to get the pump workhad been prequickly ing dicted, tax revenues tailed to grow to expected proportion From Wall Street money marts tan rumbled accusations of deliberate overstatement In tho more recent budget esIn January, 1984, Presitimate dent Roouvelt estimated that the deficit six months later would be $6444,000,000; It turned out to be p.azannnnnft An utlmated $3,160,-fthe flnt half of 1985 to be an actual $875400 000L Wall Street says tha treasury is too smart to make such mistakes unwittingly. Tho Real National Debt For other reasons it la dlfflcnlt to estimate tha real national debt The grou debt of more than $30400,-000U- 0 at the end of 1935 actually represented the proceeds of tar borrowing added to tho log debt But though tha THEBE duction of weight any serious thought or study has learned that starch foods potatoes, bread, sugar, and pjmtry store up most of the excess fat on the Abraham Lincoln and above the national debt more than $80490490400 of wu a time when thq. Further "Moral Obligation Statu had a national Mural obligations of the treasury only 8S7BUUH; But are outstanding .liabilities of the that wu exactly 100 jura Home Loan Federal Land Bank 1836L And for each of ago- -in Banks' discount function Federal thou 100 years tha debt bag multiDeposit Insurance corporation. Fedplied almost 10000 time eral Savings and Ufa Insurance Tho United States began existence with tha staggering (for thou corporation and the real estate to tha Federal Housing Adtlmu) national debt of $75,488000 These Implied liaministration. That wu to pay for tho Revolubilities total another $2490,000400 tionary war, and up to the present or a Painting tho blackest side day great rises In the national debt of tho picture, it Is seen that If have been the ruult of wan (acgo utterly bad, if these actual cepting the theory of one school of Implied liabilities have to be thought, which regards the spendmet and If Mr. Horgenthau's worst ing that caused tho present enorfears are realised, the national debt mous total as necessitated by a demight reach $40400400400 er $45r pression which wu tho direct re000400400 or even mor sult of tho World war). There are some Intangibles on Tha War of 1812 sent tho debt np There Is about the asset aide, to to $127084038.74 In 1818. In 1806 $478400400 which the governthe debt readied a new high of $2c ment may realize from equities If 798000000, following tho Civil war. all the debtors to RFC and HOLD In 1915 It stood at tho comfortable pay up. There Is $2400400400 (not total of $1,100.000000, but the an Intangible but a real asset) of World war skyrocketed It to the "gold profit" now being held la the alarming total of $26494,000400 u stabilisation fund; Secretary four years later. By conscientious ana and half a ago year next the during hudgetbalsnring nounced that thla sum would eventually be turned Into revenues and would contribute toward reducing the national debt It Is tartly possible that $1400400400 will be collected from the $10400400400 of war debt At some time In the future revenues from the Social Security set passed In Angus 1935; may be reckoned on tlie asset administration In history has borrowed so much money as the on No administration has borrowed it so cheaply, either. The cost of carrying a debt of $30,000,-0004today Is little more than the cost pf carrying the $21400400-00of 1988, and Is actually less than carrying the war debt of 1919. While the debt has risen 70 per cent since the 1931 fiscal' year, tha cost of carrying it has risen only 84 per cent This is what the President eras referring to In his budget message when he said tbat the government's credit waa never higher. Refunding Debt Cheaply. u If the Jow rates for money and economists right now can see little reason that they shouldnt, the government will find Itself getting out from under the court decisions would cancel tho column la baled "Processing Taxes" and great part of the debt "dirt cheap, of It matures these taxes will have to be returned by the government Beth tho charts since about one-hawithin the next five year 6 an this page are based on budget estimate should be possible at low had been borrowed It had not yet cost decade tlie debt reached Its postOne evil at "cheap money Is the war low Of $18400.000,000 In 1930. been spent With the sum thus held It enWhen President Roosevelt deliv- In the general fund deducted, the temptation to spend mor ered hla budget message to congress debt In Decern bea. was actually only courages Irresponsibility. The holds plenty of precedent to on January 8; tha national debt waa a little over $2840040040 But there are also complications that It Is budgetary Irresponsibility higher than it had ever been not so rosy la natur It was well over $30,000,000,-00During the that leads to Inflation. The estimated $5404,000400 in He predicted tbat on June 80, last years the governfisment has embarked on some ex- revenues for the 1937 fiscal year, If 1937, at the end of tbe 1936-8cal year. It would be $81 451400,-00traordinary financial venture Many It proves accurst would mean the or more than $1400 for every critics a the government financial largest federal tax receipts In hispolicy would add to the $30,000,000,-00- 0 tory, with tha exception of the year family In the land. The present record national debt debt the contingent liabilities 192 when wartime taxes were at taken on by the treasury. How their height, but Incomes were up,' Is the direct result of the administo How some of the tax rates tration's policy of "priming the the Treasury department's finanpump to aid business In effecting cial ventures stood on October 81, have been increased to make np for a recovery from the throes of de- 193 la shown in the following the difference In income today Is readily seen: Maximum Statement of Ase pression. It Is not aa large as "Combined President Roosevelt had predicted and Liabilities of Governmental personal Incomes ha It would be six months ago. Two Corporations and Credit Agencies 20 per cent in 192980 to 75 per tbe maximum rata on estate yean ago he said: "The debt would of the United State Figures are cent; taxes from 20 per cent to 70 per amount to' $31434,000400 on' June In millions of dollars: cent, and the maximum corporate 80. 1935. Az- Liz- - Equl- - Income tax from 11 per cent to 117 But tbe President also said the sets Flics ty cent In his flnt annual budget message taco Fin Corn I4S lit o perThere has actually been a decline to congres "My estimates for the Commod.Cred.com. ITS III .... coming fiscal year (ending June SO, Public Wk Adml ( In the amount of federal tax taken Bozrd tier. F. ill .... from the. citizens dollar, however. ns 1935) Show an excess of expendiFederal Land Bka. IIS In 1932 It waa 20.7 per cent; In tures over receipts of $2,000400,-00Fed.Interm.Cr.Bk .... IN IN We should plan to have a Fed. Farm NortC. 1,111 17 104 1988, 194 per cent, and la 198 194 per cenL The 20 cents out of .... definitely balanced budget for the Banka for Ill nj Rome third year of recovery (the present Home Loan Banks 111 .... is every dollar that the citizen pays Own. A L. CL 111 141 Is Into the federal treasury la reflectfiscal year) and from that time on .... ioi ed la almost every article he buys: seek a continuing reduction of the rea.tav.Auina.isi Fed. Do In Cor 110 .... Ill All others S4I national debt." IS food, gmsoUn telephone service, to bace theater ticket electric powBalance Not In Bight Grand Total 11.141 4,414 447 , er, etc. Yet such a balance has not been Lika so much of the New Deals But It la admitted that the new effected or even forecast for the financing, the value or tha danger of financing dependa entirely upon re1937 fiscal year. He estimated that these liabilities depend entirely upon covery for revenues to Increas If for that year the government would recovery. . If business returns to times get worse Instead of tetter collect $5454,000,000 In revenue and would spend $0,752,000, 000-p- lus a sum for work relief still to bo determine The deficit then would have been 'at least plus whatever amount tad to be adde4.fov relief. Unfortunately there were Immediate pending Issues which would throw the President's estimate out of whack. On the very day of his message the Supreme court declared the AAA Invalid, and s later ruling decreed tbat the government would have to pay tack the processing taxe Also It was virtually certain that the $2,000,000,000 soldiers' bonus would peas congres The situation was serious enough for Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to predict that the country might face a national debt of $35400,000,000 by the end of the 1087 fiscal year. The balancing of tbe budget has WHERE been complicated In recent years GOVERNMENTS DOLLAR GOES. The shaded represent expenditures for recovery and relief. "Although the Suby the overoptlmlstlc character of annual budget deficit estimate os premo court declared tho AAA unconstitutional, tha administration will Tbe seek seme other means of payment, and regards farm subsidy of thla nathe following table reveal first three deficit estimates were ture as a permanent policy. by Mr. Hoover. An are given In normal or prosperous times the as- well, the Wan Street Journal has millions of dollars: sets will bo gradually realised, as said: Predicted Actual were those of the War Finance cor"The question how much debt the iiit-it- it S.1M "SI a poration. But If times do not get country CAN carry la Incorrectly 1 1,041 ,,,.1.T3S better and stay better the assets posed. It should be how much debt 111 841 I.BTS will be virtually Impossible of col.411 , WILL the country carry!" S 4.KII UH lection. In a continued depression IF spending continues and IF they might become an extremely em- federal receipts do not swing up, "Burplu ""As of Jan. IT, 111 barrassing burden. The liabilities only two courses lie ahead: More That estimates were so hr away of $49000400 are not only a and higher taxe or Inflation. from the actual totals may In most claim so the taxpayer but they are B Wmtani Mieasaaw Usk By WILLIAM It la agreed by nutrition experts that the average Individual who does not do hard physical work should eat about one part protelda meat, egg fish to two parts fats egg butter, cream, tat meat yolks to four parts starchy food vegetables and fruits. When real hard outdoor work la being done the amount of meat, eggs and fish should be Increased. What about the overweight Individual who, of course, does little or no work of any kind? Instead of eating two parts of tat foods to one part of protelda he or she could cut down the fat foods by half and also cut down the starch foods by half. Cutting Down Fat Foods; on This cutting down by tat foods can be done safely by overweights for the same reason that animals can do without any food at certain times; that la because the body processes can make use of the stored fat for their varl-, one-ha- lf -- The point then la that with the of knowledge now In possession overweights there is no reason why every one of them (except the 2 to 5 per cent whose overweight is due to a gland disturbance) should not get down to normal weight In from three to twelve months; I have seen a girl weighing 180 pounds get her weight down to ISO pounds in three months Jiy cutting down her her tats by one-halliquids by one-haland her starches hr keeping up, however, her full amount of meat, egg and fish. Foods That Disagree. Now that it la generally known that certain foods cause skin Irritation, others pain In the abdomen, others hay fever, asthma and. eczema, a new word energy has eoi Into us Allergy means being Patients sensitive to certain food often, however, avoid foods because they "disagree with them when it may be other foods or circumstances that cause dlstres Dr Walter CL Alvarez and H. Corwin Hlnahaw, Mayo foundation, Rochester, Minn point out that the patient may well be mistaken when he states that he cannot eat some particular food. Perhaps the Bah waa blamed when really the culprit was the tartar sauce, the cottonseed oil In which the fish was fried, or the pie that was eeteu for Or the food eaten at dessert dinner wu blamed when really tha offending sulietanee wu taken Into the body with luncheon or break fast The point then Is that because a food has disagreed under any of the above circumstances It should 'not be condemned until It has been found to disagree a "number ol time wku swvisa u u or aid-N- 0 eon-tln- lf 1935-193- ' half-doz- 7 0, . $1498,-000,0- the lilt-113- 1111-11- 114-11- 1III-1SI- eel-Mi- |