Show Prevailing Opinions S Comment of the Am American rican Press Romance of a Grocer So Homers Homer's account of of the fall of Troy has been confirmed again b by the the- diggers This is becoming a habit of the Hie pick and shovel men They have nave now confirmed the tale in the Iliad time and time again Tho The story will soon have to be accepted However vcr It it Is la not likely that th the romance of the first conf confirmation confirma confirma- Irma Irma- tion of ot Homers Homer's story will ever be exceeded A grocer HeinrIch mann a citizen of ot California Califor nia was was' was the man who found Homers Homer's Homers Homer's Ho Ho- mers mer's Troy As S a child chUd mann was nourished on the Iliad When his fortune was made made- and it was was no small one one mann quit the the grocers grocer's business moved to Asia sla Minor with his money and began the hunt H His investigations caused him to re reject reject reject re- re the m mound und that had long been assigned as the site of ancient Troy and to choose instead the hill hiU of or There digging furiously he found Troy He found in fact seven cities s- s sone one on top of ot the other As he did not then know as much about archeological archeological arche arche- method as he did later it itis itis itis is probable he picked on the wrong one of the s seven as Homers Homer's Ho Ho- mer's mers Troy But no one questions that he had the right place Among other things mann found hidden in a wall va a great golden treasure so big that he had a long quarrel with the Turkish government over the di division division division di- di vision of or It Tho The former groc grocer r was lucky about such things in indeed indeed indeed in- in deed luckier than any other digger digger digger dig dig- ger has ever ever been For while his work at Troy was Troy was held up by the quarrel with the sultan he moved to Mycenae and there on a hint from old dug up the royal tombs and the the- greatest treasure ever ever found Heinrich bred a grocer died one of the most famous fa fa- fa and successful of It was was enthusiasm that did it enthusiasm roused in a childish mind by Homers Homer's tale talo of great great- deeds on the ringing plains of ot Troy plus t the e business sense that had first made him a n successful grocer San San Francisco Chronicle Honor i In Congress Our Washington correspondence sa says probably not half halt a dozen congressmen cong in both parties to together to- to gether favor the Townsend plan This his report pori o lI goes on to say congressmen in both parties aro are indorsing the plan although they believe it would completely wreck the tho nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's Lions economic structure We have the tho alternative a It ahouse ahouse house leader is quoted as saying of ot promising to sell seU out the people people peo peo- pIe to get reelected or of acting honorably and retiring from public public pub pub- lic lie life lite That is told by a careful re reporter reporter reporter re- re porter Blair Moody What an indictment Because they think it is required to retain year a seats in congressI congress I plus over in allowances many congressmen become dishonorable dishonorable dishonorable dis dis- dis- dis honorable men hypocrites and liars It is an Indictment which goes much farther Do voters in each of the 35 congressional districts have so little intelligence as to be he befooled befooled fooled by their congressmen's In Insincerity insincerity In- In sincerity and such an appalling lack of ot decency as to vote for dishonorable men or women Inthe in inthe inthe the primaries and elections We Ve refute the tho libel of ot average American citizens Let tho the congressmen congressmen congressmen con con- gressmen take the facts fact to the people Let them show the tho menace menace menace men men- ace to the nation Let them show how compelled t l to choose between acting honorably or sellIng selling sell seU- ing out the people Common sense and common de decency decency decency de- de characterize tho the overwhelming overwhelming over over- whelming majorities in both bolh Democratic and Republican par par- ties Lies What we need is 18 courage and Integrity in congress and the voters must demand it Detroit iL-Detroit Detroit News A Wise Who Suggestion Thomas W. W Lament Lamont donates the first professorship in the unusual experiment In scholarship recently recent recent- ly iy announced by President Conant at Harvard Under President Conant's plan there will be special roving professorships professorships pro pro- for outstanding schol schol- ars Instead of ot specializing in one ono field these professors professor will be free tree freeto freeto to correlate tho the findings in many departments of knowledge and bring them all to bear on certain certain tam tain general problems Lament Lamont In the letter donating don a million half dollars to establish tho the professorship indicates that he would like to see it filled tilled by byan byan an outstanding economist The suggestion is isS a a good one foe toz to th the o U La no subject M so likely t to be as sterile as economics in the hands of ot the specialist so 50 o likely to be fruitful in the hands of ot a aman aman aman man who can see sec the interconnections Lions between economics and other sciences Political economy Lamont writes concerns itself as M much with the behavior of man as a asocial asocial social ocial animal as it docs does with any known laws of ot Industry and trade and agriculture and finance It should have been more correct correct correct cor cor- cor- cor to write should concern it it- it self elf Most economists are far tar too limited in their outlook On the other hand some of the greatest greatest greatest great great- est names in economics are those of ot men who approached the subject subject subject sub sub- from the standpoint outlined Philadelphia Philadelphia Record Plant Modernization The National Machine Tool Builders' Builders asI an association claton n discovers In Ina Ina ina a national survey y that Industry has started in the last l st six months a plant modernization and expansion expansion expansion sion program Involving That is good news particularly for Cleveland where industry manufactures for industry A billion dollars going into new plant equipment is the most tangible tan tan- gible assurance that thal the tho current business revival will continue Cleveland News |