Show H I p Prevailing rev a i I i n g 0 Opinions pi Ii ion S I Penalizing Successful Advertisers To the brilliant and engaging but but often obfuscating obfuscating Assist Assist Assistant ant Attorney General of bf f the United States Mr Thurman W. W Arnold is attributed the latest wrinkle in governments government's at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt to control the press and the radio radio radio-a a plan to restrict advertising advertising advertising ad ad- by prohibiting the stressing stressing stressing sing of the the special qualities of goods which bear a particular trade name By a variety of modern refinements upon the method of the circus barker Mr Arnold explains advertising is used to build up public preference preference preference prefer prefer- ence for the products of one producer producer producer pro pro- ducer or manufacturer solely because because because be be- cause he has the most advertising money and can make the most noise By a somewhat elaborate pro process ess of ratiocination he invests this with a taint of the heresy of monopoly and proposes a means of eliminating it which smacks of a legalistic gunman's tactics How does Mr Arnold prove to his own satisfaction that advertising advertising advertising adver adver- has something to do with His theory is that the large and rich concern should not be able to push its product when a poorer competitor could not af afford afford afford af- af ford to do so Translated into action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion this would mean that the government could whenever it it had adjudged monopoly to have come into existence nce because of excessive advertising force the advertiser to cut down the volume of his advertising The scheme is ingenious as a apolitical apolitical apolitical political weapon highly dangerous danger danger- ous to a free press and intolerable as an economic doctrine Mr Arnolds Arnold's proposal would in ef effect effect ef- ef feet prevent the advertising of special brands It would thereby reduce sales Thus business would be slowed down and unemployment unemployment ment ment increased It is as crazy a bit of delusive scheming to to call it thinking is to it it-as it as has come out of Washington in several years NewYork New York Herald I Menace to Youth I Rheumatic heart disease it is revealed by the United States Public Health Service kills seven times more children than Infantile infantile infantile tile paralysis does even in an epidemic year This red plague is truly de deI described described de- de I scribed as as' as the forgotten health Comment of the American America Press Press- problem f forgotten forgotten 0 r got ten because no pitiable limping cripples cripples crip crip- ples pies to remind us of its ravages Yet we should read and think about these figures for they show shaw more than anything else can how the mad pace of life in America is striking at the heart that keeps us going In 1935 when the depression was reaping its toll on the health of a worried people over Americans died from heart disease dis dis- dis- dis ease ease ease-an an increase of over 1930 Heart disease leads all other causes of death being twice as fatal as cancer the second grimmest grimmest grimmest grim grim- reaper The dread red plague strikes at children and so weakens their hearts that they cannot stand the strain of living Dr O. O F. F Hedley assistant surgeon surgeon surgeon sur sur- geon of the United States Public Health Service ervice declares that the red plague is an extremely im im- im- im I health problem due to its initial infectiousness its prevalence prevalence prey prey- r alence age distribution extreme and relatively early ages at which it causes death It is estimated that there are active cases in the United States at the thc present time and that new cases are contracted contracted contracted con con- annually The public should be told a lot lotmore lotmore lotmore more about this silent child kil ler People will never attempt to wipe out that of which they know little or nothing Los Los Angeles Herald Charity Smothered By Taxes Whenever a new levy is made on private industrial and corporate corporate corporate cor cor- cor- cor income or a new raid on inheritance moneys it is a blow aimed at hospitals colleges re religious religious religious re- re institutions and even at and welfare of American American Ameri Amen can citizens Dr Karl Compton president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said the other day All are reduced There are fewer large incomes to permit benefactions and the heavy drain of taxation taxes the heart out of philanthropic im im- im- im pulse Private contributions and endowments endowments endowments en en- have in the main founded and maintained the great educational scientific and health institutions of this country Taxes are drying up the fountains fountains fountains foun foun- of human benevolence and throwing the whole burden of Institutional in institutional institutional in- in upkeep on the state state which means ultimately defilement defilement defilement defile defile- ment by political influences and corruption It seems that even charity is to tobe tobe tobe be soured by the politicians by bythe bythe bythe the burden burdensome ome t taxes which are breaking the springs of the private private private vate philanthropic instincts Our tax tn laws of today are a penalty on the thc greatest of human attributes Los attributes kindness Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles Herald The fish Is IJ 12 to 15 5 Inches long and has very oily flesh Alaskan Indians dry them put a strip of inner bark of the cypress tree through them from head to tail and use them lor for candles |