Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 142, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1931 — Page 7

OCT. 23. 1031

EUROPE HAILS LAVAL AS ITS WONDER MAN Plain as Old Shoe, Premier Is Newest Type of World Statesman.. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS SeriDDi-Ilownrd FnrMrn Editor Folks, meet M. Pierre Laval, premier of Prance. - You must address him as Monsieur le President, his title being president of the council of ministers. He is the real chief executive — the F-esident of France, by constitution and precedent having to confine his activities largely to pre- - siding at banquets and opening fairs. Premier LayM Is regarded by Europeans as a wonder-man, one of the most remarkable and ablest of old world statesmen. Yet he is hardly more one year old in the exclusive circle of rulers. A year and a half* ago, in Paris, Andre Tardieu was premier. I never heard Laval’s name mentioned. It’s Time Everywhere In France a few weeks ago everybody was talking about him. And 1 Aound the same thing was true of London, Rome and Berlin. He came into the European sky like a meteor, but observers say he’s really a star. Laval probably is the world's most democratic head of a first-class government. He doesn’t know the meaning of high-hat. On the evening of the crucial day in London last July when the sevenpower conference reached its deci- • sion regarding Germany, I was sitting in the room of a French correspondent at the Carlton. I asked v a question regarding the duration of the newly granted short-term loan extensions. “Search me!” the Frenchman replied* with a shrug. “But give me a moment and I’ll soon find out.” Plan as Old Shoe Grabbing the telephone, he called for the operator. “Operator,” he said, “Give me room so and so. . . . Thank you. . . .} Is that you, Mr. Presdenit? Yes. . , This is Edmond. . . Listen now | about those German loans. . .” That’s Laval. Plain as an old shoe. While delegates to international parleys usually make themselves exclusive, dodging in and out side doors to escape contact with 1 he common herd, Laval, at London,, as likely as not was that swarthy I little man at your elbow chatting “with the crowd in the lobby. The premier is 47. Put a fez on him and he’d pass for Ahmed Bey or something. He looks like a Turk j —dark, rather thick lips, black mustache and eyebrows. Hair the tame, usually tousled. Styles Don’t Bother Him Sartorially he pleases himself. Styles don’t bother him. His one s.andby as a fancy dresser is a white lie, which he even wears hunting or fishing. Laval was born in Auvergne. Au- j vergne is the Scotland of France. Lots of mountains and sheep. Like the Scots, the Auvergnats are hardy, thrifty, stubborn, hard-headed and usually get along no matter how far j or how high they go. Pierre Laval’s fathei’, they say, | ran a bakery and an inn. and Pierre delivered bread and met all the trains in the ramshackly bus. But, like Abe Lincoln, he studied while doing the family chores and got ahead. He studied law and was elected mayor. Then deputy and senator. But still nobody heard of him, because that wasn't the kind of man he was. He wasn’t one of those loud, speechifying politicians, but a quiet, I effective worker. It Wasn’t So When the scintillating Andre Tardieu was overthrown something more than a year ago, Laval stepped in. But even then Europe thought: “Oh, well! Just another one of those stop-gap governments,” and went on about its business. But no so. Statesman Laval sprouted so fast you could see him grow. He never had been out of PTance in his life but, overnight, he seemed to grasp the whole world situation. And he got things done by button-holing leaders in the corridors and conferring with people Poor, feeble Aristide Briand, France’s invaluable “man of peace,” rapidly is breaking up. So Europe is hoping that Laval will pick up Briand's torch and carry on. No one else is in sight. GOVERNOR -DOG’ ADDICT Connecticut's Chief Executive Makes Habit of Popular Sandwich. By United Press , NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 23. Wilbur L. Cross, Connecticut’s scholarly chief executive, has been revealed as a “hot dog” addict. Lunch car proprietors on the Hartford-New Haven road are no longer startled when a long, glittering, sixteen-cylinder sedan draws up and the Governor and his state policeman-chauffeur climb on to stools and order ••two hot dogs—with.”

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Work of the pottery class at Shortridge high school is now on display in one of the exhibit windows of the first floor of the school. Outstanding in the class is the work of Grace Ferguson, above. She molds quaint jugs, dishes of all sorts, and Grecian urns. DIET IS BLAMED FOR TOOTH ILLS Food More Important Than Hygiene, Dentists Told. B,\j Science Sen ice, MEMPHIS, Oct. 23.—The greater importance of food over cleanliness in prevention of tooth decay and the responsibility of the physician rather than the dentist for proper tooth formation were stressed by Dr. Edward Clay Mitchell of Memphis at the meeting here of the American Dental Association. “Although we do not wish to discourage proper mouth hygiene, yet it has been shown definitely that a properly fed tooth will not become carious even in a dirty mouth.” Dr. Mitchell said. “The physician is equally if not more responsible than the dentist for proper tooth formation,” he continued. “Teeth require feeding the same as any other structure in the body. “It is the physician who must teach the mother to watch her own and later her baby’s diet in order to insure teeth for the child. Plenty of sunshine and a well-balanced diet, including milk, egg yolk, fresh vegetables, fruit juices and cod liver oil are needed by every infant.” Early attention to these factors will result in much better teeth for the next generation, Dr. Mitchell observed.

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