Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 274, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1934 — Page 9

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It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun I AM going away for a vacation of two weeks. It may be said, "What do you mean—vacation?” Possibly It will be urged against me that recent columns from a certain southern resort seemed to Indicate that I had thrown myself wholly into a spirit of recreation. Although columnists are read rather mor than they deserve to be, their hard lot is not fully appreciated. One of these slaves of the deadline may seem to be engrossed in frivolity, but he still remains a worker. At some period in the

evening he must pull himself together, let character prevail and resolve to set down a thousand words of a sort for the publication which employs him. This vacation which I have mentioned will be just that. I'm not going to take a typewriter with me. a pencil or any paper. It is not my intention to write a novel, a play or a short story. nan Traveling Incognito WHEN I returned from the deep .South I was somewhat horrified to find that I was an object of public condemnation of clients. The general tenor of the letters was, “What

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do you mean. Mr. B„ by fiddling while Rome burns?” Now. 1 am against any uncontrolled conflagration, and I will admit that fiddling is an offensive gesture. Accordingly, on this vacation I will leave my violin at home, along with the typewriter. I am quite conscious of the fact that I am taking a two weeks’ leave of absence from a singularly cockeyed world. Yesterday afternoon I was startled when a prominent clubman approached me aijd said: "The revolution has begun. It’s coming in on the ticker. What do you know about it?” In the evening papers I checked up and found Ihat James H. Rand Jr., (Harvard. 1908, had revealed the dastardly plot as communicated to him by Dr. Wirt, an educator in the Gary school system. According to the news reports, Mr. Rand, shortly after quitting college, devised a method of fumigating banks. But not enough, I believe, in the light of lated developments. an a Maybe With Pictures * "XTEVERTHELESS, at the age of 38, this young man became the head of the $10,000,000 Remington Rand, Inc. It long has been my contention that every industrial leader and every senator should have a book. The statement which set the senate committee all agape and made the ticker and the first page was “Franklin D. Roosevelt Is Merely the American Kerensky.” This is hardly a novel thought to any one with the slightest familiarity with radical discussions. The point is merely this: According to the left wing economists, President Roosevelt is an executive who is seeking to prolong the life of our present economic system by compromise and certain minor alterations. There is nothing startling in this contention. Kerensky lasted only a few months in the Russian scheme of things, but even the most ardent American radical is chary of predicting whether or not a transitional period in America might last for one year or for fifty. Mr. Rand s testimony, which was avowedly based upon a letter from William A. Wirt, seems to me a matter of singularly small consequence. No direct quotation from any administrative official was offered. The whole thing sounded to me very much like a Mark Sullivan nightmare. a a a Collective Bargaining PERSONALLY I would like to see a much faster tiend to the left, but I feel that the readjustment program has at the moment slowed dow r n con-e siderably. I have in mind particularly that famous Section 7A of the national industrial recovery act. This was designed to promote the possibility of collective bargaining and sanction labor's right to organize and speak for itself. Unfortunately, the section is by many shades too ambiguous, and employers have been quick to take advantage of the fog and mist. I can speak out of close knowledge of one working group. In Washington I heard the counsel of the Newspaper Publishers’ Association declare no less than three times that the newspaper owners would be delighted to sit down and talk with the representatives of the guild which speaks for organized reporters. I heard the president of the Publishers’ Association say precisely the same thing on two occasions, and yet when the guild in New' York asked the publishers to grant such a conference the reply read: “Answering your letter of March 7th. "The newspaper code provides that employes shall have the right to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. “Your letter does nor state that you have been authorized by the employes of all the newspaper members of this association, or, in fact, of any of the individual newspapers, to represent them in such negotiation. Without such credentials the association has no authority to meet your representatives. “Yours verv truly, "PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION OF N. Y. C. “Martin Kelly, "Executive Committee.” a a a Wishes Him Well IN other w'ords, the fine free gesture which editorial pages make toward the new deal and the national recovery does not extend to the counting rooms. And so I say that this may be a bad time to take a vacation. My only excuse is that I am growing • little weary of reading a column called "It Seems to Me.” I have the impression that the young man who writes it has grown somewhat dead on his feet. I think he needs to go somewhere and forget entirely about the responsibility of putting one word after another. I hope I am not too critical, for many things which he has done appeal to me. I wish him well. In fact. I would hope for him fourteen days of almost complete coma. I do not want to hear his fiddling. In fact, he will be better off if he does not move his wrists at all. At the end of a fortnight I have every reason to believe that he will return to a world which is still singularly cockeyed. t (Copyright. 1934. bv Th Times!

Today's Science =BY DAVID DIETZ

THE common notion that the strain of the life in the twentieth century, the demands put upon big executives, lawyers and the like, is responsible for the increase in heart disease is denied by Dr. Robert L. Levy, associate professor of clinical medicine at Columbia university. After a survey of cases at the Columbia-Presby-terian Medical Center in New York. Dr. Levy found that the largest percentage of heart ailments resulting from disease of the coronary, arteries was not found among business executives, but among foremen and skilled workers. His findings are supported by a recent survey in Germany in which the greatest percentage of heart disease was found among laborers. In his study, laborers ranked third and clerical workers fourth. Dr. Levy believes that occupation plays a negligible part in the occurrence of hardening of the arteries of the heart or "coronary disease,” as it is frequently called. His explanation for the increase in heart disease is simple. Medical men have learned to control such infectious diseases as tuberculosis, typhoid fever and diphtheria. Since fewer persons die from them at a young age. more people live to an old age when they succumb to the diseases of old age, among them heart disease. I

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THE MONUMENTS OF LITERATURE

This is the sixth of a series of articles on the world’s greatest literature. Beginning with Greek drama, the series fellows fiction down to the present day. Today’s article discusses Ibsen. BY TRISTRAM COFFIN Times Staff Writer AS the sun dawned upon the horrible night of waiting, bathing the glaciers and peaks in the distance with its bright light, Oswald sank into the last stage of hopeless insanity. Dully he called to his mother, who had become speechless with terror: "The sun—the sun.” When the play, “Ghosts,” by Henrik Ibsen (from which this scene is related) reached Victorian London, horrified critics threw up their hands and hurled mud upon it for daring to speak the truth. People furiously attacked Ibsen’s realism—frightened by the implications it revealed. English literature at the time was dominated by stilted moral plays in which the poor, but noble hero resists temptation, refuses to smoke cigars, and goes to bed early, despite the exaggerated advances of the red-haired hoyden in the third floor back. No author, until Ibsen, attempted to describe the vital problems of life with a brutal realism. Critics objected more to Ibsen’s bluntness than to the social problems he discussed. 1 * Ibsen stands for a wholly new type of literature—the social problem drama. For generations playwrights had written to amuse or to preach, rarely with the avowed purpose ot discussion. Ibsen wrecked the conventional structure of the drama, discarded poetic images and claimed the language of the people. All of Shakespeare's characters appear to be inspired by some chance poetic muse. Ibsen s characters speak in the confused language of everyday life.

A contemporary example of the problem drama is John Wexley’s “They Shall Not Die,” now running in New York. It is a fiery protest against prejudice surrounding the notorious Scottsboro trial. Elmer Rice, author of "Street Scene,” also writes problem plays. Problem drama selects a social evil and launches a dramatic attack which may include stark tragedy and scathing satire. In order to build a stirring climax and shock the audience into social consciousness, problem drama is selective and not comprehensive. Tenseness grows like spreading heat with every scene. When emotions are aroused to the desired pitch the dramatist makes a profound and beautiful plea which leaves the audience in a thoughtful hush. ana SOCIAL problem plays merely present the problem, offer no hope of salvation and suggest no answer to the problem. They call the attention of society to the evil in hope that some remedy may be found. Problem plays have been criticised on the grounds that audiences do not w r ant to be faced with the responsibility of solving difficulties. “Ghosts” is entertaining- because of its perfect drastic structure and inspiring because of its message. The ghosts in this play are the sins of the profligate father which destroy the son and w'reck the mother’s happiness and security. The ghost of the father becomes a fearful degenerating specter that haunts the minds of all the characters. The son, Oswald Alving, is a talented painter rising to fame when he is suddenly struck by the ravages of a social disease which

Will Hays Cites Artistic Progress of Film World

Literature is coming into its own on the talking screen and masterpieces which have lived for years are coming to life in the hands of competent actors and directors in the studios. I do not ask you to take my word for this statement, because the thing I have contended for months is borne out in the annual report of Will H. Hays, which is released today. This department has pointed out the value of having such pictures as “Oliver Twist” (if intelligently presented), “Little Women,” “Alice in Wonderland” and many others brought from the printed page to the talking screen. My prediction now is that Shakespeare and Ibsen will be brought to the talking screen in such an intelligent and human way that both writers will take on new box office importance. “It. is a significant phase of the screen's upward progress,” Mr. Hays states in his report, “that rival producers should contend, as they have done this year, for priority claims to production of the classic works of Charles Dickens.” “Among the film presentations planned or projected for the coming season,” reports Mr. Hays, “are Jane Austen's ‘Pride and Prejudice.’ Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield.’ Oliver Goldsmith's 'She Stoops to Conquer,’ Thackeray's ‘Vanity Fair,’ Sheridan's ‘School for Scandal’ and ‘The Rivals,’ Victor Hugo’s ‘Les Miserables.’ Charlotte Bronte's ‘Jane Eyre.’ Swift's ‘Gulliver's Travels,’ Washington Irving’s ‘Rip Van Winkle.’ Kipling's ‘Kim.’ Bulwer Lytton’s ‘The Last Days of Pompeii.’ “Similarly, plans are announced for the production of historical romances based on the lives of Marie Antoinette, Pasteur. .Joan of Arc, Napoleon, Benvenuto Cellini, and others, as well as film productions of ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ and ’The Count of Monte Cristo'.” Musicals, too, will have anew inning; there will be no lack of variety in screen entertainment. “The coming season.” according to Mr. Hays’ report, “promises to revive the popularity of simple human pictures dealing with everyday life, of pictures that will reflect the great social trends of the day. pictures of vigorous satire and truly impressive drama.” Mr. Hays, in his report, states that the following pictures showed “the artistic progress made by the industry as based upon the appeal to the better taste of the American public”: "Little Women.” Berkley Square.” “Lady for a Day.” “The World Changes.” “Christopher Bean.” “Gallant Lady.” “The Masquerader.” “Paddy. the Next Best Thing.” “Tugboat Annie,” “The King's Vacation.” “Cradle Song.” “Only Yesterday.” “The Invisible Man,” “Morning Glory.” "When Ladies Meet,” "Looking Forward,” “Voltaire,” “The Great Jasper,” “Caro-

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Ibsen Tore Away Life’s Hypocrisies With Scathing Pen

will slowly creep up and destroy him. His mother is an enlightened Victorian. Nineteen years of married misery have liberalized her somewhat. She builds a myth that her deceased husband was a man of high character and a benefactor of society in order to protect her son from the truth. Her whole outward life is built upon the lie. She also knows, that Regina, her sensual maid, is her husband's illegitimate daughter. Mrs. Alving is making plans for the dedication of an orphanage built with the money she has inherited frotn her husband. She feels that by giving the orphanage the name of her husband, rumor and shame will be wiped out. Always in her mind is the fear that the sins of the father may be reflected in the son. a a a- - she tells the puritanical Manders,. her minister, the whole story she has kept secret for so long, she hears the noise of a falling chair from the next room. Regina whispers to Oswald, who has recently returned home with his own secret. "Regina! Oswald! Are you mad? Let me go!” Mrs. Alving (starting in horror). Oh! (She stares ■wildly at the half-open door. Oswald is heard coughing and humming, then the sound of a bottle being uncorked). Manders (in an agitated manner). What’s the matter? What is it, Mrs. Alving? Mrs. Alving (hoarsely): Ghosts. The couple in the conservatory—over again.

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BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

lina,” “Dinner At Eight,” “The Power and the Glory.” “ThreeCornered Moon,” “If I Had a Million,” “Night Flight,” “Gabriel Over the White House,” “Peg O’ My Hart,” “Counsellor-at-Law,” “Saturday’s Millions,” “Zoo in Budapest,” “The Stranger’s Return,” “Smoky,” “No Greater Glory,” and “The Last Patrol.” This department recommended favorably and in some instances raved over twenty-six of these pictures. Several on the list have not been publicly presented in this city. tt tt tt Jolson Movie to Open Because of the success of “Wonder Bar” in its pre-re-lease engagement in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Newark and Washington, I. M. Halperin, general manager of the Circle and Indiana theaters, has decided to open the Indianapolis engagement of the picture two days earlier than was originally scheduled. “Wonder Bar” will open an extended engagement of nine days at the Circle tomorrow, instead of Friday. “Journal of a Crime,” the current Circle attraction, close tonight. Kay Francis in “Wonder Bar” plays the leading feminine role, opposite A1 Jolson, who portrays the proprietor of the “Wonder Bar.” Ricardo Cortez and Dolores Del Rio have the parts of the two dancers, while Dick Pdwell and Henry Kolker have the roles of the American composer-orchestra leader and the husband of Kay Francis, respectively. Hal Le Roy, dance star, plays the role of himself in a thrilling dance sequence. Guy Kibbee and Hugh Herbert play the two American tourists with Ruth Donnelly and Louise Fazenda as their wives, in important comedy and character roles. Robert Barrat has the part of the army officer who drives his car over a cliff and unconsciously covers up a murder. Fifi D’Orsay and Merna Kennedy will be seen as the two flirtatious hostesses in the fashionable Parisian night club. Busby Berkeley, creator of the musical numbers that featured "Gold Diggers of 1933,” “42nd Street” and "Footlight Parade” created and staged the special musical spectacles on a scale never before attempted on the screen. On View on Screen Today OTHER theaters today offer: “Sweet and Low Down” on the stage and “Let’s Be Ritzy” on the screen at the Lyric: “This Side of Heaven.” at Loew's Palace: "David Harum.” at the Apollo; “Success at Any Price” and “Two Alone,” at the Indiana, and burlesque at the Mutual. Tonight the Civic Music Association at Caleb Mills Hall will present Ignace Strasfogel, pianist, in recital.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1934

Henrik Ibsen fearlessly tore the veil of romanticism from nineteenth century social problems. He used the technique of realism to expose problems that the world had been afraid to face.

Oswald, burdened with despair and anguish, tells his mother of his suffering, and demands that he have Regina. He c. ies out, "I can’t bear to stand all this misery alone.” Oswald is struggling vainly* but slowly the disease is stripping him of the habits of civilization and turning him into a reincarnation of his father. Mrs. Alving stubbornly keeps the father’s secret buried from her son. and he is embittered by her apparent indifference to his problem. Manders set fire to the orphanage, feeling that it would be a sin to allow its dedication in face of the misery and degeneracy that lies in its making. Regina deserts the Alving household when she learns the truth of her birth. Oswald and Mrs. Alving are left alone to face their dismal problems. a a a THE mother, although tragic and forlorn, rises to nobility in the last scene. Shuddering and

10,041,997 ITALIANS SUPFORT MUSSOLINI Voters Cast Ballots for Fascist Nominees. By, United Frees ROME, March 27.—Italian voters, turning out in great, numbers to register their support of Premier Benito Mussolini, elected Sunday a chamber of deputies whose main function will be to arrange its own death. Official returns announced today showed that 92.25 per cent of all registered voters went to the polls to vote for the sole chamber ticket presented—four hundred men nominated by the Fascist grand council from one thousand names presented by the Fascist confederations representing every form of national activity. Complete returns were as follows: Registered V0ter5—10.433,535. Actual V0ter5—10,041,997 t96Vi per cent). For the Ticket—lo,o2s,sl3, Against—ls,26s, Void—l,2l9, Shakespearean Actor Dead LONDON, March 27.—Hubert Carter, 65, eminent British Shakesperean actor, died today. Death occurred after a nervous breakdown at a nursing home.

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terror-stricken at the sight of her husband’s ghost returning in the now apathetic son, she conquers her feeling of revulsion and reaches over to stroke her son’s head comfortingly. Shorn of any possible love in her life. Mrs. Alving is the eternal voice of suffering womanhood, both wife and mother. Some critics have whimsically pointed out that Mrs. Alving may have driven her husband to outrageous conduct by her firm-mindedness. However, it is generally believed that Ibsen meant to show the havoc resulting from the husband’s sin and the wife's refusal to face the truth. The Greek theme of the Initial sin recurs, and in the same mighty fashion Mrs. Alving is the human being struggling against inevitability. Ibsen is fighting against a civilization that will allow such things to happen. Unlike the Greeks, he expresses the hope that the condition may be remedied by the very strength of his attack.

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Chief of Far Eastern Affairs Bureau of State Department Hands Out Wrong Book.

By United, Press WASHINGTON, March 27.—High-spirited Dr. Stanley Hombeck, chief of the division of far eastern affairs of the state department, has read so many books that he sometimes becomes confused. A newspaper man wrote a story to the effect that the United States is on the way to recognize the newly created state of Manchoukuo. State Secretary Cordell Hull inferentially bore out this state-

ment during a press conference. Greatly agitated was erudite, pro-Chinese Dr. Hombeck. "Why are you newspaper men always writing stories?” he stormed at the offending correspondent. "You don’t know anything. Why don't you get yourself educated? Here—read this!” He tossed the writer a book on the Monroe doctrine. With interest, the news man perused the volume, learned that “the United States recognized the newly-formed Spanish American republics as soon as they achieved their independence. The news man returned to Dr. Horn beck. "Why, this bears out my story!” he said. Dr. Hombeck glanced at the passage. "Oh, hell!” he excl*ruled furi-

Ibsen satirizes the clergy in the character of Manders, who is duped by a pious panhandler and forced to realize too late that all the things he had stood for, rockbound morality and duty, are no answer to the call for happiness. Manders is sincere but naive. His fault is innocence of life’s problems. Unsparingly. Ibsen tore down the painted veil which society had built to hide its faults. He was a crusader for social understanding and today the ideas expressed in "Ghosts” have become the active creed of health societies. Ibsen shot a brilliant ray of truth upon domestic and personal problems. Moral extremes were corruptions he wished to be remedied. Asa pioneer for enlightened interest in social problems he was attacked. Today the ideas he represented have become almost universal and the tragedies of Oswald and Mrs. Alving have been spared.

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ously, “I gave you the wrong book.” Note —Puffing innumerable cigarets, stamping up and down his office, Dr. Hombeck shows concern over the apparent rapprochement of American and Japanese policy in the far east. He fought vigorously for the Chinese point of view under Secretary Stimson. now sees his efforts threatened with imminent failure. it "PRESIDENT STENIO VINCENT of Haiti —a charming, affable ruler who serves 25-year-old Haitian rum to visitors, and is in the midst of a political row at home—is following the general policy of “let's see what I can get in Washington.” Vincent sails today from Port-au-Prince en route here to wrangle a refunding loan from President Roosevelt and get rid of the American financial mission in Haiti. Most bets are against Vincent’s chances, but he’s bringing his clever minister of finance, M. Lucien Hibbert, and some persuasive arguments. President Roosevelt will give him a dinner at any rate. There is considerable opposition in Haiti to Vincent's cabinet officers—Dantes Bellegarde, former minister to Washington, who resigned his post here because of his country’s acceptance of the American financial administrator, is prominent in the group fighting the Vincent policies. Note An interesting coincidence is the fact that Dr. Orestes Ferrara, former Cuban ambassador to Washington, is a fellow passenger of President Vincent aboard the S. S. Haiti. tt tt it DIPLOMATS are wondering if the new rubber plants just placed in the diplomatic anteroom at the state department have any special meaning. Envoys who meet in the historic chamber always ogle one another and try to ferret out secret meanings from each other’s presence. Those who pass outside the door invariably “rubber” at the bespatted gentry inside. “They’re merely for decorative purposes,” insist state department officials, when quizzed about the plants. But diplomats (some of them, at any rate) insist on regarding the plants as a subtle or mysterious jest on the part of open-minded, unsuspecting Secretary HuU.

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Entered as Second-Clues Mstter at Postoffice. Indianapolis

Fair Enough By 0 Westbrook Pegler PERSONS whose idea of the newspaper business was derived from the rowdy caricature of "The Front Page' 1 have something to learn from the corps of journalists who operate in Washington. Within six months it probably will be possible to reveal that two Washington reporters, sitting in the press coop of the house of representatives and listening in a vague way to the orations of the statesmen down the well, had an idea which was to be the means of saving the citizens a sum between one hundred million and four *

hundred million dollars. Os course, anything less than a whole billion of those dollars is regarded as mere breakage nowadays and I would not wish to exaggerate the importance of this little saving just to fatten my piece. But I remember the time when every billion counted with me and I still have an instinct to save odd fractions of billions like pieces of string and bottle caps. I hope someone will remind me to go into the particulars of this matter about six months hence because people who accomplish such works for the government ought to receive

some sort of civil honor such as the English bestow. The nearest thing to an award to a journalist for this kind of service to the state is the Pulitzer prize which is all right in its restricted way. but a private affair nevertheless and not a state recognition. * * M They're Not Knights WELL, I don’t insist that, my colleagues in this case be knighted or baronized, and I didn’t aim to prattle on this way about something that people will not really care about one wav or another. My object is just to report that sometimes the newspaper boys perform important public services which go not only unappreciated, but entirely unrecognized, I think it would be nice for our business if some good playwright now should do a. piece for himself depicting this sort of newspaper work as an offset to the low antics of the comedy drunks and porchclimbing picture-chasers who have been presented to the citizens as typical reporters. And a grant of 10 per cent of the saving to these reporters would not be hard to take. Another work, similar, in a way, to the economy to which I have alluded, that yet may be credited to members of the corps of correspondents is the big expose which Ferd Pecora has been conducting all this time. Ferd Pecora got a lot of big bankers and brought out the material upon which Mr. Roosevelt based his memorable joint reference to larcenous financiers and kidnapers. And, though A1 Wiggin beat him to it and resigned before Ferd could get around to him. it undoubtedly was Ferd who took his pension of $lll,OOO a year away from him. a a ft They Kept Fanning BUT the final telling of the story of the big banking investigation will have to show that a few persistent reporters on the senate side kept nagging and burning and poking up the statesmen and kept that investigation alive during a period of Mr. Hoover’s administration when otherwise it would have been allowed to dwindle off to nothing. Because they did, the journalists knew this was a hot one and though it grew cold from time to time they were always there to fan it with their hats and bring up a little blaze until Pecora came down and the banking investigation suddenly became a ball of fire. I wonder if any one would object seriously to my saying that this is an example of exceedingly punk reporting inasmuch as it just hints around without saying anything but, for a fact, I was on the point of telling who those journalists art who will be saving the government all that money, and precisely how, when a man called up and said not to do that because it might raise hell with the political nances of a statesman friend of theirs who is cour,) lg the peoples’ choice again next fall. The way they tie you up with confidence here in Washington! But I never have been a candidate for a Pulitzer prize and I figure that I am no farther from it now than I was before I sat down to add this much to the prevailing confusion about things. (Copyright, 1934, by Unite and Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

NOT long ago, w’hile in Oklahoma City, I said to a reporter who asked me about the food value of alcohol that the caloric value of the highball had been determined to be approximately the equivalent of that of three hardboiled eggs. The statement, cut down to say that a highball is equivalent in food value to three hard-boiled eggs, has been spread widely over the country. Asa result, I have been deluged with letters during the last few weeks, particularly from organizations for prohibition and from ministers, asking the exact significance of this statement. It becomes necessary, of course, to say again some of the things that I have said repeatedly in these columns about food values. Values of foods in nutrition are measured today not only in terms of calories, which represent energy yielded, but also in terms of constituents—proteins, which are important in building tissues; mineral salts, which are necessary to health and growth, and particularly vitamins. tt n e EXCEPT for the caloric value, there is no evidence that the food value of a highball approximates that of three hard-boiled eggs. In the playing of ordinary games, handball and squash racquets make about as great a demand on energ\ as any games a person can play. A person playing a fast game of handball or squash racquets for one-half hour uses up about 300 calories of energy. This is equivalent to the amount of calories that are available in two slices of bread and butter or in two .dry Martini cocktails. The same amount of calories is available in a pint of beer. ’* a u ONE of the chief reasons for overweight is tho laitje ftmout of extra food consumed by many persons without regard to the caloric values of the food taken. The average man who attends a banquet already has had his breakfast and luncheon, which usually gives him enough calories for the energy output for the day. At the banquet he gets about 2,500 calories in the form of food and another 700 calories in the form of drinks. To overcome the added caloric value, it would be necessary for him to play handball or squash racquets for five and one-half hours or to w r alk sixty miles, or to run thirty miles. However, it should be emphasized again that the food values of alcohol are wholly energy values They do not provide any of the vitamins which, it has been established, are essential to health and growth. Neither do they provide protein, which is necessary for cell repair. Q—How many midshipmen are there in the United States naval acadamy at Annapolis? A—1.674. Q —Give the meaning of the name “Arra.” A—lt is a Lithuanian feminine name derived from the Latin and means “honorabl®.” / | Q —What was Lillian Cannon’s record for swimming Chesapeake bay in 1925? Did she ever swim the English channel? A—She sw’am from Tolchester beach to Bay Shore park in 10 hours 45 minutes. She failed in several attempts to swim th English channel. * v

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