Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 278, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1934 Edition 02 — Page 7

MARCH 31, 1934_

It Seems to Me By Joe Williams ALBANY. March 31.—They holding a public hearing on the matter of whether it was poisonous to the soul of man to back his judgment with silver on the relative speed of race horses. They were holding this hearing in the assembly chamber in a grim, gray building that frowns down on a smudgy city from the top of a hill. If you listened hard enough you imagined you

caught the flutter of a number of distinguished ghosts who had gone forth from this grim, gray building to achieve worldlike acclaim. It was here that the two Roosevelts served their apprenticeship in what is known as statesmanship. It was here that A1 Smith first embraced the doctrine of human liberalism that was later to make him one of the great Americans of the generation. It was here that the austere, stifflsh Charles Hughes began a career that led ultimately to the supreme court bench. And it was here that a brilliant young New Yorker, still

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vacillating between an affection for the theater and an urge for a public service, first appeared as an obscure assemblyman from the Greenwich Village district of the metropolis. From the start his flashing wit personal charm established him as a general favorite. They still talk about him around here with mixed emotions of sympathy and admiration. They still remember how, when he was just a youngster, he defeated a censorship bill with a devastating sentence. a b a All Decided Hours lief ore THERE wasn’t much that was dramatic or moving to yank you out of your reverie as you sat there in the assembly chamber lending an ear to the scrambled oratory that rolled through the room in waves to splash with a full monotone against the high Moorish walls. A large number of citizens had gathered to express their views on the proposed legislation. Some of them were for it, others against. The verbal ammunition seemed to have been about evenly distributed. Supposedly the statesmen had come into the chamber with open minds, eager to hear their beloved constituents. Actually you learned the destiny of the measure had been decided some hours before in a hotel suite. This public hearing, then, was just a polite little come on. What the citizens thought didn’t mean anything. The statesmen had already thought for them. You found yourself protesting against the mockery that goes into the making of the law. Here and there in the room sat people who professed to feel that the enactment of this particular piece of legislation would not be to the best interests of society. They had come here to be heard. While they talked the statesmen sat and listened with what appeared to be great earnestness and respect. Once in a while one of the statesmen would interrupt to pose a seemingly serious question. Throughout the proceedings there was a simulated note of sincerity and brotherly affection. a a xt It Was Good Then OBSCENE literature was under attack. A certain novel was the immediate objective. The claim had been made that the character of the novel and the manner of its presentation were such as to persuade innocent dairymaids to forsake their milk pails and turn goo-goo eyes on city slickers. The young New Yorker got up from his seat, tilted his chin in a manner which countless after-dinner speakers have since tried to pattern, and observed that up to that point history could cite not one instance where any innocent maiden had ever been ruined by a book. Many years later this same New Yorker, no longer young but still a picture of sartorial nattniess, came back to this same grim, gray building as the discredited mayor of his home town to hear himself read into obscurity and exile by the now r President of the United States. My recollection is that the last America heard of Mr. Jimmy Walker was a characteristic remark. In connection with a reported investigation of his income taxes he told Paris reporters he was flattered to be mentioned in the same dispatches with Andrew Mellon and Thomas Lamont. • tt tt tt . It's Just an Art SOME of the opposition went to extreme lengths to establish their points. Almost everybody who had ever written a line on the subject was quoted. In the end even the philosophy of the Messiah was summoned to show what would happen to a civilization that lighted candles to false gods. Terrible indeed was the fate that impended. Homes would be wrecked, women ruined, business demoralized if this bill were allowed to become a law. A bald-pated gentleman in clerical black exhorted “the honorable body” to see the light and follow its guiding beams to the high plateau of civic righteousness. This was pretty dull stuff, and you sensed that some of the speakers were consciously chinning themselves on the bars of exhibitionism. Even so, you felt it was something less than sporting to lead them on when the thing had already been settled and nothing they did or said could possibly matter. I mentioned this to one of the Capitol correspondents in the pressroom. "These people may be crackpots,” I said, “but why kid them?” “Oh. those guys! That’s a racket with them,” he answered. “They are professional ag'in’ers. We used to have 'em up here every year before prohibition. They made the same talks today they made then. The only difference was they substituted gambling for rum ” (Copyright. 1934. bv The Tiniest

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ ■

THE confusion now existing in the world of physics with respect to many phases of atomic theory is made worse by the announcement from England of the probable existence of a third type of hydrogen atom. The new atom has not yet been isolated, but no less an authority than Lord Rutherford is responsible for the announcement of its existence. For generations, physicists and chemists assumed that all hydrogen atoms were alike. The hydrogen atom was known to be the lightest of all atoms and it was assumed to be the simplest. The nucleus of the hydrogen atom consisted of one proton. Around this nucleus, revolved one electron. Then a few years ago. came the discovert- of the heavy hydrogen atom, an atom whose nucleus was twice as heavy as that of the previously known hydrogen atom. The nucleus of this heavy hydrogen atom, physicists reasoned, would have to consist of two protons and one electron. To this nucleus they gave the name of the deuton. It is important to note that the chemical element which follows hydrogen in the atomic table is helium. The nucleus of a helium atom consists of four protons and two electrons and is known to physicists as an alpha particle. a a a LORD RUTHERFORD and his associates have been performing experiments in which deutons, the nuclei of heavy hydrogen atoms, are used to bombard other substances. The substances bombarded were all solids which were themselves hydrogen compounds and which contained only heavy hydrogen atoms. In the experiment. Lord Rutherford and his associates found that the bombarded substances—ammonium chloride, ammonium sulphate and orthephosphoric acid—gave off protons of nuclei of ordinary hydrogen atoms. Remember that these substances had been prepared in the first place from heavy hydrogen only. These protons, in addition, were released with far more energy than that possessed by the bombarding deutons. Two questions immediately arose. Where did the protons come from? And where did they get thenenergy? The second question helped to answer the first.

THE MONUMENTS O'F LITERATURE

Eugene O'Neill Is the Greatest Dramatist Since Ibsen

This is the tenth of a series of artic let written exclusively for The Times and discussing the worlds greatest literature. This article deals with “Mourning Becomes Electra" by Eugene O'Neill. n a a BY TRISTRAM COFFIN Times Staff Writer FILLED with the gloom of death and diseased life, “Mourning Becomes Electra,” by Eugene O’Naill, speeds furiously like an overwound clock toward tragedy. The playwright who revolutionized drama and shocked an alarmed public reached back into Greek drama for this harsh tragedy of cruel hate and bitter-as-well lust. This drama shows the hidden play of sordidness that lies behind the pompous masks of life. And yet with the same powerful frenzy shown in Greek drama the characters rise to strength strangely resembling the poetic nobility of the Greeks. The theme lies in the words of Christine Mannon, sensuous wife of coldly proud and brutal Ezra Mannon: “Why can’t all of us remain innocent and pure and trusting. But God wont leave us alone. He twists and tortures our lives with others’ lives until—we poison each other to death.” “Mourning Becomes Electra” is one of the greatest plays written since Shakespeare, not only because it makes use of every tragic device, but also because a curious fascination lingers on every page. It lies in the temptation of every man to see beyond himself, to vision what underlies his thoughts and actions. If we believe the psychologists of whose theories O’Neill makes excellent use, there is a melancholy and bitter strain in every man. O'Neill draws this out as the sun draws water. In this play as well as “Strapge Interlude” and “Desire Under the Elms,” O'Neill is in the position of a mental surgeon coldly dissecting the emotions of men. He follows the tactics of the psychoanalyst in searching out some trauma or emotional shock which plotted the course of distorted personality. O’Neill applies psychology to Greek drama and the result is similar to Robert Frost's poetry of lonely queer lives in New England.

The Mannon family lives aloof from the rest of the world in a small New England town, hiding its secrets behind mask-like faces. Tnere is a furious intensity mingled in their blood. An intense hate stalks between Christine Mannon and her daughter, Lavinia. Lavinia loved her father, Ezra Mannon, and has a repressed affection for Captain Adam Brant, Christine’s lover. Repression has incased Lavinia in a hard brittle shell of sharp cruelty and ruthlessness. Adam is the son of Ezra’s disgraced brother. When Ezra returns from the Civil war, his wife poisons him and the crime is discovered by Lavinia, whose burden of hate is multiplied. She resolves to crucify her mother who wishes only to flee to happiness, and emotional security. B B B 'THE action switches rapidly back and forth as Lavinia and Christine struggle for the sympathy of Orin Mannon. the brother and son who has returned from war aching with wounds and disgusted with battle. Orin loves his mother jealously and Lavinia plays ruthlessly on his feelings by revealing Christine's affair. Christine uses Orin’s affection as a weapon, but jealousy is the stronger. Orin murders Adam as Christine is preparing to escape with him from the stiff and ghastly silence of the Mannon mansion. Wracked with grief and frantic hate, Christine kills herself. Already mentally broken by the war, Orin feels the stain of his mother’s death on himself. He

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THE leader in writing sophisticated dirt which has sparkle and lure is Noel Coward. Edmund Goulding, who is Norma Shqarer’s director, has been longing for a smartly Noel Coward created role for his star. Not finding one available, he got hold of “Riptide” and spanked it naughtily until it sparkled with some of the

Coward brilliance. Some of the juicy lines of gutter origin placed in a Tiffany setting fall from the lips of Robert Montgomery as the chap who chases and covets the charms of Miss Shearer. The only difficulty is that Norma in “Riptide” is married to an Englishman (Herbert Mar-

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shall), who loves to suspicion his wife of infidelity. Here is the old triangle again but all jazzed up with modern conversation, hot love scenes and fierce quarrels. When Miss Shearer is • flirting with Montgomery she flits about like a kitten desiring to get stroked, but when she is with her husband she is the dutiful wife who will quarrel when necessary. The story is slight, but the three leading players put so much zip. pep and dash into the lines and situations that you probably will find yourself in the aisle before the rjot is over. Miss Shearer rises to no great heights of acting until her jealous husband turns her out of the house and bids her to be as bad as she wants to with Montgomery. How does the story end? Must refer you to the movie because the ending is so different from what you expect. The best acting is presented by Herbert Marshall as the husband

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sinks intd a lethargic condition broken only by hate for his sister. After Christine’s death, the positions of the characters change. Lavinia assumes the sensuality of her mother, becomes her mother. Orin becomes Ezra, to whom Lavinia is bound by reason of their double guilt in murdering Adam as Christine was bound to Ezra by marriage. Orin even has a lust for his sister. The shadow of his guilt shuddering over him, and disgusted, Orin kills himself. Then Lavinia achieves nobility. She returns to the house which had held secret greed, lust and hate and announces, “I’m the last Mannon'! I’ve got to punish myself! Living here alone with the dead is a worse act of justice than death or prison! I'll never go out to see any one! I’ll have the shutters nailed closed, so no sunlight can get in! I’ll live alone with the dead, and keep their secrets, and let them hound me, until the curse is paid out and the last Mannon is let die. (With a strange smile of gloating over the years of self-torture). It takes the Mannons to punish themselves for being born.” B B B THIS action is a queer perversion of the glorious redemption found in Greek drama and in the drama from which this was modeled, “Electra.” O'Neill unmasks the living lie and finds that the gods have been tampering with men’s minds. But the gods in this case are the forces of heredity and environment, in-

and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the English legitimate star of other years, in a modern aunty role. Mr. Marshall is an intense and earnest actor and he does much in making the 'husband role one of power and interest. Whatever faults he reveals are not his but those of the author. Miss Shearer has a grand and glorious time in the role of a wife who wants to be both good and bad and yet can’t make up her mind which way to turn. Her gowns will be the envy of every woman. Norma has never photographed better than in “Riptide” and she has the right in this movie to the title of the best dressed woman in Hollywood. When it comes to wearing evening clothes, Montgomery knows what it is all about. The late Lilyan Tashman has a minor role in "Riptide.” Skeets Gallagher is present and gives a good account of himself. That's “Riptide,” just a mighty gay romp done in the rompiest way by Miss Shearer, Mr. Montgomery and Mr. Marshall. On the bill with “Riptide” is a short—Walt Disney’s “Funny Little Bunnies.” This is Disney's contribution to Easter cheer. It is modeled upon the same successful lines that made “Three Little Pigs” a masterpiece. Here is another bullseye hit for Disney. Now at Loew’s Palace. KINGAN SOCIAL CLUB HOLDS EASTER FETE Plays Host to Convalescent Children at Riley Hospital. Kingan Athletic Social Club held an Easter entertainment for convalescent children at the Rotary unit of the Riley hospital last night. On the program were the Geno Cosmopolitan orchestra and pupils of Elizabeth Houser dance studio. Following the entertainment presents were distributed. SHORTRIDGE STUDENTS TO VISIT WASHINGTON Annual Tour, April 1-5, to Include Annapolis Inspection. Annual high school tour sponsored by Shortridge high school and Pennsylvania railroad will leave* here for Washington. April 1, and return April 5. Visits to historical places in the nation’s capital have been planned. Miss Dorothy Peterson. Room 313. Shortridge, Is in charge of arrangements. The tour will include a visit to the United State Naval academy at Annapolis, Maryland. f AUXILIARY WILL MEET Former President Will Be Guest at Session Thursday. Indianapolis lodge, ladies’ auxiliary to the Brotherhod of Railway Trainmen, assisted by Golden Rule and Brightwood lodges of the order, will entertain Mrs. Clara Bradley, grand president, at 1 Thursday in Trainmen hall, 1002 East Washington street. Initiation of a class of candidates will be followed by a covered dish uncheon and dancing.

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A scene from the powerful tragedy of morbid characters, “Mourning Becomes Electra,” by Eugene O'Neill. O'Neill is generally regarded as the greatest contemporary dramatist/

evitable and omnipotent factors. The stirring hymns of the Greek choruses are changes to the gossiping of the neighbors. The brooding murmur of the sea echoes throughout the play as it does in so many of O Neill’s dramas by the sea chanties sung. There is a social implication throughout the play as O’Neill attacks “men’s dirty dreams of greed and power.” Here is what he says of war in reference to the super-patriots who lead cheers from their front porches: “Let them batter their brains out with rifle butts and rip each other’s guts with bayonets. After that, maybe they’ll stop waving handkerchiefs and gabbing about heroes.” Orin speaks of ,war as, “I had a queer feeling that war meant murdering the same man over and over again—and in the end I would discover that man was myself.” Christine Mannon is a Lady Macbeth. She stiife Adam into vengeance so that he may aid her in killing her husband. Lavinia is her counterpart as she urges Orin on to the murder of Adam and taunts him for being fainthearted. Shakespeare’s villainous

ROTARY CLUB TO HEAR STATE SENATOR WEBB Members Will Listen to Address on Rambouillet Sheep. John Bright Webb, state senator, will be the principal speaker at the Rotary Club luncheon Tuesday at the Claypool. • His subject will be, “By Their Sheep You Shall Know Them.” Mr. Webb, a member of the state board of agriculture, is a recognized authority on the subject of Rambouillet sheep, which he raises. U. S. DEFICIT EXCEEDS $2,500,000 MARK Figures at End of Nine Months Under Estimate. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 31.—The federal deficit exceeds $2,500,000,000 at the end of nine months of the fiscal year, treasury figures showed today. Government expenditures for the current fiscal years from July 1, last, to March 29, exceeded receipts by $2,511,658,239. In the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year the deficit was $2,245,428,764. The deficit continues to fall far short of the $7,309,000,000 deficit estimated by President Roosevelt in his budget measure in January. The relatively small actual deficit compared with the estimate for the full fiscal year reflected a much smaller outflow of federal funds on the recovery program‘than had been anticipatd.

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lago, preaching moral banalities to bring on murder, lurks in the character of the two men. Similarly “Mourning Becomes Electra” reflects Sophocles’ ruthless Medea. The men are helpless instruments of the women’s schemes and there is a mean weakness behind the stern mask of Ezra. b b a THE tired business man and his female prototype were puzzled and distressed by “Mourning Becomes Electra.” They had just reasembled their nerves from the emotional shock, of “Strange Interlude” when this play reached them. It was taken as a personal affront and in some places the play was banned. Audiences shouted that “Mourning Becomes Electra” was not true to life. Os course, no tragedy is exactly true to life, the material is too selective and too idealized. Any study of abnormal persons does not reflect life exactly, but it does give a glimpse into a hidden life that reveals more truth than realism. This drama, like “Strange Interlude,” plunges into the subconscious depths which

Dr. W. E. Arbuckle Seeks Renomination as Coroner Democratic Incumbent Was Appointed Feb. 27, 1932: Other Aspirants File for Various Offices. Dr. William E. Arbuckle, Marion county coroner, today announced his candidacy for renomination on the Democratic ticket. Dr. Arbuckle was appointed to the office Feb. 27, 1932, and served ten months of the unexpired term of Fred Vehling, who resigned. He has practiced medicine in Indianapolis seventeen years.

Several candidates announced for the state legislature from Marion county today. Sanford W. Whitaker, 1224 North Chester avenue, who is associated with the firm of Pfeff & Hughel. announced for the Democratic nomination. Republican aspirants for the assembly who announced were J. W. Ebaugh, 107 North Chester avenue, an accountant; William E. Leibold, 1414 West T.iirty-fourth street, and Demis J. Colbert, 311 Prospect street, incumbent. J. Herbert Hartman, attorney, and former deputy prosecutor, announced for the Republican nomination for prosecutor. Joseph M Hillman, 2023 South High School road, announced for the Republican nomination for Wayne township trustee. George A. Hofmann, attorney, announced today for the Republican nomination for superior court five. Marion county candidates filing for office witn the secretary of state yesterday included Albert Sahm and Frank Schmoe, Indianapolis, Democrats, for representative; Marjorie Boarder Kinnaird. Republican, for representative; Russell J. Dean,

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have a strong part to play in ruling men s destinies. O'Neill has been accused of employing melodrama in “Mourning Becomes Electra.” Any powerful clash of emotions and its resiflt is melodramatic—life exaggerated. The Greeks and Shakespeare employed melodrama less obviously than O'Neill, who was describing a civilization neither poetic nor glorified. O'Neill, actor, wanderer} theatrical bum and finally playwright, has had a special gift for disturbing the public. He ripped conventional drama to shreds and created seemingly impossible styles. He has brought to drama devices rarely used before. He revived the Greek use of masks, because he believed that there are certain poses men take on to face the world. One reflects the superficial man and one the inner man. B B B IN “The Great God Brown” he uses masks particularly well to portray a hard, sardonic mask hiding the sensitive soul of a dreamer wounded by life, and the painted, weary mask of a prostitute covering the shrewd and kindly observant Mother Earth. He employs the use of sound to give a definite tone to the play. Sound strikes the thematic pitch—the whirring noise of the machines in “Dynamo'’ and the maddening beat of the tom-toms in “Emperor Jones.” The “aside” was revived in “Strange Interlude” to describe the real thoughts of the characters as against the spoken word. O'Neill has waged a strong fight on behalf of unhappy persons neglected by society—the laborer whose only weapon is brawn, the sensitive idealist, and the victims 6f mental , twists. His artistic adolescence was spent under the guidance of “expressionism.” (Expressionism is the attempt to show not what a man does, but what he feels and thinks). Devotees of this school had a strong social doctrine, attacking the machine age and its evils. There is an artistic conceit which says that art prophesies reform. The dreams of many expressionalists have seen reality in present enlightened social policies adopted by various governments. Stormy tragedy, sweeping irony, angered demands for an improved social order have marked Eugene O'Neill as the greatest dramatist since Ibsen and one who lias completely revolutionized the art of playwriting. He has written two plays since the production of “Mourning Becomes Electra.” In one he becomes a tolerant humorist scoffing kindly at the harmless follies of youth and in the other an advocate of religion as a possible salvation.

Democrat, Marion county prosecutor. Five Democrats and five Republicans filed with the Marion county clerk yesterday. Democrats, all for township advisory board posts, were Louis G. Koerner and Charles Holtman, Center; James M. Hall, Franklin; Emory Thompson, Wayne, and Annie L. Dietz, Perry. Republicans included Joseph M. Hillman, Wayne trustee; Cary Jacobs and Harold Owsley, Second district councilman; w. Stuart Bowman. Warren trustee; Elbert B. Guion. Pike advisory board. H. Walter Schaefer, Republican, withdrew from the Second district councilman race. VIGO~BUILDING UNSAFE; PATIENTS MUST MOVE Feeney Condemns 75-Year-Old Infirmary as Fire Trap. All patients of the Vigo county infirmary were ordered removed within the next ninety days after the buildings had been condemned yesterday as a fire hazard by A1 G. Feeney, director of public safety. Orders to remove the patients were sent to Vigo county officials, including the county council, county commissioners and the auditor. Intended to house only 100 patients, the infirmary now quarters more than 235, Mr. Feeney said. The 75-year-old building is located northeast of Terre Haute. CHEMISTS TO CONVENE State Society to Hold Student Session Here April 13. The Indiana section, American Chemical Society, will hold its seventh biennial student meeting April 13 and 14 in Indianapolis. An excellent program has been prepared for the junior and senior college students of Indiana. Speakers will include Edgar B. Carter, Abbott Laboratories, Chicago; Dr. H. H. Willard, Michigan, and Dr. Charles Allen Thomas. POST PLANS AUXILIARY Colonel Shelby Branch Sets Tuesday for Organization Meeting. Overseas veterans have been Invited to take their mothers, wives, daughters and sisters to the hall of Colonel Shelby Po6t, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Troy and Carson avenues, at 8 Tuesday night. At that time an auxiliary to the post is to be formed and the charter sheet signed. French Cabinet Takes Cut By United Press PARIS, March 31.—The cabinet has decided to take a 15 per cent pay cut in the interest of economy, it was announced today. President Albert Lebrun was expected to vol<unteer to takd a salary reduction.

Fair Enough B * Westbrook Pegler / | ''HE problem of getting Max Baer down to really A serious training for his fight with Primo earners along in June is a very important thing and I hope it receives the play which it deserves in the papers and over the air between this hour and the night when he climbs into the ring. I shouldn't have to remind any one of the importance of Max Baer's training but press and public ar a little bit rattlebrained and there is just a half-

chance that some chain of trivial events and issues will come along in the meanwhile, such as the bonus, the air mail thing, unemployment, strikes, starvation and political scandals, to crowd the subject out of the papers and out of the public mind. Then Max Baer enters the ring almost unexpectedly one night wearing a loose, fluttering fold of hide and tallow around his center and is shoved all over the place for fifteen rounds and the public is taken by surprise. That is one of the troubles

with the world just now. People allow themselves to be fascinated by glittering nonessentials to the neglect of the fundamentals and the first thing they know some famous fighter comes down the aisle as fat as a ball or a pennant is lost before their very eyes or Notre Dame beats Army in outstanding upset of the week-end. They weren't that way for a while there, however. Why. for about ten years there, from 1919 to 1929, our citizens were alfnost perfect in their blow-by-blow, their score-by-innings, and their play-by-play and almost of the letters that a man received from parties who wished to disagree with what he had to say, were interested in nothing but main issues. B B B Fried With Contempt THEY got sore if you said the Yales weren’t very good, they fried you with their contempt if you got mixed up for a moment and called Babe Ruth a dead left field hitter and if you spoke of Tommy Armour as the master of the brassie and spoon there didn't breathe a soul so dead from here to name-your-city as wouldn't write you a dirty one, full of unkind aspersions, to remind you that Tommy Armour's specialty was irons. They had no nund for nonsense then. You could write of Senator Borah as a Democrat from Alabama and it was all right with our citizens. You could denounce the bonus or praise it and nobody in the United States knew what you were talking about with the possible exception of a few lobbyists. A strike was something that the pitcher threw past the hitters in the ball-game and unemployment was something that most people vaguely aspired to under the name of retirement. They were going to retire into unemployment as soon as they could run their original stake of $2 500 into an even million, exclusive of the income tax, and they hoped to remain unemployed forever, preferably in Palm Beach or southern California, and the cultural centers of the old world, such as Ciro's and Zelli's and the Adlon Bar. It seems to me that we got along much better back in the days when People kept their minds on the things that really matter in this life. Most persons had money enough, there was caviar on the table and, in the words of the greatest of all the Presidents there were, or anyway, there almost were, two cars in every garage. B B B Just Being Sacrificed THE man from the finance company presently came around and repossessed the other one. Maybe I am courting trouble, though, in referring to Mr. Hoover as the greatest of all the Presidents because the Democratic citizens will have a difference of opinion as to that and the Republican kind will suspect me of tossing off a nasty crack. It is hard to describe Mr. Hoover to the satisfaction of those who admire him most. If you low-rate him they are indignant and if you call him a great President they know you are being sarcastic. As one who believes with Mr. Roosevelt that any critic claiming the right to be heard ought to bring along a constructive plan, I would propose a revival of the conditions which obtained during Mr. Hoover’s campaign and the early months of his reign. I would start by quoting radio up around 500 once more and I would put A1 Wiggins and-Charlie Mitchell back in the banks. I would tear out of Page One of the papers all this foolishness about the new deal, the NRA and the common man, and devote the space to the box scores and Bobby Jones’ card and good, sound essays on life by Jack Dempsey. We had fun in those days and I would point out, as something very significant, that the people were reading and talking of matters much different from those which have them poring and fretting and getting into fights now. I don’t wonder whither we are drifting. I know, and unless there is a big awakening in this country between this time and June, our citizens are going to wake up one day to find Max Baer climbing into the ring for his fight with Primo Camera as fat as an apple. A lot of good your reading about the new deal will do you when that crisis comes. (Copyright, 1934. by Unite and Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

DOCTORS 2,000 years ago did all their medical diagnosis with their eyes, hands, ears, noses, and even their sense of taste. Gradually, however, instruments were developed to aid these senses. The doctor of today is surrounded by a vast amount of machinery which is used in diagnosing and treating disease. The instrument with which we are most acquainted is the clinical thermometer. The first thermometer for measuring changes in temperature of the human body, as occurs when there is a fever, probably was developed by an Italian named Sanctorius, in the fifteenth century. He filled a glass tube with an exp&nsive liquid which served to register changes in temperature. a a a THIS same Sanctorius also weighed the body to find out whether it really was absorbing the food eaten at a meal. It took a long time after development of this first thermometer in the sixteenth century before final development of the small fever thermometers which are used today. They were perfected during the last fifty years. Now you can have in your home a small fever thermometer which will register, in anywhere from one-half to two minutes, the changes that take place in temperature of the body. Fever is a symptom that demands medical attention. Whenever the temperature rises above 98.6 degrees for any considerable time, whenever there is a rise in the temperature of the body evening after evening, you should call the attention of your doctor to the condition, so that he may locate the infection, if possible. a a a IN the vast majority of cases, fever means infection. Sometimes it is just a small spot in a tonsil or a sinus; it may, however, be tuberculosis or malaria. The counting of pulse changes is another important dtermination made by doctors, and also is deperident or machinery. It requires the use of a watch which registers the passage of time second by second. The ordinary pulse beat is from 72 to 82 a minute. Slight variations in pulse rate are not important. Usually in the presence of fever the pulse rate is more rapid. It is also .fast when there is overactivity of the thyroid gland. A rapid beat of the heart is called tachycardia. In other instances, for example, in the presence of a fracture of the skull or other causes of pressure on the brain, the pulse rate may be slow. This is called bradycardia. In some conditions which affect the heart, the § pulse beat becomes exceedingly irregular, since the beat of the pulse is a reflection of the beat of the heart.

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