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It Seems to Me By Joe Williams Pinch Hitting for Heyv.ood Broun THE letter began: "Don't you know the ones who read Heywood Broun's column are very serious intellectually who seek spiritual sustenance . . . and the readers you get represent the difference between a howling mob at a prize fight and the sedate, studious people who listen to John Haynfes Holmes”— Some suggestions followed. Columns devoted to: “'A> The influence of the 16-year-old maid in the life and literature of Ibsen 'you know Ibsen fell in love with her when he
was 60. “<B> How a weakness is made into a strength, with little men becoming strong political racketeers, such as Napoleon, Dolfuss, Hitler, etc. “(C) The greatest hymn of hate against women was written by Schopenhauer. . . . Was it because he was a withered, ugly, old thing whom women hated and was this his revenge?” lam very glad Correspondent Weiner brought these vital subjects to my attention. It proves what I always have maintained, that this is no time for frivolity, irreverences or toasted sweet-
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meats. Taking the subjects in the order of their presentation, I wish to say that 'A> Mr. Ibsen was a very lucky fellow’, and w’hat I would like to know' is whether he ate his yeast cakes every morning and, further, if there are any more of those 16-vear-old maids around today? iB) I am afraid I can not comment on this subject, with any degree of open-mindedness and emotional control. I assume that Napoleon, Dolfuss and Hitler hold some sort of a modem double cross record. I belong to the old school. To me there never will be another combination like Tinker, Evers and Chance. <C> The real trouble with Schopenhauer—and I trust lam not confusing him with one of Mr. Jack Curley's WTestlers —was that he took life much too seriously. To him life was not only real and earnest but—w T ell, to cite you an instance. o a a No Sense of Fun ONE night we are in Peoria.. That’s back in the days when lam the star pitcher of the Three--11l League. A bunch of us are sitting around in the back room of Oscar’s place. Apropos of practically nothing, someone remarks: “I see by the papers they won't even let that fellow Insull land in Turkey.” And someone else cracks: ‘‘l seems to me that that's adding Insull to injury.” Do you think for a moment that Mr. Schopenhauer laughed? You know what he does? He turns to the waiter and says in his pessimistic, philosophical way: “Time and tide wait for no man.” Many critics of the social scheme have attempted to ascribe the subsequent rise in divorces and decrease in the birth rate to this remark, but personally I always have felt that a fellow- is a sucker to eat pompano anywhere but in Florida. And this reminds me—did you ever have a black eye? 1 can attest that a black eye is very easy to get. There is something quite democratic about a black eve, too. A black eye looks just as conspicuous on a Morgan as on a mug. There are many ways to get a. black eye. Apparently the most approved way is to forget to duck. I can imagine that that is also the most satisfactory way. If nothing else, it suggests a certain amount of gallantry, vigor and self-reliance. At the moment I am toting around a black eye, the first it has been my good fortune to sponsor. •‘Oh, so you bumped into a door, eh? Don’t give me that line. Wha| happened to the other guy?” nun Fie firave About It NO matter how you happened to get the black eye. I am convinced it is always smart to pretend you were in a brawl—a very vicious brawl—and that you were doing all right for yourself until nine other guys rushed in and by sheer numbers overwhelmed you. That kind of an explanation usually goes over. The public sentiment is that nobody ever got a black eye accidentally. In this respect the public is something more than flattering, and without meaning to be so. In effect the public insists on garbing the Black Eye Legion in warrior armor and flaming spirit—with the added implication, of course, that you don’t know how to hold your hands up. For all that history tells us of the ruggedness of the American race I doubt that many men have ever been in a situation where fist play was needed to settle a debate. I mean to the question. ‘How does it feel to be in a fight?” the answer in most cases will be, ”1 don’t know. I never have been in a fight.” Even to the most ardent pacifist the thought must come at times: “What would I do if some geezer walked up to me and smacked me in the kisser?” To me this is neither a profane nor a rowdy thought. It could happen. And suppose it did, what then? Would you stand there and blink or would something inside you crack, changing you fx-om a meek peaceful person into a white collared Dempsey, gunning for blood? That happened to me only once. The taxi meter read $1.45. All I had w-as $1.50. I said, without consciously attempting levity, “Keep the changer” There were words .... "Is that so? Well, get down off of that seat and say that.” The gentleman did. There was a hedge in front of the house. When I unscrambled myself the taxi was in motion. Through the stillness of the silvered night I heard the words "Fresh guy.” I still don’t know how it feels, or what it does to the soul, to land a return punch. (Copvricht. 1934. by The Times)
Your Health “BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-
IN many ways, machinery is being brought to the bedside, to the hospital, to aid medical study and care of the sick. There are microscopes which magnify the appearance of cells, secretions, the excretions hundreds of times. There are even ultra-microscopes which make apparent the presence of bodies too small to be seen with the most powerful of microscopes. There are electrically lighted machines with which the doctor can look into all cavities of the human body. There are X-ray machines which make it possible for him to see the outlines of most of the organs. Other X-ray machines are used to treat cancers and to destroy new growths on the surface of the body. a a a ONE machine measures chemical changes that go on in the body. This device, the basal metabolic apparatus, is one of the most important used in medicine today. Its use is simple. You go to the office where the basal metabolic apparatus is available. You go in the morning before eating breakfast, so that your body may not be busy at the time digesting food. Now you lie down and rest for an hour so that your body may not reflect activities associated with muscular exercise. Next you merely breathe through a tube into a closed system. By the use of certain chemicals and certain mathematical estimations, the doctor can measure the rate at which your body is using up oxygen. In some diseases, particularly in very’ severe overactivity of the thyroid gland, the basal metabolism rate will be found to be high. In other diseases, particularly in persons who are very fat, the basal n -ahn]iAm frequently is found to be very low.
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FRANCE FACING. POLITICAL CHAOS
Stavisky Scandal Has Stimulated Demand for New Basic Law
BY MORRIS GILBERT XEA Service Staff Correspor dent PARIS, April 4—The Constitution of the Third Republic, framed in 1875, provides a method of appealing to the people of France over, the head of parliament. The method is for the president with the express approval of the senate to dissolve the chamber of deputies and call for anew general election. It has only been employed once, and then improperly. That was when MacMahon as president in 1877 after fighting with the ministry of the day forced its resignation, appointed another ministry of his own, and then dissolved the chamber. The people of France immediately came back by electing just the same kind of a chamber. Otherwise it is believed there would have been a coup d’etat—which MacMahon by no means would have disapproved. The result of this imbroglio in 1877 has been to make practically useless the procedure of dissolution. No other president ever has tried it during all the years of the Third Republic.
11/ UUillig Ck 11 LI 1C .ycdih L/l LUG UUK So students of the machinery of government of the French republic assert that in practice if not in law the chamber is elected for a full four years. and the electorate has no means of meddling. But under the battering of the Stavisky scandal and the demonstrations of the politically unimportant’ royalist group, demand for revision of basic law and practice has become insistent. Except for extremist groups—the extreme right or Action Francaise crowd, and the Communists at the extreme left—the demand has not been to cast out the regime, but to reform it. b a a THE French government has seldom been nearer chaos than today. The Stavisky case has raised a moral, as opposed to a political, issue, and the population gives every indication of extreme dissatisfaction with the government. What would happen, people ask. if President Lebrun should grasp his legal right to dissolve the chamber and call for an election? What w’ould happen if the senate should withhold the “express approval” of such a step which is constitutionally required? After all. the senate is just as much a radical Socialist group as the chamber —and it is the radical Socialist party which is today under fire. It might hesitate to refuse to approve the president's act. In that rase—as was proved when President Millerand some years ago faced a ministry ‘on strike.” —there would be no other alternative than resignation for President Lebrun. tt B B IF the President should resign. under such conditions, the election of a. new President would be thrown as usual into the com-
The Theatrical World—‘Men in White ’ Goes on View at Palace Friday BY WALTER D. HICKMAN
A BRAND new movie is coming to town Friday which you probably will want to know something about in advance. Early last fall a stage drama. "Men in White,” opened in New York, and still is on view and playing to big business, according to Broadway reports. Shortly after it opened, "Men in White” was listed as ideal entertainment for the movie screen, because it tells the “inside” story of doctors and nurses in a great hospital. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer immediately obtained the movie rights to this stage hit and it xvas placed in production some months ago with Clark Gable as the doctor and with Myrna Loy in a romantic role opposite him. Others in the case are Jean Hersholt, Elizabeth Allan. Otto Kruger, C. Henry Gordon, Russell Hardie. Wallace Ford. Henry B. Walthall and Russell Hopton. Mast of the action takes place in a great metropolitan hospital, where doctors, internes, nurses, ambulance drivers, anestheticians. X-ray specialists and others are said to conduct themselves as they do in real life. It is said that the operating scenes are as real as if an actual operation were being performed. Jac Flex announces that "Men in White" will open at Lowe's Palace Friday for a week's engagement. V tt tt Rae Finds Real Dancer RAE SAMUELS, “The Blue Streak of Vaudeville.” who brings her revue. “Cocktail Hour.” to the Lyric Friday for a week's engagement, sends word that she has found a real tap dancer in Eleanor Whitney, who is in her company. A representative of Miss Samuels sends the following: “Recently a group of dancers, among them tap dancers of renown. gathered to discuss things, mostly taps. Most of them agreed that the tap was being passed up by loose legged boys and girls because it was a tough routine and required lots of tedious drill.ng and almost constant training. They also agreed with the producers that something should be done about it. "Now a good tap dancer is one who can "get in the most taps in the shortest space of time. The more taps in the shortest space —both floor and time—makes a genius in taps. So the boys and girls of the tap cast about to see what they could do about it. Tricky 'breaks” and taps in all forms and tempo were the order of the day. “Among those who lamented infrequency of good tapsters was Rae Samuels. Now Miss Samuels has been in vaudeville and Broadway shows for quite a few seasons and knows tapping material when she sees it, certainly when she hears it. “It also happens that Miss Samuels has had the producing bee in her bonnet for some time. When the bee stung her she organized •Cocktail Hour,’ a musigirlie revue.
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bined ballot of chamber and senate. But— presumably there would be no dissolution. The greatest political playboy of modern France—Leon Daudet —has been having the time of his life these last few weeks. He has been battering cabinets into a pulp, shouting for his king with a bull-throated roar, and laying about him on all sides with the club of his glorious (and often extremely impolite) wit. Leon Daudet, son of Alphonse Daudet, is living proof that once in a while a great man has a great son. Robust, Gargantuan in appearance and in zest for good eating and drinking. Rabelaisian in the use of his pen. this great polemist has one devotion, the house of Bourbon; and three hatreds, the republic, Americans and prohibition. Daudet’s great mouthpiece is his newspaper. L'Action Francaise, which is the organ of what the philosophers of royalism describe as “Nationalisme Integral.” Day by day for a. score of years, this paper has been coming out, with, day by day, a blast of superb invective written by Leon Daudet. Without great weight as a molder of political action, in ordinary times, the Daudet daily column is the most brilliant, the funniest, in Paris. Its fun is never light, but always brutal. A club to batter the heads of politicians of the hated republican regime, to preach the superior morals and manners of a Bourbon king. B B B DAUDET'S life has been a, series of adventures. A dueler of note, he once defied the Paris police coming to arrest him and held them off from the offices of his paper (with the help of his trusty “Camelots”) for several days. The cause of this curious adventure xvas the tragic death of Daudet’s son Philippe, 14 years old, ten years ago. The boy, a
“When 'Cocktail Hour’ was little more than a twinkle in the producer's eye, Miss Samuels set about to get a tap dancer. ‘“Gentlemen. I’ve got a tap dancer,’ crooned Miss Samuels after she took one look at Eleanor Whitney, a youngster. ‘This one starts where most others leave off. She's got it, rhythm and all. Taps till you can't keep up with them.’ ” And newspaper critics who have seen Miss Whitney lay the taps on the maple boards of stage aprons say Miss Samuels knows what she’s talking about, B B B On View Here Today TNDIANAPOLIS theaters today -*■ offer: “Riptide,” at Loew’s Palace; “The Road to Ruin,” at Keith's: “Dark Hazard,” on the screen and "Broadway Merry-Go-Round,” on the stage at the Lyric; “This Man Is Mine” and “Man of Two Worlds,” at the Indiana; George White's Scandals at the Apollo; “Wonder Bar,” at the Circle, and burlesque at the Mutual. The present system of punctuation was developed by Aldus Manutius. an Italian printer and scholar of the fifteenth century.
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precocious lad w r ho looked older than his years, w r as also a runaway. He had been known to disappear for days at a time. The last time he did so, his distressed family began to suspect foul play. The boy’s body was found in a Paris hospital. He had been shot through the head. The police verdict was suicide. Then began Daudet's most terrific onslaught on the authorities. He began by accusing the police of having “framed” the suicide for political reasons. He continued by accusing the police of having “planted” a letter on the youngster indicating that he had turned Communist and w-as leaving his family on that account. In view of the fact that at that time Daudet ivas engaged in a
CLAYPOOL PROSPERS UNDERJIRA BANNER Manager Reports Gain in Hotel Business. “We have observed a marked increase in room service and restaurant business since we began flying the Blue Eagle,” asserted George Cunningham, manager of the Claypool, Indiana’s largest commercial hotel, today. Mr. Cunningham’s statement came three months after the hotel code went into affect. The Claypool began operating under the hotel and restaurant code rules immediately and is among the few Indiana hotels following the tw r o codes 100 per cent. “The public is rewarding us for doing our part in the recovery program,” Mr. Cunningham continued. “We did not raise our rates, but on the other hand added more employes and increased wages approximately 17 per cent.” Mr. Cunningham pointed out that all of the nearly 400 employes of the hotel are now off one day a week. Before the code the female employes were usually off only one day in every nine or ten days, while the male help worked the full seven days. “We notice that the attitude of our employes has changed. They are more courteous and loyal,” Mr. Cunningham commented.
A Paris mob crying’ for governmental reform must be heeded ... or else . . .
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violent attack on the government, French people began to place considerable credence in the desolated father’s tremendous accusations. The taxi driver in whose cab Philippe’s body had been found brought suit against the polemist,. and Daudet was sentenced to five months in jail. B B B THE siege of the Action Francaise commenced. Camelots kept off. the police for several days. At last one morning. Prefect of Police Chiappe himself appeared in the street below, and begged Daudet for the sake of keeping the peace. Daudet, with a pompous reference to the need to prevent “civil war.” did so. and marched off to prison in triumph.
BATTLE TO FINISH
Beatty, Killer to Have Showdown
By United Prees NEW YORK. April 4.—Some time today, in a bare, black cage pitched in the center of Madison Square Garden, Clyde Beatty will have a showdown with Sammy. The showdown will come before the doors are thrown open to the children who make up circus matinee crowds. There will be no bands. The Garden’s 19.000 seats will be bare. The only witnesses will be the roustabouts who handle the chute down which Sammy will slink into the arena. ——
Beatty will meet Sammy there, with the iron door of the cage closed. Sammy is a 500-pound lion, with teeth the size of a man's fingers, and his tawny paws, big as flatirons, are studded with rake-like claws. Beatty weighs 135 pounds with his boots on, and his armor will consist of a kitchen chair, a whip and an iron nerve. tt a tt BEATTY has been planning the showdown ever since that day in Cleveland a month or two ago when Sammy, up until then a law-abiding member of the big cat act, sprang from his perch and sank his teeth in the throat of a lioness. Beatty and his roustabouts pounded Sammy across the head with a club. They yanked at him with cruel steel hooks. They turned a fire hose on him. But not until the lioness was dead did Sammy loosen his grip. He was removed from the act and placed in “solitary.” He’s teen there ever since. Today Beatty will find out if what he fears is true—that Sammy has turned killer. “He acts like a killer,” Beatty said. “There's no play in him any more. Not even mean, hateful cat play. When I walk along the cages where my cats are quartered, all of them but one growls or tries to slap at me when I parss. The exception is Sammy. He never makes a sound any more. He just stands there with a smoldering fire in his eyes, and stares at me. Even when I snap my fingers close up against the bars, or punch him witn my cane, he refuses to move or growl. Just stands there and glares, it sorta gets you.” Beatty does not pose as a man who knows no fear. He readily admits that the business of getting in a cage with thirty or so lions and panthers is a tough way to earn a living. “I'd be the last one to say that handling those cats doesn’t shake me a little,” he told me. “I’m nervous as the devil for an hour or more after every performance. I don’t think it’s the sort of thing a man could do a long time. It takes too much out of you. A lot too much.”
ENGEL PICTURES SHOWN Quarry Lanscapes Among Paintings in Herron Exhibit. The John Herron Art Institue is showing an exhibit of recent paintings by Professor Harry’ Engel of the Indiana university fine arts department. Included in the exhibit are seevral quarry landscapes and portraits. Bolt Kills Two School Boys By United Prei >* PITTSBURGH, April 4.— Two Oliver high school boys on their way to school were killed by a bolt of lightning today. The victims were identified as Joseph Larocco, 16, and Paul F. Uflelman,
But that triumph was nothing compared to the triumph of five days later, when a bewildered government su Idenly discovered that Leon Dauaet had escaped! The hoax was the best that had tickled the English people for a century. It had been managed by the Camelots, w r ho, by a clever use of telephones from the ministry of interior to the prison authorities that the government was releasing its celebrated captive. Daudet spent two years in Brusshels. close to his beloved king, also in exile, and then w r as pardoned. He returned to Paris, acclaimed by thousands, and immediately took up again his slogging of the republican regime.
14 AT BUTLER WIN SCHOLASTIC HONORS Seniors Elected Members of Phi Kappa Phi. In recognition of their outstanding academic achievements, fourteen Butler university seniors have been elected to membership in Phi Kappa Phi, national scholastic honorary society, according to Dean James W. Putnam, acting president. Three of the group are men, the remainder are women. Those elected to the society are Frank Baird, Mary Louise Bohnstadt, Mrs. Gertrude C. Buehler, Charlotte Carl, Mary Elizabeth Dodds, Virginia Fosler, Agatha Griffin, Donald HoTTman, Alene McComb, Helen Riggins, Carl Schmid, Lillian Nackenhorst, Frances Shaw and Edith Shirley. All are enrolled in the college of liberal arts, with the exception of the latter three, who are taking their work in the college of education. Initiation services for the group will be held June 15 during commencement week. Phi Kappa Phi is the highest scholastic honor attainable on the Butler university campus. The chapter u r as established in 1923. It sponsors annually Honor day, which will be held May 3 this year.
FUGITIVE’S PAL GETS 3 YEARS FOR THEFT Alleged Companion of John Lay, Who Fled Deputy, Sentenced. Robert Ruff, alleged companion of John Alien Lay, who wriggled free from a deputy of Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner last Friday, was sentenced three to ten years in the Indiana state reformatory today by Criminal Judge Frank Baker. Ruff and Lay were charged with second degree burglary and petit larceny in connection with the theft of a S5 pistol from a store. Police today were still searching for Lay as Judge Baker continued his trial. SPRING HERE FOR SURE: KIDS BATHE IN NUDE Youngsters Take Early Season Dip in Eagle Creek. The police department doesn’t pay much attention to calendars and weather observers when there’s any question about when spring really begins. There's one infallible sign. Headquarters received a call this afternoon that a group of boys and girls were swimming in the nude at Eagle creek and th® 'Pennsylvania rail■road. ...
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Fair Enough By / Westbrook Pegler r T'HE sinister spectre of golf is beginning to w-iggl® its slimy coils again and I think I ought to warn mv fellow citizens that this game is a mockpr which destroys character, preys on hope and makes men snarl at little boys and use bad language. As ono who used to struggle in its evil embrace but got saved. I can say with authority that there is no good in goif and if I could have my wav the possession of any golf utensils would be forbidden by law along with the machine gun. the
hypodermic and the opium layout. The mere possession of so much as one wooden golf peg would be sufficient evidence to convict the accused of an intent to commit first degree golf. Moreover, if I could have my w ay, all such characters as Gene Sarazen. Tommy Armour and Paul Runyan would be slung into some jail house as incorrigible enemies of the peace and morals of the people and kept there. The way to wipe out golf is to wipe cut golf and it never can be destroyed as long as there are professionals going around giving seductive exhttoi-
tions of things which positively can not be donp and selling instructions is a vice which has caused as much woe as poverty ever did. BBS That Boomerang Slice MY trouble in golf was a boomerang slice which sometimes came back so far that after three shots from the tee I would find myself on my own goal line and compelled to punt. In my line of work, however, I was meeting some of the most skillful, or sinister, instructors in the whole vile business and I would go to them, a credulous and balmy addict, for help and solace in my difficulty. That was the beginning of my salvation, although it took a long time. One of them would say that I was holding the right, hand too far under and show me how to hold it over. I then would go to the golf place and hold the right hand way over and haul off and hit myself the damndest slice ever witnessed by the eye of man. I then would go to another pro who would move the right hand back to the original position, but, to complicate matters, would add something about the aim of the left foot. And keep the elbows this way. This w ? ent on for years until I began to realize that I was struggling and petting in a ghastly attempt to do something which could not be done and, like thousands of other victims around the country, was paying my earnings to various medicine men who disagreed on dogma and didn't want me to learn anyhow because then I would cease to be a customer. The golf companies were parties to the conspiracy and I regret to have to add that the noble profession of journalism allowed itself to be used in the scheme, though with innocent intent. The profession of journalism began to run little daily instructions in the proper position of the right hand, the aim of the left foot and the way to hold the elbows. B B B Clubs Not Suited 'T'HE golf companies were very brutal about it all. A They constantly were holding out to the victim the possibility that the beautiful and expensive clubs W'hich he had given his loving wife the money to buy him for Christmas were not exactly suited to his particular type. Instead of shafts with red handles, he ought to have brown-handled shafts or if his wooden clubs had beautiful inlays in the faces, as pretty as candy and as expensive as jewelry, then he was one of those rare specimens who couid do best with clubs having plain faces. That is another pathetic phase of the vice. The victim always is willing to believe that another set of golf tools will solve golf for him and he goes through his wretched career, suffering, yearning and spending more and more money like a hypochondriac filling in the coupons and sending 50 cents in cash or stamps for the medicine which finally is going to make him well. I began to get tired of golf last year when I acquired a set of tools which were supposed to be slice proof. They had grips carved in the handles so that it would be impossible to hold them wrong and the shafts were limber as buggy whips allowing the club head to snap into the ball. This was supposed to do something about the slice, too. And the first time I used them, m.v drive took off into the wind, then banked sharply and came swooping right back to the tee like a tame bird. At that I threw the clubs away. That is. I put them away. I don’t want to throw them away until I try out one more thing. I have been wondering if I haven't been standing too far back of the ball. (Copyright, 1934, by Unite and Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
Today's Science =4- BY DAVID DIETZ -
BUMBLEBEES from the Arctic, strange luminous fish from the dark depths of the ocean, frog3 that build mounds, and the mummified bodies of an unknown people centuries old. These are some of the things collected during the past year by the thirteen expeditions which the Smithsonian institution sent to all corners of the world. They are described in the annual Smithsonian exploration report just published in Washington. Chief among the successful ventures of the past year was the establishment of a solar observing station on Mt. St. Katherine in the Sinai desert not far from Mt. Sinai. Here astronomers from the institution will keep continuous check upon the sun, making daily observations of the amount of heat and light radiated by Old Sol. From these observations and from similar ones made at other mountain top stations maintained by the institution. Dr. C. G. Abbott and his associates hope to solve the problem of the connection between the weather and the sun. A large number of previously unknown specimens of deep sea life were collected by the JohnsonSmithsonian Deep Sea Expedition under the direction of Dr. Paul Bartsch. a tt tt THE Arctic bumblebee, the only male specimen ever caught, was turned in by Captain Robert A. Bartlett, famous Arctic explorer. He obtained it in northeastern Greenland. Captain Bartlett has been collecting biological specimens in the Arctic for the Smithsonian institution for the past ten years. The mound-building frog was captured by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, fisheries adviser of the Siamese government and a Smithsonian collaborator. He made a protracted journey through northwestern Siam to collect specimens for the United States National Museum of Washington, which is operated by the Smithsonian institution. In swift, shallow streams, he found a giant frog which lays it eggs in the water, heaping sand and gravel over them to make a little mound. He also visited the Khun Tan mountains in northern Siam and the Koa Sabab mountain, an isolated peak in southeast Siam. On this latter mountain he obtained specimens of the white-and-black oriole, a remarkable and rare bird. tt u m A NUMBER of archeological expeditions were conducted bv Smithsonian scientists during the past year. Dr. W’alter Hough, head curator of anthropology. studied the ancient Indian canals of southern Arizona. Frank M. Setzler, assistant curator of archeology, carried on excavations of the caves in the Pecos river valley of southwestern Texas. It was here that he found the complete mummies, remarkably well preserved, of an ancient Indian people previously unknown to science. He found the bodies wrapped in mats and placed In dry ashes in grass-lined graves. They were so well preserved that it was almost possible to detect the expression on their faces. a . V _J
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