Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 291, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1934 — Page 5

'APRIL' 18, 1931.

It Seem to Me HEVWOOP BMUN WASHINGTON. April 16.—“ The name Is Lewis— John L.” This was the opening of the first srieerh made by the president of the United Mine Workers in the big auditorium of the Commerce building many months ago. No such introduction is necessary any more, for John L. has made many speeches since, and under the new deal he has established himself as the most powerful labor leader in America. He is probably the finest orator in the A. F. of L.

Some say the new’ deal has not yet provided bread for all, but it would be a captious critic who complained about its circuses. The Wirt hearing provided the best satire on American politics since “Os Thee I Sing!” and John L. Lewis has just furnished on successive nights the two most rousing melodramas seen in Washington this season. I suppose the high spot was his encounter with Pat Hurley on Tuesday. But before I get to that I must give a brief description of the man’s technique in speaking. He went to work in the mines as a boy and had almost no schooling, but he reads prodigiously. I rather fancy

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that sometimes he sits up with Shakespeare, since in the middle of a speech you will hear “forsooth ’ or “it is the stab of Brutus.’’ In appearance John L. Lewis is a bigger, bushier and paler Bill Borah. His eyebrows are gables, and the whole mask is that of the actor. The countenance may be that of Borah, but the voice is pure Walter Hampden. H U U Recalls an Ancient Betrayal LEWIS seems to me a past master of the dramatic pause. His method is the precise reverse of that of any other labor orator I ever have heard. In general the trades union speaker begins slowly and then works up pace and volume as he goes along in a sort of auto-inspiration. Pat Hurley came to the hearing as counsel for two operators in Little Egypt, that bloody ground in southern Illinois. He was so incautious as to mention the fact that as a young man he himself had been a miner and a member of the union. In replying, Lewis said: “It is alw'ays a matter of pride to the United Mine Workers when one of its sons becomes great and famous. But it is a matter of profound sorrow when one of its sons betrays the union of his youth.” And here Lewis paused. This time he rattled no papers. He stared straight ahead of him with his amazing tragifc eyes peering out from their nooks like cats in a cave. He seemed almost to look through space and years at some well-remembered barren hill rising behind the pit-mouth. The pause was interminable and then John Lewis said in a low voice, “For thirty lousy pieces of silver.” MUM Arrogance Part of His Method PAT HURLEY came storming toward him, shouting too rapidly to be understood, and the deputy administrator rapped for order. It was evident that Mr. Hurely objected to the language. Lewis did not turn his head, but kept his eyes on the far horizon. “Strike out* thirty pieces of silver,” he said. “Let it stand ‘betrays the union of his youth,’ ” and it was so recorded. Nobody could be quite so arrogant on a platform as John L. Lewis without a conscious effort. I feel sure it is part of his method. He is no persuader. Rather he seeks to enrage his foes to that point where they lose their heads and make rash and incautious statements which can be used against them. Lewis does not completely keep his temper, but he keeps his wits, and in two exchanges of screaming debate back and forth he had all the better of the in-fighting. (Copyright. 1934. by The Times)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

A FEMALE oyster may produce between 1.000.000 and 5.000.000 eggs in a single season. Dr. Herbert F. Prytherch, director of the United States fisheries biological station at Beaufort, N. C., tells us. The eggs of the oyster are microscopic in size, about one-five-hundredth of an inch in diameter. Enough eggs to supply the annual American crop of 20.000.000 bushels of oysters could be placed in a one quart bottle. Fortunately, all the oyster eggs do not develop. Dr. Prytherch calculates that if all the eggs produced in the American coastal waters in one season were to develop into full-grown oysters, there would be enough of them to cover the entire United States with a layer of oysters thirty feet deep. The number of eggs produced, however, is fortunate because of the many factors which are likely to prevent the eggs from reaching maturity. The production varies from year to year and in some years is insufficient to provide an adequate supply of seed oysters as the very young oysters are called. a a a WHEN water temperatures are above normal, egg production is greater. The United States bureau of fisheries makes observations of water temperatures and supplies data to the oystermen who are governed accordingly in the planting of shells and other materials on which the seed oysters may settle. Studies have shown that the water temperature plays an important role in the life of the oyster. No spawning occurs below a temperature of 20 degrees, centigrade. Dr. Prytherch says. The time of spawning varies from year to year and in some seasons has been found to occur during certain phases of the moon. While this sounds very mysterious, the correlation between the moon and spawning is very simple. Studies in Connecticut, North Carolina. South Carolina and Georgia show that spawning usually takes place from six to nine days after either full moon or new moon. “Indirectly the moon is responsible because of its influence on the tides and water temperature,” he explains. a a a THE higher tides at times of full or new moon cause the water to pass over a greater area of tidal flats. Asa result, particularly in the summer months, it absorbs more heat from the shore and the sun's rays. Government scientists have observed increases of from 8 to 10 degrees in the temperature of the water at this time. It is this increase in temperature which causes the spawning. “By means of observations on range of tide, water temperatures and ripeness of oysters, it has been possible in Long Island Sound to determine approximately one month in advance when spawning will occur,” Dr. Prytherch says. The fertilized egg develops intQ a swimming larva within two or three hours. Within twenty hours, it has a complete shell. It swims about for thirteen to sixteen days. At the end of that time, it attaches itself to some object and remains stationary’ for the rest of its life.

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DIFFERENT CLIMES. DIFFERENT CUSTOMS SOME ONE has said that countries not so long accustomed to free representative government may not find despotism objectionable, but in America I believe that we have been working along better lines, more suited to our own habits of thought and more likely to lead to a permanent solution of the problems of this age.—Representative Charles A. Plumly tßep.. Vt.). a a a ABOUT UTILITIES WHILE these corporations pretend to the people that they are in competition with one another, behind the scenes they are making these arrangements. bribing public officials, hiring lawyers who have been on one side of a case to take up the other side, deceiving the people as to apparent competition when there actually is none, working together hand in glove, to the deception even of their own stockholders. There is nothing honest, nothing ethical, nothing fair, nothing honorable about their conducts—Senator George W. Norris tßep., Neb.),

WHEN POLITICS WAS IN FLOWER

Mike Never Had a Chance —Especially Against Frank Dailey

BY TRISTRAM C OFFIN Times Staff Writer MIKE never really had much of a chance. He was a fierce looking Irishman from the Eleventh w r ard. He was tough and, in a small time way, something of a racketeer. The pathetic fact was that Mike didn't care what he did so long as he got away with it. Frank Dailey, former United States district attorney, was the white knight. He was a fearless crusader for the virtues of civilization, a pure character fighting for law and order. He was noble where Mike was petty and mean. The chances are that Frank Dailey never knew Mike, even to speak to him. But every one knew Frank Dailey. The lawless hated him with a sort of cringing fear. He was a symbol of all that the country is supposed to cherish—liberty and the orderly pursuit of happiness. He was a representative of that courageous and indomitable figure, Uncle Sam. Whatever may have been Mike’s weaknesses, he had a patriotic awe of Uncle Sam, a basic loyalty to his country. Mike stood out as a pretty smart guy against the roistering and yet somehow sad background of John Dunavan’s saloon. It never occurred to Mike that any illegal snatching of votes for the Republican party was actually wrong until he saw Frank Dailey.

To any one who has ever been associated with the growing fever of Indianapolis, John Dunavan’s saloon was a hot spot. It was a seething center of turmoil. It was a place where the growling underworld sat side by side with important and not-so-important politicians drinking beer, whisky or pure, unadulterated tiger's blood. Mike had grown up in Dunavan's saloon. He was a dirty, straggling boy who ran errands for anybody’s nickel. To the driftwood that walked in and out of the swinging doors he was a kid that could keep his mouth shut. It was an unhealthy and a dangerous place for a future citizen. Mike was tutored in the “survive or else” school of ‘he slums, where every possession was seized after a bitter struggle. As he sat in the damp, soursmelling the solid w T ood bar, talking rapidly with his colleagues, Mike never stopped to philosophize upon the cruelty of life. He accepted it as a fact and let it go. n NOT unlike many of our better citizens, Mike’s answer to a proposition was invariably, “Jeeminy, what’s the dough in it.” But “dough” was not really necessary to Mike. It was merely a formula. Mike felt a pure enjoyment whenever he was employed to trick anybody. Occasionally he got his head knocked in. Mike had nerve and a certain cleverness, but never enough to realize any ambitions to be a bigtime gambler, racketeer or politician. He w’as a self-confessed failure, not because he evaded any of the laws, but because he could never dodge the law in a big way. He would have glowed if any of the hoard of bums who infested Dunavan’s had ever ad-

In the Book Nook

BY WALTER D. HICKMAN OUIET simplicity is the distinguishing feature of Pearl S. Bucks’ “The Mother,” one of the most widely read books here right now. It took a short time for this book “to catch on,” but its theme will appeal to all people because it concerns a mother. Mrs. Buck has written the life story of a Chinese mother, who is not even given a name. She is the universal mother because she lives her life for her children, her man, and his relatives. “The Mother” is a complete novel in itself and is not a sequel to “The Good Earth" and “Sons.” Mrs. Buck's “Mother” can not read and she fails to understand why her youngest son is executed by the government because he was distributing some strange books. Writing of the moth A’s attempts to understand the alleged Communistic crime of her youngest son, the author has accomplished a style which would honor Dickens. She portrays a picture of mental blindness resulting from isolation from the cities. It is a tender and an appaling picture of mother love attempting to see clearly that her son was not a criminal. ana OLD, feeble and broken, the mother finds peace and security in the knowledge that she is a grandmother. The final paragraph of ‘The Mother” is a splendid example of Mrs. Buck's fine literary style—- “ She 'the mother) looked at him iher just born grandson) from head to foot and laughed and looked again, and at last, she searched about the room for the cousin's wife and there the woman was, a little grandchild or two clinging to her, who had come to see the sight. Then when she found the face she sought the old mother held the child for the other one to see and forgetting all the roomful she cried aloud, laughing as she cried, her eyes all swelled with her past weeping, ‘See, cousin. I doubt I was so full of sin as once I thought I was. cousin—you see my grandson.” “The Mother” measures up to the American story of the soil, "As the Earth Turns.” Mrs. Buck shows such keen human understanding of universal home life and motherhood that I elect her to write the “really great American novel.” Never has an author in these days caught more effectively the meaning of the monotony of labor. It ceases to be monotony when it becomes a labor of love, to bring children into the world, to shelter and to feed them. No mother or father in the world can fail to understand this mother who spent her entire life raising rice and other crops on a small Chinese farm. a a a THE story maintains the cruel, superstitious, hard working background of an ever chanking China. The reader has the feeling that the old China exists only in the aging minds of the old people, as some of their children and their children's children speak a strange language. One of the saddest but one of the most effective characters in the book is the daughter of the mother. The mother was always getting ready for years to get some medicine for the girl's eyes. When total blindness came, the mother could not understand, and

miringly called him “slick” or “tricky.” So Mike never really had a chance. When he grew into an untrammeled manhood, Mike was a bartender at Dunavan’s and president of The Young Men’s Independent club. Incorporated with lofty names and purposes, the club was a mob organized for the full and express aim of drinking on Sunday. Their thirst as heavy on Sunday as it had been on Saturday, several young men had organized the club in the name of personal freedom in order to refresh throats which were a little parched and evil-tasting after a week-end spree. Asa club the men were able to have lockers in which the ingredients for a Sabbath pick-up could be stored. When prohibition came along.it seemed only natural, the direct force of environment, that Mike should become a bootlegger. He set up shop in the Seventh ward. This ward always was flushed with transients and was particularly hard to handle on election day. The vote w’ould sway easily from Republican to Democrat or vice versa, depending upon the skill of those counting the votes. nun LEROY KEACH was chairman of the Democratic county committee during this particular election of 1926, One of the precincts in this ward had consistently polled 150 Republican votes, despite a heavy Democratic sentiment. It was customary for the county chairman to call upon Democratic lawyers for volunteer watchers at the precincts. Mr. Keach called on Frank Dailey and asked him if he would be a watcher. When Mr. Dailey assented, Mr. Keach said, “Frank, since you have a case In

in haste married the blind girl to an unseen suitor. Writing of tremendous power is revealed when the mother discovers that her blind daughter was married to a Chinese halfwit. Here is cruel waiting but tremendously effective as the mother prays besides her dead daughter whom she hopes sees the light of happiness in the great beyond. “The mother” is a masterpiece. It is published by the John Day Company and sells for $2.50. Not to read this one is to miss one of the treats of the year. RAILROADERS TO MEET ON OLD AGE PENSION Provisions of Bill Before Congress to Be Discussed. Railroad men who are supporting the old age pension retirement bill which now is before congress, will meet at the Severin at 7:30 Tuesday night. Speakers will be W. W. Royster and J. P. Toomey, Chicago, and G. P. Holman, Detroit, all of whom will urge support of the bill and explain its provisions. A local branch of the organization supporting old-age pension legislation will be organized. Burglar Makes Third Visit Making his Sabbath visit for the third week in succession, a burglar entered the home of Frank Van Sickle, 1624 Arrow' avenue, yesterday and took a watch valued at sllO. In the tw’o previous burglaries a flashlight and a small amount of cash were taken.

SIDE GLANCES

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court on election day, I’ll give you a precinct that will be near at hand.” He pulled out' a map of Indianapolis from his pocket and with an earnest face, looked over the possible precincts. Finally he said casually, “I’ve got one right here. It's in the Seventh ward.” Mr. Dailey did not stir. The Seventh ward meant little or nothing to him. To Mr. Keach, the Seventh ward was the source of a great deal of unnecessary trouble. Frank Dailey would be his knight errant out in the troubled precinct. n MIKE had felt it a public duty to mix into politics when he drifted over into the Seventh ward. Persons who cherished no high opinion of Mike intimated that the tough little son of Erin was responsible for a great number of misplaced votes. These bitter critics said that Mike had devised a plan of getting the watchers off into a dark comer or wearing them out, and

PAPAL RITES IN TIMES' MOVIE Colorful Ceremony Marks End of Holy Year in Rome. Striking scenes in Rome, Italy, as Pope Pius XI blesses 250,000 persons gathered in St. Peter’s Plaza to witness the brilliant ceremony marking the end of the Holy Year, are to be seen in the current edition of The Times-Universal news reel. Graham McNamee, the screen’s talking reporter, describes this and the other important events in the reel. Carried from the Vatican palace in the Sedia Gestatoria, his holiness is greeted wildly by the tremendous throng packing the great square. While the bells ring out; the pope solemnly blesses the multitude and proclaims the end of the holy year. Other important events in' the current edition of the reel include scenes off the California coast as the entire United States fleet steams out into the Pacific for the most extensive war games since the war; scenes at Auteuil, France, during the President’s Cup race in which many horses and riders are spilled; Dr. William A. Wirt testifying before a house committee in Washington; President Roosevelt on vacation aboard the yacht Nourniahal off the Florida coast and workmen rebuilding a Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago.

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then counting off the ballots on the wrong side of the voting machine. Mike was particularly adept at wearing out the watchers. He would taunt them, make sly, verbal comments of their characters and talk with such a. rapid fire string of meaningless words that the watchers were only too glad to escape into the free air. Mike always salved his ego on election day for all the kicks and bruises he had received during his lifetime. He strutted and bragged about the polls, reaching lofty heights in his accounts of his own daring and boldness. Mike was quite ready to wear out the confused watchers this election day. He had a glib line of talk which would stun the watchers into blindness, or at least carelessness. # n AFTER the polls were closed, Frank Dailey, who neither knew Mike nor his weaknesses, came firm-stepped to the precinct.

■The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON. Apfil 16.—Trim, diminutive Senator White of Maine hates smoking; therefore is on the spot in the Black air mail probe hearings . . . Senators McCarran and Black puff long black cigars; Senator Austin of Vermont uses an odoriferous pipe. . . With a droll grin, White stood it as long as he could, one day scratched out a note and passed it along. ... It said: “The three smoketeers, McCarran, Black and Austin.” Ohio’s Senator Fess and Nevada’s Senator McCarran are the two early birds of the senate. . . . They are waiting at the door of the senate barber shop every morning at 7:30 a. m. when the tonsorial parlor is opened. . . . Some people think there is a lot more behind Dr. Wirt’s pretty well punctured brain trust expose than just the good doctor’s hallucinations about Bolshevism. . . . The man who backs Wirt, James H. Rand, was the one who sponsored a radio broadcast in which was used an imitation of the President’s voice. Roosevelt turned thumbs down on letting his voice be imitated. . . . Larry Todd, Soviet news man, named by Dr. Wirt as on the famous brain trust party in Virginia, enjoys one of the best reputations of any correspondent in Washington. He is one of the most idealistic, painstaking and reputable members of the profession. . . . Dr. Wirt is frequently alluded to by senators as “Dr. Squirt,” popularized in a quatrain by Donald A. Richberg, general counsel of NRA. a a a a a a WAR between Peru and Colombia is almost certain on June 20 unless the state department and various Latin American governments move heaven and earth. On that date the League of Nations period for conciliation expires. Colombia refuses to renew it.

Vincent Astor, host to the President on his white and orange yacht, owns 2,000 acres near Roosevelt’s 500-acre place at Hyde Park. . . . Every year he provides excursions up the Hudson for New York’s poor. ... He also provided about half a million dollars for Kermit Roosevelt’s “Roosevelt Lines,” a part of International Mercantile Marine. Senator Pat McCarran from Reno, Nev., has declared war on a bill to permit horse racing in the nation’s capital. . . . Senator Bob Reynolds of North Carolina, who once ran a skating rink in Mississippi, is more favorable. Some people are speculating that the hue and hullabaloo about Bolshevism and the brain trust may lead Roosevelt to ditch his intellectuals. . . . The betting by insiders is the opposite. . . . Roosevelt frequently throws a liability overboard, but the new deal is too closely identified with the brain trust to be divorced. . . . The intellectuals may be toned down, but not ditched. a a a Mrs. woodrow wilsons chief diversion is bridge playing, but she declines to take it seriously. . . She won’t learn any contract system of bidding, insists on bidding by “intuition” . , . Probably she is the quietest famous lady in Washington. . . She lives only a stone's throw from another ex-first lady, Mrs. William Howard Taft, but they hardly know each other. She still buys her groceries from a dingy but expensive old establishment in Georgetown, oldest section of Washington. . . The administration’s most beautiful young blond is Mrs. Fred Roper (“Monte,” for short) daughter-in-law of the commerce secretary. . . . Her husband, now with the Democratic national committee, went to college in North Carolina and brought her back to Washington from Raleigh “to carry my diploma.” . . . The blondness is strictly natural, hair strikingly light and eyes pale blue. a a a CLARENCE DARROW'S “Little Man What Now” committee, set up to find out what kind of deal the NRA is giving the little business man, is about to bring forth a report. . . . Detalis of the findings are being closely guarded, but the inside word is that the general tone is critical. . . . North Carolina's muchmarned, leather-lunged Senator

Mike was loitering on the porch when he saw Mr. Dailey. “By gum,” shouted Mike to his henchmen, “look who's coming.” Mika shook hands with the white knight while the workers cast sneaking looks at each other which said, “Ixnay on the smooth stuff.” Mr. Dailey saw nothing unusual about his task and proceeded to go calmly about his business as watcher. The votes were all correct. Later, Mike called on Mr. Keach. “Why,” Mike whined, “did you have to send Frank Dailey out to my precinct? I was scared to pull a single fast one.” In his snivelingsoul, Mike thought of Frank Dailey as the warrior of the law, who would not hesitate to clutch Mike by the collar and throw him forcefully out the door. Besides Frank Dailey was, in a way, Uncle Sam to Mike. Mike just didn’t have a chance.

Bob Reynolds is a great hand for popping into committee hearings and thundering forth his defense of the “people’s rights.” . . . But in the secrecy of committee sessions it is a different story. . . . On the first test vote on the stock exenange bill, Reynolds lined up with a combination of Tory Republicans and Democrats to emasculate the measure. The committee was in executive session. . . . The amazing similarity of bids from cement companies has led the Tennessee valley authority seriously to consider manufacturing its own cement. . . . Dick Jervis, head of the White House secret service staff, is the ace chess player around the executive offices. a a a TULEP season is on the way—the most enjoyable period in Washington. ... A mint julep, properly made, is a perfect barometer. ... If it frosts quickly and heavily, it means rain m the offing. ... If it frosts slowly, and with only a thin coating, it means dry weather. . . . And a tip: to eliminate that unfrosted half-inch around the bottom of the julep, mix and stir it with the glass on several thicknesses of newspaper. . . . The paper is a poor heat conductor and prevents the warmth of the wood or porcelain table top from radiating into the bottom of the glass. . . . Erudite Dr. Ricardo Alfaro, erstwhile Panamanian president, now minister to Washington, is an expert on Julep glasses. He explains that true rock crystal liqueur glasses would cost several hundred dollars each. . . . Tumblers and goblets of any size probably, would be unobtainable. . . . True rock crystal is a geological deposit, rarely found in unfissured pieces large enough to produce even a cocktail glass. . . . So-called "rock crystal” bought for julep tumblers is simply a fine grade of glass. rCopvright. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Democratic Leader Dead By United Brets COLUMBUS. Ind., April 16. Charles H. Wagner, 69, former Democratic chairman in the old Fourth district, died suddenly at his home here. In 1920, he was the Democratic candidate for secretary of state.

Fair Enough WESHMMI TT7ASHINGTON. April 16. All the way from * ’ Miami to Washington I have been taking blurry squints as the car went by at upturned patches of earth where men were doing various jobs labeled “local improvements” under the auspices of the CWA. They were putting in three new streets in one straggling town which, from a quick look at sixty miles an hour, would seem to be pretty well stocked up with streets right now. In other places, new roads were being shoved through the pine woods or parallel highways were

being laid down to duplicate concrete roads which could not have been many years old and might not have been paid for yet. All along the way. they seemed to be building hills in territory which hadn't any or tearing down hills in lumpy country and draining swamps and putting in lakes. I do not mean to scoff at these works. It seems pretty rotten that they have no Everglades in Utah, and I hope they are building some there now that they have the chance, and Florida could use a set ot Sierras. I do not know who Is going to pick up the tab and pay for all this, but I suppose Mr. Roose-

velt does, and hope that he is keeping in mind Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani and his own bosom friend, Vincent Astor, whose guest he was lately. Mr. Astor. from the measurements and financial statistics of the yacht Nourmahal, from which Mr. Roosevelt set forth every day to pester the sea-going fish, has more money than any one man needs or deserves. ana They're Happier Now r T~'HE question of the payoff does not seem to be bothering the citizens along the line, however, for they are plainly much more happy than they were a year ago or tw'o years back, and I counted up to a hundred new automobiles on the road between Jacksonville and somewhere around Fayetteville. N. C. The local automobiles in this territory were a rusty lot at this time last year and there are still some specimens dragging themselves haltingly along the highways wearing last year’s license tags or none at ail, and not worth the price of new tags in any junkyard. New cars along the road are conspicuous to an eye which gazed upon the hulks of a year ago, indicating that money is going into action again, even if it is only money out of the deficit. A young man at one of the automobile agencies said happy days were here again, and explained that not only were the contractors buying cars and the farmers who got checks from the department of agriculture for plowing under cotton and all such vegetation, but that other people who had been a-settin’ on their money all this time and had decided to get up off’n it. In St. Augustine the waiter who brought dinner at 9 p. m„ said the NRA had been good to him for, although he still was working thirteen hours a day, barring tw T o hours off in the afternoon, for his $25 a month, he now got one day off every two weeks. a u tt A Gang De Luxe A ND in Brunswick, Ga„ from the boss of a gang of convicts in stripes I learned that they are very contented if not entirely joyous, and are never flogged or locked in the sweat-box. They were county convicts, all but one Negro state prisoner doing life for killing another Negro, and they were working at a leisurely rate and in apparently pleasant temper, digging post holes and setting posts along a stretch of highway. The guard was an affable and kindly citizen with nothing but good to say of his gang, whom he addressed by the first names, and the boys found plenty of opportunity to lean on their pick handles and discuss matters in low tones. Two Negroes were wearing leg-irons, but that, the guard explained, was their fault. They had run away once, but another boy, who never had tried to run away, was walking down the street half a mile away, going to get a bucket of water, under no guard. It may have been my misfortune in seeking the truth about the Georgia convict system on the fly to come upon the gang de luxe. (Copyright. 1934, by United Features Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

"ITTHATEVER your occupation you should be sure "" to treat every cut, scratch, or abrasion sustained in your work with suitable antiseptics, such as iodine, to prevent infection. Workers who handle hides and animal hair are constantly exposed to infection with anthrax. Others who are exposed to X-rays, as those in watch factories, and to ultra-violet or infra-red rays, also, are liable to diseases peculiar to their jobs. Anthrax begins as a malignant postule, an inflamed pimple or a boil, which becomes hard, has a purple center and a deep red zone around it. Gradually this breaks down and discharges a thick bloody material, and eventually may even become gangrenous. The lymph glands in the neighborhood swell and the veins become inflamed. Associated with this there may be general weakness, including chilliness, loss of appetite, vomiting and a high fever. a a a A NTHRAX is a dangerous disease and workers with hides must do everything possible to prevent infection. Foreign skins or hair should never be carried on the unprotected shoulder. All hides and animal hair should be thoroughly sterilized. Workers should wash their hands frequently in antiseptic solutions, and those who sort hair should wear breathing devices to prevent inhalation. Among the most serious of the occupational diseases recently developed are those associated with the use of radium, the X-ray, and various radioactive substances. Exposure to X-ray and to the emanations from radium may produce Serious burns and irritation of the skin which result in cancer. They also affect the blood and the blood-forming organs seriously, so that deficiencies of both the red and white blood cells are exceedingly common. Employes in watch factories who prepare the luminous dials have sustained generalized radium poisoning with disastrous results. Workers must learn to protect themselves against these hazards, first by suitable screening against the rays through wearing aprons and gloves infiltrated with lead. Brushes for radium painting should never be pointed with the mouth or lips. a a a ANOTHER type of radiant energy which may produce damage to the human body is that associated with ultra-violet and infra-red rays. These axe occupational hazards particularly in welding and cutting. The ultra-violet rays are invisible. They cause intense irritation of the eyes and burning of the skin. Sun blindness and desert blindness represent the type of injury that can be caused to the eye by ultraviolet rays. The infra-red rays are essentially heat rays, and can cause all the damage that heat of intensity applied to the human body can cause in other ways. Workers around ultraviolet or infra-red rays may protect themselves by wearing goggles, helmets, shields, and masks equipped with colored lenses especially designed to exclude dangerous rays.

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