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ItJeemtoMe HEYWOOD BROUN VV/" ASHINCJTON, April 20 —Miss Hildegarde Knee- ' land did not want to go bark to tbe year 1926. and Mr McGugin was very much shocked. For me this was the central and pivotal point in the whole Wirt hearing. Miss Kneeiand s refusal to join wtth the good Gary doctor in turning back the hands of the clock provided the liveliest session of cross-ex-amination the hearing has known. Both Representative arold McGugin 'Rep., Kan.), and F. R. Lehlbach <Rep., N. J. were abashed and appalled. I gathered from their questions that the year 1926 has become even more sacred than 1776. We are failed upon to respect the Constitution and to salute the flag, but if you don't want to go back to 1926 then you may be invited to go back where you came from. This would carry Miss

Kneeiand deep into the Coolidge administration, by which she was first appointed. o a a Rejecting the Whole Fast WITH gusto and spirit Miss Kneeiand defended her reticence about retrogression. She just didn't seem to like 1926. But she was not either pointing or indulging in personalities in regard to the year which is gone but not forgotten. I wish a newspaper file was here at my elbow. I have never known any of the years intimately, and although I met 1926 on several occasions I

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can not for the life of me recreate any precise countenance. The name is familiar, but the face seems to elude me. “I object,” said Miss Kneeiand, “to the idea of a return to those conditions as being an adequate goal for us at the x present time.” And there the matter rests. Many others besides the good Gary doctor are eager and passionate for a return to the tomb of thefr ancestors. Nineteen twenty-six serves as a symbol and set point in a world rather given to clamor and change. And it is a symbol which ought, to be fought, preferably not over the corpses of Mr. McGugin and Mr. Lehibach. It is the whole and complete test of the present administration. We will want to know very promptly whether we are running for dear life in order to let 1926 come abreast of us. Miss Kneeiand doesn’t want to go back, and no more do I, even for the reward of being 37 once more. The observation about age refers solely to me and is without national significance. Naturally, Miss Kneeiand does not want to go back into rompers. a a a Seen With Detachment MY own attitude is more impersonal. I am trying to think of the the terms of the cosmos. Nineteen-hundred-and-twenty-six can not have been altogether a happy year, for even at best it vmist have been disturbed by the sins of its sons, grandsons and great-grandsons. After all. but for 1926 w r e might never have had a 1929. The favorite twelve months of recovery should be known as the year of comc-on. By this time Calvin Coolidge had moved away from the Willard and into the White House. If his name seems to crop up in this column it is because the late President came vividly into my consciousness only last night. "There isn't, a room left in the house,” said the clerk at the Willard. I answered severely that my employer would be seriously disturbed if I spent the night, marching up and down Pennsylvania avenue. "I'll tell you what.” said the clerk, "if you don't mind I can give you the room which Mr. Coolidge used when he was Vice-President.” a a a Facing the Risk I TOLD the kind clerk that I certainly had no objections and if there were no outside complaints I would be glad to be escorted to my bed on the instant. He did seem reluctant, but after some deep cogitation he turned over the key. Now it was my turn to be irresolute. There was almost something in his attitude to suggest that a lone newspaper man might not find a great deal of slumber in the room quitted bv Mr. Coolidge. I was in a receptive mood. I was a lone newspaper man and it was much too late to do anything about that. I couldn't quite nerve myself to pitch ,blackness, and so I left a light burning over the big mirror where Mr. Cooidge used to adjust his Indian costumes. And I couldn’t sleep. I was toe keyed up by my apprehensions of manifestations. I tossed and turned and I kept looking toward the clothing closet to see if any figure would emerge. I tried philosophy on myself and murmured, "You have nothing to lose. You might get a good break in either event. If that door opens and a well remembered figure in chaps and a sombrero walks out you'll have an excellent story. If nothing happens you ought to get a good night's rest.” I got neither story nor sleep. My eyes were turned toward the past and the fear of its too sudden recreation. After hours of fretting I cried out in a loud voice—“lf you are present, Calvin, will you please make yourself manifest? Were all friends here.” Possibly he resented the lie or my lack of an appointment. There were no manifestations, and so when I heard Miss Kneeiand vigorously defending the years which are ahead of us and casting a critical eye on those of the past, I was in wholehearted agreement. Nineteen-twenty-six might be all right for a visit, but I certainly wouldn’t want to live there. No. not if they gave me the whole blame place down to the very last second. I want to play 1934 across the board. It could be a swell year. And. by the way. isn't it about time that someone of us did something about it? (Copyright. 1934. bv The Times)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

WHAT America's most famous scientists have done during the last six months toward unraveling the mysteries of the universe will be revealed during the next two weeks when eminent savants gather from all parts of the nation for the annual spring scientific meetings. Yesterday the American Philosophical Society convened in Philadelphia. On Monday, the National Svcademv of Sciences will begin a three-dav session in Washington. It will be followed by sessions of the American Physical Society. International Geophysical Union. American Meteorological Society, and other allied organizations. Recent studies of distant spiral nebulae, so far away that their light takes a million years to reach us, will be reported at these meetings. So will recent researches into the atom. The average spiral nebula contains enough material to make about ten billion suns like our own. The atom is so small that half a million of them might easily rest upon the period at the end of this sentence. But those two extremes will not occupy all the attention of the assembled scientists. Objects of intermediate size, including disease germs, plants and animals, and man himself, will come in for discussion, n a * THE American Philosophical Society, America's oldest scientific society, was founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1727 as the "Junto.'’ From this organization, he evolved the present society in 1743. Its early members included George Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton. Lafayette and Talleyrand. Since 1789, the society has been meeting in its own quarters, a building adjoining Independence hall in Independence square. Philadelphia. Here in a room whose walls are decorated with priceless relics, paintings and busts of patriots, statesmen and pioneer scientists, and with medals and scientific ,’nstruments which belonged to America's pioneer savants, the annual meeting of the society is held. Speakers at the opening session included Miss Annie J. Cannon of Hanard, the worlds most famous woman astronomer; Dr. George W. Crile, internationally famous surgeon of Cleveland, and Dr. W. F. G Swann, director of the Bartol Research Foundation of Swarthmore, Pa.

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GERMANY—WAR OR PEACE?

Jews, Catholics, Alone of Hitler Foes, Not Yet Fully Crushed

Th* present plight of the Nazis’ foe* is portraved in the following article, the last of three written bv Milton Bronner after his return from an extensive tour of Germany. nan BV MILTON BRONNER \FA Service StafT Writer BERLIN, April 20.—While Chancellor Adolf Hitler and his merry men in the Nazi machine have squelched and silenced the Social Democratic, Communist. Nationalist and Catholic Center political parties and dissolved the monarchist societies, they still are carrying on a war on two fronts on two international world forces—the Jews and the Catholics. The brief reign of terrorism, of murders, beatings and attacks upon Jews, Socialists and others, which marked the early weeks of the Nazi regime in 1933. seems definitely over. The Nazi leaders themselves have denied that there were ever any attacks or outrages. In recent weeks, the German newspapers have directed especial attention to the working class, pointing out the difference between what happened to them under the Nazi revolution and the "butchery” of their brother workers, which occurred in Vienna and other Austrian cities under the Dolfuss regime.

Communists are still vigorously pursued. Active warfare on Social Democrats has almost ceased, with the prominent leaders imprisoned. The rank and file are being sedulously nursed, the theme being they were led astray by their Marxist leaders. The concentration camps themselves are said to be less and less places of durance vile. Some of them have been closed. In others many prisoners have been released. ana THE Jews are in a class by themselves. The cold, pogram lias practically, completed its work. They have been ousted from all governmental positions, from the theaters, films, art museums and hospitals. Only a small percentage are allowed to practice law or medicine. They may belong to none of the big Nazi unions formed in almost every line and stratum of German life. Converts or persons with Jewish grandparents may hold no pastorates in the protestant church. On May 31 all non-Aryans are to cease to be in the army. NonAryans include even those with one Jewish grandparent. In many big business concerns, such as giant factories, department stores, chain stores, etc., the Jewish owners were forced out by various means of pressure. Their money is still in the business, but (he directors arc Aryans. But that is ceasing. Even in their Jew hatred the Nazis are to some extent realists. To disturb business too

TODAY and TOMORROW a a a a a a By Walter Lippmann

ALTHOUGH his book, "On Our Way,” is simply a collection of speeches and messages strung together with a few general remarks. no one can read it attentively without feeling better acquainted with Mr. Roosevelt. The book is not a history of the first year or an interpretation, and it discloses no new information. Yet it is revealing. The most interesting thing it reveals, I think, is Mr. Roosevelt's concentration on the specific, the immediate and the practical.

There is no evidence whatever that he possesses a large general social philosophy from which he deduces his policies. On the contrary, he show’s himself a man dealing with a series of specific problems w’ho uses this theory or that if it offers a concrete solution. It is commonly said that he is surrounded with doctrinaires and theorists. If he is, he must give them all a headache. For no doctrine can claim him as convert; if he applies a certain theory to a particular set of facts, it is not because he believes in the theory as such, but because from that theory someone has derived a course of action w’hich seems likely to w’ork. For another set of facts he will turn without the slightest compunction to another theory. It is not abstractions and generalizations that interest him but actual people in their actual situations. His impulse is to seek a specific remedy, to do something definite when things are not going right. In deciding what to do the dogmas of the past and the dogmas of the future have equally little hold upon him: his desire is to do something about a particular thing, something that will show results, will relieve distress, will remedy an abuse, and will command itself to the common sense of the people. a a a K iirE must act: we must act VV quickly,” he said in his inaugural address. “I favor as a practical policy the putting of first things first.” This is the temper in which he has acted, and it has reflected with marvelous fidelity the temper of the American people. They were in a jam. He moved quickly to break the jam. They were in distress. He moved quickly to relieve distress at one point after another. They were indignant. He has moved to prevent and to punish wrong-doing. It is a piece-meal application of remedies, some on one principle, some on another. The commentators may read Into it grandiose schemes of reconstruction and the evidences of a “revolution.” But actually it has been the application of specific remedies to specific situations by a practical politician and a practical humanitarian who trusts chiefly his courage and his horse sense and has no clearly defined philosophy which governs his many-sided activity. many intensely practical men who are quick to act, Mr. Roosevelt has a way of appealing to theory to support his decisions. One of his favorites is the idea of planning. It has caused a lot of confusion among his critics and some among his supporters. Hearing him use the word “planning” frequently, they have supposed he was really talking about a “planned economy" in the European sense of the term But that is not what he meant, at all. a a a "TTHE time called for and still A calls for planning.” he writes. "This book describes the nature and the purpose of the main factors that were necessary to the working out of a national plan for

much is to odd to economic depression and to the ranks of the unemployed. Therefore, many Jewish business houses still are in Jewish hands. But apparently this comparative peace and economic wisdom is to be disturbed by the N. S. Hago—a Nazi organization of handicrafts, commerce and trades—which is about to launch a campaign whereby all Aryan shops will display the N. S. Hago sign. Housewives are to be urged to buy only from these shops. Life in Germany is hard for the Jew. His children have a bad time in the schools, where they hear lessons teaching the superiority” of the great Nordic Aryan race of noble Germans and the “inferiority” of the Semitic races. a a a THE world thought, when ViceChancellor Von Papen arranged with the Vatican for a concordat between Germany and the holy see, that there would be peace between the Nazis and the holy see, especially as Hitler and Von Papen themselves are Catholics. But no. The church is bitterly opposed to the Nazi ideas on sterilization of the so-called unfit. It violently opposes the Nazi racial theories. Conflict was bound to come. Just as many brave Lutheran pastors battled against the Nazification of their church, so Cardinal Faulhaber of Munich, one of the outstanding men of the church in Germany, hit straight from the shoulder. In four Advent Sunday sermons

improvement.” What he means by planning is simply to look ahead and to co-ordinate measures, not to drift and let problems accumulate. He does not mean that the economic life of this country is to be run according to a government scheduled as it is in Russia and to a considerable degree in the corporative state of the Fascists. He means that government should be alert, that it should be prepared to act before abuses become critical. The opposite of Mr. Roosevelt’s conception of planning was exemplified in the philosophy of Mr. Coolidge: That nature should take its course, that you must not cross any bridge till you come to it, that you must not think much about the bridge till you come to it, and that when you have come to it, you must npt cross it if you can avoid it. Mr. Roosevelt does not like drift and inaction. That is the chief impulse behind his fondness for the w’ord “planning.” Then when he can find a little relief from the immediate pressure of the emergency, he likes to look farther ahead to set on foot plans for the better utilization of the land, for a more stable currency, for reducing the congestion of cities, for a

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INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1934

A Political prisoners walking under guard within (he dismal confines gW* J |g|ll|p of a prison courtyard—that’s the scene that’s portrayed, at left, in an ippillll? ‘•unofficial” photo snapped from an over-head cell window. But at |lllllip||l| tbe right, in a pitture sanctioned by the German government, you set il|lipiß|| a differf * n t impression—political prisoners •’contentedly” laying out on Wm 3 ffr3SS bank around a swimming pool built by themselves for their own use i n a Bavarian concentration camp. education of the Nazi nartv. About la tier 1 rtrt a of Vtic

he tore Nazi theories to ribbons. One of the answers was that on the night of Jan. 27 last, while working in his library, shots were mysteriously fired through the windows. The pope, through Cardinal Pacelli, quickly telegraphed his congratulations upon Cardinal Faulhaber’s escape from injury. a a a BUT more was to follow, Alfred Rosenberg, the Balt, who is Hitler’s mentor, was made director of all the spiritual and philosophic more just distribution of wealth, for a more effective civil service. a a a THIS is planning, if you like, but used in this sense it is only anew name for statesmanship, and it has nothing whatever in common with a planned economy in the communist of Fascist sense of the term. The prose style in w’hich Mr. Roosevelt expresses himself is perfectly suited to the kind of leadership which he exercises. It is very unliterary. He does not write like a satesman, as Woodrow Wilson did, for example, as Harding tried to. There are no swollen periods and majestic utterances, no phrases intended to be memorable, no ornaments meant to fascinate his listeners or cadences to enchant them. He writes as men talk in private conversation —without wellconstructed paragraphs or a considered syntax or much effort to find the exact word. It is for that very reason an immensely effective style. It is persuasive because it sounds sincere. It sounds sincere because it is sincere. The literary defects, which will, I imagine, prevent Mr. Roosevelt’s utterances from finding a prominent place in the prose anthologies of the future, are literary virtues in his political position. To a people dismayed, distraught and suspicious he has spoken as man to man. a a a HE has not allowed himself to pose before the historians, to strike attitudes to draw veils of rhetoric between himself and his public. The people have felt not merely that they heard him, but that they overheard him; that as he talked to them in public, he talks in private, and that the things he is doing are plain, and not too clever and too subtle, and just about what he says they are. Copyright, 1934

By George Clark

education of the Nazi party. About that same time, Rosenberg’s book, "The Myth of the Twentieth Century,’ appeared in the bookshops. it is full of attacks upon the Catholic church. On last Feb. 7 the Supreme Congregation of the Holy office put this book on the index expurgatorious. This condemnation, pronounced by the twelve Cardinals of whom the pope is the prefect, was formally approved by the pope on Feb. 9. Rosenberg was in specially bad odor because of his polemics against Cardinal Faulhaber. The

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

WASHINGTON, April 20.—General Johnson’s new NRA reorganization is provoking loud cabinet explosions behind the scenes. The liberals in the official family don’t like the looks of the new machinery. Particularly they object to two things: 1. Installing an army officer, in the person of Colonel George A. Lynch, one of General MacArthur's henchmen, as a sort of top sergeant over the Blue Eagle roost. 2. Establishing industrial relations boards on all code authorities to handle labor disputes. The effect of this action is completely to junk the long established and experimented conciliation service of the labor department. Secretary of Labor Perkins has been frowning on this last move. She and Johnson have been on the best of terms, but now they may not be. Johnson did not consult Miss Perkins when he set up the new labor boards; also his move tends to put labor more under the domination of industry. a a a a a a MISS PERKINS is doing some quiet investigating preparatory to raising the issue at an early cabinet session. Johnson justified Lynch’s appointment as NRA administrative officer because he was the “most advanced thinker in the army.” Possibly more important, the two men were West Point classmates.

But this effusive laudation failed to impress critical cabinet members who most emphatically challenge Johnson's judgment in putting an army officer in such an important civilian post. Lynch, they point out, knows nothing about NRA. has had neither labor nor industrial experience. They view his appointment as setting an unwarranted precedent, certain to give foes of the administration fodder for their charges of “dictators” and “military rule.” a a a TO Ferdinand Pecora, fighting general counsel of the senate bank investigating committee, the tactics and specious arguments of the Wall Street lobby against the administration's stock exchange bill are an old story. He compares them to the following situation: A young lawyer, fresh out of college, solicited advice from a veteran of the bar. What rule, he asked, would a successful lawyer lay down for the guidance of one just starting his legal career? “My boy,” the old timer replied, “the rule to follow is very simple. When your opponent has you licked on -the facts, go into court and talk law. WTien he has you licked on the law, go into court and talk facts. “But if he has you licked on both the facts and the law, then go into court and raise hell generally.” a a a BATTLE-SCARRED Jim Reed is sniffing the pungent scent of the political arena again. Hale and virile despite his 73 years, the caustic-tongued Missourian is manifesting all the signs of yearning to go back to the senate. , It happens that dry, Republican Roscoe Patterson is up for reelection this year, and Reed’s friends are urging him to enter the race. Most eager of all is his new wife, the former Nell Donnelly, wealthy Kansas City dress manufacturer, whom Reed rescued from kidnapers last year. To this budding ambition is attributed Reed's sudden appearance as counsel for good Doctor Wirt. A master publicist and grandstander. Reed saw possibilities for breaking into the headlines, and he never has been known to pass up such an opportunity. Whether Reed tosses his hat back into the ring remains to be seen. Meanwhile his presence in Washington has revived all the anecdotes which surround his many years on Capitol Hill. One concerns Reeds attempt to entertain bald Atlee Pomerene of Ohio,

latter in one of his sermons had pointed out how Christianity had brought civilization to the Pagan German tribes. Rosenberg said these words were insulting to the nation's ancestors. The decree, which placed his book on the index, said among other things: . “This book treats with contempt and rejects totally all the dogmas of the Catholic church and the foundations of the German Christian religion, it proclaims the necessity of forming anew religion or German church.’’ THE END

when the latter first came to the senate. Steering the new solon to a nearby bar, Reed suggested: “Have a drink?” “Never drink.” “Have a cigar?” persisted Reed. “Never smoke,” said Pomerene. Amazed and disgusted, Reed blurted out: “Senator, what in hell do you do to smell like a man?” u a a NEBRASKA'S veteran champion, Senator George Norris, is the most modest of men. But of one thing he is privately most proud, his booming bass voice. . . . He loves to sing, never passes up an invitation to join a quartet. . . . Norris’ favorites are light opera melodies; he detests jazz, is handy with the accordion. but never plays it outside the privacy of his home. . . , The federal food and drug administration is investigating a number of cure-alls, unscrupulously trying to capitalize on the President's connection with the Warm Springs waters by using that name. . . . One product, advertised as a compound derived from the Warm Spring waters, was found on examination to consist chiefly of Glabuer’s salts, a common laxative. . . . Last summer, Senator Jimmy Byrnes created a great stir in his home state, South Carolina, when he and his pet airedale went to hospitals for operations at the same time. . , . Jimmy recovered, but the dog died. (Copyright, 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) MACHADO EXTRADITION CONSIDERED BY CUBA U. S. May Be Asked to Surrender Former President and Aid. By United Press HAVANA, April 20.—Extradition of former President Gerardo Machado and General Alberto Herrera, his army cnief of staff, may be asked of the United States immediately, it was learned today. It will be argued that they are not political refugees, and have been indicted by the penalties court on specific charges of murder, arising from assassinations conducted by Machado’s secret police-gunmen. The terrifying report of the largest report of the largest bomb exploded here in four years awoke residents all over Havana in the early hours today. The bomb demolished the home of former Representative Heliodoro Gil, but cs ised no injuries.

Second Section

Entered s Second Clan* Matter at Post off ice, Indianapolis

Fair Enough WESIWOK Mt THESE very pious United States have been revising their morals since the panic cracked down, so as to cut in the public treasuries for shares of the wages of sin. The state of New York, which declared horse gambling to be an evil practice twenty-six years ago, now has decided that horse gambling is less evil under the present circumstances than it was in times of greater prosperity. In return for 15 per cent of the gate receipts. New York will permit the citizens to wager on the steeds.

The anti-betting law was passed in response to representations that countless young husbands and fathers had been tempted to embezzle their employers' funds to gamble on the races and that woe incalculable had been occasioned, especially to little children whose milk-and-shoe money had vanished into the bookmakers’ satchels at the horse parks. This point was carried in 1908 and was not revoked in the recent debates of the statesmen, so, for all that the record show’s to the contrary, horse gambling is still a great sin, but an unavoidable one in a state which needs the money.

The fastidious morals which the country held to for a long time have become a luxury too expensive to be maintained nowadays. Luxuries are not for the poor, so the time came when the states, one by one. waived their objections to drinking and gambling in return for the revenue which might be derived from these vices. Theoretically, this revenue will relieve the taxpayers and. although there was a time # when the taxpayer indignantly spurned relief from this quarter, that time has gone by. The taxpayer was high-minded when the boom w r as on, but when the pressure was applied he was eager to admit the devil to citizenship and put an occupation tax upon him. tt n tt i Tiventg Years Ago IN the course of some rather extensive gettinground, covering more than twenty years, I never was witness to conditions as liberal, to use a word, or wanton, to use another, as those which prevail, just now. Twenty years ago, even so harmless, though smelly and mischievous, a business as prize-fight-ing, was forbidden by law in all but a few American communities. Even Chicago forbade prize-fighting and, a few years later, New York also went moral in this respect except in the up-state, or rural, communities, which often impose moral restrictions on their city cousins and exempt themselves as being less susceptible to harm. They continued to conduct prizefights up-state in New York after the law had been put on New York City, just as they continued to gamble openly on their occasional horse races and to license, by the local graft system, the operations of gambling rooms in Saratoga, a Monte Carlo amid the haystacks and white steeples of virtue’s home country. The cabaret, as it was called twenty years ago, was a prim exhibition by comparison with the meatshows which are presented quite casually at this time not only in New York, but in many other cities. I think the show's are a little less bashful in New York and Chicago than in most other places nowadays, but the little ladies who flaunt their architecture in other centers of amusement are not to be accused of over-dressing. The lady, now growing elderly, who danced the kooteh, a most immodest wiggle for the times, at the Chicago world fair in the nineties, was shocked as badly as some of her own witnesses had been when she visited the Streets of Paris at the new Chicago fair last summer and saw Miss Sally Rand’s performance. a a a In the Good Old Dags PERSONS who were frequenting burlesque shows twenty years ago regarded themselves as gay devils, but the girl in red and the girl in blu ■* wore tights and veils and enough beads to make a set of those horrible portieres which used to hang in the big double door between the standard American parlor and the settin’ room. And the tramp comedian in the old burlev troupe would have been jailed up for certain * allusions to matters which then were reserved for clinics, but which now’ are material for humor in mixed comDany and even find room for jocular treatment in some of the papers. Not long ago, when the country was fat and full of gin and principles there were only four centers in which it was legal, or possible, to conduct horse races. There were legal meetings in New York, Maryland, Kentucky and New Orleans and, in New York, although it was legal for a man to run his charger in a test of speed against any number of other brutes, the w’agering w r as strictly bootleg. Now' there are race meetings even in Texas, Arkansas and New England, and in Richmond, Va., where mere attendance at a place w’here two men w r ere found wearing boxing gloves quite recently was punishable by a term in stripes with a road gang, the community is accepting a tax on slot machines. Mr. Hoover started this w’hen he put the department of justice on A1 Capone to collect, as income tax. the country's share of a bad man’s profits from an illegal business. Mr. Roosevelt, with his knack for frankness, said the country could not afford to keep prohibition any longer. The treasury needed the money. Well, any man will steal bread when he Is starving and a busted community can wait until times improve to remember that it Is really very normal to drink and gamble. The government could make a few more dollars by taxing burglars and. from the trend of things. I take hope that the statesmen will get around to that. Burglars are no better than anyb> dy else. ‘ ,opyright, 1934, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.) Your Health BY OR. MORRIS FISHBEIN PEOPLE have been spending a great deal of money unnecessarily in buying eyeglasses which are presumed, because of some special tint or coloration, to have virtues beyond those of ordinary eye glasses. The council on physical therapy of the American Medical Association decided to investigate this field, and has brought out some interesting facts. A few years ago tinted lenses were sold with the claim that they would eliminate glare, that they would not distort colors, and that they would increase ability to see. One kind of tinted lens was sold with the statement that it would let in light, but shut out glare. Dr. W. W. Coblentz, famous authority on light, points out that glare is a function of the intensity of the incident visible radiation light, and that no lens could possibly be a one way light path, as “laimed by the promoter. a tt a THE same arguments were applied to sale of windshields for automobiles. One of these was sold with the claim that it was made especially to prevent eyestrain. Aside from the fatigue caused by strong light reflected from the road or from snow’, the chief cause of painful eyestrain and headache is probably a difference in the reflection of the unaided eyes. The best relief for this kind of eyestrain is a set of corrective spectacle lenses that give clear vision for a suitable distance ahead of the car. Another type of lenses for which great claims were heing made was that with wide vision. Doctor Coblentz insists that this type of lens can hardly benefit the average eye glass wearer very much, because when one's attention is called to an object on a side line, the average person will turn his head to see it.

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