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HSeemioMe HEVWOOD WIN I THINK it was Charles Eliot who said. ‘ When a Rood cause has eone down to defeat the only question to be asked is. 'When do we fight again? ” The national child labor committee has already answered the question by saying that the campaign for ratification in New Yoik will continue and that "it is the determination of hundreds of civic groups to force a showdown in 1935." It is well to remember that the present New York legislature did not permit the question of ratification to come up for a vote. The

measure was strangled in the senate and assembly judiciary committees. And I think that this underhand sort of fighting has been typical of the amendments foes all along the line. Th* men in Albany did not want to go before the voters smirched by opposition to the child labop amendment. The dirty deed was done stealthily and in secret. a a a * | 'ht ngnt tor the amendment has been a difficult one, because for the mast part the opposition has been in the form of sniping from the underbrush. The proponents of the measure have endeavored to bring about

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a battle in the open, but largely they have b~en thwarted by the tactics of that press which so loudly proclaims that it is free. Last Sunday the Rev. J B. Langstaff of St. Edmund's Protestant Episcopal church, Morris avenue and 177th street, the Bronx, spoke against adoption. The New York Times gave him half a col’ .•< which, as I remember, is rather more than was accorded to President Roosevelt. The Her. John lirett Langstaff “IN any discussion of child labor.” said Mr Lang--I. staff, ‘ the voice of the mother should be heard. Politicians and social workers know as well as do advertisers and newspaper men that a child interest has great publicity value. There has been much legislation for good on behalf of children, and there promises to be more as long as mothers are willing to bring children into the world. Let every voter consider what effect public legislation is having on the private discipline of the home. America does not wish its juveniles to be ignorant, and it does desire them to be healthy. If .the child becomes intelligent enough to realize, however, that the mother is forced to keep him from work, as she is forced to send him to school, what respect for the authority of the home is he likely to retain? “It is no longer ‘because mother thinks best’ but ‘because the law requires it for all children.’ Is there not perhaps some cause here for why in so many cases the bond of love no longer holds the home together and mothers find themselves surrounded by merely companionate children?" a a a “Mother Thinks liesl" “TV/fERELY companionate children.’’ Mr. Langstaff? v IVI What on earth do you think good old Dr. Freud might make out of that? But meeting the clergymen only on the conscious plane, I understand him to argue that the state should take no action w'hich might tend to weaken the validity of the assertion "Mother thinks best." Little Harold mustn’t nit cousin Clarence over the head with sharp meat cleaver because mother thinks it would be indiscreet. And Harold must not swipe the lady’s gold watch and put it in his pocket. Mother would be vexed. You can not keep it from him forever that, in addition to being part of a family, he is also part of a state and that there is constituted authority existing outside the walls of the house in which he lives. But I think Mr. Langstaff’s gaudiest sentence was in still another paragraph of his sermon in w'hich the preacher exclaimed. ‘ In all the cries for women's rights is there none to voice the mothers rights?" Some older person should take John Brett Langstaff into the attic and tell him the facts of life. A busy clergyman intent upon the welfare of the little ones should not? be allowed to go on forever looking under cabbage leaves. (Copyright. 1934. by The Times)

Today's Science ! BY DAVID DIET/.

jrTOW archeological excavations in Russia, China, Sti Palestine and Java are bringing to light • missing links" which carry the history of mankind back for a million years, were described by Dr. George Grant MacCurdy, famous archeologist and curator of the Anthropological collections of 'iale university at a meeting in Philadelphia of the American Philosophical Society, the nations oldest scientific organization. These new discoveries, he said, make it possible to formulate a definite evolutionary sequence between the living primitive Australian tribes, one of the most primitive types of existing men, and the Pithecanthropus Erectus. the most ancient of known fossils of mankind. Pithecanthropus, sometimes, called the Java ape-man. is believed to have lived about one million years ago. Skeletal remains found in China and again m Java complete the sequence between Pithecanthropus and the living Australian tribes. Dr. MacCurdy said. He credited Sir Arthur Keith, famous British anthropologist,’with having first pointed out this sequence. Following the Pithecanthropus, comes the socalled Peiping man, known technically as sinanthropus Pekinesis. A large number of skeletal remains of thus race have been unearthed in the Caves of Choukoutien. some fifty miles southwest of Peiping. nan NEXT In the sequence comes another skeleton found in Java in 1931. less than ten miles from the spot where Duois found the Java ape-man remains in 1891. It has been named Homo Soloensis because it was found in rock layers on the bank of the Solo river. The evolutionary sequence, therefore, Dr. MacCurdy said, is as follows: First, Pithecanthropus or the Java ape-man; second. Sinanthropus or the Peiping-man; third, Homo-Soloensis, the new Java discovery, and fourth, the living primitive Australians. Dr. MacCurdy also described remarkable discoveries which are now being made iu Russia and These do not go back as far as the PeipVg man or the new Java man. They probably go back about 100.000 years. "The Crimea and the Causcaus have proved to be exceptionally rich fields, especially as regards caves and rock shelters." he said. "During the past ten years many important sites have been explored in this region, which, through its geographic position and climatic conditions, is more or less closely linked with Africa and southern Europe as a whole." Dr. MacCurdy also told of noteworthy discoveries which have been made in Siberia. These include a number of art objects, some fifty miles west of Irkutsk. “The many art objects are all of bone,” he said, "and weathered to a gray-brown color. The objects include figures in the round of the bird and of the human female, incised plaques, pendants and beads." ana CHINA, in recent years, has yielded important finds in addition to the Peiping man. Dr. MacCurdy said. These include weapons and are objects of the same type found in connection with the remains of Neanderthal man in Europe. Skeletons of Neanderthal man also are being found in Palestine, he reported. Neanderthal man was the last of the forerunners of modern man. He was short in stature, had a low forehead, heavy eyebrow ridges and a weak chin. He disappeared from Europe just as the first representatives of Homo sapiens, or modem man, made his appearance some 25.000 years ago. The Palestinian Neanderthal skeletons are found embedded in layers of thick rock. Mr. MacCurdy said that the rock layers are being removed in blocks and shipped to the Royal College of Surgeons in London, where the work of removing the ancient bones from the rock will be done with pneumatic chisels under the direction of Sir Arthur Keith.

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INDIANA—AND THE NEW DEAL

Virginia Ellis Jenckes —No Grass Grows Under Her Feet

BY WALKER STONE Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON. April 26—Virginia Ellis Jenckes gets around more places, sees more people, does more things than any other member of the Indiana congressional delegation. No grass grows under the feet of the Democratic congresswoman from Terre Haute. Since she landed here. Washington has never been allowed to forget that the Sixth Indiana congressional district is on the map. There are some members of the Indiana delegation who are not known to as many as one-fourth of the 435 members of the house. But Mrs. Jenckes is known to every representative, to every senator, to every member of the press gallery, to every member of the cabinet, to the President, to everybody that works around the executive departments, the White House, the NRA, AAA, FERA, RFC. etc., etc. —in fact to almost everybody in Washington. Mrs. Jenckes landed on the front pages of the Washington newspapers the day she arrived in Washington, and has been more or less constantly in the news ever since. If this correspondent w r ere to undertake a broad generalization of the Indiana delegation, he would say it is average, slightly sluggish and lazy, with political self-preservation the ruling passion. But there is not a lazy bone in the body of Mrs. Jenckes. There is in congress no person more alert. She is a woman of gay spirits, who lives and works with a zest. Sometimes her colleagues are jealous of the ease with which she takes a front seat.

It is impossible to tell the story of Mrs. Jenckes’ fourteen months in congress in a few words; she has busied herself with too many things. Her first big exploit was in connection with the second ‘Bonus Army” that invaded Washington. They were a surly group of war veterans who, remembering the bayonets of the Hoover administration. were distrustful of the overtures of the new' administration. She went among them, took their troubles as her own, helped find food for them, and negotiated with the White House to provide quarters for them at Ft. Hunt, in nearby Virginia. Many of them did not want to go. But they regarded her as a friend. a a a ‘‘T ISTEN boys,” she said. “You J-/ are tired—your stomachs are empty, your bodies are dirty; let’s go where you can get beds, and food and a bath." They went, and in a few' days were ail mustered into the civilian conservation corps, taken out of Washington and installed in forestry camps throughout the country. When running for congress, Mrs. Jenckes had said to the war veterans in her district: “Boys, I’ll never vote to take away any of the benefits that you now' enjoy.” To keep that pledge, a few' days after taking the oath, she voted against the economy law'. That was the first time she broke w’ith the administration. She bolted the administration program several times since in connection with veterans’ legislation. When the vote was taken to override President Roosevelt’s veto of the independent offices appropriations bill, Mrs. Jenckes was in Maine, making the keynote speech

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

/"\NCE again the President has called for “planning” and once more V-' it is evident that he uses the word, not in the Russian sense where it means a society directed according to an official plan, but in the old-fashioned sense of foresight and orderly procedure in dealing with various problems.

He has been impressed, for example. with the fact that economic progress often leaves groups of people stranded. The thing they produced is no longer in demand, or it can be produced more efficiently elsewhere, or the natural resources which they were using have run out. Then, like some of the coal miners, some farmers, some mill workers, they are permanently in trouble, and something intelligent and humane and imaginative needs to be done to set them on their feet. It may be that they ought to move to other regions, or to learn new trades, or to be supplied with new capital to catch up with the procession. The President thinks that it is the business of the community to make plans for dealing with situations of this sort. He has been impressed, too, with the waste and disorder of the helter-skelter development, of cities, of transportation, of forests and minerals and water power, and he would like the nation to look ahead and be orderly and sensible in its economic activity. Surely, this is a good gospel to preach to any people, and particularly to a people which has settled a continent and has now to begin to husband and organize its wealth. a a a BUT if it a good gospel to preach, it is a good gospel to practice, and it is in the actual planning of its own major politics that the new deal is most vulnerable. They have not been properly planned: that is to say. they do not fit into one another and supplement each other as they should if the great objective of recovery is to be achieved as promptly and as certainly as possible. What we have are a number of policies, each according to a plan, but not all of them according to the same plan. Take the agricultural adjustment administration as a first example. since it was the first big measure of its kind Machinery was set up for the purpose of raising the price of wheat, cotton and a few other staples to their pre-war value in terms of what the farmer buys. Last April this required a price of about 91 cents a bushel for wheat. But while the argicultural adjustment administration was working to raise the price of wheat to that figure, the NRA was set up and under it the price of the goods the farmers buy / was raised. Asa result, the agricultural adjustment administration now has to aim at SI .06 a bushel, instead of 91 cents if it is to carry out its ‘plan." Instead of taxing the consumer 30 c?nts a bushel to help the farmer, it probably will have to tax him 40 or 50 cents. The NRA, however, has been trying to in-

before the Democratic state convention. She wired to Washington to try to get her name placed in the congressional record as one who was in favor of overriding the veto. Avery active member of the committee on the District of Columbia, which oversees the local government, Mrs. Jenckes is one day at the district building befriending a fireman who was fined by his fire chief. (She got the sentence reversed.) The next day she is back again, wheedling the board of architects into specifying that Indiana limestone should be used in the construction of a large bridge. Her efforts—she insisted she w'as only "helping out Gene Crowe” (congressman from the limestone district)—netted a million dollar order for the Hoosier limestone industry. tt tt tt ANOTHER day, she is writing the bureau of public roads, demanding to know' why Indiana bricks can’t be used on some of the Indiana roads constructed with federal money. Perhaps her letter did not swing the deal. Nevertheless, a few weeks later, brick plants in the vicinity of Terre Haute got contracts to supply the material for fourteen miles of loads. When the farm credit administration w'as set up, she got in touch with President Roosevelt. Two days later, the President, following her suggestion, issued a general proclamation to the county. calling upon mortgage companies to stay all mortgage foreclosure proceedings until the FCA had had an opportunity to provide relief to the debtor farmers. Mrs. Jenckes is never stopped by the impossibility of succeeding in an undertaking. Examples of her

crease the purchasing power of the consumer by raising wages. But those increases of wages are eaten up by the higher price of goods. It also has been trying to increase employment. But as it has raised the wages of those already employed, and with them the price of goods, it has on the one hand made it more difficult to sell, and on the other hand more difficult to re-employ. The business man has higher costs of production and restricted volume of sales as a result of the artificial and premature raising of wages and industrial prices. a a a IN addition, "plans" were adopted to prevent what Secretary Tugwell has called the "racketeering, the financial juggling, the exploitation” of 1929. They were very effective plans, ingenious to the last degree in devices to prevent these very real abuses. They are so stringent in pre-

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intrepidity were her petitions to the President to declare a twoyear embargo on the importation of butter fats, and her petition for an embargo on the importation of black-strap molasses, which have been going into the manufacture of alcohol, in competition with grain. Those petitions came to naught, of course. a a a /"\NE day she is at the office of the secretary of the interior, pleading with him for an allotment of $35,000,000 to construct levees and reservoirs for the control of floods on the Wabash and White rivers. Another day, she is at tne office of the director of immigration. negotiating for the entry of an Assyrian girl, the daughter of a naturalized citizen in her district. Her Wabash-White flood-con-trol campaign was one of the most aggressive that Washington has witnessed. She devoted almost all

EXCHANGE CLUB WILL HEAR NEW DEAL TALK Luncheon Guests to Be Addressed by Henry L. Cochrane. "Industry and the new deal” will be the subject of a talk by Henry I. Cochrane. Indiana Manufacturers’ Association secretary, at the Exchange Club luncheon tomorrow in the Washington.

venting wrongs that they have come very close to preventing financial enterprise as well, and have comtributed greatly to keeping the capital market locked up. Yet, right alongside of these measures the administration has pursued a monetary policy which creates an enormous reservoir of credit which it would very urgently like to see used to revive industry and employment. Each one of these policies has a plan, but they have no common plan. If it was wise to raise agricultural prices by inflation, subsidies, and restriction of output it was unwise to raise manufacturing prices at the same time. If it is desirable to increase employment. as it obviously is, then it is unwise to begin by increasing the cost of employing more men. If it is desirable to expand credit, as it surely is, it it unwise to block the channels through which credit moves. Copyright, 1934

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of last summer to it. She offered, if necessary, to "row a boat up the Wabash” and get farmers to sign over to the government the right-of-way for the levees. Because Louis Howe, secretary to the President, was born in Indianapolis, she appealed to him, reminding him of the destruction wrought time and again by the flooding waters of the White river. Nothing so far has come of her Wabash-White campaign, except the allotment of some CWA money for construction of a patch-work of levees. But she now has her proposition on the desk of the President, where the Wabash is being considered in connection with a general program for improvement of the whole Mississippi river basin. a a a SHE sponsored, unsuccessfully, an amendment to the revenue bill to remove the objections of the soap manufacturers and con-

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

WASHINGTON. April 26.—How business has snapped out of subserviency to the government of twelve months ago is being illustrated daily in Washington. Railroads, banks, utilities which once came hat in hand to the R. F. C. begging for money, are now paying back their loans, going out to fight the administration all along the line. The most significant instance recently involved the Pennsylvania railroad. Federal Rail Co-ordinator Joe Eastman had ordered all lines borrowing money from the government to curtail the lavish salaries they w'ere paying to their executives. General W. W. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania, was one of these. He was ordered to cut his salary check, written out to the tune of SIOO,OOO. But General Atterbury demurred. In fact he demurred so strenuously that the Pennsylvania borrowed the money it owed the government and paid it back. The loan was $20,000,000. Atterbury’s salary remains intact. a a a a a a THE see-saw of political fate has reversed itself where two dynamic figures in the war department are concerned. Two months ago pugnacious Harry Woodring, assistant secretary of war, was on the low end of the plank. His name seemed smeared with the mud of an army motor truck scandal. General Douglas MacArthur, swaggering chief of staff, was riding high, wide and handsome.

Now the situation is reversed. Harry Woodring has cleared himself of suspicion, in fact was praised by the house military affairs committee. The ex-Gover-nor of Kansas unquestionably was a little too anxious to please some of his old Kansas friends, but he has now worn off the rough edges, learned something about the army, and is getting places. General MacArthur, on the other hand, is not. His fouryear tour of duty as chief of staff comes to a close soon. Army custom specifies that this job should rotate, that no general should succeed himself. MacArthur, however, feels that he should be an exception to this rule. And he has been pulling every conceivable wire to this end. a a a WIRE-PULLING is one of the general's greatest arts. From his first days in West Point he learned how to get ahead in the army. Son of General Arthur MacArthur, Young Doug had as his chief rival Ulysses S. Grant 111. grandson of the Civil war hero. The mother of each lived at West Point to boost her son ahead of the other. But during the World war, MacArthur won the confidence of Secretary Newton D. Baker, suddenly was promoted from major to brigadier-general, was the only brigadier-general below the grade of colonel to keep his temporary war rank afterward. In the Philippines later on MacArthur chafed because he wasn't being promoted fast enough. He wanted to be a major-general. So his wife, now Mrs. Lionel At will, cabled her stepfather, Edward T. Stotesbury, wealthy Philadelphia financier. Stotesbury, a heavy contributor to the Republican campaign chest, hammered on the desk of the late John W. Weeks, then secretary of war—and MacArthur got his promotion. But now it is not so easy, a a a MAC ARTHUR got in wrong at the White House for the way he slid out of responsibility for the air mail fiasco. Also the

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sumers to the tax on cocoanut oil, by making the tax apply only to the oil that is used for edible purposes. She introduced a bill to strengthen the pure-food laws. It is still in committee. She had a Washington attorney friend take Richard 'Little Dick) Wernecke. Vigo county Democratic boss, before the United States supreme court, and move the latter's admission to membership in the supreme court bar. Mrs. Jenckes probably now regrets that gesture of friendship toward "Little Dick.” Back in her district, campaigning for re-elec-tion, it is reported that she has found "Little Dick's” faction lined up behind her primary opponent. Charlie Whitlock, prosecutor of Vigo county. Charlie Whitlock is the father of Douglas Whitlock—who is a law partner in Washington of Everett Sanders, one-time congressman, one-time secretary to President Coolidge, one-time lobbyist, and now chairman of the Republican national committee. In 1932. Mrs. Jenckes, running as an outspoken advocate of outright repeal of prohibition, defeated the incumbent, Ccurtland Gillen, in the primary, and vanquished the veteran Republican, Fred Purnell in the general election. In that election, she had the left-hand support of "Little Dick.” But with or without "Little Dick's” support, she will make things in the coming primary plenty hot for Charlie Whitlock. In 1932, she carried Vigo county by 4.000 votes. Whitlock's plurality in the same race was less than three hundred. a a a LITTLE DICK, 1 ’ it seems, is sore because he failed to be appointed Indiana director of the national emergency council. And it is reported that he blames Mrs. Jenckes. That happens to be one thing with which she had nothing to do. Protests against "Little Dick” poured into the White House from citizens living in all sections of Indiana, who declared that “Little Dick” was a partisan, professional politician of the bosstype, and therefore unfit for such an important post. Mrs. Jenckes is a born campaigner. With her daughter. Virginia, who serves as an extra clerk in her office (without payi, the congresswoman tours her district, beaming smiles upon her constituents, telling them what’s what in Washington. "It may develop that "Little Dick” has overstretched himself again, just as he did w'hen he tried to become the “voice of the new' deal” in Indiana.

grand jury investigating army purchases, smeared him for rowing with Woodring. So the other day the White House sent to the ■war department an ‘‘o. k.” for the reassignment of General G. B. Pillsbury as assistant chief of engineers. Like MacArthur, Pillsbury already had served four years in this job, was reassigned to serve four more. But attached to the "o. k." was a slip of paper on which was scrawled in pencil: ‘There are to be no further reassignments of general officers beyond the regular four-year period.” Below the scrawl were the initials "F. D. R.” a a a TT7HEN Pat McCarran. bushy- * ’ haired, scrappy Nevada senator, sauntered into the outer lobby toward the close of the senate debate on overriding the President’s veterans’ veto, reporters made for him. "How does it look, senator?” they asked. "Have you folks got enough to override?” "Well, boys, I’ll tell you.” came the drawling reply. “It's this way. It reminds me of the time I was defending a bank president out in my state. ‘ They had him up under thirtytwo counts. The case was being tried in Carson, and we lived in Reno. We traveled back and forth every day by automobile. It was only thirty miles apart, and the trips gave us a chance to talk things over. "As the prosecution developed the various counts it began to look pretty bad. When they reached No. 20 the outlook was anything but promising. “When we drove home that night I didn’t have much to say, because there didn't seem to be much to be said. Finally, my client asked how I thought things were going. I had to admit they looked pretty dark. “ Pat’,” he said, " ‘Just remember one thing. I am not guilty. Hold that thought, hold that thought’.’’ (Copyright, 1334, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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Fair Enough THE Gridiron Club of Washington, D C , is one of the most exclusive clubs in the United States. It is limited to fifty active members who must be active newspaper reporters, or correspondents. To be an active reporter, or correspondent, a candidate must have an employer. The employer thus is a silent, or assistant member. This silent membership usually entitles the boss to one or more invitations to the Gridiron dinners. That is. the correspondent had better invite him or else. The Gridiron Club exists to

give two parties every winter. The parties are dinners at which the President customarily is the guest of honor. The dinners are held in a big ballroom up under the eaves of an old hotel called the New' Willard. The ballroom is served by four creaky, cabletype elevators. There are usually about four hundred at a Gridiron dinner so that in case of emergency each of the elevators running on a ten-minute schedule, with a capacity of ten head, would take about one hour and forty minutes to bring the last of its cargo to the street. By that time the last passengers might be pretty well done but an invitation to the Gridiron

dinner is a great honor and worth the risk. The Gridiron Club is now fifty years old. The dinners have always been held in the Willard. The Mayflower hotel, a new' one in which many of the minor statesmen and lobbyists reside, made some seductive passes at the Gridiron Club but the Gridiron Club repulsed the Mayflower, with its hydraulic elevators and reinforced concrete construction and its resident senators, including Huey P. Long, and remained true to its traditions and the old New Willard. a a a Old Gridiron Even Stricter EXCLUSIVE as it, is nowadays, the Gridiron is about as liberal as the international order of barflies as compared with the original Gridiron. The old Gridiron did not elect subcorrespondents. This custom, or rule, rather riled the assistant correspondents who greatly outnumber the.chiefs m the Washington bureaus. They knew that in many cases the assistants did the work for which the chief took the bow's. But the head correspondents stood off and. on the occasions of their great ceremonial dinners, showered themselves with bouquets as persons of unusual importance in the national capital. In ihe natural course of things some of them became lobbyists or were fired and were succeeded by their assistants who then became members of the Gridiron themselves. But for many years it will be understood that press association men, Hearst men and Jews were barred from membership. A club has the right to select its members without proclaiming its standards of eligibility and the Gridiron did not have to announce an aversion to press association men. Hearst men, or Jews. Such persons just did not happen to occur among the membership list and any one who drew any conclusions from jhat fact had to be responsible for his own conclusion. In recent years, however, three press association men, including one Hearst man, and one Jew have been elected. And. under the influence of an elemen.. which I have heard described as the "young Turks” of the Gridiron, the requirement that a man be a bureau head has been waived in at least one instance. a .a a Membership firings Woes MEMBERSHIP in the club is likely to impose considerable social and home-office pressure and considerable expense, too. The active member is allowed to invite three guests to each of the two annual dinners and these occasions have become so famous and so difficult to crash that thousands of Americans eat their hearts out and resort to every possible influence to obtain invitations. Consequently the member long ago lost any personal choice as to whom he would invite to the Gridiron dinner, which has become a roll-call of “big shots.” The list is very similar to that of Tex Rickard’s very best people who always had the first three rows at his prize fights. Many of the big shots are survivors of the late Flo Ziegfeld's first night roster. It is presumed that the member in each case paid for the tickets of his guests, but the expense came to from sls to $25 per head under prohibition and, now that three flavors of wine are served, the price per big shot is somewhat higher. A correspondent making, say $l5O a week, would have to shoot at least one week’s salary and possibly two weeks’ pay, counting all expenses, entertaining his three guests at the two Gridiron dinners. You may imagine what the little woman would say to that, in a time when some of the correspondents are compelled to take from two to four weeks’ vacation per year without pay(Copyright, 1934. by United Features Syndicate, Inc.)

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

TtyiTAY 1 has been selected as Child Health day, so that every one interested in care of the child —and those who are not should be—may give special consideration to some of the problems involved in affording every youngster the opportunity to develop into a heaithy and capable citizen. When the White House conference on child health and protection was called by former President Hoover, it drew 7 up a charter recognizing the rights of the child. These rights include the considerations that affect the child from the time of its conception until it reaches adult age. Before birth every child is entitled to proper consideration for its mother. Such consideration means that the mother should have enough medical attention before the child is born, during its process of birth and after birth to enable her to retain her own health and at the same time, to give to the child the nourishment required for proper development. a a a / 'T~'ODAY it is no longer considered suitable for mothers to be seen by their doctors just at the moment of childbirth alone. The doctor watches the diet of the mother, her exercise, and her rest during the entire period previous to childbirth. He sees fit to it that she eats foods which will help the body of the child to develop sound bones and teeth. He makes certain that the process of childbirth is conducted under sanitary and clean conditions which avoid infection. He does everything possible to shield the m.other from pain and to conserve the tissues of her body. u a a npHEN. after the child is born, the doctor advises "*■ the mother, if in any way possible, to nurse the baby herself. He does this because he knows that mother's milk is the best food for babies. By her milk the mother gives to her child not only tne essential elements of nutrition, but also invisible protection from her own body against many of the infectious diseases with which the body of the child is not equipped at birth. This is the tenth anniversary of Child Health day. In 1928. however, the congress of the United States passed an act which made it official. The act specifies that the United States flag shall be prominently displayed on May 1 as a reminder of the health protection that should be given to children and as a reminder of the duties that we owe to them as the citizens of the future.

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