Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 303, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1934 — Page 5

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It Seem to Me WOOD BROUN I AM a shy and diffident person who hates to haul himself up upon his feet and cause any sort of contention whatsoever. But last night I was honing to make a speech and had no opportunity. Accordingly I will write the speech which I would like to have made. The occasion was the thirteenth annual dinner of the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association. It was the final fling of the publishers before they break up and go home to defend the freedom of the press. The speeches which I heard were excellent. Mayor La Guardia spoke a good deal against the grain of his listeners in favor of higher taxes. Professor William Lyon Phelps

was happy in his wit and in his general survey of newspaper trends. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt mentioned child labor, which is not a topic likely to get a hand from publishers. In fact, I might have gone home quite content with anonymity and silence if it had not been for the extremely pleasant young man who sat at my left. I might add that I was not bidden to the dinner, and angled a ticket to the dais from a gentleman even more self-effac-ing than myself. But the spark plug was the young man at my left. ‘I understand,” he said, “that

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you belong to the Newspaper Guild. I come from Los Angeles. We never have permitted any organization of employes in Los Angeles, and we never will. All the workers are happy, and we intend to keep them that way.” At that moment I decided that I wanted to make a speech, and thus is what I wanted to say: a a a A Speech Which Has Aot Made “ r T''o whom it may concern. During the last year I have heard a great deal from newspaper owners and editors about the freedom of the press. I have been cyinical about their assertions that this principle was a prime consideration in all their policies. And I was wrong. I make due apologies. It is always dangerous business to attack another man’s motives. “Even though you may think that the original basis was insincere, every group has a capacity to talk into a true and steadfast allegiance. And so I will begin by applauding the newspaper publishers for their devotion to the freedom of the press, which seems to me a vital factor in the democatic theory of life. “But sometimes I wonder whether all these gentlemen have thought the subject through to its extreme and necessary boundaries. I can’t find the exact words in my dictionary of familiar quotations, but Voltaire pretty nearly said: ‘I disagree with every word you say. and will defend to the death your right to say it.’ “If publishers mean just that when they undertake to defend free speech I am all for them. But I doubt if that is what they mean. Mr. Hearst has had a good deal to say about free speech, but in a recent editorial his papers said that many seditious Communistic publications were allowed to appear without regulation. “But most of all, I think, reporters are the shock troops in the battle for the freedom of the press and its necessary corollary, the integrity of the news. Nobody wants to be asked to set down anything but that which he believes to be fair and reasonable and true. And a free press can be maintained only through the support of free men. It is not possible to have a free pass in any circumstances where the men and women who get the news feel insecure or terrorized. Publishers say they have organized to protect, among other things, the freedom of the press. Newspaper writers wish to organize for several purposes, and among them is an allegiance to this same ideal. That Which Is Set Down “ A FREE press is guaranteed under the Constitu--fVfcion. So is the right of organizing, and this right supposedly has been buttressed by NRA. Accordingly, when a pleasant young newspaper proprietor from Los Angeles, Cal., tells me that organizing will not be permitted in his city or his state I am shocked and puzzled. I seem to hear again the echo of old guns which fired on Ft. Sumter. If they want a war they can have it now.” (Copyright, 1934. by The Times)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

ANEW theory which joins the relativity theory of Professor Albert Einstein with the newest quantum theory, namely that of Professor P. A. M. Dirac, was described by Sir Arthur Eddington, worldfamous astronomer of Cambridge. England, and one of the chief authorities upon the subject of relativity. Sir Arthur spoke at a session of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington. His audience consisted of the most eminent scientists of the nation. However, all but a handful who understood the involved mathematics of relativity had difficulty in following his complex mathematical statements. Relativity undertakes to explain the behavior of space, time and gravitation. The so-called constants of fundamental entities in its equations are the force of gravity and the force of cosmic repulsion, the force which is responsible for the expansion of the universe. The quantum theory undertakes to explain the behavior of the electrons in the atom and the behavior of energy. It has three constants, the electric charge on the electron, the mass of the electron and the so-called Planck's constant which determines the size of the quantum of energy. a e tt BY his super-theory. Sir Arthur has united the two theories, showing how the value of gravitation and cosmical repulsion can be expressed in terms of the electric charge and mass of the electron and Planck's constant. * “The univepe is one,’’ he said in an interview’ following his formal discourse before the academy. "It is desirable, therefore, not to have two theories to explain the fundamentals of the universe, but to have only one theory. “Since Einstein's formulation of generalized relativity in 1915. there have been twd important steps in this direction. One was the work of Weyl connecting gravitation and electromagnetic phenomena, the other the work of Dirac on the wave equation for the electron. “In my equations I find that it is necessary to start with only one arbitrary .constant in nature, namely the total number of electrons or particles in the universe. This figure is 10 raised to the seventyninth power. That is, the figure 1 followed by seventy-nine ciphers. It is possible to derive all the other constants of both relativity quantum theory from that and to express mathematical relations between them." ana IN unifying the two theories of relativity and quantum behavior. Sir Arthur said that he began with considerations of two things, namely the origin of electric charge and the origin of mass, popularly but not correctly called weight. “The electric charge.” he explained, "came into existence as a consequence of the division of matter into separate particles. Mass was the result of the curvature of space. In a universe in which space was flat there would be no mass. "Now both these things enter the relativity-theory and the quantum theory. Consequently, what I undertook to do was to combine the different aspects on which they appeared in the two theories so that a synthesis of the two theories could be worked out.” EXQUISITE GENTLEMAN SCAN their lives and it will be found that every man elevated to the office of President of the United States has been a gentleman, and I believe that, without any invidious distinctions, one of the most exquisite, mo6t nearly perfect gentleman among all those who have occupied the White House, is the present occupant.—Senator Henry F. AsLurst tDem., Arias.) A,

INDIANA—AND THE NEW DEAL

A Piano-Tuner Congressman—George Durgan of Lafayette

BY WALKER STONE Times Staff Writer. WASHINGTON, April 30. George R. Durgan was washed into congress by the Democratic high tide of 1932. If that tide continues to run strong through the summer and fall, George probably will bask on the congressional sands another two years. But inevitably the Democratic tide will recede, and carry George back to his home in Lafayette. The Second Indiana congressional district is a strong Republican district, and any Democratic congressman from that district must know that his days are numbered. Perhaps this explains why George Durgan has seemed content to be nothing more than a mediocre congressman. He has the native ability and the experience to do more than perform petty chores for constituents, but he has shown no inclination to play an important role in the national drama. George Durgan occupies the congressional seat that for eighteen years was filled by the late Will R. Wood, Republican. It would be hard to imagine tw r o men as different. Will Wood thought big business could do no wrong. George Durgan thinks big business can do no good.

As chairman of the house appropriations committee, Will Wood held the treasury purse strings and won a reputation, partly deserved, as a foe of governmental waste. One of the big campaign charges that Durgan pressed in 1932 was that Will Wood hadn't held the purse string tight enough. However, since he came to congress, Durgan has voted for practically every money-spending bill that has been offered. His defense is that the appropriations are “emergency expenditures.” “And I’ll vote more billions if it is necessary to keep the people from starving and keep them in jobs,” George said. a a a DURGAN voted for the economy law, for the veterans’ bonus, and for passage of the independent offices appropriations bill, which carried increased benefits for veterans, over President Roosevelt’s veto. And any opponent who thinks he can make a political issue out of the fact that the last vote mentioned incidentally restored SI,OOO a year to George’s own salary has George’s permission to make the most of it. George voted for all new deal legislation such as the NRA, AAA, PWA, CCC, and parted from the administration only -on measures that seemed to veer back toward conservatism. If you want to hear George talk around a subject, ask him how he thinks the government should levy taxes to pay the bills of the new deal. About the only reply you can get out of him is to the effect that business ■will improve and cause tax receipts to increase enough to pay off the

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

WASHINGTON, April 30. White-mopped Speaker Rainey and cadaverous Floor Leader Joe Byrns have been jollied along by Roosevelt about their leadership in the house, but the fact remains that the President is not enthusiastic about the way they are running things. . . . His overwhelming Democratic majority has not been controlled as Nick Longworth, Uncle Joe Cannon and Champ Clark once ruled similar majorities. . . . Probably at the next session there will be a change. Roosevelt can't afford having more vetoes overridden. . . . Shy Henry Wallace is getting a lot of joshing over the semi-nude hung on the walls of his agriculture department. It was purchased in Paris through a special act of congress. . . . Some say it represents "Prostrate Agriculture:” . . . Others accuse Gilbert White, the artist, of “Mural Turpitude.” ... At any rate Henry has been reluctant to unveil the lady. The senate air mail investigating committee may have taken Colonel Charles Lindbergh for his first political ride, but Wisconsin’s veteran Representative Frear claims the distinction of giving the trans-Atlantic flier his first aerial ride . . . Frear relates that when Lindy was a boy of 10 he caught him one day stuffing paper down a house office building mail chute. Lindbergh's father was then a member of congress. . . . Frear grabbed the startled youngster by the seat of his pants and swung his aloft, warning him that he could be sent to jail for his mischievous prank. . . . Lindy, he says, eagerly promised to keep away from the chute. a a a ana VARIOUS people who have seen Roosevelt about changes in the securities act get different impressions. John Hancock, an old friend of Roosevelt, and a partner in Lehman Brothers, New York bankers, thinks there will be material changes. ... He has been lobbying hard for them. . . .

On the other hand, Jim Landis, hard-hitting member of the federal trade commission, thinks there will not. ... He was chief author of the securities act. ... It looks as if the only real change Roosevelt favors is to limit the responsibility of banks and bond houses only to that part of a loan which they issue. . . . Dr. Otto H. F. Vollbelir. who sold the United States government a Gutenburg Bible for over half a million dollars, loves to visit his one-time possession in the Jibrary of congress. . . . He can be seen standing in front of it with the rapt expression of a mother gazing at her firstborn. tt tt tt MRS. ROOSEVELT never fails to win an audience. Appearing before a convention of nurses this week She talked on the "Future of Nursing" to several thousand women who had spent their lives in this profession. . . . Her charm, her spontaneous manner, her frankness won them completely. ... A supreme court test of the constitutionality of the AAA's right to limit wheat, cotton and other crops is being postponed by the attorney-general suddenly withdrawing the case. . . . Reason: Word that one supreme court justice—expected to be favorable—is not. . . . Ted Marriner, the career diplomat who was reported in a French newspaper as loving the French more than Americans, has denied the interview. . . . He says he said he "understood” the French better. . . . Despite this, Secretary Hull is transferring him from his Paris post, effective in June. a a a SOME people are wondering how long "Young'’ Teddy Roosevelt, ardent critic of cousin Franklin, can hang on to that prefix to his name. "Young” Teddy is now 47. At 43 his father became President of the United States and by 50 had retired from the White House. . . . Instead of curtailing milk production, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has determined to boost its consumption, a great educational campaign is to be started to provide more, milk for more babies. .... A government survey showed ent.re blocks in New York. Chicago, other cities, where not a milk bottle was delivered. Meanwhile the AAA was curtailing production. . . . This Democratic administration is worried over the fact that the Democratic organization in New Mexico may cut into the vote of Senator Bronson Cutting. Nominally Republican, Cutting went to bat for Roosevelt, swnug the state for him. Now a new Republican organization under Ruth Hanna McCormick

emergency borrowings of the government over a long period of years. Unlike most others of the Progressive stripe, Durgan does not believe in high income and inheritance taxes. “An inheritance tax is all right when levied against a person who is not a member of the immediate family of the deceased, but a tax on the fortune that a man leaves to his wife or his child is a cowardly tax,” said Durgan. a a a DURGAN S district comprises thirteen counties in northwestern Indiana, a great corn and hog-producing section of the state. He is counting on the corn-hog checks to farmers to help Democratic popularity in the next election. While George Durgan can vote billions with his right hand, he can punch pennies with his left. The only speech he has made on the floor of the house was a speech attacking the practice of allowing cattlemen in the west the privilege of grazing their herds free on the public domain. But George refused to allow that speech to be printed in the record, saying that he would rather save the government the cost of the printing. Another economy hobby which he rides concerns the rural postal service. One of the first things Durgan did after he came to Washington was to call on Post-master-General Farley and suggest that it was poor business to pay full-time wages to rural mail carriers who work only two or three hours a day. He suggested that mail routes

Simms, and a revitalized Democratic outfit have left Bronson sitting in the middle. . . . Roosevelt plans to remedy this. a a a A NTI-POWER forces have won their fight against the NRA code proposed by the utilities. . . . After months of bitter behind-the-scenes warring, the code has been stripped of the violently assailed provision that would have put publicly-owned plants under the jurisdiction of a code authority dominated by the utilities. . . . The new code has as yet not been officially promulgated, but will be soon. . . . Miss Frances (Robby) Robinson, hardworking secretary to General Hugh Johnson, is one of the bestdressed women in Washington. . . Slender and girlish, Robby is easy to fit, is not partial to any particular color. They range from bright reds to severe blacks. . . . The house Wirt investigation committee spent a total of $96.40 on its show, most of the money going on expenses to the Gary Red-snooper. . . . The election of Gerald P. Nye, as chairman of the senate arms and munitions investigating committee, was a genuine tribute to the young North Dakota Progressive-Re-publican. . . Tradition rules that the chairman of investigating committees goes to a member oi the party in power. But because of his experience as a senate investigator, the Democrats on the committee stepped aside and asked Nye to take charge. 'Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.i HONORS SLATED FOR CANTOR MYRON GLASS Head of Zionist District to Be Given Testimonial Dinner. Cantor Myron Glass, president of Indianapolis Zionist district, will be given a testimonial dinner Wednesday night at Beth El-Zedeck temple. The program will include talks by the officers and members. Group singing will be conducted by Sam Barskin and vocal selections will be given by Miss Pearl Goodman, accompanied by Miss Miriam Forman at the piano. Advertising Head Dies in Fall By United Press NEW YORK. April 30.—Arthur Woodward, 58, president of the A. W. Advertising Corporation, jumped or fell to death today from his apartment in the Hotel Beverly, police reported.

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be consolidated, a suggestion that now is being carried out, and probably would have been carried out even if Durgan had not suggested it. A saving of about $2,000,000 a year has been effected by these consolidations, and Durgan has stood his ground despite the protests of mail carriers that have been thrown out of work. a a a DURGAN was born a rebel, sixty-two years ago in Tippecanoe county. Today is a rebel by habit. “There isn’t an inch on my body that isn't battle-scarred,” said Durgan. The boast was no exaggeration. Any one who wants to find out about George Durgan’s Irish love for a fight can ask the telephone company, the electric power company and the gas company that serve his home city. Or, he can ask Henry Marshall, Republican publisher in Lafayette. Durgan has had the wool of Henry Marshall and the public

GARY NAMED FOR AAA MILK SURVEY Consumption to Be Studied at Van Nuy’s Request. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Ap: .1 30.—Gary, Ind„ has been selected by Dr. Frederick C. Howe, consumers’ counsel of the AAA. as one of twenty-six typical American cities for a survey of milk consumption. The survey was launched after an appeal to the department by Senator Frederick Van Nuys, who has received numerous complaints from Hoosier dairy farmers regarding the “underconsumption” of milk. Dr. Howe declared that the survey will reveal whether or not economic conditions, or some other cause, is to blame for the decline in the mink market. Senator Van Nuys intends to use the data to foster legislation, if necessary, to stimulate the use of milk, it was announced at his office. STANDARD UNCHANGED FOR STATE TEACHERS McMurray Denies A. B. Degree Will Be Required in Grades. Reports that teachers would be required to have an A. B. degree to teach in elementary schools, and an M. A. for high school teaching, were denied today by Floyd I. McMurray. state superintendent of public instruction. "I wish to make it clear that no such regulation exists or even is contemplated,” he said. “The law governing teachers’ licenses provides that seventy-two weeks of training (two years) qualifies a teacher for an elementary position, and the regulations for high school teachers remain just as they have been for a year.”

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“There’s nothing in this book of etiquel I don’t already know.”

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utilities in his teeth for the last quarter century. Even when he ran against Will Wood, Durgan made Henry Marshall the big issue. For eighteen years, Durgan served as mayor of Lafayette. Twice the voters of Lafayette, whipped up by Marshall’s paper, kicked Durgan out of the mayor’s chair, but always Durgan came back. There were few days of peace in that eighteen years. George managed to keep a ratecut fight going against one or the other of the city’s public utilities all of the time. The public utilities don’t like George, and you can’t blame them, because if he had his way the cities would take their business away from them. a a a GEORGE is a member of three committees—lnvalid pensions, patents and public lands* but the work of the public lands committee alone interests him. This is due to his interest in parks,

Spencer Will Address Seventh Ward Group

Prosecutor Aspirant to Talk to Men’s Democratic Club Tonight. Herbert M. Spencer, seeking the Democratic nomination for prosecutor, will address the Seventh Ward Young Men's Democratic Club at Boulevard Place and Twentyfirst street tonight. He also will speak at a Thirteenth ward meeting at 1400 South Meridian street. Swinging into the final week of the campaign, Oscar C. Hagemeir, chairman of the speakers’ bureau of the Spencer-for-Prosecutor Club, is planning an intensive campaign. Edward L. Hizelberger, candidate for the Democratic nomination for city councilman, said today that he favors municipal ownership of all public utilities and close co-opera-tion between the council and civic organizations. Jacob L. Steinmetz, aspirant for the Democratic nomination for juvenile court judge, and Paul F. Rhoadarmer, Republican, for superior court one, have been placed on the Ex-Service Voters’ League slate, according to an announcement by the league’s executive board. Speaking at Lynhurst park and Haughville last night, John L. Duvall, seeking the Republican nomination for mayor, urged consolidation of city departments. “The American system of government should be given the chance to function as it was intended to function, for the benefit of the people,” George L. Denny, candidate for the Republican mayoralty nomination, declared at a Republica rally in Trainmen’s hall, 1002 East Washington street, Saturday night. Mr. Denny will speak tonight at 1435 College avenue, at McClain's hall, 732 South State avenue; at

which he developed as mayor cf Lafayette. He is especially proud of the public park at Lafayette, where he installed the first free swimming pool in the country, the first free tennis courts lighted for night playing. People come from miles around to that park for free recreation. “I have only two vices—tobacco chewing and profanity,” said Durgan. When they came to Washington. Mrs. Durgan tried to persuade George to give up his tobacco chewing habit. “George, you'll be the only man in congress who chews tobacco,” she said. But on the first day that he entered the house chamber, George had no sooner pulled out his trusty plug than he was approached by an unknown colleague who asked for “a chew.” “Stranger, you’re doubly welcome.” said George, “first, because you prove that my wife was wrong, and second because I know you're going to be my friend.” a a a WHEN you want to have an uninterrupted talk with Congressman Durgan, it is a good idea to catch him either sitting or standing close to a spittoon. George wears light-colored, double-breasted suits that hide the contour of his ample paunch. He doesn't want anybody to get the impression that he might be getting soft. He likes to talk, and always in a loud voice that he must have cultivated “chewing the rag” with neighbors on the street corners of Lafayette. Ironically, George Durgan for many years owned and operated a musical instrument shop. Incidentally, he is still trying to collect back bills. Harmony, at least political harmony, is as foreign to George’s nature as tidiness is to the nature of a hog. George Durgan thrives on discord, and is happiest when the battle is hottest. 1 In November, 1932, old Will Wood hobbled back to Washington, a lame-duck congressman. “I was beaten by a piano-tuner,” snorted the crusty Republican veteran.

1957 Hovey street, and at Clark’s hall, Twenty-fifth and Station streets. Walter Pritchard, candidate for the Republican mayoralty nomination. will give the keynote speech in preparation for the primary, at a Republican rally Thursday night at Twenty-third street and Central avenue, sponsored by the Young Republican organization. A meeting for Republican candidates in the ay primaries will be held tomorrow night at the home of Mrs. William E. Thoms, 1427 North Holmes avenue. Samuel H. Shank, candidate for the Republican nomination for congress, Eleventh district, addressed the Butler university sociology class today on “The Primary Versus the Convention System.” Mr. Shank suggested that a convention based on a primary would result in improvement in the character of the candidates. Sweeping action to provide ample protection for residents of rural and suburban districts of Marion county was advocated by Russell J. Dean, Democratic candiate for prosecutor, in a talk Saturday night before Wavne township residents at Bridgeport. THIEVES TAKE JEWELRY FROM CITY RESIDENCE Five Other Burglaries Reported Over Week-End. Entering the home orL. B. Bundy, 6123 Primrose avenue, last night, thieves stole sllO in jewelry and sls in cash, according to police reports. Other persons robbed over the week-end and amounts taken include: Sandwich shop, 3336 West Washington street, articles valued at sls; Mrs. Donna Good. 501 West Twenty-fifth street, three rifles valued at S9B; Downey Flake Doughnut shop, 14 North Pennsyvania street. S4O; Elmer Dawson. 1602 East Fifty-ninth street, sls watch, and Mrs. Margaret Goulding, 112 East Twenty-second street. $25.

STAR STORE STAGES ANNIVERSARY SALE City Firm Opens Celebration of 46th Birthday. In celebration of its forty-sixth anniversary, the Star Store is holding a two weeks’ sale, which opened Saturday. The store was founded in 1888 by Louis Wolf and Meyer Efroymson, the present proprietors. The original store was located on the same site, but has been replaced with the presept building. At the time the store was founded, Grover Cleveland was President of the United States, Isaac P. Gray was Governor, and Caleb Denny was mayor. Indianapolis at that time had a population of 85,000. and the store was open from 7 to 8 at night.

IRVINGTON, ORCHESTRA TO PRESENT CONCERT Civic Musicians Arrange Program for Tomorrow Night. A concert will be presented by the Irvmgton Civic orchestra at 8 tomorrow night in School 57 auditorium. Washington street and Ritter avenue. Nathan D. Davis is orchestra director. He will be assisted by Miss Mary Evelyn Rudicel, a harpist. State Coal Production Gains Indiana coal pr uction remained above the 250,000 _>n mark for the week ended April 14, with 254.000 tons being mined, r.ompared with 261,000 the preceding week, a report from the United States bureau of mines showed today.

Fdir Enough ! HMM A S a news-maker. Mrs. Roosevelt ranks among the greatest of her time and is the only woman, so far as my knowledge goes, who has ever been regarded as a regular news assignment, no more safely to be neglected for a day than the county courthouse. police headquarters, or the city hall. She commands the attention of a corps of lady journalists in Washington andon her travels and, by her

brisk, newsy activity, has created jobs for newspaper girls which did not exist in times when ladies of more retiring disposition lived in the White House. The lady journalists have established such a distinct corps of their own in Washington, covering Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Perkins of the labor department, that they have even taken to running off amateur theatricals of their own under the auspices of a sort of distaff Gridirort Club. I have never made an effort to crash one of Mrs. Roosevelt’s press conferences but I think I was told, some time, that they were for ladies only and certainly the impression was

conveyed that a gent would be too greatly outnumbered on one of these occasions to enjoy being present. a a a Ladies Have More Poise ENTS do embarrass a little more readily than ladies. It seems very unlikely that any discussion would take place at one of Mrs. Roosevelt's interviews with the press which should cause any fairly well-poised male to blush or simper, but the mere fact of his being outnumbered might put him off his ease. A lone lady correspondent among a crowd of gents, on the other hand, does not seem at all aware that she is outnumbered. The girls are capable of a perfect professional calm in such circumstances and even a lady loner, covering a suburban torch-mur-der, generally goes about her work with a concentration which completely ignores ratio. Now I have been reading Mrs. Roosevelt’s remarks to the assembled boss-journalists of the Publishers’ Association in New York and wondering if the girls have been having secrets from us. Because Mrs. Roosevelt said there that women had developed beyond the boundaries of the conventional /o-called woman’s page and the society page, and were, generally speaking, of the same public, with the same interests, as men. Examining Mrs. Roosevelt's speech. I begin to realize that the girls actually have invaded those pages of the papers which, to the extent that they were not called women's pages, might have been regarded as gents’ pages. tt St tt *Never the Twain Shall Meet ’ But until the proof is offered in some better form than a general opinion based on personal letters from ladies who would seem not to be typical I have to believe that ladies are ladies and gents are gents and that never the twain shall go strolling down the newspaper columns with their hands entwined. He will be all of a bother about the possible significance of the new British naval base in Singapore when the little woman is much more concerned about the proximity of first base in the back yard to the kitchen window and the foul-fly that landed in the jelly. A baby along toward the tack eating and door slamming age is a full time preoccupation for the one who is in personal charge leaving her very little interest to spare on foreign policy. I think Mrs. Roosevelt may have been too much impressed by the sort of letters which are written bv the sort of ladies who write letters to the wife of the President. As to most of them, mother’s work is never done and there is almost always a light murder or a Hollywood divorce in the j. pers to ease a mind fatigued by problems that really matter. Mrs. Roosevelt also said women were less interested in matters of currency than men. That would be news. (Copyright, 1934 by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

THE people of the United States spend more than $50,000,000 a year to avoid indigestion. This may be said to be wasted money, since it should be posible for practically every one to have a normal action of the bowels by proper habits of diet and exercise. Doctors know that the excessive use of cathartics tends to establish a habit which in the end will damage the digestive tract. Apparently the bowels get used to the stimulation and require more and more whipping as time goes on. Doctors also are convinced that the sedentary habits of most of us are just about as important as the diet, in our failure to have normally acting intestines. However, there is no one factor to which all cases of constipation can be ascribed. Sometimes, any single case may be the result of the combination of several factors. a a a AMONG the substances most commonly used to stir the intestines into action are saline and vegetable cathartics, organic and mineral preparations, mechanically acting substances, and water in various forms. The saline cathartics have been exceedingly popular of late largely because they are being widely advertised in all sorts of publications and on the radio. This type of cathartic first was introduced about the middle of the seventeenth century in the form of Glauber’s salt. This salt, which is sodium sulphate, and Epsom salt, which is magnesium sulphates, form the basis of most of the widely advertised salts being promoted at this time for reducing. a a a DOCTORS know that the continued use of strong salts may so inflame the lower portions of the bowls as to produce colitis. The salts will reduce weight by hurrying the food through the body and thus preventing its ? ->rption, but it is not safe to make a routine habit of salts. The vegetable cathartics include all the common preparations which most persons use and have used for many years, including cascara, senna, castor oil, aloes, rhubarb, jalap, and many others. These cathartics act by irritating the bowels. Since irritation is abnormal and unfavorable, it is not well to make a habit of using any of the available cathartics. Doctors prescribe them for special cases in which they are needed, as evidenced by the nature of the symptoms.

From the Record

OUTRAGED BY COCOANUTS PROCESSING taxes! We are taxing our peoplt almost all products. The senate passed a o. here the other day which says to the cotton farmer, *Tf you raise above a certain number of bales of cotton, we are going to put you in jail.” Yet if a Filipino send over a few more cocoanuts than we think he ought to send over he is outraged, and his torchbearers here on the floor are outraged—Senator Tom O nnally <Dem., Tex.) a a a NO RADICAL SPEAKING EITHER THE father of a little boy has the right to go home, after a hard day’s effort to earn the bread for the boy and his mother, he has the right to go home with something for them to eat. That is an inalienable right. It is deeper than the Constitution. It is deeper than the Declaration of Independenece. It is deeper than civilization. It is as deep a& . the heart of the God that made them.— 1 Senator •P'siab W. Bailey (Dem., N. C.). J

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