Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 308, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 May 1934 — Page 7

MAY 5, 1934

It Seem to Me HEWH© BfflN IN Venna sits Sigmund Freud, the forgotten physician. I do not m’an that the world has forever p ssed him by, but for the moment it has mislaid him. And that is a pity, because, in my opinion, he might give wise counsel to the rulers of many nations. A good many years ago the old gentleman undertook to treat a local hack driver who had the habit of going into a coma and falling off his perch. The cure, as I remember, was only partial and was accomplished by the ridiculously simple device of hypnotism. Or, if you like, suggestion. The course of the case served to convince Freud that suggestion was not enough, and he went on to promulgate theories which shook the world and will again. But the wise doctor could not have known the end results of his researches. It is probable that, like most technicalities, he had no precise economic

or political opinion. It was the fact of cur? which interested him. In the beginning he was loath to generalize, but it becomes increasingly apparent that what is true of any great number of individuals may also be indicated in the case of both national and international trends. It seems to me that democracy, communism and fascism are all proper subjects for the analyst’s approach. m a tt What Do We Want? WE will not fare well in any attempt to fashion a world close to the heart’s desire until we have some foot rule by which to measure that wish. Any or

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every Utopia may seem entirely logical from every reasonable concept and still fail because it is unsound emotionally. We are living in a world in which an increasing number of persons insist: “But I am looking at things which are realistic. Your objections are wholly sentimental and romantic.” But those points of view are not to be curtly dismissed, for no realistic picture can be formed which does not take into account the underlying emotional motivation of mankind. Freud's earliest critics never assailed him as a sentimentalist. When his views first, came to th a attention of a highly moralistic world it was with a shock impact. A civilization which made every pretense to piety and peace was shocked to learn that Freud believed each one of us was animated by the twin drives of love and hate. 000 Freud rind Christian Ethics epo some extent he gave support to familiar and A nenlected Christian ethics. Os faith, hope and charity, too. he might well have agreed that the greatest is charity. But he was under compulsion to point out that from the cradle to the cross not any one of us is loved as much as he desires. Hate springs inevitably from frustration. It would not have been in the least illogical for Sigmund Freud to have taken up a tambourine at this point and undertaken a street corner campaign in favor of love. Unfortunately, he never got around to it. And today the individual who seeks to go out and preach fellowship is regarded as a crackpot or a faker. I will admit that from a Freudian point of view it is perfectly sound to hate those individuals and those systems which stand in the way of a common brotherhood. But I can not escape the feeling that a good many revolutionists are inspired more by the vision of the tumbrils than by. the picture of the triumph of mankind which is to follow. 0 tt a All Right, I’m Sentimental I WILL admit that I would like to see a great deal more love in the various propagandic currents which sweep the world today. If I am called sentimental on that account I can take it, for I know myself as one of the most callous and fishy-eyed individuals of my acquaintance. And I would like to see love break down walls and penetrate into prisons and jails and penitentiaries and dungeons. And if I'm an old sissy, all right, then, I'm an old sissy. The prize ring is not particularly sentimental and yet it enforces the rule that when a boxer has knocked his adversary down he must walk to a neutral corner and give the other fellow a chance to get up again. I'd like to see old Gene Debs walking this earth again. He could hate with the best of them, but he opened his arms to every soul who was not free. (Copyright, 1934, by The Times)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

HOW to hasten the aging of whisky is the biggest problem which the distillers have put up to the chemist. Dr. Faster D. Snell of Brooklyn. N. Y., told the American Chemical Society at its eightyseventh meeting now in progress in St. Petersburg, Fla. Dr. Snell, in a paper prepared jointly with J. Mitchell Fain, also of Brooklyn, said that there are four principal methods of hastening the maturity of whiskies. They are the use of ultra-violet rays, electrolysis, oxygen or ozone, and heated catalysts. The repeal of prohibition has created a demand for aged liquor which is greater than the supply. Hence the demand for artificial methods of aging, Dr. Snell explained. '•During the aging process the constituents of alcoholic spirits undergo chemical change.” he con. tinued. “A study of the changes taking place in whisky stored in wood over a period of eight years revealed important relations between the acid, ester, color and solid content of a properly aged whisky. These characteristics serve to differentiate it from artificial mixtures and from young spirits. •‘ln the aging process the acids at first form more rapidly than the esters. Later the esters form more rapidly so that by the end of the fourth year they are present in the same amounts as are the acids. This equilibrium is maintained. The amounts of higher alcohols increase in the matured whisky in proportion to the alcoholic concentration.” a a a THE slightly oily appearance of a matured whisky is due to material extracted from the charred container. Dr. Snell continued. “This appearance is. of course, lacking in whiskies which have been aged in uneharred wood.” he said. “The improvement in flavor of whiskies in charred containers, after the fourth year, is attributable largely to concentration rather than to the formation of new components.” The first method of artificially aging whisky is by the use of oxygen or ozone, he says. A variety of processes, some of them resembling the process by which soda water is made with carbon dioxide, are being tried. The second method is by the use of ultra-violet light, the liquor passing in a spray over a quartz tube containing an ultra-violet lamp. In the third method, an electric current is passed through the liquor. The fourth method consists in having the liquor flow over certain chemical catalysts, usually metallic oxides, which speed up chemical reactions. a a a ANOTHER session of the convention of the American Chemical Society, discussing chemical problems involved in the fruit industry, was told that fruit juices properly extracted and placed in milk bottles would retain its fresh natural taste for from five days to several weeks and that the dis. tribution of fruit juice from milk wagons is practical in some parts of the nation. The meetir# was chiefly interested in the marketing of Uncle Sam’s $150,000,000 citrus fruit crop. J. H. Toulouse, representing the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages, advised manufacturers to study regional preferences in marketing carbonated drinks. New England likes acid drinks and the south likes them sweet, he said. The middle west has a taste which is midway between that of New England and the south. He also cautioned manufacturers to standardize the flavors of their drinks so that the buyer would come to know what to expect. JL F. Camp and A. L. Stahl, both of the Florida agricultural experiment station, said that orange Juice could be kept from five days to several weeks when placed under refrigeration.

The Romantic and Beautiful

LOVE LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Charles Dickrns. brilliant T*unr Condon nrHUDaprr reporter and amateur actor meets Maria Beadnell, the beautiful daughter of a well-to-do banker. After a rear of ardent fervent courtship, Mr. and Mrs. Beadnell. feeline that Dickens’ prospects were too poor to justify him as a prospective husband for a eirl so lovely and well circumstanced as Maria, send their dauehtcr to Paris to terminate the affair. Durine her absence Dickens pursued his studies assiduously to Qualify himself for an important position in the world and to win the approval of Maria’s parents. Months later, when Maria returns from Paris, the affair flared again. But Maria was now so sure of him that one day she encouraged him, the next she scorned him. For a time Dickens endured this. Then he wrote her a letter of farewell, it was a classic letter of Its kind. Maria consulted with her best friend—Mary Anne I.eigh. Mary Anne, wanting Dickens for herself, advised Maria to return his letters and end the affair. Maria did so, aleging Dickens’ interest in Mary Anne and charging him with having violated her confidence. Today we read Dickens reply. AGAIN, I never supposed nor did this girl give me to understand that you ever breathed a syllable against me. It is quite a mistake on your part, but knowing (and there can not be a stronger proof of my disliking her) what she was; knowing her admirable qualifications for a confidante and recollecting what had passed between ourselves, I was more than hurt, more than annoyed at the bare idea of your confiding the tale to her es all people living. I reflected upon it. I coupled her communication with what I saw (with a jaundiced eye perhaps) of your own conduct; on the very last occasion of seeing you before writthat note I heard even among our own friends (and there was no Mary Anne present), I heard even among them remarks on your own conduct and pity—pity. Good God! —for my situation, and I did think (you will pardon my saying it for I am describing my then feelings and not my present) that the same light butterfly feeling which prompted the one action could influence the other. Wretched, aye

INDIANA’S ‘NEW DEALERS’

Eugene Crowe —Does Good Turn Daily

BY WALKER STONE Times Staff Writer. WASHINGTON, May s.—Eugene B. Crowe is Indiana’s congressman with a Rotary Club manner, and a Boy Scout impulse to do a good turn daily. A spry, genial, successful, small-town business man, with a potent injection of the public service virus, Gene Crow 7 e likes people, likes to move around among people, likes to do things for people. Gene Crowe is 56. He looks to be 40. He moves around with a springy step, wears a smile which reveals that he enjoys life, is ever ready with a personal greeting for his fellow men. Many months ago, old George Dale, fighting mayor of Muncie, Ind., was in trouble, victim of what Senator Van Nuys later called “handmade” evidence. Under indictment on liquor conspiracy charges, George came to Washington to tell his story to the “higher-ups” in the justice department. He wanted the Democrats in congress to move with a united front to secure a hearing for him, The Anti-Saloon League w 7 as then a thing to be feared in Washington, and the “old heads,” notably Arthur Greenwood and Louis Ludlow, counseled caution. In the end, George had to appeal to rough, gruff Republican Senator Jim Watson to get a hearing. That incident is recalled here, because in those troubulous days, Gene Crowe was the one friend in Washington upon whom George could always depend. Whenevr Gene would hear that George was in town, he would scurry down to the hotel, pick up George’s bags, and mo\e George out to his own apartment.

Gene Crowe is Indiana’s limestone congressman. He considers it his special duty to see that as much Indiana limestone as possible is used in government buildings. Some day, he hopes, seniority will bring to him the key position once held by former Republican Congressman Elliott—chairmanship of the committee on public buildings and grounds. When Mr. Elliott was in congress and the late Will R. Wood was chairman of the appropriations committee of the house and former Senator Jim Watson was Republican leader in the senate, the limestone interests had their own way. Representative Crowe also is a member of the immigration and territories committees. nan THE limestone crowd did not at first look kindly upon Gene Crowe, but they now bow to him, for he was responsible for the government's use of a good portion of the stone taken out of the Bedford quarries in the last eighteen months. This stone goes into postoffices, federal buildings and government hospitals erected in all parts of the country. The last* big contract was for the Archives building here in Washington. New England senators and congressmen protested that this building, which is to house the government's permanent records, should be made of enduring granite from the hills of Vermont. But specifications came through for select buff limestone from Indiana, and Harry T. Easton, sculptor and stone carver from Representative Crowe's home town got the contract to carve all the decorations. He brought twenty Bedford carvers with him to do the work. Although he is a political climber of marked ability, it is not likely that Gene Crowe will ever be a'big man in congress. He has a strong urge to do bigger and better things in a legislative way, but it is an urge somewhat inarticulate. He has not the flair for legislative work nor the adroitness, such as, for example, characterizes Representative Sam Pettengill. Representative crowe is the vice-chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee. The chairman is Representative Joe Byrns, Democratic leader. Mr. Crowe does practically all of the work. He is good at campaign organization. at raising political war chests and directing campaign strategy. For six years, he was a member of the Democratic state central committee, a particular favorit of the older Thomas Taggart. Long before the Chicago convention, Mr. Crowe was supporting the Roosevelt candidacy. He tried unsuccessfully to get the Indiana Democratic convention in 1932 to bind its delegation to Mr. Roosevelt. %-

Makes Fervid But Futile Effort to Rewin Maria

almost brokenhearted, I wrote to you—(l have the note for you returned it, and even now I do think in it was written “more in sorrow than in anger,” and to my mind — I had almost said to your better judgment—it must appear to breathe anything but an unkind or bitter feeling)—you replied to th? note. I wrote another and that at least was expressive of the same sentiments as I ever had felt and ever should feel towards you to my dying day. That note you sent me back by hand wrapped in a small loose piece of paper without even the formality of an envelope and that note I wrote after receiving yours. It is poor sport to trifle on a subject like this: I knew what your feelings must have been and by them I regulated my conduct. In return to the question of what is best to be done. I go to Kolle’s at 10 o’clock tomorrow evening and I will inclose to you and give to him then a copy of the note which if I send any I will send to Marianne Leigh. I do not ask your advice; all I ask is whether you see any reason to object. I will perhaps, inclose it after reading it, and say whether you object to its going or not. With regard to Fanny (Dicken's sister), if she owed a duty to you she owed a greater one to me—and for this reason because she knew what Marianne Leigh had said of you; she heard from you what she had said of me and yet she had not the fairness, the candour, the feeling to let me know it—and if I were to live a hundred years I never would forgive it. As to sending my last note back pray do not consult my feelings, but your own. Look at the note itself. Do you think it is unkind, cold, hasty, or conciliatory and deliberate? I shall—indeed I need — express no wish upon the subject. You will act as you think best. It is too late for me to attempt to influence your decision. I have said doubtless both in this and my former note much more than perhaps I ought or should have said

Like most of the other Hoosiers in congress, Representative Crowe bolted the administration on veterans’ measures. He stops smiling, when you try to twit him about his veteran votes. He voted against the economy law, for nearly all of the restoration of veterans benefits that have been proposed. He voted to override President Roosevelt's veto of the independent offices supply bill. And he has voted trice for the veterans bonus. Outside of veterans’ legislation, his record has been 100 per cent for the Roosevelt program. His constituents at Lawrenceburg wanted their city declared a sub-port for customs. Mr. Crowe harassed the treasury department until it consented. • It has been estimated that $50,000,000 in tariff duties will be collected at Lawrenceburg each year, for the most part on aged whisky imported by the Lawrenceburg distilleries for blending purposes. Representative crowe came to congress a political dry. He voted dry up until his party’s state and national con-

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had I attempted disguise or concealment to you and I have no doubt more than is agreeable to yourself. Towards you I never had and never can have an angry feeling. If you had ever felt for me one hundredth part of my feeling for you there would have been little cause of regret, little coldness, little unkindness between us. My feeling on one subject was early roused; it had been strong, and it will be lasting. I am in no mood to quarrel with anyone for not entertaining similar sentiments, and least of all, Miss Beadnell, with you. You will think of what I have said and act accordingly—Destitute as I am of hope or comfort, I have borne much and I dare say can bear more. Yours, CHARLES DICKENS. 000 WITHOUT waiting for a reply to this letter he called at Kolle’s the folkwing evening, Friday, May 17th, with another note and the first draught of the letter he proposed to send to Marianne. It will be seen that the correspondence had now 7 attained a very cold and lofty air. Agreeable to my promise I beg to inclose you a copy of the note I propose to send to Marianne Leigh, which you will perhaps be so good as to return to me (as I have no other copy from which to write the original) as soon as possible. I had intended to have made it more severe, but perhaps upon the whole the inclosed will be sufficient—Until receiving any answer you may make to my last note I will not trouble you with any further observation. Os course you will at least on this point (I mean Marianne Leigh’s note) say what you think without reserve and any course you may propose or any alternation you may suggest shall on my w’ord and honor be instantly adopted. Should anything you 'may say (in returning her note) to me make me anxious to return any answer, may I have your permission to forward it to you? I find I have proceeded to the

ventions adopted wet platforms. Then he switched. He was glad of the chance. Captain Roy Huckleberry, who led a Negro regiment on the western front, is Mr. Crowe's secretary. The captain spends a good part of his time back in the district keeping the congressman’s political fences in repair. It was the quiet work of Captain Huckleberry that helped account for Mr. Crowe's unexpected victory over the veteran Harry C. Canfield when the districts of Mr. Crowe and Mr. Canfield were merged in 1932. Representative Canfield, once a high-ranking Democratic member of the powerful ways and means committee, is this year attempting a comeback. Mr. Canfield carries around about 100 pounds more avoirdupois than Representative Crowe does. Sitting in a committee chair, Mr. Canfield is more effetive than Representative Crowe. But on the hustings, Mr. Crowe is better. Moreover, Captain Huckleberry, who knows how to talk turkey with the ward leaders, is back in the district. a a r CROWE can claim authorship of no important legislation. The biggest bill he has sponsored is a bill to spend $125,000,000 on federal buildings, a measure that he hopes to attach to the general public works bill. He has “button-holed'’ nearly every member of congress, and thinks he will have a majority supporting his proposal. “Genial Gene,” like many other Hoosiers who take politics seriously, is a joiner. He is an Elk, a K. of P. and a Moose. He is also—you would know without asking—a Rotarian. He was onetime president of the Bedford Chamber of Commerce. He owns two furniture stores, is vice-presi-dent of a bank, and director of a loan association and a security company, but always turns up with a big vote from the people

end of my note without even inserting your name. May I ask you to excuse the omission and to believe that I would gladly have addressed you in a very, very 7 different way? CHARLES DICKENS. 18 Bentick street. Friday. Miss Maria Beadnell. 000 HIS letter to Miss Leigh was a boyish masterpiece of studied sarcasm and content, perhaps more cruel than she deserved; but of course it was written for the benefit of Maria no less than Marianne. Dear Miss Leigh: I am very 7 happy to avail myself of the opportunity of inclosing your album (which I regret to say, want of a moment's time has quite prevented me writing in). To say a very few 7 words relative to an observation made by you the other day to one of the Miss Beadnells I believe —and which has only I regret to say just reached my ears quite accidentally. I should not have noticed it at all were it merely an idle gossiping remark, for one is necessarily compelled to hear so many of them and they are usually so trifling and so ridiculous that it w’d be mere waste of time to notice them in any way. The remark to which I allude however is one which if it had the slightest foundation in truth—w’d so strongly tend to implicate me as a dishonorable babbler, with little heart and less head, that in justice to myself I can not refrain from adverting to it. You will at once perceive I allude to your giving them to understand (if not directly, by implication) that I had made you my confidante, with respect to anything which (may) have passed between Mai’ia B. and myself. Now 7 passing over any remark which may have been artfully elicited from me in any unguarded moment, I can safely say that I never made a confidante of any one. I am perfectly willing to admit that if I had wished to se-

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

WASHINGTON, May s.—Without doing much talking about it, the President has been working on a plan of social insurance which will be the most gigantic plan ever attempted by any government. He wants to insure every man, woman and child in the United States from the cradle to the grave. He has been experimenting with some tentative ideas whereby every American citizen, by paying two cents a week would be protected in case of accident or old age. The millions of dollars thereby flowing into the treasury might in time make the government independent of the big bankers. The details are not worked out and probably will not be for some time. But the philosophy behind the plan is simple. It is the philosophy that the chief worry of every individual is SECURITY; that the average man doesn't crave to get rich; only wants reasonable guarantee that he can enjoy a home, educate his children and not have to peddle apples at the age of 70. Roosevelt, himself born in the lap of luxury, having enjoyed all his life the protection of coupons to clip, has seized upon the problem of security as the most important thing to be solved in his day. a a a a a a GOOD Doctor Wirt may have scared some people about the Red menace but he has not prevented the crimson-and-gold Embassy of Soviet Russia from being the most popular in town.

The other day Ambassador Troyanovsky was “at home.” This meant that no invitations were issued. Any one who wanted to pay their respects could do so. The soviet host and hostess were ready for their guests at 5 p. m., the usual hour. They expected about 400, had prepared tea, sandwiches, cakes for that number. At 5:10 every cake and sandwich in the place had vanished. A total of 1,200 people had streamed through the embassy. And after every edible thing had disappeared, a butler was heard admonishing a guest: “Pardon me but those cigarets are not souvenirs. The ambassador is delighted if you will smoke one of them, but don’t take the whole box.” a a a PERSONAL rivalry, strangler of so many great ideas, may put a crimp in what has the potentiality of being one of the most momentous investigations in recent senatorial history. The senate committee for the probe of the munitions industry can't get together on the selection of a good investigator. Obviously, what the committee needs is another Pecora. No senator since the days of Tom Walsh and Teapot Dome has the time or ability to go into a painstaking investigation of the vast munitions industry, put its witnesses through their paces. But the committee disagrees on this point. Apparently the state department would like to have one of its friends do the investigating. Also, young Mr. Nye has his eyes on the job. Although one of the ablest men in the senate, some of his friends remember the day when young Mr. Nye was made to look rather ridiculous by the ■Widow Ruth Hanna McCormick. He is not the man for the job. If the committe doesn’t get a Pecora, the munitions companies will have nothing to worry about.

cure a confidante in whom candour, secrecy and kind honorable feeling were indispensable requisites. I could have looked to no on& better calculated for this office than yburself; but still the making you the depository of my feelings or secrets, is an honor I never presumed to expect, and one which I certainly must beg most positively to decline—a proof of self-denial in which so far as I learn from other avowed confidantes of yours, I am by no means singular. I have not hesitated to speak plainly because I feel most strongly on this subject. The allegation—if it were not grossly untrue—l again say tending so materially to inculpate me, and the assertion itself having been made (so far as I can learn at least, for it has reached me in a very circuitous manner) certainly not in the most unaffected or delcate way. I hope you w r ill understand that in troubling you. I am not actuated by any absurd idea of selfconsequence. I am perfectly aware of my own unimportance, and it is solely because I am so; because I would much rather mismanage by own affairs, than have them ably conducted by the officious interference of any one, because I do think that your interposition in this instance, however well intentioned, has been productive of as much mischief as it has been uncalled for. -And because I am really and sincerely desirous of sparing you the meanness and humiliation of acting in the petty character of an unauthorized go-between that I have been induced to write this note—for the length of which I beg you w 7 ill accept my apology. I am, dear Miss Leigh, Yours &c„ CHARLES DICKENS. 000 WHAT HAPPENS TOMORROW? Maria having given him permission to write again, Dickens sends another plea, which includes an avowal of love so beautifully written that you will thrill to every word. (Copyright. 1934, John F. Dille Cos.)

RESOLUTION ADOPTED TO WIDEN STREETS Works Board Approve Move for Pennsylvania A resolution to widen and improve Pensylvania street irom St. Clair to Sixteenth stret was adopted yesterday by the works board. Overwhelming objection on the part of property owners defeated the proposal to improve Thirtyfourth street from Northwestern avenue to Clifton stret. Pennsylvania street will be widened four feet on each side, making a forty-six foot roadway. Street car tracks will be removed and trackless trolleys substituted. Total estimated cost of the improvement will amount to $74,519, A. H. More, city engineer, said. Cost to property owners will amount to approximately $2.25 per lineal foot.

a a a BIG, good-natured Jim Farley may not know much about art, but he knows what he likes. The walls of his private office in the postoffice department are the most decorated in the capital. Jim’s taste runs to photographs of politicians and notables. There are several of Jim w r ith Will Rogers and Speaker Garner. There are many of Jim whh great and small politicos contacted on Democratic junkets. There are some with such sentimental inscriptions as this: “To the greatest Roman of them all, Jam?3 A. Farley.” But the most prized, just added to the collection and hanging in a place of honor, is a memento of Jim's first trip to Europe last winter. It is a handsome portrait of Italy’s top-hole politician, ( and inscribed in a bold hand: “To James A. Farley from Benito Mussolini.” (Copyright, 1934. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ARMY TO RELINQUISH 3 AIR MAIL ROUTES Sendees Will Be Handed Over to Chilian Fliers Monday. By United Preti WASHINGTON, May 5. The United States army will tin n'er three major air mail routes to civilian fliers Monday midnight with the prospect that within a short time private concerns will be carrying all the air mail again. The first routes to be taken over are the Newark-Oakland, Sait Lake City-Seattle-San Diego sendees. United Air Lines will handle the sendee. The postoffice department expects to release several more routes to private earners during the week under the temporary contracts which were awarded several days ago.

Fair Enough T OUISVILLE, May 5. Horsetown is straining along the seams again as the people rally around for the Kentucky Derby this afternoon which is a race for 3-year-old steeds at a plant called Churchill Downs. The Kentucky Derby is also an occasion for much mischief and general helling around in the hotels and roadhouses at night on the part of thousands of people who are old enough to have much better Sense but are thankful that they have not. It is, moreover, a harvest for

the innkeepers, restaurant people and shopkeepers, and especially for those shopkeepers who sell dresses and slippers, and all such lady stuff. Not for nothing are the ladies of Louisville noted for their style and lines. Not for nothing is their home tewn known among ladies elsewhere below*the line as the New York or Paris of the south. Somehow, they learned class in Louisville a long time ago and Derby time is an occasion for much shopping and spending in the lady stores. It appears that this year the Derby will be an occasion for some serious shopping by the males from else-

where, too. because the liquor stores are open now in the native home of the julep, whereas the moonshiner still leaves his jug beside or in the stump in exchange for a dollar weighted down with a rock in many other neighborhoods of the south. 000 Time for a Rust THERE is still an illusion that the Derby is a horse race and nothing else. But to insist on that were like insisting that the night of a presidential election on Broadway is the night of a solemn referendum, and nothing more. Undoubtedly the bird-legged little-running nags of the Derby field, who couldn't do the day’s work of one $lO mule between them have a beautiful meaning all their own to true horse people. But the Derby crowd is not composed of horse people to any considerable extent. Mostly the Derby crowd is made up of miscellaneous people from New York, Chicago, and St. Lcuis, and from here and there in Illinois, Ihdiana and the south who feel the need of a bust at this time of the year. Up to a few years ago the Derby was the occasion of the grand annual outing and frolic of A1 Capone's crowd from Cicero, 111. It was their chowder party and night of song. They came down in special cars on the trains and made merry in a manner not much different from that of other persons seeking relaxation. But now Capone is paying off his time, day after weary day in Atlanta, and the boys have no unity any more. There was a convention of .inkers in town until Thursday morning, filling the hotels, and some of them overslept to the great distress of persons who came piling off the trains, gritty and sleepy after a night on the cars, or bouncing in among the dandelions at the airport, to check in for the horse-fes-tival. * . It is easy to understand and sympathize with persons who oversleep in Louisville following exercises of the get-together type. But that did not relieve the distress of the Derby trade. The Derby customers had to stand around, shifting their weight from one burning foot to another, waiting hour3 while the room clerks and bell-hops, gently but insistently, reminded the drowsy bakers that they were to have checked out early. 0 0 0 Tom Taggart Drops In SOME of the oncoming attendance have broken the trip at French Lick, Ind., that stubborn oasis which remained throughout prohibition and the era of the Ku-Klux the only rational community in the state. Little Tom Taggart, the son of the late political boss, and most of French Lick, hopped over to Louisville in his private airplane and hopped back home again the other day. As I remember it, Miss Edna Ferber got in wrong and had to rewrite a paragraph of her novel, ‘‘Showboat,” because in referring to old Tom Taggart and the gambling parlor at French Lick she .mentioned them too close together. I wish to avoid any such error with reference to little Tom Taggart, who may be sens.tive, like his paw, but I would like to convey an idea that he is the life and spirit of French Lick. The fact that games of chance have been discoursed there, is just another fact. Maybe they do this without his knowledge or consent. There is g considerable gathering of newspaper talent out of the east in this part of the country just now, and, although the object, of course, is the Derby, the boys of our set are keeping an ear to the wire and an eye to the airplane schedules in case John Dillinger should be caught. The capture of Dillinger, or the killing of him, is building up into a big newspaper piece and some of the hands who have come out for the horse race probably will find it was of interest to keep them loitering around a while just in case. Dillinger can command very flattering newspaper coverage if he times his capture or his demise nicely. I do not know whether that will strike him as an inducement. (Copyright, 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

LATELY you might have read about children in whom the white blood cells were increasing in amount so that death occurred rather promptly thereafter. The edndition is called leukemia, leukocythemia, and a variety of other names. The cause of this strange malady is unknown. It is so severe a disease that the child usually dies within one week to two months after it begins. Acute leukemia occurs most frequently in childhood, although it may occur at any age. Normally a human being has about 7,500 white blood cells in every cubic millimeter of blood. In the condition called leukemia the white blood cells increase very rapidly in amount and may reach figures of from 100,000 to 1.000,000 white blood cells for every cubic millimeter of blood. As the white blood cells increase, the red blood cells decrease and the red coloring matter of the red blood cells breaks down. Under such conditions death usually follows. a a a OBVIOUSLY in a condition of this type, the doctor does everything that he possibly can to sustain the body agiinst the attack with the hope that eventually it will be able to throw off the disturbance "by the process of nature which tends toward recovery in most disease conditions. Hence, the chief method of treating this type of disease is to inject blood into the body directly through a vein, with the hope that the injected blood will provide the necessary attacking elements and also with the hope that the new blood supply will be able to take care of the needs of the body which arise because its red blood cells have been destroyed. As you have no doubt noted from reports, these blood transfusions may be given in considerable numbers. o o o SOMETIMES the X-ray has been used to control the excess activity of the bone marrow in which the white blood cells are formed. However, the reactions to scuh treatment sometimes are so prominent that it may be necessary to give repeated blood transfusions before using the Xray, so the patient may be able to withstand the results of the treatment. This type of disease has been known to the medical profession for a long time. While these cases may have a morbid intertit for many of us, they are not new to doctors and they are fully discussed in most textbooks of the practice of medicine.

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