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H JeemioMe HEYWO® BROUN UNEASY lie* the head that wears the laurel of a Pulitzer Prize award. I suppose it is inevitable that no choice in any department can satisfy everybody, but it seems to me that some of the decisions grow setranger still more strange. I have a feeling that the Columbia committee represents a definite political, point of view in its selections, and that the Judgment comes from a group of gentlemen whose high chairs touch the extreme right wall of the room. It is impossible to explain the selection of Herbert Agar's ‘ The People's Choice" and E. P. Chase's edtorial, ‘ Where Is Our Money?” under any other theory. Mr. Agar is admittedly a commentator who believes that leadership should be vested only in the

hands of the "better classes,” and Mr. Chase finds among the culprits who brought on the depression those working men who wanted to raise their standard of living. His remedy for our ills is return to the ancient ways of public and private thrift. Mr. Chase seems to be under the impression that in some way the wealth of the nation was actually consumed by an orgy of riotous living upon the part of the masses. a a a As K. P. Chase Sees It OODLES of people.” he says in the essay which knocked the judges for a goal, "who had

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no more business with an automobile than a wagon has with five wheels, bought cars. Oodles of people learned to live beyond their means. It began to look as if it would not be long until there would be no one to do the work of the country, as all were seeking the same mythical standard to which we referred.” When I say that this simplv isn't so I do not mean at all that I am expressing an opinion on a debatable matter. No debate is possible. Every survey shows that under modern industrial conditions there is bound to be a surplus of labor. At the very time to which Mr. Chase refers millions of men and women were jobless. In spite of the most violent efforts being made at the present, time we have succeeded in making only a slight dent in the army of the unemployed. Every factory wheel could be turning and each American enterprise working full blast and there would still be idle hands. • The wage earner,” says Mr. Chase, censoriously, "suddenly awoke to the fact that by .buying on the installment plan he could keep up with the Joneses, and he not only spent every (Cent he could get his hands on in many instances; but he pledged the major portion of his wages or salary months ahead to pay for automobiles and other articles which were worn out by the time he had completed his payments.” *• \ * tt n Pity Thrifty Mr. Rockefeller IT is on the whole a heartrending picture which is drawn by E. P. Chase of the ruination of America on account of the wild extravagance of the toilers. They were unfortunate Olivers who had the temerity to ask for more. ' The only way back to solid ground and to a degree of prosperity and w'ell-being commensurate w-ith common sense and economic soundness,” assert- Mr. Chase, “will be by the. application of thrift and hard work and the balancing of the budget of every individual. The old haywire days are gone forever. But a large percentage of our population still believes in Santa Claus and in good fairies. The cause of the present economic condition of the country in large measure can be ascertained by every citizen looking in the mirror. Each one of us contributed his share.” Under this theory I assume that Mr. Insull might sav: "The fault is just as much yours as mine. It is true that I issued the securities and sold them, but I could not have done that if you had not aided and abetted me by buyine them.” This comfortable theory may be extended even further. As I remember, the wolf in the story blamed the sheep for the shambles on the ground that the animal tempted him by being so defenseless. And it may be that many a manipulator is weeping into his beer today on the ground that he never would have gone wrong if people in general had not lured him on by being so gullible. (Copvrißht. 1934. bv The Times)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

SCIENCE will be master of the mysteries of the atomic nucleus within another ten years. That is the opinion of Dr. Harold C. Urey, professor of chemistry’ at Columbia university, who has greatly accelerated the rate of progress in this field by his recent discovery’ of “heavy water” and the double-weight hydrogen atom. Advances are coming so fast in the field of nuclear physics that the monthly journals of the world of science are too slow to keep up with the rapidity of the forward march. The time has come when scientists almost require a daily newspaper of their own. Professor Urey says. An example of the rapidity’ of the progress was given a few weeks ago when the National Academy of Sciences was meeting in Washington. At that meeting. Dr. R. A. Millikan reported new results which had just been obtained in his laboratory by Dr. C. C. Lauritsen and Dr. H. R. Crane. Ordinarily, Dr. Lauritsen would have explained his results in person. But results were coming so rapidly. Dr. Millikan explained, that Dr. Lauritsen was unwilling to leave his apparatus lons enough to make the trip from Pasadena, Cal., to Washington. a a a TO the casual observer, the present time may seems merely as one in which scientists are piling one confusing theory upon another and complicating the atomic picture by talk of neutrons and positrons and protons and electrons. To the scientist, .however, these days are among the most exciting in the history of the world. As Dr. Henry A. Barton, director of the American Institute of Physics, says, scientists regard the present time as of greater importance than those days at the end of the nineteenth century’ when X-rays and radium were discovered. Professor Urey’ expects that experiments with heavyweight hydrogen, or deuterium, as he prefers to call it. will play an important part in enabling scientists to unravel the problems of nuclear physics. This is because it is an atom with so simple a nucleus. Simplest of all atoms is that of ordinary or light - weigh hydrogen. Its nucleus consists of merely one proton. Heavyweight hydrogen has a nucleus which consist of one proton and one neutron. Hence it is the simplest atom in which the forces binding together nuclear particles can be studied. This problem is an extremely difficult one. Most physicists believe that the complicated quantum mechanic worked out to explain the behavior of the outer electrons of an atom, that is, those which surround the nucleus, will not prove sufficient to explain what goes on within the nucleus. a a a RECENTLY, Dr. Urey revealed how he and his associates. Dr F C. Brickwedde of the United States bureau of standards and Dr. G. M. Murphy of Columbia university, accomplished the discovery of heavyweight hydrogen. The possibility of the existence of a hydrogen isotope had occurred lo me years before.” he said. “Tha method of concentration, namely, the distillation of liquid hydrogen, occurred to me at lunch one day In August. 1931. I immediately discussed it with Dr. Murphy, who was then my research assistant. W# went to work immediately and in one month did about four months' work. We did fully two reasonable dava wor ka day and worked Sundays and Thanksgiving day as well.” Dr. Bnekwedde prepared the concentrated samples of hydrogen lor the experiments.

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The Romantic and Beautiful —— LOVE LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS Two Amazing Interludes in the Life of a Great Artist

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Charles Dieken*. roung London newspaper reporter and brilliant amateur aetor. meets Maria Beadnell. the daughter of a well-to-do banker. Their courtship was ardent and fersent but in the end. influenced largely by parental objections, Maria discards Dickens. Heartbroken and humiliated he plunged into studv to fit himself for a great career. Impulsively, he married a girl named Catherin* Hogarth, dooming himself to years of unhappiness. In later life he revealed that what happened between himself and Maria in their courtshipr is accurately reported In David Copperfield.” This is Dickens’ Life story. He is ‘ David” and Maria is "Dora.'' Dickens’ proposal to Maria is pictured in "David Copperfield. a a a THESE little scenes have charmed millions of readers of “David Copperfield” and no doubt will continue to do so until the end of time. They are the sort of touch of sweet humanity that is not wholly imaginary. Even an inventive genius like Dickens could record them only from memory. Mere man or even superman does not know of these little conceits of lovely woman. They are the surprises of love, never foreseen and luckily never forgotten. His portrait of Dora is rich with them, and undoubtedly Maria gave him every one. The dream of Maria Beadnell had haunted him all through the most productive period of his life. Indeed it was an almost constant obsession. This is plainly shown in the characters of Copperfield, Pip and others. For instance, when Estella tells Pip that he will soon put her out of his thoughts he exclaims: "Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, a rough country boy whose poor heart you wounded even then.

You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since—on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, on the clouds in the light, in the darkness, in -the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the street. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will oe. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you can not choose but remain part of my character, part of the little god in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation I associate you only with the good, and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. God bless you, God forgive you! ... All

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

WASHINGTON, May 10.—This session of congress probably will stand out in history as being chiefly famous for the battle of Big Busness against the Stock Market Bill —a battle which cost Wall Street a round million and saw the biggest lobby on record encamped around Capitol Hill. The amusing thing about this battle—if it were not somewhat tragic—is that it never would have taken place had it not been for the egocentric whim of one man. He is that gnarled and dynamic old warrior, veteran of a thousand battles against big business, Sam Untermyer. His list of his battles takes ip one entire column in the pages of Who's Who. Sam has fought Standard Oil. Henry Ford, the New’ York building trades, the Riggs National bank, the Interboro Rapid Transit, the Equitable Insurance Company, New York w’ater power companies, the “Pujo Money Trust.” the New? York stock Exchange. And in all these he has championed the side of the underdog. Yet had it not been for the eccentric ambition of this 73-year-old battler, Roosevelt would have passed his stock market legislation when big business was on its back with not a finger lifted in opposition. This was Roosevelt's original intention. a a a a a a AS early as December, 1932—just after election—he began to draft his plans. He proposed one bill which w’ould regulate both securities and stock exchanges. To advise him regarding this he asked Untermyer to come to Albany. Sam was delighted, in fact so delighted that he could not resist letting the fact leak to the New York American on the evening before he was to leave. There is nothing Roosevelt dis-

likes so much as having his plans published, and he called off the trip. However, he still wanted Sam Untermyer, Wall street’s most ferocious baiter, to help draft controlling legislation, and Sam was eager to do it. By inauguration time, however. Sam had gone out to Palm Springs. Cal., where he insists on spending his winters, and Roosevelt tried to reach him while en route east through the Panama canal. He wanted Sam to begin writing ties bill for the special session of congress, and instructed Charles Taussig to get Untermyer to Washington by an army plane from Panama. “Sam will love that.” smiled Taussig. “Publicity, eh?” said the President, cocking his head on one side. "Well, let him come by commercial plane, then.” mam SAM came. And despite being splashed with mud and grounded at Richmond by a storm he was his usual swaggering. swearing self. Roosevelt asked him first of all to see Houston Thompson, formerly of the federal trade commission, who was writing the first draft of the legislation. Untermyer did so. The next day he called the President on the phone and nearly blew the receiver off telling him what he thought of Thompson. Roosevelt countered by asking both Untermyer and Thompson to the White House. With them came Professors Moley and Taussig, the latter having been chief Stock Exchange adviser to the President. Sam began the conference by bridling up to Houston Thompson. • I don't want to fight you,” he said, looking as if he did. After which he began to lecture the President as if he was a small boy whom Untermyer had brought up. Professor Moley, who usually helped out in situations of this kind, went to sleep. What made it worse, he snored. nan FINALLY Roosevelt, seeing that it would be impossible to get any co-operation between Untermyer and Houston Thompson, split the question into two parts. What later became the securities act was given to Thompson. Untermyer was to work out a bill to control stock exchanges. But what Sam really wanted was a chance to examine J. P. Morgan, due to appear before the senate banking and currency committee. In the famotss Pujo investigation Untermver had examined the senior Morgan, and

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done, all gone! So much was done and gone, that when I went out at the gate, the light of day seemed of a darker color than when I went in.” a a a IF these portrayals of Dickens’ -*• love for Maria delighted the reading public, what effect must they have had on the woman who saw herself playing the little heroine in number after number as they appeared, recognizing episodes in her own love affair with thus man whose name was on every tongue. Married to a prosaic business man and living a drab, colorless existence, what must have been her feelings, hidden in the background, obscure and unknown, viewing these enchanting pictures of herself as the outstanding sweetheart of the century, loved by Pip, Headstone, David Copperfield and others in all of whom

his great ambition was to round this out by taking on his son. Ferdinand Pecora, however, already had begun the banking investigation and the senate committee was doubtful about a change. Wall street feared Untermyer more than it did Pecora and Wall street sentiment was reflected by several committee members. So Sam resorted to subtle strategy. He played up to Pecora. And after a certain amount of this, he suggested that Pecora become his assistant. Pecora. who by this time had shown himself an able investigator. turned the proposal down cold. And Untermyer, disgusted, threw up the whole thing. The securities act, first drafted by Houston Thompson, redrafted by Jim Landis and others, passed congress without opposition. The stock market bill w-as not written. Now a year later, it has created the biggest congressional fight in history—chiefly due to the whim of one man. ana T”VR. LEO WOLMAN, chairman of the President's labor arbitration board, is telling friends that he does not expect to return. . . . Arthur J. Mellott, young Kansas City attorney, recently made head of the government's new consolidated liquor enforcement agency, is the personal selection of Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy T. Helvering. . . . The latter, a "before Chicago” Rooseveltite, is a Farley appointee. For a time he was in disfavor with Secreary Morgenthau, his immediate superior, but in the last two months has improved his standing. . . . Mellott is a personal dry and teetotaler, but says he is "not a fanatic.’’ . . . Alexander G. McKnight. white-haired, heavy-set head of the newly created litigation division of the NRA. was born in Ayrshire county, Scotland, thirty miles from the birthplace of Robert Burns. .. . Forty-nine years old. Mrs. Roosevelt's hair is untouched by gray. ... It is light brown in color, and unbobbed. . . . Word reaching senate cloakrooms that Jim Watson plans to place Senator “Little Artie " Robinson in nomination for re-election brought chortles of laughter. ... A few months ago Jim was considering running against Robinson, whom he privately dislikes. . . . News of Jim's change of heart brought the comment from one wellknown Republican: “Apparently Jim wants to make sure that Arthur gets licked.” (Copyright. 1934, bv , United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1934

Maria Beadnell Winter Time: Second Interlude

she easily recognized her old discarded lover. The wonder is that she could restrain herself from proclaiming to all the world, “I—l am Dora, and Charles Dickens really loved me just as he has written!” The letters of 1833 must have become infinitely more precious as the story of David Copperfield was unfolding in its monthly parts: and it is not unreasonable to suppose that she had some difficulty in stifling the impulse to write this zealous lover and beg him to forgive her former cruelties. Lacking the courage to do this she very likely persuaded her father to make an effort to reestablish*' communications with him, as will appear from the letter next following, a a a DICKENS, in obedience to his picturesque inspi ration of “splendid strolling,” had formed

HORSE SHOW AT FORT SCHEDULED Class Judges Are Chosen for Annual Contest Saturday. Judges were named today for the third annual Ft. Benjamin Harrison horse show to be held Saturday. Lieutenant-Colonel T. J. Johnson. U. S. A., of Lexington. Ky„ will judge the saddle horses, and the military classes will be judged by, Captain W. D. Davis, Third field artillery: Captain Don N. Holmes, Eleventh infantry, both of Ft. Benjamin Harrison, and Don Bose and P. B. Denning. Indianapolis. Following is the list of morning events: Class 3, trooper's mount; Class 1, artillery norse; Class 2, novice jumpers; class 2, mule; Class 6, Ladies’ saddle horses: Class 14, road hack; Class 25, polo bending race; Class 15, novice hunter; Class 28, machine gun carts; Class 13, novice saddle horses; Class 19, ladies’ jumping; Class 9. ladies’ fivegaited saddle horses; Class 11, children's horsemanship; Class 20, touch and out. Events in the afternoon are Class 11(a), children’s horsemanship under 13; Class 26. escort wagon; Class 12, children’s horsemanship (over 13); Class 4, officers’ chargers; Class 14. polo pony stake race; Class 7, saddle horses; Class 27. 75 millimetre gun; Class 17, hunters; Class 23. stick and ball race; Class 10, five-gaited saddle horses; Class 21. open jumping; Class 8. pairs of saddle horses; Class 18. pair jumping. G. A. R.” TO GIVE R_AG Presentation for Central State Hospital Set for Friday. The William H. Trulock circle of the G. A. R. will give an American flag to the Central State hospital at exercises to be held at 2 Friday. Mrs. Melissa Lindsey will make the presentation.

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a company of famous writers and artists into an amateur theatrical troupe, playing with pomp and circumstance in London and some of the larger cities for a worthy charity. Word came that this galaxy of great names, on a glorious tour, was coming to play in the city near where Maria's father was living in retirement, and he. who had rejected and ejected Dickens from his home, wrote inviting him to spend a night with him in remembrance of old acquaintance. In answer Dickens sent a cordial note declining on the grounds of time, but inviting Mr. Beadnell to visit the music hall. And if the facts could be known they probably would show that Maria herself was then at her father's home awaiting Dickens’ answer with no less eagerness and excitement than he had felt when waiting for her answer to his last love message nineteen years before. There is nothing to show that Mr. Beadnell accepted the invitation to call at the music hall, which lends color to the hint that he wrote to Dickens at the behest of Maria and not upon his own initiative. a a a Remembering that Maria is "Dora” and knowing something of her whimsical nature from the graphic pen portrait in "David Copperfield” it is a little pathetic to realize that she was trying in a, childish way to be a good wife and mother, yet clinging to a golden memory and finding a little solace in a carefully preserved page whereon her “Doady” had written so many years ago: "Nothing will ever afford me more real delight than to hear that you, the object of my first, and last love, are happy.” Even though this wish were unfulfilled, she must have felt a bit

TODAY AND TOMORROW a a a a a a By Walter Lippmann

WHATEVER view one takes of the silver policy that now is being formulated, there is no reason to be astonished that there is to be a silver policy. In his message of Jan. 15 the President made it quite plain that the gold bill was oniy “a further step which we hope will contribute to an ultimate world-wide solution,” and that he was then “withholding any recommendation to the congress looking to further extension of the monetary use of silver, because I believe we should pain more knowledge of the results of the London agreement and out other monetary measures.”

But he left no doubt that he regarded silver as “such a crucial factor in much of the world's in.temational trade that it can not be neglected.” Since that declaration it has been certain there would be a silver policy. There has been uncertainty as to what form it would take, when it would be adopted, how it would be applied. For there are as many different theories about silver as there are about gold. What appears to have happened in the past week is that the President has succeeded in formulating a program which he believes can be successfully administered. a a a THE essential principle of the program, as indicated by the newspaper reports from Washington, is that silver is to be transformed in the United States from a commodity like coffee or zinc into a monetary instrument like gold. This Is not a mere matter of raising the price of silver so that silver miners will have more income. It is not a price-raising scheme such as is being used to help wheat, cotton or hogs. This is a change in the legal status of silver which establishes it as basic money in the United States. For that reason it will, if adopted, mark an epoch in the history of money. Its effects will be world-wide. For it reverses the course of monetary policy during the last 100 years. It is theoretically possible that there is enough gold in the world to sustain a tolerable price level,

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proud to know that these words were written to herself alone by a pen that had become the most famous in all the contemporary world. Three more years rolled by and as she was approaching what is said to be woman's “dangerous age,” Cupid rekindled her imagination with retrospective fancies and hopeful aspirations. Unable to stand the strain any longer she was emboldened to break the long silence and attempt to open an avenue of approach to her old sweetheart. a a* a A GREAT storm was sweeping over England on the Bth of February. 1855. and the white spirits of unrest were riding high in the blast, prompting uneasy souls to all sorts of strange impulses. It was then that Maria Beadnell Winter, longing for a word from that fond lover of long ago, wrote him a letter. A timid letter with humble apologies, a bit of news of old friends—recalling long cherished memories—congratulations on his great success anything that might make a page or two, reminding him of his old love. But little did Maria Beadnell realize that it was destined to open a floodgate of memories that have enriched Dickens literature far more than anything else discovered since his death. • Coming home from the office of Household Words, Dickens had joined with his family, and later found his favorite seat before the study fire, where he sat. alone reading as the storm shrouded the city in a pall of drifting snow. His own words, written the following morning, constitute the opening chapter of the most surprising self-revelations that ever fell from his pen. In the next episode appears the first of the Dickens letters in the amazing "Second Interlude.” Yon will thrill to eeer.v word of it. (Copyright, 1934. John F. Dille Cos.)

if the existing gold stocks were distributed properly and efficiently used, if no gold wsre sterilized by central banks or hoarded by individuals. But the fact is that gold Is concentrated in three countries; lhat much of it is sterilized or hoarded. This has made gold abnormally valuable in terms of goods, which is another way of saying that world prices are abnormally low. The fundamental monetary problem of the world is to deflate gold, to reduce the demand for :t or to increase the supply of it, so that prices in terms of gold will rise. It is to this problem that the silver policy is addressed. By restoring silver to the status of money in the United States, the weight of America will be exerted to break down the monopoly value of gold. a tt a JUST as gold became more valuable when silver was demonetized. so it is expected that gold will become less valuable when silver is remonetized. It is the belief of the silver people that Americas position in the world is sufficently strong to exert an immense influence on the value of | gold. But naturally they hope that other countries will foilow suit in restoring silver either on their own initiative or by international agreement. The question arises: Just how is this thing to work? That can not be answered definitely until the actual bill is made public. But presumably the principle will be about as follows: The treasury would stand ready to buy silver from the world at a certain price and in large amounts. How would it pay for that silver? It would pay in gold. It now has more gold than it knows what to do with. So. in substance, the American government would be selling gold for silver. By the law of supply and demand this should reduce the value of gold and raise the value of silver. In practice the matter is, of course, not simple at all. and there are many practical difficulties to be overcome. In fact it may be said that the success or failure of the policy will depend on whether the system is properly or improperly set up. For that reason it can not be too strongly insisted that the legislation should be introduced, should be submitted to critical discussion, and should under no circumstances be passed in a hurry. Those who are most thoroughly convinced that it is necessary to remonetize silver should be the first to ask for very careful scrutiny of the manner in which it is to be done. They ought not to forget that silver became demonetized in the world because it was improperly adjusted to the monetary system of modern nations. In restoring it, the lessons of the past should not be forgotten. iCopvrisht. 1934' PlO N E ERH EIRLO 0M S WILL BE DISPLAYED Indiana Society to Hold May Party at Woodstock. Heirlooms of members will be displayed at the May party of the Society of Indiana Pioneers in the Woodstock Country Club Saturday. Transportation will be furnished by Indianapolis Railways. Inc., the bus leaving Monument circle at 2;45, and returning at 5:15. Mrs. Frank B. Fowler is chairman of the meeting.

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Fair Enough iukh TT-NOXVILLE. Tenn.. May 10.—It will be nin§ years, come summer time, since n skinny, sandy young high school teacher named Johnny Scopes, settin' on a high wire stool with the rest ol the drug store cowboys at Robinson's pharmacy in Dayton, Tenn.. got to popping off on the subject of evolution. This was strong talk in Ten-

nessee at that time for it was hard to find a man in the state who would admit the possibility that any grand-pappv of his, however far back in tha line, could have been a babboon much less a lizard or a jelly-fish. But they were somewlu.t intellectual cowboys who used to twine their feet through the wire legs of the soda fountain stools at Robinson’s soda bar in the drug store in Dayton and they let him say his say till he was through. Then someone among them asked Johnny if he was teaching such heretical knowing to the pupils in his class at school and

when he said yes. he was, the boys put up a job. They got to poking Johnny up and poked him up until he agreed to make a definite point of advising his students on a certain day and time that their grand-pappies, way, way bark, were babboons, and, before that lizards, and before that jelly fish. ana He Was an Eater THAT was the how-romeos the memorable monkey trial at Dayton, Tenn.. in which old man Darrow made old man Bryan profess his belief that Joshua made the sun stand still in the heavens.' * A few days later, after Johnny Scopes had been convicted of heresy, and the theory of evolution had been rejected formally by a home folk judge, old man Bryan, the strong man of the temperance movement in the United States, lay down to sleep off a drowse, induced by a meal sufficient for an entire family, and passed away. I am assuming that this meal was of that sufficiency because we journalists who attended the trial used to watch Mr. Bryan punish his victuals in the dining room of the hotel at Dayton, where they served nothing much but hot, fried fodder, as ■ though he was eating for two weeks in advance, and marvel that a man so smart,in so many ways could have the gall to profess temperance. In the presence of a platter of fried ham and chicken and grits and steaming corn in hot weather, Mr. Bryan was no different, way down deep, from many an unfortunate that we had known in the company of a jug of corn. Late this afternoon there came a ring on the phone and who was it downstairs in the lobby of a very good hotel called the Andrew Johnson but Johnny Moutoux, a reporter who had been in Dayton in those days. I mention the name of the hotel because this is the first time I ever have encountered anything named after Abraham Lincoln's vice-president. The south is full of hotels called Farragut. Lee. Dixie. Andrew Jackson and John Marshall, but Andrew Johnson seems to have received no honor, even in his own land prior to the publication of Claude Bowers’ book “The Tragic Era.” which squared up many matters concerning Andrew Johnson. Maybe, some day. they will even come along to name a hotel or anyway a filling station after Eugene V. Debs. a a a He's Seen Changes JOHNNY MOUTOUX is a curious piece of work. He comes out of Evansville, Ind„ a smallish party with a pair of specs as big as the drivers on a locomotive. and a big floppy brush of hair which falls down over his eyes, and is the victorious survivor of many troubles with the queer laws of man grinding country of Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama. Hr has been jailed and hollered at by judges, and pokes have been taken at him now and again, but he has always wiggled through and moreover he has preferred to rock along in Knoxville because this was fighting country for a man with a belly for the kind of fighting that he loves. After the Dayton trial some of the journalists from centers where the prices are higher, touted Johnny to the top kicks back home and he presently was drafted for a spell of service in Washington, Boston and New York. But he didn’t care for that country and came back to Knoxville where, now. the new deal is starting a big experiment not far out of town TVA dam and power project. Out at Norris, thirty-five miles from here, morq than 6,000 men are at work making a dam which will make a lake and electric power and possibly a big change in the relative position of the working man and the man the working man works for in this country. Johnny Moutoux has lived to see the ten-year-old children driven out of the mills by law in this part of the world where they used to work fifty-four hours a week for less than $2 a week and to fetch himself an occasional pardonable chortle or leer at the best .amilies of the district and some of the gieat, standard American respectables of New York and New England who used to live luxuriously on the difference between the value which the children produced and the money which they received. “Johnny Scopes, I haven't heard of for a long time now.” Mr. Moutoux says. “He went to South America for some big oil company for a while after the trial. Then he came back and I heard he ran for congress in Paducah as a Socialist but got licked badly. But everything is changed in Dayton. You vouldn t know it. Even in Knoxville, things are changed A woman who runs a book store told me toe other day she was selling more books now. since s he TVA came down here, than she ever sold back in the days when the preachers were running everything down here. She is selling biographies and scientific books now where, then, she sold hardly any books at all but just ran a circulating library of romantic novels.” (Copyright. 1934 bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN WHEN your gums bleed, you can ascribe the condition to one or more of a score of causes. The most common are those having to do with dental care. In fact, there are as many as twelve of these. Besides these, there ap eight causes of bleeding gums which lie within the body itself. The more common causes, associated with improper care of the teeth, are: Accumulations of tartar which cause bleeding by pressing and cutting the delicate gum tissues. Cavities which go down to or under the gum line, causing irritation and bleeding because of the sharp edges which they possess. Overhanging fillings and crowns which press down on the gum tissue. Broken down roots with sharp edges which irritate the tissues. Irregular teeth, which cause bleeding pockets to be formed between the teeth. Lack of tooth brushing. Improper tooth brushing. Use of tooth picks and other such implements for “picking the teeth.” Improper use of dental floss. Introduction of foreign materials into the mouth and the continuation of such a habit over a period of time; for example, nails, pins and pencils. Mouth breathing. Overuse of the wind type of musical instruments. a a a 'T'HESE twelve causes of bleeding gums may be fairly obvious to you. But the more troublesome conditions are allied either with severe disease or with very bad hygiene. These are:

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