Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1934 — Page 7

MAY 12, 1934.

H Seems io Me mm bmjn “'T'HEY RE off!” This cry, well known to every J- lover of the thoroughbred throughout the country, did not ring out early thi smorning along Sixty-seventh street when the Broun coast-to-coast tour started on its way across the continent. For one thing, there was nobody around except the doorman of the apartment house, and he said; “You've got a nice day for it.” I think that was about as much as could possibly be required of him. Naturally, I didn't think of leaning out of the car window apd shouting anything myself, and so in the most informal way possible we turned the nose of Eddie toward San Francisco and started up Broadway. We call the car Eddie because there would be no particular point in calling it Henry. Everything seemed to be functioning smoothly enough, but it was decided to break the journey at Seventy-second street, where we

saw a lunchroom. It’s a long way to California, and, besides, I understand that out there you can obtain nothing but fresh fruits and vegetables. Since I have to face the setting sun. I wanted to try once more the delicious things which come to us in tins in the great metropolis. nan Hreaking Home Ties THE condemned man ate a hearty breakfast consistng of stewed apricots, corned-beef hash with poached eggs, glass of milk, martini cocktail and Tom Collins. I have always felt that one of the greatest gifts of repeal

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has been the new-style dairy lunch. Something of the old Puritan America went from the moment it became possible to get mixed drinks and griddle cakes. Committees in charge of alcoholic control have sternly frowned upon the institution of the barmaid, but we have her equivalent in the neatly attired miss who brings the early breakfaster his apricots and absinthe. In preparation for the journey of self-education I brought with me a pencil, two erasers and a notebook. It seemed to me that I should try to recapture the reportorial point of view from the very beginning of the journey, and so when the hash came I spoke politely to the waitress and said: “I beg your pardon, miss, but I happen to be a newspaper man and I would like to ask you a few questions. First of all, do you find that the introduction of alcoholic beverages in this establishment has affected your work in any serious way?” She told me that she herself never touched intoxicating liquors in any form, although she didn’t mind a glass of beer on a hot day. I informed her that this was not precisely the intent of my question. I had not the slightest intention of prying into her private life. Rather, I wished to obtain for my paper some information as to the conduct of lunchroom patrons under the new dispensation. a a a It Depends Upon the Girl THE young lady said that in her opinion it all depended upon the girl. The male is by nature a predatory animal, and must be sharply checked at the very beginning of a friendship. Still some men she felt, were not to be blamed for their behavior. because the girls led them on. If she wished to be catty she could name Rose and Alice as specific instances of this kind of business. Most men know a lady when they see one, she averred, and cocktails or lack of cocktails has nothing to do ■with it. The freshest and most forward customer she ever had encountered was a man whose invariable order was “Baked apple and a cup of coffee." And often he didn't so much as touch the apple. He seemed to feel that under the cover of this simple order he had a right to say whatever he pleased to any girl who waited upon him. His conduct was so outrageous that she, personally, questioned his sanity. “It seems like he has the mental condition." was her diagnosis. But hot or cold, it was not her intention to put up with that sort of language, whenever he began: “Have you heard the one about the two girls from Troy and the trap drummer?” she simply walked away from his table. n tt tt The Journey Is Resumed WE now have resumed the journey, and hope to make Albany before nightfall. Half an hour after arrival a full repprt will be filed on the economic, social, political and cultural situation in that city. As I write we are crossing the Harlem river and leaving Manhattan behind us. It is a muddy and an unprepossessing stream, but as it fades out and the vast vistas of Van Cortlandt park and its wild life loom up ahead I pray a little earnest appeal that I may some day return to look upon it once again The pinnacle of the Empire State building drops below the horizon. Soon we shall be beyond the last human habitation. California, here we come! (Copyright, 1934. by The Times!

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ'

ON May 20. the American Physical Society will be thirty-five years old In view of the great advances which physicists are making today, particularly those advances in atom-smashing which threaten to revolutionize the whole world, it is interesting to look back over the history of this organization. In view of present developments, including the great research laboratories of many universities and colleges, as well as the great industrial laboratories of many universities and colleges, as well as the great industrial laboratories in all parts of the United States, it is difficult to realize what the situation was like in the last decade of the nineteenth century. In those closing years of tjie nineteenth century, modern physics was getting its start in Europe with the work of Rontgen on X-ray, Becquerel on radioactivity and the Curies on radium, but in the United States there were very few laboratories equipped to carry on research in physics. Only a few universities had sufficient apparatus for anything but the teaching of student courses. There were no industrial laboratories in the nation. The federal government had not yet established the bureau of standards. But though research equipment was small, there were great physicists in the nation, men whose work was destined to stand the test of time. Among them were Dr. A. A. Michelson, later to become known as- the high priest of light,” Dr. Henry A. Rowland and others. a a a DR. MICHELSON. at the time, was professor of physics at Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland. In company with Professor Edwin W. Morley of Western Reserve university, he was then engaged upon the famous ether-drift experiment, now known in scientific literature as the Michelson-Mor-ley experiment. This experiment, carried on in an empty lot in Cleveland Heights, laid the groundwork for the Einstein theory of relativity. Between the years 1890 and 1900. the need for an organization of American physicists was seen and finally on May 20. 1899. an organization meeting was held at Columbia university and the American Physical Society was formed. Professor Arthur G. Webster, often called the “father of the American Physical Society," was the most active in bringing, about this meeting. About forty physicists from all parts of the country attended the meeting, and Rowland and Michelson, the nation's foremost physicists, were elected president and vice-president, respectively. Ona of the first important acts of the American Physical Society was the appointment of a committee "to draw up a memorial to congress on behalf of the physical society urging the establishment of a bureau of weights and measures." Asa result, congress did establish the bureau of weights and measures as a pari of the coast and geodetic survey.

The Romantic and Beautiful —- LOVE LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS

Two Amazing Interludes in the Life of a Great Artist

BY H. H. HARPER WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Hiitorv records no more ardent, glamorous courtship than that of Charles Dickens, brilliant, but poverty-stricken. London youth, and the beautiful Maria Beadnel! daughter of a banker. After three glowing years, Maria discards Dickens. Impulsively he marries Catherine Hogarth, dooming himself to many years of unhappiness. Twenty years after Maria again enters his life and so begins the astounding “Second Interlude” in the dramatic life of Charles Dickens. Receiving Maria's letter, Dickens responded ardently and made a point of providing Maria with a reason to write again. She did. n n n

npo the Hotel Meurice there J. came, as soon as the post could bring it, a letter from Maria Winter, entrusting him with a little errand, as he had suggested, which gave her a good excuse to write him again. Encourcged by the success of her first effort, she increased the intimacy of her second letter, which Dickens answered immediately. His first letter having “softened Maria’s emotions” in sympathy with his own, he now employed every device at his command to revive the old flame, in which effort he succeeded quite beyond his expectations. She had evidently asked for a letter “All to herself” and had assured him it would go to no one else. He therefore wrote with greatly increased fervor, Hotel Meurice, Paris, Thursday, Fifteenth February, 1855. My dear Mrs. Winter:'I had half a mind, when I dipped my pen in the ink, to address you by your old natural Christian name). The snow T lies so deep on the Northern Railway, and the Posts have been so interrupted in consequence, that your charming note arrived here only this morning. I reply by return of post—with a general idea that Sarah will come to Finsbury Place with a basket and a face of goodhumored compassion, and carry the letter away, and leave me as desolate as she used to be. I got the heartache again when I read your commission, written in the hand, which I find now to be not in the least changed, and yet it is a great pleasure to be entrusted with it, and to have'that share in your gentler remembrances which I cannot find it still my privilege to have without a stirring of the old fancies. I need not tell you that it shall be executed to the letter—with as much interest as I once matched a little pair of gloves for you, which I recollect were blue ones. (I wonder whether people generally wore blue gloves when I was nineteen, or whether it was only you!) I am very, very sorry you mistrusted me in not writing before your little girl was born; but I

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

WASHINGTON, May 12.— 1 hair of many Democratic dignitaries on Capitol Hill is perpetually standing on end these days—and the President's legislative program is the cause of it. Nothing gives them the jitters so much, however, as the President’s tariff bill. As the time nears for its consideration, the situation on the Democratic side behind the scenes borders on a definite state of panic. It is a fantastic spectacle. Members go around muttering to themselves, and raging (privately, of course) against the President. They are afraid to vote against the bill, and aghast at the thought of voting for it. That the Democratic party is* traditionally low tariff; that the party’s 1932 platform specifically pledged a program such as the President now proposes, is just last year’s crop of verbiage. It means nothing. Local and sectional protectionist interests are up in arms, are threatening dire political consequences if the measure is enacted. And the brave, bold statesmen, caught between the crossfire, are in a state

of collapse over what to do. The party caucus on the issue last week had the atmosphere of a funeral. Pat Harrison, chairman of the senate finance committee, and as such floor leader for the measure, sat glum and silent. Pat is going to be a good boy, and go down the line on the bill. But how he hates it! Others, however, spoke out bluntly in meeting. „ ‘'This is the most dangerous experiment ever undertaken by the Democratic part y,” thundered Senator George of Georgia. “It is unconstitutional. It is revolutionary. It will ruin our party.” “If this bill passes.'' wailed King of Utah. “I may not even stand for re-election this year.” “I’m agin’ it!” bellowed Huey Long. “The lumber industry in my state says this measure will ruin them.” complained Senator Dill of Washington. a a a CONFIDENTIAL word credits the Republicans with a pat scheme to add to the Democratic discomfiture. Their strategy is simple and devilish. They are preparing scores of amendments. These will propose exemptions for articles in every state of the Union. Roll calls will be demanded on each amendment. Every Democrat will have to show how he stands on the commodities in his own state. Is it any wonder the already terrified Democrats are groaning in anguish and pulling their hair? Administration floor leaders plan to meet this Republican strategy by motions to table the amendments. By such a move they hope to dilute the partisan poison. But they admit it is a weak anitdote. that when the showdown comes they may not be able to kep their quaking ranks from breaking and running for cover. a a a THE statue of William Jennings Bryan, sculptored by Gutzon Borglum, recently was deciated in the capital's Potomac park. One of the celebrities at the dedication ceremony was Honest Harold Ickes, secretary of the interior. From the rugged, bronzed feature of the man who drank only grape juice, who probably did more than any other individual to bring prohibition to the United States, Ickes gazed across to a brewery, the largest in the city. It stood just behind Bryan's statue. •'What do you think of that?” asked a friend. "Guess we'll have to move the brewery,” chuckled Ickes.

hope now that you know me better you will teach her, one day, to tell her children, in times to come when they may have some interest in wondering about it, that I loved her mother with the most extraordinary earnestness when I was a boy. I have always believed since, and always shall to the last, that there never was such a faithful and devoted poor fellow as I was. Whatever of fancy, romance, energy, passion, aspiration and determination belong to me, I never have separated and never shall separate from the hardhearted little woman—you—whom it is nothing to say I would have died for, with the greatest alacrity. I never can think, and I never seem to observe, that other young people are in such desperate earnest or set so much, so long, upon one absorbing hope. It is a matter of perfect certainty to me that I began to fight my way out of poverty and obscurity, with one perpetual idea of you. This is so fixed in my knowledge that to the hour when I opened your letter last Friday night, I have never heard anybody addressed by your name, or spoken of by your name, without a start. The sound of it has always filled me with a kind of pity and respect for the deep truth that I had, in my silly hobbledehoyhood, to bestow upon one creature who represented the whole world to me. I have never been so good a man since, as I was when you made me wretchedly happy. I shall never be half so good a fellow any more. This is all so strange now, both to think of and to say, after every change that has come about; but I think, when you ask me to write to you, you are not unprepared for what it is so natural to me to recall, and will not be displeased to read it. I fancy—though you may not have thought in the old time how manfully I loved you—that you may have seen in one of my books a faithful reflection of the passion I had for you, and may have thought that it was something to have been loved so well, and may have seen in little bits of “Dora” touches of your old self some-

nun 'T'HE senate race in Rhode Island this fall is going to be unique. Opposing each other in the Democratic primaries will be Eddie Dowling, famous comedian, friend of the President, staunch Democrat; and Peter Gerry, onetime treasurer of the Democratic party, contributor of $20,000 to the Rosevelt campaign, once a member of the senate, and publisher of the chief Democratic newspaper in Rhode Island. Despite Gerry’s wealth, power and importance to Democracy, the chances are 100 to 1 that Roosevelt will lean toward Eddie Dowling. There are several reasons, and here’s one of them: In the early part of the last campaign. Eddie was making $4,000 a week in vaudeville. At that time he composed the song “Row 7 , Row with Roosevelt,” and introduced it as a part of his program. Immediately he got orders from the circuit managers to drop the song or else be dropped himself. Eddie chose to be dropped. After that he headed the stage, screen and radio committee for Roosevelt, worked all through the campaign. Roosevelt has not forgotten these things. But most of all he has not forgotten Eddie’s delectable sense of humor, his charm and his warm, Irish smile. oaa BRAWNY “Ham" Fish is in danger of losing his title as congress’ No. 1 red hunter. . . . Kansas’ unkempt, shrill-voiced Representative Harold McGugin is making a strong bid for it. Asa Republican member of the Wirt investigating committee, he threw rhetorical contortions all over Capitol Hill. His latest maneuver is a letter sent to every member of the senate demanding the rejection of Rex Tugwell as undersecretary of agriculture on the ground that he is a secret agent of Moscow. . . . Favorite expression of contempt of Washington's militantly liberal Senator Homer- T. Bone is “scissorbill,” which he defines as “one who hasn’t a hole in his pocket or a nickel to lose through it, but still is a willing defender of Wall Street and all it stands for.” . . . Although the United States government owns nearly one-half the world's gold supply, until recently not a single bar was stored in the treasury. . . . The reason was lack of sufficiently protected vault facilities. This is now being remedied by the completion of extensive subterranean vaults. . . . Into them the government's gold stock, scattered among the mints, assay offices, and Federal Reserve banks is now secretly pouring. < Copyright, 1934. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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times, and a grace here and there that may be revived in your little girls, years hence, for the bewilderment of some other young lover—though he will never be as terribly in earnest as I and David Copperfield were. People used to say to me how pretty all that was, and how fanciful it was, and how elevated it was above the little foolish loves of very young men and women. But they know it was true and nothing more or less. These are things that I have locked up in my own breast, and that I never thought to bring out any more. But when I find myself writing to you again “all to yourself,” how can I forbear to let as much light in upon them as will show you that they are there still! If the most innocent, the most ardent, and the most disinterested days of my life had you for their Sun—as indeed they had —and if I know that the Dream I lived in did me good, refined my heart, and made me patient and persevering, and if the Dream

45 WILL GRADUATE FROM INDIANA LAW Commencement Is Set for May 25 at Ciaypool. The Indiana law school will grant bachelor of law’s degrees to fortyfive students in commencement exercises Friday night, May 25, in the Ciaypool auditorium. James P. Hughes, Greencastle, supreme court judge, a graduate of the school, will be the principal speaker. Frank T. Fairchild, Indianapolis, will be valedictorian. Degrees will be awarded by Dr. Mathhias L. Haines, president of the trustees board. Thursday night, May 24, -the school’s alumni association will have its annual dinner, w’ith Judge Dan •Pyle, South Bend, as principal speaker. Judge Pyle was graduated from the law school in 1902. Judge Williard B. Gemmill, Marion, president of the alumni association, will preside. Members of this year’s class will be guests. Butler Graduate Gets Post Alva J. Lindsey, Buler university graduate, has been appointed technician and junior range examiner stationed at inter-mountain forest and range experiment station, Ogden, Utah. Lindsey received his Master of Science degree in botany from Butler in 1932. Rotary to Hear ‘Y’ Leader Stephen M. Pronke, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in Cuba and the Philippine islands, will address the Rotary Club. Tuesday. His subject will be “The Philippines We Have Liberated.”

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were all of you—as God knows it was—how can I receive a confidence from you, and return it, and make a feint of blotting all this out! As I have said, I fancy that you know all about it quite as well as I do, however. I have a strong belief—there is no harm in adding hope to that—that perhaps you have once or twice laid down that book, and though, “How dearly that boy must have loved me, and how vididly this man remembers it!” I shall be here until Tuesday or Wednesday. If the snow allows this letter to come to you in the meantime, perhaps it would allow one to come to me, “all to myself,” if you were to try it. A number of recollections came into my head when I began, and I. meant to have gone through a string of them and to have asked you if they lived in your mind, too. But they all belong to the one I have indulged in—half pleasantly,

ROUNDING ROUND TUT? ATFDQ with Walter 1 1 JLLIVO D . HICKMAN

Mrs. Martens today announced that she has booked Mme. Lotte Lehmann, grand opera prima donna, for her first appearance in this city. “Since Mme. Lehmann’s sensational debut in this country about two years ago,” Mrs. Martens said, “I have been trying to bring her to Indianapolis. The date has not been definitely fixed but I have signed a contract for her appearance. Mme Lehmann was born in the small towrn of Perleberg, which lies midw’ay between Salzburg and Vienna. After completing her school studies, she enrolled at the State conservatory for a course in voice. She also studied with Mme. Mathilde Mallinger, celebrated Wagnerian singer. She made her operatic debut in a small part. Her first success came to her, when on short notice she substituted for a colleague in the role of Elsa in “Lohengrin.” From then on she was given principal parts. In 1916, she w r as engaged by the State opera in Vienna for leading roles. Here she created a part in Richard Strauss’ “Ariane in Naxos.” Originally the role was assigned to another singer, but Strauss, upon hearing Mme. Lehmann during a rehearsal, decided that she should have the part. Following this success, Lotte Lehmann was thereafter the faithful interpreter Os the Strauss works. She obtained an enormous success as Ariane in “Die Frau Ohne Schatten,” as Christine in “Intermezzo” and later, as the Marechale in “Rosenkavalier.” Mme. Lehmann has concertized

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half painfully—and are all swallowed up in that, so let them go. My dear Mrs. Winter, Ever affectionately vours. CHARLES DICKENS <P. S.) I wonder what has become of a bundle of letters I sent ydu back once (according to order, tied with a blue ribbon, of the color of the gloves! a an IT will be understood that men of affairs who visit Paris, whether for business or pleasure, are not in the habit of setting down to write long letters of this tenor unless moved by some deepseated impulse. And to receive such a spontaneous love message from Charles Dickens, written in the midst of Paris distractions, was a triumph that might easily have made Maria Winter one of the proudest women in England. It is doubtful if it has fallen to the lot of many women to enjoy a more exciting thrill than she got from this and the one next following. No wonder she treasured these letters and left them as a priceless heritage to her daughter. Maria’s letter having just missed him in Paris on Tuesday, followed him immediately to London, arriving Thursday morning. He answered it promptly. Note the restrained cordiality in the first letter of Feb. 10, wherein he said that on his return Mrs. Dickens would call and arrange for “our seeing you and Mr. Winter.” But after hearing from her again he became more ardent in the letter of Feb. 15. Now, seven days later, she has become “My dear Maria,” and he abandons all restraint in the most impassioned love letter he ever wrote. Instead of having Mrs. Dickens call, he has resolved to see Maria alone, “before meeting when others are by.” Delighted—as well she might have been—by his responsiveness, she requested a secret meeting, to which he acquiesces with his whole heart.” In an unguarded moment, sober discretion is thrown to the winds and all is forgotten save that he is living again in the old dream, in which he ardently exclaims—- “ Whom can you ever trust, if it be not your old lover!” In our next episode we present what literary authorities pronounce “Thegreatest love letter ever written.” Dickens sent this letter to Maria at a secret address. (Copyright 1934, John F. Dille Cos.)

in nearly all the countries of the w’orld. She sings regularly in Vienna, Paris, Brussels, London, Berlin, Salzburg. Munich and Monte Carlo. It w’as during the season 1930-31 that Mme. Lehmann first visited this country as a member of the Chicago Opera Company. She was re-engaged the following season. On Jan. 7, 1932, she made her New York recital debut to a soldout house. a an r | 'HE Falls City Casino, 3547 East Washington street, will remain open all summer, it was announced today. Anew air-cooling system has been installed. The Casino will be under the management of Bill Bailey, who will have his orchestra there. Mr. Bailey states that his orchestra will not be at Riverside park this summer. Anew night club has been opened at Neal’s Guaranty cafeteria, 20 North Meridian street. Gordon Carper and his orchestra are iurishing music for dancing every night except Monday. a a a CLYDE BEATTY and his wild animals will be the feature of the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus when it shows here for two performances on Thursday, May 24. For the first time in eleven years there will be a circus parade at 11 a. m. on show day. Allen J. Lester, advance contracting press representative, has been here in interest of the circus. an tt THE first all-city high school music festival to be staged in Indianapolis will be held at Cadle tabernacle, May 23 and 24, according to an announcement of Ralph W. Wright, director of music in the local public schools. Selected groups from all high schools will participate. The May 23 concert will feature the all-high orchestra and mixed chorus. On May 24 the all-high band and girls’ chorus will present the program. Daily rehearsals are being held in all high schools. Combined rehearsals of the respective groups are scheduled for May 16, 17, 23 and 24. An aggregate total of approximately 1,600 students will participate; 200 in orchestra and band respectively; 500 in the mixed chorus, and 700 in the girls’ chorus. No student is permitted to take part in more than one group. Mr. Wright, who will act as festival conductor, has named the following assistant directors: Frederick Barker, J. Harold Brown, Elizabeth Kaltz Cochran, Rhoda Maude Delbridge, Raymond Hail, Jean McCormick, Laura C. Moag, Isabelle Mossman, Richard S. Orton, Raymond G. Oster, J. Russell Paxton, Lon L. Perkins, Blanche H. Quirk, Etta Scherf, Robert B. Shepard, Robert J. Shultz, John M. White’, Harold E. Winslow and Will F. Wise. V

GOVERNOR TO TALK AT UNIVERSAL CLUB SESSIO Taxation to Be Among Topics Taken Up by McNuy. Governor Paul V. McNutt will discuss the state’s government and its educational system, with special reference to taxation, before the Universal Club at a luncheon Tuesday. Max Merritt, club president, will preside. Bert Essex will introduce Governor McNutt. Ike Reilly, vice-president, will be “silent booster" lor the day. i

Fdir Enough WSwStMIR TT NOXVILLE, Tenn.. May 12.—At least one community in the United States will be made a better place to live in by Mr. Roosevelt’s new deal. That community is Knoxville and the adjacent hill country where, on one side of the city, the TV A is building the Norris dam and the town of Norris, and, on the other side, the Great Smoky National forest of 400,000 acres has been established. The national forest is not exactly an item of the federal government’s new deal, having been paid for

almost entirely by the Rockefellers and the states of Tennessee and North Carolina. But it is a part of the scenario in which a city of 120.000 people, as prejudiced and self-satisfied and hostile to outsiders as any cluster of cabins in the mountains, is receiving new ideas for the first time since the Civil war. Knoxville always has had an aristocracy of rich industrial families who could afford to travel in Europe, but they have been very exclusive on their home grounds and conscious of their quality. There has been a great gap between the aristocracy and the working people of all classes.

The city has been for a long time the center of a low wage area which included places where children worked fifty-four hours a week in the mills for less than $3 a week. Wages, in Knoxville proper, were better than those which were paid in some of the horrible-example towns in the hills, but the employes were not exactly pampered in town, either. st tt a Clergy in Retreat FOR a long time, also, Knoxville was dominated by the local 'l°rgy who probably were devout but, like the clergy so many other places, enjoyed power and extended it to many matters which were not properly their business. But while the clergy were storming and commanding that things be done their way in such controversies as the one regarding the teaching of evolution, they were not correspondingly active in the amelioration of the condition of the poor. They won the decision but lost the fight in the celebrated monkey trial at Dayton. Tenn., and they definitely ceased to dominate life in Knoxville when Tennessee voted to repeal the eighteenth amendment. The clergy now have retreated to the general vicinity of the clergy’s proper place and matching their retreat, step for step, a road company brain trust has moved in, under government employ, talking social and economic ideas of a kind which would not have received a hearing a few years ago. The best people were not all cordial to the TV A and its branch brain trust when the intellects first came to Knoxville. As in the folds of the mountains, outsiders long had been regarded as furriners and the best people were completely confident of their ability to run their own affairs. This was one commupnity in which the government, moving in to spend large sums of money, was not received with enthusiasm. n a o Talk Any Subject FOR one thing, the government was planning to pay a seals of wages considerably higher than the accustomed local ratqf For another, this plan of the government’s to build pretty houses for the working people on the Norris plan was bound to give the people troublesome ideas-. And anyway, it was an outside idea. The road company of the brain trust now numbers about 500 brains of various specialties, it occupies three buildings for business purposes and its members are getting around socially and, naturally, are popping-off as brains will, on a wide variety of subjects. They talk sociology, architecture, politics, religion, education, forestry and all such topics as the brains discuss at dinners in Washington and there is no doubt that Knoxville is relaxing and learning from the furriners. Some of them have been bid into the clubs, a number of brains were accepted, at $lO a head, for the local social register, and beyond question they will leave a few ideas behind when they pack up and get along about their careers after a couple of years in town. The model community at Norris, in the foothills, is a model beyond the ordinary meaning of the term. Not only are the houses attractive, but the crew of 8,000 men are plainly far above the average in intelligence and character. It will be hard to understand this for it is not customary to look for brains, honesty and nice conduct in an army of laborers. But the picked men of this community, just on sight, compare with the average gang on a big construction job as a thoroughbred horse to a plug. They show class, even in the quarries and ditches and their town, when they take it over, will be something to shame the average community of equal size. Rents are up, apartments are scarce, and retail business is booming on government money in Knoxville. This money may not entirely compensate the victims for the damage to their prejudices. They were fine, old prejudices, an important part of the city’s character for many years. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN HOWEVER carefully you watched over your children during the difficult days of the depression, you should continue to see that they are well provided for, both physically and mentally. The depression has struck children forcibly, so that parents must keep a watchful eye over them now more than ever. In one of the great mental hygiene clinics of the United States, in Cleveland, it has been found that hardly a single case has come before the clinic during recent years in which the effects of the depression have not been apparent. The usual statement of parents of delinquent children is about as follows: “I know I ought to try to help my child, but with all my other worries because of this depression I simply am frantic and do not know what to do for him.” Dr. H. C. Shumacher, director of the Child Guidance clinic of Cleveland, is convinced that the recent economic situation has disillusioned child after child, particularly those from the ages of 13 to 20, febout home owning, saving money, or trusting his fellow-men. a a a DR. SCHUMACHER has found that the depression has played a prominent part in relationship to stealing by children. True, children occasionally stole before the depression, but stealing is essentially a reaction of the child to a desire to get even, an indication of the child’s resentment against the unfairness of his life. Therefore, more cases are found in which children take money from the home, hold out change when sent to the store, or indulge in more serious stealing. Furthermore, many children have had their personal allowances cut because of the depression, and now attempt pilfering small change to get the ice cream, candy or other delicacies which are no longer provided for them. a a a TRUANCY, which is not an outgrowth of factors concerned in the depression, has actually diminished during the depression period, probably because the children are more satisfied with the warmth of the school building and extra food they get. and because they can not get at home the things they used to get. The years of the depression have seen a considerable increase in the number of homeless adolescent girls working on the streets. According to Dr. Schumaker, the police records show that the girls arrested on vice charges today are much younger than they were in former years. All these facts indicate that there never was a time when mental hygiene was so much needed in

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