Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1934 — Page 7

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It Seem to He HEVWOOD BROUN IS this a car 1 ' a-k'-d th'’ syndicate manager in rather h:ch dudgeon. In order to meet his lofty chalienee I elevated my eyebrows and replied steadfastly: "Is what a gag?" ■ Our readers." he elucidated, "have been led to expect that by now you would be half way to California. The coast, the middle west and the south. I will admit, are patient enough about your projected trip, but local clients are restive. Irvin Cobb U't'd to tell a story which roes something this this"— • I knov I interrupted, 'he still does, and it ends up Go on Negro, git hung.' or words to that effect." ‘ I see," said the syndicate manager, "that you ca'ch the drift of my remarks. Either you are gome to leave New York on a tour through the country or you are not. It can well be summed up in the vulgar expression"

L ot 's not sum up.” I suggested, and :et's avoid vulgarity, for it seems to me that a principle is at stake. We have banded together o create a federated nation. When he first gun was fired on the battleship Maine there was no south, no north, no east nor west.” a a a A Pedant for Accuracy ‘”lkTO guns were fired on the lN battleship Maine,” said the syndicate manager meticulously. You are thinking of Ft. Sumter.” I am trying to forget Ft. Sumter.” I assured him earnestly. That issue was decided on the oloody plains of Gettysburg. When

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Meade’s force- -wept back the charge of Pickett it was established ’hat I need not. necessarily call upon the El Paso iTexas; Herald-Post unless they want me. Did you ever stop to think.” I continued, “that William Alien White, way off in Emporia. Kan.. is biologically our brother. Cut him and he will bleed even as vou and I. Spit upon his gabardine and he will write an editorial about it and win the Pulitzer prize.” I grew wearv and shook my fist in the face of the syndicate manager, saying: “You have pointed out to me on many occasions that for your purposes I am too local. You have accused me of being parochial and Broadway-minded. Now listen to this turning worm. You and your minions are the shortvisiofied folk. So much do I respect the integrity and the intelligence of this broad empire that I feel no necessity of traveling across it. My notion is that whatever I want to say in the New York WorldTelegram ran be said with equal cogency and effect in the Troy <N. Y.> Observer or the Wilkesbarre <Pa> Independent. Do you think the culture, the intelligence and the sensitivity of these cities are in any way less than those of this meager metropolis of ours? Well, let, me tell you that there is nothing on Broadway for which Main street or Chestnut j boulevard does not provide the equivalent.” "And how." asked the syndicate manager, “do you know that?” mam A Matter of Research "1 READ it in two or three columns of O. O. 1 Mclntvro.” T explained. "Besides I take it on faith. My motto is ‘Never sell the Harrisburg <Pa.) News and Patriot short.’ At this very moment Westbrook Prgler is going down the Mississippi on a raft. Arthur Brisbane is crossing the great American desert. Winchell is in Detroit and Mclntyre is ! ascending the Rockies. And you want me to rush j out to the Columbia ‘Ohio) Citizen! I say, No.’ and | six hundred and twenty-three times ’No.’ Columbus has its problems, of course, but who am I to intrude my ideas upon that, wholly self-sufficient community? What have I got to say to the efficient citizens of a sovereign state?” "Judging from your output of the last two or three months.” said the syndicate manager with asperity, "my answer would be ‘Nothing at all.’” “Spoken like a true syndicate cynic,” I answpred bitterly. “We columnists are simple folk. Not one of us can afford to grow fancy under his responsibility of six days a week. We merely set down one little word after another. Most of the tirpe it is pretty terrible.” f a a a The Lowest Common Denominator THE syndicate manager nodded gravely. For the first time during the afternoon we seemed to be in agreement. “But once in a blue moon." I added hurriedly after his encouragement, “someone of us chances upon a fundamental idea, and that is just as viable in the Charlotte <N. C.) News and the Murfreesboro (Tenn.) News-Journal as in our own dead Wall Street edition. I say that the colonel’s lady and Walter Winchell are sisters tinder the skin. I can not hope for so close a relationship, but I’d like to get a nomination as second cousin once removed. ' But.” said the syndicate man in his blunt and persevering way. “are you or aren't you going to get out to California, or do you intend to fritter away your time right here?” With an icy glance I checked him. “My word has been given.” was my reminder. T promised you to tour and learn about this country’. The vow stands. In my heart is set the slogan. It runs "Bridgeport or bust!” (Cnpvricht, 19*4. by The Times*

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

THE United States has succeeded in setting trachoma. the principal cause of blindness throughout the world, under control. So says Lewis H. Carris. managme director of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Mr. Carris and Dr. Park Lewis of Buffalo. N. Y„ are now in Paris as United States representatives at the joint meeting of the International Association for the Prevention of Blindness and the International Organization Against Trachoma. Trachoma is now comparatively rare in the large cities of the United States. Mr. Carris says. ' I am happy to announce." he continues, "that, reports from the United States public health service, which have just reached us indicate a downward trend of trachoma in this country. The disease is reportable in this country and for many years the government has refused admission to immigrants showing symptoms of it. "In the United States, trachoma is found mostly in the Ozark and Appalachian mountain regions and among the Indian tribes of the southwest. Poverty and insanitary living conditions are important factors in its contraction and spread." a a a THE ravages of trachoma are most severe in China. India, Egypt and other countries of the Orient and the Near East. Mr. Carris says. Even in countries with well-organized and extensive campaigns for the relief and cure of sufferers." he says, "it can not be hoped that trachoma will be materially reduced until economic and general living conditions are improved and education in hygiene has developed sanitary living. "This disease, the greatest single world cause of vision impairment and blindness, constitutes a serious challenge to all national and international health ana public welfare agencies. "The specific germ which brings on trachoma has not been definitely established. .Recent investigations. however, give clews that are expected to clear up this mystery which has baffled medical men for centuries.” Mr. Carris and Dr. Lewis assisted in the formation of the International Association for the Prevention of Blindness at a meeting held at The Hague in 1929. Dr. Lewis, at the present time, is vicepresident of the association. Mr. Cams has been the director of the American movement for sight conservation for the last twelve years. mam THI Leslie Dana gold metal, awarded annually for outstanding achievements in the prevention of blindness and the conservation of vision, was presented at a meeting of the association to Dr. F. De Lapersonne. famous French eye specialist. The medal 1* awarded annually by the American society. Dr. De Lapersonne. who is now the president of the asociation, is the second European to be awarded this medal. In 1929 it was given to the late Dr. Ernest Fuchs of Vienna.

WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE!

Outlaws Live Briefly in Glory; Find Trail Has One End —Doom

This i the sixth and last of a sor ies of stories on notorious outlaws whose are*r% have b*en ended by ballet, rope, or prison bars and present-day “mostwanted ‘ criminal*, their records, and descriptions. BY WILLIS THORNTON N'EA Service Staff Correspondent FOR months, the sole money reward for the capture of John Dillinger, No 1 outlaw of the country, was $25. That was offered by the federal government, whose only interest in his capture was a single charge of violation of the national motor vehicle theft act. i The motor vehicle concerned was the auto of Sheriff Lillian Holley of Crown Point. Ind., which Dillinger stole in making his famous wooden gun” escape.) Now, however. Indiana. Michigan. Illinois and Ohio have offered SI,OOO each for Dillinger “dead or alive”; a private movie company has offered another $5,000. and there are indications that Dillinger will soon have a price on his head that will spur still further the nation-wide efforts being made to round up this outlaw and the desperate men he has gathered around him. Behind these men, in their reckless, mad flight, lie the bodies of thirteen better men who have gone down before their merciless guns. That is why department, of justice men. headed by the departments's ace, Joseph B. Keenan, are sparing nothing in the most concentrated man hunt of our times.

That is why no less than the attorney-general himself has intimated that if the government is spared the expense of trying these men, it will be all right with him. And they can escape trial in only one way. The trail of Dillinger’s atrocities is too fresh in every one's mind to make it w’orth while to recall it in detail. He was born about thirty-two years ago in a rural village, Mooresville. Ind.. of highly respected Quaker parents. He went to school, played baseball, partly learned the machinist trade. At about 21 he left the farm where his 70-year-old father still works. B B B HE drifted from job to job, sticking to nothing, but falling naturally among town bums and loafers. In 1924, still just an average aimless young map* he planned a clumsy stickup. With a companion, he slugged an aged merchant on the head with a piece of pipe. Caught immediately. he w-as sent to the penitentiary. Despite a bad prison record, he was paroled in 1933, and then, aided by companions and ideas acquired in prison, he w’ent on his present spree of crime and murder. Nobody knows .just how r many of the crimes attributed to him are really his—and it doesn't matter. for there are plenty of unquestioned crimes which can be pinned on him. The murder of Patrolman William P. O'Malley, when the officer tried to stop robbery of a bank at East Chicago, Ind., would be enough. As between Dillinger and his gang, operating now together, now separately, nobody knows how r many of the w r ave of mid-

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

WASHINGTON. May 19.—When war debt history finally is written, it will be found thah the slow evaporation of debts into nothing was due to politics and postponement. The blame lies with both political parties. The Hoover moratorium ended in June, 1932. That was the time to begin discussion of anew deal on debts. But that particular time coincided with the Republican national convention in Chicago. War debts were embarrassing to Mr. Hoover's re-election chances and they were postponed. The next debt installment was due Dec. 15, 1932. This time the debtors were on the job early. They called at the state department two days after Roosevelt was elected. Again there was postponement—this time at the instance of the President-elect. He cotud not discuss war debts, he said, until after March 4. On March 5 there were renewed overtures. This time there was the banking crisis. War debts naturally had to take second place. They were postponed until the pre-London economic conference discussions. Came these discussions —and once again postponement. Debts could not be discussed until currency was stabilized. And with each successive postponement the value of the debts diminished. European populations got more into the habit of thinking debts never would be paid. European governments found it more difficult to buck- the wills of their peoples.

Last week all this came to a head in a conversation between Czechoslovakian Minister Veverka and Billy Phillips, undersecretary of state. Phillips had inferred that Czechoslovakia had been reluctant regarding its debts. “You have on file three letters from me.” replied Veverka. “all asking when you will be ready to discuss debts. I have in my files only one letter from you. It said you were not yet ready. “Three times we have said we were anxious to talk debts and twice you did not even bother to reply.” b tt a IT HAS been pretty well broadcast that “Cotton Ed" Smith, South Carolina's walrus-mus-tachioed chairman of the senate agriculture committee, is opposed to Professor Rex Tugwell as undersecretary of agriculture. But what has not been broadcast are Tugwell's views on "Cotton Ed." At a press conference in the agricultural department. Secretary Wallace was asked what he though about Smith. I must ask to be excused from answering.” replied Wallace with a shy smile. There is no use asking me that question.” broke in Tugwell, who was sitting by his side. Mv answer couldn't be printed any way.” BBS ' t 'HIS is going to be sad news Dr. “Eat-and-tell” Wirt A. new creation of the Brain Trust has just been born. It is the President's home repair and construction program. However, the good doctor can rest peacefully on at least one point. There is only one professor in the group. The three principal formulators of the plan are Winfield Reifler. erudite young chairman of the government's central statiscal board: Albert L. Deane, president •*f the General Motors Holding Corporation, and Horace M. Russell. chief counsel of the Home Owners Loan Corporation. Reifler is the Brain Trust “suspect." He came direct from the Amherst campus to government sendee, beginning as a research expert for the federal reserve board. Hls contribution to the home repair plan is a scheme for long term first mortgages, backed by government guaranties. They are expected to start anew crop of low priced American nomes. Albert Deane, long associated with General Motors, was loaned to Roosevelt because of his experience in credit finance. He worked out the plan of govern-

western bank robberies are theirs, or which man has been responsible for what. BBS CHARLES MAKLEY, Harry Pierpont. and Russell Clark, all rounded up with Dillinger at Tucson, Ariz., have been convicted of the murder of Sheriff Jess Sarber w’hen they freed Dillinger from the small jail at Lima, O, the tw’o former being sentenced to the chair. With him still, however, are believed to be Tom Carroll, George (Baby Face) Nelson, Homer Van Meter and John Hamilton. It is unlikely that these five travel together in a pack, but probable that they separate and reunite according to plan. Carroll, who has used the names of James Roy Brock. Frank Sloan, George McLarken, Thomas Murphy, and Thomas Murray, is a paroled thief, bank robber, and gunman, especially wanted for the murder of special Agent W. Carter Baum of the department of justice in the gunfight near Rhinelander, Wis., in which the Dillinger gang escaped a trap. He also killed a police officer in San Antonio. Tex., in December, 1933, the law declares. He is a surly fellow, with a mouth which twists distinctly to the right. B B B NELSON, escaped thief, is believed correctly named Lester M. Gillis. He, too, is wanted for the murder of Baum. A Chicago product, he is a small, light man with yellow' and gray-slate eyes, who has worked as an oiler. Van Meter. w r ho, as Kenneth served time for robbery in Illinois, later was parolecl from an

ment-backed short term loans for home refurnishing. Deane's idea is for the government to underwrite small home renovation in much the same way that General Motors finances the purchases of one of its cars —so much down, and the rest by the month. Horace Russell, a soft-spoken Atlanta lawyer, and veteran in Washington, helped create the Home Owners Loan Corporation and did the legal work on the home repair program. It was anew “Housing Brain Trust.” B tt B PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has given secret orders to Jim Farley and the other national Democratic political managers to do nothing to injure the re-elec-tion chances of Senator Bob La Follette. .. . The administration will not indorse him, but, on the other hand, neither will it do anything for the E>emocrat whe takes the field against him. .. . The Progressives, led by Norris and Borah, are planning to take the stump in Wisconsin for their youthful and highly esteemed colleague. . , . Tucked away in an inside corner in the left-wingish monthly publication, Common Sense, is the following item: “The White House. Washington. D. C. I am afraid I have never seen your magazine before but I was quite interested in reading it. I shall certainly give it to the President. Eleanor Roosevelt.” .. . T*ie issue carrying this note has as its leading article a severe attack on the NRA by John T. Flynn. . . . The paper is edited by former Senator Hiram Bingham's radical-minded son, Alfred. . . . Thomas Jefferson Cooiidge 3d, newly appointed undersecretary of treasury, is a great-great-grandson of the fourth President of the United States. His mother was a Randolph of Virginia, his grandfather a President of the Sante Fe Railroad, later President McKinley, ambassador to France. . . . Young poolidge, playing leftend for Harvard in the 1914 game that opened the Yale bowl, scooped up a Yale fumble almost on Harvard's goal line and ran ninety-eight yards for a touchdown. ... A housing survey just completed by the PWA in twelve major cities disclosed that of 105.748 dwellings examined. 13.115 were built' more than forty years ago, and only 4.663 had been erected in the last four years. (Copyright, 1934, bv united Feature Syndicate, Inc.j

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George Nelson, 25: height 5'4 3 i"; weight 133; light chestnut hair, light complexion; eyes yellow and grey slate; build medium.

John Hamilton, 2S; height 5'S”; w eight 166; brown hair, blue eyes, fair complexion; two fingers missing, right hand.

Indiana prison. He bears on an inner forearm a tattoo mark of an anchor and banner with the ironic word “hope,” He is especially wanted at St. Paul for obstructing justice and bank robbery. Hamilton is the remaining link In the Sheriff Sarber murder. Though his index and middle fingers on the right hand are missing, this man who started as an auto thief is now w’anted as Sarber’s murderer. It has been reported that. Hamilton was shot in one of Dillinger’s recent escapes, but the true extent of his injuries is not known. B tt B OF all Dillinger’s present associates. Hamilton has been with him the longest, as he was

WILSON HEADING PRIMARLPGRBE Prosecutor Personally to Handle Investigation of * Vote Count, The grand jury investigation of alleged election irregularities will be conducted personally by Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson, beginning today. Because he is familiar with work of the election canvassing ljoard, Mr. Wilson decided to take over the investigation himself. He expects the jury to complete its work next week. The probe, which began Thursday. wil include investigation of the changing of official canvassing board tabulations of the vote for the county clerk on the Republican ticket. Canvassing board members who are known to have been in the canvassing room at the time the figures were changed, were to appear before the grand jury this njoming. The prosecutor called a special session of the grand jury for today. Ordinarily the jury does not meet Saturdays. WEEK’S CLEARINGS I RISE Centers Outside of New Y'ork Show Increase of 30.8 Pew Cent. By Titnrs Bprcinl NEW YORK, May 19.—Last week's bank clearings in the United States amounted to $4,994,501,000, a slight decline from the previous week, but higher than the $4,334,065,000 of the corresponding 1933 week, according to Dunn & Bradstreet, Inc. Most of the increase over last year was made in centers outside of New York, where the total gain was 30.8 per cent. The increase in New York amounted to 8.9 per cent.

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Bureau of Investigation —Wanted — JOHN DILLINGER, with alias, FRANK SULLIVAN

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one of the men Dillinger helped to “spring” from Michigan City, and one of those who returned the favor by freeing Dillinger from the Lima (O.) prison over the dead body of Sheriff Sarber. Hamilton, whose trade is that of carpenter, bears a long irregular scar in the center of his forehead, and a heart and banner with the initials “J. H.” tatooed on his left outer forearm. Because of the particularly flagrant manner in which these men have defied the law, because . of the publicity they have received, and because they shot their way out of a department of justice trap, killing a D. J. man in doing so, it is likely that Uncle Sam would get greater satisfac-

ROUNDING ROUND rpLTT? A rpT? T> Q WITH WALTER 1I T £jl\ I JIL/IYO D . HICKMAN

REALIZING the controversy that has developed out of “Men in White” winning the Pulitzer prize instead of “Mary of Scotland.” which the plaly committee unanimously voted as the best play of the year, Mrs. Eugene Fife, dramatic reader and instructor, will give a comparative review here of the two plays.

Mrs. Fife has engaged the Women's Department Club on North Meridian street for the scene of her review. As the Theater Guild has booked “Mary of Scotland” and the original cast into English’s next fall, Mrs. Fife’s talk takes on new importance. The public is invited. Monday night at 8 at 2306 North Pennsylvania, street, Mrs. Fife will present her Portmanteau Players in their initial performances. Admission is by invitation. Three one-act plays will be presented. tt tt a BROAD RIPPLE'S Civic Theater will make its debut tonight at 913 Riveria drive. This afternoon from 2 to 4. an art tea will open the theater's activities. All exhibits at' the tea will be by local artists. Tonight at 8:30 two one-act plays, one in the costumes of the seventeenth century, will be presented by the Theater Players. The other, a comedy, will be presented by the Barnstormers, a well-known local dramatic organization, under the direction of Robert Malloy. It will be the policy of the theater to present a stock show each week for three performances. The basement of the theater is being made into a recreation room. Virgo de Leon, artist, will conduct classes during the summer months for Broad Ripple children who are interested in art. The art staff of the theater is

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tion from the capture of Dillinger and his confederates than any other of the fugitives who nowroam the country with the dread price on their heads “dead or alive,” w’hich means that they can have neither rest nor peace until society’s score is settled. Settlement of these scores depends not only on the vigilance and bravery of police officers. It depends on the support of every citizen. Chief Justice Hughes himself recently said: “The roots of the evils which beset the detection and punishment of crime strike deep into the social soil. The primary need is a robust civic sentiment, dominated by a sense of justice...” (THE END)

composed of Elizabeth Leonard, Bonna Lees and Wilbur Mees. Dr. Gertrude Hinshaw is manager of the new project and is a member of the music staff. Miss Alyce Adair is the dramatic director of the theater. “T TERE COMES CHARLIE,” a II three-act comedy by Jay Tobias, will be presented by the senior Luther League of the Gethsemane Lutheran church at 8 Friday night, May 25, in School 78 auditorium. Gladys Stevens will appear in the title role and Fred Vogel will have one of the leading parts, Gaylord Allen is director. Others in the cast will be Naomi Dietz, Fred Reiter, Betty McClcskey, Palmer McCloskey, Virginia Allen, Mary Alice Burch and Donald McCloskey. ft B tt DONN WATSON will present his advanced violin students in recital next Monday in the Cropsey auditorium of the central library. They will be assisted by the Concert Trio. The program is as follows: . Andante con moto” (D minor Trio) Mendelssohn “Presto iD minor Trio) .. Mendelssohn Concert Trio Violet Albers, violm: Mary Lohrmann, cello; Mamona Wilson, Piano. ‘Mazurka” Mlynarski Margaret Geckler “Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" White | “Serenade” Drdla Edward Gaylord “Spanish Dance” Severn Norma Mueller “Romanza” Wilhslmji “Gypsy Blood" Bronson Ruth Van Matre “Air Varie No. 1 <D minor) ... de Beriot Beatrice Hatton Allegro moderato and Recitative Godard (from Concerto Romantiquei Mrs. Octavia Landers “Caprice Viennois” Kreisler Preiudium and Allegro Pugnani-Kreisler Violet Albers “Old Refrain” Kreisler Concert Trio Accompanists—Helen Webster. Geraldine Swarthout. Helen Sommers, Mrs. Dorothy Sunderland. Mrs. Panetta Hitz Brady. Ramona Wilson. B tt B MISS NORMA FRANCE sends word from New York that she will visit Indianapolis next week. She formerly was contralto soloist at the Tabernacle Presbyterian church and a student of Fred Newell Morns. The last year she has appeared with the Chicago Opera Company in leading roles in “Aida,” “Tristan and Isolde” and “Dei Walkure.” She will sing at both services in the church May 27. INLAND OPERATIONS UP 10 PER CENT IN WEEK Production Shows Huge ncrease C —r With Last Y’ear. By Time/! Sf-rciil CHICAGO. May 19.—Ingot pro- j duction of the Inland Steel Company j is running at about 80 per cent of capacity, as compared with 70 per cent in the previous week, and 30 per cent in the correspor'ing week last year. Operations of steel mills in the Chicago district is at about 65 per cent of capacity, while operation in the entire state of Illinois are at approximately 50 per cent of capacity. Operation in Chicago a year ago were at about 30 per cent. The American Shet a id Tin Plate Company at present is operating its sheet mill at about 95 per cent of capacity and ifs tin mill at 50 per cent. The sheet mill two weeks ago was operating at 80 per cent of caat 75 per

Fdir Enough UNm MEMPHIS. Tenn., May 19—At 8 oclock in the morning there came a banging on the door which continued for some time. I did not answer, however, until I heard a voice saying, apparently to the* manager of the hotel, in the hail outside. “I want a fire-ax. I'm going to bust that door in. The guy is probably dead in there.” So I got up and opened the door and there stood Mr. Shifty Logan, a retired pugilist bearing gifts. One gift was a pint flask, or slab, as the Negro citi-

zen's call it, of com stimulant. The other was a slab of gin. “No fooling.” Mr. Logan Said, setting down his parcels, “I thought, you w-as dead the way you didn't answer. I brought you a couple of slabs. When Jack Dempsey was through here the other day he told me to look you up and take care of you while you're m Memphis.” Mr. Logan was rolling up his sleeves. “Lay over here and leave me rub some life into you. The old champ said for me to pick you up and take good care of you as long as you are in town. Anything you want to do, anywhere you want to go. anybody you

want to see I will take care of you.” . Shifty Logan was playing Dixie up and down the right leg. No.” he said. ’ I never laid up a quarter fighting. I had 287 fights and came out even. I was broke when I started and broke when I finished. But I got my eyes and I never got punched around the head so much, so I can go along. tt tt tt End of a Job “T HAD me a job on the fire department for a while. A I was a pipe man. That's the guy that squirts the nozzle on the fire. For a while I was the tiller man on a big aerial truck. You know what I mean, the ladder wagon. But one day we are going to some punk little $2 fire somewhere and we come to turn a corner and I have got those stern wheels in a wet street car track. So I give the wheel a twist and forgot myself and twist it the wrong way. That tiller-wheel you are supposed to turn just the opposite way to what you would the steering wheel of a car. So I pull the wheel the wrong way and we jump out of the car tracks and smash up five automobiles in a row. “After a while I resigned from the fire department. Fireman is a hell of a business, at that. You spend all you time sitting around playing checkers or reading detective magazines, waiting for some poor sap's house to catch on fire. I got sick of playing checkers and reading detective magazines. We had two dog: and a cat in the barn. One dog's name was Towser and the other one’s name was Spot and the cat’s name was Kitty. “Turn over and leave me work on your neck a while. “Say, what is this about how they won't, leave kids sell papers on the corner any more under this child labor law? I certainly am glad they didn’t have that law when I was a kid. I was around 6 when I started selling papers. I used to have long curls like a little girl. “My old man wasn't doing so good and my mother used to bring me downtown by the hand in the afternoon and put me on my corner. Around 7 she would come and get me and I would havo pretzels in every pocket. We used to have saloons all over the place ther and I was so little I could almost walk under the swing doors. My long curls made me planty money. I would walk in and pick me out the guys that were pretty well and look sad. Generally they gave a quarter for a paper. I could do as much as four, five dollars a night with my curls around the saloons. And they always gave me pretzels. B B B Curls and Rattles THAT'S how I got into fighting. Guys would leave hold of my curls and give them a yank and away we would go. I couldn’t cut them off because they are important in my business, but they kept me in battles all the time. Sometimes .down in the pressroom we would fight for an hour and a half. The circulation manager would give the winner a bottle of soda. The loser got a drink of water. “I drawed $4,800 one fight and got $750 myself. That was the most I ever got. “Now lay there a while and relax and I will take you around town, like Dempsey said. Any time Dempsey ccmes to town I take charge of him and any time he tells me to take care of some friend I take care of them.” I never have met any one quite like my interesting new friend Shifty Logan, the retired newsboy, retired pugilist and retired fireman. He has been in attendance all day and he doesn't, won’t, take money or a present and he wants no return favors. Jack Dempsey has been his idol ever since July 4. 1919, when Dempsey knocked out Jess Willard in Toledo and any certified friend of Mr. Dempsey finds that Shifty Logan is his to command. (Copyright.. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN"

YOU may be able to exist without food from thirty to forty days and without water from five to sen days, but you can’t do without oxygen for even five minutes. If you are ceprived of oxygen for even one minute, you would be in a serious situation and if this should be extended only slightly, you would become unconscious and life would end. The margin of oxygen reserve in your body is so narrow that it is easily crossed, and yet it is a margin between life and death. Anything that interrupts breathing is a menace to life. Your whole breathing mechanism, moreover, is so complicated that various types of interruption are possible. There is that portion of the brain which controls the automatic character of breathing: there are the nerves in the spine and those leading from the spine to the muscles that are involved in breathing: there are the passages through which the air flows, and the lungs themselves. an b ANYTHING that blocks the passages or that breaks the pathways along which the stimulus to breathing moves may bring about death. Therefore o ir whole lives are spent in getting sufficient oxygen. The period for which any one can hold his breath without discomfort is apparently limited to fortyfive seconds. If, however, you prepare yourself for holding your breath by breathing slowly and deeply for a certain length of time, you may be able to do without breathing for anywhere from five to six minutes. If, in addition to that, the air you breathe is supplemented with extra oxygen, you can extend the period without the motions of breathing to almost fifteen minutes. It has been pointed out that the sprint swimmers m recent Olympic games breathed oxygen before entering the races and had a considerable advantage because of that fact. B B B WHEN you exert effort you breathe more oxygen than when at rest. At rest you breathe about one-fourth quart of oxygen a minute. While walking bsiskly, you breathe about a quart a minute, and during heavy work or violent exercise, from one and one-half to two quarts a minute. The mo6t oxygen that you can store up in your body is about three quarts. Therefore, the marathon runner in question is using up his oxygen about as fast as he can take it in. However, nature provides that body with factors of safety so that it is possible to run up an oxygen debt. Trained athletes are able to run this debt as high as fifteen quarts of oxygen. These are the athletes who are so well trained that they do not have to worry about getting a second wind, since their oxygen is adequate before they start. .Getting a second wind is the development of enoue£ oxygen reserve to carry on activity without, skscoMon* __ ..

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