Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1934 — Page 5

MAY 29, 1934

H Seems io He HEYWODBIW O., May 29.—This is not the revolution, but it is a mean and nastly situation in which several have been killed and many hurt. And it will grow worse unless firm steps are taken to check the lawlessness of a company which seems to have issued a deliberate challenge to union labor. In fact, there is reason to believe that the Auto-Lite concern definitely was picked as a spearhead in the drive of the automobile industry for the open shop. The only way out is to have assurance given by

someone in authority that the plant will not be permitted to open until negotiations have been held. The plant stands now riddled by stones, with every window shattered. “You wanted an open shop,” cried one of the strikers, “and now you’ve got it.” But I do* not see how anybody can watch the battle along the Toledo front without coming away with the feeling that the strike may degenerate into a weapon as barbarous and aimless as war. Half an hour before I got here a crowd of strikers and strike sympathizers caught a strikebreaker and stripped him naked. Beaten and bruised and

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bloody, he was led through the principal business streets—right past the police station, in fact before anybody interfered. a a a Policeman Proves Hero of Strike CLOSE by the interurban station the first conspicuous hero of the strike stepped forward. John Viskupski, a middle-aged policeman, boldly, took the man away from a crowd of 250. Mr. Viskupski knows something of American psychology. His appeal was not to patriotism, law and order, or the American Constitution. "Boys,” he said, “wouldn’t your sister or your mother be shocked by a spectacle like this?” And Mr. Whistler's study in black and gray, as popularized by Mr. Farley, won the day. When I got to the front they told me it was a quiet day. Still, I may report that, after spending eight months in France as a war correspondent, without a whiff of gas. I found myself with tearful eyes fifteen minutes after reaching Toledo. Gas has its defects in encounters of this sort. Os the crowd which milled around the national guard lines I think it is fair to say that only a very small proportion were class-conscious. v Probably there has been more definite organization at other times, but what I watched this afternoon was brick-throwing just for the fun of it. I saw a boy about 12 years old throwing stones at the soldiers. Asa matter of fact, most of his missiles went through the windows of a house on the corner. “Why are you throwing rocks at the soldiers?” I # asked him. “To help the strikers,” he answered stoutly enough. “Yes,” I objected, “but mostly you’re breaking the windows in that house over there. How about that?” a a a Boy Reveals Mob Psychology POSSIBLY I was a little hypocritical in my approach, since everybody knows that it’s fun to throw stones through a window. To have a moral reason for doing so makes it perfect. He had a moral reason. “A scab lives there.” he explained. “And how do you know he's a scab?” I persisted. “He came out of his house half an hour ago and asked us to quit throwing rocks,” replied the youngster. By this time a crowd was beginning to gather around us debaters. I didn't want to get marched through the streets without my clothes, so I desisted. I repeat that I am all for t'.-; union and against the company, but you can ..trip and flay me and I’ll still say that a mob is a mean, an ugly and almost a fantastic thing. I have no shame in saying that I’m for the underdog, and I will take the rap of being called a sentimental liberal or an arch reactionary, and still I want to get on the record my sympathy for the thin line of national guardsmen. What is the Auto-Lite Company to these country kids strung across a roadway? They are of the same stuff and source as the kids on the other side. I wanted to see someone stop between the lines and cry to both crowds, “Why don’t you get together?” Men are dead and more will die. It is not a question of keeping strike breakers away. It’s come down to blood for blood and brick for brick, as if that would bring breath back into any of the slain. If this were actually the revolution, then every man might have to accept it as inevitable - -.d pick his side. But this, in its present phases, is a monstrous and meaningless brawl. I am back, hook, line and sinker, into my pacifism. I am as sentimental as you want to call me. Man has just got to be better than this. (Copyright. 1934. by The Times*

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

MANY persons have wondered at the comparative ease with which blind persons avoid obstacles, as for example, when walking alone down a street. The phenomenon has engaged the attention of scientists as well as laymen. The question usually asked is: Do the blind possess a sixth sense, a sort of compensation for being blind, an “obstacle sense” as it is sometimes called? Dr. Vladimir Dolansky, a scientist of Warsaw, Poland, who is himself blind, has made a study of the subject. His conclusions are set forth in the first issue cf the new quarterly bulletin of the American Braille Press for War and Civilian Blind, a publication devoted to the interests of the blind. Dr. Dolansky comes to the conclusion that the blind do have the ability of “sensing” obstacles. He does not believe that it is in any way a “sixth sense” or special sense organ, but merely an extension of the other senses to take over a function which is performed for the normal persons by the eyes. tt tt a DR. DOLANSKY defines the ability of the blind to sense obstacles as “a structural mechanism founded on the instinct of self-preservation, and with hearing as its mainspring.” Many blind persons say that they have a sensation of rustling over the face when confronted by an obstacle. This, according to Dr. Dolansky, is “*3 reflex physiological process which *is brought into action as a result of warnings picked up by the car. “The blind agree on the fact that when approaching an obstacle they have a slight sensation, which it is very difficult to define, of being grazed on the face and particularly on the forehead, the temples, and the checks,” Dr. Dolansky says. “This incomprehensible phenomenon .has aroused great interest but also among those who can see.” tt tt tt THREE theories to account for the phenomenon have been advanced. These are known, after their proposers, as the Truschel acoustic theory, the Kuntz theory of pressure and the Krogius thermic theory. “Truschel observes that the modification in noise caused by the reflection of the sound w'aves (for instance, the noise of footsteps) warns the blind person of'the presence of the obstacle,” Dr. Dolansky says. “Kuntz asserts, after numerous experiments, that the subject w-ho moves toward the obstacle feels on his face a pressure exerted by the air which is between him and the obstacle. “According to Krogius. the blind person perceives the presence of the obstacles owing to the difference in temperature which exists between the skin of the face and the surface of the objects toward which he is moving." Dr. Dolansky by experiments proved the first theory to be correct. He found blind persons could sense obstacles even when their faces were covered by cardboard masks. However, they could not sense obstacles if their ears were plugged with cotton wool.

THE WORLD’S BIG SHELL GAME

Legislators Turn Inquisitive Eyes on Armament Manufacturers

Great European powers arm themselves to the teeth and “kindly” supply belligerent lesser nations, too, with the grim tools of warfare. .. An unhappy picture of the world armament situation presented today in the second of three articles on “The Big Shell Game.” a a a BY MILTON BRONNER Times Special Writer LONDON, May 29.—Wars and rumors of wars have caused streams of gold and silver to flow into the pockets of the world's armament makers, but, at the same time, in the United States and Europe, verbal brick-bats have come hurtling about their devoted heads. The world has become a far less pleasant place in which to spend their dividends. For since 1918 there has been a steady campaign of peace organizations to show just how callpus, greedy and international are these same armament makers who always wrap themselves in a * cloak of 100 per cent national patriotism. Before the World war, the men who manufactured the materials for mass murder had things pretty much their own way. In their patriotic pose, they pointed out that they made the stuff which enabled their respective nations to defend themselves against a possible enemy. But this claim has been stripped from them since then, because it has been shown that with great impartiality they sold their wares, not only to their own country, but to all comers.

Hugh Dalton, speaking in the British house of commons in March, 1926, charged that the Australian, New Zealand and British troops in the Gallipoli campaign in the World war were shot down by shells the Turks had bought from, a British armament firm. Speaking in the French chamber of deputies in Feb. 11, 1932, Paul Faure charged that French troops, were shot down by guns which the Bulgarians and Turks had bought from a great French armament firm. a a a DURING the World war there was a striking example of the international workings of the dealers in death. There was a big firm which was registered as British. It had factories in both Germany and Great Britain. It had German and British shareholders. In May, 1915, British and German agents got passports from their respective government and met on neutral territory, where British holders of shares in the German factories got British shares in exchange for them and where German holders of shares in the British plants got German shares in exchange for them. By this pretty scheme the British and German investors in these stocks were protected against the loss of their principal and interest in what was then an exceedingly profitable business. a a a AN even greater scandal was the mystery as to why the Briey iron basin on the frontier between France and Germany was not bombarded. On the French side of the frontier before the war

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

WASHINGTON, May 29.—Although his trip through the Panama canal is still about a month off, the President has every detail regarding it worked out. He knows almost to the minute how long he wiil stop in Puerto Rico, the Virgin islands, Panama, and what he will do in each place. . . . After stopping at Hawaii, he will end at San Francisco, come home direct by train. . . . The new streamline train may have the honor of hauling him . . . The marine corps is so pinched for funds that its attache to the American embassy in Moscow has been recalled. He is Captain David R. Nimer, who speaks Russian fluently. . . . Henry L. Stimson, ex-secretary of state, recently staged a giand garden party for the Americ&n Bar Association. .. . . Several nundred lawyers were present. Many were leaders of the profession, many were not leaders. But there was one notable absentee—AttorneyGeneral Homer Cummings, highest ranking legalist in the administration. He was not invited. . . . And the reason he was not invited was because Stimson feels very strongly about Cummings’ prosecution of Andy Mellon on his income tax. He calls this persecution, not prosecution. a a a a a a THE administration is passing up no bets in its far-flung drive to collect all taxes and other sums due Uncle Sam. . . . Its latest move is to put the department of justice on the trail of millions of dollars of unpaid fines and assessments of old prohibition violation cases. . .

The bulk of these claims consist of taxes on illegally produced denatured alcohol. . . . Some $7,500,000 is involved, and the justice department has a good chance of collecting a large portion of it. The great dome which tops the Capitol does not rest on the building proper, but on huge rollers. . . . This is to allow for expansion and contraction during hot or cold weather. .. . The vast steel cone moves back and forth approximately a quarter of an inch, expanding in summer and contracting in winter. Major George L. Berry, president of the Pressmen's Union, and NRA division administrator, was runner-up to Charles W. Bryan in 1924 as Democratic vice-presi-dential candidate. . . . Berry always has a cigar in his mouth, but never smokes one. . . . Thomas W. Hardwick, counsel for the house Nazi investigating committee. which is soon to hold open hearings, is a Georgian who served five terms in the house, and one, 1913-19, in the senate. . . . During the latter part of his senatorial career he incurred the bitter hostility of President Wilson by resolutely opposing the espionage and sedition acts. a tt tt IN its unsucessful tax drive on Andy Mellon, the government charged that the one-time Republican Secretary of the Treasury had atttempted to evade payment of $716,144 on his 1931 income tax. . . . The department of justice bureau of investigation has the records and fingerprints of over 3,000,000 criminals in its files. . . . J. Edgar Hoover, black-haired, swarthy chief of the bureau, is a bachelor, lives with his mother, and has two hobbies, tennis and collecting antiques. . . . One of the choice anecdotes of his congressional career told by Tammanyite Representative John J. Boylan, concerns his being mistaken for a United States senator while a patient at a famous sanitorium. He was invited by the commander or a nearby United States army post to review the 10,000 troops stationed there. a tt a lOVELLY Seniora Espil, the v Chicago girl who married the Argentine Ambasador, is taking her Spanish seriously. Though she never knew a word of it a few months ago, she was seen in Rock Creek park the other day sitting in her car reading the life of San Martin. . . . There were too many telephone calls at

there were great iron and steel mills preparing war material for France. On the German side there were similar mills preparing material for Germany. Soon after war started the Germans secured possession of the whole Briey basin. This helped them to prolong the war, but no serious attempt was made by the French troops to bombard the sector. In fact, it w'as not seriously threatened at all until the American troops launched an offensive in that direction in 1918. The whole matter was afterward aired in the French parliament. It was charged that French steel interests prevented the bombardment by French forces because they expected to get back the territory after the war, and-because there was a gentlemen's agreement between the French and German armament makers. a ' a a ONE of the greatest munitions scandals of modern times was only partially exposed in March, 1933, when there was evidence that the agent of a big foreign armaments works had bribed or attempted to bribe Rumanian war department officials into giving his concern a big order. Before the thing went very far, a Rumanian general shot himself. Papers, which were badly wanted, mysteriously disappeared. A lop-sided trial was held and one man was sent to prison for five years. But the men who are supposed to be the chief beneficiaries of “gifts” escaped and presumably are still holding jobs in the Rumanian army and the armaments firm is presumably still selling arms to Rumania.

home, she said, so she escaped to the park. . . . John Dickinson, erudite assistant secretary of commerce, is having a hard tim filling the post left vacant by Willard Thorp when Roosevelt withdrew his name as Chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. . . . Dickinson offered the job to Stacy May, director of the Rockefeller foundation, an ideal selection. May wired back: “No self-respecting man would take the job after the way Roosevelt let Thorp down.” tt it tt THE ambassador of Peru, eloquent Manuel de Freyre, has a larger collection of pipes than any other member of the diplomatic corps. . . . Senator Hatfield of west Virginia put his finger on a state department sore spot when he Wanted to know why the trade treaty with Colombia had not been sent to the senate. Ordinarily, treaties are sent to the senate immediately upon completion, and the state department secrecy has aroused suspicion. . . . Justice Stone, one of the most delightful members of the supreme court, personally designed the house in which he lives. It is repete with firepaces, and its garden is one of the coolest in Washington. . . . The ony thing the justice overlooked was a mint bed. tt tt tt THE CCC is doing some excellent work, in educating the youngsters in its camps. Many of them “hit the road” before they had even a semblance of an education. All are eager to learn. Most of them also are tremendously interested in current social problems—especially the question of whether society owes it to a man to provide him with a job . . . Some of the best CCC educational work is done by Nat Frame, formerly of the University of West Virginia. . . . The WagnerCostigan anti-lynching bill has been amended to apply only to cases where the victim is taken from “the custody of any peace officer.” . . . Tjhis would hit only about half the lynchings. From 1918 to 1934 there were 559 lynchings. Only 251 victims were taken from peace officers. u tt a SENATOR MORRIS SHEPPARD, although only 59, is the dean of both chambers of congress in length of service. . . . He has been a member of the legislative body (pr thirty-two years. . . , When he first entered the house he appeared so young that some of his colleagues mis-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Arch-dealers in the tools of war-time destruction, these three loom large on the European scene: Francois dc Wendel (left), one of the chief armorers of France; Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence (center), chairman of Vickers, Ltd., the great British munitions firm, and Dr. Krupp von Bohlen (right), head of the great Krupp works in Essen, Germany.

WORLD trade, as a whole, has shown a steady and very large decrease. World export in munitions has shown much less decrease. If 100 is taken as the index for 1928, by 1933 world trade had fallen to 36. But export trade in munitions had fallen only to 75. And export Trade in munitions only tells a small part of the story, because in many big countries the munitions factories have been very busy arming their home lands to the teeth. Arthur Henderson, former labor minister of foreign affairs in the British cabinet and at present chairman of the League of Nations disarmament conference, estimates that the average of the military expenditures of sixty-one countries during the la st five years has reached the enormous sum of $4,000,000,000 per annum. A German statistical institute, which studies this armament question from a purely business standpoint, estimates that the sec-

took him for a page, ordered him to run errands. . Excluding the increase in veterans’ benefits and government workers’ pay, congress has kept within about $33,000,000 of the President's budget recommendations for the coming fiscal year. .. . This is not a bad record . . . Minnesota’s blind senator, Thomas Schall, was a passenger on the steamship Mt. Vernon (formerly the German liner Crown Princess Cecilia) when she was torpedoed Sept. 17, 1918, by a U-boat 200 miles out of Brest. . . . Thirty-eight members of the crew were killed by the blast, but the ship was able to limp back to Brest for repairs. . . . Mrs. Curtis Dali, and the other children of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, are enthusiastic admirers of the army, navy and marine corps bands. However, when a dance is given at the White House they insist on a good, peppy jazz band. (Copj’rißht, 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) E M E RGE N C Y~ S CHOOLS CALLED SUCCESSFUL More Than 1,000 Teachers Paid $172,612, FERA Chiefs Report. Success of the emergency education pregram in Indiana, sponsored by the federal emergency relief administration and the state board of education was cited today by Dr. P. R. Hightower, director. The educational program, which came to an end May 15, had enrolled at its peak 32,498 students, according to a report made at FERA headquarters in Washington. The program started in December with an enrollment of 1.636 persons and climbed steadily to 2,416 in March, dropping to 2,060 in April. There were 1,004 unemployed teachers employed in this activity. They received a total salary of $172,612, it was reported.

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tions of the Versailles treaty forbidding export of arms and munitions by Germany has forced some 150,000 men to seek other employment and has cost vast sums to share-holders in German arms and munitions plants. Despite the fact that it assumes that Germany, Hungary and Austria have not been allowed to engage in the business and that they have strictly complied, the institute estimates that in the years since the war the production of war material has increased by anywhere from a fourth to a third more than in the cruical pre-war year of 1913. A considerable part of this, it says, is due to the vast increase in the air armaments. In 1913 it says the percentage of world trade in arms and munitions was as follows: Germany, 32.4; France, 8.8; Great Britain, 32.8; Austria, 3.7; United States, 12.2. In 1929 Germany is credited with no export; France has risen to 15.4; Great Britain leads the

TODAY and TOMORROW a a a a a a By Walter lippmann

THE experience of the last sixty years shows with reasonable certainty that labor disputes tend to become acute in the last phase of depression and in the first phase of revival, Evidence to support this generalization can be found by examining the “business annals” compiled by Professor W. L. Thorp, and published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

This book lists the main economic and political events of each year of American history which made it or marked it as a year of “prosperity,” “recession,” depression,” or “revival.’ In the year 1873, a great depression began. It continued lor three years. During this whole time there were no significant labor troubles. But in 1877 there weye severe railroad strikes, necessitating the calling out of troops, and there were the famous “Molly Maguire” riots in. the coal districts. Now 1877 was the turning point of that depression. Revival began on the stock exchange and in the following year the recovery got under way. The labor troubles of the seventies coincided with the ending of the depression. After that it was not until 1885 that the annals record important labor disputes. There were antiChinese riots that year, and we learn that there was “continued recovery somewhat hampered by labor troubles.” These conflicts coincided with the end of the depression that began in 1884. The next period of serious trouble was in 1894, with strikes on the railroads and in the bituminous coal industry. It was also the year of Coxey’s army. These events took place at the bottom of the depression, for it was not until the following spring

By George Clark

world with 37.8; the United States has risen to 16.6, and Czechoslovakia has more than taken the place of Austria, with 4.9 per cent. a a a THERE are authoritative checks on these figures, because the League of Nations every year gets out an elaborate series of statistics on exports and imports of arms and munitions. Owing to the labor involved and the difficulty of getting the figures, the tables are always behind the current year. Thus the latest figures issued are only for 1931. But they show exports of arms totaling $16,050,500 and exports of munitions totaling $18,931,300. There are no authoritative figures showing how much each country has spent on home production of arms and munitions. But in countries like Great Britain, France, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Poland, which have vast public and private factories, the production was undoubtedly many times what was exported.

that some recovery began. It can not be said, therefore, that they mark the turning point. But it can be said that they came in the last phase of the worst part of the depression. In 1896 there was another slump and revival began in 1897. The annals say that it came “in spite of severe bituminous coal strikes.” tt tt tt THE annals record no further important labor troubles until 1901, when there was a steel strike. This was a year of great prosperity following a brief “recession” in 1900. In 1903 we jgain find “many labor troubles,” though it wa/ a year of prosperity. The next period of labor disputes is 1912, a year of revival from the mild depression of 19101911. Through 1918 and 1919 there were many labor troubles, culminating in the steel, coal and railroad shopmen’s strikes. These were years of high prices and high profits and great activity. Then comes the severe depression of 1920-1921. But it is not unti’, 1922 when the recovery was under way, that there are serious strikes in coal and in the railroad shops. After that there are no important labor troubles of national significance until 19331934. That this is perfect proof of the generalization that labor troubles come at the turning point of the business cycle I should not venture to assert. But the evidence is good enough to justify us in recognizing that our present labor troubles are by no means unprecedented at this stage of recovery. That is a good thing to recognize. It helps to deflate the notion that we are confronted with something utterly new in our experience. It is good to deflate that notion, because to deflate it is to strengthen the hands of those who wish to take a moderate and conciliatory attitude. The record shows clearly enough why such an attitude is justified, and from the record of past experience one can draw, I believe, certain very useful ideas for judging these controversies. # tt tt LABOR unrest at the end of a slump is fundamentally a sign that labor has recovered confidence in the economic future and is taking steps to participate in the profits. In the worst phase of a depression there are no strikes because labor is too frightened. The docility of the wage earner might almost be called his equivalent of hoarding. He hoards his job fearing to lose it. But when revival begins his courage revives, and since his courage revives, and since we have not yet reached a level of cvilization where the wage bargain always can be made intelligently, the wage earners’ new courage takes the form of unrest and strikes. (Copyright. 1934) X-RAY MAY CURE~SLICE NEW BEDFORD, Mass., May 29. —An X-Ray machine has been set up in a golf ball factory here to inspect centers of the pellets. It is said that balls with imperfectly centered cores hook or slice. Once detected, such a ball is discarded.

Fdir Enoughs KlillHi NEW YORK, May 29.—1 t is very pleasant to discover, after all this time, that Mr. Sam Insull of Chicago is just a home-loving, rose-smelling, grandson-kissing old gentleman, kind to reporters and photographers and innocent of any -of that personal cussedness which was ascribed to him during the long, laborious years when he was too busy making honest mistakes on a grand scale to give due attention to outward appearances. Since his reluctant return to Chicago, Mr. Insull

has manifested a lovable side of his character which, for many years, he neglected to reveal and even, at times, apparently took pains to conceal from the public and particularly from the newspaper people. He has been affable, accessible and winsome to journalists and cameramen who used to find him brusque 'and growlly when they could find him at all, which was seldom. He has been pictured in the papers burying his nose among the dewy petals of an innocent bloom, dandling a little child upon his knee-cap and being, in round, approximate numbers, a gentle, kind and dreadfully misunderstood old man.

It has not been a very long time, as time goes, since Mr. Insull emitted a squaw'k which shivered the steel timbers of a big publishing plant in New York because a photograph of him which was printed in a trade periodical did not show him at what he conceived to be his best. It was not an undignified picture, to be sure, being merely the head, shoulders and paunch of a distinguished magnate and power. But Mr. Insull thought it did somewhat less than full justice to the majesty of his face and figure and was moved to protest. a a a Just a Lovable Guy THE old gentleman begins to reveal his true self now and the revelation discloses a familiar, lovable, big-hearted type whose sympathies are aroused so easily that they go through life being deliberately harsh lest people learn how good and kind they are. There have been several of them in the business department of the baseball industry so sweet and lovable that they could not trust themselves to be themselves. On the contrary they adopted the snarl as their customary manner of speech and the quickkick to the abdomen as the opening line of their repartee. They came to be known in the profession as hard, bad men, but their friends never tired of explaining that they acted thus merely to conceal their extraordinary gentleness of soul. They succeeded very well. Such a change of demeanor as Mr. Insull’s would hove a skeptic to seek for practical explanations and there may be a clew to the phenomenon in the fact that the Messrs. Larry Smits and Joe Copps, late of the publicity department of Miami Beach, Fla,, have been employed by the Insull properties in Chicago for the last six months or so to interpret the soul of Insull to a misunderstanding public and endear him to the people. The Messrs. Smits and Copps have been well taught in this line of work, having worked under the master, Mr. Steve Hannagan, in Florida, for several years. They seem to have wrought rather well, too, for there has been a suggestion in the Chicago dispatches recently that public opinion in the sector where so many citizens suffered from his honest mistakes, has been undergoing an interesting change. a a a Not Even Guilty THE impoverished old gentleman, who is down to a pension of sls a week from his son, no longer is looked upon as a guilty man but as a nice old man who might be guilty of error but hardly of dishonest or selfish intent. It is remarkable what some people with a genius for management, can contrive on little money but Mr. Insull’s frugal husbanding of his sls pension might recommend him for an important place in the American government some day, should he be spared. He was able to go to Greece by way of Paris and live a year in luxurious quarters, to hire international counsel and finally to charter a whole steamship for a casual cruise in search of a nontreaty port, on his pension of sls a week. There have been police officials in various cities from time to time who have saved from SIOO,OOO to $500,000 on small salaries by practicing rigid economy. Some of statesmen of the late Tammany regime in New York did even better. But this is the first time that so little an income as sls a week has been stretched so far and the achievement suggests that Mr. Insull should be restored to high financial command as one who should be able to save money out of a deficit. a a a Tunney’s Soul Exposed? MR. HANNAGAN, the master who taught the Messrs. Smits and Copps their knowing in the business of directing public opinion, once was selected by the late Tex Rickard to spend several weeks at Speculator, N. Y., the training camp of James J. Tunney, and interpret the true soul of Gene Tunney to the press. Mr. Tunney and the press were out of fix spiritually and Mr. Rickard, who was promoting then the Tunney-Heeney production in New York, desired that the press, and through the press, the public, should come to appreciate the heavyweight champion of the world. So Mr. Hannagan moved in at Speculator and began his daily interpretation to the sport writers. This was one job, however, on which Mr. Hannagan succeeded too well. Instead of interpreting Gene Tunney, the journalists took to interpreting Steven Hannagan, with the-result that by fight-time Mr. Tunney still was misunderstood as thoroughly as before, while Mr. Hannagan had become a champion in the publicity business. The Messrs. Smits and Copps, joyous young men having a way with the newspaper boys, would have known that the first thing to do to Mr. Insull to endear him to a hostile public, would be to knock his ears down and make him be nice. He has been nice. He has been downright darling since his return to the scene of his honest mistakes and he now presents a character which appeals to the posey-lover and the grandfather-lover in all of us. (Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health ■BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN”

YOUR body is full of metals of various types. In the quantities it contains, these metals are not harmful or poisonous, but in larger quantities they may produce serious effects. Many metals are absolutely essential to life—calcium, sodium, magnesium, iron, copper, arsenic, zinc, and tin are a few of those which seem to be vital in small quantities to proper operation of your body. In some industries, lead fumes and dust easily get into the human form. For most persons, however, such lead as enters comes from food and drink. Lead pipes occasionally are used in plumbing, and bottles of which the glass contains lead may give off some of the metal to the fluids within them. The siphons of soda water fountains contain small amounts of lead. u u tt IT also is possible to get lead into your body through beans, meat, apples, cherries, sausages or other substances. For instance, meat may contain lead, due to the fact that cattle may lick newly painted surfaces. Sometimes grape juice will contain lead because the grapes have been sprayed with lead arsenate. An American physician has estimated that the average person in this country takes in from onefifth to one-half of a thousandth of a gram of lead each day and gets rid of about the same amount every day. While lead in these small quantities is not seriously harmful to the human body, larger amount* may be distinctly troublesome, and any factor which may suddenly increase the amount of lead coming into the body may be serious for health.

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