Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1934 — Page 5
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It Seem to Me HEVWOWBMUN ST. PAUL, Minn., June 11.—This concludes the coast-to-coast tour. I am aware that St. Paul is somewhat to the east of San Francisco, but at least it represents a fraction of the distance. I hardly think that any of my readers expect perfection on my part. On the whole, it was a good try. The next time I set out for California I would not be at all surprised to find myself getting as far as Kansas City. The landing short of the goal can be explained on this occasion as due to a lack of fuel. My role for the last three days has been a difficult one. As the current president of the American Newspaper Guild and a highly acceptive candidate for re-election it was my duty to act as a symbol of the best potentialities of the craft. Everybody laughed
when I replied: “I do not indulge," in response to invitations from hospitable natives. What else could I do? My job was to answer the slanders of those who have pictured the reporter as an irresponsible individual whose hours and pay are nat of any moment since he lives constantly in a romantic fog. And so I gritted my teeth and answered, “make it lemonade again." tt tt tt Romance Is Out NOT only was rum off my list but also adventure. Os late several publishers have as-
serted that organization among newspaper men is an unforunate thing since, in their opinion, it serves to remove romance from the calling. At the end of three days anybody would be slightly frayed emotionally if he were under the continual necessity of saying, “Unhand me young women. I ‘am here to prove that reporting iS not romantic.” Fortunately the necessity was quite considerably less than continuous but I am all worn out just the same. The business of presiding has got me. Hereafter when I toss fitfully at night I won’t count sheep going over a fence, but proxies being thrown out of the convention. My familiar nightmare in the past concerned a locomotive with two green lights which was bearing down upon me. From now on I rather fear that I find my slumbers distressed by the fantasy that I am being pursued by Roberts’ rules of order. Worst of all I was under wraps right up until the final session this morning. I did hear Louis Burgess of San Francisco make the best and the most moving speed that ever I had the pleasure to hear, but there were other delegates whose words seemed to be more numerous than necessary. At such times it was my wish to bang the table with a gavel and ask for brevity. I could not. Remember I was a candidate for re-election and the mace froze in my fist on numerous 'occasions as I suddenly thought to myself, “better not cut him short. After all he represents three votes and a couple of proxies.” ft ft tt Deals With ’Em All POLITICAL acumen is not my strongest point. Being desirous of continuing as president I thought it might be expedient for me to play hard to get. Accordingly I hinted while still in New York that it would be a good idea to have a younger and more active man at the head of the newspaper guild. I also added that it might help to have an executive who habitually answered letters and telegrams promptly. To my consternation the suggestion sold like hot cakes. “Sorry to hear that you are quitting,” was the expression of my friends, “there was a time when you had a distinct usefulness to the guild.” Os course, the same thing happened to Bismarck, Gen. Grant and Julius Caesar, but all Brouns possess an iron will.“A President of the guild that won’t be beaten can’t be beaten,” I said to myself and immediately I started corrupting delegates. Naturally I made deals with everybody. My personal support was pledged to no less than twentyeight vice-presidents and a couple of executive secretaries. .Well, by constant scheming and the rolling of many logs I gained my objective and managed to squeeze through for re-election. But now I want to rest. I want to get back to my loved ones where it will once more be possible to say, “You talk too damn much.” I want once again to be in places where the people round about are Bill or Ed or Joe instead of “the gentleman from Tulsa.” or “the delegate from Salt Lake City.” I am tired of asking that the chair be sustained. The shout of a hundred crying “aye” has deafened me temporarily. It always is embarrassing to point out to a gentleman that he is out of order. One only motion rings in my ears like music. It runs, “I move you, Mr. Chairman, that we now adjourn to New York city.” (Copyright. 1934, by The Times)
Today's Science
BY DAVID DIET!
JUST as puzzle fans fit together the pieces of a jig-saw puzzle, so Dr. A. E. Douglass and his associates at the University of Arizona are putting together a tree ring calendar that goes back thousands of years. Was the summer of 1537 B. C. dry or rainy in California? In what year did the Pueblo Indians cut a log to repair a certain dwelling whose ruins archeologists have just uncovered? In what part of the sunspot cycle did the year 500 B. C. fall? Such questions as these can be answered with the air of Dr. Douglass' calendar. There are times when the answer to one such question might prove the one bit of information needed to solve some large and important problem. Archeologists, for example, are enthusiastic about the ability to date exactly the parts of any ancient structure built of wood. Astronomers and meterologists welcome the opportunity of finding sunspot records that go back thousands of years in an unbroken sequence. Count the number of rings and you know the age of the tree. Suppose the tree was cut down in the late autumn of 1933. Then the outside ring represents 1933. If the count reveals 100 rings, then the inside ring marks the year 1833. Suppose that our tree is a gigantic sequoia several thousand years old. In that case, we can carry our tree ring calendar back to ancient times. a a a FURTHER examination of tree rings shows that they vary in width. If we count the pattern of narrow and wide rings in one tree and then compare it with several others cut in the same area, we find it in all of them. Now suppose we identify that pattern in several trees and date it exactly from a half-doen trees all of which were cut down in 1933. Suppose further that we find that same pattern in some tree which was cut down at an unknown date. We are now in a position to date the unknown tree. Once a number of recurrent patterns are definitely known, it is also possible to carry the tree ring calendar back beyond the age of any one tree. Dr. Douglass has built up a calendar, for example, for the central Pueblo area of Arizona and New Mexico, beginning with living trees, and continuing with the beams incorporated by the Indians in the Pueblos of early and prehistoric times. ana WHILE such a calendar is interesting to the archeologist because it can supply him with precise dates, it is of interest to the astronomer and the meteorologist for what it will show for the whole period of time. The rings tell the story of the tree. A wide ring means a year of excellent growth. A narrow ring means a year of poor growth. As Dr. Waldo S. dock of the Carnegie Institution of Washington says: “The rings picture the life histories of the trees, the struggle against famine and the luxuriance of plenty. Each factor influencing the well-being of the tree, whether it be the soil of the earth or the rays of the sun, the snows of winter or the drouth of summer, leaves its impress somewhere in the body of the tree." Dr. Douglass is hunting for cycles in the tree ring records. He is seeking for any periodic recurrence of good years or bad years. Such a cycle might be regarded, in certain areas, as a record of rainfall,
Today three years after the termination of the five-year period the navy has just one thousand planes and the army considerably less than its mark of 1.800. That they should have more in 1934 than the 1931 figure is admitted generally. tt tt u THE army general staff has estimated the cost of bringing the air corps up to the 1931 strength. They based their figures upon 1,800 planes in service at all times, and included the conservative allowance of 12% per cent undergoing overhaul, or a total of 2,050 planes. Following is the estimate of that cost: Housing and technical construction, including barracks, quarters, administration. land, water, hangars, shops, tools, etc., and including an increase in previous estimates of 25 per cent for housing and 20 per cent for technical construction because of recent increases in cost of materials and labor $ 74,500,000 Airplanes, complete with all
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They say they have an unofficial promise from Harry Hopkins, FER administrator, to feed them. Whether he does or whether he doesn’t, the Roosevelt administration is going to get brickbats from both sides. a a a ONE of Senator Hugo Black’s gravest worries has been the bloodthirsty tendencies of his oldest son and namesake, Hugo Jr. Automobile riding on Sundays, Hugo Jr. sits with his younger brother on the rear seat of the Blacks flivver sedan. Every time the senator approaches something in the road, be it box, chicken, dog, horse or cow, Hugo shouts: “Run over it, daddy. Run over it” This worried the senator. Also Mrs. Black. Then came a happier day. As they set off from home one Sunday afternoon they came up on a small boy—a playmate of Hugo’s—riding a bicycle. Again Hugo yelled, but this time the plea was different. “Look out, daddy!” he screamed. “Don’t run over that boy.” Mrs. Black was elated. So was the senator. “Well, son,” said Hugo Sr., “I’m glad to hear you tell me not to run over something for a change. What’s come over you?” Hugo Jr. was reluctant, but after some pressing, he finally replied : “Well, daddy; that was Jimmy, and—he was riding my bicycle.” n a a THE army is up againr-t it for trucks. It needs about 700 and is unable to order one. Reason for the dilemma is this: Whenever the army asks for bids on light trucks. Ford underbids all competitors by a considerable, margin. However, Ford trucks are unacceptable because he spurns the blue eagle. The army, therefore, would be glad to buy Chevrolets, but Ford has served notice that in this case he will bring suit. And the generals think that although the lower courts have ruled against Ford, the higher courts might find in his favor. Since the cost of the trucks in such a case would come out of their own pockets, they are not willing to take a chance. So the army remains without its 700 light trucks. Latest move suggested in army circles is to get Controller-General McCarl to permit bids on sixcylinder trucks. Since Ford does not manufacture six-cylinder cars he would be out of luck. a a a BALD-PATED “Muley” Doughton, chairman of the house ways and means committee, opened the floor debate on the President’s compromise silver bill. The unassuming, hard-working North Carolinian spoke at great length. He told how the bill was considered in committee, who participated, and when. But about the measure, what it contained, what its purpose was, what it would do, there was not a word. San Francisco’s witty congresswoman, Mrs. Florence Kahn, finally interrupted: “We on the minority side are very anxious to have the gentleman explain the bill. Will the gentleman kindly, do that?/-
FIVE YEARS BEHIND THE TIMES
Depression Leaves Its Mark on the Army Air Corps
BY GEORGE DAWS Times Special Writer IT will cost the United States government $120,500,000 to complete the army air corps’ five-year plan of 1926 and provide the corps with strength this year it should have had in 1931. Further, the annual cost of maintaining the enlarged corps will be $19,700,000 more than at present. These figures are quoted direct from the official estimate by the army general staff. Expenditures of $120,500,000 would not provide for the normal growth the corps should have had in the last three years—a period that brought the greatest improvement in aircraft since the first plane was flown. Neither would it properly recognize the fact that military aviation today is a much more important factor in the defense of the nation than it was in 1926. It would only complete now the program congress authorized eight years ago after long and careful study of the nation’s needs. This evaluation in dollars of the deficiency of the air corps is one of the principal disclosures of the Scripps-Howard investigation of the nation’s air problem. Others showed the corps is dangerously short in strength and personnel and that there is a general lack of policy and agreement as to the future of the corps. That latter situation may be corrected by the report of the Baker board, nqw meeting in Washington, provided the military authorities and congress take proper action. The Morrow board made an exhaustive study of the air situation in 1925 and wrote a report generally called “the Bible of aviation.” It was a complete, comprehensive analysis of impartial, expert men. With this report as a guide, congress in the following year approved the fiveyear plan, which provided gradual growth of the military air structures, so that in 1931 the navy would have one thousand active planes and the army 1,800 active planes.
The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND —By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Alleh WASHINGTON, June 11. —The steel workers knew they were taking the chance of an awful beating when they threatened to strike at this time, for they timed their challenge just as the steel moguls faced a summer slump. Most of the moguls would not object at all to a strike, would have to close part of their plants anyway. Furthermore, the moguls and many of their large customers anticipated a fight and stocked up with heavy reserves. They are now sitting pretty. What induced the union to force a crisis at this time was this. It was losing membership. Its leaders, all of them young, figured they had to do something to keep their gains. All this makes the problem of conciliation more difficult. The employers are smiling complacently. The workers are grim and determined. The government is worried. One thing that particularly worries the government is the question of federal emergency relief to the striking miners. Upon this the miners are banking as the chief factor in their fight. With federal relief they can hold out indefinitely.
accessories 45,000,000 Motor vehicles 1,000,000 Total $120,500,000 This sum is in addition to the 1935 appropriation. However, it actually would be less than the total of $120,500,000 because President Roosevelt has indicated he will allot $3,000,000 for construction of new aircraft out of the additional $5,000,000 which congress at his request added to the 1935 budget. tt tt tt FOLLOWING is the estimate by the war department of the an nual increased cost of maintaining the air corps as compared to its present strength: Cor. . ensation of enlisted men and flying cadets $ 800.000 Training ammunition 350.000 Operation costs of flying hours 1.000,000 Pay and allowances, officers. 1,000,000 Cost of enlisted men (rations, clothing, etc.), 400,000 Maintenance of housing and technical construction 3,000,000 Airplane replacement and maintenance, including experimentation, operation, development, civilian employes, technical overhead, etc. ... 12,000,000
The house roared. Doughton, an able committee leader but no floor speaker, crimsoned. Excitedly he began reading a statement from the President’s message on silver. “I didn’t ask about policy,” insisted Mrs. Kahn. “I asked about the effect of the bill.” “Well,” replied Doughton, “we ll have to wait and see what the effect is.” a a a IF Secretary Wallace’s amendments to the agricultural adjustment act get through congress it is going to be nothing less than a miracle. These proposals would make him virtual czar of the farming business. He would have authority to bring all agricultural commodities under production control, license not only dealers of farm produce, but those handling competing goods. Hostility against granting such sweeping powers is widespread, Cloakroom report has it that senate Democrats have declared their intention of bolting. Chester Davis, hard-working AAA chief, has been quietly doing some earnest wooing of dissenting members. His success, however, is not pronounced. < a a a ATTACKS by outsiders on governmental agencies are almost daily occurrences. But for one official body to berate another is a rare spectacle.... This, however, is exactly what Madame Perkins’ women’s bureau is doing to Jim Farley’s postoffice. It claims Jim is discriminating against married women postal clerks by' dismissing large numbers. . , . The PO retorts that it has no choice in the matter, is merely abiding by the law. . . When tall, lanky Brawell Deen, first-term Georgian, made a pass at California’s Republican Ralph Eltse, during a wrangle in the house, Deen just about assured his re-election. . . . Fellow Georgians say that in Deen’s district truculence toward a Republican is a certain guaranty of popular acclaim. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) REDS ASSAIL NEW DEAL Government and Employers Opposing People, Is Soviet View. By United Press MOSCOW, June' 11. —President Roosevelt’s new deal has taken a turn toward the right, the Russian Communist party commented today in a frank article in the party newspaper Pravda. The article pictured an embattled United States proletariat fighting simultaneously against employers and the government. William Green. American Federation of Labor president, was portrayed as an arch betrayer of American working men. Five Missing in Ship Crash By United Press ST. JOHNS, N. F., June 11.—Five men of the little- schooner Ethel Collett were given up for lost today after a collision with the refrigerator ship Silver City, off St. Johns, | j
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A group of United States navy planes are shown here in formation. Experts are in agreement that Uncle Sam’s naval air force is the finest in the world as to personnel and equipment. To approximate fitness of the naval air corps, it is estimated that the United States army would have to spend $120,500,000 on bettering and increasing present equipment.
Motor vehicle maintenance, operation, replacement,'etc. .. 500,000 Transportation of additional personnel 50,000 Total per year $19,700,000
TOWNSEND RIGHT TO HOLD POST IS UPHELD Judge Cox Dismisses Suit to Bar Pay. Lieutenant-Governor M. Clifford Townsend is an administrative, rather than a legislative, official and as such, may hold administrative positions sot the state. This opinion was announced Saturday by Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox in dismissing the suit brought by Herman Seeger to bar the Lieuten-ant-Governor from collecting pay for administrative positions he holds under the 1933 McNutt reorganization. The ruling, made on a demurrer filed by Mr. Clifford, has the effect of leaving Joseph Kyle, Gary, in the unique position of being nominated to run for an office which the courts have said legally is filled. Mr. Kyle was chosen Tuesday by the Republican convention at Cadle tabernacle on the ground that Mr. Townsend had vacated his office by accepting another. ORPHANS ACT AS HOSTS Greet Friends of Lutheran Home at City Celebration. Approximately 800 orphans and friends of the Evangelical Lutheran Orphans’ home returned to Indianapolis yesterday to celebrate the fifty-first anniversary of the home. Home-coming visitors included grown men and women, some of whom now occupy prominent places in the state’s social, economic and political life. Colonel Lindsley Recovering By United Press NEW YORK. June 11.—Colonel Henry D. Lindsley, former mayor of Dallas, and former national commander of the American Legion, is making good progress following his recent operation for an abdominal complaint, his physician said today. Lawyers’ Election Delayed Election of officers of the Indiana Association of Women Lawyers, scheduled for Saturday night at the Columbia Club, has been postponed until September.
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PRIEST CELEBRATES HIS SILVER JUBILEE Father Busald Observes Date of Ordination at Mass. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the ordination of the Rev. Albert H. Busald, pastor of St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic church, was observed yesterday. Services included a solemn high mass at which Father Busald was celebrant. The Rev. Carl Busald, Osgood, a cousin of the honored priest, was deacon of the mass. Bishop Joseph Elmer Ritter delivered the sermon. DEMOLAY TO INITIATE CANDIDATES FRIDAY State Conclave is Selected for June 15-17. A large class of candidates for the Indianapolis chapter, Order of DeMolay, will be given the initiatory degree by John L. Hutchens, master councilor, Friday night at the Murat theater. Robert V. Cole will impersonate Jacques DeMolay in the exemplification of the DeMolay degree. These degrees are being conferred as part of the program for the Indiana state conclave of the order June 15, 16 and 17. Several hundred DeMolays from other states are expected at the convention. BANDITS LOOT STORE Bind Watchman of Laundry and Take Unknown Amount. Three masked bandits, one of them armed, broke into the Lux laundry, 5301 Winthrop avenue, last night, broke open a safe and a cigaret machine and bound John Lemon, 25, of 4226 Manlove avenue, night watchman, the latter told police. An undetermined amount of money was taken. Alleged Penny Swindler Nabbed An alleged penny swindler, William B. Dailey, 22, of 2032 North Alabama street, was arrested Saturday. He is accused of taking 1.700 pennies from Charles Beaver, Oaklandon, with the promise to change them into money of a larger denomination.
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taat the total of planes needed to c implete the five-year plan was 2,320. The board arrived at this figure by increasing the allowance for planes in storage and undergoing overhaul. Funds now available will permit of increase in the corps’ equipment within the next year or two, but it still will be far short of its proper strength. The corps now has $8,750,000 available for purchase of new planes, of which $7,500,000 came from the public works administration. A call for bids for this sum already has been issued. It also will have available for the 1935 fiscal year, which begins July 1, the sum of $11,486,000. Os this amount, congress appropriated $8,486,000 and the remaining $3,000,000 is to come from the $5,000,000 requested by the President. tt tt tt THE President has indicated $1,000,000 of the balance is to be spent for fuel and oil to permit of more flying and thus more air experience for the pilots, and the remaining $1,000,000 is to be expended as he directs. Viewed alone. $11,000,000 seems a large sum. Viewed in comparison with the army’s estimate that $120,500,000 is needed to give the corps the strength it should have had in 1931, it seems small. No person familiar with aviation and the intricate procedure of planning, designing, engineering, testing and putting military planes into production recommends that $120,500,000 should be given to the corps for immediate expenditure. Excess haste in seeking to correct the present condition of the corps might well result in waste and inefficiency. The vital need rather is for agreement upon a long range, unhurried, continued program of growth and expansion of equipment, methods of training and personnel. Until such an agreement and such a program is reached, army aviation in the United States will continue in the inferior position it is in today.
STATE RELIEF QUOTA INCREASED FOR JUNE Gain of $288,891 Reported by Hopkins. By Times Special. WASHINGTON, June 11.—Indiana’s June allotment of $2,123,559 from the Federal Emergency Relief administration is an increase of $288,891 over that for May. It is to be budgeted as follows: General relief $2,000,000; transients, $26,346; re-employihent service, $10,403; student aid, $12,500; Mav obligations, $6,350; $460 PWA art project; $67,500 PWA for airports, and the remainder to complete a relief survey project. Announcement of the allotment and budget was made by Harry Hopkins administrator. HOURS ARE SHORTENED AT BRANCH LIBRARIES Summer Schedule Effective Starting Today. The two downtown branches of the public library, the business branch and the teachers’ special library, will observe summer hours, beginning today. The two branches will open at 8:30 and-close at 5, except on Saturdays, when the closing hour will be 1. Both branches are in the old library building at Ohio and Meridian streets. FIREWORKS EXHIBIT SET Unusual Displays Arranged by Sahara Grotto Group. “Custer’s Last Stand” will be shown in fireworks July 4 at Perry stadium under auspices of Sahara Grotto. Grotto officers say the pyrotechnics will be twice as elaborate as the one they gave in Butler university’s bowl last year. Reserved seats will be sold this year and may be obtained at the Grotto home, Thirteenth street and Park avenue. DOCTORS OPEN SESSION 8,000 Physicians at Cleveland for National Parley. By United Press CLEVELAND, June 11. Armed with papers delineating everything from electrocardiograph study to the simple, but puzzling topic of the common cold, 8,000 of the nation’s physicians were in Cleveland today for opening sessions of the American Medical Association. ANTI-TRUST SUIT FILED U. S. Brings Action Against Group of Cement Dealers. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 11.—The federal trade commission today filed a complaint against five building material associations in the Pitts-burgh-Cleveland area, charging a combination in violation of federal law. All cement sold cities, counties and “all other political subdivisions” was furnished by the alliance, the commission complained. CAFE MEN WILL MEET Program Arranged by Four City Business Firms. Members of the Indianapolis Restaurant Association will meet at the Vonnegut Hardware Company, 120 East Washington street, at 8 tonight. The program has been arranged by the hardware company, West Baking Company, Hoosier Coffee Company and Kuhn’s Meat Market. Ohio Man Burns to Death By United Press YOUNGSTOWN, 0., June 11.— Myer Scheff, 32, Canton, 0., barber supply house manager, was burned to death and five other men were injured, in a $7,500 fire of undetermined origin which destroyed tiie Hazel hotel here yesterday
Fdir Enough WESnUKINB WASHINGTON, June 11.—Among the very best friends of Mr. Roosevelt’s administration are Mr. Herbert Hoover and the four grim fall guys who served him as secretaries in the White House when he was President of the United States. The secretaries to Mr. Hoover were the Messrs. George Akerson, Walter Newton, Larry Richey and toward the end of his sentence. Theodore Joslyn. Mr. joslyn, a journalist, quit his job to lay his white body down on the bed of broken bottles, hot coals and spikes which Mr. Akerson had
vacated to enter the moving picture profession. Together Mr. Hoover and the four fall guys constituted the personality of the hairshirt or sour-puss administration and the impression which they made on the large and, ultimately, influential corps of journalists in the capital was such as to endear almost any one else to the gents and ladies of the Fourth Estate. They still are remembered in much the same way that the late Lieutenant (HardBoiled) Smith is remembered by the unfortunates who passed
through the military cooler in Paris during the war to end war. and every little reminder of them stirs among the Washington journalists a kind of thought for Mr. Roosevelt and the courteous, understanding parties who occupy the outer offices in his administration. tt u tt A Change of Scenery 'T'O be sure, Mr. Roosevelt is a competent hand A shaker in his own right and could make his way along without the assistance of his predecessor and his secretaries’ predecessors. But every little is a help, and the fact remains that in every contact with the White House nowadays the newspaper reporters, who served through the era of the long fact and the low, petulant moan, are reminded of the contrast and cheered thereby. Mr. Roosevelt’s outer secretary is Steve Early a fallen-away journalist with Washington experience and a sensitive instinct for news, including that sort of journalistic garden truck known as the humaninterest story, many specimens of which have found their way into the papers in the last year and somewhat. He answers his phone readily, day or night; he is under no compulsion to chew a clove should he happen to take a highball nor is he the kind who would, and, to bundle him up in one phrase, Mr. Early speaks the language. Mr. Marvin Maclntyre handles the general run of traffic coming to see the President or to be kissedoff inoffensively without seeing him. Mr. Maclntyre also speaks the language and is, like Mr. Early—all right. This is an arbitrary opinion, but the sunshine is obvious, when it is, and so is a pain in the neck. It was strange that Mr. Hoover, who owed so much of his career to main strength personal publicity , suddenly should undergo a change of spirit and become reporter-shy. Nevertheless, he did and revealed himself very soon as a man who could not take it. tt tt tt Roosevelt—A Salesman HE seemed not to have realized when he ran for the office that the President is the one who carries the target in this country, and when he found it out he tried to change the rules. The upshot of that was that he prepared for the personal success of almost anybody who would come to Washington and roll with the punches and adorn his features with a muscle grin when tagged on the chin. No doubt Mr. Roosevelt’s smile in many instances is an operation of the voluntary muscles, performed in three counts. He smiles and even laughs when there is nothing to be gay about, but salesmanship is a recognized science in the country, being taught in all seriousness in some of the institutions of learning, and Mr. Roosevelt could give lessons to the professors. This is not to deny, either, that he is naturally more inclined to hope that people are okay than to suspect that they are otherwise and to reckon that things will turn out better than the worst. A thoroughly rotten time was enjoyed by all during Mr. Hoover’s administration, and nobody did more to enable the personal success of the next man in the job than Mr. Hoover, himself, and the four glum deputies who helped him out with his moping. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Your Health
—BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN THERE no longer seems to be any doubt that you must have an adequate intake of vitamins to resist infection. Just how you do this is not fully understood, but doctors know well enough that a deficiency of the vitamins in some manner affects your tissues so that thereafter they are easily subject to attack by gems. It is also well known that the body builds, within the blood and the tissues, substances known as antibodies, important in overcoming infections. Some medical investigators have found a definite reduction of these antibodies in animals which receive insufficient amounts of vitamins A and D. Moreover, they have been able to prove that an animal receiving a diet with insufficient amounts of vitamins A and D is injured to some extent in the mechanism which produces the antibodies, so that he can not produce these antibodies as rapidly as they are needed. a a a FOR instance, it is now proved that there are two portions of the body which are particularly damaged with the lessening amount of vitamin A; namely, the mucous membranes which line the lungs and the sinuses, and the skin of the body. It is well known that a complete absence of vitamin A from the diet will result in the production first of night blindness, in which the person sees with difficulty at night and later with a severe inflammation of the eye known as xerophthalmia. „ Attempts have been made to treat infections by giving increased amounts of vitamin A to human beings infected with various types of diseases and, while the results are interesting, they are by no means conclusive. a a a ENOUGH has been learned, however, to establish the fact that the appearance of an acute in-* section in a person whose diet is lacking in vitamins A and D increases the need of the body for these vitamins, so that its reserve of these substances wears out more rapidly than ordinarily. The lungs are especially likely to be affected by deficiencies, so that it would seem to be advisable, particularly in conditions affecting the lungs and the respiratory tract, to make certain that a sufficient amount of vitamins A and D is taken into the body. There is also evidence that a deficiency of vitamins B and C is injurious to the body in many different ways, so that the safe rule to follow is to use a diet which is adequate in these substances. Furthermore, such diet will insure the consumption of adequate amounts of all substances necessary to health and growth.
Questions and Answers
Q—What type of bridge spans the St. Lawrence river above Quebec? A—Cantilever. Q —What Is the official rule concerning the substitution of a playfcr in a baseball game? A—The rules provide that a substitute may, at any stage of the game except when the ball is in play, take the place of a player whose name is on the team's batting order, but the player whom he succeeds may not thereafter participate in that game. Q —What is Ascension day? A-L\A day of the church calendar commemorating the ascension of Jesus, forty days after Easter, as described in the first chapter of the Book of Acts.
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