Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1934 — Page 21

hfeemioMe HEVWOODBKOUN AMERICA is full of organizations and individuals who are intent on rooting out what they call •'the red menace " It is my own impression that radicalism in this country lags far behind what might be experted. For more than four years our economic conditions almost have been ideal for the growth of revolutionary movements. Yet even the most optimistic agitator must admit, when talking off the record, that progress has been disappointing. I don't know why. I take very little stock in the theory that Americans differ much in national psychology from the men and women of other countries. Nevertheless, the tide to the left has been lower than

that experienced in England, France or Germany. I can not think of a single individual in any radical group who has ! captured the popular imagina- j tion. It generally Is true that ! when the scene is set some ! person adequate for the part ; will step forward. As yet it has not happened here. Os • course. I am not classifying Franklin D. Roosevelt as a radical. In spite of the lamentations and wild cries of crippled Republicans he re- ; mains a liberal. Moreover, in ! all candor, his foes upon the j right and on the left ought to .

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admit that at the moment there is no one able seri- | ously to challenge his leadership. He has been called “the American Kerensky,” but those who use this phrase as an unfriendly diminutive must fare the fact that he lives in a land which offers no Lenin or Trotsky as adversaries. man Watch Those Crowds BUT I have no intention of making a prophecy ! that violent and radical change in the United j States is impossible or even inevitably distant. Enor- ! mm is service is being done for the revoltuionarv cause by American reactionaries. Indeed most of the organizations dedicated to stamping out "the red menace" are in effect nitrates to encourage growth and fruition. Never within my memory has any one of these societies been sagacious enough to level its criticism at men and institutions which make even the most placid citizen see red. I have in mind the case of Alfred M. Bingham, son of the former Republican senator from Connecticut. Judge William J. McGovern in first criminal court. Jersey City, has just sentenced this young man to thirty days in jail for peaceful picketing. There was no testimony that Bingham committed any act of violence or endeavored to incite others to do so He carried a placard reading: “The American Civil Liberties Union is testing the right of police to interfere with peaceful picketing in Jersey City.’ The prosecutor, according to newspaper repot ts, asserted that the arrest was not made for picketing, but because Bingham had drawn a crowd. If this us to be the law. I strongly advise Maxie Baer. Babe Ruth and Mar West to stay away from Jersey City. It seems to me ironical and ill timed that Jersey justice should go off on such a tangent on the very day when President Roosevelt was using the radio to explain: "Turn to the bill of rights of the Constitution which I solemnly have sworn to maintain and under which your freedom rests secure. Read each provision of that bill of rights and ask yourself whether you personally have suffered the impairment of a single jot of these great assurances.” m m m He Believes in Challenges ALFRED M. BINGHAM has every right to answer that with a clear and ringing reply of “I have.” Os course it will be asked why the labor conditions in the plant of the Miller Parlor Furniture Company in Jersey City were any concern of young Bingham, who edits a magazine called "Common Sense. I think that the Defendant might answer that easily He happens to be a man with what the Quakers call a "concern" about social relationships. When things exist close to his own door which seem to him evil and unfair, he feels a personal responsibility to challenge them. ... . , Perhaps, he will be ridiculed by many editorial writers and paragraphers. I have no doubt that the term “parlor pink" will be employed. \et upon sober analysis isn't this sort of joke based upon a highly cynical attitude toward democratic governrnenf* I recently have not attended many festivities put on by the various more-patriotic-than-thou societies, but judging from reports the orator of the evening invariably tells his audience that liberty is a precious heritage which must be defended by all good Americans. And it is a customary, and I may add praiseworthy, part of the performance to extol the American Constitution and urge that this charter of freedom be maintained unimpaired. Accordingly I contend that if there is any logic whatsoever in the red baiting organizations that they should take Binghams place upon that picket line and insist upon the integrity of the bill of rights. It is not Bingham who has encouraged the growth of violent radicalism, but the Hagues and the McGoverns of Jersey City who seek to tear down the orderly processes of democratic government. (Copyright. 1934. hv The Times.

Today s Science ■ BY DAVID DIETZ

ARGON, on** of the nrp Rases in the atmosphere of the earth, has just been discovered in the atmospheres of the stars by Dr. W. W Morgan of the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicaco His discovery comes only a few months after Dr. Donald H. Menzel of Harvard detected neon in the stellar atmospheres. Neither of these gases have yet been identified in the sun. Neon us well known to every one as the gas in the tubular lights of advertising signs. Argon, though not so well known to the average citizen, finds an equallv important use in the lighting industry It is used in the so-called gas-filled electric incandescent lamps. Five rare gases, sometimes called the inert gases because ot their refusal to enter into chemical combination with other substances, exist in the atmosphere of the earth in small quantities. They are helium, argon, neon, krypton and xenon. The story of the discovery of these inert gases in the earth's atmosphere is one of the most fascinating in the annals of science. The first one to be discovered was argon, found in 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay. a a a Determinations of the density of nitrogen m the years between 1890 and 1894 finally led to the discovery of argon. It was found that atmospheric nitrogen had a different density than the nitrogen obtained from the breaking up of chemical compounds. This fact led Rayleigh and Ramsay to suspect that there was another gas associated with atmospheric nitrogen. Almost a quarter century earlier. Sir Norman Lockyer had discovered the existence of a gas in the solar atmosphere which was then unknown upon eaith. Asa consequence, he had named this gas helium from the Greek word for the sun. In 1898. Ramsay and Travers, while experimenting with argon, discovered that it was not the only inert gas in the earths atmosphere. They found four others, one of which was helium The other three were named neon, krypton and xenon. Helium is now known to exist also in the atmospheres of the stars. The wav in which a chemical element is identified in the sun or stars is exceedingly interesting The method is that of spectrum analysis. Now each chemical element, when made luminous. gives a characteristic combination of spectrum lines. Therefore, any chemical element can be identified in the sun or stars by locating its spectrum of the sun or a star. m m m IDENTIFYING spectrum lines, however, is not so simple as it seems. As Dr. Henry Norm Russell. director of the Princeton observatory, points out, there are 30.000 lines in the spectrum of the sun. while 50.000 lines are known in the laboratory. Some chemical elements, like hydrogen, for example. have a spectrum of about fifty miles, but other elements, like iron, have more than 1,000 lines in their spectrum.

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WHAT THE PRESIDENT WILL SEE

Roosevelt Will Glimpse Squalor Behind Puerto Ricos Beauty

Thi* Is the first of four article* on what President Roosevelt will see on his . Toyafe to Hawaii, as he makes stops at Puerto Rico, the Virgin islands, and passes through the Panama ranal. ana BV RODNEY DITCHER Times-NEA Service Writer • Copyright. 1934. NEA Service. Inc.i WASHINGTON. June 29.—President Roosevelt will find Puerto Rico as avid for a New Deal as was ever any of the states he leaves behind. He has a plan for that and probably will tell the 1,600,000 American j citizens on the island something about it. The Puerto Ricans are enjoying the sweet and sour fruits of thirtyfive years of American government, culture, and economic exploitation They have good hard roads, good schools and good public health systems. But most of them are suffering from undernourishment, unemployment, and extreme poverty. Unequal division of wealth in the United States seems a mild evil by comparison with its development and consequences in Puerto Rico. Strong measures would be required to put the island on its feet. Behind the lovely, modernized Spanish city of San Juan—oldest city under the American flag—Roosevelt will find a crazy economic j system built by American capital, which bought up vast acreages for sugar cane cultivation and left Puerto Rico without enough to eat.

HALF the heads of families are counted as unemployed. Wages on the sugar plantations run from 50 to 80 cents a day and the average income of wage earners is between $l5O and S2OO a year. The crux of the situation is that Puerto Ricans existing on such incomes must buy the necessaries of life —which they should produce at home—in the form of tariff-protected goods from continental United States—rice, flour, salt and canned fish. meat, beans, cigarets, cotton cloth, and wearing apparel. Yet 80 per cent of the population is rural! ana A BOUT half the population is of Negro blood and most of the rest is Spanish. It increases rapidly—from 450 a square mile in 1930 to 473 last year. That's a serious problem in itself, intensified by the land-acquisitive policy of the sugar corporations. Overcrow ding, malnutrition, and low living standards have increased the tuberculosis death rate to nearly 300 per 100.000 of population. Malaria, hookworm, and other diseases are prevalent. Two-thirds of the all-dominat-ing sugar industry is absenteeowned, which means that the big money from the crop leaves the island. About $400,000,000 is said to have been taken out in the last thirty years. ana "T T URRICANES and sugar XiL canes,” Puerto Ricans say, are their worst blights. The 1928 hurricane inflicted $100,000,000 property damage and the one of 1932 a toll of $36,000,000. Nearly $10,000,000 of New Deal money has gone to Puerto Rico, along with a couple of millions of self-liquidating RFC loans. But that still leaves Puerto Rico headed for social catastrophe and it is in her prospective role as

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

WASHINGTON, June 29.—Now that the stock market bill is safely passed and is being put into effect, the bulls and bears on Wall Street are singing a different song. A lot of them are saying that the act isn’t so bad after all. Reason for this is twofold: First, a lot of them really believe it, only raised hue and cry against the bill to head off anything stronger. Second, this hue and cry unquestionably ruined what slight vestige of public confidence remained. A lot of people figured that where there was so much smoke there must be some fire, and that the moguls of the market were out to bucket-shop the public at the earliest opportunity. Now confidence must be restored. To this end some brokers actually are sending out circulars telling their customers that the stock market act is a pretty good thing after all. B n U BBS SPINACH? Great men as well as children have to suffer it. Clarence Darrow. winding up his thankless job as official critic of Hugh Johnson's thin-skinned NRA, is under doctor's official orders to eat it daily. Relentlessly Mrs. Darrow holds him to it.

But there are complications. The Darrows live in a small hotel suite here, and the great lawyer fumes furiously at the way the spinach is prepared by the hotel chef. After experimental visifs to a score of restaurants, Mrs. Darrow finally made arrangements with Childs to have the chef prepare spinach according to a special recipe, disguised with cream, a little onion, other camouflage. No sooner do the Darrows enter the establishment now. than the word is flashed from one waitress to another, finally to waiting chef. It's on the table in a jiffy. But still Mr. Darrow hates it. To one smiling waitress who served it he growled: • There's no use trying to flirt with me. It won't make me like it the slightest bit more. It’s terrible stuff, it always has been terrible stuff, and it always will be terrible stuff.” The waitress giggled. When Mr. Darrow left there was a 50-cent tip under the plate. u a u THE fact that he is head of the NRA Employes Union is not the real reason John Donovan, research expert of the labor advisory board, was fired by General Hugh Johnson. The ex-horse soldifr is far from a friend of militant labor, but he is not opposed to unionism among his workers. Nor had the silly, and wholly unfounded, charge of ••inefficiency” anything to do with Donovan's dismissal. The pugnacious young Irishman's offense goes far deeper than the alleged reasons for his ouster. His crime was that he took his job too seriously. The purpose of the labor advisory board is to analyze codes from the labor standpoint, and to recommend changes in the interest of labor. Under Dr. Leo Wolman, former chairman, and Dr. Gustave Peck, his acting successor, this is as far as the board has gone. If its suggestions are diregarded by Johnson, as is the case with most of them, Wolman and Peck have nothing more to say.

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chief recipient of AAA benefit payments under the administration sugar control program that she sees her brightest immedate hope. A committee of Puerto Rican technicians, chairmaned by Chancellor Carlos Chardon of University of Puerto Rico—an agricultural authority—w 7 as called here by Undersecretary Rexford G. Tugwell to devise a plan by w’hich funds available might be used for general reconstruction. At least $24,000,000 in benefit payments should be available in the next three years, plus whatever Puerto Rico may get from subsistence homestead and other funds. a a a THE Chardon plan, which the administration is expected to support in principle, calls for purchase of sugar mills and cane

ana DONOVAN strongly disapproved such a policy. A former section hand, mill worker, and machinist, who put himself through college by working as a dish washer, waiter, and night clerk, his labor views are definitely left. Instead of merely making recommendations and going no further, Donovan belligerently demanded that Wolman and Peck fight for them. Also he became leader of a group of young experts who seconded his oppositionist activities. It was to smash this disturbing faction that Donovan was fired. It also is the reason why other dissidents may walk the plank in the near future. Johnson and Peck have been planning this house-cleaning for some time. What delayed them was fear of exactly the ruckus that has‘developed. By raising the cry ot “inefficiency” and “insubordination” they hoped to draw a red herring across the trail. But the scheme was too raw. They now have a situation on their hands which they may hear about for a long time to come. a a a A GARDENER clipping grass at the edge of the Capitol grounds yawned. "Out last last night?” “Yes. most of the night.” "Party?” "No—working.” “Oh yeah? The gardener's night shift! That's a good one.” "Believe it or not. You see we had to take out one of these dead sycamores.” "But why at night? You can’t hurt the feelings of a dead sycamore.” "No. but you can hurt tn? feelings of the people. Last winter there was two dead trees we had to get rid of, so we dug ’em up —day time, naturally. Well, you've no idea how many protests we got from the people against digging up the trees on the Capitol grounds. "So now we do it at night. See?” copvrlght, 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1934

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Spread over an islet, San Juan. Puerto Rican capital, and first stop on President Roosevelt's voyage to Hawaii, looms as a city of contrasts when seen from the air, ancient architecture blending with modern buildings to form a striking picture for the traveler.

land by a public agency, ■which would give farmers and other workers, full return for their cane and labor, all the money staying on the island. Good cane land bought would be traded to farmers w 7 ho have marginal land and the marginal land used for subsistence homesteads, where rice, beans, potatoes corn, and livestock could be raised. Rehabilitation of coffee, fruit, tobacco, and forestry are also proposed. The Puerto Rican legislature will be asked to use Puerto Rican money on an industrial development program which might put 50.000 at w r ork over a period of years. Some of this may sound socialistic, but there's serious question w’hether Puerto Rico can survive along present capitalistic lines. St St St TJUT Roosevelt is making primarily a pleasure trip and he will enjoy Puerto Rico as an island of beauty and life. She is about as large as Connecticut, rests 1.400 miles southeast of New York, with a handsome semi-rugged coast line, hills which begin close to the shore, and many fair green mountains. The fine hard road which will carry the President through the island is the main stem in a network of good highways.

$500,000 ASKED IN WIFE'S SUIT Mrs. Caroline Charters Sues Mate on Separation Agreement. Suit by Mrs. Carolyn Charters, Indianapolis, against her husband, William Charters, now in Florida, seeking $500,000 in securities and back payments under an alleged separation agreement, was on file today in superior court five here. Mrs. Charters’ complaint alleges that she and her husband separated in 1918. and that at that time, her husband agreed to pay her $250 a month. Payments have not averaged this figure, she alleges, and her husband also has failed to return money she gave him in trust shortly after they w'ere married. This money, Mrs. Charters claims, was $3,500 she inherited and gave to Mr. Charters to invest. It is now worth in the neighborhood of $500.000, she claims. The assets are in the Merchants National bank and Judge Russell J. Ryan has issued a restraining order to prevent their seizure by Mr. Charters.

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The capital port of San Juan is largest, with 160.000 souls. Restin on a small island flanked by the ocean and a bay, it has some suggestion of a Moroccan landscape. An old Spanish town, its ancient fortresses of El Morro and La Forteleza the governor's house cathedrals and other monuments of an old regime are now joined by small skyscrapers, bus lines, and Hollywoodesque suburbs. a a a THE beautiful Hotel Condado stands on a tongue of land between the sea and a lagoon and an equal favorite in social life is a huge beach club called Escambron. Upper and middle classes go in for bridge, dancing, golf, tennis, movies, and swimming. Poor people delight in getting up dances, featuring rum and guitars. Puerto Rico was discovered by Columbus on his second voyage in 1493. Ponce de Leon was her first governor and his bones moulder in San Juan's cathedral. The United States took her over from Spain in 1898 and in 1917 she was made part of this nation and her people American citizens. Government is operated by an elected legislature and a presidentially appointed governornow General Blanton Winship. Strongest in politics is the Lib-

TODAY and TOMORROW a a a a a a By Walter Lippmann

APART from anxiety about the financial outlook, which was discussed here yesterday, the chief source of concern arises from what may be called uncertainties as to what are the rules of the New Deal. What w 7 ith the codes, many of them half-baked, what with the regulations covering the capital markets, what with the uncertainties as to the labor clauses under Section 7A, w 7 hat with the many new agencies making rules of all sorts, it only is natural that business men, their lawyers, their bankers and their brokers should be in a state of

bewilderment. The translation of new principles into practice is not automatic. Nine-tenths of all laws are determined by administration and judicial interpretation and the growth of custom. The New Deal is new. What is new usually is bewildering and to mast men alarming. It is new not only to the business men who have to conform to it. It is new to the lawyers who advise them. It is new to the officials who administer the new laws. The men who are running NRA. the men who will run the securities commission, the federal reserve board and the rest, simply do not know as yet how in detail, in the particular cases that will actually present themselves, the New? Deal is to be put into effect. With the best will in the w?orld,

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eral party, which stands for independence, but declares for Roosevelt and his liberal attitude. a a a SENATOR LUIS MUNZO MARIN Is the party’s outstanding leader. Recently he engineered the campaign against Governor Robert H. Gore, who had become unpopular with Puerto Ricians and who finally resigned. More lately Marin has played an unofficial but important part in the w 7 ork of the Chardon commission. Tall, large, swarthy, mustached, and onlv 36, Marin w r as educated and lived long in the United States. He married an American girl—Muna Lee, the poet. Puerto Ricans harbor little bitterness toward this government, which has let them keep their own income tax and other revenue collections, thus allowing them to develop roads, schools, and sanitary control. But Washington has always allowed the corporations to run free, with the result that 80 or 85 per cent of the population is in a bad way. "Puerto Rico,” Mrs. Roosevelt said on her recent visit, “has been tremendously exploited.” NEXT —The Virgin Islands, once labeled an “effective poorhouse,” now being revived by subsistence homesteading.

ar there has been an immense amount of good will shown, a period of transition must be expected in which men adjust their minds, their habits, and the rules themselves, to th e actualities. During this period enterprise will be impeded by uncertainty and recovery retarded a a a 'T'HE difficulties in this period, however, can be reduced. In Washington it is time to recognize that the new law's are on the books and that what is needed most now is not to break the spirit of the recalcitrant minority, but to revive the spirit of a majority that is willing to conform but is bewildered. This is a matter, most of all perhaps, of reversiing an attitude of suspicion and of assuming good faith unless there is evidence to the contrary. The President has spoken about "partnership.” Among partners, if an enterprise is to work, there must be a considerable amount of trust. Without it, these new laws are likely to proliferate a mass of rules and regulations which no one will understand, no one can administer, and no one obey. The laws are comprehensive and searching. They will work best and be most likely to endure if they are applied through simple rules, administered with a light touch and in an atmosphere free from suspicion. a a a IN Wall Street and in the circles where its influence is great it is perhaps time to recognize that if the plain people of this country have endured these years with such patience and quiet fortitude, the well-to-do ought not to give way to nervous apprehension now that the worst of the crisis is over. These have been trying years for everybody. But the man without a job, the man who has lost or all but lost his farm and his home, his savings and his prospects for the future, has endured the most. W r hen the historian looks back over this period and notes how r the American standard of life was devastated between 1931 and 1933, he will say, I believe, that the American people withstood the ordeal with a patience which was heroic. They demanded relief. They demanded recovery. T s >v demanded reform. But they hered to their traditions and tl Jr institutions and responded to a leadership which in all Its essential ideals and principles is moderate, rational and kindly, (Copyright. 1934)

Second Section

Entered s Second Cl*** Matter t PoetnfTice. Indianapolis. Ind.

Fdir Enough ISTMOKPMB NEW YORK. June 29.—What with burglars, politicians and police commissioners who last about as long as the insect pests of June and wTeak their individual crotchets on the rank and file, a policeman's life is not a happy one. The members of the New York force at present are submitting patiently to the discipline of another of the set executive ephemerae, Major-General John F. 'Har-r----umpht O'Ryan, a civilian with military tendencies. There is no soldier quite as military and fond of

posh and saluting as the civilian soldier and O'Ryan has undertaken to create a corps of Eagle Scouts where policemen were before. They must shine their buttons. They may not wear any socks except black ones and the majorgeneral. with a long, rolling har-r-rumph also has commanded them not to shed their jackets in hot weather but to be men and take it. But in a few 7 years and perhaps even within a few 7 w 7 eeks (such are vicissitudes of office) Major-General O'Ryan will not be the "Mr. Big" of the New York police department

any more. Anew commissioner will take over the office, w 7 ith a salute of tw 7 enty-one flash bombs, and within a few 7 days many of Major-General O'Ryan s innovations, instituted for the good of the service, will be rescinded, also for the good of the service. The new commissioner or his wife or daughter or his Aunt Hattie, may not think black sock becoming to patrolmen and cause an order to issue, requiring a corps of adult, domesticated career men to wear some other kind—possibly blue for happiness. a a a New Styles Every Time IT is an old theory, pretty well confirmed by many years of practice, that the corps of policemen in a big city is each new 7 commissioner’s to play with. Seldom is it realized that policemen generally join for a 20-year hitch and a pension, that they are civilians in their leisure hours, that they are family men and grown up. So one commissioner bustles in to make them salute and imitate the marines; another makes them scrap their old caps and buy new ones of a design his wife happened to see on a taxi starter in Prague; another makes them execute a toothbrush drill in the cellar of the station house and another keeps them up to all hours of the night while he tangles the traffic and balls up everything ’mid the flash-bombs’ white glare. And, of course, it is the theme of every police commissioner's inaugural address that henceforth politics will have no part in the affairs of the department and that all the laws are to be enforced against all offenders without, as the saying goes, fear or favor. The practical policemen must come to regard the successive commissioners as amusing, though somewhat irritating adult brats with a little authority to boss good men around and make them stand in the corner. They come and they go and only when they come from the ranks of the police department do they know any more about police work than the keeper of a delicatessen w 7 ho has been summoned to court for leaving the cover off the jar of pigknuckles, and w'hen they do come from the ranks of the department that invariably means that they are eligible for retirement anyhow and merely have been sent down to headquarters to sit still and be good until the administration goes out or it is some other old spavin's turn to be rewarded. a a a Don't Take It Seriously A POLICEMAN w 7 ould be very foolish to accept too literally the inaugural assurance of MajorGeneral John F. (Har-r-rumph) O'Ryan that politics is out and that no reprisal can befall the patrolman w 7 ho kicks in some Tammany statesman's crap game or poolroom. Twenty years is a long time and if Tammany comes back the major-general will not be around to quash a writ of exile sending the gallant, but dumb, officer to patrol the truck gardens in the suburbs. Up to now, Tammany always has come back. The policemen must be patient with the majorgeneral and put up with him. They must shine their buttons, avoid white socks, wear their tunics in the sun and even equip themselves with Highlanders’ kilts or Napoleon hats if he says so, because he says When he goes out his reforms will be abolished for the good of the service and some other wonder man, possibly a florist or a milliner, will make them recite the Scout oath or use them as clothing dummies to try out constructive ideas of his—for the good of the service. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN"

MOST of the cosmetics now offered for public use are free from danger, except for the presence of substances to which some persons are sensitive. Therefore, it is important that you take one simple precaution before trying out anew cosmetic. That is, take the "patch test." It will determine whether your skin is sensitive to the particular cosmetic. In the patch test a very small amount of the substance i£ rubbed on your skin. If there is sensitivity, you will usually find an eruption on the spot into which the casmetic has been rubbed. Fortunately, cosmeticians have progressed tar enough to eliminate, to a great extent, substances that are harmful to health. It w?as important that they do this, for their industry in the United States has grown from one of v° $15,000,000 in 1909 to $150,000,000 in 1931. In fact, the products sold by beauty shops run up to a total of $250,000,000 annually, and about 250,000 persons are employed full time in this work. a a a KEEPING beautiful is an old Egyptian custom. Out of the ancient Egyptian tombs has coma evidence that the Egyptians used eye and face paints, oils, creams, and perfumes. The two most commonly used eye paints included copper and lead, and many of them contained antimony as well. They were, therefore, quite poisonous. Besides painting around their eyes, the ancient Egyptian women also colored their cheeks, using usually a compound containing the red oxide of iron. Egvptian women colored their hands, feet, nails and hair with henna, so that the modem vogue for highly ornamented finger nails goes back at least 3,000 years. There is also plenty of good evidence that the ancient Egyptian. Greek, and Roman women dieted strenuously and bound their breasts, whereas those with too flat figures padded them out at the proper places. , a a a WHILE modern technics for removal of superfluous hair have greatly improved, all the well groomed girls of ancient Egypt picked the superfluous hair from legs and arms. They also u.*ed chemical methods for removing such hair, which were not more successful in these days than they are now. Pumice stone was used for rubbing away the hair, and shaving seems to have been introduced in Italy about 300 B. C. Women of todav seem to be no more successful than were the ancient Greeks in finding skin tighteners and wrinkle removers. All sorts of preparations were tried in an earlier day without any more success than now. The only difference is that the ancients knew much less about hygiene and sanitation, and some of the preparations they used were rather unclean. The Greeks and the Romans also did their best to get rid of freckles, but with the same lack of success that prevails today.

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