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It Seem to Me HEWO® BBOUN YORK July I have found anew form of exercise, but I still think golf is better. The trouble with picketing is that very often it takes place in communities like Jamaica and always begins in the early morning. Just what I was picketing about will not be taken up in this column as the gc 'oral public quite possibly might be less interested in the issue than I am myself. I might add. however, without unfairness, that I never was more serious in my life. To be sure this was not my first experience, but previous picketing was of a more perfunctory sort. You did jour fifteen-minute stint and were done for the day. Yesterday I had a three-hour shift with : relief. You can bet jour life I was serious. My own craft is concerned.

Thus is by no means a farewell to all that, but I do hope that ell my future picketing will not have to be done in Jamaica, Long Island. For a time we just walked back and forth in front of the office. I knew every foot of the scenery and found it monotonous. Then somebody suggested that we go down a main artery to the city hall. Not knowing Jamaica I assumed that this would be at most a couple of blocks. It turned out to be something like a mile and a half. And it was still monotonous. Nor was my spent feeling

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much assuaged by the fact that I constantly was tripping over tinv tots who picked themselves up and asked. Mama, why is that funny man carrying that sign?" I didn’t try to explain to them. But I could. a a u .4 Xciyhbor's Criticism THERE are times when j r ou infuriate me to a frenzy of speechlessness just short of the following." writes Ruth Hale (neighbor*. “ A grosser mess of testimony than yours of recent date on the flora and fauna of j-our farm and your neighbor's like never has been set down. If it pleases you to go to your farm and shut jour eyes tight to everything but the morning papers, the golf holes and a possible two-club bid. nobody can stop you. I speak as one who has had at least a hint. But you can not go sealed against any perceptions whatsoever and still have the nerve to bear witness. "What stopped j’ou. for instance, from watching the duel between the kingbird mother and the chipmunk? The kingbird has built her nest in the ramblers on j'our side porch for the Lord knows how tong. She has been able to fight off the chipmunk up to now because the foliage of j'our ramblers was so thick, but nobody told her about the winter-kill. The poor little fool came back and nested in the two or three straggly stems. The odds have, of course, shifted to the chipmunk—but have jou ever opened your eyes to thus fauna drama? Don't tell me. The the answer is no. “You say that my dog Flagg no longer baj's at the moon. That's not too true, but I'll admit it’s becoming truer, and I givp thanks. But have you ever seen the Captain with a woodchuck? No, don’t tell me. •'Your intensive study of my dog Flagg has consisted solely of giving him chop bones at the dinner table and saying, Now. Flagg, let that teach you not to beg.’ * m m A Xaturalist? Phoney! neighbor is madder than a hornet at j'our I reporting of that snake on her lake. But for that she probably would never have shaken off her customary sloth to write this long complaint. I give jou the ’garter snake’ as a jape. I give j’ou black snake" because it is just possible that j'ou don't know T black from brown, and anyhow j’ou never had the stamina to look at her. You wouldn't even saj’ ’scat.’ All the rest of her have been chasing her all these years—one o! jour few accuracies. “But it is intolerable of you to call her ‘he.’ This is no honest mistake on j'our part. Every spring someone of us has recounted to j’our shuddering back the full number of her new children. You knew all right. You were just trying to give your sex airs. "So you see. as a naturalist, you're a catch-as-catch-can combination of liar and thief. Knowing and wanton —from your neighbor.” (Copyright. 1934. by The Times!

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

A METHOD of insuring international peace through the control of the rare minerals with* out which modern war ran not be waged, is subgested bv Professor Ward V. Evans of Northwestern university in a report to the American Chemical Society. Professor Evans points out that the boundaries of nations were established originally from an agricultural point of view with no reference to mineral wealth. . Consequently many nations which are rich in fertile fields and even well supplied with such mineral substances as coal and iron, are short on materials which are required for the complex industrial life of today and the equally complex business of prosecuting a twentieth century war. The United States is probably the outstanding example because it is the mast favored nation with respect to mineral wealth. The United States has within its borders more coal, petroleum, iron ore, copper, lead. zinc, sulphur, arsenic borax, cadmium, molybdenum and talc than any other nation. But despite American leadership in the four great fields of coal, petroleum, iron and copper, the United States has its mineral shortages. Among those which this nation must import are antimony, chromite, manganese, nickel, tin. asbestos, bauxite, nitrates, platinum, potash and vanadium. Four of these are what are known as key minerals in war-time namely chromite, manganese, nickel and vanadium. a a a \NOTHER mineral regarded as highly important in war-time today is molybdenum. It produces an alloy steel of unusual toughness and is extremely desirable for both weapons and projectiles. The United States is exceptionally well off with regard to molybdenum. Asa matter of fact about 94 per cent of the world's supply comes from one district, the Climax mine in Colorado. Asa matter of fact the United States does produce some vanadium and also some manganese. But not enough to meet its needs. It is interesting to note that while the United States has no nickel. Canada has plenty of it. Canada supplies about 90 per cent of the world's stock of nickel. Russia. India, the gold coast of Africa, and Brazil are the great producers of manganese. Africa is the renter of chromite production. Peru produces 60 per cent of the world's supply of vanadium. a a a '■|"'WO things must be agreed upon. Professor J. Evans says, to insure world peace. First of all, the nations of the world must agree that they really desire peace. Next, he says, there must be a survey of mineral wealth as technical science change* the configuration of the economic world. Professor Evans cites one example during the World war of how important some of these key minerals are. Before the war.” he says, "Great Britain obtained her supply of tungsten from South Burma! Tins ore was refined in Germany and sent to England. At the beginning of the war England cut off the supply of tungsten to Germany. ' Germany then obtained molybdenum ore from Norway for high speed tools. This supply was later bought by England. Germany then substituted nickel for molybdenum. This ore could not be obtained from central Europe in sufficient quantities so it was bought by Norway and sold to Germany. Norway bought her nickei from Canada. Thus. England faced the novel situation of having her soldiers killed by her own munitions.”

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OH, FIREMAN, SAVE MY CHILD!

Rookie Smoke-Eaters Get ‘The Works’ at City Training School

BY WILLIAM M’GAI’GHF.Y Time* Staff Writer WITH angry flames licking at his heels, a lithe young man stepped nervously to the window ledge and gazed five stories below where a dozen firemen awaited him with an outstretched net. Squaring his jaw, he leaped into space and toppled sixty-five feet downward, his blue denim shirt fluttering in the breeze. Anxious cries for him to throw his feet upward reached his ears. He doubled up his body just before he landed in the canvas net, his body bouncing as the sturdy springs vibrated with his weight. “Good jump, Jack.” boomed the voice of Battalion Chief John J. O Brien. grizzled veteran of many fires. ”Now\ let’s see you try that leap again.” Such scenes are being enacted every day this week, as the chief puts five rookie firemen through their training course at the fire drill station, South and New Jersey streets. Before they are assigned to various fire houses to become experts in pinochle, rhummy and checkers, they must have a thorough understanding of all branches of fire fighting. 808 WHAT a school to attend! Take that smoke house class No. 101, termed by the catalogue as a good course for amateur fire eaters. What a hot number that class turns out to be! In the special smoke house for the trainees, the chief orders fire set to an assortment of cord wood, old leaves and a sprinkling of chemicals. Donning gas masks, the recruits enter the smoke house and shut the dooi. Thick smoke creeps up their pants legs, scurries down their necks and covers them in thick laj-ers. Any defect in the gas mask soon will find the smoke-eater banging on the door. After baking his boys thoroughly, the chief allows them to dash out into the sunshine, wrapped in a blanket of fumes. In answer to the suggestion that he wait until cooler weather to put the rookies through the test, the chief snorted, “Fires don't wait until the weather is right before they start.” Many casualties are averted by the firemen being familiar with gas masks, Chief O'Brien declared. “Most fire departments attempt to fight fires from the outside,” he said contemptuously. “In Indianapolis, we fight ’em from the inside.” tt tt tt ALTHOUGH firemen can do a better job by getting inside the house and shooting the water out than by standing on the roof and drenching everything inside, it is a more dangerous practice. “Mechanical refrigerators and escaping gas often create deadly fumes that overcome the men when they enter a burning house or apartment building,” he explained. “That’s why the merf

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

WASHINGTON, July 12.—The state department has been receiving de: ailed reports on Hitler's "purging” of his Nazi party. These indicate that the Austrian house painter may not long remain in power. Hitherto he has been trying to ride the two wild horses of radicalism and reaction both within his party. Now he is swinging over to the reactionaries—the Ruhr industrialists, the monarchists, the remnants of the kaiser's army. But his difficulty is that he now lacks his personal army. The storm troopers have been sent on leave. The reichsw T ehr, now in complete control, will stick with Hindenburg and the industrialists in case of a showdown, not with Hitler. It looks, therefore, as if the Nazi chancellor in the future might be a mere figurehead, taking orders from the old Potsdam gang. a a a a a a FRANZ VON PAPEN, around whose retention as vice-chancellor raged a Nazi storm, is best remembered here for his attempt to blow up the Welland canal during war days. For this he is still under indictment.

Von Pa pen was German military attache in Washington at a time when Ambassador Von Bernstorff received a telegram—Jan. 26. 1915, before the United States entered the war—authorizing him to undertake sabotage against American munitions factories and transportation facilities into Canada. Von Papen was entrusted to carry out part of the campaign. The German government has since admitted sending this telegram. but claims that subsequent sabotage was not performed by German agents. a u 0 JUST three decades ago. another Roosevelt, then in the White House, caused his secretary of the navy to send the following telegram to the American naval commander patrolling the coast of Panama, then a part of Colombia: "Government (Colombian) force reported approaching the Isthmus in vessels. Prevent their landing ...” Thus Theodore Roosevelt insured a revolution against Colombia. which would set up a Panaman republic and lease the Panama canal zone to the United States. Shortly thereafter, speaking at Berkley. Cal.. T. R. said: "I took the canal zone and let the congress debate, and while the debate goes on. the canal does also.” Simultaneously and for many years thereafter continued bitter debate against the United States in Colombia. For years the Amercan minister was ostracized. Every year on July 4. the windows of the American legation in Bogota were smashed. It was an annual rite. Thirty years after the seizure of the canal zone, another Roosevelt visited Colombia. The visit is significant of the new day in Pan-American relations. u u a IN issuing his scathing indictment of New Deal bureaucracy the other night, William Edgar Borah may have given the Republican party a catchy cam-

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must know how to use a gas mask.” Rookie firemen learn that there is more to a fireman’s life than sitting around discussing the drought or arguing over one’s golf game, w'hen they encounter the ladder test. For reducing the waist line, they’ll all recommend this course. It consists of clambering over the roof of a five-story structure, dragging a heavy twenty-foot ladder behind. This is the maneuver that the fire laddies use when they wish a ladder from the ground to place it on the roof of the structure. What fun, if you live through it! Not a clumsy movement is afforded in the spectacular hose drill. In this maneuver, four long lines of hose are attached to a pumper truck and w'ithin fortyfour seconds there is a different line on all the top stories. Not only are the fire lines covering every floor, but the water is spouting at full force. tt tt tt THIS drill is the pride of Fire Chief Harry Voshell. It demonstrates his new fire-fighting system, which is attracting na-

paign credo for 1934. But it was not with the help of Henry P. Fletcher, new chairman of the national committee. Asa matter of fact, Henry’s first job as No. 1 salesman for the G. O. P. was a sad flop. Having read newspaper reports that the golden-tongued statesman from Idaho planned considerable stump speaking this summer, Fletcher hied himself to Borah’s office. It has been a long, long time since the latter has been waited on by a national Republican chairman, and he was not unaware of the compliment. Nor of Fletcher’s wily finesse in making it. The personal greeting between the two was cordial. But that was all. When Fletcher explained that he had called in the warm hope that the senator would see his way clear to make several addresses under the auspices of the Republican national committee, Borah froze. Politely, but with terse bluntness. he informed his distinguished visitor that he had absolutely no intention of doing so. He was going to talk, he said, but strictly on his own responsibility. What he had to say would find favor neither with Republicans nor Democrats. 000 AND furthermore, Borah added quietly, looking Fletcher squarely in the eye, the Republican party had given him no indication of being aware of the fundamental issues at stake, and had evidenced no desire of ascertaining them. The recent Chicago meeting of the Republican national committee (which chose Fletcher as chairman), proved conclusively, Borah concluded, that the country could hope for no enlightened leadership from the G. O. P. Fletcher picked up his genuine

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1934

Left—Veteran firemen yell for John H. Vogel, rookie smoke-eater, to lift up his legs as he comes tumbling through space toward the fire net. The recruit fireman was appointed to the force recently and is undergoing a training course at the drill station, South and New Jersey streets, before he is assigned to a station. Right—Carrying several hundred feet of hose, the recruit firemen clamber to the top of the five-story building in forty-four seconds.

tion-wide attention among fire authorities. Formerly, local firemen followed the common practice of using a high pressure hose. In putting out the fire, the fire fighters usually put everything else out, including the window lights and the bedroom partitions. Many a home ow'ner in the past, after viewing his drenched walls and soaked furniture and flooded interior, swore to let the house burn down the next time. Chief Voshell recently devised a system of using four smaller lines where one high-pressure hose was used before. This diverts the water into smaller streams and is more effective in putting out the fire. More important to the property owner, this system eliminates much water damage. Last year, Indianapolis had one

Panama hat, English walking stick, shook hands, and departed. Note —What Borah’s friends are now watching is to see whether Fletcher takes a cue from the senator’s attack. There is nothing the American voter rebels against more quickly than anything that smacks of tyranny, and some of the recovery agencies have furnished ample G. O. P. ammunition. ana PROBABLY there is no New Dealer more frank with the press than "Honest” Harold Ickes. His press conferences are on a free give-and-take basis. The other day several correspondents for Pittsburgh papers inquired if a local $25,000,000 project had been approved. Ickes evaded a direct answer. The reporters insisted. Finally, with a broad smile, he turned to Michael Strauss, PWA press chief. "Oh, hell. Mike,” he said. ‘‘You can't stop those fellows. Let's give it to them. Yes, boys, Pittsburgh is going to get the money.” (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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of the lowest fire losses in the country. Insurance companies have made this a low-rate city due to the small per capita loss. The training that the five new recruits are receiving will be another factor in keeping the fire loss at a low figure. The veteran firemen, too, must keep up their training at the drill station. At regular intervals, companies renew their acquaintance with the fire drill equipment. tt tt tt THE station was built in July, 1929, six years after the old drill station was torn down. During the interim, an instructor went around to the various stations and gave instructions. This system proved unsatisfactory and Chief Voshell ordered the new drill station erected.

TODAY AND TOMORROW tt a a tt a a By Walter Lippmann

FOLLOWING the visit of Marshal Weygand to England, the visit of M. Barthou, the French foreign minister, naturally has raised the question as to whether France and Britain again are drawing together in an understanding like ;hat which existed before 1914. The answer to the question will not be found in a formal pact of any sort. It is contrary to the tradition of British policy to enter into

an alliance with any power on the continent of Europe, and public sentiment in Britain today would be opposed strongly to any new committment. Nevertheless, there exist between France and Britain ties that are stronger than the formulae of diplomats or the moods of public opinion. There is. to begin with, the basic fact that as between France and Britain there are no important rivalries, in commerce, for empire, for power, or for prestige. They do not compete seriously in the world's markets. Both nations are satisfied with their boun-

In September, 1929, Battalion Chief O'Brien, who formerly was head of the department, returned to the drill station as chief instructor. Shortly after he came on the force in 1891 he participated in the surgical institute fire in which a number of cripples lost their lives. He was active in the Fahn-ley-McCrae fire, north of the present union station, in 1905. At the H. Lieber fire on East Washington street in 1920 he directed a company of men who reached a powder magazine before it exploded. Asa teacher, the new recruits find the chief a gruff taskmaster. But, privately, he is kindly and lovable and always encouraging merit in his men. The five rookies going the training course are Herman C. Adams, W. F. McGlenn, John Vogel, William Scherer and Patrick E. Fitzgerald. Today these men are learning the fundamentals of fire fighting. A decade from now, although the equipment may change, they’ll be utilizing the same tactics learned at the smoke-eaters’ school.

daries. Both have completed empires that neither desires to expand. The vital interest of both is the maintenance of the status quo. In both the period of aggressive expansion is over, and both have, therefore, as the fundamental aim of their policy the defense of their present position in the world. In this generation the two nation have become related by positive ties. It always has been a cardinal tenet of Britain’s policy that her defense requires a navy indisputably stronger than that of any continental navy, and that the region occupied by Belgium and Holland never must be controlled by a power strong enough to attack Britain.

'T'HE development of the submarine and the airplane have not altered the fundamental strategy of the British defense, but they have changed the conditions of that strategy. They have made it absolutely essential that the coast of France never should become a base for attack on shipping in British waters. The only way to achieve that security is by implicit understanding; first, that France and Britain never will fight each other, and, second, that they will both fight any one who threatens the French coast or invades the English channel. It is not necessary to put this understanding in writing. It is more binding than any formal treaty. Just as the United States never would tolerate an attack by an Asiatic power upon Canada or upon Mexico or Central America, though no alliance of any kind exists, so the British and the French are bound together by their geographical position in a policy of common naval defense in the north Atlantic. The airplane is binding them even closer together in a common strategy of defense. France and Britain are so near together that a war in the air would be devastating to both. They are compelled to give up any idea that their air forces are rivals. (Copyright. 19341

Hitler Aid Is Banished By United Prr> CAPE TOWN. South Africa. July 12.—The southwest administrator declared the Hitler Youth movement illegal in that district today ana ordered it banned. The leader. Captain Von Losnitzer, was ordered to leave within seven days.

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Fdir Enough WMltf MR NEW YORK, July 12.—Whenever it seems as though this country has reached a genuine understanding of the Russian people, the Russians haul off and do something coarse and crude which shocks the American sense of decorum and justice and throws the understanding for a loss of half the distance to the goal. The Russians apparently have much to learn about civilization, to say nothing of self-government. It saj's in the papers that they have ordered the

execution of five railroad and subway officials for j'ielding to the larcenous instinct in connection with their work. This way of doing is repugnant to the American spirit, and one dispatch of this kind can do more to prevent the spread of Communism in the United States than half a dozen congressional investigations of the red menace. What is needed before the understanding between the two great governments of the people by the people can become a reality Is a course of study for the Russians under American instructors. They obviously de-

sire to do the right thing, as the grafting on the part of their officials plainly shows, but self-govern-ment is not merely an instinct or a desire. Selfgovernment is also a racket which is not learned in a day, but only by years of experience with larcenous public officials. An American mission to educate the Russians and correct their mistakes would have to start with a free press and an American system of court procedure. In the present, state press of Russia it is impossible to publish anything about the personal kindliness, domestic virtue and private charities of the public official who has stolen a million roubles by padding the pay rolls or paying a friend in the contracting business for excavating granite when he has only excavated mud. The result is that the simple Russians merely compare the evidence with the law. The evidence shows that the official granted the money and the law' says that any one who does this shall be sentenced to death. So the Russians take him out and shoot him or throw him down a cistern and pour concrete over him and conclude that they are pretty smart people after all, w'hen, in fact, they are very dumb. tt a tt Such a Court System! ■pERHAPS they are too dumb to take advice from a nation of experts in self-government, but if not they will learn that it is impossible to build railways or subways or any other large building work in a self-governing country without graft. That is the American way and the Americans are old hands at the business and extremely successful w'hereas the Russians are blundering novices. For book-lessons in self-government, American model, the Rusian children might be required to memorize the records of the Teapot Dome investigation, the Sesbury investigation of the Tammany administration in New York and some of the chapters of the fascinating story of self-government in Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, or name-your-city. It should be impressed on the Russian citizens that in the United States, where self-government has achieved perfection, the larcenous public official in frequent cases not only is acclaimed but reelected. The Russian courts apparently tragically are unsuited to the needs of a country which is trying to govern itself and build itself into a great modern nation. The court system does not permit of postponements, appeals on technical grounds, or reversals on the ground that the grand jury which drew the indictment was drawn out of a plug hat instead of a fedora as required by law. a tt tt Let's Teach 'Em A ND, in the event of a conviction for grafting (rare in the United States) the penalty should be modified from the brutal extreme of execution before a firing squad or down the cistern to not more than one year in a private room in some homelike jail with common prisoners to perform valet service for the convicted grafter. American sympathy goes out to the Russians in their struggle to improve themselves, but there are times w'hen the Russians seem undeserving. They flout American experience and ideals and wonder why the Americans sometimes feel inclined to give them up as hopeless. It is well to resist the propaganda of the Red menace in this country. The Russian idea of selfgovernment would make shambles of most of the state capitals and city halls in the United States. (Copyright. 1934, by Unite and Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN *

IN the old days, if you were sick, the doctor would come and look at your tongue before doing anything else. It got so that persons would take the appearance of the tongue as an indication of their health. And there still those who think they can make a diagnosis of indigestion or infectious disease by this simple observation. But tod? y about the only time the doctor will inspect your tongue is when he’s looking for a disease that relatrs to that organ. The tongue contains on its surface little structures which have the double purpose of supplying the sense of taste and of permitting the tongue to handle th food that is on it. Occasionally these little folds enlarge without producing inything in the nature of a serious disease. Sometimes they betome swollen in association with an infection of the tonsils or throat. Usually in such cases ordinary cleanliness with a certain amount of rest brings about prompt relief. nan THERE are, however, other cases in which these ordinary folds of membrane covering the tongue disappear and are displaced by a sort of scar tissue. This condition most frequently occurs among heavy smokers or persons with very bad teeth. The condition occasionally has been referred to as smoker’s patches. It may, however, proceed eventually to the stage when the entire tongue is marked out in sections / so that it looks like a map, in which case the doctors describe the condition as geographical tongue.' In some cases use of radium in treatment of disorders of the tongue of this kind is successful. A rather rare condition affecting the tongue is one in which the little folds of membrane, known as papillae, enlarge. This gives the tongue a dark appearance, so that it seems to be covered with hair, o<r THE tongue occasionally is affected by organisms which produce swellings and growths, and not infrequently tumors may develop that are merely disturbances of growth, as well as tumors like cancer that are malignant. It is, of course, of the greatest importance to find whether any swelling or change in the tongue is cancerous. If detected early, it is possible to bring about a cure without recurrence. If detected late, there is very little chance of a successful result. A clean mouth in.which the teeth have been regularly watched for cleanliness and for freedom from decay and unevenness, is perhaps the best type of insurance that you can get against development of cancer of tongue and mouth.

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