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It Seenu to Me mewwbmin N r EW YORK. July 20 —l'm beginning to worry •bout my immortal soul. And if by some chance it surprises me and turns out to be finite IH still be worried. The matter has been hanging around the fringes of my mind for quite a while, but it was called into the foreground by a speech of a young newspaper man whom I heard the other night m a suburban community. Somebody asked him. Well, what grievances have you got?’’ And he answered, "Not many, but silly or sentimental as it may sound. I'm thinking about mv soul. When I become convinced that I have a right it makes me mad to have anybody tell me that I can't use it whether it happens to benefit me or not. Somehow I can't surrender even on good terms. I don’t care very much

about the objections of other people. Fundamentally I have to answer myself. And I want to be able to win that argument.” And naturally enough, I went away worried. Increasingly I am asking myself "Did you say precisely what you think and did you say it just as hard as you could?” And on a good many afternoons I am compelled to hang my head and make the weak rejoinder, “Well, maybe you did enough to hold the franchise, but you certainly pulled a couple of those punches which started as knockout wallops to the chin.”

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It is difficult to make excuses for charging half wav up a hill and then calling it a day. It would be specious for me to argue that there is a utility in sneaking up on people and attempting to establish your point of uew in a somewhat stealthy way. I don't believe that any more. I have become convinced that even the shrewdest propagandist runs the risk ol being sneaked upon while he is sneaking. a a a / Must Leant to He Tough CERTAIN constitutional limitations I never will conquer. I refer to my own glandular scheme and not to the one inspired by Alexander Hamilton. With all the good will in the world I never am going to be able to look anybody straight in the eye and say. “I think you are one of the most spurious and two-timing rascals I ever met in my life and want no further conversation with you.” Upon at least three recent occasions I was in a position where some such speech would have been perfectly proper. And yet. I couldn't make it. Twice I said. ‘ I'm jaleased to have had the chance to talk to you.” which wasn't what I meant at all. Before I die I must learn to be tough and it is a terrific assignment. One of my close associates said not so very long ago. "Broun is all right in preliminaries. but for heaven's sak" let’s send him out of the room when we get down to cases, because he’s always going to say. Why, sure, we won't insist on that. Os course, it can compromised.’” This isn’t wholly true, but unfortunately there is in it a sufficient basis to make me restive and inclined to look over the chips in my bureau drawer. I am looking for one which will balance neatly upon my shoulder. a a a Make Me as Good as That SEVERAL acquaintances have told me that between haircuts I look a good deal like William Jennings Bryan. It seems to me that the relationship ends at the barber's chair. Mr. Bryan made an eloquent plea that no crown of thorns should be placed upon the brow of labor. Even in the most authentic garb I hardly could pass as a convincing svmbol of the working man. but in the last week or so mv fingers have been itching for that crown of thorns. Once upon a time I had a martyr complex and a cure was effected. The cure was not permanent. Or. possibly, I have caught the ailment all over again. That seems natural enough for in recent weeks I have been in places heard men and women say. To hell with my job, my livelihood, my chance of advancement. I'll scrap all those for the chance to do the thing which seems to me right and necessary.” There is a contagion in that attitude. I think my temperature has shot up at least a little over normal. William Lloyd Garrison in the year 1831 said. ”1 am in earnest—l will not equivocate—l will not excuse—l will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.” And so I pray, "Oh Lord, give me the ability, the resolution and the nerve to be as good as that.” iCoovright. 1934 bv The Tiniest

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN

POME persons bruise a great deal more easily than ij do others. This is because their blood vessels are more permeable, thus permitting the blood to escape easily, and it is also due to a lessened number of blood platelets which are concerned with the control of bleeding. Fat persons and those who are very anemic also are likely to bruise more easily than do persons in good health. When a bruise occurs, the small blood vessels in the skin and perhaps in the muscles are broken, so that the blood comes out into the tissues. The bruise is. therefore, so dark at first that it is almost black. Gradually it changes to blue, then to brown and yellow, and when the blood is finally reabsorbed by the forces of the body, recovery has occurred. 000 SOMETIMES a tendon or a muscle will tear, resulting in an exudation of blood which eventually comes to the surface. This, however, is not to be confused with the bruise which is caused by forces applied from without The common name for such a condition is “Charley horse.” When a severe bruise occurs, you should immediately rest the affected part and. if it is an arm or a leg. elevate the limb so as to aid absorption of the exuded blood. If the hemorrhage does not seem to stop or if it spreads, pressure may be applied that will control the bleeding. 000 THERE usually is little pain attached to a bruise after the first swelling has occurred. If. however. the swelling continues, or if it appears secondarily infected, the pain may be so severe that medical measures may be necessary. Under such circumstances, the application of heat is helpful. Very rarely does collected blood in a mass under me skm have to be let out It is best to have it absorbed from within. However, if the clot does not liquefy and n it fails to absorb. :t may be necessary for the doctor to let the accumulated blood out. As soon as bleeding and acute inflammation have stopped, mild rubbing and massage may be helpful m causing more rapid absorption of the exuded blood.

Questions and Answers

Q —What is the Magna Carta and when was it signed? Is the original in existence? A—King John of England signed the Magna Carta June 15. 1215. at Runnymede. It is a scroll which embodies a code of laws, having two principles: First, such limitations of the feudal claims of the king as would prevent their abuse; second, such specification of the general rights of all freemen as were derived from the ancient laws of the rea.m; however, these rights had been neglected or perverted. Four originals exis\ two in the cathedral churches m which they were deposited originally. Lincoln and Salisbury, the other two in the British museum. The Lincoln charter was considered the most perfect end was reproduced in the statutes of the in 1810. Q —\Vft are the ccmmetcial uses of sulphur? A—The more important uses are the manufacture of sulphuric acid and sulphurous acid, black powder, matches, disinfectants Mid insecticides. It also is used as • bleaching agent. Q —ls the sun nearer to the earth in summer or In winter? A—ln winter.

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‘DEAD-EYE DICK’ STILL IS KING

Poll of Children Shows Leaning Toward Cowboy Pictures

BY HELEN LINDSAY Timr* Staff Writer AS numerous as the freckles on their young, perspiring faces, are the movie stars chosen by Indianapolis children as their "favorites.” One thing, however, was apparent in a poll taken at the city’s playgrounds. The days when Dead-Eye Dick and other hairraising heroes held the interest of America's youngsters have been carried over into the present. For almost every boy asked whom he'd rather see in a motion picture, named one of the “wild west” stars. Tom Mix and Ken Maynard seemed to be first choices, with Buck Jones galloping along a close second. And not only were these the choice of the boys, but little girls twisted their starched gingham dresses in embarrassed confession that they “liked cowboys, too.” The voluptuous curves of Mae West, who has been condemned by adults interested in the campaign to clean up Hollywood for the safety of children, intrigued only one child questioned. He was Robert Johnson, 14, ot 1527 North Gale street. Robert’s choice of a favorite male star was Tom Mix. He likes Mae and Tom “because they know how to act.” Norma Shearer wasn't mentioned in the selections. Neither was Carole Lombard, nor many another screen actress under fire now for ultra-sophisticated roles. a a a HOWEVER, Jean Harlow's glamorous beauty has entranced at least two of the city’s children. Betty Jean Johnson, 10-year-old. sister of Robert, likes Jean Harlow "because she's so. pretty.” “And I liked Robert Montgomery in Mr. X.’ too,” Betty Jean said, awaiting her turn in a game of indoor baseball at the Brookside park playground. Mary Jane Soudriette. 8, of 745 Linwood avenue, chose Jean Harlow, too. The selection was made because of Jean's blondness. Mary Jane had the air of being a little girl who might select the brightest tinsel on the Christmas tree for her own special prize. The blond actresses seemed to carry the greatest appeal for these critical youngsters. Bobby Brown, 10. of 3225 East Sixteenth street, added his vote for lighter hair in emphatic praise of Ann Harding. “I carry her picture in my pocket all the time,” he said, pausing beside a slide to produce a worn likeness of the star of many a sophisticated picture. It took a nearby 13-year-old girl to explain. “I think Anne Harding looks on the outside like we all feel our mothers are on the inside,” she explained haltingly. Anne Harding also was the choice of Arvinea Pierson, 13, of 1367 North Tuxedo street. “I liked her in ‘Gallant Lady,’ and I like her in all of her pictures. because she knows how’ to take the parts they give her,” Arvinea said. a a a RAY STIFF, 10. of 1930 Olney street, never misses a picture in which Will Rogers plays. “It's because he's so funny,” Ray explained. Eleven-year-old Frank Gierke, of 1348 North Gale street, iikes Richard Arlen, because he's a “good actor.” Pearl Johnson, 13, of 1527 North Gale street: Tom Thigpen, 12, of 1327 North Gale street, and Ernest Van Treese, 12, of 5312 Lowell avenue, agree that Ken Maynard is their idea of what a movie actor should be. Ernest is so attracted

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

WASHINGTON, July 20.—The much-maligned securities act has been in operation approximately one year. And gradually there are being heard lone voices crying in the wilderness of Wall Street that it is not so bad after all. In fact, it looks as if the securities act. despite all the hue and cry against it, might do one great thing for Wall Street—re-establish investment confidence. For many months, the securities act was treated by brokers and bankers as worse than cholera. Only gold mining ventures, beer and whisky interests knocked on the door of the Federal Trade Commission

to float new issues. Wall Street planned to starve the securities act out, demonstrate to Roosevelt that the rigid regulation by Jim Landis was retarding recovery. The scheme was abetted by the fact that the public was not ready to buy any way. But now the boycott seems to be over. Wall Street realizes that the securities act has come to stay. Big companies have been coming in with big bond flotations. The same thing is happening here that happened in England after the passage of its securities act many years ago. The old slogan "Let the Buyer Beware.” was changed to "Let the Seller Beware." In the end Wall Street probably will find the securities act as big a blessing as the federal reserve act which it once sought to strangle. 000 JUST before Senator Bill Borah departed for his home - in Boise. Idaho, he received an interesting suggestion. Several Democratic senators proposed that he issue a public call for a fund to pay off the $35 000 campaign debt which the Democratic national ’ committee owes sandy-haired Joseph P. Kennedy. chairman of the new securities exchange commission. Borah, it will be recalled, started such a fund when the senate's Teapot Dome committee unearthed the fact that oil-mil-lionaire Harry F. Sinclair had contributed a large sum to the Repuolican national committee. On the basis of this record, Borah's Democratic colleagues wanted him to take the initiative

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by Ken Maynard that he visited relatives in Columbus. 0., just so he might catch a glimpse of the cowboy-actor. “But all he got to see was Ken Maynard’s airplane as it flew over the city,” Bonnie Van Treese, his 9-year-old sister, lamented. “I like Tom Keenan next to Ken Maynard,” she added. Loyalty to Dick Powell, one of Indianapolis’ ow'n sons, was shown by Martha Dawson, 10, of 5123 East North street. “I like the pictures he's in. And I like Janet Gaynor, too,” Martha said. Buck Jones was the choice of Bernard Johnson, 11, of 1527 North Gale street, and Bob Soudriette, 10, of 745 North Linw'ood avenue. Bob, who wore a toy pistol in a holster at his side, stopped in the midst of a wild game of “cowboys and Indians” to cast his vote for Tom Mix and Buck Jones. Ann Simmons, 13, of 39 North Ritter avenue, confessed that she still liked cowboy pictures, particularly those in which Buck Jones plays. “I like Janet Gaynor best of any of the actresses,” she said, "because she’s always so sweet.” a a a Betty foddrill, 9, of 5230 East St. Clair street, doesn’t know the names of her cowboy favorites, though she has her father draw pictures of cowboys for her entertainment. Her first choice of movie entertainment, however, is an animated cartoon, featuring Mickey Mouse. She also expressed enthusiastic enjoyment of the "Three Little Pigs” movie. Ginger Rogers was the selection of Phyllis Adams, 11, of 601 North Gray street. “I like her because she’s pretty, can act, has a good voice and sings well,” Phyllis said with a sophisticated air. “And I like Bing Crosby, because I like to hear him smg.” Children, even sisters, differ in their likes and dislikes of movie stars. Caroline Cohen. 10, of 2525 Brookside avenue, likes Joan Crawford, because she likes the kind of plays in which she is shown. Her sister, Betty Joan Cohen, 12, likes Barbara Stanwyck. Beneath the cool shade of huge trees, in sedate Woodruff Place,

in a similar “purging”—as they called it —of their party. The grizzled old orator, however, declined the honor. “There is plenty to do cleaning up the Republican party,” he told them laughingly, “without taking on yours. Why don’t you do it yourselves?” “We don't dare,” was the answer. “The President wouldn’t like it.” 000 IN the last minute rush of making a dozen excellent appointments, Roosevelt put across one which is coming in for a “lot of criticism.” The appointee is James A. Moffett, heavy contributor to the campaign, close friend of Roosevelt. even closer to Jim Farley, and an old deal Democrat in every way. He was put in that all-impor-tant post—administrator of the housing program. This is Moffett's second trip to Washington. The first, as a member of the NR A industrial advisory board and later the petroleum board, was not a success. At that time there was a tremendous uproar because W’alter C. Teagle, head of Standard Oil of New Jersey, asked Moffett to give up his SIOO,OOO salary as vicepresident. Democrats accused Teagle, a stanch Republican, of forcing Moffett out because of his New Deal tendencies. Teagle worked with the NRA labor board, proved himself more liberal to labor than labor representatives. Moffett went back to New York.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1934

Lower—Though they like the same kina of fun at the playground, Caroline Cohen, 10, and Betty Jean Cohen, 13. sisters, 2535 Brookside avenue, differ in then- movie favorite choices. They stopped swinging long enough to explain that while Caroline is partial to Joan Crawford, Betty Jean never wants to miss a Barbara Stanwyck picture. Upper—Marie Mocas, 13, of 2015 Adams street

Marguerite Geider, 12, of 1833 East Tenth street, and Roberta Wells. 13, of 974 Middle drive. Woodruff Place, paused in a strenuous tennis game to voice their opinions. Both agreed that they thought Fredric March was “the best actor.” “I liked him in all of his pictures, but best in ‘Death Takes a Holiday,’ ” Margie said. antt ROBERTA likes Joan Crawford, though she wishes the producers would place her in “different kind of pictures.” “I liked her in 'Dancing Lady,’ ” Roberta said, “but I saw her in ‘Sadie McKee’ and I don't like the picture!” Both girls were emphatic in their dislike of Greta Garbo. But Garbo had a champion in Marie Mocas, 13, of 2015 Adams street. “I like her best in ‘As You Desire Me,’ ” Marie said. And the weary questioner, stuffing notes away, took a tip from Garbo. “I tank I go home,” she said. There didn’t seem to be much to be worried about. Indianapolis children still like to play ball, to run, to shout, to swing and to play, in spite of the “dangerous movies.”

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(left), is an ardent champion of Greta Garbo, the languorous Swede. Sliding down the chute-the-chute in the center, Bobby Brown, 10, of 3225 East Sixteenth street, pauses long enough to announce that he admires Ann Harding greatly—and carries her picture all the time. Ray Stiff, 10, of 1930 North Olney street (right), likes Will Rogers 'because he is so funny.”

TODAY and TOMORROW ana nan By Walter Lippmann

MR. BRIDGES, the head of the longshoremen’s union, is reported to have said, “The strike has failed because of mismanagement,” and to have listed as reasons the lifting of embargoes on food, gasoline, restaurants, and the municipal street car line. These are not tile causes of the failure of the general strike. They are the consequences of it. The strike was from the very beginning certain to fail, because the trade unionists of San Francisco never even attempted to take those measures which conclusively could have made a general strike successful. i

They did not attempt to paralyze the city, to starve and terrorize the people or to make the government helpless. Not being revolutionists they recoiled from the logic of the general strike. They did not “mismanage” the general strike. They never intended to go through with it. Once the general strike committee showed that they were not attemping to stop those vital services which would be the first and the principal object of attack in a genuine general strike, it was evident that they had blundered into a certain failure.

By George Clark

SO they did not prostrate the city. They annoyed it. They did not paralyze government. They aroused it. They did not overwhelm the public. They provoked it. They raised up forces against themselves which were infinitely greater than any which they could master. From the moment the general strike order went into effect their problem was not how to win the strike, but how to call it off before it destroyed their own leadership and the solidarity of their own organizations. To say that the general strike has failed is to mean that they unable to dictate the terms of settlement. Its appeal for general arbitration is a recognition of the fact that in practice the general strike is disintegrating rapidly, and that by implication they disavow it. In these circumstances the position taken by General Johnson, Mayor Rossi and the board is the only one that public officials could take—“the federal government can not act under the continuing coercion of a general strike.” Desirable as it is to settle the specific issues or. the San Francisco waterfront, no government that intended to maintain public respect could permit itself to appear to be compelled to act under the threat of a general strike. In the specific dispute of the longshoremen and the seamen there is ample room for compromise. But on the issue of the general strike itself, the government can not compromise. #0 r T"'HE leaders of the sympathetic strike, as distinguished from the particular strike, must take this attitude, why mayors and governors, and the President of t!i United States, while recognizing the justice of the proposal for arbitration, have to insist that the general strike be called off first. It is to recognize the fact now demonstrated beyond question, that once the authority of free government is undermined, all liberties, foremost among them the liberties of labor, are imperiled. Free institutions are not safe if they are not strong. Once they show signs of weakness in the presence of compulsion they are infected with a disease which may easily prove fatal.

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F.ntered n* Second Matter at Foatofflce. Indianapolis. Ind.

Fdir Enough OTSIMH NEW YORK. N. Y„ July 20.—1 t turns out that your correspondent was a slovenly reporter in writing that the sword of General Lafayette, which was returned to France recently by a guard of American soldiers in full dress uniforms, was one which the general happened to leave in an umbrella stand in this country when he was over here running up the great American debt of gratitude. The sword was not left in any umbrella stand nor was it left behind by General Lafayette at all. He

took it nome with him along with him along with $200,000 and the deed to a- township of land which were awarded to him by the American people as the first installment on the debt of gratitude. It has been a French treasure for a long time with a sentimental value to the French comparable to the American regard for the hair-combings of departed statesmen and General Grant's corkscrew, as preserved under glass among the domestic mementoes of this country. The sword happened to be in America because the French sent it a few weeks ago “with

suitable pomp.” as your correspondent is advised in connection with the Lafayette celebration, which now is going on in France. It barely is possible that in doing this the French people had some idea of dealing the Americans a tactful reminder that some recent installment on the gratitude was due and unpaid. The French are noted for their politeness and they never would resort to the gauche American method, which is to send a bill with the notation: "Please remit.” ana Perhaps We’re Tactless IT is much more subtle and touching just to send some significant token which would create an association of ideas in the American mind and leave it to them to do the honorable thing. Perhaps tactlessness has been an important factor in the trouble which the United States has encountered in its attempts to collect something on the war debt. Mr. Coolidge said, in his blunt. New England way, "They hired the money, didn’t they?” When it might have been more effective to send a mission to Paris to exhibit the American deficit as a reminder of the loans. Possibly the French have forgotten this matter in their excitement over the bankruptcy and suicide of L'Oncle Stavisky, the pawnshop keeper who disappeared abruptly from his little still. If the French have money with which to send a mission to the United States to exhibit a reminder of the debt of gratitude they might have used it as a payment toward their debt of cash money. The cost of the mission may not have been more than $5,000, for the French do not overtip the stewards and waiters on their travels. This would make no appreciable dent in the debt of cash money. But it would at least pay a year's salary for Senator Wild Will Lyons or ex-Governor Bilbo of Mississippi, two sterling statesmen, who are helping the country to struggle back to its feet by keeping scrapbooks and other constructive works in Washington, D. C. a a a Please Return Our Hoodie A NOTHER critic has written your correspondent -TV in connection with the same essay which suggested that the nations might relieve themselves of much impedimenta by returning the trophies, or boodle, which they picked up in various wars. “Perhaps we ought to begin by giving California back to Mexico,” writes Thomas Lempertz of St. Petersburg, Fla., “although that might be construed as a deliberately unfriendly act to an inoffensive neighbor. "Few Americans know that the old fortifications at Quebec still retain the brass cannon which the British took from us at Bunker Hill. Soldiers stationed at the reservation assure me that the Americans learned about this cannon only during the existence of prohibition when they fled to Canada for an occasional escape from that liberty which the embattled farmers fought for at Bunker Hill. "It would be a very humane act on our part to take this cannon back, even if we had to fight the Canadians for it. The unfortunate trooper who showed it to me assured me that he and his buddies had to shine it up with brass polish until it shone like a bar rail every morning.” (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

T'VWO thousand of the nation’s leading chemists will undertake to cheer up your Uncle Sam when the American Chemical Society holds its annual meeting in Cleveland from Sept. 10 to 14. “Chemistry catalyzes commerce” will be the keynote of the convention, according to Dr. Charles L. Reese of Wilmington, Del., president of the society. This is a good alliterative slogan, even if it will cause some business men to make a rush for the dictionary. A catalyst is a substance which speeds up a chemical reaction. A group of chemical elements, for example, can ordinarily be formed into a desired compound only with the greatest of difficulty, the expenditure for example of intense heat. In the presence of a catalyst, however, the action takes place easily and quickly. The point which Dr. Reese seeks to make is that chemistry speeds up the reactions of commerce and industry. Speakers at the convention will stress how chemists have carried on during the depression, making phenomenal advances in many fields of knowledge. 000 CHEMISTRY holds out particular promise for agriculture by pointing the way to the conversion of waste products into useful products. This, it is expected, will eventually bring the farmer new wealth and make him less dependent upon the seasonal vagaries of crops. According to present plans the convention will open in Cleveland on Monday, Sept. 10, with an address by Professor Robert E. Swam of Stanford university upon “Chemistry During the Depression.” J. C. Hostetter of the Corning Glass Works, Corning, N. Y., is scheduled to address the convention on “The Technique of Making Large Telescope Mirrors.” This company recently poured the eightyinch mirror for the new telescope for the McDonald observatory in Texas. The telescope itself is being built in Cleveland by the Warner &. Swasey Company and the grinding of the mirror will take place in Cleveland. The Corning company also poured the mirror for the new 200-inch telescope for the California Institute of Technology. 000 LEADING educators will take part during the Cleveland meeting in a symposium on “Modernizing the Course in General Chemistry.” This symposium will be sponsored by the society’s division of chemical education of which Professor R. A. Baker of the College of the City of New York is chairman. There has been a feeling among educators for some time that courses in general chemistry should include more discussions of present-day chemical practices, the more important chemical processes used in industry, and the relations between chemistry and industry. Another important symposium, arranged by the division of gas and fuel chemistry, will discuss the properties of coal. Dr. Harold J. Rose of the Mellon Institute of Pittsburgh is chairman of this division. The division of agricultural and food chemistry will hold a point symposium with the division of biological chemistry upon the subject of "the Chemistry of the Enzymes.”

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