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It Seems to Me MOOD BROUN NTEW YORK, Aug 16—A man I liked was RayI mond Hood and though he has left many monuments he will be missed bv the Magical city. Mr. Hood was almost the only person with whom I dared to discuss architecture. Although I am brazen and bumptious I would hardly have rushed into his field like a nudist running to a fire if he him'-elf had not opened the way. He did not seek security as '~o many technicians do by giving you •„ bland smile and mutmunng. "You wouldn't ur.der-

stand.” Now. of course. I haven't the slightest comprehension of costs or any other elements of stress and strain which enter into the job of an architect. Mr. Hood took a larger view. He was willing to listen with interest and complete disagreement to any layman who said, “I don't like the cut of your American Radiator building.” I wouldn't have said that. On the contrary I think that this gilded structure is a happy combination of the art of the architect with that of the pastry cook. This is not a

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sneer. Whenever I look up at that strange collaboration of gold and sable I start to hum unconsciously, “Happy birthday to you." It is the sort of skyscraper which should be crowned with tallow candles. Even if you look down the list through the ages Raymond Hood will stand out among the architects of all time as one who had the fortune and the genius to conduct radical experimentation with mass and color. Many have had this privilege on canvas or with clay but it is rare for a man to be allowed to play around with steel and glass and stone in this fashion. I got the impression that Raymond Hood rather resented the fact that there remained a necessity of having any truck with stone or brick. Toward the end. at any rate, he thought of his buildings almost solely in terms of steel and glass. Indeed the McGraw-Hill building is practically nothing but eyes and bones. ana His /fuildinr/s Toe Dance IF Hood had lived a little longer I think that Manhattan might be even more magical than it is today. Under his guiding hand other towers would have floated to the sky trailing behind them lines marked by lights within the building. Raymond Hood is the architect who glorified the greenhouse. And in his use of brittle and tough substances he did get away from the obese quality which mars much of city architecture. His buildings did not cumber the earth. Take for instance the Daily News building here and the Tribune Tower in Chicago. In both instances the passerby gets the effect that the structure is poised upon one toe and eager to float or fly. Yet there is the sense of streng'th. Mr. Hood could do you a skyscraper which was ready for a fight or frolic. I have no idea which was his favorite. I imagine it was the building he had just completed or. better yet. the one he was about to do. I am not prepared to say whether the Tribune was regarded by him as a Cinderella among his structures, but on at least two occasions he explained, “Well, he wanted Gothic. Poaifbtl I Should not have suggested that Raymond Hood was quite the wholly emancipated architect who could go out and do precisely what he wanted without regard to the whims of his client. He worked for at least two of the most temperamental gentleman in America. Once he felt that he had reached paradise. This particular newspaper proprietor said no more than, “Do me an eightmillion dollar building.” It seemed the ideal commission but naturally there was catch in it. After the plans were all completed the client looked over the blue prints and said. “I want a handball court here on the roof. I can play against this wall here.” ana Work for Him in Heaven “IjUT that won't work out well.” Mr. Hood exIJ plained. “That's the wall of the director’s room. If vou play handball against that it will make a gTeat deal of racket. It will annoy the life out of them." “That's precisely why I want it,” explained the client. As I have said. Mr. Hood would listen and argue about architecture far into the night even with adversaries who never built anything more than a sand fort. “If I see I don't like your column.” he told me once. "I can't see any reason why you shouldn't take a crack at my turrets." He felt that an architect had no right to deny the right of public criticism. “It may be my building." he explained, “but it’s their skyline. I no reason why he should not be one of the happiest inhabitants of heaven. There s so much work to be done. He will look at the streets of gold and the many mansions of jade and jasper and then if Hood carries with him something of his mortality he'll say. “Not that, let's have steel and glass ' And if he is still the man he was. which I most fervently believe, already the riveting machines have beun their fanfare within the pearly gates. Copyright. 1934. bv The Times!

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ-

NIAGARA FALLS made page one of the nation s newspapers this week when several hundred tons of rook fell into the gorge from the edge of the famous Horseshoe falls. Thus, in spectacular fashion. attention was called to a victory of the forces of erosion over the land. More quietlv. these forces are at work every minute of the day and night, working to wear away the land. Poels speak of the everlasting hills, but that is poetic license of the widest sort. The Biblical writer of the Book of Job showed himself a far keener observer when he wrote: The waters wear the stones: the overflowings thereof wash awav the dust of the earth.' The waters of the earth—the moisture of the at-mo.-phere. the rain, the flowing rivers, the beating wi\es all conspire to wear down the land, to reduce the rocks to grains of dust and to carry the debris into the ocean. Were these forces of erosion the only ones at work in the world, they would finally succeed in reducing the continents of the earth to great, flat barren plains, extending from ocean to ocean a a a THERE have been times in the history of the I world when the continents were worn very low by these forces. At such times, when the land sank, the waters of the oceans have flowed in over the low-lying continents, inundating at times as much as 50 per cent of their areas. Fortunately another set of forces is at work that tends to elevate the land, buckling the continents up into mountain ranees and returning the waters of the ocean Jeack to their former places. This second set of forces, known as the forces of mountain building, are the result of changes in the earths crust Some authorities think they are caused by a wrinkling of the earth’s crust which m turn is due to the shrinkage of the crust as the earth cools ofT. Other authorities think that the phenomenon is due to the accumulation of heat in the crust from radio-active minerals and the subsequent contraction as this heat is dissipated. ana \T the present time, the continents are usually high and an unusually large portion of them is exposed above the water. The oceans, however., do er-croach to a certain extent upon the continents, covering what is known as the "continental shelf.” Every one is impressed when tons of material fall from the edge of the Niagara Falls. Little thought is given to the amount of material carried away quietly by the rivers. Geologists believe that the falls was once located a? Youngstown, where the Niagara river flows into Lake Ontario and that it has gradually worked its wav back to its present location, a distance of seven miles, creating the gorge between Youngstown and its prr.ent location. F B Taylor estimates that it must have taken the falls between 20,000 and 35.000 years to cover the seven miles.

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‘LAST WORD’ IN BABY HOSPITALS

That Will Be the Home of Five Little Dionne Quintuplets

• Copyright. 1934. NEA Service. Inc.) Ont., Aug. 16.—Before the bleak Canadian winter settles j down over the north woods, with below-zero winds and highpiled snowdrifts—possib'y by September—a nine-room, private hospital. completely equipped and modem to the last electric switch and bit of sterilized porcelain, will house ihe worlds most famous bab’es. The five little Dionnes—Marie. Yvonne, Annette, Emelie, and Cccile —quintuplet daughters of Mr. and Mr-.. Oliva Dionne, will live in the first public hospital ever built for the children of one family. Excavation for the building has been completed. Timber and native granite rock has been unloaded. Work is being rushed because, according to Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the country practitioner given credit for saving the lives of the children, it is vital to the infants’ continued health that they be moved as soon as possible to their new home.

Three of the five babies are not yet "mature”—that is, they do not measure up to the standards of a normal child at birth. Within a few days this condition will be remedied. Then the three must be moved from their joint incubator to individual ones. a a a MARIE, the tiniest, who weighs only four pounds and onequarter ounce and who was given a radium treatment for a leg tumor, must remain in the incubator for five weeks more, according to Dr. Dafoe. In the incubator, air is kept at 55 degrees humidity and the temperature at 75. Yvonne and Annette, each with an incubator of her own now. will be graduated to small enameled beds in their new’ home. Although the improvised nursery in the Dionne farmhouse has been outfitted with hospital equipment. instruments for registering humidity, oxygen machine, etc., it is badly crowded and there is constant danger of accidents. ana THE hospital—to be known as the Dafoe hospital—will stand 100 yards from the Dionne homestead. Furnace, electric light, plumbing, and every device known to hospital technique will be installed. With only nine rooms, it will be, in miniature, a complete baby hospital. It will cost $5,000. The Canadian Red Cross and the government of Ontario will see to it that everything about the building is the last word in scientific development. The building will be one story. The largest room will be the hospital ward, 15 by 25 feet, at the front. Back of this will be the office and reception room, combined. Four bedrooms, kitchen, pantry, and bathroom complete the structure. a a a ALL this is being prepared for the infants because they are, in effect, wards of his majesty. King George V. By court action July 26, Mr. and Mrs. Dionne surrendered to crown authorities the oversight and care of the quintuplets for two years or more. Dr. Dafoe, who preferred that the new hospital be built near

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

11 WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Ebullient official assurances that there W is no danger of a food shortage as a result of the drought tell only half the story. Unquestionably the statements are correct—as far eis they go. It is true there will be no real dearth of basic food commodities. There is plenty of grain, and too many cattle. But that is not the real question. . . .. .. .... The crux of the drought problem is not whether there will be enough food, but what will be its price. Behind every official assurance of plentiful food reserves there is

an unspoken fear of price-kiting. This possibility is now one of the major concerns of the administration. It was the subject of important discussion at the President's first cabinet meeting upon his return to Washington. AAA officials say privately that increases in the price of meat, milk, and dairy products are practically certain. Asa matter of fact, milk producers already have begun agitation for higher rates, claiming that the increased cost of feed has appreciably boosted their expenses. In what way. and to what extent. the problem should and can be met still is undecided. The government’s huge purchases of cattle in drought-strick-en areas is being seized upon by some of the President's advisers as offering a means of curbing meat prices. The government, they point out, will establish a large meat reserve which could be put on the market at moderate prices, thus helping to prevent excessive price jacking. More remides than this, however, will be necessary. a a a SOME of the political plotters in the capital have evolved a scheme to get around the President's dictum that he will keep out of inter-Democratic primary fights. They used it to help out Senator Tom Connally when he faced a hard fight for renomination in Texas. The device is simple. A telegram is sent to the senator in trouble and asks him to come to Washington to see the President on urgent business. This makes him appear important in the home state, gives the impression Roosevelt is behind him. When this was pulled to help Tom Connally. it was bona fide strategy. Roosevelt really was secretly behind him. But when the same strategy was pulled to boost Senator Hubert Stephens in Mississippi, it was pure hokum, pulled behind the President's back. Roosevelt was in the far west, knew nothing about the maneuver, no more wanted to see Stephens than he wants to see Herbert Hoover. a a a CHARLES TAUSSIG, original brain truster, is writing a book on Ccrdell Hull. It will portray the secretary of state as the backbone of the cabinet. . . . Andy Mellon seems to be making more money under the New Deal than in the days when he dominated

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the Dionne farmhouse, instead of in the neighboring village of Callander or in Toronto, says, “The babies might not have pulled through anywhere else. Apart from our lack of scientific equipment at the start, the conditions here are almost ideal. “The air is pure. We have very little infection. Immature babies such as the quintuplets have barely any resistance. A stray germ might have taken them off w’ithin a few hours if the air had been contaminated. “For that reason I felt they should stay within a few yards of where they were born.” ana PROVINCIAL authorities have promised that a hard road will be built connecting the homestead with Callander two and one-half miles away. The Ontario hydroelectric commission is to erect poles to bring electric current to the new hospital, and telephone connections are to be installed. The hospital will have the latest in burglar alarms and two special constables have been sworn in to give twenty-four-hour protection to the quintuplets. Dr. Dafoe admits he is pleased with the progress the babies have made. Asked if they were flourishing as well as might be expected, he answered, “Better.” “But,” he added “our guard must not be relaxed for a moment. We must maintain an absolute embargo on germs.” a a a DESCRIBED by a neighbor as looking like “skinned squirrels” at the time of their birth, the five babies already have begun to display personality, according to those intrusted with their care. All have silky hair and slatecolored eyes. Since Mr. and Mrs. Dionne surrendered the quintuplets to the care of the government, the infants’ welfare is in the hands of four guardians: Oliver Dionne, their grandfather; Dr. Dafoe, W. H. Alderson, chairman of the northern Ontario relief commission, and Kenneth Morrison, merchant of Callander.

government policies. Moody reports Mellon’s Aluminum Company of America as making a profit of $1,622,000 or sl.ll a share during 1933. The company’s net loss in 1932 was $2,351,000. . . . Stock market sleuth Senator Fletcher is spending the summer in Washington. He finds it cooler than his home in Florida. . . . Dan Roper gradually is weeding the old friends of Herbert Hoover out of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, once Hoover’s pet bureau. PENNSY FREIGHT POST TAKEN BY CHICAGOAN Former Indianapolis Resident Is Transferred Here. Benjamin D. Rhodes, Chicago, today assumed his duties as division freight agent of the Pennsylvania railroad in Indianapolis. Mr. Rhodes succeeds H. A. Koch, who has been transferred to Chicago. Mr. Rhodes, who has been foreign freight agent for the railroad in Chicago, began his work with the Pennsylvania in 1913 when he became a file clerk here. Since that time he has served in many capacities throughout the middle west. HAITI TO CELEBRATE MARINE'S DEPARTURE Dancing and Feasting to Mark End of U. S. Occupation. R\J United Prets PORT AU PRINCE. Haiti. Aug. 16.—Haitians prepared today to celebrate Aug. 21 as Liberation day. to mark the end of twenty-one years’ military occupation of the country by United States marines. There will be dancing and feasting all over the country. The last marines sailed yesterday, turning over their duties to the Haitian guard of 2,553 officers and men. QUAKE ROCKS SCOTLAND Severe Shock Frightens Natives; No Casualties Reported. Hit United Prcm DINGWALL. Scotland. Aug. 16. An unusually severe earthquake shock at. 3:20 a. m. today caused fright among townsfolk. Furniture was shaken and walls of some houses cracked slightly. No casualties were reported.

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Ground is being broken here for a hospital on which the world’s eyes will center, though it will have but five patients. But they’re the Dionne quintuplets, most famous of babies. The structure will rise near the Dionne home, outside Corbeil, Ont.

Unique among hospitals is the building sketched here, where the Dionne quintuplets will be reared with every modern device for safeguarding their health. Arrangement is such that every precaution has been taken against chills, deemed the greatest menace faced by the babies during the Canadian winter.

HOBBIES TO GET SPACE AT FAIR Pupils of Indiana Schools Will Display Favorite Collections. Hoosier school boys and girls who pursue a hobby will have an opportunity to display their wares at the Indiana state fair Sept. 1 to 7. A part of the special educational exhibit at the fair will be devoted to the display of stamps, coins, autographs, pottery, airplane models, photographs and other interesting collections made by pupils in Indiana schools. The committee in charge of the exhibit has expressed its hope that all worthwhile exhibits will be entered. All boys and girls who have collections or individual items which they wish to enter should communicate at once with M. Clifford Townsend, Commissioner of Agriculture, Statehouse, Room 332, Indianapolis.

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Harvard Club, luncheon, Lincotn. Delta Tau Delta, luncheon, Columbia Club.

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THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP ana a a a By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—The United States bureau of labor statistics is going to try to end the dispute about how many persons are unemployed. • The American Federation of Labor says 10,312.000 are jobless. The United States Chamber of Commerce says 7.000,000 is the top figure. Other estimates range up and down the scale between the two. The Benjamin Franklin Institute puts the figure even higher than the A. F. of L.. at 12,000,000.

So far the bureau of labor statistics has made no official guess because it has not had the machinery for making a scientific one. However, its chief, Isador Lubin, believes accurate information is needed sadly, and that it is the function of the government tc supply it. He asked congress to authorize a special census of unemployment this fall and when that plan failed he started on another one. This week the bureau begins a special study of all available unemployment figures in an effort to work out methods of making more reliable estimates than any which exist. It will spend several months on the task. At the end of that time it will announce its estimate and the exact method used in making it. The Chamber of Commerce attack on all estimates putting the number of unemployed at more

than 7,000,000 is the latest outbreak of a controversy w'hich has troubled the United States for a long time. a a j ALL through the early years of the depression business, labor and government were at odds about the number of unemployed. Congress ordered a check made in the 1930 census, but methods used in enumerating and tabulating results were under constant fire. By 1932, the Hoover administration was being accused of minimizing the number out of work. In the last few months New Deal officials, recounting the work of recovery agencies, have used figures smaller than those of labor. Industry criticises labor's figures as a reflection on the way it has co-operated with the recovery program. The A. F. of L. counts as unemployed all persons not employed in industry. In its latest figures, for June, it estimates that 1.813,000 had work under government agencies—PWA, Emergency Relief Administration and CCC —leaving 8,499,000 without work of any kind. The Chamber of Commerce does not indicate whether it counted workers on government pay rolls or not. It does, however, claim that at least two million persons are unemployable, and that the number out of work because of business conditions is thus only five million. NEW PALESTINE LEGION ELECTS NEW OFFICERS W. G. Shannon Named Commander of Post. W. G. Shannon is the new commander of New Palestine post No. 182. American Legion, it was announced today. Other officers are William Bourdoner and Joseph Dugan, vice-commanders; George Lantz, adjutant; Ezra Faut, treasurer; Guy Moore, chaplain; Virgil Pitts, sergeant-at-arms; Curtis Claffey, historian, and Dr. E. E. Mace, service officer. NAZI IS ARRESTED FOR BEATING OF AMERICAN Storm Trooper Beat Chicago U. Professor, Is Charge. B'J United Pretn BERLIN. Aug. 16 A Nazi Storm Trooper who assaulted Professor Albert Lapawsky of the University of Chicago, has been arrested and will be tried speedily, police informed the United States consulate today. Lapawsky was attacked for failing to salute the Nazi flag.

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Fdir Enough WSHH NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. 16.—1n view of the overemphasis on contract bridge which recently resulted in a swirl of ugly passion at the Asbury Park tournament, your correspondent desires to suggest a revival of the American indoor .sport of stud poker. Although there are many authorities, or card sharks, selling books and daily syndicated lessons in the brutal game of bridge, the only book of instruction in poker which your correspondent has come upon is one called the stud poker blue

book. It was composed by George Henry Fisher and published by the Stud Poker Press of Los Angeles at a price of sl. As Mr. Fisher describes the game and its ethes it seems much simpler and more sporting than the game of bridge which has lately come to be regarded by many citizens as a national nuisance. Sportsmen desiring to play stud poker usually do so with malice aforethought and without social or physical inconvenience to others. Bridge players, on the other hand, get up games spontaneously and disrupt gatherings which

otherwise might be social. Then in their desire for complete silence they object to conversation by others who have sufficient intelligence to converse and too much to play bridge. Moreover, bridge players monopolize double seats in the trains and the spirit of the game is that of a clothesline spat. This may be due to the distaff influence in bridge which is a co-ed game, so to speak, whereas poker is stag in character. The best stud poker players have been tobacco eaters, or chew’ers. It is not necessary to chew or eat tobacco to play stud but this rite, which is no mean art in itself, is a natural accompaniment. This doubtless explains why ladies do not play stud. It may have been adopted as a defensive measure to keep them out. a a a Brutality May Ruin Game IN the brutal spectacle at Asbury Park, P. Hal Sims not only popped Oswald Jacoby on the nose in a swirl of passion over some disagreement, but hoisted him out of his chair by the ear. The timely intervention of the committee quelled the brutality before it reached the hair-pulling stage which w'as a great mercy. If b Ige has come to this, perhaps it would be a good filing to revive stud poker in a large way. Otherwise the country will be overrun with the pathetic figures of punch-drunk bridge players rocking on their heels and reminiscing about famous bridge contests in which they participated when they were young and could still take it. If Mr. Jacoby's ear turns to cauliflower that will be a bodyblow to the game of bridge and the first body-blow to the ear in sporting history. Mr. Fisher seems to be a stud-poker shark comparable to the best contract bridge sharks. He does not guarantee that his system will win for his students, but he does set forth the mathematical possibilities which confront the sedentary athlete of the stud table in most of the problems of the game. He tells how hard it is to draw a seven-high straight flush, which he had found to be the rarest straight flush of all, and inspires hope in a chapter entitled, “What chance have I of improving my hand?” Mr. Fisher ignores all the degenerate versions of the noble pastime such as seven-card with the deuces wild and nine-card with the one-eyes, jacks and black nines on the loose, probably on the ground that these were introduced by ladies. That would be a good theory, as these variations smack of bridge and no self-respecting tobacco-chewing or eating player w’ould wish to be found dead in cne of these games, much less alive. , ana Mr. Garner Could Help MR. FISHER does not give detailed instruction as to what to do in the event of a swirl of passion in stud, leaving an impression what if it comes to that the genuine stud player will know enough to switch out the lights and start punching on the basis of every man for himself. He does, however, tell what to do in the event of razzing. “Some losing players will, by their bad temper, attempt to bully an aggressive opponent out of making aggressive plays,” the expert writes. "In making an offensive play against a heavy loser, do not appear to rub it in. But do not abandon your principles to baby a hard loser.” In other words, do not pull his ear, but get his money. For some reason bridge has claimed rating as the gentleman’s game and is considered nowadays a part of the social equipment of young officers in the army. They do teach dancing, tennis and the etiquet of the seven-fork formal dinner to students at the military academy who desire to enter the foreign service. But the young men will have to pick up their bridge instruction for themselves. Jhere is yet time to re-establish stud poker as the old" army game. Possibly Vice-President Garner who is one of the great American experts in stud would help to install Mr. Fisher’s stud poker blue book as one of the official studies at West Point; this might bring back that sturdy old American delicatessen, the plug of eating tobacco with the tin tag. It is something to consider. .Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

SCARLET FEVER is one of the most treacherous of the diseases that afflict children, principally because in so many cases it is so mild as to be almost overlooked. In many cases, nevertheless, it attacks the kidneys, the heart, and the hearing organs, bringing about a serious crippling of these organs, if not death. In most of the cases of scarlet fever, swelling of the glands in the neck is a common sign, so that any time a child has a fever, nausea, vomiting and swelling of these glands, with a more or less severe sore throat and even a slightly red eruption on its skin, a diagnosis of scarlet fever must be considered. a a a NEXT to the serious effects on the kidneys, which are rather common in scarlet fever, is the danger to the hearing. The severe inflammation and swelling in the throat may extend into the tube which passes from the back of the head to thfe ear and thereby affect seriously the organs of hearings. It has been found that almost every patient with scarlet fever has some slight inflammation of the kidney. If children with scarlet fever are put to bed promptly, if their kidneys are spared by the feeding of a light suitable diet, if they get the right kind of fluids, and if examinations are made regularly day after day, to control trouble as soon as it starts, the "“danger to the kidney is much less. a a a THE best protection one can have against complications of scarlet fever is a careful watch for their development by the doctor. At the same time, the doctor wll? watch the state of the blood and food substances suitable to maintaining it in a good condition at the earliest possible moment. Due to the work of Drs. George F and Gladys Dick, we now have a skin test which makes it possible to determine whether a child is likely to catch scarlet fever when exposed to it and also methods of raising the resistance of the child in case its resistance is low. In times when scarlet fever is an epidemic in any community, parents should consider the possibility of giving to their children this scientific typ® of scar et fever prevention.

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