Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 85, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1934 — Page 7

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It-Seems to Me HEWO® BIOUN NT'.v yopk A c 18 Ernest Hrminirway’s ‘A j p ; . •• '•* ;n mv es* inflation mu the best of Amfriran novels. And vet the man anno- - me Some of my complaint.* are narrrn, fy\ ar.d personal and so. bv a strong act of it .1 e ;li >a\e them to the last. My other disaffection* test .pen the brood ground of public pohr* I car. no* for the life of me understand how a man nho aro’e as bad a bonk as “Death in the Afternoon could ha - , e achieved ’ A Farewell to Arms ” The former marked Hemingway as the complete -nob and poseur The artist who turns his haek upon the world of affair* by crawling into an Ivory tower i somewhat more courageous than 'he

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Instance In a dozen places, the detail of the bout might well be corrected bv fifty million training c.*mp hangers-on Hemingway simply does not know h.s prize ring and vet hr tale remains a magnificent short story. Damon Run von could sit as professor to Hemingway in both the color background and authenticity of the fight description. But Runyan to -and beside Ernest Hemingway* masterpiece. n m a One-Third Pure Fake IT may be that I am placing too great a stress upon Inaccuracies. After all. literature does not quite demand that an author shall be wholly faithful to fart. It is enough if he merely seems so. Hemincwav did not write his tale for Tunney. Dempse\ and Runyor, who might smile at his misconception. However I am seized suddenly by an uneasy suspicion that Hemingway's talk about the bulls is also nnc-third pure fake. When a man has written great novel <and Ido rot think that any feebler word should be used in regard to A Farewell to Arms") it is dangerous to predict that he has shot his holt. I think that Frnest Hemingwav has shot his bolt. I hold to this hehef because I feel that in the current year and. in the -easons to rome there is going to be an increasing demand that authors know their stuff. You may not like the phrase “the proletarian novel' and as far as I'm concerned I will not quarrel if you invent for yourself another label. The fact remains that as far as the eye ran reach readers are going to give their engrossment chiefly to those novel: which deal with man’s economic problems m a troubled world. I would not bar out love or fantasy or even picadors but it is mv belief that for the moment they have no place in the front benches. Accordingly, it seems as if Mr. Hemingway is out of luck In a less class conscious world he could put his pn e and pretense of being the professional tough guv. Five vears ago he might have flexed his muscles and struck terror into the hearts of all beholders But now a more captious community will merely look and say, ' What’s With You?” nun I.el's do — At Catchweigltls IF I seem bitter about a native author who certainly is nor devoid of talent I can explain the causes mv resentment In a recent article published In Esquire *the Magazine for Men* Hemingway has undertaken to be pretty high hat about Ring Lardner and Bill McGeehan. Lardner was at least his equal as a literary artist. Bill McGeehan wasn't. But in his own particular medium Bill could have run rings about this fake Firpo. The trouble with Hemingway lies in his publishing associations. He has delusions of grandeur and thev are based on nothing better than the fact that he van write phrases which shock the life out of old Mr Bridge* of the of Scribners. Upon such feeble triumphs the inan presumes. He has the nerve to assert in his article for the Magazine of Men that if any author writes with candid frankness, “it is inevitable that Mr. Woollcott and Mr Broun will wn'e something devastating about small boys, back fences and the walls of privies.” I'll take this upstart on at catchweights and before the evening is done my blue language will have him hanging on the ropes. The stories and the phra.es which Ernest Hemingway proudly exhibits as the fruit of his emancipated ego T would toss into the tin can along with tnc rest of the bait. I am not worthy to Up the shoelaces of this man in his estate as a master of English prose, but I certainly am not prepared to accept the airs and pretensions of a small town shocker in his role as the big. bad wolf. Copy right. 1934. bv Thr Tina?*)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

MANY butterflies are not only as beautiful as flowers, but they have the fragrance of flowers. This is pointed out by Austin H. Clark, distinguished biologist ol the Smithsonian institution. An examination of some of the common American butterflies reveals that a wide variety of pleasant ocor is given off bv the scent scales of the males, he reports. Among the butterflies with very pronounced odors, he finds, is the common orange-and-black regal fntillary. The male of his species has a strong odors which is both sweet and spicy and resembles that of sandalwood. It is easily detected. Mr. Clark says, bv smelling the upper surfaces of the fore wings of the male. The female of the species, however, has a special scent-producing organ which gives an ode* which is. powerful and nauseating, he says. SUM ONE usually thinks of the butterfly as dancing about with an aimless unconcern, but Clark repot ?s that the flowers from whose nectar it feeds are mostly red milkweeds and thistles. But as a rule it visits or.lv tall, isolated plants and generally feeds onlv on the topmost blossoms fro mwhich the view is uninterrupted. Mr. Clark reports that the males are more shy and more suspicious than the females. Another butterfly wmeh Clark finds has a distinctive odors is the common milkweed butterfly of the eastern United States. It emits an odor like the faint, sweet fragrance of red clover blossoms or the flowers of the common milkweed. This fragrant odor, however, is emitted only by the males. Mr. Clark finds that it arises from the scales within littie pouches on each hind wing of the male. As in the case of the fritillary. the female has no such similar sweet odor, but gives off a very disagreeable odor which Clark says resembles the odor of a cockroach. man r T''HE milkweed butterfly is a great wanderer and a -l strong flyer. It is particularly fond of flying along the seacoast or the banks of a wide river. Mr. Clark says that it has been een on the open sea 100 miles from shore. It usually flies between ten and fifteen feet above the surface of the water. It flies with a speed of about twenty miles an hour and always in a straight line. An odor resembling that of crushed violet stems is * ssessed by the common blue butterfly of the midd' Atlantic states. Mr. Clark says. This butterfly is nodiand creature, found frequently in brushy bogs. t. as a decided preference for white flowers. The popular concepuon of a butterfly is an aimsa creature flitting about without destination or purpose. Mr. Clark shows that each butterfly has definite haous and tastes. The tiny butterfly known as the lesser sulphur butterfly has an odor like that of dried grass or hay. A similar odor is possessed by the yellow clover butterfly

one who leaps into the bull ring and begins a silly and passionate litany concerting matador* Nero may have fiddled while Rome burned, but that was a more dignified preoccupation than going into a swivel of emotionalism about beef butchers in red pants. Possibly. I am too complimentary to Ernest Hemingway. I do not like the man and yet I mus* admit that I know no other phonev in the whole course of English letters who could write .so well concerning thing* about which he had not the *l;ghtet comprehension. Take “Fifty Grand” as an

AUSTRIA-KEY TO EUROPE’S PUZZLE

Mighty Power Built by Hapsburgs in Centuries of Warfare

TV , „ , h# f four rtirl~ hl t*U in l*ri*f hif*rr nf Austria frm IU *-rtnn.n in m> U** f thr.ufS the remark dorm* which H MB to grrat *mm, and the. .• cr.h aft-r the W.rld war. a harkrmnnd .tnd* which will aid in ond*randinr the critical aituaiion in central Europe tad.*, a a M BV WILLIS THORNTON XF.A Serriee Staff Writer AT almost exactly the c >ame time that Columbus was discovering America Maximilian I was head of the Holy F-oman Empire, that strange, loose association of scattered stater, whose heads voted as “electors'’ for an emperor who should "rule them all. Many weak sisters” were chosen deliberately as these Holy Roman Emperors ' so they would not get so powerful as to threaten domination of the independent countries, duchies, marks, and other sn ? a units which made up the strange governmental hodge-podge which historians have maintained was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. Maximilian was a horse of another color. He was a strong, talented, able ruler. And he not only established firm Austrian and Hapsburg domination over what is now Austria, but over pretty much of what are now Bohemia and Hungary.

He also extended Austrian power over much of Swizterland and even into northern Italy and France. This roused opposition in France and Italy, and began a feud which has continued 400 years to todav. Maximilian and his successors created the first strong central authority which is the core of an empire. Austria was rising into a really strong, centralized power. Europe fell in love w'ith the "Great Power" idea, which persists today. The Hapsburgs. when they were unable to conquer more territory, simply “married it. That is. they married into families which ruled in other lands, and thus got power for themselves. About the time when the Pilgrims were larWing on the bleak Massachusetts coast at Plymouth, the Archduke Ferdinand, ruler in Austria, was fighting desperately to keep Bohemia as a part of the Hapsburg empire, and gradually all Europe was embroiled in one of the longest, weariest wars in history, which took its name from its length the Thirty Years' war. a a WHEN the inevitable carvingup took place at the end of this war. Austria was deprived of most of her possessions in western Europe, but was strengthened in that very central section of the crossroads of Europe. Further gains were made in the lower Danube section about the time when the American colonies along the seaboard had progressed far fnough to be hanging witches.

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

WASHINGTON. Aug. 18.—Brain Trust friends have been hearing from Professor James Harvey Rogers. The mild, drawling little southerner, who skyrocketed into the headlines as the teammate of Professor George iCommodity Dollar) Warren, was sent to China by the administration last spring at the height of the silver agitation on rushing Rogers to the Orient to study what effect, if any, an increased price of silver would have on boosting far eastern trade, it was hoped the silver bloc would be appeased But the scheme didn t w'ork.

359,000 LOSE JOBS IN ‘STRIKE SLUMP’ Drought, Walkouts Are Factors in Drop. R> / f nitrii Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 13.—The drought, widespread labor disturbances, and "seasonal factors’’ combined to deprive 359.000 workers in private industry of their iobs and to reduce weekly wages $10,460,000 during July, the labor department reported today. Factory employment decreased 3 per cent between June and July—the largest percentage for the period with two exceptions since 1919. Pay rolls dropped 6.8 per cent, a figure exceeded in July on only three occasions in fifteen years. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins did not appear greatly disturbed by the report. "We know.” she said, “that many manufacturing industries lost orders as a result of the strikes. The retail industry was most seriously hurt in the area affected by the drought, and. of course, the San Francisco strike itself would account for a great deal of the employment reduction.”

SPARTAN DOCTOR TO INJECT 2 SONS WITH PARALYSIS VACCINE

Hy I nitrd Pn * PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 18.—Dr. John A. Kolmer prepared today to demonstrate the ultimate faith in his vaccine to stop the spread of infantile paralysis. The Temple university professor of medicine and Institute of Outstanding Medicine Research director said he intended to inject the devitalized virus of the scourge of childhood into the systems of his two children. They are boys. 11 and 15. Dr. Kolmer announced a successful method of vaccination agamst infantile paralysis after two years of experimentation with monkeys. HOLY ROSARY”fIESTA IS CONTINUED TONIGHT Celebration of Feast Day Held Over at Church. Celebration of the Feast of the Assumption at the Holy Rosary church, which began Wednesday night, will be continued through tonight. although it originally was scheduled to end last night. No Italian supper will be served tonight, as on previous nights. Miss Mary Lombardo was awarded the prize last night in the contest for Italian costumes. Carloadings Take Dip Py United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 18—The American Railway Association yesterday announced carloadings of revenue freight for the week ended Aug. II totaled 602.530 cars, a decrease of 8.768 cars below the preceding week and 27,213 cars under the corresponding week of 1933.

The Turkish threat was h:aten back again at this time, and Transylvania added to the Hapsburg domains. Slavic peoples, liberated from Turkish rule, hailed the Austrians as deliverers—later they came to hate them as oppressors. All through these wars ran a thread of conflict between Catholic and Protestant, not only throughout Europe, but especially in the Austrian domain—and that conflict also is a factor in what is left of Austria. Now two women stepped to the center of the stage in Europe. One of them was an Austrian, Maria Theresa (the other was Catherine of Russia)? Maria Theresa could not be empress of Austria because the law forbade her assuming that title, but she reigned over the empire beginning in 1740 (during the years when Britain and France were fighting over who should possess America). It was the loyalty of Hungary, more than that of Austria, that enabled Maria Theresa to hold together the Hapsburg domains, though Hungary was loyal to Maria rather than to any idea of a central empire. a a a IN a continual series of wars, much Austrian territory was lost (such as Silesia to Germany) but the empire seemed to gain tsrength in spite of this, and the civil administration of Maria Theresa solidified the empire. The fact that during the Seven Years’ war Austria and France

Instead of being soothed, the silverites increased their clamor. In the end the White House had to compromise with them on the silver purchase act. Meanwhile. Rogers, in China, began a painstaking, conscientious j survey. According to the letters his academic friends are now- getting from | him. his findings are not very j promising for the silverites and their pet argument. Rogers writes that so far he hasn’t been able, to find any one who thinks American silver price manipulation w r ill have a beneficial effect on oriental trade. In fact, he says a number of far eastern bankers believe silver activity will be detrimental. Rogers is due back in the U. S. A. soon. On the basis of what he has written, his friends predict that his official report will make interesting reading. That is—provided it is made public. Such reports frequently have a way of never seeing the light of day. a a a PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has shelved the ‘‘forgotten man.” The fact was overlooked generally—because of the greater dramatic significance of indorsing young Bob La Follette. But in his Green Bay speech last week the President brought out anew man. He was the ‘‘average man.” From now l on. and throughout the congressional campaign, you can expect to hear a great deal more about this individual. St St B Robert l. obrien witty chairman of the tariff commission. was asked the other day what he thought of trade agreements. In reply, he told the following story: A "hot-doc" vendor set up his stand in front of Boston's FirstNational bank, once New England's largest financial institution. Then he proceeded to do a brisk business. The news of his good fortune got around among his friends, and one of them sought him out, "Making any dough?” he inquired. "Yes. sir,” the vendor boasted. “I'm not only getting by, but I'm putting a little aside.” "Swell, how about lending me a couple of bucks." The "hot-dog” merchant's face fell. He didn't want to make the loan, and on the other hand he didn t want to refuse. But he was equal to the occasion. "Gee. pal. Id like to,” he said, "but I can’t. You see it is like this. When I took up my stand here I conferred with the bankers inside and came to an agreement with them. • We agreed that if I wouldn't lend any money or interfere with their business, they wouldn’t sell any ‘dogs.’ And you know? how those business deals are. I gotta keep mv promise." •That.” concluded Chairman O Brien. "is what I think of trade agreements." iCopv right. i34. by United Feature Syndicate, luc.)

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Maximilian I ... no "weak sister,” he built broad foundations for central European monarchy.

were allied against England and Prussia undoubtedly had its effects on the bitterness of the British-French wars in America. It was just befbre the American revolution that Maria Theresa gained for Autsria those slices of Poland that became Galicia, destined to fee one of the bitterest battlegrounds of the World war. With the wars which came with the rise of Napoleon. Austria was forced to withdraw from Belgium, last of her western-European passessions, and concentrated still further in the mid-Eropean cockpit centering on Vienna. The empire began to take substantially the same shape it had up to the time of the World war. Francis I was the first to take the title of hereditary emperor of Austria in 1804. after bearing the brunt of the fight against Napoleon. and seeing that leader crown himself hereditary emperor of the French. a a a BUT Austria had met her military match in Napoleon, and was soundly beaten at Marengo, Hohenlinden, Austerlitz, and Wagram.

'POLICE BRITAUTY' PROTEST IS MADE Plea Is Sent to Mayor and Morrissey. Protests against alleged police brutality in the arrests of speakers in Military park and at Kingan & Cos. recently, have been sent to Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, Chief Mike Morrissey and the safety board. This was the result of a meeting of thirty-two labor delegates at a conference held Thursday night, called by the International Labor Defense. Plans for a free speech mass meeting and a free speech conference were made at the session. HOW TIMES CHANGE! BOY LAUGHS NOW AT FEARS OF RED MEN By United Press MANDAN, N. D.. Aug. 18.—One hundred years ago an Indian who could swim across the Missouri river here was a hero among his tribesmen. Fifty years ago the Northern Pacific railroad first crossed the river laid on ice. Ten years ago the first vehicular bridge was thrown across the river, replacing ferry boats operating half a century. Today a Mandan boy laughed at the fears of the Red Men and the struggles of his white ancestors as they strove to conquer the mighty Missouri. He rode a bicycle across the river, depleted by the drought from a surging current to a muddy, yellow stream.

SIDE GLANCES

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“Why is she taking this cruise around the world if it Isn't to let her hair grow back to its natural color?’’

One of history’s most dramatic moments . . . Maria Theresa appeals to the Hungarian nobles for support . . . moving them so deeply that they swear to die for her.

Each defeat was followed by peace negotiations which trimmed more and more Austrian territory, Milan. Mantua, Salzburg, West Galicia. Francis was forced also to give up his title as “Holy Roman Emperor.” and become monarch in Austria alone. Tnat meant a complete break with Germany, since the backbone of the “Roman” empire was German. Austria no longer was the military “big shot” of Europe when

ROUNDING ROUND rrvrj y? a rpr?* T> C WITH W ALTE R 1 JHH/A I D . HICKMAN

TOM DEVINE of the Indiana ballroom is back in town after spending a two months’ vacation on the Pacific coast. That, of course, means Hollywood and Los Angeles. Mr. Devine is busy just now shaking off some of the star dust and preparing to get down to business. Mr. Devine was mast interested, naturally, in Dick Powell, who graduated from singing ditties with Charlie Davis’ orchestra at the Ohio, Indiana and Circle theaters. Powell, these days, is just about as easy to approach as the queen of England. He has a blind telephone number and a male secretary who seems to be very efficient in keeping too many of Powell’s friends from getting into the studio. Devine visited Powell on the lot and had an hour with him at his bachelor home. "He was busy all the time I was there,” said Mr. Devine, "talking to Louella O. Parsons and others by telephone. “He was busy answering his letters and making plans to meet Mary Brian at the depot. Dick thinks that he will make a lot of money out of his broadcasts this winter. "Powell is building anew home a short distance from the studio,” added Tom. Mr. Devine, of course, would like to bring Powell back as master of ceremonies to the Indiana Roof, but it's imposible now because Powell has more engagements than he can fill. St St B IT is interesting to sac how press representatives of big film companies build up their stars in press stories. Here is a story that Warner

By George Clark

Napoleon got through with her but there remained diplomatic brains, intrigue, and craft. Austria still had them in the person of Clemens Wenzel Lothar Metternich. Through the abilities of this outstanding diplomat, Austria stil lwas a key to Europe. NEXT—The star of Austria flashes briliantlv before beginning to wane; on it renter the intrigues that led to the World war.

Brothers has sent out about Dick Powell: "Dick Powell describes his birthplace, which is near Mt, View, Ark., as being ‘ten miles from modem-conveniences.’ "Asa little boy he moved with his parents and brothers to Little Rock, Ark., which still is his official home. "When he was 5 a railroad engineer, a friend of the family, taught him to sing ‘Casey Jones.’ A few years later an indulgent father and patient neighbors allowed him to practice on the cornet. He still plays it—and a vast number of other musical instruments. “He sang in choirs, at weddings, funerals and baptisms and later with a boys’ orchestra. A visiting orchestra leader offered him a job and Dick accepted. In Louisville Dick changed from ballads to popular music and his career was started. "One season he toured the middle west singing with an orchestra and was advertised as ‘Bill Powell.’ Many people thought he was the movie actor. Dick tried to catch up with the advance agent to make him stop this practice, but never did. "While he played and sang with an orchestral in Indianapolis, he sold insurance on the side. He made a thousand dollars extra that year. He himself invests much of his money in life insurance and annuities. "He went to Florida during the boom down there and lost all his capital except his fare back to Pennsylvania. He rode a day coach back and ate a lunch of bananas—nothing else—on the trip. "He organized an orchestra which played for a summer resort. Then he got a job as master of ceremonies and orchestra leader in a small outlying theater in Pittsburgh. "The theater was long and narrow and Dick, to make himself heard, sang through a small megaphone. Thus he became a crooner. Pittsburgh liked him. He moved to the Stanley, a ‘big’ house and became the ‘toast of Pittsburgh.” "Suddenly Hollywood called again. Warner Brothers wanted him for a slightly unpleasant crooner role in Blessed Event,’ a picture in which Lee Tracy and Mary Brian were featured. Dick liked Hollywood and Hollywood liked him. He went back to finish his Pittsburgh engagement with a "He was accidentally paired with Ruby Keeler next in her first picture, which turned out to be the sensational industry life-saver called ‘42nd Street.’ ’Gold Diggers of 1933.’ ’Footlight Parade,’ ‘Wonder Bar’ and Twenty Million Sweethearts’ followed and made Dick a star of the first magnitude. "Dick Powell now gets more lan mail than any other actor in Hollywood. He lives in the Toluca Lake district, keeps a bachelor hall and is seen alternately with Mary Brian, Margaret Lmdsay, Maxine Doyle and several others. "He answers ail fan mail, collects pictures of his admirers, entertains visiting Little Rockians and flies back regularly to visit his family. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs 170 pounds and exercises to keep in good condition. "He is as popular on the radio as on the screen, and he is perhaps the most generous star in Hollywood in giving his time and his talents for worthy causes. He has been known to appear and sing at three benefits in one day.”

Fdir Enough wmhmibi BATON ROUGE La.. Aug. 18—Huey Long's legislature. meeting in Huey Long's thirty-three-story state capitol. proceeds with jovial cynicism to enact legislation which will establish a military dictatorship in Louisiana. The boys in Huey’s house shove his program right along—the Kingfish. himself. swaggers through the spectators who are held back from the floor of the chamber by an ornamental bronze rail. Huey has been expelled from the actual legislative enclosure by a coup of the

small opposition who are fighting a rear-guard artion in a defeatist mood. They invoke a trick rule whereby unauthorized persons may be excluded by a vote of ten members. But Huey continues his lobbying from behind the rail. Huey leans over the rail to beckon and talk to his boys at their seats on the floor. He drifts in and out of the Governor's private office, whirh is nominally that of O. K Allen. who seems to have neither pride in his job nor self-respect as a man. He does as Huey says and if Huey tells him to keep quiet he keeps quiet.

Little Oscar is not Huey's only “yes-man.” There are others. I heard in Washington only the other day that Indiana's "Li'l Arthur" Robinson is under the protective political wing of uey Long these days. The boys down here have rushed through none bills in a short time which make Huey commander of a secret police force of unlimited numbers, place the state militia at his command for any purpose, even to the seizure of local governments, and authorize him to hire unlimited numbers of special deputies at $5 a day to police elections. In New Orleans, for example, he may hire 50,000 special deputies to regulate an election. The members of the opposition express a fear that the deputies might intimidate the citizens. a a a Bloodshed Is Predicted THE 50.000 deputies, of course, would be voters themselves and their vote would swing any election for Huey. Wherever there is a situation which has the appearance of a contest after this, Kuey may buy the election at $5 a vote and charge the cost to the taxpayers. Caddo, cries out, "You will see bloodshed in this A member of the opposition, Joe B. Hamiter of state of ours.” Another member, speaking off the record, says there may be fighting yet. The best men of the state in every community arp only waiting for a call from New Orleans to rush into the city with their own firearms and ammunition to fight, he adds. Huey's secret police force will closely resemble Gerardo Machado's porra in Cuba or the G. P. U. in Soviet Russia. No man will know whether the next man is his friend or his enemy. No limit is fixed on the salaries to be paid the Louisiana porra. Huey sneers at the suggestion of armed revolt. He says it is no dictatorship, but just a batch of reform legislation to abolish lotteries, gambling houses and houses of prostitution which undoubtedly do abound in New Orleans, where the city administration licked him. Such phenomena are present also in Huey’s political domain. Huey has not molested them, but he moved troops into New Orleans to suppress vice and, incidentally, seize and edit the election rolls. How closely they were edited remains to be learned, but it does not matter now. He can hire the entire underworld and all the unemployed to vote for him at $5 each, as special deputies sworn to protect the purity of the ballot. a a a People Are Indifferent THE press coop is a row of seats behind a long desk on the floor beneath the Speaker's stand. One member wishes to rule the reporters out of the press coop on the ground that the rule against the presence of unauthorized persons applies to journalists. too. The dictator has been denouncing the “lying press” to the citizens for a long time and there is some prejudice against the Fourth Estate. Huey has a propaganda paper himseslf called the Progress, which is printed at Meridian, Miss. Papers printed within Louisiana must pay a 2 per cent on their advertising revenue. His tax on the advertising revenues of the papers is the first move toward censorship of the press. Huey resented their hostility and stabbed them in the bank roll. The people seem unable to appreciate the meaning of the proceedings which are wiping out the freedom of their courts and elections and inching upon the freedom of their press or perhaps they are just in a reckless mood, carried away by the eloquent and mischievous bearing of their own Adolf Hitler. There are not more than 200 spectators present and there is no telling, off-hand, what proportion of them are lobbyists. (Copyright, 1934. bv Unite <1 Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health —BY OR. MORRIS FISHBEIN—

ONE of the most perplexing problems with which the medical profession has had to deal is that of sensitivity to innumerable substances, causing such troublesome ailments as hay fever, asthma, eczema and related diseases. You might get an idea of the vastness of this problem by considering the effect of just one of the many substances with which we come into daily contact. Let us take cotton seed and cotton seed products, for example. Investigators of the problems of sensitivity have found anywhere from one-half of 1 per cent to 2 per cent of people who are sensitive reacting to cotton seed. You may not realize that cotton seed is used in salad oils, lard substitutes, butter substances, in the packing of sardines, in the setting of olives, in the frying of potato chips and fish, in various types of commercial oils, in cosmetics, liniments and salves, and as a substitute for olive oil s* B n MOREOVER, cotton seed is found m mattresses, pillows, cotton blankets, the stuffings of furniture. on the greens and fairways of miniature golf courses, and in cattle foods of various kinds. In testing whether a person is sensitive, the physician who specializes in this work usually uses the scratch test. This means that a small scratch is made on the surface of the skin and some dried cotton extract rubbed into the scratch. At the same time another scratch is made and some inert substance is rubbed in for comparison. The person who reacts will develop an inflammatory spot around the place into which the cotton seed extract had been rubbed. b b a IT is also possible to make these tests by injecting the extract directly into the skin, but people who are sensitive to cotton seed sometimes react so severely that this test is not made except under very carefully controlled conditions. Apparently 1 some of the proteins in cotton seed are responsible for the sensitivity. It has also been found that people who are sensitive to cotton seed are likely to be sensitive to peas, beans and various nnt products as well.

Questions and Answers

Q_What is the area of the Republic of Liberia? A—lt contains 45,000 square miles. Q—Describe a boomerang. A—A curved stick of hardwood, such as hard maple or hickory, about 5-16 inches thick, 2-; inches wide and 2 feet long, flat on one side with the ends and the other side rounding. One end of the stick is grasped in one hand with the convex edge forward and the flat side up and thrown upward. After going some distance and ascending slowly with a rotary- motion it suddenly returns in an elliptical orbit to a spot near the starting point. If thrown down on the ground it rebounds in a straight line, pursuing a ricochet motion until the object at which it was throw-n is hit.

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