Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 91, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1934 — Page 7

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N'EW YORK. Aug 23.- The most useful political development which this country has known In many vears is marked by the formation of the American Liberty Lrajri\ For the first time it seems possible that all the reactionaries may ty* gathered under one roof sc that the task of swatting them need not rna:i an endless chase around the block and up and down blind alleys. For at least a generation practically all observers have been complaining of the fact that there was no fundamental difference between the run-of-the-mill Republican and the average Democrat. It must have been manifest to even the most Crt - ial reader that Carter Glass was a great deal closer to James W. Wadsworth than he was to Franklin D Roosevelt. And in the Republican

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fire or more factions the decision is often misleading and instable. It was certainly worse than nothing for England to elect MacDonald, ostensibly as a Laborite, at a time when his rule depended wholly upon the permission of the Liberals. His stay in office not only gave Socialism a distinct black eye, but also ruined the honor and the reputation of Ramsty MacDonald. Hitler need never have come into power over the prostrate forms of parties which had kil crf each other off while all the while protesting that their chief objective was to check the spread of Fascism. I think the eight or nine-party system leads to many inadequate administrations. a a a Just Look nt Hitter I‘ PREFER the two-party system and it would be decidedly to our advantage to have it established in America. But for all too many years we have been living under the one-party system. Unlike the Germans, we have been given an opportunity to make a choice between the major parties. We have not been under the necessity of indicating merely “ja or “nein.” and hea\en help the dolt who dares to indicate his preference for the latter. On the contrary, the choice of the free and untrammelled citizen of the United States practically never has been limited to any take-it-or-leave-it decision at the polling place. The plain and ordinary American should be proud of the privileges accorded to me. Each November he is not only invited but urged to come around and indicate whether he prefers Tweed le-Dee to Tweodle-Dum. Generally, the fate of nations does not rest upon the voter s verdict. Whichever way the election goes the happy holder of the franchise can go home safe in the realization that win, lose or draw a safe man will come out on top in the primaries. I think that 1932 actually marked a break in this tradition. It seems to me that the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt did bring us into new ground where Herbert Hoover never would have dared to venture. nan Speaking of Mr. Hoover—- ■ a / mknkveK I speak less than enthusiastically VV about the sage of Palo Alto I invariably get letters in which at the very least I am asked not to speak harshly of a man who has retired definitely from public life. I wish it were true that Herbert Hoover were definitely out of the American political picture for all lime. The league will be faithless to its professions and to pi actual politics if it does not mold itself around the leadership of an extremely well-known American. Who but Hoover? The announced viewpoints of the new organization clearly indicate that its members feel that nothing ran be done about employment as it he thought is theirs, not mine) the honest and the thrifty folk have a right to sit upon their money bags and exclaim. -What business is it of mine whether the hundreds or millions go cold and hungry. Why didn't they buy gilt-edce securities when market prices were even lower than they are now.” Let the league just say. ‘ Hoover is our leader and wc mean to put him back in the White House to keep the grass from cluttering up the city streets.” Just once his name is mentioned we will have an ideal two-party set up. The voter will not need to fret himself. Before him will lie the simple equation of “Anybody at all aiainst Hoover.” And who can doubt what freemen will do when confronted by such a choice. (Copyright. 1934. bv The Times)

Today s Science by DAVID DIETZ

MORE powerful automobiles and more economical ones as well are predicted by the nation's chemists as a result of researches now going on in the petroleum field. What these researches are will be re\rated when the eighty-eighth meeting of the American Chemical Society is called to order in Cleveland on Sept. 10. Oil chemists from all parts of the country, representing universities, technical schools and industrial laboratories, will take part in the sessions of the society’s petroleum division. These will b? presided over by Frederick W. Sullivan Jr. of the Standard Oil Companv (Indiana*, chairman of the division. Researches which constitute ‘chemical prospecting for the automobile business” will be described by three scientists from the General Motors laboratories of Detroit. Wheeler G. Lovell. John M. Campbell and T. A. Boyd. The three will submit a report on the knocking characteristics of 103 hydrocarbons. Petroleum is a mixture of light and heavy hydrocat bons. Gasoline originally was manufactured merely by separating the lighter hydrocarbons from the petroleum Gasoline is now manufactured by the cracking” process, which cracks or splits up the molecules of the heavy hydrocarbons into lighter ones The present search in the laboratory is for hydrocarbons that are free from knock. Experts say that if the knock could be completely removed, it would be posstble. by a few simple changes, to build high compression engmess with half again and more miles to the gallon of fuel. a a a \ CCORDINGLY. chemists have been making a ./V detailed study of the properties of various hydrocarbons. Some hydrocarbons are found to be good, others bad. Some will give half again as much power as the ordinary gasolines now in use. From the investigation of hundreds of such compounds, chemists are now beginning to learn to predict in advance whether a particular hydrocarbon will be good or bad. The investigation, however, has not yet pro-s'--sed beyond the laboratory stage. Chemists are convinced that they can make better gasolines than those now in use. They have not vet determined whether or not it is commercially practicable. a m a IT is expected that more than 2.000 of the leading ch*-trusts of the United States will be in Cleveland for the meeting. Dr. Charles L. Reese of Wilmington. Del., is president of the society. He has announced that the keynote of the meeting will be the slogan. Chemistry catalyzes commerce ‘ A catalyst is a substance which speeds up and aids a chemical reaction. A large number of speakers at the convention will emphasize the fact that chemistry has not stood still during the depression, but that in many cases, research has gone forward at an unprecedented rate. In particular, leaders of the society emphasize the importance of chemical research in the field of agriculture. New processes which make it possible to convert the wa- e products of the farm into commercial products, they assert, will bring anew prosperity to tire farmer and ultimately emancipate him from the vagaries of crops.

camp it took no extraordinary arumen to realise that La Follette and Norris hardly belonged in the same camp with Fess and Reed of Pennsylvania. Now there is hope that the gentlemen who are out to defend property rights in any and all situations arc ready to stand up and be counted. Almost one must applaud them. Their action is truly patriotic. They are affording a chance to the voters to get rid of all the stuffed shirts in a single election. I do not see how anybody can deny the great conveniences of the two-party system. parties split into

$750,000,000 FOR DROUGHT BALM U. S. Cans Huge Stock of Meat to Balk Winter Food Shortage

Thi* m Ih# wfond f far rtlrl** firing r*mprrh*n)T* detail* "f *t** (real nmiuim which the federal rrernment la waalni for drooiht relief, in which ttSe.Wa.M* will be spent. BV RODNEY DITCHER Sf.K Service Staff Writer iCopynht. 1934 NEA Service. Ine.i W TASHINGTON. Aug. 25.—A2W most from the beginning of the New Deal. Henry A. Wallace, agriculture secretary, and Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins—two sentimental realists— have found many points in common, philosophically and practically. Mr. Wallace's job was to relieve the farmers, heavily burdened by surpluses of food crops, and Mr. Hopkins had to relieve the needy unemployed, who didn't have enough to eat. In almost no time at all they decided to remedy the old paradox which found millions starving and great piles of foodstuffs on the farms begging for a market. The federal surplus relief corporation was formed to take over pork and other food to help feed 20,000.000 persons on the relief rolls. Today, the federal emergency relief administration and the agricultural adjustment administration are working together more closely than ever before, through the federal surplus relief corporation, in the great federal drought relief effort. And the Hopkins organization, as if in return for Wallace's donations of millions of head of cattle purchased from drought-stricken farms. Is expanding its programs of direct relief and work relief all through the rural drought area —and even helping feed the livestock. A milloin families are on relief in the eighteen states hardest hit, only a fourth of them in the goodsized cities. Hundreds of thousands more will be added this winter. a a a ABOUT 500.000 persons in that area are engaged on FERA work projects, most of them ablebodied farmers temporarily robbed of a chance to make a living except through public aid. The diversity of their jobs shows the flexibility of the PERA’s emergency works division and its adaptability to special drought problems. Wells are being dug to supply water for drinking and other limited use. Streams are dammed or diverted and lakes tapped for lifegiving water supplies. Road-build-ing and soil erosion work are stimulated. Farmers are recruited to help handle the huge cattle movements and in some cases to work at processing them into relief meat. And most lately, FERA has come to the aid of agriculture as a whole with a plan for ”a nationwide gleaning of the fields” in which work relief employes will gather every possible pound of roughage, oat straw, wheat straw’, cornstalks, hav and other forage and fodder to help ameliorate the grave shortage of livestock feed. This extraordinary scheme to set people everywhere to gathering waste material will employ tens of thousands at harvesting, bailing, and transporting. State relief directors are checking available sources, with special reference to cornstalks ordinarily left to rot. Farmers with fodder crops which they might not harvest will be supplied with relief workers to garner the stuff.

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

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—0f all state contests raging throughout the country this year, there are two over which President Roosevelt is keeping-a close and personal watch. First in his interest is the race in New* York—his native state—his warm friend and personal choice, Governor Heibert Lehman,

is up for re-election. Second, is the furious jangle now at its height in that state referred to by the President as “my second home.” famous for its watermelons and its peaches, and last year not so favorably known for the demagogic buffooneries of Governor “Gene” Talmage. The President's lively concern in the Georgia governorship melee arises not only from the fact that it was its curative waters which helped restore him to health, and that he owns a home and farm there. There is a close political and personal reason. He has been made the issue of the campaign. “Talmage or Roosevelt’’ is the erv that has been raised all over the state. And in Georgia, where the President is revered with a fierce loyalty, this is a serious matter. Talmage and his chief opponent. Circuit Judge Claude Pittman of Cartersville. are. of course, both Democrats. In Georgia, as in most southern states, the Democratic nomination is equivalent to election. a a a AS a Democrat. “Gene's” attitude toward the New Deal has savored strongly of Huey Longism. Talmage has sneeringlv ridiculed the administration's agricultural policies. He has berated the NR A. made flip remarks about the brain trust. Last winter he undertook to set himself up as dictator of FERA grants to Georgia. In this be came a sad cropper. Lean, two-fi-ted FERA boss Harry Hopkins cracked down on him. Brusklv he removed all funds from the Governor's jurisdiction, appointed his own administrator. All this has been meat for his opponent. “It is Gene Talmage or President Roosevelt.” Judge Pittman tells his audienes. and the refrain is getting under Talmage's skin. Despite his outbursts against the administration. Talmage insists that he is a warm supporter of the President. But the record is against him. mam SO last week he resorted to a desperate expedient. By night plane he rushed to the capital one of his banker friends. Rybum Clay, president of Atlanta's Fulton National bank.

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Millions of drought-stricken cattle, such as these shown above, are being purchased by the federal government in a gigantic relief project. Thousands of heads will be slaughtered and processed for distribution to needy families this winter. Thousands more are shipped to green pastures, loaned to small farmers who need more cows to make them self-sustaining. Other thousands are killed on the spot as unfit.

Thus far FERA has received $100,000,000 from the $525,000,000 drought appropriation for its shipment. pasturing, and processing of cattle, its feed purchases, its direct drought relief and drought work program. Its feed activities include a recent bid for up to 150,000 tons of soya-bean hay at sls a ton. a a a HOPKINS has spent the summer in Europe, studying social security systems. In his absence, his assistants, Aubrey Williams and Lawrence Westbrook, have been supervising FERA drought relief while Jacob Baker has directed the FSRC—of which Hopkins is president—in co-oper-ation with Colonel Philip G. Murphy, chief of the AAA commodities purchase section. The huge, fast-moving AAAFSRC livestock operation is likely never to be duplicated. It involves the buying of at least eight or ten million cattle and about five million sheep and goats. The great majority will be canned or cured for relief consumption. It is estimated that more than 1.000,000.000 pounds of beef and 150.000,000 of mutton eventually will be distributed through federal channels. Mast of the cattle are shipped off by FSRC, which takes them over as soon as the AAA buys them, but many are left in the same state for canning or other local needs. Some, of course, have been killed on the spot as unfit. Cattle not slaughtered for processing at once are shipped into the twenty or more states w'here state relief directors have arranged for pasturage, usually w’ith the idea of slaughtering them later. FERA remembered that hundreds of thousands of small farmers needed cows to help make them self-sustaining and it tries to leave its cattle—all branded with an “ERA”—with farmers on relief or with other farm families which need more milk. Such cattle are distributed into Delaware. Maryland, West Virginia, and the southern states—where FERA still is looking for more good grazing land.

Clay sought out Marvin Mclntyre, one of the President's secretaries, explained his secret mission. Talmage, he said, wanted a letter from “someone in authority,” stating that the President did not consider him a foe, was not opposed to his re-election. He got a letter all right. The missive curtly stated that the President was not interfering in Democratic contests. Judge Pittman is calling on Talmage to make public a letter he received from the President himself last winter, when Gene and Harry Hopkins were warring. The President's letter was hot and emphatic. Talmage. so far. has refused to produce either communication. And the chances are 100 to 1 that he won't. 'Copvrieht 1914. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.l •Y’ EVENING CLASSES TO OPEN ON SEPT. 7 High School and Business College Courses Offered. The evening high school and business college of the Y. M. C. A. will open Friday, Sept. 7, James M. Ogden, chairman of the Y. M. C. A. education committee announced today. He said the school of commerce and the trade school of the “Y" would open Sept. 28. All high school and business college classes conducted by the "Y” are fully accredited by the state department of public institutions, and credits are accepted by colleges. ASK $53,250 DAMAGES Silver Lake Couple Sues City Doctor in Crash. Three separate suits demanding a total of *53,250 for injuries suffered to Mr. and Mrs. Allison W. Swick, Silver Lake, Ind.. in an accident July 8. were filed in circuit court yesterday. The suit names Dr. Joseph Storey, 3434 North Illinois street, as the defendant and alleges that his automobile struck the car in which the couple was riding.

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ABOUT 50.000 head of cattle are being slaughtered each day and processed in packing plants built or rented by FSRC or in commercial plants under contract with it. All the cans are stamped as relief food, so they can’t get into the commercial market. But it has been pointed out that if meat prices go higher this wunter and next spring than the government thinks they should, some of the FSRC food might be put into trade. Most commercial plants are pressed to capacity by government orders, as they’re processing about three-fourths of the FSRC animals and doing an unusually big business of their own. In general, the poorest and skinniest of beef animals are being bought up thus far at about the ratio of three of every ten cow’s viewed by federal agents and at an average cost of $13.65. Recent figures showed that 441,000 head had produced 277,000,000 pounds of dressed meat, which would mean little more than a third as much canned meat. The sheep program has not yet gone into effect. The AAA and FSRC has had plenty of experience in buying for the needy unemployed before the drought came along. Since last October the FSRC has taken over 350,000.000 pounds of pork, more than 50,000.000 pounds of butter, 6,000,000 pounds of cheese, and much coal, blankets, apples, eggs, potatoes, and other food and material. St tt tt IN California, 10,000 tons of cling peaches are being canned w’hich otherwise w’ould have rotted on the trees, and bids have just been asked by FSRC for 50,000,000 pounds of rice. And 250,000 bales of cotton are being acquired from the big cotton surplus, which 60,000 women in 2,500 FERA sewing centers will make into mattresses on w’hich the folks on relief may sleep. The entry of the government into mass production and distribution such as has been heretofore reserved to the field of pri-

STADIUM DRIVE TO BE RECONSTRUCTED Resurfacing Is Approved by Works Board. The works board yesterday approved plans for the reconstruction and resurfacing of Stadium drive, a continuation of Indiana avenut, from the Fall creek bridge to Montcalm street at an approximate cost of $29,922, of which the city will pay three-fourths. The board also approved plans for a sidewalk on the north side of Beechwood street from Arlington avenue to Good avenue at an approimate cost of $2,300. The board received specifications for maintaining street lights from the Welsback Street Lighting Company, Philadelphia, Pa. Bids for the lighting will close Oct. 31.

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Conferring on details of the mammoth drought relief plan, three of the leading aids of Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins are shown here in Washington. Left to right, they are Colonel Lawrence Westbrook, Jacob Baker and Aubrey Williams. Mr. W’estbrook and Mr. Williams have been supervising the program while Mr. Hopkins has been in Europe and Mr. Baker, who has been directing the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, has been aiding them.

vate business has caused some squawks from certain industries. But there has been little complaint about the cattle and meat program, for it is realized that if any other course had been followed, millions of cattle now salvaged would have died on farms, a stampede of other cattle would have glutted the market and caused disastrously low prices, which would have resulted in even more damage to the cattle raisers. Thereafter, a meat shortage would have sent prices so high

ROUNDING ROUND npTT T? A r P 1? DC WITH WALTEK I 1 H/JlyO D . HICKMAN

TWO years is a dangerously long time for any movie star to remain off the screen. The two champion stay-aways from the screen are Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin.

After two years’ absence from the screen, Lloyd returns in “The Cat’s Paw.” Mr. Lloyd must have done a lot of thinking, a:, well as hard work, because he has developed for himself anew movie pattern. In this picture, the comedian is no longer a slap-stick funmaker given to one acrobatic and hair-raising stunt after another but a character comedian in w T hich the story is as important as the cast. That may seem strange on the surface, but it is true and it definitely reveals anew and better acting Harold Lloyd. In this new type of screen entertainment there w*as danger that Mr. Lloyd might

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that millions of families on the dole couldn't have afforded to eat meat. Incidentally, the money with which all this relief meat is bought doesn't come from the relief funds at all. It comes from $150,000,000 appropriated by congress in the Jones-Connaily act for a beef and dairy cattle adjustment program. NEXT—The consumer what he faces and how the government plans to protect him from profiteering and rocketing prices.

sacrifice his child public. Mr. Lloyd knows that the juvenile public tastes today are different than those of ten and fifteen years ago. The only thing that must remain the same is that the subject matter and the acting be clean. Such a picture is “The Cat's Paw r ,” made from a highly successful magazine story. It is true that many school children are greatly interested in everything that Mae West and Joe Penner do. Mr. Lloyd in his latest movie becomes an adult entertainer with sufficient appeal to younger people to make him the most popular comedian on the screen. a a a r T~'O my way of thinking, “The Cat’s Paw” will be another gold mine for Lloyd and the Fox company w'hich released it. It is one of the cleanest, funniest and best movies ever made. That’s my verdict and I think it will be yours. Una Merkel is a wonder foil for Lloyd. In fact, this picture establishes her as one of the three best comediennes in Hollywood. The character work of George barbier is splendid. The cast is a large and an important one. It is not all Harold Lloyd this time, but a complete triumph for actors, director, writer, and cameramen. It is the comedy triumph of the year. Os course you will not miss it. Now on view at the Apollo. YEARS’ ILLNESS FATAL TO BIG 4 WATCHMAN Last Rites Set for Monday for Jerome B. Edwards. Funeral services will be held at 10 Monday in the McNeely mortuary for Jerome B. Edwards, 76, who died at his home, 1923 Park avenue, yesterday following a year's illness. Burial will be In Glen Haven cemetery. Mr. Edwards was born in Wabash but had lived in Indianapolis the last forty-five years. P’or eight years prior to his retirement from active life, he was a watchman for the Big Four railroad. Survivors are a daughter. Miss Virginia Edwards, and a son. Van Edwards. His wife, Mrs. Ida Edwards, died Dec. 16,1931.

Fdir Enough nHiw CHICAGO. Aug. 25—A puzzling change has come over Chicago since the days of the $3,000,000 prize fight, the Valentine's day massacre and the steady routine of individual assass.nations among the hoodlum set. This is only an impression which mav be disputed by statistics, but it does seem that the reign of the racketeer has been broken. A1 Capone is away, to bo gone a long time, and a number of other important leaders of the underworld either are dead, jailed or out of action for the time being, at least, due to

the repeal of prohibition. Still, troublesome and arrogant as those boys were, they were not the kind who terrorized the ordinary people of the city for so many years and made prominent citizens employ bodyguards. Ordinary people living in the suburbs of Chicaco used to think twice before they dared go home late at night, for the state of affairs was such that travel on the streets was fraught with genuine risk. A woman learned to hide her jewelry in her hair when driving home from the the-

ater or dinner in town and if she were alone in her car she locked the doors from the inside and rolled up the driving window’ while waiting at the traffic lights. Very often people simply ignored the lights and went through them rather than stop at dark corners. The risk of summons from a lurking cop was preferable to the imminent danger of a stick-up and a shooting. tt 8 St Newspapers Reflect Change STRANGERS, passing through Chicago in those days, in manv cases preferred to spend their time between trains in the railroad stations, venturing out no more than they had to in going from onterminal to another. Some strangers, in fact, still know’ Chicago by the tough reputation from which the city suffered in Mr. Capone's time and still avoid the streets as much as possibfe. The change is apparent in the Page 1 matter in the newspapers. The Chicago papers, although they sometimes did permit themselves a hurt editorial remonstrance against overemphasis on crime, never did play crime dow’n. When an important hoodlum w’as found claimed by death in some weedgrown gully in the outskii Ls, they laid it on the line without reservation, although these occurrences tended to injure their town. They do not seem to have been equally frank about the outbreak of dysentery last year when a treatment of the epidemic suitable to its importance might have frightened people away from the world's lair. But there is a diference of opinion, even about that. They claim they gave the story all it was worth according to their news judgment and as soon as they heard of it. Gambling continues to thrive, of course. There always has been more or less open gambling in Chicago and it seems to be the policy of the present administration to permit the parlors to operate. The Daily New’s deplores this and prints crusade stories accompanied by minute diagrams of the gambling rooms, but nobody does anything to them. a a a Gambling Still Continues WITH the bootlegging business and a number of other rackets smashed, however, a political organization hardly can be expected to close out the last important source of campaign revenue and underworld co-operation. Elections can not be won in Chicago w’ithout certain deference to the convenience and pleasure of the criminal element. Perhaps it is enough to ask, for the time being, and something to be thankful for. that the wild, indiscriminate killing, bombing, kidnaping and robbing of the terrible years have been abated to a degree which is distinctly noticeable in town. Certainly as far as the daily safety of Mr. Roosevelt’s common man is concerned, there has been a distinct improvement and this is attributed in some part to the work of James Allman, as chief of the police department, and Thomas Courtney, as the district attorney or prosecutor. Mr. Allman is a copper’s cop, not much concerned with military salutes or fancy costumes for his patrolmen and Mr. Courtney is free of embarrassing connections with the underworld and thus able to act freely. I will avoid Roing on a limb with regard to the independence of the chief and the prosecutor, however, as such officers have a way if disillusioning persons who are naive about them. I will just report that Chicago Is much changed since repeal. It could be just a spell of good behavior imposed on the city by the powers w’hich contral it so that the world's fair may draw customers and succeed. (Copyright, 1934. by Unite and Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN—

IN England, 2,000 men received compensation in 1932 under workmen’s compensation acts for skin eruptions resulting from the jobs In which they happened to be engaged. Many of these eruptions of the skin were due to special skin cleaners used after the men had finished their daily work. The modern worker wants to be clean and presentable when he leaves his job. Som men taka cleanliness much more seriously than do others. The worker w r ho developed an eruption on hia skin had washed his hands twenty-four times each day while at work. Among the cleansing substances men use, and which are associated with irritation of the skin, are washing soda, soda ash and chloride of lime, as well as certain agents for removing greases, such a3 oils, turpentine and wood alcohol. a a a IF more men could be persuaded to wear gloves while at w'ork, particularly with strong chemical substances, skin disturbances from contact with these agencies w'ould be avoided. How'ever, mast men prefer to work without gloves, and it is probably desirable that they use instead applications to the hands which will prevent contact with dangerous substances. Among the substances known to bring about -irritations of the skin are alkalis, sugar, oil, chromic acid, turpentine, dyes, gasoline, baker’s dough, acids, paraffin, French polish and compounds of nickel. It has been found, for example, that the eruptions on the skin occurring with workers who handle oranges, lemons and lettuce are due to a substance called limonene, which is like turpentine. Orange oil and lemon oil consist of more than 90 per cent of this limonene. a a a PERSONS who are sensitive to lemon oil or to turpentine can prevent the irritations by avoiding these substances. The disturbances of the skin that come from lime, sugar and tulip juice are usually confined to the skin around the finger nails. An eruption due to an irritating dust, as opposed to a liquid, usually shows itself first on the face and neck. Such, for example, are the eruptions due to wood dust and barley. Unfortunately, the best advice that can be given to a worker who suffers regularly with disturbances of the skin associated with his job is to find some other job—not altogether a simple matter in these times.

Questions and Answers

Q—Describe the “Island of Women” and state by whom it is ruled. Alt is a small island in the China sea, in the northern Philippine archipelago, between the islands of Luzon and Formosa. The official name is Babuyan, meaning, in the Malay dialect, “The Place of Wild Pigs.” Nominally United States territory, the island knows no law except that of its sovereign, Bernardo Rosales, who originally went there about fifteen years ago as a fugitive from justice. It is populated by 400 women, a score of men. and a number of children, the greater portion of whom are girls.

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