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/t-Jeeim io Me HEWOW BtOUN |T IS written that Belshazzar the king made a * great feast and that the princes and the nobles of his land bowed down before him and said that his might and majesty would endure forever. “In the same hour.” according to the fifth chapter of the Book of Daniel, “came forth fingers of a man's hand. and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the kings palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that w’rote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him. so that the joints
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little man but he grows in confident assurance of his powers. It was possible for him to play upon the audience as his friend Hanfstaengl might run up and down the keyboard of a piano. With a turn of the hand or a modulation of the voice Adolf Hitler could win from thirty thousand throats a full voiced Heil!” of devotion and allegiance. mam Hut Hack of Those Hanks — IT has been pointed out on many occasions that the German leader is a man of ascetic habits and that lie does not even drink the beer of his adopted land Why should he? When did any mortal ever know a more headv brew than the intoxication of successful orators'. Particularly when it is your own. Men walk like gods and talk in the manner of .soothsayers and prophets when they feel the vibrant inspiration of a crowd's complete engrossment and enthusiasm. Quite povsibly Adolf Hitler's conception of Nazi continuity may have been far more modest when first he rose to speak. None but the brave and bold in these days when the crust of the earth crackles beneath our feet pretend to see clearly what a hundred years may bring. And some who are not timid but merely sagacious hesitate to base any sweeping assertion upon the premise, “five years hence.” Hitler himself has said that the “blood purge" was critical in the fate of Germany. And there were those who strode the land with loud and heavy boots who did not live to see the evening sun go down. So vast is Luitpoid hall that Hitler could not see the masonry which marks its termination. He saw the rapt faces of his followers turned intently on him. Ho heard their cries and shouts and murmurs. He felt in the marrow of his bones their veritable worship. Back of the Nazi ranks there was a mistiness. The light itself seemed to waver in those furthermost reaches of the huge hall. It was almost as if candlesticks had been set up to cast grotesque shadows on the wall. m m m The Scratching of the Pen Goes On. AND one was very like part of a man's hand. Perhaps Hitler was justified in giving no heed to a mirage which at such distance must have been less than palpable. And yet I think he would have been wiser to follow the example of Belshazzar and ask for an interpretation of the phrases there set down. Even if he could not see too clearly he might well have hushed the vast audience to a hum. for above that sound there would have come distinctly to his ears the sound of a pen point against the plaster. Instead he cried aloud. "For the next thousand years there will be no more revolutions in Germanv.” And as he made the proud boast the cascade of cheers from thirty thousand filled every crack and cranny with triumphant din. But the fingers of a man's hand continued to set down a written verdict on the wall of Luitpold hall. There was no pause or break in the rhythm of the writer. He had made up his mind as to precisely what he wished to say. The tumult neither stayed nor accelerated the pace at which he made his decision manifest. Quite evidently this was a matter which he had weighed and considered carefully. And even when the cheers were done the scratching of the pen went on. I would advise Adolf Hitler to go again to Luitpold hall and bring with him this time no Nazi host but instead the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. iCoprrlght. 1934. by The Times!
Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ
BROWN S VALLEY MAN hunted the woolly mammoth and the mastodon in the Minnesota woods. His weapons were wooden spears equipped with heads of chipped flint. That was 12.000 years ago, a little more than 10.000 years after the northern section of the United States had emerged from beneath the mile-thick blanket of ice that covered it during the glacial age. He is America's oldest known citizen. The discovery of Brown's Valley Man is the most important find to date in the study of ancient man in America. It marks a decided victory for those who think that man has been in the new world for a considerable period of time. The type of spear with which Brown's Valley Man hunted the mastodon and the mammoth are not new to anthropologists. These spearheads of chipped flint, known as Folsom or Yumu points, from the localities in which they were first found, have long been centers of stormy battles. No human remains had ever been found in association with them. This time, however, the shattered remnants of a human skeleton have been found in a gravel pit associated with such spearheads. These splinters of bone, found in Brown's valley near Fertile, Minn., have been named Brown Valley Man. man 'ymrILLIAM H. JENSEN, an amateur anthropoloW gist, first noticed the spearheads and the splinters of bone when some workmen, under his direction. were excavating in the gravel pit. He communicated with Dr. Albert E. Jenkins of the University of Minnesota. He and his student assistants subsequently found more of the skeleton and more spearheads. Dr. Frank Leverett. authority on the glacial age. examined the pit and pronounced it as a geological formation 12.000 years old. The chief advocate of the theory that man is a comparative newcomer in America has been Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Hrdlicka began his investigations more than ten years ago when he visited the region of Siberia which borders on the Bering sea. He found natives there who resembled the famous chiefs of the plains Indians so faithfully that they could pass for their brothers. He found that it was a simple matter for a native canoe to make the journey across the Bering Strait from Siberia to Alaska and that there were many records of migration within the last few hundred years. n a a EXCAVATING in Alaska, the Aleutian islands, and other islands. Dr. Hrdlicka found manv sites of prehistoric villages This led him to his view that America was populated by successive waves of immigration which entered from Siberia bv wav of Alaska. If. as many anthropologists believe. Asia was the cradle of the human race, the mechanism set up by Dr Hrdlicka seems the best we have to explain the entry of man into America In view of the finding of the Brown's Valley Man. it seems quite probaole that we must assume that man entered America before the last wave of glaciation. It may ha. as some anthropologists have insisted. that man has been in America for at least 100,000 years.
of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another” Adolf Hitler rame to Nuremberg and in the vast Luitpold hall he proclaimed to thirty thousard followers that the rule of the Nazis would last a thousand years I have been in Nuremberg, but I do not know the Luitpold hall. The sight must have been an impressive one as the man who is perhaps the greatest of living orators stirred the vast multitude in front of him. Ariolf Hitler is comparatively a
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THE MARCH OF AMERICAN LABOR Swing to Violence by Radicals Hampers Workers in Uphill Fight
This W tbs fifth at a series of six stories on "The March of Labor.’’ telltnr of the tains for union workers tinder NRA. and problems with which labor is faced, and (ivinr a brief history of the labor movement in the L'nited States. man BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Writer WASHINGTON. Sept. 7.—A huge mass of men seethed in Chicago’s Havnvarket square. It was a spring evening of 1886 They were gathered to • demonstrate” in connection with a long and bitter strike at the McCormick Reaper Works. The speeches made from a truck, were highly inflammatory. Eight hundred ponce, in the high helmets and long coats of the period, arrived on the scene, and their chief demanded that the crowd disperse. There were hot words, and suddenly a spark of light was seen to curve upward and fall into the mas of policemen. There was a terrific explosion, and seven dead policemen lay amid sixty more who were wounded. The police rallied, and in a hail of revolver fire on both sides, drove the crowd from the streets. That was the Havmarket riot, which stunned America with horror that the present generation can scarcely realize—police survivors of the affair still meet annually in an association of its “veterans” and in the hobo jungles of the I. W. W. any one who can talk of the affair at first hand is admitted as one of the “G. A. R. of the class struggle.”
It was America’s public introduction to the more radical phases of the labor movement, and most authorities agree that the public reaction to its horrors set labor's progress back many years. In the trial, which resulted in the hanging of four agitators and the bloody suicide of another <he exploded a small bomb in his mouth), there was added bitterness, and the whole of America for the first time became “an-archist-conscious." mam THERE were anarchists in the Havmarket affair, and Knights of Labor, and many other shades of radicals. Johannes Mast, a German advocate of the overthrow of church and state and substitution of a vague federation of groups of workers, was the bogie man of the day. It probably was the Haymarket which led America generally to lump together anarchists. Socialists. syndicalists and Communists as "radicals,” though there is wide divergence and often strife among these groups. "Anarchism” died down, but, in 1905 America produced anew radical group of its own, the Industrial Workers of the World, known popularity as the I. W. W. or “Wobblies.” Delegates from the old Knights of Labor, certain radical western mining unions. Socialist elements and an assortment of radicals from many other groups, met in Chicago at the industrial union congress. Believing that craft unionism held no relief for the mass of workers, they launched a program of syndicalism. nan ' I 'HAT is a philosophy which k holds that society should be made up of vertical or industrial
- The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON. Sept. 7. —The results of last week’s primaries contain a far greater significance than most people have realized. The significance has not been lost, however, on Democratic leaders Hose to the President. Privately, they admit, they have much food for thought. And for this reason:
In three widely separated states —California, South Carolina, Mississippi—tremendous popular support was manifested for candidates who, while running as Democrats, proposed personal platforms far to the left of the New Deal. If these test ballots present a fair cross-section of American sentiment, administration advisers are leaning toward an unescapable conclusion: That there is a considerable body of public opinion, which feels Roosevelt’s “left of center” policy has not gone far enough. a a a Regarding the left-winged-ness, of the three winning candidates there can be no doubt. California Upton Sinclair, former Marxist Socialist, ran away with the Democratic gubernatorial nomination on a categoric pledge to “end poverty in California.” Mississippi—Theodore G. Bilbo, former Governor, more recently 56.000-a-year AAA newspaper clipper, put himself into the run-off race for senator on the promise to "raise more hell than Huey Long.” South Carolina—Olin D. Johnston, former mill-hand, self-made lawyer, won the lead position in the gubernatorial run-off against ex-Senator Coleman Blease—in his day no onservative—on the straight-out platform of unionizing textile workers. This may sound tepid enough in other sections. but in South Carolina it is next tc revolutionary. The result of all this is that some old-line administration Democrats who have been pounding on Roosevelt's door for a more conservative policy, are wondering if they didn't make a mistake after all. ana WESTERN liberals are waging a quiet, but determined, campaign to retain the RFC seat recently made vacant by the death of Wisconsin’s Progressive exsenator. John J. Blaine. Their choice is another Wisconsin Progressive. Ralph M. Immell, youthful commander of the state's national guard. An overseas veteran, executive secretary to Blaine when the latter was Governor of Wisconsin, and an extremely able administrator. Immell is known in the middle west as a young Progressive. The argument being made in his behalf is that he is not only highly qualified for the job. but that Blaine's passing left the RFC without liberal representation. a a a THERE is nothing Secretary of State Hull hates so much as letting any one know where he is spending his vacation—unless it is gmng a job to a friend of Professor Moley's. . . . Senator George Norris is summering in a small
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organizations of producing workers, bound together in an indefinite, loose manner, “One Big Union,” which would not be a nation as now understood, but simply a loose federation of groups of workers, each owning and operating the industry in which it works. Drawing its membership originally mostly from migratory and unskilled workers, it became known as a “bums” organization, which impression it strengthened by fostering a hobo tradition in song and print. The first strike in which it seized leadership w r as at Goldfield, Colo., and its greatest success came in 1912, when it conducted the successful textile strike at Lawrence, Mass. During the World war, which it opposed, the I. W. W. repeatedly ran afoul of the government through sabotage, and the syndicalist laws which many states passed were aimed chiefly at this organization. ana PROPOSING to take advantage of the new opportunities for industrial as opposed to craft unionism, the I. W. W., after a period of eclipse, is making a renewed drives for membership today. It is impossible to give the membership of the I. W. W. accurately, as it fluctuates widely. The newest form of radicalism in this country, of course, is Communism. It came to America after the World war, and by holding up the increasing success of the Russian experiment before American workers, it has been able to recruit some followers. Mutual distrust, not to say hatred, exists between the Communists and the I. W. W., Socialists,
lakeside cottage which he built largely with his own hands. Located four miles from the nearest town—Waupaca, Wis. —Norris’ opponents are attempting to use as political ammunition the fact that his summer place is located outside of Nebraska. They describe the place as a “summer mansion. . . . The University of Tennessee has a unique way of getting its football coach. The war department transfers Major Bob Neyland from the district engineer’s office in Nashville to “temporary duty as assistant professor of military science and tactics” at Knoxville. Unofficially this means football coach. Neyland gets his army pay plus his coaching sal-ary-reputed to be $12,500. (Copvricht. 1934, bv United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) r. m. c7a. courses to OPEN: MANY ENROLLED Registration Largest in History of Local Organization. High school and business college departments of the Y. M. C. A. will open tonight with the largest enrollment ever attained. A. F. Williams, educational director, said enrollment in the high school is 23 per cent greater than last year and 29 per cent greater in the business college. E. J. Black, principal of the high school, announced that special provisions have been made for persons needing one or two credits to meet liberal arts and professional college entrance requirements. John Donnelly, dean of the business college, stated that much new equipment has been installed. U. S. WOMAN HELD AS NAZI AID IN VIENNA Former St. Louis Citizen and Austrian Husband Arrested. By I'nitrd Press VIENNA. Sept. 7.—Erhardt Hammerand and his American wife, the former Emily Ducas of St. Louis, Mo., were charged formally today with having acted as Nazi emissaries in the revolutionary movement against the Austrian government. This is not the first time that Mrs. Hammerand. whose husband is the proprietor of a Vienna hotel, has been in jail on suspicion of Nazi sympathies. She w&s arrested four weeks ago, but released on the representations of the American consul, and once more arrested when additional charges were presented against her. 6 Die In Trolley-Auto Crash. SEYMOUR, Conn.. Sept. 7. —Six persons were killed here today in a collision between a trolley and an automobile.
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Industry . . . from a somewhat more radical point of view . . . this mural painting by Thomas Benton Is in the Social Research school in New York . . . Note the bent backs of all the mind’s and stevedores in the picture, and the bleak look of the coal tipples, mountains, and gaunt chimneys.
and other radical groups. The Communist organization is too political to suit the I. W. W., too regimented to suit the Socialists, and too rigid to prevent splitoffs from its own body or some six minority groups. The labor and political activities of the Communist elements can not be differentiated —to them it is all the same. The only large group is the Communist party of America, which takes its orders from the Third International and claims 24.000 dues-paying members. Membership is deliberately kept small, so that each actual party member may be a trained organizer and agitator; for every party member there are hundreds of supporters of more or less clearly defined Communist views. a a a WITH William Z. Foster (once an I. W. W.> as candidate, it polled 102,785 votes in the 1932
$7,746,366 IN 71XES PAID 67 BREWERIES Heavy Levy Is Revealed by Fair Display. The sixteen Indiana breweries pay annually taxes totaling $7,746,366. It would require a tax levy of 20 cents on each SIOO based on the present assessed value of all taxable state property to raise a similar sum. These figures are presented graphically in the display of the Brewers’ Association in the Manufacturers’ building at the Indiana state fair. State brewers pay $6,222,000 each year to the federal government, of which $6,000,000 goes to pay the internal revenue tax of $5 for every barrel of beer produced. Nine state taxes take $1,072,366 from the brewers, principal of w’hich is the state excise tax of 5 cents a gallon, which raises $1,000,000. Community taxes and fees cost the breweries $450,000 annually. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Northeast wind. 7 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.03 at sea level; temperature. 60; general conditions. overcast, smoky: ceiling, estimated 900 feet; visibility, one mile.
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presidential election, half of these in New York and Chicago. The present tactics of the party are aimed at: Making as good a showing in political affairs, local and national, as possible; taking advantage of distress to organize workers, unemployed, ex-soldiers, boys, and other elements, and to embarrass the government as much as possible by "demonstrations” and rumpuses. Also, the Communists organize their own unions to compete with A. F. of L. unions whenever possible; and seize active leadership in any strike that looks promising, even if their own membership may be negligible. The Communist organization has a maze of subsidiaries that would make the Insull tangle look, simple. It has the Young Pioneers, to compete with the Boy Scouts; the Trade Union Unity League, to compete with the A. F. of L.; the Workers’ Ex-Service Men’s League, to compete with the
Catholics' Attitude May Decide Saar Region s Whole Future
Following is the second of a series dealing with tension in the Saar territory a a a BY WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1934. by United Press) SAARBRUCKEN, Sept. 7.—A little more than one year ago the eventual reunion of the Saar and Germany was regarded as inevitable. All Europe believed the citizens of this rich mineral region, when given their own choice, would vote to become German again. Today, the Saar not only is a “doubtful” community, it is a community torn by dissension —a crucible in which the ingredients of war are being mixed.
A registration of the voters who will go to the polls and establish their nationality next January closed last week. It showed a voting list of 500,000 who were residents of the territory at the time of the signing of the Versailles treaty, and who will be 20 when they cast their ballots. Those favoring a return to Germany appear to have preponderant strength, even now. The Deutsche front, which embraces all the parties favorable to the union, claims to have pledges from 95 per cent of the voters. But recent developments in Germany which have alienated many liberals, all Communists, some Socialists. and a great many Catholics, may surprise. a a a IT is not generally believed that the vote will favor coming under the French flag. If the elec-
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American Legion; Trade Union Educational League, to arrange temporary co-operation with other groups when it seems advantageous; councils of the unem--ployed, and a dozen other organizations to appeal to special groups. It advocates many things, such as the soldiers’ bonus, which are not at all Communistic, but which help them get in touch w r ith groups which would otherw'ise not be attracted to them Radical movements have seldom been of any great direct importance in the labor movement in this country, but they have served as a continual spur to keep the standard unions on their toes and keep out dry rot. NEXT—Labor faces anew crop of problems in the coming months, internal problems, legal problems, anti problems of the relationship of organized labor to the people in general.
tion gooes against Germany, the probability would seem to be a continuance of the present status, perhaps with some modification, as a “ward” of the League of Nations. If the Saar should return to Germany, that would end the Communist party. Thus, politics making strange bedfellows, the Communists have buried their differences with the Socialists, and are making common cause. Stranger still, perhaps, is the swing of Catholic votes away from the German front. They distrust the Nazis, and quite naturally they feel their interest lies in joining the German opposition. The religious issue seems to be the most important factor. Nearly every person interviewed admitted the Catholics’ attitude may determine the Saar’s future. The Catholics compose almost 5 per cent of the population. From the very beginning of Hitler’s difficulties wuth the Catholic church in Germany, Saar priests have denounced the Nazis’ intention to take the training of youths out of the church’s hands, and have condemned the supposed “heathen theology,” which is supposed to be behind the principles of Naziism. These denunciations have doubled since Hitler's “blood purge,” in which two prominent Catholics, Dr. Klausener and Dr. Probst, lost their lives.
DEADLY BUSHMASTER SNAKE IS CAPTURED BY RAYMOND DITMARS
By Lnited Press ST. THOMAS. Virgin Islands, Sept. '7.—Raymond L. Ditmars, curator of the New York Zoological Gardens, was en route to New York today carrying a Bushmaster snake, one of the world's most deadly reptiles. Dr. Ditmars has been seeking a specimen of the poisonous Bushmaster for years, but so far has been unable to get one back to New York alive. The snake, captured in Trinidad, was in good condition when Ditmars sailed for New York. The ship is due in New York Monday. The Bushmaster is one of the largest members of the rattlesnake family, often reaching a length of eight feet. The tail ends in a spine which makes a rustling sound, warning natives of its approach. The fangs are large and inject a fatal venom.
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/ Cover the World MU’ SIMMS TWENTY years ago today, two million men were battling bloodily before the gates of Paris and Verdun and along the far-flung terrain between, in one of the greatest battles of all time. It was the Battle of the Marne. It was fought during the week of Sept. 5 to 12. 1914 Its outcome changed the direction of thp whole world. It wiped out empires, toppled thrones, set up new kingdoms and republics, dragged in the United States and the full effects of it are not yet. I observed the ebb and flow of this battle from Paris, its objective, and from the field itself, with the troops of General Galheni, of "taxicab army” fame. During August the German army poured through Belgium in a tide which the Pranco-British forces
could no more stem than they could sweep back the sea with a broom. Sept. 1 saw the whole French, British and Belgian line in retreat southward, with the Germans in pursuit. By Sept. 2 the kaiser's legions were well on their way—past Lille, Valenciennes, the fortress of Mauberge. Mezieres, Montmedv and Longwy. General von Kluck was at Compiegne: General von Buelow was at Laon. Von Hausen had crossed the Aisne. The crown prince and the duke of Wurtemburg were thundering in the direction of the champagne county and the Argonne The Ger- y man Sixth and Seventh armies
were before Verdun, Toul, Epinal and Belfort. About midnight I visited the war office. In the shadows of the vast courtyard I saw army trucks backed up to the doors, while soldiers transferred archives from the buildings. The government was moving to Bordeaux! a a a ‘We Haven’t a Chance’ INSIDE, I was told in confidence there was no hope for Paris. At first they had debated turning the city over to the invaders without a fight. "We haven’t got a chance.” they explained. “And if we put up a fight the Bosch will destroy the Louvre, Notre Dame and all our priceless treasure.” The diplomatic corps went with the government —all but our Ambassador Myron T. Herrick. “I shall stay,” he said calmly. “Paris belongs to the world—not just to France. I shall stay behind and do what I can to save the world's heritage of beauty and art.” Within the French capital General Gallieni's form, tall, thin and gray, seemed everywhere at once. He objected to giving the city up without a fight and the government stood by him. He prepared for the siege. Through the gorgeous Bois de Boulogne, trees w r ere felled so the attackers could be mow'cd down by machine guns as they came across the open spaces. The trees were sharpened at the ends and set up as barricades. The press of France was calling on Joffre, French generalissimo, to save the country. Joffre made no reply to the public. To those about him and to the government he said: “I shall not fight until we reach the Pyrenees unless I feel my boys have a chance!” a a a ‘The Hour Has Conte ’ THE chance came Sept. 5. Von Kluck, marching on Paris, suddenly altered his plans. His men could see Eiffel tower. They could take the capital. But it would consume a few days. Meanwhile the retreating French army could reform its ranks, and counter-attack. That might prolong things. If the French army could be caught first, it could be annihilated. Instead of marching straight on Paris, Von Kluck turned eastward. He would smash the French center, cut the enemy in two. Like a bolt of lightning, however, something happened. Paris held two armies instead of one something the German high command did not know. There were the armies of General Gallieni and General de Maunoury. No sooner had Von Kluck turned his flank than Joffre saw his chance. “The hour has come,” his order read. “Advance at all costs or die where you stand rather than give way.” “At the same time General Foch messaged Joffre saying, in effect: “My right is broken; my left is falling back; my center can not hold; I attack!” The Germans were pounded all the way from Parts to Verdun. Gallieni hurled every ounce of his strength at Von Kluck’s exposed flank. Foch smacked with all his desperate strength at the German center, and there took place a head-on collision such as history probably never can surpass. For there the proud Prussian Guards were attacking, too! The end is history. Back and forth the titans fought, the Marne literally running red. But the Germans were licked. They were driven beyond the Aisne, leaving guns, munitions and vast numbers of dead.
Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN—
YOU may think your breakfast of sausages, waffles maple syrup is a good old American combination, but what would you think of eating gooseberry jam with stewed beef* Well, the Germans eat their combination and like it just as well as you like the mixture they think is funny. That’s just one example of peculiar food combinations which you can find the world over. It just proves that there's nothing in the argument which some food faddists offer against mixing food. The'se single-food exponents point to the example of animals, which never mix their foods. But, of course, these animals wilt eat almost any food mixture if you’ll only mix it for them. It is exceedingly difficult to weigh the exact facts as to the effects of various foods on the human being, principally because everything the human being eats is modified by his mental attitude. nan IN fact, it has been pointed out that man, with his complex psychology is the worse research animal in the world, his mental reactions toward food being almost as strong and disturbing as his reactions toward sex. Each time anew food substance is introduced, or any new method of cooking food is brought to light, somebody starts an argument against it, on the ground that it is responsible for disease. Cancer has been ascribed to the fact that we eat bread made from white flour, and also to the eating of tomatoes. The only reason for such belief is the fact that the cancer rate seems to have increased since the introduction of white bread and tomatoes, but the rate has also increased since the introduction of automobiles. The real reason is that cancer is a disease of advanced years and that more persons live longer than they used to. tt tt o IN the days of Queen Elizabeth in England, sugar was so expensive that only the queen herself could afford to buy it, and it was said that too much sugar caused the blackness of her teeth. In thos days potatoes were a curiosity. Today the British diet is still a rather limited one, so that Ambassador Page said that the English have many vegetables, most of them cabbage. In England 400 years ago there was no coffee, tea, or cocoa. Beer and wine were drunk for breakfast. There are certain very simple rules in relationship to diet. A mixed diet is essential. It should contain dairy foods, such as milk, butter, cheese, and eggs; garden produce, such as lettuce and green vegetables; and, last, food from the sea which will provide salts and minerals essential to human life and growth.
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