Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 104, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1934 — Page 9

SEPT. 10,1934.

/ (over the World WR PHiUP SIMMS 'll WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Soviet Russia’s entry W into the League of Nations, now virtually certain during the assembly sessions which began todav at Geneva, will change radically the political map of Europe and the Far East. 1. It will complete the encirclement of Nazi Germany by a ring of bayonets, 2 500.000 strong. 2. It will confront Hitler with two alternatives: either he must join the general security league proposed by France and Russia, else remain in the steel

stralghtjacket which Europe has forged about him. 3. It will line up all Europe on the side of Soviet Russia in event Japan attacks Siberia’s maritime provinces. 4. It even may affect America’s stand on the league. Russia may Join Great Britain in a move to modify articles 10 and 19 on the covenant sufficiently to gain the support of the United States. Ironically, in a sense, Russia may be said to be taking the place in the league of the two countries most affected thereby: Germany and Japan, both of which withdrew last

year in a hull. Once the Soviet union enters, she and France are expected to resume their drive to Locamo-ize Europe. Germany will be invited to participate. German’s western frontiers, likewise the frontiers of Belgium and France, are guaranteed by the 1925 Locarno treaties. Great Britain has pledged her aid to whichever side may become the victim of aggression. France and Russia now would enter a similar agreement with Germanv. Poland, the Little Entente and the Baltic states. Britam and Italy have given the scheme their blessing, even if nothing more concrete. a a a Putting Them “On the Spot ” If uermany enters such a pact the peace of Europe seems more assured than any time since the armistice. If she refuses, the first move on her part to hew her way out of the steel ring would find her facing two or three million troops. For Japan, no less than Germany, the league entry of Russia is a blow. Certain European powers still are more or less hostile to the soviet union. Among them is Great Britain, former ally of Japan. France, during the Manchurian invasion, winked at what Japan was doing. With Russia in the league, both Britain and France would find it difficult to turn a deaf ear to a Russian appeal should Japan invade Siberia. That Japan senses her growing isolation is clear. For while the cables were humming with news of Russia's preparations to Join the league which Japan flouted, dispatches announced Japan's determination to demand a navy second to none. Meanwhile the United States is planning to cooperate with the league more closely. Its latest move was to Join the league's labor body. Few believe America will join the league proper, however, as long as covenant Articles 10 and 16 stand. a a a .1 Bid for V. S. Support BUT a movement to modify the covenant is on foot. Great Britain Is the prime mover. Russia may join. Article 10 undertakes to preserve the territorial status quo of all members against external aggression. Article 16 makes an act of war against one member in violation of the covenant ipso facto an act of war against all other members. These clauses have been the principal obstacles in the way of American adherence. Britain bluntly refuses to live up to them and wants them modified. If observed, she admits, they would call for the use of her navy, very probably against the American navy. She is unwilling to risk that. Bringing Russia into the League is part of an effort to save the world peace organization. Admittedly It can not function properly without the United States. A league reorganization is a distinct possibility.

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

THE eighty-eighth meeting of the American I Chemical Society, which opens in Cleveland today. serves to remind us of the tremendous advances which chemistry has made in the last few years. But the fact remains that Mother Nature still has us beat when it comes to the practices of chemistry. The late Dr. Edwin E. Slosson once commented upon how fortunate we would be if we knew as much chemistry as a tree. A tree takes the carbon dioxide of the air and the water of the soil and with the aid of sunlight turns them into sugars and starches. If w r e knew as much chemistry as a tree, we could duplicate this process, know technically as photosynthesis, and manufacture our foodstuffs in factories instead of growing them on the farm. Thus freed from the cycle of the soil, we would no longer be worried by droughts or harried by overabundant or insufficient harvests. The tiny organisms of the ocean know more chemistry than we do. Certain chemical elerpents are present in sea water in concentrations of less than a fraction of a part in a million. Yet these tiny creatures of the sea. requiring these chemical elements for their growth, are able to absorb them from the sea water and to concentrate them within their own bodies. m m IT is true that man has begun to catch up with nature. Thus, for example, it is well known that photosynthesis is only possible in plants which contain a green coloring or pigment known as chlorophyl. Many studies are going on into the nature of this complex chemical substance. Not long before he was made president of Harvard university. Professor James Bryant Conant was awarded the Nichols medal by the American Chemical Society for his researches into the nature of chlorophyl. Thanks to the work of Professor Hans Fischer of Munich and Professor Conant. we know now that chlorophyl is really a mixture of four substances, two green pigments, known as chlorophyl A and chlorophyl B and two yellow pigfnents. It is further know that the basis of all four pigment ta a substance called porphyrin. Professor Conant has shown that chlorophyl A is based on combinations of porphyrin with two hydrogen atoms while in cholorophyl B the hydrogen atoms are replaced with an oxygen atom. With respect to the ocean and its chemical content mankind also is making progress. Bromine is now extracted from sea water at a plant built by the Ethyl-Dow Chemical Company at Kure Beach, some twenty miles south of Wilmington, N. C. m m m THE surface of the earth is about three-fourths ocean, but the constitution of the ocean is still one of the major chemical mysteries. Dr. Paul S. Galtsoff of the United States bureau of fisheries points out that we still have much to learn about i*he subject. There are at least thirty-two chemical elements present in sea water. Many of them are present in such minute amounts that ordinary chemical analysis will not reveal their presence. However, spectroscopic analysis proves that they are present. Among the elements present only in minute traces, but which are conc|ntrated by marine organisms in their own bodies, are iron, copper, zinc, iodine, vanadium, vanum and boron. These are concentrated and stored in the bodies of fishes, mollusks. shrimp and other animals and plants. Dr. Galtsoff says.

Questions and Answers

Q—What color are the most valued sapphires? A— The value of the sapphire increases with the depth of the color up to the limit .of translucency, the moat prized specimens having a cornflower- blue UnL

Thl* t tk Aril of thr- illominmtin* on Huey Lon* and the eriai* he fare, in Louisiana', jrlmary tomorrow, written by a New Orteana newspaperman tborouihly familiar with Lor* spectacular eareer alnee It* be*innin*. BV JAMES E. CROWN City Editor. New Orleans State* Written for SEA Serrlro NEW ORLEANS. La.. Sept. 10— Senator Huey P. Long is swinging every ounce of his Dower against his opposition to win .he New Orleans primary tomorrow. He is employing all his skill in the air and on paper, all his control over the men of his machine, and all the intimidation he can throw against the people generally, with armed men in uniform and out of it, to emerge victorious. If he can go to the next opening of congress with this victory to his credit, and if he can show by a triumph in New Orleans that he has whipped the entire state into line—for he does not believe any part of Louisiana would oppose him if he wins this fight—he hopes to be able to smother any attack against him in Washington, where he is expecting trouble in the senate. The federal income tax investigation is pressing close to him and his principal appointees. Back of the ordering of troops to New Orleans; back of the special session of the legislature, with its amazing measures to snatch local government control from all communities in this state and put the power in his hands; back of the determination to throw a horde of armed deputies into every voting place in Louisiana, and back of his defiance of the courts, is Long's battle plan which he has consistently followed since he announced his intentions after winning the governorship in 1928.

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To Colonel Robert Ewing, political war lord and owner of newspapers in New Orleans and Shreveport, the man who made Long politically, Long said a few weeks before lie entered the governor's mansion: “I'm good for thirty years. Four years as Governor; I can't succeed myself under the laws of the state, but I can put in a dummy when my term is over, and go to the United States Senate; then back as Governor again, with a dummy in the senate; and repeat. “Thirty fat and juicy years, and when I'm 60, I can travel around the world and enjoy myself." This was before his break with Ewing. a a a THE first third of the program is nearly accomplished, and Long is laying his plans now to take the governorship in 1936. The present junior s°vator from Louisiana, John H. Overton, gives Long no w'orries, and he can find another man as his successor who will jump to his master’s voice like all the other Long jobholders. And so on, the cycle to be repeated twice more. The federal government on the one hand is pushing its income tax investigation against Long with all the resources at its command, and on the other, Long has suffered enormous loss of prestige among the people to whom his word was formerly the inspired voice of the temple.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.— Confidential reports reaching naval and military circles indicate that Japan will denounce the Washington and London naval treaties In late November. This means that the arms race is on in full force. In preparation, the navy already has made some surveys of Guam, Midway and other Pacific islands as air bases. They make natural stepping stones to the Philippines. . . . Mrs. Nye, wife of the youthful Senator from North Dakota, keeps a watchful eye on her husband. During the munitions investigation she noticed that he had run out of cigarets. She passed up a cigaret case, later sent out for a fresh package. . . . Ihe hand of the munitions investigation committee was forced by lack of funds.

It had not intended staging its first session until next spring. However, the senate budget committee was going to shut off the investigation with almost no funds, so the committee decided to give the public a brief glimpse of the munitions racket, whet its thirst for more. n n n NO strike in history has had such an efficient publicity office as textile strike headquarters in Washington. It has forced the textile employers to hire Bill Lawson away from the NRA publicity bureau at a fat salary. . . It is a fact that old line A. F. of L. leaders were opposed vigorously to the textile strike. They were afraid they could not hold their workers in line. The issue was forced by the rank and file. Up until near the strike’s zero hour, textile employers thought labor was bluffing. Also the employers were strengthened by the fact that a large textile surplus was on hand. They had been asking the NRA for a short shutdown in order to clear up reserves. The strike is giving it to them . . . Privately, members of the National Labor Board express surprise that so many workers have struck. They estimate the walkout at 50 per cent, believe this will increase. Reason for the expected increase is the fact that skilled machinists have struck. Upon them, unskilled labor is largely dependent. nan THE $950,000,000 voted to the FERA for unemployment relief last February is running low. Less than $100,000,000. insufficient to cover October demands, remains. This does not mean, however. that federal aid is in danger either of drying up or being slashed. Under the $899,675,000 PWA and RFC deficiency appropiration act passed in the closing days of the last session, the President has the power to allocate any portion of this fund he deems necessary to the FERA. . . . No matter how hot the weather, gruff, brusk-mannered United States Supreme Court Justice Jam-s C. Mcßeynolds wears long leather gauntlets when driving his car. They protect his wrists from sunburn. . . . Politics is a queer game. While northern Tory Republicans, led by Delaware s Senator Daniel O. Hastings, are lambasting the administration's TV A project as socialistic, many Republican candidates in the soutn are running on platforms acclaiming it. Marguerite A. LeHand, President Roosevelt's private stenog- • rapher. has been with him so many years and knows his style of letter writing so well that he turns many letters over to her to prepare answers with the simple direction noted on them. *yes” or “no.” . . . The FACA is making a quiet investigation of reports that certain liquor manufacturers, brewers, and wholesale dealers are combining in minimum price compacts. This is contrary to the law. . . . Indiana's senator, Lil Arthur Robinson, old deal Republican, who seemed certain of defeat last spring, now is given a fifty-fifty chance of re-election. . . . Na-

THE REAL KINGFISH OF LOUISIANA

Huey Long Wields Every Weapon to Avert Ruin in Election

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

The money is running out—the hundred million dollar bond issues of the state and of the parishes, the spending of which Long controlled either by his own fiat or through court house cliques. a a a WITHOUT money, he can not hold his voting ranks firm. This Is the reason for his attack and his raising of the vice-graft battle cry in New Orleans. There is plenty of vice, gambling, and what have you in New Orleans, but there Is plenty of the same in the adjoining parishes of St. Bernard and Jefferson. which are part of the city in every sense except a political one. These are two Long strongholds, the last of his mighty camps in the state, with reported voting registrations greater than the entire population as given in the United States census. Long has not turned a finger to stop the gambling, etc., in Jefferson and St. Bernard; and he will cease to throw troops and investigating committees into New Orleans when and if he reduces this city to his vassalage. ana IN Louisiana his influence today stacks up like this: Third congressional district; Numa Montet, a Long man, sure to win. But Montet has quarreled with Long and may break with him. Fourth district; John N. Sand-

tional Democratic leaders have taken his name off their private list of certain defeats, and have put him in the doubtful column. (Copvrißht. 1934. by United Fe&viire Syndicate. Inc.l MISSION'S CAMPAIGN BOARD HOLDS SESSION Luncheon Held at Columbia Club; Frank Flanner Host. First meeting of men and women leading the campaign to establish a tuberculosis hospital for advanced patients, sponsored by the Indianapolis Flower Mission, was to be held in the Columbia Club at a luncheon today with Frank B. Flanner, campaign chairman, as host. Guests were to include Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, members of the city health board. Flower mission directors, advisory board members and other representative citizens. Dr. John G. Benson, Methodist hospital, superintendent, was to be the keynote speaker. Other speakers were to include Arthur V. Brown, Mrs. David Ross, Mr. Flanner and William J. Mooney Sr.

BANKERS TO PRACTICE PISTOL MARKSMANSHIP Many Expected to Attend Vigilante State Shoot. Indiana bankers will practice pistol marksmanship in their war against bank bandits, it was announced today by the Indiana Bankers' Association. Many bankers are expected to attend the vigilante state shoot at Ft. Benjamin Harrison Sept. 20th, when the Eleventh ihfantry will conduct a competition between county units. Hundreds of vigilantes, now scattered in practically every county of the state, are developing proficiency in the use of firearms as an aid to police authorities. Cups and medals will be awarded winning contestants. RUTH BRYAN OWEN TO SPEAK AT WAWASEE Indiana Women's Democratic Club to Hear Ambassador. The Indiana Women’s Democratic I Club will hold its annual fall meeting at the Spink Wawasee hotel, Lake Wawasee. the week-end of Sept. 22 and 23 with Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen. United States ambassador to Denmark, as the principal speaker. All state candidates have been invited and will.be asked to speak, according to Mrs. Timothy P. Sexton, club president, who announced today that reservations should be made through the hotel manage- ! ment. Mission Drive Indorsed Indorsement of the Indianapolis 1 Flower Mission's campaign for ! funds for a tuberculosis hospital to I care for patients in an advanced stage of the disease has been given bv the Indianapolis Community Fund, through David Liggett, manager. <

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

THE KINGFISH as caricatured by Clyde Lewis

lin, anti-Long candidate, already conceded to be the winner. Fifth district; Joseph Riley Wilson, anti-Long, will win. Sixth district: Jared Y. Sanders Jr., bitter anti-Long candidate, unopposed. Seventh district is in doubt, but the anti-Long forces are now in the majority. Eighth district: Cleveland Dear, anti-Long, is practically in the bag. Long now is centering his guns upon the First and Second districts, comprising New Orleans and St. Bernard and Jefferson parishes. If he can pull his men, Joseph Fernandez and Paul Malo-

ROOSEVELT'S SON IS SAFE ON YACHT TRIP 30 Coast Guard Craft Join in Search. By United Press PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 10.— President Roosevelt’s eldest son James was safe ashore here today after an adventure at sea that gave his father and the eastern seaboard a few hours of anxiety for his safety. A veteran yachtsman despite his 26 years, younf? Roosevelt thought it “all very silly” that thirty coast guard craft searched for him. Late last night the Black Arrow, fiftyfive foot craft which he and five companions were competing in the Cruising Club of America race, nosed into Portland harbor, minus one sail but otherwise unharmed by a northeastern gale that drove her far off her course during the race. MISSIONARY TO TALK AT CHURCH SESSION Dr. R. T. Capen Among Speakers at Baptist Parley. Dr. R. T. Capen, missionary to Swatow, South China, will be among the speakers at the 108th annual session of the Indianapolis Association of Baptist Churches tomorrow and Wednesday, it was announced today. Dr. Capen is visiting his sister, Mrs. Lucy Mayo, 1609 Broadway. The Rev. O. R. McKay and the Rev. George B. Billeison will speak during the opening ceremonies. Others taking part will be the Rev. R. H. Lindstrom, the Rev. O. A. Cook and the Rev. Franklin Crutchelow. At the women’s program tomorrow afternoon Miss Ollie B. Owens and Miss Susan Ferguson of South India will speak.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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ney, out of the fire, Long will have a chance to rebuild his political machine. a a a TO do this, he is counting on the swollen vote of St. Bernard and Jefferson parishes, for he won’t get much more than his pay roll vote in New Orleans. If Long can swing these two elections, he believes that the horrible example of what happens to secessionists from his empire will drive the entire state back into his control. Since he was 18, Long has denounced the New Orleans ring. He won his first office on this platform, with the support of Colonel

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP ana a a a By Ruth Finney

Today’s National Roundup has been written by Lee G. Miller of The Times’ Washington staff. Ruth Finney is on va cation. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—The Leticia affair, which brought Peru and Colombia to the brink of war, has provided an instructive “case history” for the senate’s students of the munitions trade. Evidence so far discloses that while Secretary of State Stimson was sounding stern warnings to Peru about “treaty obligations,” the United States government was lending realistic assistance to both nations in the dispute.

The Leticia episode dates from Sept. 1, 1932, when 300 Peruvians seized, without their government’s sanction, the obscure village of Leticia in the upper reaches of the Amazon. Leticia was the property of Colombia. Colombians flamed with rage. Peruvians paraded in celebration. The Peruvian government, unable to restrain its citizenry, yielded to their enthusiasm and eight weeks later regular Peruvian troops occupied Leticia. nan SENATOR BENNETT CLARK (Dem., Mo.) asserted at the munitions inquiry that a United States naval mission, which had been sent to Peru some years earlier, meanwhile had worked out a “war game” for the instruction of its Peruvian “pupils.” The war game, said Senator Clark, obviously was designed for applications the Leticia area. Colombia found out about it and protested to the United States, Senator Clark said. The naval mission also had been active in convincing Peruvians of the merits of the submarines made by the Electric Boat Company of New' York. But Peru was not alone in receiving American aid. According to testimony Friday, Commodor James H. Strong, CJ. S. N., had been authorized by the navy department to advise

Ewing, who was also fighting the ring. Later, Long's country influence waned, and he needed New Orleans to bolster his power. Hence his coalition with the ring a few years’ ago. But the coalition didn't work out as well for Long as he had hoped. In Alexandria, he was egged. Throughout the country, defection continued —and increased. Long determined to break with the city, and raised the age-old issue of country vs. city. How does Long keep his men in line—men whom he calls “sacks of potatoes" with a known market price? At least five state senators have six relatives each on the state pay rolls. Seven senators have four relatives each on them. Nine senators have two to three each there. In some instances, the family of a senator drags down $1,400 a month from the state pay rolls. a a a THIS fight In New Orleans is Custer's last stand for Long. In his desperation, he forced Governor O. K. Allen to declare partial marital law, and for a month the national guard has been quartered in the registration office, heavily armed. Long flouted the courts when they ruled that this was unconstitutional. He threatened to seize City Hall, and the mayor armed 500 special policemen and marched them into the citadel. Then Long drove his “Cossack” bill through the special session of the legislature—a bill that authorizes the state machine to put special deputies in the voting places, the freight to be paid by the communities. On this, many communities in Louisiana are today in a state of revolt. also drove through a bill to investigate the city government of New Orleans, and its alleged graft, and had himself appointed prosecutor. He says the board will meet under national guard protection, and says, “To hell with the courts.” There is no doubt he will find the worst kind of vice conditions in New Orleans. “I am the state,” he says. “I am the Investigating committee, the Governor, everything else; I am the constitution!” NEXT—The real Huey Long. And how he got that way.

Colombia on ordnance purchases in this country. On Dec. 2, 1932, three months after the Leticia raid, Commander Strong filed a detailed report with Colombia's consul general in New York City concerning plans for the defense of Cartagena, Baranquilla and other Colombian ports against Peru’s United States-built submarines and other warcraft. nan \ BOUT the same time it was brought out the Driggs Ordnance and Engineering Company of New York acquired the yacht Flying Fox, and had her remodeled and armed with three-inch guns as a river gunboat for Colombia. It was in January, 1933, that Mr. Stimson, in a strong note, warned Peru about her treaty obligations to respect Colombia’s territory. The next month Peruvian and Colombian outposts clashed, and a Lima mob attacked the Colombian legation. The arms business was looking up. The Driggs company dispatched its sleek Latin salesman, Alfred J. Miranda Jr., to Bogota to look after Colombia's needs. In June a League of Nations commission arrived to take over Leticia pending a settlement —and in the same month two river boats built by the Electric Boat Company at its Groton plant were delivered secretively to Peru —without ceremony lest it “alarm the Quakers in the United States.” Colombia called for 14.000 recruits and a Czech general arrived to help against Peru. Loans w r ere floated by both countries. It looked like another Chaco. Not until May of this year, when the two nations finally were brought together in a peace treaty, did this promising munitions boom collapse. DEMOCRATIC CLUB TO MEET ON WEDNESDAY First Ward Club to Feature Speeches of Candidates. Regular Wednesday night mass meetings featured by speeches of candidates will be offered by the First Ward Democratic Club, 2332 North Station street, begininng at 8 Wednesday. Regular Friday night card parties will be inaugurated at 8 Sept. 26. Officers of the club are Guy O. Ross, president; George H. Adams, vicepresident; Cora Wilson, secretary, and M. W. Basey, treasurer. DUTIES ARE OUTLINED Conciliation Commissioners Addressed by Judge Baltzell. Duties of the new conciliation commissioners have been outlined to them by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. The commissioners are to act in saving the homes of citizens threatened with mortgage foreclosure. A commissioner serves from sach county. v-.• ' , ■

Fair Enough j Him POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Sept. 10. When th® White House goes on the road so to speak, the production Is a capsule version of the standard Washington show. Those who go along, naturally, are members of the original Washington cast, but the road-show is much more compact in all departments. There are only about a dozen newspaper writers in the present troupe, for example, whereas In Washington, the attendance at the Boss’ press conferences runs nigh onto a hundred. Among the dozen or so journalists in the

present cast are young men from the Chicago Tribune and the Wall Street Journal, two publications which have seemed to find a small trace of fault with the New Deal from time to time until their editorials have been grossly misinterpreted. It would be an exaggeration to say that they are the toast of the party, although you could not detect any actual unfriendliness toward them. Nevertheless, in a company which generally is In love with the Roosevelts, there is bound to be a feeling that

such parties are erring brothers if not wilfully wrong-minded mercenaries who nibble the bread of shame. There would be a hallelujah service with loud shouts of "yea. brother” in the tap-room of the new Old Nelson house if either of these sinners ever should cast out the devil and break into print with a complete profession of the religion of the New Deal and unreserved acceptance of the Boss. The new Old Nelson house is the office and living quarters of the minor principals and spear carriers of the cast. By an odd circumstance, the new Old Nelson house for about ten days last spring was the hiding place of old Gerard Machado, the fugitive President of Cuba. General Machado lived in two ordinary rooms on the third floor and took all his meals in his quarters. a a a But the Boss Made Good THE offices of the White House road company are below the late quarters of the ex-president of Cuba. There is a switchboard in charge of a lady named Hackmeister or Hacky, who maintains service twenty-four hours a day with the help of one assistant. They shut the board at bedtime and Hacky plugs in a buzzer beside her bed. She gets much traffic through the board and some curious night calls. There was a call on the buzzer In the middle of the night, for instance, from somebody in Arkansas who wanted to speak to Mr. Roosevelt personally, and wanted him to pay the tolls. The telephone calls are strained pretty fine through the office of the Marvin Mclntyre, the Boss’ political secretary and shock-absorber. Mr. Mclntyre is a skinny little party about as wide as a number 1 who never goes to bed. There was a short spell there when they accepted a few long distance calls and telegrams, collect, from individuals around the country appealing directly to the Boss to save their farms and homes. That was the time he went on the air and said, In effect, “If you get in a jam, come direct to me.” He overspoke himself there for a lot of people took him at his word, but the Boss made good and there was a many a case in which a farm or home was snatched from the sheriff within a couple of hours after the appeal came to the White House. nun Just a Skeleton Crew M’INTYRE always is on the phone or answering letters or telling the journalists how it is about this or that. They constantly are receiving hot tips from their shops and looking up Mac to ask him. Asa rule he can answer one way or another, himself, but sometimes he will go out to the big house and put it up to the Boss. Henry Kannee is Mclntyre's shock-absorber. Jules Roddier works in the same room running the direct telegraph wire to the White House. Miss Grace 1 Tully is secretary to the President’s personal secretary, Marguerite Lehand. Mrs. Mary Eben is secretary to Mrs. Roosevelt’s personal secretary, Schreiber. Perhaps in Washington the secretaries to the secretaries have secretaries of their own, but this is a skeleton crew. Together they handle from one to three pouches of mail a day, sifted from many more pouches reaching the White House, and a miscellaneous jumble mailed direct to Poughk66psic> I hesitate to deglamorize the job of the United States secret service, but the fact is that much of this duty consists of ordinary night-watchmanship, around a quiet, darkened house. The more quiet it is and the more monotonous and unglamorous the task the better they are getting along in their work. A utility outfielder gets more chances at bat than a secret service man. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health BX UR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

THE problem of appendicitis continues to be one of the most serious of the conditions coming to attention of the medical profession. Indeed, in Philadelphia, special arrangements are now being made so that every bottle of any cathartic bears a special label warning the user not to take a laxative or a phjsic in the presence of abdominal pain, and not to give anything by mouth until the family doctor has been called and until he has had a chance to advise the proper procedure. Any pain in the abdomen or any cramps or soreness that lasts for four hours usually is serious. The diagnosis of appendicitis is difficult in children, who are likely to suffer with abdominal pains because of indiscretions of diet. Moreover, the appendix in a child is somewhat thinner and contains more lymphoid tissue than does that of the adult, so that appendicitis in a child is a more sudden and acute process than it is in the adult. a a a FOR this reason an early and correct diagnosis of the cause of abdominal pain in a child is much more important than in an adult. In many cases the appendix has broken and peritonitis has followed in a child, because some careless parent has given a large dose of castor oil to relieve colicky pains. Appendicitis has been found in babies soon after birth. The number of deaths from appendicitis during the first three years of life is high, in proportion to the rate associated with appendicitis later in life. It is well known to the medical profession that the chance of recovery from appendicitis after operation is much greater when the infection is limited to the appendix itself. Removal of the appendix at this stage will yield recovery in almost 100 per cent of cases. a a a THE great danger comes when the appendix breaks and the infected material is spilled in the abdominal cavity, setting up the condition known as peritonitis. Under such circumstances the chance of recovery is much less. The chance of recovery from appendicitis is also much less when the child happens to be suffering from heart disease, kidney inflammation, bronchitis or any infectious disease. Do not try to treat every pain in the abdomen of your child by administering a cathartic. The right procedure is to apply heat or cold to relieve the pain and to call a physician. The doctor makes his diagnosis on the presence of such symptoms as severe vomiting. fever f nausea and severe pain in the abdomen localized over the appendix, and changes in the blood which are found by examination of the blood under a microscope. The safety of the child depends on an early and correct diagnosis of the condition and on an operation while inflammation still is definitely limited to the appendix Itself.

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