Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 115, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1934 — Page 7

SEPT. 22, 1934

It Seems to Me HEVWOOD BROUN • A\N numerous occasions i have expressed regret at rry footloose freedom In regard to politics. Up till now I never have been a Republican. Such an alignment seems distinctly unlikely. Human nature hardly impels anybody to leap into a sinking, onehorse bandwagon. But I must admit that through the swing of the years I have been both Socialist and Democrat and single taxer. In addition, I have been much moved by the economic philosophy of Edward Bellamy. With such a background the best I can do is to toe the mark and remain ready to leap in any direction. And even so I am willing to bet 100 to 1 against myself that I anil not turn to the right. And yet there are soma attractions in the lane which slants in that direction. Even a columnist or an

idiot boy has a right to say, "I want to be a Republican because there is such an excellent chance that the party will nominate me for President.” According to my recollection It Seems to Me” once or twice has voiced the opinion that radical leadership in the United States is something less than inspired. May I now make a public apology to all left wing lieutenants by saying. ' Boys, I do not think any one within your group is either Lenin or Trotsky, but I must admit that you tower like a sore . ove your foes upon ♦ h-* right” There are joys in be-

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ing Red and other benefits reserved for white guardsmen so the most pitiful position in which a man can find himself is the estate of being pink I'm pink politically. Within the next twelve months I trust my color will either heighten or fade. As far as selfish interest goes, it would be of advantage to become a convinced conservative. In such an army one might enlist as private and within a fortnight be field marshal of the whole caboodle. a a a The Vole: For and Against OURELY there must an enormous amount of room at the top in a sect whose titular leader is Herbert Clark Hoover. Dir-hard Republicans please write. There is nothing quite so amazing as the dumb-headedness of reactionary leadership. There have been moments <and I anticipate others), in which the radical Reveres did not seem to be riding ?n intelligent race but at least they did not direct their mounts to fall precisely in the middle of the water jump. May I be specific for a change. Consider California. In that large state, Upton Sinclair has scored an amazing primary victory. There is a distinct possibility that he will win in the election. It has b* • n :-aid here and there that Upton should be kem| out of office on the ground that his record betrav* him as an impractical visionary. Now the fact is that Mr. Sinclair, with the possible exception of Bernard Shaw, is the most successful author in the world today. I don't mean that he has the most money because that is a poor way in which to determine success. I am contending that Upton Sinclair not only has the talent but the organizing abiliry to put his printed words before a greater audience than any other American author ever known. Has that result been achieved because every word that Sinclair sets down is tinged with living fire? Don t be silly. He has made his obeisance to the great god tripe like every other prolific author. But under the most severe appraisement. Upton Sinclair is a world figure running against a meager, meaningless, hack politician. Certain people in California may vote against Sinclair. Nobody is going to vote for Merriam. There isn't enough surface outside his collar to enable the most enthusiastic follower to get a fingerhold. m m n He's Innocent—Rut a Radical! BUT though the Republicans of .he Golden. State have offered a dumb bunny up for the sacrificial altar they still might step in and make him do smart things which never were within his comprehension. Why can t Merriam's handlers realize that one of the most salient points In the Sinclair program is the promise to release Tom Mooney? Mr. Merriam. for the moment, is in the fortunate position of being the Governor of California. He knows as well as everybody else does that there is not the slightest possibility of Tom Mooney being guilty of the crime for which he was convicted. In all probability Mr. Merriam. like other native sons, is saying. * He didn't do it. but he is a violent radical and jail is the best place for him.'' Mooney has been heroic in his refusal to meet am nibbling suggestion that he might go free and k> op his mouth shut. I haven't a doubt that when hr -lets out be will speak his mind severely and quite plainly. The present indications are that his freedom will come through a Sinclair triumph. And what a sucker Merriam is. The jitters of the great and majestic state of California are directed toward a prisoner who has become, because of his beliefs, an old man and a veteran prison inmate. Does California really think he could raise the whirlwind? I wish it were true. I doubt it. And if I were an insignificant and feeble and ineffectual Republican candidate for the governorship of Calii the first thing I would rush to do in order to magnify myself would be to order the release of Thomas Mooney. iCopyrieht. 1934. bv The Timest

Your Health —BY UR. .MORRIS FISHBEIN —

CARE of the babys tooth involves, first of all, care of the mothers teeth during the period before her baby is born. The care of the mother s teeth during this time will provide her with a suitable diet for both her and her child. Calcification of the first set of the baby's teeth begins during the fourth and fifth months before its birth. Good teeth, therefore, are determined largely before a child is born. Since most babies depend on their mothers for nourishment during the period of early infancy, as well as before birth, much depends on how the mother feeds during the nursing period. Her diet must contain bone and tooth substances, such as | calcium and phosphorus, and the necessary vitamins for making calcium and phosphorus available to the baby. MM* THE chief sources of calcium and phosphorus martenal are milk, leafy vegetables, fruit juices, w hole-gram cereals, eggs, cheese and nuts. Milk is by far the best source of the necessary minerals. Evidence developed by investigators shows that calcium is not stored in the body, and that it must be supplied daily in the diet or harm will result to the bones and teeth. In rase children are artificially fed. instead of being fed on mother's milk, their diets must include i these same substances in adequate amounts. Since the human being can eat onlv a certain amount of food at any one time, it is necessary to avoid pastries, highly spiced foods, too much tea and coffee and large amounts of meat in order that adequate amounts of spinach grapefruit, cauliflower, peas, fruits, string beans, carrots, beets, celery and asparagus may be taken. M M M IF the baby is breast fed, the body of its mother , selects suitable substances for the mother's milk. ' so that it gets the right materials. There is no better food for babies than mother s milk. Care of the mouths of babies for protection of j their teeth does not involve a great deal of attention. If the baby is well and if it gets the right food and plenty of water, its mouth will need little if any attention until the first teeth appear. After that its gums and teeth may be wiped off daily with a soft clean cloth dipped in water, to which a pinch of salt has been added. This should be done exceedingly gently. After the eighteenth month, the teeth may be brushed daily with a small tooth bruish and. as soon as the child is old enough. It should be taught to brush its own teeth.

DREAMS OF GREAT CITY BEACH

Park on White River May Come for Indianapolis in Near Future

BY ARCH STF.INEL Time* Stiff Writer Thousands lie on white river beach. Hundreds of motpr cars pass on the levee boulevards, above the beach, and park or move casually in the line of traffic viewing the bathers. A nearby canal adds the snort of a motorboat to the cries of the beach bathers. Canoes ply in the wake of the boats. See that depression the other side of that levee driveway—? Well, deep down there, there's a ball game. Over there you can see the white shorts of tennis players, and, yonder, groves of trees hold picnickers. You can see all of this if you’ll drive along west White River parkway and view the public works project between the West Michigan street bridge and the Tenth street river crossing. That is. you can see it if you're giften with a vision into the future and can feel for yourself the possibilities that the present flood control project has as a future city park in Indianapolis. And, you can see it doubly well if Albert F. Walsman. member of the Indiana state tax board, happens to accompany you and explain his idea of how Indianapolis, inland city, could out-do Chicago in the way of bathing beaches. Where emergency relief men now merely build levees to prevent possible flood disaster on uninhabited land that once was a city dump Mi'. Walsman sees the possibility ol turning that project to the good o* Indianapolis residents and of giving the city its first real bathing beach and park for aquatic sports. n n u “rpHE city owns, I am told, all X that acreage between West Michigan and Tenth street adjacent to the city and state hospitals,” says Mr. Walsman, “and that means that the first cost, purchase of property, would be unnecessary. “Wa re doing flood control work now under public works on that very land. Then, why not convert the land to a benefit to taxpayers and citizens of Indianapolis?” he asks. He points out how the leveees now under construction could be widened for motor car roadways. He sees, in a mere hole in the White river bank, purling water from the river fed in through gates at the Tenth street bridge with an outlet at the West Michigan street bridge, or farther downstream. He sees swimmers basking on artificial beaches. He sees the water purified before it is poured into the beaches made possible by the picks and shovels of men who would have been in the ranks of

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

WASHINGTON. Sept. 22.—At the rate of half a million dollars a day, week after week, for -twelve months, checks have been leaving Washington to cotton farmers, first for plowing up the 1933 crop, later for planting less cotton in 1934. No innovation under the New Deal has been more foreign to the traditional theory of American laissez-faire economics. And probably no other agricultural innovation has come in for closer study by the agricultural department itself.

To learn the effect of the cotton reduction program, various agricultural investigators have traveled south. Among these were Mordecai Ezekiel, economic adviser of the department, and even Henry Wallace, himself. Wallace gt no farther south than North Carolina, but he came bark with a picture of poverty among tenant farmers which haunted his memory for months. Another study was made by his department as to what became of the cotton checks. How did the tenant farmer spend his windalls? Are cotton farmers in favor go lor back debts or pay for overalls Are cotton farmers in favor of the crop reduction plan? Do they want it continued? a a u TO answer these and other questions, letters were sent to several hundred farmers in one Oklahoma cotton area. The replies were almost unanimous in favor of the plan, and almost equally unanimous that none of the cotton checks was wasted. "I am collecting rents from more than three hundred farmers in Coal county,” wrote Patsy Greenan, a real estate agent of Coalgate. Okla., “and I know that 95 per cent of them that plowed up cotton used every dollar they got to pay obligations and to buy the actual necessities isic> of life. I don't know of a single one that used the money for the purchase of intoxicating drink or spent it for anything foolishly.” Similar testimony came from a merchant in Mangum. Okla. “A man. wife and seven children came in and bought a complete change of clothes for the family. Seventy per cent of the clothing sold to farmers with cotton checks went for work clothes. My business has taken a 140 per cent increase in the last year." “In regard to what I spent for plow-up cotton." wrote G. E. Boston of Adair. Okla.. “I paid $7 for a doctor bill, $lB 50 for one horse. $13.73 for clothes. $4.26 for clothes. $12.50 for government taxes, and $2 for a ton of coal. The rest of the money was spent for flour and anybody doubting me having plowed up my cotton are welcome to come and investigate.” n m • THE area in which this survey was made, however, represents a more stable class of fartiers than the average tenant in the cotton areas farther east. In Mississippi. Alabama. Louisiana, the proportion of indebtedness has been higher, the number of tenants that have roved on to other areas has been greater. Which illustrates that no problem. outside the rain of criticism received from old dealers, has troubled Henry Wallace and his brain trusters as much as that of the growing army of footloose tenants wandering through the south today. For the easiest way for a landowner to reduce acreage is to send a couple of croppers down the road. And one fact which worries , | T

the unemployed had it not been for government funds. ‘ Grass growing on the sides of those barren levees with a wellpaved road topping them is just as good flood control work as those big hunks of earth you see over there now,” Mr. Walsman points out. ‘ The difficulty now, with our rivers, low from the drought, is to keep them at the proper stage. Inland beaches along the banks would serve as water reservoirs as well as a flood control measure. “The river always would have some place to go—and that place would be a bathing beach, where it would do the most good to a suffering populace.” “That place is treeless now, but you can transplant trees twenty feet tall. Men need jobs, don’t they?” nan IT Is Mr. Walsman's belief that recreation is linked fundamentally with the future planned by President Roosev.elt for humanity in the earning of its daily bread. Back of this White river park beach and playground, he sees rising modern, well-lighted buildings, taking the place of hovels and tin-can homes now along White river, and north of Colton street to the rear of Crispus Attucks high school. In these sections now poverty sits on every rickety stoop. Homes pride themselves more on the color of the rags stuffed in broken windows to keep out inclement weather than in paint. Dejection and apathy flower there instead of geraniums. Children play in streets. Two girls, batting a balloon back and forth, narrowly escaped being struck by Mr. Walsman’s car as they played in their only yard —the street. “All of this ought to be out of here,” Mr. Walsman said. “I believe under the fededal housing project it will come out. I understand options have been taken by the government on some of this land.” “Yon can see what a beach and a park would mean for these people—and for all of Indianapolis. Tourists coming into the city now get merely a view of a lot of dirt and some business buildings far in the distance. “But, if that were made a park,” he continued as his car rolled to a stop on the parkway, “they’d see well-kept lawns, boulevards, beaches, playgrounds and numerous canals with boats upon them. In the background, they'd see decent living quarters instead of ramshackle homes. “What would a flood do? “Well, if White river ever got

them is the Communist propaganda which is being sown along the road among both white and Negro croppers. The latter have 1 been especially susceptible to radicalism. Many croppers prefer the indolent dependence they have always known to an independence won only by aggressive industry. It is dangerous and uneconomic, but it is true. FERA relief rolls in the south show that it is true, show that the AAA has a problem which will test its most ingenious brain truster for a solution. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) MEDIC BOOKS DONATED Sixty-Seven Volumes Presented to Indiana University. The gift of sixty-seven medical volumes, twenty-seven issues of the American Medical Association Journal and a large number of assorted medical publications to the Indiana university medical school, was announced today by Allen Hendricks, librarian. Dr. Guy W. Seaton, 3015 North Capitol avenue, school lecturer and graduate, was the donor. FRATERNITY PIN FOUND Youth Nabbed Trying to Sell Stolen Emblem, Police Say. A jeweled fraternity pin, taken from the home of Mrs. A. W. Joy, 937 East Forty-second street, was recovered yesterday as police arrested James Lloyd, 17. of 512 West Pearl street, while, police said, he was trying to sell the emblem at a loan office. Lloyd, who is being j held on vagrancy charges, toldppoi lice that he and two other youths i found the pin yesterday in the ! statehouse. CODE OFFICIAL NAMED City Man Chosen Permanent Head of Authority. L. J. Keach. 4311 Broadway, head of the James L. Keach commission j firm, yesterday at Chicago was : named chairman of the permanent code authority directing the compliance of the wholesale fresh fruit and | vegetable distributive industry. Mr. j Keach formerly was Marion county; Democratic committee chairman. He was leader in organization of the j j temporary code authority. CITY MAN GETS POST ' Martin M. Clinton Selected by William Penn College. Martin M. Clinton, active here for 1 the last two years as youth group head for the Indiana Council on International Relations and in other youth movements, has been appointed public relations director of William Penn college, Oskaioosa, la., it was announced today by H. Randolph Pyle, William Penn dean of men.

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that far, it would be into the Riley and Long hospitals, so we wouldn’t have to worry amy more about the park.” nan THE proximity of Fall creek and the ease with which it could be connected with the canals on the White river park bank is seen as an additional inducement for the project. Mr. Walsman sees, as does George J. Marott, city merchant and hotel man, the possibility of the conversion of Fall creek into a Venetian canal. “It could be cleaned up and utilized in connection with this White river park.” Mr. Walsman believes. “Boating on it would be feasible.” “I know some will scoff at this idea of a White river park beach and playground. They are among the people who will go all the way to Europe to see what we’ve got here in Indianapolis—the World war memorial. And, just because the French call it Champs Elysee or Arc d’ Triomph, they enthuse over it.” Blunt, practical, eye always atilt to figures, whether they be tax valuations or assessments, Mr. Walsman clothes his dreaming of the future beach park in reality. Trees grow, waters pour into the beach from White river, cars move over the well-paved levee boulevards, children shout and dive from spring-boards. “Maybe some day it’ll come true,” Mr. Walsman says—and he smiles, hopefully.

ROTARY CANDIDATES TO STAGE PROGRAM Director Nominees to Give Entertainment. Following one of the oldest traditions of the organization, candidates for Indianapolis Rotary Club directorships for the next two-year term will present their ideas of an entertaining program at the club's luncheon Tuesday in the Claypool. The “Hubs” nominees are C. D. Alexander, Arthur R. Baxter, Frank T. Carroll, Herbert Foltz, Robert E. Poehner, Ernest C. Ropkey, W. Carleton Starkey and John Bright Webb. The “Spokes” nominees are Ray F. Crom, J. H. Erbich, G. Webb Hunt, Howard R. Johnson, Marshall D. Lupton, Earl O. Noggle, Curtis H. Rottger and Guy A. Wainwright. CITY INFANT IS NAMED BABY BEAUTY WINNER James Richard Garrett Selected In Sears Roebuck Contest. James Richard Garrett, Indianapolis infant, won third prize in the state-wide most beautiful baby contest conducted by Sears, Roebuck & Cos., John Burke, local manager, announced today. The Garrett baby was entered in the class for infants under two years. One of the six babies chosen from Indiana is entered in the national contest for a SIO,OOO prize.

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Where now federal emergency relief administration labor busily is engaged in constructing flood prevention levees along the White river, there may some day be an extensive riverside park if the dream of Albert F. Walsman. state tax board member, conies true. The pieture above shows a lengthy portion of the levee in its present state with the Indianapolis Water Company’s Riverside plant in the background across White river. Below is a closeup of man and machine collaborating on the levee construction with a portion of the Indiana university medical center in the background.

PLANS DISCUSSED FOR INVENTORS’ CONGRESS National Meeting Will Be Held Here Next Fall. Arrangements for the meeting of the National Inventors’ Congress, to be held here next fall, were being made today by state inventors. Forty inventors attended a meeting last night in the Lincoln to discuss plans for the congress. Albert G. Burns, Oakland, Cal., congress president, attended the session. A motor with no valves, invented by John J. Jenkins, Indianapolis, was shown during the meeting. The motor won first prize at the National Inventors Congress in Cincinnati last month. 33RD DEGREE MASONS TO ATTEND MEETING Scottish Rite Members Leave for Council Gathering. Thirty-third degree Scottish Rite Masons, headed by Alfred M. Glossbrenner, Indianapolis, active member of the order for Indiana, and Dr. Gaylord M. Leslie, Ft. Wayne, Indiana deputy, left today to attend the annual meeting of the Supreme Council, northern jurisdiction, at Grand Rapids, Mich., which opens Monday. Feature of the convention will be a session of the Royal Order of Scotland Monday night, open to all members of the Scottish Rite. Two Indiana Masons will be honored at this assembly. Dr. Leslie and Dr. Lewis Brown, Indianapolis, both previously elected grand officers in the provincial lodge, will be installed.

By George Clark

CITY LEADS IN U. S. , HOUSING CAMPAIGN Figures High, Officials Tell Chamber of Commerce. By l imes Special WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Indianapolis is one of the leading cities in the country in carrying out the federal housing renovating campaign, officials told James Carr of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Carr is in the city to study further plans for fostering the movement which has chamber backing. He also is arranging details of the visit to Indianapolis of Donald R. Richberg, acting chairman of the national emergency council and former NRA legal chieftan. He will speak under auspices of the chamber Oct. 15. Ogden Mills is scheduled for a similar speech Oct. 25, Mr. Carr said. Figures from the federal housing administration show that in Indianapolis during August th°re were 575 permits issued for additions, alterations and repairs to property. Estimated expenditures were $123,664. In August, 1933, there were 160 permits and $64,856 expended. WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION TO RENEW MEETINGS First After-Vacation Sessions Will Be Held Monday. The first after-vacation sessions |of the National Association of ! Women will be held Mondav night at the Washington, a dinner at 6 | p. m. will be followed by a legislaI tive program and business session. Five-minute talks will be given by Mrs. Margaret oborn. probation of- j ficer; Mrs. Hilda Kendall, hair-j dresser; Mrs. Florence Prvce. class- j ware collector; Mrs. Dorothy Straw- 1 meyer, insurance agent; Mrs. Sarah: M. Avery, saleswoman. A musical program will be given j by a women's quartet composed of Betty Cook. Julia Ann Benson. Virginia Siefker and Esther Steup. i FARLEY SHUNS OLSON Democratic Boss Fails to Mention Progressive Chief in Talk. By I nit' >1 Prrss ST. PAUL. Sept. 22.—PostmasterGeneral James A. Farley appeared today to have squashed the hopes of Minnesota's Farmer-Labor party and Governor Floyd B. OLson for support from the Roosevelt administration. Mr. Farley, who came to the Twin j Cities to dedicate two new federal ; buildings, indorsed the Minnesota 1 Democratic ticket “from top to bot- ; tom" and made no mention of Governor Olsons party. O’DufTy Resigns Party Post By l nitfl Prc * DUBLIN. Sept. 22—General Wen O’Duffy today resigned as leader of the United Ireland party and the Fascist blueshirts in opposition to Eamon De Valera, president of the Irish Free State executive council. He also resigned his membership in the party. Quizzed In Pastor's Slaying By l nitid Pr‘ * PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 22. James Wyatt. 17, held as a runaway from Northfleld, Mass., was questioned today about the shortgun slaying of the Rev. Elliott Speer, 35, headmaster erf the ML Hermon s'-hooi at Northfleld.

Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER MISS RUTH HALE, as she insisted on calling herself, the wife of Heywood Broun, spent much time, effort and enthusiasm fighting for the right of married women to be known by their maiden names. It was an unsatisfactory contest because only herself and a small passe! of other girls calling themselves the Lucy Stone League cared what names they used. Lucy Stone was a feminist of the determined woman type who had the idea first—about 100 years ago. As president of the Lucy

stone League. Miss Hale used to kick up a little flurry of publicity for the cause now and again, as fbr example the time she demanded that the state department issue a passport In her maiden name. Maiden name was a term which she didn't like, either. She preferred to say “my own name.'' But the flurries were widely spaced and Ruth's disadvantage in the great fight which she made her career was that she really had no opponent. Although most married women accepted their husbands' names without question, the Lucy Stone girls were at liberty to do as

they pleased except in few legal formalities. Ruth fought to beat those exceptions and I believe she did win most if not all of the points. But it must have been very discouraging to a crusader to win one famous victory after another and realize that most of the women in the country not only'didn't want the rights which she was winning for them but didn't even know she was fighting. nun Hanging It on the General TN their early married life, about 1917. Ruth and Heywood constantly were getting into situations. They would register at a hotel as Heywood Broun and Miss Ruth Hale and this almost invariably called for a long explanation and a pep talk from Ruth to a puzzled room-clerk on a woman's right to her own identity and the scope and purposes of the Lucy Stone movement. There might be a compromise proposal from the clerk. They would let her sign in as Miss Hale but would write Mrs. Heywood Broun in parenthesis for the sake of the record and woui that be all right? No, that wouldn't be all right. She wasn’t Mrs. Heywood Broun. She wasn’t anybody but Ruth Hale and no room clerk or formality could make any one else of her. Possibly, when all was explained and Mr. Broun and Miss Hale were installed in their quarters, the hotel people fouled her to the extent of writing (Mrs. Heywood Broun) without her knowledge. Old General Robert Lee Bullard was among the early victims of the confusion. The general was distinctly old-school. He probably had not heard of Lucy Stone and, in all his experience with the civilized tribes, the wife took the husband’s name. One afternoon in Lyons, when Heywood was the New York Tribune's man with the A. E. F„ he and Ruth met General Bullard on the street. Incidentally, Mr. Broun was not the most soldierly figure in the A. E. F„ and as he and Ruth strolled along he was eating jam tarts out of a paper bag and had • traces of the powdered sugar on his Whiskers, I believe Ruth was eating a jam tart, too. a a a You Can't Heat Human Nature r T' v HEY stopped and bowed and Heywood preA sented the general to “My wife, Miss Hale.” Mrs. Broun?” said the general. “Miss Hale,” said Ruth. “Your wife?” said the general with a puzzled glance at Heywood. “My wife," Mr. Broun said, “Miss Hale.” This could have gone on and on, but they changed the subject. Possibly the general joined them in a jam tart. But he was a very conventional man and I much doubt that he has ever made it scan according to his understanding of the rules. It was an odd thing about Ruth Hale that a belligerent feminist, who thought she was devoting her life to a fight for her individuality, almost completely sacrificed her individuality to her husband. She never accepted his name but. as Heywood himself wrote when she died Tuesday, she was the author of many of the best- things he ever wrote and the inspiration of most of his work. She was a good thinker and a fine newspaper writer herself and if she had been as individual as she claimed and wished to be, she would have stuck to her own career. But, though she talked feminism, kept her own name and constantly reminded herself that she was a distinct individual, she put in mast of her married life promoting Broun’s career to the abandonment of her own. The great feminist was no less submerged, if that word will do, than the conventional wives of the neighborhood who calied themselves “Mrs.” and thought nothing of it. She won many a debate but she couldn’t win her argument with human nature. (CopvrieEit. 1934 bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc )

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ ■—

THE peaceful scene pictured in the Book of Genesis when Adam was on terms of friendship with all the animals in the Garden of Eden may have had its counterparts in many regions of Asia during the early days of mankind. That is the conclusion of Dr Walter Hough, curator of anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution. Washington, who announces anew theory to account for the domestication of animals. He believes that domestication arose out of amity and not through mastery. In support of this theory, he points to isolated parts of the world where animals exhibit no fear of men. His thesis is that fear arises among animals only when it is engendered by the actions of men. Most domestic animals are believed to have come from Asia, and there, according to Dr. Hough, early man had a temperament especially adapted to inspire friendship and confidence among the animals. “The fear that is engendered in animals by happenings out of the ordinary," says Dr. Hough, “is a protective device. Where, for a period of undetermined length, animals are not subjected to fear, the protective device is obliterated, becoming a useless function." a a a IN new territories, the discharge of firearms and the light and smoke of campfires soon puts an end to this Eden-like simplicity, Dr. Hough says. “Before long." he continues, “fear is displayed, often in an exaggerated degree, and the animals become educated in evading dangers. ' The inventions of man for the capture of animals require increasing refinements to be effective. There is no doubt that most animals are apt students in the school of experience.” In support of his theory, Dr. Hough calls attention to the fact that there are remote zones where animals are unaccustomed to fear. • One such zone was found in Tibet by naturalist* of the British Mt. Everest expedition,” he says. “In this case the naturalists were allowed to observe the animals, but not to collect or disturb them, these rules being promulgated by the Tibetan authorities.” M M M ONE of the rarest of all mammals in scientific collections has just been added to the Smithsonian Institution. It Is the kin-tsen-heou. popularly known as the “monkey of the snows.” It is from the mountains of Asia. Its scientific name is "rhinopithecus” It has an ogre-like, short face ranging in color from green to turquoise. Its eyes are very large and bulging. It* nose is upturned and pointed. The face is surrounded by a fringe and beard of long, orange hair. The body is covered with long hair ranging in color from gold to silver. , The monkey lives in troops in the bamboo forest* just below the line of perpetual snows. Its thick fur enables it to withstand intense cold for the region in which it is found is covered with snow for more than half the year.

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