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It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS return to the radio found him in good form and much of what he aaid was persuasive. His answer to critics who hold that too much ha* been spent on relief was admirable. Few thw aide of the Tory boundary will quarrel with the statement that, “no country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance." But it seem* to me that Franklin Roosevelt was far less happy in his remarks

about capital and labor and industrial warfare. There are many who seek to meet these economic issues with a bland. "There Is much to be on both sides.” Or possibly the line will read, "The truth lies somewhere between the two.” The latter has always seemed to me the most irritating of remarks since after all it leaves unsolved the vital problem of just where Is somewhere. Mr. Roosevelt was not guilty of either of these gems of smugness, but he came perilously close in a paragraph which the headline writers have interpreted as Roosevelt re-

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bukes both capital and labor.'* What the President actually said was: "The employer who turns away* from impartial agencies of peace, who denies freedom of organization to his employes, or fails to make every reasonable effort at a peaceful solution of their difficulties, is not fully supporting the recovery effort of his government. The workers who turn away from these -same impartial agencies and decline to use their good offices to gam their ends are likewise not fully co-operating with their government." a a a Eight Months Is Too Long ON the surface that may sound as fair as blue skies, but a little thought ought to show that it is far from just to apply precisely the same rules to the employed as to the employers. For instance I am familiar with a case in which a worker was discharged for his activity in organizing. At least that was his opinion and the opinion of the union to which he belonged. After a good deal of difficulty a hearing was secured before the local compliance board in San Francisco. The board gave no decision, but referred the case to Washington. There it hung for several months at the end of which time it was referred back to the local compliance board in San Francisco. Now it has gone into the vasty silences and eight months have elapsed since the complaint was made originally. I have mv own opinion as to the merits of the case, but I will waive that opinion and merely contend that eight months is too long for any employe to wrait for a finding as to whether he has a job or not. Long before such a stretch is done he is likely to rush out with a placard and join a picket line. a a a It's Easier for the Owner THE point is that patience is very much easier for owners than for workers. The gentleman who fired the man 1 have in mind has not suffered during the long delay. He still has a job and a competence. He can afford to fight it out on the same line if it takes all winter, because there is steamheat in his house. It mav be that in the long run the proper NR A authorities will hand down a just and equitable decision. but unless it comes along in the next five or ten years it will be of very' small benefit to the plaintiff. The rent comes in short runs and so does the butcher's bill. Speaking of “some new methods of adjustment" set up bv the government. President Roosevelt said, "Both employers and employes must share the blame of not tising them as fully as they should.” If blame is being passed around why not reserve a slice f<*r the government itself in those cases where it has dillied and dallied and in those cases where the plain language of Section 7-A has been twisted to make a compromise agreeable to the automobile magnates and others. To paraphrase an ancient wheeze there are all too many rases in which. "The NR A decision was a huge success, but the patient died of slow starvation while waiting to hear it.” tCoovrieht. 1934. bv The Turns*

Your Health BY l>R. MORRIS FISHBEIN

WITH the coming of cold weather, pains in the back seem to be more frequent. The first thing to find out about a pain in the back is its cause. In some instances such pains are due to sudden strain caused by lifting heavy objects. In many cases, however, the pain develops as result of infection of the spine by germs of the type of streptococcus or by the germ cf tuberculosis. Occasionally a pain in the back may be due to some disturbance in the abdomen, affecting the organs in this portion of the body. There are many instances in which pains in the bark are due to fiat feet, shortening of limb or some other cause which throws the wrong kind of strain on the back itself. If any source of infection exists in the body, such as the teeth, the tonsils, or the urinary tract, such infection ought to be cleared up. Even if it is not responsible for the pain in the back, the situation may result in a secondary infection. Sometimes, when the pain in the back is a reflection of an abdominal condition, proper attention to the gastro-intestinal tract will take care of the trouble. mam SINCE pain always is worse on motion, rest is the first prescription. In ordinary lumbago the pain will not disturb the patient if he will lie at rest with his muscles relaxed However, the slightest movement will pull on the ligaments and bring intense pain. After the patient begins to feel better, he may want to get up This should be postponed, however, until after the physician is satisfied that healing has taken place. If he gets up too soon, the original pain may return and perhaps to even a worse degree than before. Sometimes it may be necessary to put pillows or sandbags in the bed in such manner as to make certain that the patient actually rests the inflamed areas. mam THERE are all sorts of drugs that may be prescribed for persons with painful backs to obtain greater rest. These drugs are. however, sedatives and narcotics, and should not be taken except on advice of a physician. There also are. as everybody knows, various tvpes of applications which can be put on and which help to relieve the pain. Liniments that are stimulating and heat in various forms are particularly useful. More recently it has been found that injections of certain local anesthetics will stop the passing of the pain in the inflamed area, and in very severe cases this method is sometimes used. Heat may be applied to painful areas by use of hot water bottles, hot packs, heat lamps, or the electrical pad. It has not been found that ultra-violet rays have any more value for pains in the back than any of the usual forms of heat lamps giving only the infra-red rays.

Questions and Answers

Q —What causes the red tinge of the moon when it is close to the horizon? A—lt is due to the fact that the earths atmosphere absorbs and scatters the blue light more than the red light and. as the moon then is seer through a much greater thickness of atmosphere titan when overhead, more red light reaches the eye directly. Q—Who wrote the song. “When My Dreams Come True.” and for what motion picture mas it written? A— lrving Berlin composed the song for the motion picture. The Cocpanuts,'* starring the four Man brothers.

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ROYAL FAMILY TO ‘BOSS’ WEDDING

Even Bridal Gown for Pretty Marina Will Be Chosen by Queen Mary

BV ROSETTE HARGROVE MA Service Staff Correspondent

PARIS, Oct. 2.—The ponderous wheels of hierarchic machinery, which govern every detail of British royal weddings, fail to mar the simple Joy which Princess Marina of Greece now finds in her engagement to Prince George of England. Fluttering about in Paris shops like any well-to-do commoner bride-to-be, trying on this hat and that dress, the radiant princess seemed not to mind that finally even her bridal costume must be chosen by her future husbands regal mother. Queen Mary. “I am thrilled.” she told me excitedly, on the eve of her departure from this capital, "at the prospect of making my home in England. I love England and English life." Seeing this happy girl at close range in the Hotel Majestic here, there could be no doubt that she was enjoying thoroughly her role of royal financee, and is excited and amused by the fanfare attending her betrothal. "I was awfully touched by the reception Paris gave us," she told this correspondent. “No, I don’t mind the camera men or the re■Jaorters. It’s all tremendous fun, really, and so new to me.... "I did really meet my fiance only five years ago. That isn’tactually a long time, is it?" a a a NO regrets did she express concerning the formality which must guide her forthcoming marriage under the royal marriage act passed by the English parliament in 1772. For instance, if the royal pair were common George and Marina, they would decide how and where they would be married, how the bride should dress and what people would be invited. The prince and princess will have no such freedom. Sketches of Marina's proposed dresses, train and veils will be submitted to the lord chamberlain by the lucky dressmaker chosen to do the job. These sketches will be passed on to Queen Mary for her sanction. There are customs and precedents that must be followed out in the dresses for the bride and her bridesmaids and these will be adhered to strictly. Princess Marina loves clothes and wears them well. Her wedding gown probably will be made by Molyneux. This cerator is British and he has dressed the

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

U Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—The most amazing development in the securities exchange commission has been the emergence of that great liberal and one-time enemy of Wall street, Jim Landis, as its chief defendant. Secondary only to this in unique developments has been the emergence of Joe Kennedy, one-time pool operator, as the chief bete noir of his old cronies in the Street.

Kennedy has been forthright, and uncompromising in his insistence that Wall Street toe the line. He has fulfilled Roosevelt's prediction that he would become -the best liberal on the commission.” All other members of the commission are behind him. with one Solitary exception—Landis. On almost every question of important policy concerning regulation of the money-changers, Landis stalls, hems and haws, indicates that Wall Street is not getting a fair break. At first his colleagues sat back in amazement. Here was the man once touted as the great enemy of capital, whom the Wall Streeters fought tooth and nail to keep off the commission. Yet he alone championed the money powers. Why the change? Unquestionably the chief factor is the spotlight of publicity. Frequently so cruel to newcomers on the public stage, it has gone to Mr. Landis’ head. After all he is barely 35. After all, a scant year ago he was a young Harvard professor, almost unheard of. a a a THE general public has not realized it. but those close to Mr. Landis saw what the effulgent focus of public attention was doing to him some time ago. It began when the Stock Exchange bill was written. Real autor of the act was Ben Cohen, another professor at Harvard law school, and a close friend of Landis, although his senior by about six years. Contrary to general opinion, Cohen wrote the act alone. No one had anything to do with it until afterward, when Ferdinand Pecora, Tom Corcoran. John T. Flynn. Landis and one or two others sat in conference, suggested two or three modifications. Landis played a minor rolq in this, at times gave the impression that he did not know exactly what some details of the act were all about. But after passage of the act, when it became certain Landis would be a member of the commission. he assumed a role of supreme importance. a a a BEN COHEN, his old friend and chief author of the act. was not to be a commission member—partly because of anti-Semitism. But he was considered as commission counsel. Cohen stipulated. however, that if he took the job. he must have a salary equal to that of a commissioner and must have a certain amount of independent latitude. This. Landis vigorously opposed. "Ben must understand.” he said, ’’that he will be an employe of the commission and will take orders from me,” Landis is a man of great genius, tremendous drive and real sincer-

Getting acquainted with the in-laws is just as important a part of a courtship among royalty as commoners. Princess Marina of Greece, who is engaged to marry Prince George of England, is shown in this newly arrived photo with her fiance s parents, the king and queen England. during a visit at Balmoral Castle, Scotland. Left to right in this intimate group are Princess Nicholas of Greece; King George; Princess Marina; Prince George; Queen Mary, and Prince Nicholas of Greece. The picture also reveals the type of informal attire favored by rova > King George and Prince Nicholas in tweed knickers, Prince George in kilts. ___

princess and her two sisters for some time past. Another formality will be the fixing of the allowance to be paid to Prince George. At present he draws down $50,000 a year. This will be increased to $75,000 when he is married and the proper committees in parliament will give this their approval. #OO THERE Is another way in which Prince George and Princess Marina find themselves different from lesser folk. The latter would get a marriage license very easily by paying fee

ity of purpose. But his best friends fear that praise and publicity have gone to his head. a a a AMONG press conferences held by cabinet members, the most largely attended is that of the secretary of agriculture. Only the President draws a better house than Wallace. The explanation is twofold: 1. Important news breaks in his conferences, especially concerning the AAA. 2. Press men like Wallace for his quiet-mannered sincerity. Recently, from the assembled group of press men came a daring question. “Mr. Secretary, we hear a lot of rumors to the effect that Dr. Tugwell was sent to Europe to keep him out of the way until after elections. Any truth in that?” Wallace grinned and said, “Well, Ted, I'm glad to see you're back from your vacation.” (CoDvriEht. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.l OKLAHOMA ASSAILED FOR INDIAN ABUSES Roosevelt Policy Toward Red Men Lauded by Collier. By United Prt ss ATLANTA. Oct. 2.—While practically all states have treated Indian tribes “disgracefully,” Oklahpma is guilty of the worst offenses against native Americans, according to United States Indian Commissioner John Collier, protagonist of a “new deal” for the Red men. Mr. Collier, dedicating the Indian exhibit at the Southeastern fair here, said the policy of the federal government down to the Roosevelt administration had been "an unbroken record of betrayal by the government and of massacre and rapine,” as far as the Indian was concerned. BLAST WRECKS TRAIN Four Cars Derailed: Labor Troubles Are Blamed. By United Per* MT. PULASKI. 111.. Oct. 2.—Four cars of an Illinois Central freight train loaded with coal of the Peabody Coal Cos., were derailed today by an explosion of dyne mite on the tracks. None of the train crew was injured. Railroad officers estimated damage to equipment and roadbed at $4,000. Sheriff's officers and officials of the Peabody company attributed the dynamiting to labor troubles. Hoover Retains Harding Post By United Press MARION. 0.. Oct. 2. Former President Herbert Hoover has been re-elected honorary president of the Harding Memorial Association, it was announced today.

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of about $lO. But the prince and princess’ license will be engrossed on vellum. It will be written in a deep black ink by penmen using oldfashioned script. At various points the document will be brightened by having some words and phrases underlined in deep red ink. The young bridegroom will be charged about S3OO for this piece of parchment. There will be about 100,000 people pressing their claims for tickets to the marriage ceremony. Here once more King George and Queen Mary will have the big say. All the British royal family, of

CHURCH WILL HOLD FELLOWSHIP DINNER Officers and Teachers to Attend Annual Event. The sixth annual fellowship dinner for officers and teachers of the Third Christian church will be held at the church tonight at 6:30 p. m. John W. Harms will be the chief speaker of the evening. His subject will be “The Dynamics of Christian Leadership.” Harms is a graduate of Phillips university, and has completed a year of graduate work at the Auburn theological seminary in New York. He was recently brought to Indiana to take over the office of director of religious education for the Disciples of Christ churches in the state. Other speakers at the 'banquet will be the Rev. W. A. Shullenberger, pastor of the Central Christian church, and Miss Nellie C. Young, supervisor of the children's division of the church. R. C. Williams will be the toastmaster. British Educator Dead By United Press LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2.—Private funeral services were conducted today for Sir John Adams, 77, eminent British educator and for the last eleven years professor of education at the University of California at Los Angeles.

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course, will be seated in front near the high altar of Westminster abbey. So Will invited foreign royalties, including the kinspeople of Princess Marina. The foreign diplomats accredited to England will be there in choice seats, as will also be the members of the cabinet and high officers of the army and navy. The less choice seats will be given to those lucky enough to get on the invited list. 000 AFTER the wedding, the bridal pair will sign formally the marriage register in Westminster abbey. So will the king

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP 000 000 By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—lndustry and labor representatives here seemed equally dissatisfied today with the amount of light shed by President Roosevelt’s fireside address on his plans for the immediate future. Labor got out of it a promise that the President will not be content to let millions of persons remain permanently unemployed.

Industry got four separate assurances that the President believes in and will encourage the earning of fair profits. But those industrial groups most concerned about the fluctuating value of the dollar had to content themselves with reading what they could into President Roosevelt’s reminder that England has not returned to the gold standard. Those most interested in the balanced budget had still less to go on. Those most interested in the future form of NRA learned only that the wisdom of many existing code provisions is seriously questioned and that the newly effected reorganization of NRA is only “A period of preparation for legislation which will determine its permanent form.” a a a ORGANIZED labor found in the speech a reaffirmation of belief in collective bargaining rights, but was left to wonder just what the President has in mind in proposing to bring about a “specific trial period of industrial peace.” The American Federation

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and queen and, of course, the groom’s best man, who, in all probability, will be the prince of Wales. They also will sign the official register kept in St. James’ palace. In this large and historic book are registered all royal baptisms, marriage and burials. After that, royal machinery will cease to clank and the young married pair will ye free to go away on their honeymoon, and upon their return, to take up their residence in London. But Paris will miss this pretty, democratic princess who has made her home here for ten years.

of Labor, now holding its annual meeting in San Francisco, probably will ask for more details of what is proposed before trying to pass on the plan. The United States Chamber of Commerce, in addition to asking the President to discuss balancing the budget, dollar stabilization, international stabilization of exchange, and encouragement of business initiative, also had asked for light on the future of government in business, agricultural policy and public works. It got no assurance that the administration will retreat from any of its public ownership experiments. Agriculture was not discussed. Public works, the President implied, will go on as long as unemployment continues. tt tt tt THE President made it clear that he questions the wisdom of provisions in NRA codes which control production or which call , for price fixing, and leans to the theory that volume of production with lower prices can do more to bring about increased employment. He indicated that wage rates may have to be put on a yearly rather than an hourly or weekly basis, but in discussing this referred to the worker’s “minimum needs” rather than the “decent living” which he suggested a year ago as his goal. Labor saw, in one portion of the address, an implied rebuke to cotton textile mill owners. In discussing the government’s efforts to adjust industrial disputes the President said: “The employer who turns away from impartial agencies of peace, who denies freedom of organization to his employes, or fails to make every reasonable effort at a peaceful solution of their differences, is not fully supporting the recovevrv effort of his government.” He added: “The workers who turn away from these same impartial agencies and decline to use their good offices to gain their ends are likewise not fully cooperating with their government.” FIRST AID CLASS FOR POLICEMAN STARTED 30 Officers Studying to Become Instructors for Force. The first of fifteen two-hour classes for thirty Indianapolis policemen was held last night at Red Cross headquarters, 777 North Meridian street, under the direction of Dr Herbert T. Wagner, first aid director. The policemen are studying to become first aid instructors in order to instruct other members of the department. Paul W. Goss, natonal field director. Red Cross first aid and life saving, was last night’s speaker. Several national Instructors will come here to lecture before the classes. Active instructors will be Lewis C. Robbins and Herbert T. Wagner Jr.

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Fair Enough IBDMK n DETROIT. Mich.. Oct. 2.—Three young hill-billies from Arkansas are causing commotion in the sophisticated city of Detroit at this writing. They are the Messrs. Dizzy and Daffy Dean of the St, Louis Cardinals, and Schoolboy Rowe, of the Detroit Tigers. The Cardinals are coming to town to play the Tigers in the first world senes baseball show which has been presented in Detroit since Henry Ford was a tinker. The brothers Dean won fortynine ball games for the Cardinals, slightly more than

half of all the games the Cardinals won to take the league championship from the Giants. They are big. primitive, simple natives of a state which once was described in the United States senate as "backward.” They have long arms, hickory wrists and hands big enough to palm a wagon wheel. Schoolboy Rowe is physically and temperamentally of the same type as the Dean boys, though slightly less backwoods socially. He won the American League pennant for the Tigers. Mr. Rowe does not understand why he should be called Schoolboy, considering that many

parties have gone to school more than he did. The Dean brothers were born in one of three towns in Arkansas. They think the town was Holdenville. The uncertainty developed a few weeks ago when they were pitching a series of games in Brooklyn. Three journalists called separately on the brothers to interview them and when the papers came out next day Holdenville and two other towns w ere given credit. a u n Not So Hot, the Deans Opine. THE boys were challenged on this point and Brother Dizzy said the reporters had been so nico to him and Brother Daffy that he thought he would give each of his interviews an exclusive angle, so to speak. Now, however, the only town of the three which he could remember was Holdenville. So he guessed it must have been Holdenville, at that. The Dean brothers are seriously underpaid by their proprietor, Mr. Sam Breadon, who operates the St. Louis Cardinals. Not only that, but they were suspended and fined only a few weeks back for some acts of mutiny. Brother Dizzy, ordered to proceed to Detroit for' an exhibition game, decided not to and was laid off for this failure. Both brothers then struck and enacted a tw'o-handed labor riot in the Cardinals’ undressing room in St. Louis. Mr. Breadon broke the strike and imposed certain cash penalties deductible from their w'ages. Mr. Breadon is a strict capitalist. Notwithstanding this trouble, the brothers continued to sling the baseball past the hitters with innocent enthusiasm and finally overcame the Giants who were seven games ahead of the Cardinals a month ago. This pitching job of theirs this year is unlike anything in the minute records of the industry. It amazed every one but the Dean brothers who said they would have done even better if they had not had that trouble with the bass. It included twelve victories over the Giants in thirteen contests. On the basis of this record against the Giants, the baseball (experts do not believe the Tigers can do much better than go through the motions of subsiding in honorable defeat. They are confronted with the job of winning four games out of seven from the beans. 0 a 0 It's Just a Throwing Job. THE season’s work of the three hill-billies from Arkansas has been embarrassing to the expert theories. The Arkansas boys never had any coaching or training and they grew to their present size and power on the common diet of the Arkansas sidehill farmer. They just growed and w’hen they went into baseball they operated on one fundamental idea. This idea was to sling the ball in such a way that the hitters couldn't do much to it. That is still their way of doing except that Mr. Rowe, under the influence of his manager and catcher, Mickey Cochrane, has had some of the theory of artistic pitching schooled into him. Detroit, at the moment, is somewhat subdued. There was great jubiliation when the Tigers were winning and finally did win their pennant and seemed destined to meet the Giants in the world series. The Giants would have been welcome opponents. Their pitchers were weary and the club in other departments was not too able. Then the Cardinais ran the Giants out of the world series and now the Tigers have to encounter the Dean boys, first one and then the other, and win four games from a pair of pitchers who won forty-nine between them. It is too much to ask. (CoDvrisrht, 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Today s Science

BY DAVID DIETZ

A FLAMING burst of light in the heavens startled six emergency relief administration workers at Salisbury beach’ near Boston. Through the 6ky came hurtling a shower of flaming meteorites. One of them, weighing about a pound, fell a hundred feet from the workers. Upon such signs and portents did the ancients seek to learn the future and the will of the gods. But this is the twentieth century and so one of the ERA workers took .the meteorite to the Harvard observatory for Professor Harlow Shapley to inspect. Professor Shapley delivered a few remarks upon the nature of the solar system and the place of meteorites in it but made no attempt to forecast the future. The falling of these meteorites in Boston serves to remind us of the none too pleasant fact that meteorites of practically any size are likely to fall anywhere at any time. They are more unpredictable than the stock market. ana THE great Siberian falj, is the most dramatic chapter in the story of meteorites. It constitutes the largest known meteoric fall of historic times. It occurred in northern Siberia, 500 miles north of Taishet, a village on the Transiberian Railway, on July 30. 1908. New r s travels slowly in the wilds of Siberia and it was not until 1914 that sufficient information had trickled into the large cities of Russia to arouse general interest. Then the World war began and there was little time for investigating the reports. In 1927, however, the Soviet government sent an expedition under Professor Leonide A. Kulik to Investigate. His findings were amazing and terrifying. He found that a group of meteorites had struck the earth, making more than two hundred depressions, some of them more than seventy-five feet in diameter. Around this area he found the ground seared and charred as if with a gigantic blow torch for fifteen miles in all directions. a a a RECORDING barometers in Russia registered the sudden change in air pressure caused by the explosion while seismographs in all parts of the world registered the tremors of the earth's crust which were occasioned by the impact. All of London or Paris or New York would have been wiped out if the meteorites had fallen upon one of those cities. The question which many persons will ask as a result of the Boston occurrence: What is a meteorite? As good an answer as any is: Cosmic rubbish. Apparently when the planets and satellites of the solar system took shape, there was a lot of material left over. Space within the solar system is filled with this rubbish. When a tiny bit enters the earth's atmosphere, friction causes it to become white hot and glow. We call it a shooting star. Technically, It is known as a meteor. A meteor, large enough to escape destruction from friction against the atmosphere, is known, when it strikes the ground, as a meteorite.

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