Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 139, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1934 — Page 7
OCT. 20, 1934
It Seems to Me HinOOD BROUN T AM beginning to have my doubts as to whether A civilization Is actually standing at the crossroads For the last sixteen years I have been hearing that this generation would have to decide whether or not mankind was about to revert to barbarism or advance to something better and more noble. # But come to think of it every generation has a chance at that choice. This hardly can be the first crisis in civilization or the last. I have no desire to minimize the importance of today’s decisions, but isn’t it just barely possible that the current cast of characters upon tris earthly stage is just a shade too self-conscious of its own importance. Other stars have been walked on and made their exit and who
are we to say that here at last is the b:g scene of the entire show? Perhaps we are no more than players in a prologue. Even if we go haywire, civilization might deride to totter on without us. The point is not one of mere philosophic abstraction. It has its vital and practical consequences for columnists. Os late I've heard many interesting arguments blown into bits when some members of the circle said solemnly, “Does it really matter? In days like these is any such minor consideration worth talking about?”
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They tell the story of a city editor in San Francisco who gathered his staff together after the nasty accident which befell that city and said. “We all will meet here tomorrow at 10 —if indeed there is a tomorrow-.” an a There's Terror to Finality r \ 'HE staff greeted this theatricalism with jeering A laughter. It felt that although the conflagration had been considerable, it had hardly burned San Franciscos future down to a crisp. And, as it turned out, they were right. Louis and Nero, Kerensky and Nicholas, each one undoubtedly felt that after him there could be nothing but a deluge of destruction and disorder. Certain convulsions, either on the surface of the earth or underneath, carry the conviction that here is the final conflict. But when time marches on, the derisive battle sometimes is seen to have been no more than a skirmish. We are mites upon the back of a gigantic spaniel who shakes himself as he conies out of the water. Educated man is amused scornfully by converts who select some certain Thursday as the end of the world and proceed to stand upon a mountain top clad in white raiment. But I have seen hardboiled business men equally carried away by the terror of finality. Even the more enlightened of Wall Street leaders on many recent occasions have fancied that thoy heard the crack of doom and some have not hesitated to announce that the end of the world was come and all stocks were a sale. It is my own belief that within twenty years this old world will be changed so utterly that any returning Rip Van Winkles will rub their eyes in utter amazernept. I look for changes for the better. Yet along with all the new and shining things something of th~ old will still persist. If lt ™ that I wake tomorrow morning and find tnat a whole fifth century has whirled by I still believe that I may be able- to find a few familiar fafces, well remembered theories and ancient wheezes. nan Let's All Relax TT has been said that in all probability the ancients 1 had no clear realization that they were ancients. It might be better for us to emulate their and not go around under the terrific assignment of accepting the whole responsibility for the entire fu tUl Of°course*there is the possibility that living men or mJses may force through policies and decisions Ter? and now which will be celebrated a thousand vears hence in bronze tablets. But for the sake of our souls and our bodies we need some few recreational periods in which everybody may have the privilege of writing on the sand. . That is where the columnist comes in. I have tried on previous occasions to picture his sad plight n the modern world. But he is still on the spot ln ‘-How dare you write of trivial things when the universe in which we live is all aflame, sajs H.K.Ct. of Great Neck. I am expecting somebody to send me a fiddle by almost any post now. These are grave and important davs. There nave been others. There will be others I have no desire to sit on the sidelines under a blanket and watch the Wg team go out to do or die. But even the most loyal fine man has the right to look at the referee now' and again and ask for time out in order to get a di ink. anew helmet and a chance to lie on the grass. iCoovrteht. 1934. bv The Tlhips)
Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ "
\roUR nose knows, the advertisements used to tell vou And how. might be added in the current manner which. Dr. Marston T. Bogert. professor of organic chemistry at Columbia university, proceeded tn tell in a recent address. One part of camphor in 400.000 is enough for ■ y our nos? to detect, according to Dr. Bogert. But that s nuld compared to what the nose can do with more onp part of musk in 8.000,000, he savs and one part of vanillin in 10.000.000. European investigators found that the nose could detect the odor of a 20.000 th of a milligram of attar of rose. A milligram is about thirty-five millionths ° Tfflt° l the odor of ethyl mercaptan, which is the odor of rotten eggs, could be detected when only one 460-milhonth of a milligram came tn contact with thp olfactorv nerves. _ , We have'not yet reached the full powers of nasal perception. Professor Bogert tells us that according to Bert helot, the French chemist, the pleasant odor of tiie soil is due to the presence of a camphoraceous substance of so powerful a fragrance that the nose detects a trillionth of a milligram of it. a a a THE effect of various odors upon the nose is widely different. All persons do not react alike to the same odors. Another amazing phenomenon is the way in which individuals adapt themselves to odors • Some odors quickly fatigue or benumb the sense of smell in nearly all persons." Professor Bogert says, "whereas, with other smells, only a few individuals will gradually lose their ability to detect them while remaining in the same atmosphere. "This is the great danger of hydrogen sulphide, for it quickly paralyzes the sense of smell and the victim may not be aware that he is being poisoned until he suddenly falls to the floor unconscious.” A trick of the mir.d is to associate definite events of th* past with odors. * A breath of perfume brines instantly before our vision past scenes with all their pain or pleasure,” Professor Bogert says. Professor Bogert tells the story of a visit which Goethe once paid to Schiller. Goethe found him out and sat down at a table to await his return. In a minute, he found himself growing ill. FTau Schiller inquired the cause and Goethe said it was'due to a peculiar odor. She pulled a drawer from the desk winch was full of decayed apples and carried it away. Then she explained that Schiller did his best work, for some mysterious reason, when stimulated by the odor of rotten apples. * * a PROFESSOR BOGERT thinks that man is not sufficiently grateful to his nose. "How frequently it warns us against pollution of air. food or drink, against pestilence, hazards and dangers of all kinds," he exclaims. "And yet we repay this dVjt to the sense of smell with quite general indifference and scorn. "Plumbers today still use occasionally the timehonored method of locating leaks in the plumbing by introducing oil of peppermint and then sniffing along the pipes. •The chlorophenois have such powerful and distinctive odors, of rank carbolic type, that they have been employed successfully to trace stream pollution."
UP IN THE AIR—AND GOING BROKE
Airmail Lines Fear Ruin, Sound Urgent Plea for Higher Rates
BY ROBERT BALL NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Eight months ago the administration scrapped the domestic airmail service. Five months ago, a brandnew airmail service was inaugurated by the postoffice department, based on competitive bidding and the lowest rates in history. The new start-from-scratch service was hailed by postal officials as anew deal in airmail, designed to be a godsend to the customers, a revitalizing shot in the arm to the air transport industry, and a sedative to the distressed taxpayer. Is it? “Sure,” says Postmaster-General James A. Farley and Senator Kenneth McKellar <Dem., Term.). “Give us time,” says Harllee Branch, second assistant postmastergeneral. “No!” cry a number of big customers and 90 per cent of the air transport Industry. The distressed taxpayer won’t know until the books are balanced next summer.
Already there is minor revolution m the ranks of air mail contractors, and the distressing howls of the inconvenienced customers have been muffled only by the recent addition of $1,300,000 worth of extra schedules. In a desperate effort to gain relief from economic ills brought on by suicidal rates submitted in an orgy of cut-throat competitive bidding, airmail contractors have appealed to the interstate commerce commission. The situation is this: The big companies, in an effort to protect tremendous investments, last spring bid in their old contracts at ridiculously low rates, on advice of their attorneys that the ICC would, after hearing, revise the rates upward to a reasonable level. Small companies, many newly formed, bid at low rates, either for the same reason or through inexperience. nan BUT the postoffice department contends that the ICC has no authority to revise contract rates other than downward so long as the present contracts remain in force—and the department is considering indefinite renewals next winter. Thus, for the time being, the air transport operators are stymied. And they’re going broke. A group of the smaller operators recently banded together as the Independent Air Mail Operators’ Association. Every one of them is losing money. Many of them operate over, routes new to the air mail system which bear little of the fruits of
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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—1 t can not be said that Democratic campaign strategists are not fast on the come-back. Last week Republican Chairman Henry Fletcher convened a press conference at which he expressed the solemn opinion that the Democratic regime is “buying” the election through relief and recovery expenditures. “The President,” he said, “ought to do something about it.” Three hours later Jimmy Byrnes, South Carolina’s astute chairman of the senate’s campaign fund investigating committee, announced that
agents were being sent into Pennsylvania and Delaware—two Republican strongholds—to inquire into reports of huge secret Republican slush funds. Or. in other and double-check. To the Republican outcry of Democratic campaign boodle, the Democrats reply with a senate probe into alleged Republican misconduct. / There is an inside ironic angle to the investigation in Pennsylvania. Last spring, during and after, the Republican senatorial primary, Governor Pinchot not only charged his successful opponent, David Aiken Reed, with excessive campaign expenditures, but secretly besought the aid of the President and senate progressive leaders for a congressional inquiry. Pinchot’s sensational accusations played a large role in the authorization of the probing body. Today, Pincoht is on the side of the fence to be investigated. Reversing a life-long political enmity with Reed, he is warmly backing him against Joseph F. Guffey, Democratic candidate. In politics, as jn the barnyard, chickeps have a* habit of coming home to roost. nun CHAIRMAN JESSE JONES was expounding on his favorite current topic, the jmportance of extending the life of the RFC when it expires next January. “A big holler would go up all over the country if that isn’t done,” he observed solemnly. “Well, what is there left for the RFC to do?" he was asked. "The biggest thing we can do now.” Jones said, "is to straighten out the real estate and real estate mortgage business.” "What about the railroads?” "Huh.” Jesse sniffed. "We already have them.” n n n BIG JIM FARLEY has worked out a neat and secret little plan for increasing the expected Roosevelt vote of confidence in November. He is holding up postmasterships until elections are over. Three votes, reasons Jim. are better than one. As long as a long list of candidates hope for appointment they will support the Democratic ticket. Afterward they may not. CoDvrleht. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.i STATE CHIROPRACTORS TO HOLD CONVENTION Officers to Be Xakned Tuesday at Marion Session. Election of officers will be held Tuesday at the annual state chiropractors' association convention, which will open Monday at Marion. Chiropractors from Indianapolis attending will include Dr. and Mrs. E. R. Be bout. Dr. S. J. Burbich. Dr. and Mrs. V. W. Dean. Dr. and Mr# William Ellery, Dr. and Mrs. J. N. Firth, Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Gwynn, Dr. and Mrs. A. G. Hinrich, Dr. Harrv loor, Dr. and Mrs. Harry K. Mcllroy. Dr, O. G. McKeever. Dr. and Mrs. C. W* Sharp, Drs. Cecil J. and Jeannette M. Vantilburg. Dr. and Mrs. Harry E. Vedder, Dr. and Mrs. G. R. Williams, and Dr. and Mrs. Frank J.
either mail or passenger traffic. Their situation is critical. Several others in this group, although operating established routes, are running in competition with other lines of longer standing which glean most of the passenger traffic and leave the new companies with empty planes. Some of these new companies are in desperate straits. It is a question if they can survive the long, hard winter ahead. a a a ALREADY, reports are filtering into Washington of attempts of hard-pressed operators to evade wage and hour restrictions imposed upon them by the government. One operator has been threatened with revocation of its contract should it fail to pay its pilots the labor board scale. Several of the larger companies have acquired new high-speed planes (ordered before cancellation of contracts) designed for longdistance, nonstop flights at high altitude. Until the postoffice department authorizes carriage of mail on these express schedules, the lines will have to operate them on passenger revenue only, at a loss. The department has, as yet, done nothing about express mail service. United Air Lines and T. W. A., two major transcontinental lines, frequently have been forced to fly extra sections on some of their trips, so great has been the mail load. But for these extra planes flown they get no extra pay. Its all loss. And there have been cases where remunerative express mat-
LITTLE THEATER CLUB ORGANIZED IN STATE Fourteen Organizations Join in New Association. By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 20.—Formation of the Indiana Association of Tributary Theaters, composed of Little theater organizations from fourteen cities, was completed here yesterday with election of officers. Professor P. E. Lull, West Lafayettte, was elected president; Mrs. Alice Foster McCullough. Ft. Wayne, first vice-president; Mrs. Kurt Pantzer, Indianapolis, second vicepresident, and Miss Maude Leiter. Lafayette, secretary-treasurer. FT. WAYNE SCHOOLS TAKE STATE HONORS Capture Every Award in Franklin Journalistic Contest. By United Preset FRANKLIN, Ind., Oct. 20.—Highest honors in high school journalistic work rested with Ft. Wayne high schools today after announcement of awards at the annual Indiana High School Press Association meeting here. Winning every award in special competition in both high school newspapers and year books, the Ft. Wayne schools led the list of a score or more schools which submitted work in the annual contests. GRAPHS. CHARTS USED IN INSULL FRAUD CASE Securities Company ‘Dump’ for j Other Stocks, Is Charge By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 20. Government charges that Samuel Insull and his associates used the bankrupt Corporation Securities Company as a "dump” for stock bought from other Insull companies were aired anew in court today with a bewildering array of charts and graphs. Prosecutors, witnesses and defense attorneys bandied million-dollar figures until even gray-haired Insull. who once reckoned his personal bank account at around $200,000,000, leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes. PERRY TOWNSHIP SUED Judgment of $7,693 Demanded for Poor Relief Supplies. A judgment of $7,697.15, repre- ! senting unpaid poor relief claims, is demanded against Perry township in a suit on file today in superior I court three. The complaint, filed byAlbert H. Gisler in behalf of | eighteen firms and individuals who 1 supplied relief articles to the township. sets out that they have failed to receive payment from June to October of this year. State Insurance Agents Elect BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 20. Ralph G. Hastings, Washington, became pxesident of the Indiana Association of Insurance Agents today ! following his election at the close of 1 the two-day annual convention here.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
This plane, a Boeing model 247-D, used by the United Air Lines, is typical of the costly, high-speed craft which lines carrying airmail have placed in service. Some of the companies rite the great expense of their equipment as one reason for the increased pay which they are asking from the government for carrying the mails.
ter, and even passengers, have been left at the terminal, due'to excess mail loads which the lines are forced to carry—free. Added to the more concrete troubles of the air transport operators is the general gloom of uncertainty which hangs over the industry. Three major companies face possible loss of one or more routes after March 1, due to the present airmail law, which prohibits the holding of more than one primary route by one company. ana WINTER operations, hazardous, easily, and less remunerative, hold worries for veteran operators and unknown terrors for, newcomers to the business. Employes are afraid of the future, dissatisfied with the present. And peace of mind in the air transport business, especially on the part of pilots, is vital to smooth—and safe—operations. Bo much for the industry. The public, its growls momentarily quieted, still is gi&shing its teeth.
NRA CHIEF CHANGES POLICY ON PUBLICITY Accomplishments Only to Be Revealed, Williams Says. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. NRA swung to the right today—away from the spectacular practices of its former chief, General Hugh S. Johnson. Chairman Clay Williams of the new recovery board announced that in the future publicity would be given "accomplishments" rather than intra-office discussions of code problems. His policy is in sharp contrast to Johnson’s "goldfish bowl” method of dealing with code making. With General Johnson in command, the public was informed of every detail. The new board has held daily sessions for three weeks without issuing a single public statement. THIEF STEALS SHOES —ALL FOR ONE FOOT Parked Car Looter Due for Surprise, Victim Reveals. If a policeman sees any one walking about with both feet pointing to the left, that person is likely to be questioned about the robbery of a parked auto at the Butler university fieldhouse last night. J. E. Espie, 5330 Ohmer avenue, reported to police that he is the loser of six sample cases of shoes, all of them for the right foot, and valued at $l5O. A court-martial manual, federal property, was among approximately SSO worth of articles taken from the parked far of H. B. Meek, 901 North Bolton avenue, at the fieldhouse last night. R QT ARYPICKSSPEA K E R Detroit Scientists to Explain “The Story of Radium.” Dr. Luther S. H. Gable, formerly head of the Detroit Institute of Technology radiology department, will tell "The Story of Radium” at the Rotary Club luncheon Tuesday at the Claypool.
SIDE GLANCES
y “Oh, I haven’t the nerve to go borrow from the neighbors the very first night we’re here.”
Service just isn’t what it used to be, either mail or passenger service. On several lines, notably Wash-ington-Cleveland and Kansas City-Ft. Worth, service is slower than before cancellation. On several other routes, luxurious equipment of the old operators has been replaced by the older, sec-ond-hand planes of the new contractors. Even with the big companies, frequency of service has been curtailed for economy. Stewardesses on one line have been dispensed with. ’ The New Deal in mail service has brought complaints from some of the nation's large banking and industrial houses. Rapid movement of interest-bearing notes is of vital importance to these institutions. But the new T service, when first set up, ignored this in certain instances. Only this month has the department seen fit to restore extra schedules on some major routes.
THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP ana a a a By Ruth Finney
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Coal producers will assemble here next week with a long list of grievances and a determination that the government shall do something about them. They are worried at the prospect of an increase in freight rates. They complain that the administration’s electric power program interferes with their business. They are alarmed by the growing disfavor for price fixing in NRA codes. They are anxious about the form permanent NRA legislation is going to take.
The administration, on the other hand, is just as concerned about the coal industry. The railroads, one of its most serious problems, are as dependent on coal for revenues as coal is dependent on the roads. They are the largest single customer of coal, just as coal provides a substantial part of the railroads’ freight revenues. The government is concerned, also, about the difference in wages between northern and southern mines. General Johnson got into serious trouble when he tried to reduce this differential last spring, and now' northern operators are refusing to give NRA statistical data on the subject. Some of the' administration’s most difficult relief and rehabilitation problems have been encountered in abandoned coal mine towns. It is anxious to keep additional communities from suffering the same fate. On the other hand the danger that old mines might be reopened if conditions in the industry improve, and might again produce destructive competition, has been pointed out. nun Government purchase of sub-marginal coal mines, in order to close them permanently, has been under quiet discussion here for some time. Recommendations on the subject have not yet been presented to the President. The National Coal Association will devote a considerable part of its meeting next week to discussion of competition from government hydro-electric projects and
By George Clark
BUT the department has not kept pace with development of passenger transportation. Express schedules across the continent already effective on one line carry no provisions for mail. Ana on three other important routes where express schedules are contemplated, the postoffice department has not indicated any intention of speeding the mail proportionately. Until recently it was estimated that fully 25 per cent of the mail bearing premium postage for air delivery was transported by rail. Although this has been corrected to some extent, the fault still exists. Only the final report of the President’s aviation commission, to which the airmail contractors are now appealing for aid, will tell the real tale of woe. That and the recommendations of the ICC. Upon recommendations of these two agencies, and the acts of congress next session, the air transport industry and the airmailconscious public pin their faith.
from gas and oil. One of its standing committees has been compiling data on the subject. Forney Johnston, Birmingham attorney representing coal and ice interests which are fighting TVA in the courts, will be the speaker at the association’s annual banquet. Two coal men claim that TVA’s future output of power would utilize six million tons of coal a year if produced in coal-burning rather than dydro-electric plants. Plans are being made for a finish fight on the St. Lawrence project, on proposals for development of Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas and Wabash river watersheds, and on anything else the national power policy committee may suggest. nun npHE association will renew its fight, also, for legislation imposing an excise tax on natural gas. It has enlisted the United Mine Workers of America in both these fights and has tried—so far in vain—to get support from NRA. Alexander Sachs, first chief of NRA’s research and planning division, made a study wrfile the coal code was pending which indicated that the industry overemphasized competition from other natural resource industries. j. Only a third of the oil produced in 1929 was consumed, said Sachs, and a third of this amount consumed was used on steamships and by the oil industry itself. Os the remainder more than half was used in California and Texas, which Sachs considered oStside coal’s competitive territory. Less than half the natural gas consumed in 1929 was in competition with coal, according to the national industrial conference board, and Sachs believes that the gas used in Texas. California and other states—about half the total —should be deducted also. No figures were prepared on hydro-electric competition. TVA offered some time ago to set aside SIOO,OOO for. research Into possible new uses of coal, but the industry scorned the suggestion. NATHAN SWAIM NAMED COFFIN ADMINISTRATOR Deceased Man's Son Opposes Pro- j bating of Will. H. Nathan Swaim, former Democratic county chairman, today was named special administrator of the $500,000 estate of the late Charles E. Coffin by Probate Judge Smiley N. Chambers. Mr. Coffin’s son, Clarence E. Coffin, has filed objections to the probating of the will, alleging that the will was obtained under duress. SCHOOL BOARD PRAISED Citizens Ticket Merits Election on Record, Is Claim. The citizens school ticket merits election on the record of the .incumbent school board in reducing taxes and the school debt, Francis Hughes told women of the First, Second. Tenth and Eleventh wards at a Friday tea at Woodruff Place clubhouse.
Fair Enough ISIMREIffi SIMULTANEOUS with a report that brother Paul, or Daffy. Dean, of the St. Louis Cardinals, has thrown his pitching arm over some leaky-roof grandstand while out earning a few dollars on a barnstorming tour, there comes out of Chicago, which is the headquarters of the American League, a demand by Will Harridge, the league president, that all major leaguers henceforth be forbidden to engage ln this sort of trouping. The Dean brothers. Dizzy and Daffy, are not employed in Mr. Harridge’s league, but.
being major leaguers, they would be affected just the same. Mr. Harridgt was thinking of the unhappy case of Jimmy Foxx, of the Philadelphia Athletics, who was struck on the head by a wild pitch while beating the bushes on a similar expedition. Mr. Foxx is property and it is Mr. Harridge’s feeling that, however willing he may be to risk injury, pain and loss of earning-power, himself, he has no right to expase his owner’s property in this reckless fashion. He is worth to his owner, at an irresponsible guess, $50,000 in good health. The total and permanent
disability of Jimmy Foxx would hurt his owner worse than it would hurt him. Owners are very sensitive. The Dean brothers, Dizzy and Daffy, also are property, representing about $200,000 in baseball money, which is a curious medium of exchange, composed of cash, stamps, good-will, old fish-poles, pocket-combings and publicity. If Brother Daffy has thrown his arm over the roof and lost it in the high weeds while engaged on extra-curricular work his owner has been damaged to the extent of about SIOO,OOO in baseball money. There is seldom any salvage when a pitcher's arm goes. Most pitchers can't hit and even a pitcher who can hit is not worth turning out to pasture in the outfield after his arm dies because he always needs a caddy to throw the ball in for him after he has caught it. .a a a They’re Really Underpaid THERE might be something in what Mr. Harridge says about the owner's property right, but he has managed to avoid another side of the question. Although the Dean brothers won half of all the ball games which the St. Louis Cardinals won in qualifying for the recent world series and then won all four of the games by which the Cardinals took the series from the Tigers to the great profit of their owner, they are underpaid notoriously. Their joint salaries footed up to $11,500 this year, minus a fine of SSOO imposed on Brother Dizzy because he refused to take part in the very sort of extra-curricu-lar work which Mr. Harridge now deplores. The difference was that this unofficial game in which he refused to play had been arranged by his owner for his owner's sole profit. At SII,OOO, net, for the season of 1934, the Brothers Dean were underpaid just $39,000, estimating their worth at $25,000 each, which is a demure figure. Not only did the boys perform the greatest feat in baseball since Babe Ruth hit sixty home runs in one season for a salary of $85,000, but they attracted a fortune in gate receipts to the ticket booths of an othewise unpopular and widely neglected baseball firm. Neither of them ever may have another good season. Being young, strong,*reckless and sporting, they risked their pitching arms largely for the sport of it and in spite of their knowing that their owner was a hard, close merchant with a great record for businesslike composure in his dealings with the heroic figures of baseball. Their owner, Sam Breadon, had shown his gratitude to two previous managers of championship clubs by dismissing them. tt tt tt It Was Sporting Pride NEVERTHELESS, the Deans pitched ball for Mr. Breadon and their own sporting pride and amazingly paltry wages. They pitched in turn and out and when the world series came brother Dizzy even put himself into a game as a pinch-runner and was knocked out by a thrown ball at short range in an apparently deliberate and certainly successful attempt to prevent the completion of a double play. He dared a man to throw dead at him and the man did and he went down cold. Mr. Harridge offers no objection to the trade risks to which the brothers Dean exposed their arms and brother Dizzy his head while they were serving their owner. He objects only to the risks which occur in those games from which the owners stand to make no profit. There seems to be nothing that any one but the baseball public, or customers, can do about adjusting ihe relations between the Deans and their employer. And even the customers, however great their sympathy, could not help the Deans by boycotting the Cardinals, because a boycott would indicate that they had last their customer-appeal. There was a similar situation in the baseball industry in 1919. The White Sox, often called the greatest ball team of all, were paid miserly wages by a prosperous owner and came to regard old Charlie Comiskey as a skin flint and their enemy. Not only for the money involved, but for the joy of doing him dirt as well they were glad to accept their bribes and throw him down in the world series with the Cincinnati Reds. He it. The baseball industry had better protect itself against a situation which would encourage a repetition of the notorious fake of 1919. (Copyright. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
Your Health by dr. morris fishbein —
SO rapid is the advance in our knowledge of vitamins that new discoveries come almost daily. Scientists agree that the biggest advances come when the vitamins are isolated in pure form. When it was found that halibut liver oil was richer than any other substance in vitamin A, it became possible to prepare other concentrated solutions and consequently preparations have been developed that seem to be almost pure vitamin A. Asa result of studies on these concentrates, it was found that they represent something very much like carotene, the yellow coloring matter of carrots and other vegetables, so that now carolene has been developed as a concentrated form of vitamin A. nun OF course it long has been known that a complete absence of vitamin A from the diet will result in inflammatory and degenerative changes in the eye. It also has been rather well established that a deficiency in vitamin A in some way lowers the general resistance to infections. Unfortunately, this does not seem to apply to the practical control of pneumonia, as some persons with extraordinary high reserves of vitamin A in their bodies developed cases of pneumonia and some died. The limits of safety in relationship to the amount of vitamin A taken into the body seem to be extraordinarily large. Not a single instance has been reported in which any human being has been harmed by an overdosage of vitamin A. But rate, when given many thousand times the ordinary protective dose of vitamin A, did develop serious symptoms. a a a ~\ 7TTAMIN B consists of two parts, known as B 1 and 82. It is well established that the condition called the beri-beri, or polyneuritis, can be prevented or successfully treated by giving vitamin 81. It has been argued that certain types of digestive disorders are common among persons who use white flour from which the germ of the wheat, containing a considerable amount of vitamin 81. has j been removed. But there are no actual cases in which any direct relationship can be traced. Nevertheless, animals which are kept constantly on diets deficient in vitamin Bl will lose their appetites and also will seem to demonstrate a lack of proper activity in their bowels. The second factor in vitamin B is most important in prevention of pellagra. Persons who suffer with this disease can be relieved by eating quantities of yeast, which Is very rich in the vitamin B complex, and also by eating such fresh animal foods as meats, milk, butter and similar products.
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