Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 150, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1934 — Page 21

It Seems to Me nmtwll BROUN ¥ GET qure * little southpaw solace. These lefthanded compliments come chiefly from fellow oldtimers who remember me as a dramatic critic or eren back to the very dim days when I covered sport*. The friendly comment from the veteran generally runs about like this. “I read your column now and then. I certainly used to like your baseball stuff ’’ Time lends giamour but It warps the shape of things whlijh are gone. It was another friend of my youth who was dealing with the days when Alan Dale and J. Ranken Towse and Wollcott and Broun were dramatic critics. “You were my favorite,” my friend assured me. "Do you know why I liked your reviews?" I told him that I hadn t the slightest idea but that I was per-

fectly willing to hear what he had to say along those lines. “You were my favorite dramatic critic.” he continued. "because you always were so kindly.” For he first time in flfteer. years I blushed furiously. Time is cruel in i*s mal'reafmenf of the facts. The truth is that I was one of the meanest. most arrogant and smart aleck reviewers who ever marred the (he chances of a play for the sake of a feeble epigram. Along Broadway they knew # ,ie as Butcher Broun and ingenues were frightened into good behavior by being told that Broun would get them in a Sunday

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rolumn if they didn't eat their spinach and go right to bed. It Is true that I had begun to mellow in my later years but around this time I had a nervous breakdown and was fit for no sort of newspaper work except runnirfit a column. In spite of the sins which lie heavily upon my conscience I never want to ba a critic again even fer the sake of atonement. m m m .1 Citizen * Right* | REMEMBER particularly one night not long after X I had become an ex-reviewer and was lured into a quite dreadful plav. It was a Brock Pemberton production. Mr. Pemberton always has seemed to me one of the most interesting of producers, because he deals so little with the pretty good or fair to middling. When you enter his portals you are going to see a smash hit such as “Personal Appearance" or a four-night fizzle such as •'Excalibur," which may have been the name of ttie little dandy of many season back. Mr. Pemberton, who is a friend, caught my eye a> I was leaving the theater and looked inquiringly. “Good night. Brock,” I said, and that is the nearest approximation of any comment on his play which I ever had to make from that day unto this. The man who is not a dramatic critic has great opportunities which are denied to reviewers. If any close friend writes a bad play, produces a bad play or gives a terrible performance the man tfho is not a critic Just doesn't have to mention the matter. It need never come up. There are even advantages in not being compelled to set your enthusiasms down on paper. Asa critic you can't get by simply by typing out “It's a grand show” or "I thought It was swell.” You know perfeetly well that you liked it enormously, but when it comes to inventing reasons for your ardor it is quite possible that sou will set dowm things which either are fatuous or false. mum More Fun to Re Fnoted r r , HE reviewer ha.s to pretend to be preoccupied X deeply with the technique of the entertainment he has just witnessed. Now if he actually had a good time the chances are that he didn't pay much attention to the technique. Times may have changed, but in my day the most insulting thing you could say about an actor was to call him “adequate.” Almost as punishing is the remark. “It's a beautiful performance- technically.” AH too often the dramatic critic has assumed that his assignment was to sit behind the magician and tell the audience just how he drew the emotions out of the hat. I still think it's more fun to be fooled. "How did you like 'Merrily We Roll Along'?" asked the young person who sat next to me at dinner "I thought it was swell.” I told her. But why did you like it?" she persisted, trying to draw me out into one of my celebrated dramatic analyses. T could have mentioned the structure or the direction or the acting which is good down to the tiniest bit played bv a bobbed-haired young miss whose name for the moment escapes me. T could have mentioned the peculiar poignancy which the counter-clockwise method brings into being. I might have mentioned the heartbreaking Jove scene m the park which comes almost at the end o f the play. The audience already has seen the pi.iful crumbling of the adventure, but now it gets the genesis of the high hopes and aspirations of the boy 3nd the girl. But I'm no 4 a dramatic critic and If I like a play I liked it On that bromidic base I hope to live happily for the rest of my life. And so I turned to my dinner companion and said. “Eat your damn soup and quit bothering me.” iCoprrieht. 1914. bv The Times*

Today s Science B\ DAVID DIETZ

W 7’ HO * las oi *’ ’ nas < >rri P lrP So spoke a wise W Frenchman, looking over the world of today. Recent history bears him out, for oil has been one of the chief considerations of the nations since the World war. The struggle over oil since 1918 has not been merely the battle of gigantic corporations seeking profits in the realm of trade. Behind the corporations have been nations. The stake has been national position and safety, not only dollars. Many observers believe that the big struggle for oil is between the United States and Great Britain. The Royal Dutch Shell combination represents both Dutch and British capital with British interests ownihg only 40 per cent of the combine. Its headquarters, however, are in London, and because of the greater importance of Great Britain in international affairs, the company us usually regarded as primarily representative of Great Britain Today, the Standard Oil companies and the Shell companies face rarh other in every pan of the world. They have invaded each other s homelands. Wherever you go in America. Europe, or Asia, you will find the nval signs of Standard Oil and Shell. m n m THE worlds oil industry, William P. Rawless, secretary of the Mineral Inquiry, says, is concentrated primarily in the United States, secondarily in Russian and m northern South America. American capital controlled 70 per cent of the world’s petroleum production in 1930 and 71 per cent of the world's leftnmg capacity. The Royal Dutch Shell group controlled 12 per cent of the worlds petroleum production In addition. British interests controlled another 5 per cent of the wor'd's production Next in importance was the Soviet Oil Trust representing a monopoly of the Russian Soviet government. It controlled 95 per cent of the world’s production m 1931. Let us see now where the oil is actually located Most of it is in America Sixty-three per cent of the world's supply m 1930 came out of the ground in the United States. Another 10 per cent of the world's output in 1930 came from Venezuela. Control of the production was about evenly divided between the American and Briush-Dutch interests. • a m lOOKING to the future, authorities on oil antici- • pate the development of two great supplies of oil. One is in Russia, the other in the strip of South Amcncan territory' along the eastern slope of the Andaa. Some authorities think that Russian production will eventually equal that of America. Meanwhile, the hunt for new oil fields goes on all ovr the world. One of the biggest problems before the world today la the life of its oil supply. The answer can not be given because no one really knows the life of the big fields now in operation and no one can say trhgt new fields will be discovered in the future.

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A CAMPAIGN ‘FOR THE BOOK’

Bitter State Fights Fire Up’ Election That Started as ‘Dud’

BY RODNEY DUTCHER KEA Service Staff Writer • Copyright 1934. NEA Service. Inc.) ¥ \ TASHINGTON, Nov. 2 —The ▼ ▼Forgotten Man will go to the polLs Nov. 6 and give thanks to the Great White Father in Washington “from whom all blessings flow'." The voters, according to the gilt-edge political dope, will ratify the New Deal by electing an overwhelmingly Democratic congress and choosing Democrats for most of the thirty-four governorships at stake. The relative certainty of this outcome has given the campaign a ho-hum aspect. But don't yawn! Issues are involved in the national congressional conflict and in several state battles which vest this off-year election with &z much importance and interest as any you’ll be able to remember. Take the battle of the ex-So-cialist, Upton Sinclair, for the governorship of California —a fierce “class struggle" between haves and have-nots. Or the La Follette brothers and their new' Progressive party in Wisconsin, which Is likely to grow into a national major party if it w'ins. And remember, that the future existence of the Republican partv will seem much more doubtful if Democratic hopes of substantial house and senate gains are rea- • lized. Candidates have been emphasizing the great sums of New Deal money poured into the states. Even some Republicans seek election on the ground that their of--fiee-holding opponents haven't been wangling enough of it. One of the campaign's most starting developments has been President Roosevelt's sudden display of interest in proposals or various vast fpderal projects ir states where Democratic candidates need help. mum HARDLY less surprising —and quite unprecedented—is Mrs. Roosevelt's leap into the New York campaign on behalf of her friend. Mrs. Caroline O'Day, Democratic candidate for ron-gressman-at-large. Mrs. O’Day's Republican opponent is still another woman. Miss Natalie Couch. Party lines aren't meaning much this year. When people aren't voting for or against the New Deal—mostly for—they’re voting for or against a particular candidate rather than his label. Outstanding examples of irugwumpery are the rush of California conservative Democrats aw'ay from Sinclair, defection of old-line Republicans from progressive Senator Bronson D. Cutting in New' Mexico, desertions from both Democratic and Republican ranks to the Wisconsin Progressives, Senator Hiram Johnson's Repub-lican-Democratic candidacy in California, and defection of North Dakota Republicans to the Democratic opponent of Mrs. William H. Langer. gubernatorial* candidate to vindicate her convicted husband. Remnants of the senate old

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP m m m n m u By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—The country's 237,035 grade crossings may form the basis of the President's next attack on three of his most serious recovery problems. Several of his advisers, casting about to discover how the government may get the most for the money it must spend this winter, believe they 1 ave hit upon the answer in grade crassing elimination work.

They claim these merits for it: It provides more hours of work, for each SIOO spent, than many forms of public construction. Its use of materials promises stimulus to the lagging heavy goods industries. Finally, and in many ways most important, elimination of grade crossings may open the door to a new era of railroading. The recent record-breaking cross-country run of M-10001 showed railroad men that fast trains can not be run regularly under present conditions. Thousands of extra watchmen had to be stationed at grade crossings while the train made its dash. If this hazard could be eliminated and fast service be made practical, railroads might find in it the answer to their declining revenues, while the construction of new diesel engines and new streamlined trains would provide important stimulus to industries where unemployment is most serious. a u • JOSEPH B. EASTMAN, federal co-ordinator of transportation, inclines to this point of view. “I doubt whether any projects would produce more general benefits. considering the relief of unemployment. aid to the capital goods industries, protection of the public safety, and improvement of transportation conditions.” he says in a current magazine article. He believes, also, that the government can properly assume the burden of this work, since the menace of grade crossings has been so enhanced by public expenditures for highways. When the public works program first was undertaken he urged that grade crossing work be put at the head of approved projects. •In 1931 train accidents killed 4.853 and injured 20,057 persons.’’ he said in a letter to PWA Administrator Ickes. "Os these 1.811 were killed and 4.657 were injured in accidents at highway grade crossings. “Grade crossing elimination has been a most painful thorn iff the side of the railroad. The conditions which impel such elimination with continually increasing force have been created, not by the railroads, but by their competitors. the motor vehicles. From a railroad standpoint, moreover, the heavy capital expenditures in-

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Senator Borah! Mrs. William pTownley-Olson split brings La Follette fam- Stormy tight on charter! wages bitter one Langer. wife of rift in radical Nonparti- fiy progressive [.revision In metropolis r\ man fight on deposed governor. san League and Farmer- movement tries ( '. NRA. New Deal: fights for his parties third-party tac- 1 \ Vs arid repeal. J chair as Farmer- nl 7^ T j 'i*' t r - , \' c% , , J \ .( j \ /\ \ gains strength 1 Robeson. Re- \\ F \ rlo,ent ft sht \ r ' ministration of j — / * Senator Norris I * ■* V r ''\ V \ j Governor Me pt**" - Jp' ( i ' a one-h ous e > * EB ' \ \ ) -“n Deal. G? Bitter figh' \ . ii ! legislature: ! \ r' \ 88 Repub ’* ■ ' dry repeal J (flj/ A— t— J ' rans e,r,,R \ ? sought ! uM/b - Four minority j j' gle to save \ I f' ■-■■■ - | parties angle < * * %| one of their ft* i I j A <*■ '."A! for dissatisfied ) "^greatest i ili 6-c- y farm vote. y-A —'"J strongholds. \cslfK w fSgjjuL 1 yA. ir-fy T (A I Drys make deter- . progressive and I (JLM) \\'M ! mined effort to •. A miners' can and i- - i saVe traditionally : i 1 date , to Senate - 1 / k ! seat 0 f veteran i | i hibitron. \ j Hatfield. Sinclair F. PI C I 1 Tl i dndidacy brings / V through to easy \ fight repeal most hectic earn / } triumph r 4 CJ _\ of state prohibtpaign tn many Senator Cutting, progres- A— \ V M V N \y^ S 'l Former Governor!). l tion. vc ' r '- sive Republican, ram X r Bilbo sure winner \ t paigns with aid of out-of- \ of Senate seat. % state progressive elements, F promising to J l i, “raise more hell _ than Huey."

guard and its tradition may be making a last stand. Such stanch die hard Republicans as Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, Henry D. Hatfield of West Virginia, Felix Hebert of Rhode Island, Hamilton F. Kean of New Jersey, and Arthur Robinson of Indiana are among Republicans whose defeat is widely predicted. Senator David Reed of Pennsylvania. ablest and boldest of the “Old Deal” boys, has a stiff fight on his hands. Although a normal off-year recession from the party in pow'er would give the Republicans a gain of about fifty seats in the house, they’re not expecting that many and Democrats are hoping to cut the present G. O. P. strength of 115 members—out of 435—t0 fewer than 100. Such a tremendous party victory seems an optimistic prediction, but it’s fairly certain that Democrats will gain at least four seats in the senate—giving them a two-thirds majority—if not six or eight, in about thirty-six senatorial contests this year. m n IT is these estimates as to house and senate which cause speculation ?s to what will become of the Republican party as now constituted. Many progressives insist that future opposition to the Democratic party will come chiefly from the left. Prohibition also seems to be making a last stand, with voters balloting on repeal in Florida, Idaho, Nebraska. South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming and even Kansas.

volved in such elimination fall far short of paying their w’ay.” bob AT his direction the ICC bureau of valuation studied costs of grade crossing elimination projects and found that about 35 per cent of the money spent was spent for wages to workers. In highway construction their figures showed only 20 per cent of the money went directly to labor. Partly as a result of this study, 439 grade crossing projects have

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INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1934

Here's a birdseye view' of some of the most interesting and significant contests, the results of w'hich you'll want to check the day after election: Idealistic Sinclair, father and champion of EPIC, who astonished everybody by capturing the Democratic nomination for Governor of California, has been losing ground to Republican Governor Merriam since the state’s business and financial interests threw their full weight against him. Originally, every Californian with $5,000 or more dived under the bed. But they crawled out to fight desperately to “save California from Communism” and Sinclair was forced on the defensive. The administration here has cautiously been playing • both ends against the middle. Sinclair's strength is with California jobless and he will Jose if his enemies succeed in aligning the bulk of those who have jobs against those who don’t. In Wisconsin, Senator Bob and ex-Governor Phil La Follette, sons of “old Bob,” are running on a progressive platform markedly more radical than the New Deal. They are opposed by Democratic Governor Albert G. Schmedeman, who had a leg amputated during his re-election campaign; senatorial nominee John M. Callahan, an old anti-Roosevelt Democratic leader, and a couple of Republicans. Bob has the Roosevelt administration’s inferential backing and probably will win. Phil’s fate is in doubt.

been undertaken at a cost of $20,131,362. The money came out of the $448,000,000 made available by the recovery act and subsequent legislation for highway work. If a more ambitious program is decided on this winter, data is ready for quick action. The ICC has in its files facts about every grade crossing in the country. It has final estimates on the cost of eliminating several thousand ot them. The bureau of public roads has been urging similar preparedness on the states, with considerable success. If every crossing now listed should be done away with the cost would be something like thirteen billion dollars, but the men working on the problenj, think this is unnecessary. Hundreds of crossings simply could be closed, they believe, as where a dozen streets in a town cross a railroad track in the course of as many blocks. Many other crossings are on back roads serving only a house or two and offering no serious problem.

By George Clark

SENATOR David A. Reed, archfoe of the New Deal and champion of Pennsylvania's longdominant reactionary Republicanism, is faced by Democratis boss Joe Guffey, one of the nation’s job-getters, who has had many administration favors. Nothing more cockeyed has turned up in the whole campaign than charges that Governor Gifford Pinchot, old enemy of Senator Reed, is hoping to elect Mr. Reed so that, by furnishing evidence of improper campaign expenditures and getting Reed unseated. he himself can be appointed to the senate by a friend who is the Republican candidate for Governor. Ex-Governor Vic Donahey, champion Democratic vote-getter who w'as nominated over a more New Dealish candidate in Ohio, is picked to beat Senator Simeon Fess, elderly, eminently conservative friend of the Anti-Saloon League and bitter critic of the New Deal. In New York, the White House and Jim Farley have been somewhat worried by the vigorous campaign of Robert Moses, a highgrade independent nominated by despairing Republicans, against Governor Herbert Lehman. Latest reports indicate their fears were exaggerated. In Indiana, Arthur (Li’l Arthur) Robinson, voted by Washington correspondents as the man who will be “least missed,” is waging a bitter, and probably lasing, battle with Sherman Minton, Democratic nominee and New Deal supporter. Li'l Arthur ha.s ignor°d national issues in his campaign, spending

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND ■ . By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Alien

WASHINGTON. Nov. 2.—The American Legion's pro-bonus vote has inner administration leaders secretly worried. Their concern has nothing to do w'ith the veterans themselves. For, weirdly enough, while the ex-soldiers went on record for the bonus, their new national commander, Frank Belgrano Jr., a San Francisco banker, is not for immediate payment. But w'hat is worrying administration leaders is the effect of the Legion vote on the next congress. Few' realize it, but a large number of congressional candidates, on both Republican and Democratic tickets, are running on pledges to

vote for the bonus. Take for instance the case of Harry S. Truman, Democratic senatorial nominee in Missouri, a sure winner. Truman waged his primary fight largely on his promise to vote for the bonus, is making it a leading issue in his election campaign. One high New Deal official has made a private check of the congressional line-up, and believes that the bonusites will have a majority in both branches of the new' congress. Such a situation would play squarely into the hands of currency inflationists, who have made repeated efforts to tie up the bonus and inflation in a joint log-rolling drive. it a a NEWS of “Pretty Boy” Floyd's demise reached AttorneyGeneral Homer Cummings at a dramatic moment. It was around 6 p. m. All day moving vans and a large corps of laborers had been carting away the last furnishings and equipment of the justice department, to its new, ornate home on lower Pennsylvania avenue. Except for Cummings’ private office on the seventh floor, the historic brick building, which for decades housed the legal branch of the government. *’as dark and deserted. In Cummings room remained only a few chairs, a frayed worn carpet. About him. reminiscing quietly, were members of his immediate staff, among them Ugo Carusi, youthful executive assistant to the attomey-geperai. He had served many predecessors. “We are leaving some interesting ghosts behind,” Carusi remarked. At that moment a door opend. J. Edgar Hoover, broadshouldered director of the bureau of investigation, burst in. His dark eyes flashed with excitement. “General.” he said, “I am happy to report that our men have just killed 'Pretty Boy’ Floyd.” “Congratulations.” replied Cummings. Then turning to Carusi, he added: “There is another ghost you can add to your collection.”

most of his time attacking Governor Paul V. McNutt. Minton appears to have the edge as Nov. 6 nears. In New Mexico Progressive Senator Bronson Cutting, who bolted the G. O. P. for Roosevelt in 1932, has been deserted by the administration here in favor of Congressman Dennis Chavez, Democrat. He has also been deserted by such important conservative Republicans as Albert and Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms. Senator Joe Robinson is campaigning against Senator Cutting, while several Progressive senators —including the Democratic Edward P. Costigan of Colorado — have gone to his aid. The result is doubtful. nuti A COUPLE of congressmen are competing for Nebraska’s senate seat, but the most interesting fight is that of the veteran Senator George W. Norris for a referendum vote for a nonpartisan, one-house state legislature. In West Virginia, Rush D. Holt, 29-year-old Democratic candidate and New Deal evangel, is fairly sure to defeat Senator Henry D. Hatfield, who urges a return to conservative Republicanism and higher protective tariffs. Labor is out to “get” Mr. Hatfield. The so-called “labor vote” may be an unusually strong factor this year, both because of unrest in labor ranks and unusually vigorous pronouncements by the A. F. of L. against various candidates — including Fess, Reed, Hatfield, Hebert, and Walcott.

ARIZONA'S wealthy, statuesque Representative Isabella Greenway is an old and dear friend of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. She was a bridesmaid at their wedding, is a staunch Democrat, and the White House door is al- ! ways open to her. But despite this intimacy, Mrs. Greenway has other political inI terests. She is a contributor and direcI tor of “American, Inc.,” organized i to keep congress and the administration “from going too far left.” And first vice-president of the organization is Indiana’s genial, expansive ex-Senator Jim Watson, former Tory-Republican floor leader of the senate, and a strong : New Deal foe. I (Copyright. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) NRA ORDERS INCREASE FOR HOME WORKERS Cane-seat Weaving Industry Gets Raise in Pay. i Bu Scripp*-H award S'ewapaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 2—Home work for other than the handicapped, established at a definite piece-work pay scale, is recognized today in an order of the NRA in* ] dustnal appeals board. The order, dealing with the hand-woven cane I seat chair industry. came3 a pay in-' ; crease for some 3.000 to 4,000 home | workers in Indiana and southern states. It exempts the industry from the 30 cents an hour minimum of the NRA furniture manufacturing code and holds that home work is not barred by the code. Under the ruling the chair factories must pay home-workers 8 cents per 100 square inches of woven seats—about 16 cents a chair. Odd Fellows to Give* Party A joint card party will be given by j the Irvington Odd Fellows. No. 508. j and Rebecca lodge. No. 608. at 8 to- ■ morrow night in the Odd Fellows hall, 50201s East Washington street.

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Fair Enough HIM MU SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. Nov. 2—“ l am not a politician; I talk too much." Upton Sinclair said as he lay, stretching his frail length on the other twin bed in a hotel which stood on ground once occupied by the San Francisco city hall. He was hiding out for a tew hours' rest on a site spooky-tvith the haunts of ancient political skullduggery. On this spot, where the American mahatma had holed up with hus brainstorm trust to bulldog a baked apple and snap at a wafer between campaign meetings, the

taxpayers of San Francisco had been sola down the river innumerable times in the years preeedme the swap-scheme which he calls by the Babbitian name of EPIC. “I talk too much," the mahatma reiterated drawing a shrill-colored topcoat about his middle in the manner of Mahatma Ghandi taking up the slack in his hipcloth. "And,” he added, “I write too much, too.” It is easy to agree with Mr. Sinclair that he had talked and written too much for a man who comes to the people with his hat in his hand to ask them to let him save them. Any man who ever under-

takes to tell the people the truth about themselves should forever renounce his hope of public office. man They W on't Take It MR. SINCLAIR should know that the people, the chronic joiners, the men who march in parades wearing feather duster hats, tripping over tin swords or the hems of nightshirts, never will forgive a man who derides their foolishness. He ought to know that he could not tell even half of the truth about the history of Stanford university and expect to receive the votes of the Stanford alumni who are now an influential element, seeded into the citizenship of California. The American mahatma has been a complaining witness against the world for many years. And he has a good case, too. Now that he has bepn rash enough to carry the target in a campaign for Governor in a corporation state, everything that he ever said or wrote, touching on the idiosyncrasies of the mutt mind, is being fired back at him. Wasn't there a girl, somewhere, who rammed her engagement ring down the barrel of a muzzle-loader and returned it to her fiance that way? The disappointing and rather disillusioning thing about Mr. Sinclair in these circumstances is his copper ten, twenty and thirty-year-old lambasts—to explain and to deny. He still thinks as he always did. saving a few variations of no great importance. But he is so full of a great longing to be “I, Governor of California,” in Sacremonto, instead of merely in a book, that he is stooping to be that which he always held to be the most loathsome creature on earth, a “practical.” which means a compromising, politician. This has been his great mistake. He probably will flop in the election because be offended so many of his public by pulling snoots at their pet stupidities years ago before he ever had heard the hum of a political bee. There are enough of these folks, who might otherwise be for him, to lick him at the polls. ana Something to Worry About THERE is a bare, psychological possibility that such people would have voted for him if he had had the political gumption to say, “Yes, I said it.” or “I wrote it," and added with a truculent challenge to their sportsmanship, “It goes as it lays.” But, instead. Mahatma Sinclair has discredited not only his political campaign but the writings on which he bjses his only claim to-’authority by attempting'ro explain that he didn't mean what he seemed to mean. He now loves the Catholics and Baptists and the Knights of Columbus and Methodists and the American Legion and the Leland Stanford alumni and practically all of God's chill'un. Unfortunately for the California mahatma, these chill'un now are insisting, with rancor in their souls, that they heard him the first time. A man wiser in the way of the politicians w'ould have realized that he had utterly disqualified himself for any office within the gift of any typical American electorate. But Sinclair, proving his amateur status, rushed in, forgetting that he had mortally offended long beforehand almost every one who believes in even so minor a faith as the Order of Owls or the Brotherhood of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers. Asa result, the mahatma of the golden west has taken a brutal shellacking from the practical, i. e„ the professional politicians. They dug up his old books and tracts and gouged out paragraphs which churned up the deepest feelings of many citizens who always vote the straight emotional ticket. Mr. Sinclair’s bewilderment w-ould have been comic had it not become a bit pathetic, as he has tried to square himself with w'hole elements of people whom he ought, in consistency, to berate or instruct rather than trv to entice. 'There is no doubting that he loves them more than his opponents do and that he has logic and honesty on his side in many of the arguments which he is now trying to hush up. But these are arguments which Mr. Sinclair never can win. He licked himself with his own typewriter many years ago and it is sad to see a crusader recant and trim for the sake of the votes of people whom he may love much but whom he respects but little. (Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

TESTS made with various milk modifications under controlied conditions in various institutions for the care of children show that the regular feeding of children with milk containing vitamin D developed by any of the processes mentioned in the previous article will successfully prevent rickets and serve to cure in a considerable number of cases. However, some of the products take much longer to bring about a satisfactory result than do others. Furthermore, it is not saf; for the average person confronted with a diagnosis of rickets in a child to endeavor to cure the case himself by giving inordinate quantities of irradiated milk. a a a EVEN in cases of rickets of relative severity, cure can be obtained much more quickly and satisfactorily by use of potent drugs of vitamin D and also by use of direct application of ultraviolet rays to tne skin. This causes the skin itself to produce the vitamin D necessary for the human body in the manner in which nature does the work through action of the sun's rays on the naked skin. Thus milk today is a much more complicated substance than it used to be. Its proper use involves an understanding of its composition, an understanding of the numerous laws regulating its production, and an understanding of the specific purposes for which it is to be used. Various governmental agencies which have given attention to the matter find that all the different forms in which milk is produced have special usefulness according to their nature and compositiorw mam UNDER the federal emergency relief administration, the use of evaporated milk has been particularly recommended because it is always obtainable in a safe form at reasonably low cost. Investigations carried on in various laboratories havg shown that the encomiums poured on milk by nutritional authorities are well warranted. The production and distribution of milk and milk products is today one of the largest industries, if not the largest, in the United States. It is wise to bear in mind the advice of the experts in nutrition that every person Should have from a pint to a quart of milk daily, whether taken m the form of fresh milk or in the form of various milk products and concoctions.

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