Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 163, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1934 — Page 7
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It Seems to Me HEVWOODBROUN N r OT .or.g a 2 ' a wril-to-do citizrn of Chicago J questioned rr.o at a Washington dinner party and said. You're a ncw-paper man. I supp.>se you know quit** a lot about the inner works of this showdown here” If I were altogether a tru'hfu! man I would have den.ed the soft impeachment, but it is pleasant to pre*rnd to wisdom and I gave the gentleman my inscrutable mile as a rome-on. • i understand." continued the visitor from Chirac*. that Franklin D Roosevelt is merely a puppet in the present admin:'ration and that the whole work 1 bring run by a young Columbia professor named Rexford Guy Tugwell.’* This flabbergasted me so much that the best I could do was to reply that in mv opinion the report was exaggerated. Now here was an educated man
• I say that on the probably too 'light fact that we were classmates at Harvard i who seriously believed the brain trust talk to the extent of identifying Professor Tugwell as in American Mussolini. Now I need not mince words in saying that this is utterly silly. Nobody can say precisely what is 'he extent of Mr. Tugwell’s power. I am inclined to believe that it is exaggerated even bv the well informed. Officially, of course, he has a comparatively slight scope in his pre ent post, but it is well known that the Pr<* consults him on
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many problrms which have nothing to do with agriHowrver, the meetings with Mr. Tugwell and Mr. Roosevelt are far levs frequent than were those between Prolev-or Moley and the President. Mr. Moley saw Mr. Roosevelt practirallv every day and at a time when the pare of the administration was far more h.ghiv geared than a* present. There was perhaps emr justification for the rumor that Mr. Moley was a sort of Colonel House or even more important in the running of the nation. a a a Ri nrlinff. Writing—( ommunism \ NI) yet later developments proved this theory /w. altogether fallacious. When Professor Moley and Secretary Hull fell out it was Mr. Moley who had to go. and nobody pretends that Mr. Hull is anything like a key man in the administration. Moreov> r. there is no way for the outsider to tell how P ident follows. In any important situation he seeks the views of several men, but every indication point he fact that the ultimate decision is made on his own. Many features of the administration program which are attributed to the brain trust did not come from this source at all. Os course by now the phrase has become elastic. Almost any public official who can read and write words of more than two syllabi*' i set down as a collegiate visionary imported to W • hmgton for the promotion of communism. Specifically Mr. Tugwell probably had little to do with the cr*ation and the detail of NR A. The credit or the responsibility for this device must be left pre’tv much to the President and General Johnson. If I understand the doctrines of Professor Tugwell. which is a fairly uncertain order, I think he has small faith in what is generally called regimentation. Or to be more precise, he believes such endeavors must bo made slowly. Asa political economist he takes very careful count of American psychology. I imagine there are It many things which Professor Tugwell believes to bo desirable and still fails to present because of his belief that they are not according to the Am. riian !<>!k w,i\s. On the whole, I would put Tugwell down a' a disciple of permanent readjustment rather than mere recovery. But I will hazard the gu- s that hi' roadjus'ment plans go over a period of year He does not think closely with the Soriali • or Communist philosopher, because of his doubts a tt. the pn ent efficacy of a compulsion in America. Hi appn ach would be more nearly in the setting up of certain regulations which might be called the rules of the game. ass .1 (It tod Soldier IBEI I EYE that in spite of much weight of present testimony on the other side that Mr. Tugwell is Mil! romantic enough to think that a planned social order can be achieved bv a semi-voluntary cooperation. At anv rate, he does lean to trying such measures in the beginning. Quite possibly he would say that a time for compulsion does not come until voluntary co-operation ha-* had a fair trial. However, it always is dangerous business to try and put words into another’s mouth. The only excuse is that Mr. Tugwell himself is in the difficult position of being quoted as being an administration spokesman whenever he makes a statement. That simply isn't true. Mr. Tugwell can not commit the Prisidcnt. No blank check has been put Into his hands. The reverse is much more true. It has been presidential policy to delegate certain individuals to take the rap for a number of highly contentious pieces of proposed legislation. The strategy is simple enough. The President does not propose to fight it out on every front at the present time. He must, of course, rise or fall in prestige and popularity according to the success or failure of certain vital parts of his program. But it seems to him sound policy to favor certain things without commuting his whole weight to them. Thus the Copeland bill, which died in the last congress, generally was known as the Tugwell bill. There ran be little doubt that the President believed in the major purposes of this pure food and drug act. So did Mr. Tugwell. but the bill was not suggested originally by the assistant secretary of agriculture and he did not draw it up. The assignment was an extremely dangerous and difficult one which Professor Tugwell accepted unflinchingly. It earned him united opposition of newspapers, magazines and radio chains. Much of the talk about Mr. Tugwell. the Communist. has been inspired by the design of certain advertisers to get after the man nominally responsible for the suggestion of anew candor in publicity. So intense Is this opposition that it is at least possible that Mr. Tugwell will not last out through thp President's present term of office. He has played the part of a good soldier. The understanding between him and the President has been complete, but when the history of these recent years is written I thick it will be found that rumor took a bright young brigadier and insisted that he was a field marshal. Copyright 1954. bv The Tmirsi
Today s Science —Bl DAVID DIETZ
I F Thanksgiving comes, can Christmas be far behind? The answer is no. And so. with the advent of the turkey season. It is time to five a thought to Chr.'tmas presents. Each year I assume the role of Santa Claus by recommending books of popular science which would make suitable gifts. I am going to begin the list this year with "Earth, Radio and the Stars by Harlan T. Stetson. Perhaps many readers will recall that in past years I have recommended Dr Stetson's excellent "Man and the Stars." In ' Man and the Stars.” Dr. Stetson gave a popular account of the history of astronomical discovery, discussing the work of the great astronomers of the past and concluding with philosophical chapters on tht p ssibility of life elsewhere in the universe. Dr. Stetson turns his attention to some of the very latest di oovcries of astronomy and allied sciences in his new book. A large number of these are discoveries made by Dr Stetson himself while a member of the Harvard college observatory or as director of the Perkins observatory, or. more recently, as research associate in geophysics at Harvard university. a a a * THE thesis of "Earth. Radio, and the Stars." is that our earth is a little ship adrift In a cosmic sea. pushed and pulled and buffeted by many u..'ferent forces of the un’verse. and that radio provides a scientific instrument by which many of these forces can be studied. "The present volume." Dr. Stetson states tn the preface, "is written to bring together recent conspicuous developments in astronomy and its related fields which may suggest a more intimate relationship between man and his cosmic environment than has perhaps been generally supposed.”
THE NEW DEAL AT TOP SPEED
Vast Benefit to Entire Nation Visioned From Colossal 7 VA Project
Thu U th* I**l mt ix arlirlet on wht President Rnoxerelt will ee when he vl*it the Tennessee Valley, No. I social-planning projett *f the New Deal. BY JOHN T. MOCTOIX Written for SEA Service KNOXVILLE. Tern.. Nov. 17—You don’t have to be a dreamer to visualize what the Tennessee Valley Authority, given the time and the money, will do for the Tennessee valley. The program of "national planning for a complete watershed" as outlined by President Roosevelt definitely Is under way. Whether the whole program will be carried out depends, the people of the valley believe, on what the voters of the country do in the presidential election of 1936. For the program can't be completed during the remaining two years of Mr. Roosevelt's present term, and will have to carrv over into the next administration. If carried out. this is what the TV A program will do for the Tennessee valley: Bring cheap electricity to the whole valley. Now 95 per cent of the farm homes have no electricity. The presence of the TV A wuth its power yardstick already has resulted in rate cuts by private companies of around 20 per cent, but TVA rates still are 30 to 50 per cent lower than that. Bring new industries to the valley, especially chemical and metallurgical plants, which by reason of cheap electric power will be able to utilize low grade ores found in the valley. Make the Tennessee river navigable the full 650 miles of its length, resulting in cheap water transportation. Put an end to destructive floods. Rehabilitate millions of acres of run-down land by stopping soil erosion, putting a part of the land in forest and the rest in crops that will restore the washed-away humus and top soil.
Land-destroying cotton will be replaced by livestock and landbuilding crops. Fill the valley with co-opera-tives of all sorts, beneficial alike to consumer and producer, but hard on the middle man. Generally, increase the income of the people of the valley, bring most of them conveniences they never had before, and make living in the Tennessee valley pleasanter. Naturally the question arises, what will it all cost and how will it pay out? It is a question that can not be answered. 808 /CHAIRMAN A. E. MORGAN, pressed for an answer by a persistent congressman at a hearing before a house committee last spring, said the dams and attribution lines might cost around 6300.000.000. and that the distribution systems might pay out in twenty-five years. But he insisted it was only an estimate. Army engineers, in their last report—which preceded creation of the TVA—estimated it would cost a billion dollars to build all the dams necessary for flood control, navigation and production of the maximum amount of power. The total cost naturally depends on how many dams the TVA builds, and the TVA has no wav of knowing now how' much more money it will be given. To date there have been two appropriations, totaling $98,000,444.
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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND —By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen —
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—The NRA board is secretly worried over a prize faux pas it uncovered recently. Looking through the vast accumulation of files left by its predecessor, the board dug up the Presidential order discontinuing a number of service trade codes. Their abandonment had been announced with a flourish by General Johnson last spring. But much to its horror, the board found that the order never had been signed by the President. Why the document never reached the White House, or. if it did,
THANKSGIVING FETE IS ARRANGED BY 0. E. S. Special Program to Feature Session Monday Night. Prospect chapter No. 452, Order |of Eastern Star, will have a special program in connection with its meeting at 7:45 Monday at which a collection for fruit and jellies for the Masonic home will be made. A sketch. "Columbia Explains Thanksgiving,” will be presented unj der the direction of Miss Estella ! Rilev. A musical program will follow in which those taking part will be Mrs. Ruth Tooley. Miss Nina Bass. Noble Percy, William Schumann and William Lemon. Mrs. Neva Sabins is worthy matron of the chapter and Edward Mumaugh is worthy patron. They i will preside at the meeting. RESERVE OFFICERS TO HOLD DINNER DEC. 8 High Army Official to Attend Annual Event. The annual Indiana reserve officers' dinner will be held Dec. 8 at the Columbia Club. Colonel Robert L. Moorehead, Reserve Officers' Association of Indiana president, announced today. Guest of honor will be Lieuten-ant-Commander Ola F. Hessler, Ihird area naval reserve commander. and Colonel T. L. Sherburne. Indiana military area chief of staff. Dinner chairmen include Major Richard H. Habbe. guests; Major A. C. Rasmussen, attendance; Major Frank J. Billeter. arrangements, and Captain E. M. Chellow. mess.
WOMEN GIVE $402 TO HOSPITAL FUND DRIVE Department Club Makes Donation; 1908 Group Gives $350. A contribution of $402 by the Woman's Department Club to the Flower Mission Tuberculosis hospital campaign fund was announced today by campaign officials. The club sought only $350 to provide one bed. A similar move by the 1908 Club has resulted in $350 being turned in to the fund. Paul Coble American l egion Auxiliary has given S3O and the Magazine Club $8 FRENCH GROUP HEARS RECITAL ON 'PARSIFAL' Miss Jane Hampson Entertains Alliance Francaise. A lecture-recital in French on Wagner's "Parsifal” was given by Miss Jane Hamilton Thursday night before the Alliance Francaise. Mis., Hampson returned recently after spending several years in Paris. Preceding her presentation, pupils m the French classes of Manual nigh school, tapght by Miss Elizabeth Davis, gave a comedy puppet i show, "Au Ciaur de la Lune.” >
It has two dams under way, a third about ready to start. If the river is fully developed, it will yield about a million-horse power of prime or year-round power and about a similar amount of dump or secondary power. b a a A T present there is no market **• for such a vast amount of power, but the potential market is unlimited. For instance, heating the homes of the people of the valley by electricity would consume an enormous amount of power. One of the reasons for build- j ing the town of Norris was to experiment in this very thing; to see if houses could be heated by ' electricity at a cost low enough for the average income of a skilled worker. What this might do to the already groggy coal industry is an other matter. Nor is there any way of knowing now’ how the project will pay out. Revenue from pow’er is fairly tangible, but how can you figure the return from reforestation and soil erosion? Land reclamation is part of a national program of planned economy and can not be put on a cash-and-carry basis. The same is true of other phases of the TVA program.
why it was returned without Roosevelt’s signature, has not been discovered. But there it is unsigned, and the codes —pertaining to hotels, restaurants, cleaning and dying—were laid on the shelf months ago. Organized labor, over whose vigorous objections Johnson junked the codes, has seized this unexpected opening to demand reinstatement. Johnson revoked the codes on the ground that violations were sc easy and widespread as to make the task of enforcement impossible. The unionites do not deny this argument. But they counter with the contention that to strip these trades of codes is to deprive over 2,000.000 of poorly-paid workers of even "paper” protection. They hold it is preferable to have the codes violated wholesale, than to have no codes at all. Through the NRA Labor Advisory Board they are demanding that the board revive the codes. If that demand is rejected they threaten to take the issue directly to the President. 808 INNER administration masterminds are pushing secretly a plan by which the White House will get the Speaker and floor leader whom Roosevelt privately wants in command of the new house.
These preferences are: For Speaker. Texas’ decisive veteran. Sam Rayburn: for floor leader. Massachusetts’ level-head-ed John W. McCormack. Roosevelt believes that with them in command, he can keep his unruly majority in check. Taking a leading part in lining up support for this ticket are VicePresident Jack Garner; Edward J. Flynn, Bronx Tammany leader and co-boss—with Jim Farley—of New York democracy, and Senator Joe Guffey, Democratic potentate of Pennsylvania. These chieftains control a bloc of seventy-two house members. With the New Ene'and sunport that McCormack's candidacy is expected to rally, the number comes close to 100. a little less than onethird of the Democratic strength in the chamber During the next six weeks this potently backed slate will have to dc some vigorous behind-the-scenes maneuvering to muster the 75 or 100 additional votes necessary to beat Tennessee's ambitious Joe Byrnes. Whether this can be done remains to be seen. At any rate, wily Ed Flynn is allowing no grass to grow under his feet. Election returns were hardly in, when he quietly appeared in Washington to start his vote garnering. ■CopvriKht. 1934 bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.i TEACHERS’ PARLEY SET Junior High Group to Hear Ohio State Educator. A conference on guidance in the junior high schools for all junior nigh school teachers will be held at 5:30 Wednesday at Shortndge high school. Dr. D. H. Eickenberry of Ohio States university will be the principal speaker. Discussion groups in various phases of education also will be held.
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MUCH that the TVA is doing is in the nature of experiment, which, if successful, will benefit the whole country. It is generally understood in Washington that the Tennessee valley is being used as a laboratory for trying out seme of the New Deal experiments. An example is soil erosion work. At first, check dams were built. It is the method being used throughout the country. But dams, especially those built of stone, are costly and take a lot of time to build. TVA soil erosion experts have experimented with different methods until now they have found the best and least expensive way. It consists of plowing in all but the main gully on a hillside until they are level, seeding them with grass, then covering them with straw matting to keep the rains from washing out the seeds and the new fills. The main gully acts as a drain for the entire hillside, and dams are built in it to check the flow
FEARS LAWS MAY HURT CITY’S AVIATION AIMS C. of C. Official Directs Appeal to Federal Commission. Hope that such legislation as may be suggested to the next congress by the federal aviation commission will not be of a nature to curtail existing airmail and passenger service was expressed today in an open letter to Clarke Howell, commissicn chairman, from the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce's aeronautics director, Herbert O. Fisher. Speaking for the chamber’s aviation commission, Mr. Fisher told Mr. Howell that the citizens of Indianapolis had an intense interest in the ; question since they had obligated themselves to pay, through taxation, the $1,000,000 required to con- | struct the municipal airport here. Curtailment of service would affect local business adversely, Mr. Fisher wrote. JOG IN RURAL STREET WILL BE ELIMINATED Oii Company Donates Land for Street Improvement, Removal of a right angle jog in Rural street at the East Tenth street intersection will be possible, works board members announced yesterday, through the asigning to the city without charge of a small strip of land on the northwest corner by the Pure Oil Refining Company. The land in the form of a triangle twenty by forty-five feet is part of the company filling station at that location. A similar donation of land by the Shell Petroleum Company a few’ days ago permitted the works board to begin w r ork of eliminating a jog that also formed a serious traffic hazard at East and Morris streets. Both improvements will be made w r ith FERA labor.
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of the water, thereby preventing deepening of the gully. This method has been in use for the last six months and seems to be a success. It was a revelation to foresters and conservationists who attended a meeting of the American Forestry Association here recently and they predicted its use would spread over the whole country. 800 HOUSING quarters for Norris Dam workers cost twice as much as the ordinary kind of construction camp would have cost. Instead of the usual temporary barracks, there was built the model towm of Norris. Norris offers an experiment in low-cost housing. About half the houses in Norris are of this type. They are built of blocks made of cinders and cement. The federal government right, now is spending millions of dollars on housing and the experiment at Norris is comparatively small. The fertilizer program is an experiment which\if successful, will pay out handsomely to farmers,
THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP aao an a By Ruth Finney
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—When W. Naverell Harriman hurtled across the country a few w'eeks ago in his record-breaking streamlined train, the public knew all about it. Since then, his rise to pow’er in NRA has been equally sensational, but it has been accomplished with little public attention.
Today the wealthy young chairman of the board of the Union Pacific railroad occupies, to all intents and purposes, the position once held by General Hugh S. Johnson. When NRA was reorganized, it was announced that a nine-man board would take ever General Johnson's work. Colonel George A. Lynch was continued as administrative officer, a post which, under General Johnson, had carried with it little authority or prestige. But after a short period of service Colonel Lynch resigned. Mr. Harriman was just as quietly named to succeed him. Shortly after that the position began to take on new importance. The administrative officer began to discuss policy matters at NRA code hearings. The recovery board, deliberately secretive about its activities, began to fade into the background just as the board which originally ruled over General Johnson had done a year before. Mr. Harriman was no more communicative than the board. But signs of his increasing importance have appeared, one after another. The latest was announcement that Dr. Gustave Peck would serve as labor advisor to Mr. Harriman, and that an industrial advisor would be appointed shortly. In the old regime General Johnson had labor and industrial advisors
By George Clark
Here is a view of Wilson dam. present source of TVA power, which will be the main unit in the power production program. It was built by the government during the World war at a cost of 547.000.00 fl to provide power for nitrate plants.
but not to the government. Much of the TVA work is like that. Other parts of the TVA program can be measured still less in dollars and cents. For instance, the training and recreation program for the workers of Norris dam is given free, with no thought of a direct return. But it is making leaders and trained workers of a large group of men in the valley. The training and recreation program is the TVA's substitute for the gambling and drinking joints and red light districts usually found at or near construction camps. The expenditures of the TVA represent a nation’s investment in a section of the country to find out how certain id£as w’ork out so that, if successful, they can be applied to the rest of the country. It is national planning on an experimental scale. The experiment is far enough along to indicate that the money it is costing is well spent and that the whole country will benefit from what the TVA is doing. THE END
because he was making important decisions affecting both groups. The repetition of the pattern is interpreted here as meaning that Mr. Harriman. too, is going to exercise considerable power. ft a a THE post he now holds is Mr. .Harriman’s fifth with NRA. Early in its career he served as compliance director in New York state. Before long he was called to Washington as member of the industrial advisory board. He stepped from an advisory to an administrative capacity in charge of the division of heavy goods industries. Early this year it was announced that he would be special assistant to General Johnson, in charge of guiding the transition of NRA from code making to code administering. But that lasted only two months. Mr. Harriman wished to return to his private affairs, it was announced. General Johnson appointed another assistant. The new administrative officer is an important figure in the industrial world. In addition to his office at the head of the Union Pacific, he is chairman of the executive committee of the Illinois Central railroad, a director of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, the Bank of Manhattan Company, and Western Union. He is a partner in Brown Brothers, Harriman & Cos. His fortune, inherited from E. H. Harriman of railroad’s early aristocracy, has been estimated at $100,000,000. He lists himself in “Who’s Who” as a “well-known polo player.” He is vice-president of Raymond Moley’s magazine “Today.” Before his connection with NRA he was chairman of the board of the Aviation Corporation of Delaware, one of the holding companies investigated in connection with cancellation of air mail contracts last winter. Mr. Harriman is 42. but appears to be younger. He is tall and slim, a shade stoop-shouldered.
OFFICERS ARE ELECTED BY LIFE UNDERWRITERS Homer L. Rogers Named Head of State Association. New officers of the Indiana State Association of Life Underwriters assumed their duties today. Homer L. Rogers, state manager of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, was elected president at a luncheon Thursday in the Columbia Club. Other officers are Herbert A. Luckey, vice-president: Lewis G. Ferguson, treasurer, and Francis P. Huston, secretary. Delegations of seven allied associations met with the state society. BONES FOUND NEAR WYNEKOOPHOME OLD Remains of Indian Woman Dead Fifty Years, Is Report. B’J L niUrt Prt! FRANKFORT. Mich., Nov. 17Bones found recently in a box near the Crystal Lake cottage of Dr Alice Wynnekoop, Chicago, convicted slayer of her daughter-in-law, are those of an Indian womafl who had died about fifty yeans ago, P. L. Mauseth, chief of police, said today.
Fair Enough WESTBROOK PffilHt ONE of the saddest stories ever told is that of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the German carpenter who is being detained against his will as a suspect in the Lindbergh murder case. At first, your correspondent was inclined to suspect that the unfortunate prisoner might have some knowledge of the crime. But then Hauptmann dismissed his original counsel and hired Eddie Reilly of Brooklyn, N. Y Mr. Reilly slowly is breaking your correspondent's heart. Hauptmann happened to have
$14,000 of the identical money which was paid as ransom for the Lindbergh baby but it was just some money which had been entrusted to his keeping by a notoriously penniless friend of his who is nowdead. Any fair-minded person can understand how that might happen. Almost every one. at some time or other in the course of an average lifetime, is approached by a penniless friend and asked to take charge of $14,000 and mind it for him. Some people would refuse to go to that much trouble for a friend and tell him. instead, to mind Ills $14,000
himself. But Hauptmann, as Mr. Reilly is beginning to impress upon the public mind in the gradual development of the saddest story ever told, was not a selfish friend. He was big-hearted. He was so big-hearted that he once tried to lend $7,000 of his money to the penniless friend who asked him to mind the $14,000. He felt that sorry for his penniless friend with the 514.000. n a a What a Carpenter! 'T'HAT is all there is to the affair of the $14,000 A of the identical ransom money which was discovered in Hauptmann's garage, unless you wish to quibble about the separate cache of SBOO found in ransom bills which were rolled up and inserted into augur holes on the blind side of a beam. If you should take this cynical attitude, that peculiarity, too. can be explained in a manner which will allay suspicion and convert any fair person to Hauptmann's side of the problem. Hauptmann was a carpenter and he was out of work. But once a carpenter, always a carpenter. So he bored these holes for something to do in his Idleness and it was only a malicious chance which caused him to select the blind side of a beam up near the roof of his garage as the site of his boring. It would have been more convenient to work on a length of beam in a vice on his bench, but Hauptmann was no lazy carpenter. He liked to de things the hard way. As your correspondent gets Hauptmann’s reasoning, he inserted the SBOO merely as filler. Some carpenters, wishing to plug unnecessary holes in a wooden beam would hammer round pegs into the holes and plane the ends off flush. But Hauptmann had just one eccentricity. He always filled augur holes with SBOO, preferably of ransom money entrusted to his care by a destitute man. That is practically all there is to the case It all explains away so simply that yom correspondent feels a sense of guild for having thought that Hauptmann might have had a hand in the kidnaping and murder. Eddie Reilly's sad stories always make good believing. o b a All for Love he explained away a case in which a lady named Miss Olivia Stone, of Cincinnati, u’aylaid a man named Ellis Kinkead on a Brooklyn street and shot him dead. Mr. Reilly did not deny that Miss Stone shot Mr. Kinkead dead. He merely insisted that it wasn't murder because, in the first place, Miss Stone loved Mr. Kinkead very much indeed, and, moreover, didn’t feel well at the time. Between sessions of court, in the place across the street, Mr. Reilly would gather with the ladies and gentlemen of the press to relax and bandy witty remarks. It was a difficult case because Miss Stone ran into considerable heft and wasn't blond. And it would have been as much as her life was worth to cross her knees and give the jury a squint at her wide, solid calves. In the place across the street, Mr. Reilly would blind his eyes and refer to her as "that poor little girl” and everybody would laugh, including him. He persistently impressed the jury with the love which Miss Stone bore Mr. Kinkead and overlooked no chance to tell the twelve good men and true how terrible she was feeling that day. Miss Stone was nuts about that man and she felt just awful. Every bone in her body ached and every hair on her head pained separately. The jurors sobbed and decided that it served Mr. Kinkead right. You have to steel yourself against Mr. Reilly’s great, humane sympathy for the misunderstood. Miss Stone, on the admitted facts of the case, had a strong appearance of guilt but went home to Cincinnati absolved of all blame. Mr. Reilly, in the place across the street, laughed and picked up the check for the refreshments. fCopvright. 1934, bv United Feature Syndicate, Inc )
Your Health BV !)K. MORRIS FISHBEIN
SIT straight, stand erect, eat bulky foods, be regular in your habits, and avoid worry. Here you have the formula for a normal digestion and prevention of constipation. There is no need for laxatives or cathartics, if you stick to this regimen. Constipation is a symptom, not a disease. It is, therefore, necessary, in handling any case in which this symptom is the subject of complaint, to determine the direct and predisposing causes. There are advocates of various types of bowel action. Some insist that the bowel should empty itself at least three times in twenty-four hours. However, the vast majority of physicians believe that once in twenty-four hours is a satisfactory rate for most persons. Failure of the colon or large bowel to empty itself at least once in twenty-four hours may be considered a symptom of constipation. 808 THOSE who advocate excessive activity of the bowel do so because they believe that constipation as a symptom is associated with a number of other symptoms. They point to the fact that chronic constipation is usually accompanied by the appearance of hemorrhoids or piles. These are varicose veins in the rectum. Pressure of the mass of material that is not emptied causes a blocking of the circulation and in that way may be associated with development of piles. The presence of discomfort, pain, nervousness and sleeplessness is, in some instances, because of failure of the bowel to act. Among the common causes of constipation are such factors as improper diet, with insufficient amount of bulk, bulky material being in itself a stimulus to bowel action. BBS ONE of the most common causes of constipation is failure to recognize the call and, as a result, failure to create habitual action. Once a definite time is developed and regularly observed, constipation is exceedingly infrequent. Authorities who study the posture of the human being are convinced that standing in a sagging postue or slumping in your seat may be associated with constipation through failure to develop properly the abdominal muscles. When you stand with the abdomen well in, or sit erect with the chin and abdomen well in, the abdominal muscles are firm and their firmness is reflected in the activity of muscles of the bowels. Establishment of a regular time for emptying the bowel, development of a state of mind which will heed regularly the natural cull to empty the bowel, and relief from worry and strain will all help to overcome a tendency to infrequent bowel action. In addition you mii.it try corrective exercises in bending and walking, and massage of the abdomen.
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