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It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN IN any talk about religion there Is necessity for * acnptural confirmation. I am equipped with a text. On the day before he died Jesus Christ performed the agnostics' miracle. Tucked away In a ‘•ingle sentence of the gospel, according to St. Luke, there lies the record of the supreme deed of the man of Nazareth. And yet this text never is celebrated In sermons, because Jesus neither received nor a- ked any bargain of belief. He required no tool of faith.

"And he touched his ear.” the story says, "and healed him ” It was the servant of the high priest who stood before Jesus bleeding. He had come with others to capture Christ and deliver him to trial and execution. John names the man as Malchus. The sword of Simon Peter severed the ear of his enemy, but Jesus "touched his ear and healed him.” I think that none of the other miracles is in precisely this mood. The lep#*r cried out, "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.” To the centurion Christ said. "I have

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not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.” The thief on the cross asked for mercy But Malchus laid no faith at the feet of Jesus. This servant of the high priest was under orders to carry out an unfriendly deed and did so. There is no record that Malchus became at that moment, or ever a follower of Christ. Nor does it seem that Chris* made any attempt to convert him It was enough for Jesus that a man -tood before him suffering and bleeding. Impulsively, out of natural kindliness and courtesy, Christ stopped the blood and pain. And there is irony in the fact that we know’ him as the man of sorrows, who came to clean e the world from the sin of suffering. ana H r Musi He Ready CHURCHES have founded their theologies by casting out the miracle of Malchus. The theologians have stressed the importance of man's faith in Jesus Christ. They have not been able to attain the flaming conception of Jesus Christ's faith in man. To the fundamentalists anything less than regimented dogma is sheer atheism. They seem to insist that the individual not only shall believe in God but define Him. The second requirement is harder. A man well may reject the Deity of the denominations because he is too small. Infinity does not need the reassurance of belief. An honest ‘‘l don't know” was never yet a sin. We have been told that the faith of man can move mountains, but a mountain also can be moved with pick and shovel and the shoulder muscles, and if sterns to me much fairer to the mountain to move it in this manner. Not one of us can toss his faith high enough to make a magic ropeway up to God. In the end we all must stand inadequate by faith and deed but ready for the hand of Christ because we bleed and suffer. A newspaper man is apt to approach the Bible in a somewhat different manner from other readers. If he believes that the book is inspired divinely throughout there is no chance or reason for speculation. Otherwise he has every right to apply news lests. a a a Christ H as a Teacher NOW, every reporter knows that in a story’ of a speech or trial or murder inaccuracies will creep in. Words will not be taken down exactly, even if flimsy sheets are handed out. since the orator of the evening often may depart from his prepared address. Accordingly, the newspaper reporter, if he is a rationalist, will not be interested enormously in miracles. And yet he will feel that something authentic did come down from the apostolic reporters of the Holy Land. Observers may differ as to the precise turn of a phrase or the duration of some happening, but there never will be much dispute concerning the fundamental spirit of a man or meeting. It is the most important single factor. The church should stand upon the personality of Christ and not demand complete acceptance of the miracles. It seems to me extraordinary that they should be matters of bitter discussion. One might even believe them all and yet not hold them vital. Contrary to the theologians. I believe that Jesus Christ shook the world with his words and not with little loaves and fishes. He was a teacher. He had a plan, and the day yet will come when mankind will buckle down and try it. ■ Corvright. 1934 bv Thp Tiniest

Today s Science Bl DAVID DIETZ

TF you want to be up to date in this modern world A of science, you will have to learn all about spinors. No. you never saw one walking not even in a dream. \nd there’s no use asking crossword puzzle fans what the word means. It isn’t even in Mr. Webster s \crv latest revised unabridged dictionary. You’ll have to ask a mathematical physicist to explain the word for you. Professor Oswald Veblen. one of Einstein's colleagues at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton university, told all about spinors in a recent address. .... The theory of spinors." Professor Veblen explained. ‘ had its origin in the search for a suitable mathematical tool to use in the extension of the quantum theory to the field of relativity. It grew out of the attempt to reconcile wave mechancis with the relativity theory." A . . .. Rv now the reader will appreciate that he isnt come to get a complete treatise on spinors in the space orcupied bv the article. But I will try to give a nontechnical picture of what it's all about. The quantum theory sets forth the notion thatlight and other forms of energy- do not exist in the form of waves, but in the form of little bullets or bundles known as quanta. But at times energy does nevertheless to behave like waves. What is even more remarkable, electrons, which are panicles of matter, appear at times to behave as waves. a a a \ITAVE mechanics, to quote Dr. Veblen again. W ‘'describes the motion of a panicle by means of the concept of a wave.” “It is not.” he continues, “as people used to say, that a physcist thinks of an electron as a particle on Monday's Wednesdays and Fridays, and as a wave on Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays, and on Sundavs prays for a Messiah who will lead him back to the belief which he held on Mondays. “The actual situation is quite different from that. He works with a mathematical theory which he visualizes for some purposes by means of the classical conception of a particle and for other purposes b> means of the imagery of the wave theory. a a a • \\rHEN attempts were made to fit wave meYV chanics into the frame of relativity it was discovered that additional mathematical tools were A great many years ago. mathematicians had developed a branch of their science called vector analysis. In geometry, only the position of a line is considered. A vector is a line which possesses direction as well as position. A velocity, for example, is represented by a vector. Then came the theory of relativity and for it. the theory of tensors was developed. A tensor is defined by the dictionary as “i generalized concept of a vector” The nonmathematical reader will find it best to let it go at that. Recent development of wave mechanics brought physicists to the conclusion that electrons were net merely points, but were spinning or rotating like the earth. * Now.” says Professor Veblen. “comes anew kind of a physical quantity which is not a tensor and yet has to be taken into account. It has something to do with a spinning electron. So physicists decided to call it a spinor."

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THE NEW DEAL AND THE JONESES

Typical American Family Weighs New Deal's Relief Projects

THU l the second chapter of ■ continued atory in which members of a tvplcal American family discuss the many phases of the New Deal and the good and the bad of shal l happening as it appears to the Joneses. Succeeding chapters wilt giro you anew insight into the New Deal s far-reaching effects. BY WILLIS THORNTON CHAPTER TWO ALL through dinner Pa Jones had been unusually silent. And now he sat in the living room, staring abstractedly at the opposite wall. • V/hat’s the matter with you tonight. Pa.” asked Ma Jones, anxiously. "Something go wrong at the store?” "No, just thinkin’,” answered Pa “I got to thinkin’ today about this relief question. I don’t see where it's going to stop, short of bankrupting the whole country. It looks to me as if we re just going on getting more and more people used to living on relief, until the rest of us just can t carrv the load, what with taxes and the cost of living going up all the time. I declare I don’t know what the end of it is “Well of course there isn t going to be any complete end of it, responded John Jr., slowly. "I guess it's pretty sure now that there are two or three million people who aren't ever going to get work. Thev can't or they don't, fit in. But don't forget there s somewhere between seven and ten millions unemployed. Most of them want jobs. And until there are jobs for them, someone's got to see that they d ° n “WhoTgoing to do that? All of us, the government. You know perfectly well the Community Fund can't carry all the people in this ° Wn, Well I did used to think it could,” said Jones Jr. "I know we worked pretty hard on it every year, and Lord knows we gave more than we could really afford, but there's too many on relief, and getting to be more all the time.

It don't let up Sometimes I feel like saying, "Well, I guess I'll just give up and" go on relief myself and stop worrying.' “I guess you're joking about that,” cut in John Jr., quickly. You know you wouldn't, not for anything. Neither w r ould most of the people who are being helped. “I talked to Jim Barton at the Dank the day he drew out the last of his savings, and it’s no joke, 111 tell you. He’d have broken his arm before he'd registered with the relief, but he had to do it.” a a a SURE, I know Barton. He’s all right,” answered Jones Sr. But what about that Winowsky family they turned up the other day—two in the family had jobs but the old man was on relief for the lot of them just the same?” “That happens, of course,” John Jr. admitted, "but not in 2 per cent of the cases. How can you help some chiseling when so many are on relief? ”1 saw the other day where Harry Hopkins, the federal relief administrator, says one in six or seven people in the whole country

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

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—General Hugh Johnson’s forthcoming autobiography is weighing neavily on the minds of certain highlyplaced New Dealers. Confidential word has come to them that the erstwhile NRA generalissimo is giving free vent to his private opinions regarding some of his former colleagues, who he feels “done him wrong.” Particularly listed for his barbs are Labor Secretary Perkins and “Assistant President,” Don Itichberg. If the ex-cavalryman really speaks

his mind, what he has to write should make absorbing reading Enrique Bordenave. Paraguayan minister to the United States, is the proud posses- or of a, copy of Huey Long’s autobiog aphy, a gift to the diplomat from the Kingfish. In inscribing the book on the fly-leaf, Huey misspelled Paraguay The recently launched American Liberty League is flourishing most handsomely, expanding in the last few’ weeks from a suite of several rooms to one-fourth of a floor in the National Press building. and from several office assistants to a large staff of clerks and publicity men. So marked are the evidences of extensive financial backing that in certain Democratic quarters it is already being whispered that a senatorial investigation might be “advisable.” ana IT is a closely-guarded secret, but there is strong Sentiment among the treasury's tax experts for a sales tax They would sugarcoat the pill by tying it up with the administration’s old age pension and unemployment insurance plans, the revenue to be raised by a sales tax to be applied to financing the:* projects. The President. in the past, has expressed himsel as strongly opposed to this form of taxation . . . Senator Bill Borah s return to Capitol Hill has cleared up one ot the mysteries of the recent congressional campaign. At the height of the contest it was announced suddenly in Indiana, from the headquarters of Senator “Li'l Arthur" Robinson, that the eloquent Idahoan would come into the Hoosier state to make some speeches for the hardpressed Tory Republican. The announcement created considerable comment as the two men never had been particularly friendly, either personally or politically. When B a.i failed to show up the mystery deepened. The explanation is simple. Borah was asked by Robinson s campaign manager if he would speak in Indiana. He telegraphed back he would, but only on the condition that he would be free to make "his kind of speeches.” That was the last he heard of the matter. ana SQUAT, pudgy Tom Pendergast may be Democratic czar in Missouri, but he is not bringing his henchmen federal pie. An anti-New Dealer, who fought Roosevelt's nomination in the Chicago convention, Pendergast has had a number of his recommendations for federal jobs curtly turned down, two of them in the last several weeks . . . The whisper is going the AAA rounds that Frederic Howe, veteran liberal and plain-talking Consumers' Counsel, is headed for the skids. Howe's outspokenness, long a sore point with certain AAA executives, is said to have gotten under their skins to such an extent that they have decided to ease him out of the picture . . . Carlton Meyer, youthful attorney for the Delaware and Hudson railroad, often argues cases before the Interstate Commerce Commission, of which his father, Balthasar H. Meyer, is a veteran member. When his son

is on relief and that 7,000,000 children are growing up who know only the kind of home life they get under relief conditions. Nine out of ten men would rather work, and you know it.” "Oh, I suppose so,” grudged Pa Jones, “but how long can it go on? The federal and state governments have poured more than two billion dollars into relief, including CWA funds, in the last eighteen months and there’s no letup! “The government will go broke at that rate, and then nobody will have anything, relief people or anyone else!” bob , A SI understand it, everything rV depends on getting more people to work in industry, and in getting permanent things like unemployment insurance and old age pensions to working.” offered John Jr. “The program for gradually getting out from under the growing relief burden, which may reach an all-time high of 23,000,000 people this winter, has been outlined by Harry Hopkins like this: “First, factories and farms must

appears as a counsel, Commissioner Meyer disqualifies himself. His method of doing so is to set Carlton’s case for an afternoon hearing, and then go out and not return. iCoovrieht. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.i MERIDIAN METHODISTS TO HEAR DR. OXNAM Cabinet Group Also Schedules Detroit Pastor. Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, De Pauw unversity president, will speak at the Meridian Street Methodist Episcopal church Monday night under the auspices of the Men of Meridian Cabinet. H. O. Garman has charge of reservations; Mrs. Myra Clippinger, music; W. E. Mick, reception; Paul H. Buchanan, special guests; Mrs. W. C. Patterson, dinner arrangements. The Men of Meridian cabinet also has announced that it will sponsor the appearance at the church Tuesday, Jan. 15, of Dr. M. S. Rice, pastor of Detroit's Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal church.

CATHEDRAL FOOTBALL TEAM TO BE HONORED Mothers’ Club Sponsors Dinner at Athenaeum Dec. 5. Members of Cathedral high school’s football team, which went through the past season with only one defeat, will be honored at a victory dinner and dance at the Ath- : enaeum Wednesday night, Dec. 5. j The team won the city champion- • ship. I With the Mothers’ Club as spon- : sors. the dinner will be marked by 1 speeches by leading athletic officials and members of the school laculty. including Joe Dienhart. Cathedral coach. The principal speaker will be the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Raymond R. Noll. SS Peter and Paul Cathedral pastor Dr. Joseph L. Conley, team physician, will be toastmaster. John J. Minta. grand knight of the Knights of Columbus, will present a trophy to the team. MADRIGAL CLUbH/ILL APPEAR AT LUNCHEON Group of Vocal Selections to Be Given by Tech Group. The Madrigal Club of Technical high school, under the direction of J. Russell Paxton, will present a group of vocal selections Thursday at a luncheon to be given by the congregation of the Meridian Heights Presbyterian church, Fortyseventh street and Central avenue. The club consists of Betty Herr and Marjorie Kaser. first sopranos: Sonja Grigo. second soprano: Frances Leonard and Josephine Best, altos; Irving Miller and Ro# ’ert Younce, tenors; Robert Jordan, baritone; and Fout Stewart, bass. The accompaniment will be furnished by Jeanette Robbins, harpist, i and Mary Louise Mitchell, flutist.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1934

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“He’d rather have broken his arm than register for relief—but he had to register. Nine out of ten men would rather work . . . and there’s only one answer to the relief problem—jobs!”

at range to employ just as many oeople as possible, and take responsibility through unemployment insurance and sickness and other social benefits for the people they are discarding as mechanical efficiency grows. “This includes moving part of industry into the country, and a chance for thousands of families on country-city homesteads where people can provide for part of their own needs “Second, a permanent plan of public works, adjustable so as to take up a large part of the slack when private employment falls off, and producing parks, build-

DR. WIANT HONORED BY HIS PASTORATE Elkhart Man Will Succeed Resigned Minister. The Rev. Dr. W. W. Wiant, resigned pastor of the North Methodist Episcopal church, and his wife, Mrs. Myrtle E. Wiant, were honored by approximately 500 members of the church and other friends in a public farew’ell in the church parlors, 3800 North Meridian street. The Rev. Chester E. McPheeters, Elkhart, is to come to Indianapolis this week-end to succeed Dr. Wiant, who is leaving then for his new charge, the Emory Methodist Episcopal church, Pittsburgh, Pa. North church was completed under Dr. Wiant’s pastorate. Speakers at last night’s meeting included Dr. William C. Hartinger, Indianapolis district superintendent for the Methodist Episcopal church. Music was provided by the church choirs and by Mrs. Franklin N. Nelson, Kenneth Hill and William Kugel. POLICE WILL PRESENT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Garfield Park Program Tonight to Include Entertainment. The police accident prevention bureau will sponsor a safety rally at the Garfield park community house at 7:30 tonight, with music by the federal emergency relief administration orchestra, entertainment by public school children and talks on traffic safety precautions by members of the bureau. Sergeants Barrett W. Ball and Harry Smith will have charge of the rally.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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ings, playgrounds, roads —things that have real value to people. “Third, continually better running of government relief, federal, state, and local, for the ‘unemployables,’ with whenever possible, the chance to work for themselves to make things they can use, but not sell in competition with reguiar industry. “All these plans, working together. Hopkins believes, will gradually cut the present awful burden of direct relief. a a a “T HEAR there's going to be JL something like the CWA again this winter,” suggested Pa

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP tt tt a tt tt tt By Ruth Finney

IT 7ASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—A David-Goliath duel over telephone W rates promises to provide one of the most spectacular episodes of the new year. On one side will be Walter Sherman Gifford, 49, urbane president of America’s biggest ebrporation, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company; Harvard Overseer, director of United States Steel and the First National Bank of New York, sponsor of charities and member of smart clubs.

On the other will be Paul Atlee Walker, 53, born in a Pennsylvania log cabin, former Oklahoma school teacher, who has brought to his job as a member of the new federal communications commission a long-frustrated desire to find out what makes the financial wheels go around for the A. T. & T. As chairman of the commission's telephone division, Mr. Walker last week announced that hearings w’ould be conducted in January to explore the financial history and setup of this sprawling colossus and its progeny. Mr. Gifford politely replied that he had “no objections,” that “the public has a right to the fullest information” and that “we have no skeletons in our closet,” although he deplored the fact that public investigations are “disturbing to confidence.” % a a a npHE telephone investigation presents one of the most formidable jobs ever assigned to a student of public utilities. The interstate commerce commission <never tackled it. State after state, attempting to investigate local phone rates, has been mired in a quicksand of unfathomable intercompany relationships which

Jones. “I'm kind of skeptical of that. % “Remember last year when they had fifty men down on Lombardy avenue, digging up the street end putting it back down again. And you had to be a good Democrat to get on the job, with more pay than I can afford for inexperienced help in the store.” “Everybody knows the Civil Works Administration last year wasn’t a complete success,” admitted John Jr., “still, the $400,000,000 they spent would have had rn be just given out in relief, anyway, and we got something out oi it. “Welton park looks a great deal better than it did a year ago; that dangerous corner at Venable and Main was eliminated, and the airport's twice as good. Tins year the council's got a real plan all figured out, as you know, to accomplish some really worthwhile things for the towm if they get CWA or public work relief money again. And politics can be cut out of it if we'll holler loud enough. an b “Washington definitely ordered politics out—but it has to leave local situations up to local people. We'll just have to holler if Democrats start getting all the jobs.” 808 PA JONES still shook his head. “I worry about it,” he said. “Looks to me as if we're building up a lot of people who would rather just scrape along on relief than get out and work hard for something better. It’s growing, and it’s likely to bust the government.” Jones, Jr. had a hint of snap in his voice as he answered: “Yes; and until we can say to three out ol four who are on relief, ’Here's a pretty good job that’ll enable you to live better than you do now!’ we’re still going to have the problem. “There’s only one answer to the relief problem—jobs!” NEXT: Social Security the Joneses consider the plans for congress this winter on old-age pensions, job insurance, and sickness insurance, designed to put sqme of the relief burden on a more business-like basis.

concealed true costs and true ownership. Such was Mr. Walker’s own experience. As chairman of Oklahoma’s corporation commission, he matched a $20,030 investigation fund against the unlimited resources of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and came out second best. His subject was too far-reaching for anything less than a federal inquiry, he found. This year he got his chance. His success in regulating other Oklahoma utilities electricity, gas. railroads, cotton gins—had won him a reputation among such persons as Milo B. Maltbie, Joseph B. Eastman, David Lilienthal and Frank P. Walsh, all of whom have access to President Roosevelt’s ear. Mr. Walker was named a member of the federal communications commission, and subsequently w r as made chairman of that body’s telephone division. He lost no time in dispatching questionnaires to the A. T. & TANARUS., its associates and subsidiaries, asking information about their financial setup and corporate interrelation. The replies will form the groundwork for January's hearings. But that is only a beginning. a a a ‘‘T'HE commission has almost no money—beyond the funds of the federal radio commission which it absorbed. The new congress will be asked to give it ample funds—some say at least $750,000 will be needed—with ij'hich to hire expert accountants and investigators who can piece together the jigsaw puzzle of A. T. & T. and show congress whether telephone rates are too high. If the inquiry proves rates are too high, congress will be asked to give the commission power to chop them down. And Mr. Walker would tackle that assignment with relish. He does not view his job as that of a judicial umpire between the interest of the public and the interest of the utility, but as a champion of the public interest. "The commission’s job,” he says, “is to see that the public pays fair rates based on honest values, not on millions of dollars in writeups.” It Is said to be his thesis that “a public utility is guilty until It is proved innocent.” EDGEWOOD P.-T. A. TO GIVE 3-ACT COMEDY ‘June Night’ to Be Staged Thursday Night in Gymnasium. Edgewood Parent-Teacher Association Dramatic Club will present a three-act comedy, “June Night,” at 8 Thursday night in the Edgewood school gymnasium. The cast will include Paul H. Kennedy, Madge McAllister, Bertha Minnick, Robert W. McAllister. Gertrude Brier, Lucille Miller and Sanford Miller. Proceeds from the play, which will be directed by Robert McAllister, will be used for welfare work.

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Fair Enough WMtOOKPHK • \TEW YORK. Nov. 20.—After spending an evening IN in John D. Rcrkefcller Jr's, combined dancehall and saloon, your correspondent is compelled to say that Mr. Rockefeller is running a real nice plac® with no loud talking, fighting or suggestive dancing allowed and no drinks sold to minors or persons already under the influence of liquor. There may have been some misgivings among such as Mrs. Ella Boole of the W. C. T. U. and F. Scott Mcßride of the Anti-Saloon League when it

first was announced that premises were to be opened for the sale of intoxicating liquor in Rockefeller City. However, such doubts, if any. nowmay be dismissed. Entering the saloon about midnight. your correspondent approached the headwaiter and asked, "Where is Jack?” "Jack who?” the head waiter inquired in an aloof manner, straightening his dress tie. "If you are looking for Jack Dempsey's saloon, it does not open until next month.” “No, I do not mean Jack Dempsey,” your correspondent said. “I mean Jack Rockefeller. Your boss.”

'Mr. Rockefeller is not in,” the head waiter said. “You will have to see Ivy Lee.” “Not any more,” your correspondent said, bowing his head with a merry twinkle in his eye.” “If you haven't got it will be' impossible to accommodate youse” the head waiter said. a a a Plenty of Etiquette YOUSE accommodate me?” your correspondent exclaimed. “What do youse mean youse accommodate me? lam the one who is accommodating youse. I came up here to spend some money with Jack. He ought to stick around. He never will get anywhere in the saloon business if he doesn’t stay on the job day and night. Youse waiters and bartenders will be tossing the ough-day up in the air and all that sticks to the ceiling will be his. Youse will be walking out with a ham under each arm and a fried chicken in every pocket.” The head waiter insisted that the boss was taking the night off, however, and finally found a table for your correspondent. Jack Rockefeller Jr.’s place is called the Rainbow room and it is located on the sixty-fifth floor of his building in Rockefeller City. The name Rainbow room is not exactly original as there has been a place in Chicago called the Rainbow Gardens for some years. Jack’s place is much more high class than the Rainbow Gardens. All gentlemen wishing to dance must bring their own women friends as unnattached girls positively are forbidden to sit for company at the tables or in the back room and pick-ups will be requested to quietly leave the premises under penalty of the law. In a general way, the place resembles the better places on the old Bowery, years ago, with one feature borrowed, or revived from the old Murray’s lobster palace which Princeton students used to go to on football night in order to get thrown out of, twenty years ago. Like in the better Bowery places, the tables are set on a sort of a raised platform, around the dance hall floor. And like in Murray’s, the floor revolves around and around at times when the musicians are playing. tt tt tt Peglers Borrowing Trouble THE merchandise is all strictly high-grade with no cut goods being served and the checks are all added up by machinery so that the customers have the assurance that the management is not adding up the date and serial number as well. Up to now, the police have had no trouble with the place and the only suspicious feature that your correspondent could see was the fact that it is hidden away up on the sixty-fifth floor of Mr. Rockefeller’s building, where the patrolman and other passers-by can not look in to see what is going on. In the old days, when Mr. Rockefeller was contributing money to the Anti-Saloon League most saloons had to be on the street level without any paint or curtains on the windows so that people on the sidewalk could see who was inside. In this manner, the wives could see whether their husband was drinking up the wages on Saturday night and the neighbors also could see who was doing the drinking and shame them out of their evil w'ays by gossiping about them and reporting them to the pastor. The dancing at Rockefeller’s w T as all conducted in a refined way, with no grizzly bear being indulged in and no bunny hug either and the singing by Mile. Lucienne Boyer, a French chanteuse. did not seem to be suggestive, although it is possible that she might have been suggestive in French without anybody being the “wiser.” . However, Jack Rockefeller’s saloon and dance hall was such a place as any God-fearing American with a reverence for American womanhood might bring their wufe, sister, sweetheart or mother to, without causing the “blush of shame” to mantle their cheeks. Os course, the Rainbow room is only a few weeks old. and “time alone will tell.” The Sickle and Sheaf, of Ten Nights in a Barroom, also started out as a respectable place, but wpnt down the slirr jit to the coils of hell in the end. (Copvrifrht. 1934. ny Lnlted Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

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DEFECT of speech is a mental, emotional, social and economic handicap. It interferes with our enjoyment of life. It interferes with our ability to earn a living. The organs in the body concerned with speech include the lips, the teeth, the tongue, the sinuses, the nose, the vocal cords, the larynx, the lungs and those parts of the brain and nervous system which carry the impulses of speech. Anything that interferes with the integrity and normal character of any of these organs will naturally affect speech. Therefore, harelip, cleft palate, missing teeth, too wide spacing of the teeth, adenoids, chronic infection in the nose and in the sinuses, nodules on the vocal cords or paralysis of the vocal cords will seriously affect a person’s speech. a a a INVESTIGATIONS have shown that the majority of speech defects are associated with mental difficulties rather than physical difficulties. There are a very few persons indeed who have serious defects of the organs of speech. There are, however, a considerable number of mental or emotional twists or fears of various things which result eventually in speech difficulty. An attempt to change a naturally left-handed person to a right-handed one may be associated with a defect like stuttering. Among the most common of speech difficulties are, of course, lisping and stuttering. Lisping is the condition usually called “baby talk.” It represents an inability to pronounce letters or certain combination of letters. 808 STUTTERING has been described and discussed many times in these columns. In every case a study should be made to determine whether the stutterer is suffering from nervous exhaustion and whether there is not in his mind some block which reflects itself in difficulty of speech. To aid the stutterer, all defects of his organs of speech that can be remedied should be properly treated. Parents and teachers should refrain from ridiculing children with speech defects. . Much .nay be done by teaching a correct technic in the use of the voice, but of greatest importance is the development of confidence in the ability to speak easily. * V *

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