Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 167, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1934 — Page 17
It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN T AM s?*are n! the fart that too frequently the * column 15 autobiographical. But *h: •*ill have to be about mv-eif Only today I find that Broun Is '-jra-’rd m Esquire ar.d in the Daily Worker I have a righ* to reply. On 'Mr 'iibjec! of Broun I remain ’he best informed authority. Not lone aco I compared myself ineptly to be .re to a trooper of *he !;eht brizade. i merely meant that there seemed to be -ho? and aheP comir.p from the rich’ and from the left lam oppressed •* i*h a sense- of being crushed bet*een Mr Soy 11 a ar.d MIX. Charvbdis vhioh n.ac<v rrr wrong whichever wav I turn. A* this pr )in * the column will have to co anec-
rio?al as well as autobiographical. About 'wo years ago a fat columnist and three acquaintances sat in Barries Gallant's place on Washington Square The fat columnist was on the pan J,m and Carl and Lily called h.m a faker and a trimmer. I defended myself as best I could and asserted that what I wrote, hot or cold, represented what I thought I thought. Naturally no man wants to go to ?he length of saying that never did he pull a punch. In this vale or frail mortality about the most which hould be required of anv contender i. that he might be
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in there trying. ’That minds very pretf. Jim. sticking a ■*’ ibb* forefinger unri r my nose, "but I notice that •' u alwavs manage ?o st ; ,- on a fat pay roll ” At thr point *he party broke up and two years elapsed. a b b 'You Can't l)o That' (WAS mad at the paper which employed me. The i- ue involved did no? concern any major point of pe.iitleal or economic belief. There was no crown of thorns handy and shaped to mv head. Call if temper. if you like Call it temperament. Call if Jack and Charlie. Rut jus? the same I was good and mad. My impulse was to co off in a high dudeeon into an even ’aller tower It took r.ie only six years to find out about Santa Claus and almost four times as long to discover that not every newspaper publisher is invariably perfect. I mean in agreeing with me. And so I was going to sit in my tower, far from the maddening grind, and write that novel, and the bock about Pontius Pilate, and the play built around St. peter and Johnny Boyle. I was going to starve and lave and tie completely my own master. Gaugin or Jeremiah or Elmer Rice or something like that. I went down to Carl, who is now a close friend and associate. When I came m I also found Lily and Jim It was the same crowd which had run me ragged at Barney’s Just to make *hr pattern complete and fai too perfert for fiction. Barney, himself, happened in two minutes later I spread mv story. I told them that I was through with newspaper work for five years or forever. I was going ofr on mv own to be beholden to no one. I was going to stand with the guinea pics, the saints an.l the martyrs. Ar.d Jim struck that same forefinger under my nos> and said. "You ran t do that.” "Who says I can't?" I answered belligerently. “You've got to gel back on that job." Jim insisted. "If you don't fulfill your contract you're a faker and a trimmer and a traitor to the newspaper guild." a a a Hr If outfl Harr Missed It if I had gone to tha? ivory tower or to ▼ v that attic or garret. I would have missed on the very same morning Ernest Hemingway’s attark f’ti me in Esquire and Mike Gold's swat at me m the Daily Worker. Perhaps it isn't quite fair to refer to Michaels comment as a swat. It is rather in the nature of a southpaw compliment. Mr Gold says that Broun’s economic beliefs are r.bnu? as close to reality as those of Upton Sinclair and Father Divine, but lie docs add. "maybe there is some hope for this rx-pal of Texas Gtiinan and Morris Hilquit.” And that’s some comfort. Ernest Hemingway doesn't mention me but I suppose I have a right to how and blush when anybody writes of "The pood grav baggy-pants of the columns ’* I learn further that. It is not enough to have a big heart, a pretty pood head, a charm of personality, and a facility with the typewriter to know how the world is run and who is making the assists, the put-outs and the errors and who are merely the players and who the owners. Our favorite never will know because he started too late and because he can not think clearly with his head.” I then discover that Mr. Hemingway, who lives wav off m Cuba, thinks I'm a Communist. I don't figure now that I'm going to get to the top nf mv tower or ever see the other side of the moon. It ran t be done with a two weeks* vacation. Bitter crapes grow along the walls of the mansions of the isolated. Thr towers are too tall and their dwellers cant keep up with the things which happen in the alleys and the side streets. Still sometimes one of the recluses writes a lovely book like "A Farewell to Arms." I couldn't do that. It Isn't that it's too late. I never had it in me. My possessions are a job, a pretty good head, an obligation and a hair shirt. iCorvricht 1934 bv The Times>
Today s Science BY II \> 111 DIETZ
BLINKING stars are the lighthouses which guide astronomers upon their journeys through the depths of the universe Stars whose brightness changes m regular cycles—know n technically as variable stars—have made possible the major contributions ;o our present-day understanding of the galaxy. How variable stars have enabled astronomers to ascertain such things as the diameters and masses of stars as well as their distances from the solar "Stem was explained in a recent address by Dr. T. S Jacobsen, professor of astronomy at the University of Washington. Variable stars. Dr Jacobsen points out. may be divided into two classes, long-period variables which repeat their light changes somewhat irregularly in cveies from fifty to six hundred days, and shortperiod variables which fluctuate with remarkable precision in cycles of less than fifty days. These short-period variables must m their turn divided into two classes, each one of which has us own particular message for astronomers. They are the eclipsing binaries and the Cepheid variables. As its name indicates, the eclipsing binary s really a double star. Actually neither star varies in light intensity The chance in light occurs when the dimmer of tbr two components gets in front of the brighter one. echpsr.g its light. s a a KVFN the telescope fails to reveal the eclipsing binary as a double star The spectroscope, however. gives away the seen! for the binary's spectrum is a double one. containing the lines of both stars. The spectroscope reveals the temperature and chemical composition of the component stars, the period of rotation of the two stars, and their motion m the line of sight. For this reason, eclipsing binaries are the astronomer s best source for data on stellar masses and densities. The star concerning w hich astronomers know more than any other jtar in the heavens is an eclipsing binary, the bright star Capella. This star has not only been studied with the spectroscope but with the Mieheiscn inter!-rometer a- Mr. Wilson. Sir Arthur Eddington made use of this star in working out his theory of the internal constitution of stars. The Cepheid variables are true variable stars, individual stars which grow brighter and then dimmer. • mm THE Cepheid variable- get their names from the fact that the typical ones first studied were in the constellation of Cepheus It was the study of stars of this type in the Magellanic Cloud which led to the discovery of the most important fact about thfm This was the *o-ralleri period-luminosity curve formulated by Dr Harlow Shapley the director of the Harvard Observatory This discovery was that there was an unfailing relationship between length of the period of variation and the absolute or reai brightness of the star. The Cepheids of longest period are. on the average, fifty times as bright as those of shortest period, and 20,000 times brighter than our own sun.
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THE NEW DEAL AND THE JONESES PWA Money Is Well Spent, Young John Informs His Father
The nTten hirh hroud the New Oel for the areraje man and woman are rleired a little further In tht artlrlr. fourth f the *erie in mhirh the .!onee. t\ptral imeriran famiW. talk the whole matter over in the vimole language that everyone ran underhand. Thev get anew insight inlo everv phase of the recovery program a* thry diaeua* it at the vupper table and in the living room. B a B BY WILLIS THORNTON CHAPTER FOUR lEEE they're going to dedicate the new postoffice next week." commented Pa Jones, running down the headlines in the evening paper. You know, all through this last year I believe that was about the only building job in town. ' I don't know what bricklayers and the other building trades workmen would have done in this town if it hadn't been for that." “We needed anew postoffice, anyway,” chimed in John Jr. “That old relic we had dated back to the Civil war. and it looked it. And over at McKinley that new waterworks is certainly going to be a help. ' That's one thing about the PWA—jou get something, at least, for your money.” Are those both public works administration jobs?” asked Pa. Yes. sir." responded John Jr., "part of the public works program that's now right at its height, with more than 500.000 working directly on its jobs. Secretary Ickes thinks there are two or more people at work supplying materials for these jobs for every man directly working on them, and that pretty near 2,000,000 men are working because of PWA. So you can quibble all you want to about the absolute necessity of snm- of the jobs—l and nate to think where we'd be right now without'em.
The public works administration is tiie practical working out of the idea that when private capital is not spending and building. then is the time for the government to do it. This keeps people able to buy things when they otherwise couldn't, and helps keep all industry going as a result.” 800 '*r''HE PWA program began soon JL after the Roosevelt inauguration.' added young John, "and the s. t rotary of interior was placed in charge. It was very slow in moving off. because of Ickes’ care in gi-ing out money from the $3.-3-10.000.000 fund that was placed at his disposal. Naturally, the pouring out .of any such huge fund into public works was bound to bring a swarm of dizzy ideas, such as to dredge Goose creek for ocean vessels —in short—pork. “Somebody really suggested building a 1.000-bed maternity hospital in a crossroads town, and somebody else the rearing of a circular tower in the Nebraska prairies so autos could climb to the top and their occupants admire the scenery. "Out of all these brainstorms, Ickes had the awful job of sifting the sane ones. So the start of the program was much delayed, and reaches its peak now only after two years, pouring out near-
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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND t By Drew Pearson arid Robert S. Allen
W ASHINGTON. Nov. 22.—The unassuming but firm hand of Secretary Morgenthau waxes ever more potent in backstage administration councils. The appointment by the President, of an inter-governmental committee under the chairmanship of Young Henry to co-ordinate federal lending activities means that henceforth the treasury, responsible for keepng Uncle Sam's purse filled, will also have a big say as to how the
money is spent. Heretofore, the treasury has been consulted by the various emergency lending agencies only when they were in need of funds. Hereafter they will have to convince the exchequer of the justifiability of their demands before they get the money—a very important difference. It gives Morgenthau a powerful voice in the administration’s spending policies as well as revenue collecting and banking. Lewis Douglas attempted to exeirise such control in his role of budget director In the early months of the regime, with the late William Woodin at the head \ of the treasury, he did have conI sirierable to say. But with Woodin's passing and the coming of Morgenthau, the conservative views of Douglas got him into hot water. He was gradually shoved into the background, finally eliminated entirely. tr an 'T'HE secret service is working 1 on a plan for “beam' 1 protection of the White House. Tins is a device similar to the ocams of light which open doors in some railroad terminals. When anyone passes the beam, an electric control device automatically opens the station door. In the same way a beam of light would be thrown around the White House at night, and if anyone crossed this beam, bells ana alarms would sound automatically. At present the White House is guarded by the regular White House police, both day and night. Once in a while, however, someone strays into the south grounds, where there is considerable shrubbery and a high hedge. , This happened some months ago. The visitor was inebriated and had no idea where he was. The police found him shaping peacefully under a bush. a 3 a C CAUTIOUS Cordell Hull some- .> times displays real glimpses cf native mountaineer wit. But not always, me responsibility of office weighs rather heavily on his -lightly stooped shoulders. This was the case the other day when a friend met him leaving the state department and stopped for a brief chat. In was shortly after General Billy Mitchell had unloosed one of his ill-chosen predictions that war with Japan was only a matter of time and that the United States should be prepared to purge Japan from the Pacific. At about the same time. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew in Tokio was having hard-sledding with the Japanese over the "Open Door.” 'I hear. Mr Secretary” said Hull’s friend, with a twinkle in ms eye. "that you are going to recall Joe Grew frem Tokio and make General Mitchell ambassador to Japan.'* ' Oh. gracious no. I'm sure there must some mistake. Er . . . er .. . Mr Grew is getting along quite satisfactorily. I think ” SOB C CAPITAL debs are already set * for Hush Holt, youthful sena-tor-elect from West Virginia. Un- | married, a good part of his time J wrll be taken building up sales re-
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ly 540.000.000 a week from taxpayer to workman.” r r n THE PWA now has decided on the spending of $3,700,000.000. And here is an idea of where some of the money went: For 1.170 street and highway jobs, about $540,000,000. For utilities, such as sewer and water systems, about $300,000,000. For 3,580 buildings cschools, hospitals, municipal and federal buildings), $362,000.000. For some 200 reclamation and flood control projects, $250.000,000. For navigation aids | 'dams, canals, seawalls, lighthouses), some $170,000,000. The navy got 5238,000.000 for new ships, and the coast guard about $24,000,000. The CWA was operated last winter with PWA money at a cost of $400,000,000, and the CCC has taken so far about $470,000,000. including some money spent to buy ! waste land. The housing division was given $127,564,000 for slum clearance and low-cost housing. Odd tens of millions went Into such things as viaducts, wharves, swimming pools and other recreational equipment, airports and landing fields, plant disease campaigns. More than half the schools being built today are being financed through the PWA. The fund is 1 about exhausted.
sistance to Washington dowagers with eligible daughters . . . Two other bachelors come to the senate: Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania. and Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington. . . Harry Hopkins didn't want the phone call charged or his own bill when he was calling San Francisco from his home s he other night, so he told the operator he was Director Hopkins of the emergency relief But he got no emergency relief from her. Only, "I'm sorry, sir. but you will have to get authorization from your office.” Eventually, a night clerk in the FERA building gave his chief permission to make the call. • CoDVrisht. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.i MDIVANI LEFT AT DOCK. BARBARA U. S.-BOUND Departure I'nexnlained as Heiress Sails for Home. Hii I nit id Press SOUTHAMPTON. Nov. 22—Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani, heir- 1 ess to the Woolworth millions, took leave of her husband. Prince Alexis, today and sailed for the United States aboard the S. S. Europa. The prince and princess arrived from London by automobile a few minutes before sailing time. They explained they had missed the boat train. Princess Barbara did not disclose the reason for the separation. She bade her husband a hasty farewell on the dock. TRIO GETS 10 YEARS FOR ‘HUNGER’ THEFT Oaktown Youths Art Convicted of Stealing Load of Corn. /(.- / Hih and Press WASHINGTON. Ind.. Nov. 22. Three young Oaktown men. who blemed hunger for their crime, were under sentence of three to ten years each today on charges of stealing a load of corn. The prisoners. Clarence King. Glen Feltner and Carl Stepro. said they planned to sell the corn so they could buy provisions for the winter. They were captured as they left the farm of their victim east of here. SCIENCE TEACHERS TO HEAR PARK DIRECTOR Central Association to Hear L\ S. Official Nov. 30. Dr. Harold C. Bryant. Washington. department of interior national park service assistant director, will be the principal speaker at the meeting of the Central Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers. Friday. Nov. 30. at the Lincoln. Conservation of plant and animal life will be discussed by Dr. Bryant at the morning session in address on 'The Conservation Policy of the National Park Service.” In the afternoon he will describe the objective, means and methods of the naturalist program m the parks.
INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1934
“Secretary Ickes thinks that pretty near 2,000.000 men are working because of PWA.”
J ADMIT it’s better to spend all that money and have something to show for it in the iorm of dams and channels and lighthouses and roads and sewers —and even battleships—than it is just to pass it out .for nothing at all,” meditated Pa Jones. “But, gosh! Pretty near four billion dollars is a lot of money to blow inside of two years’ time. You can't keep that up forever. You can’t even keep it up for more than a few more years!” “It hadn’t ought to be necessary,” retorted John Jr. “You've got to assume that sooner or later private industries are going to open up jobs for most of these men. You’ve got to assume that houses and buildings are going to
LABOR SITUATION IS PEACEFULJN INDIANA Board Director Visits Local Relations Office. There is no major labor trouble imminent in the district comprised of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan. H. L. McCarthy, national labor relations board director for that area, said today. Mr. McCarthy, who is visiting the local board, is a paradox in appearance. with an unruly shock of black hair and a mild, soft-spoken manner. He aided in the settlement of labor difficulties in the violent labor outbreaks in the model community of Kohler, Wis. The function of the labor boards is to preserve industrial peace, Mr. McCarthy said. He declared that both labor and industry are learning to bring their problems to the boards set up by the federal government. SHIP COLLISION PROBED U. S. Inquiry Opens; 16 Rescued. 4 Killed in Crash. I!/I l iliti il I’rr.xx PORT HURON, Mich., Nov. 22. Collision of the freight steamers W. C. Franz and Edward Loomis, resulting in four deaths and the sinking of the Franz, was investigated today by the federal steamboat inspection service. The Loomis docked here last nisht with the sixteen members of the Franz crew which it rescued after the collision yesterday morning.
SIDE GLANCES By George Clark
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need rebuilding and that their owners will replace them by themselves. “You’ve got to assume 1 that states will get on their feet and start carrying their own weight. "No plan will succeed permanently if that doesn’t happen. Besides, some of that money’s coming back into the treasury.” “How’s that?” Pa Jones queried. It's spent, isn't it?” “Certainly. And the money for battleships, and federal postoffices, and the CWA and CCC is just spent. But a lot of the rest was loaned. “Usually PWA said to a city: ! “We'll give you so much outright and loan you so much at 4 per I cent if your plan looks sound, j
I COVER THE WORLD tt tt n a tt tt By William Philip Simms
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. —All hope of early disarmament, either on land, sea or in the air, has been abandoned by practically all high officials here until some of the present major war clouds are swept from the horizon. Many are inclined to agree with Soviet Russia's foreign ministers, Maxim Litvinoff. When Hugh Wilson, United States minister to Switzer-
land, laid the American arms control plan before the league’s disarmament body yesterday, the Russian turned it down. He proposed instead that the disarmament conference be scrapped and a permanent peace conference begin to function. It is pointed out here that the thing which saved the Washington naval limitation conference of 1921 was the Pacific and Far Eastern conference which, in effect, preceded it. Before Britain, America, Japan. France and Italy came to an understanding on battleships, they reached a political agreement purporting at least to safeguard the peace of the Orient. a tt TODAY, the practical school of diplomats here, both American and foreign, agree that the whole post-war peace structure is a shambles. Since the political pacts signed at Washington have been scrapped, it is only natural that Britain. America and Japan have not made an inch of progress since they began talking naval tonnages weeks ago at London. Litvinoff himself is held up as as example of the present drift. A decade ago he startled Geneva by proposing that every nation
You give us bonds for the loaned pari.’ So PWA has some $150.000,000 in bonds that it’s holding a.- security for loans. "Now the law provides that the RFC can buy some of these if Jt wishes and if they seem good risks. It's done that with millions of dollars' worth. So PWA has that much more money—which it can lend, but can't spend outright." BBS SURE, that's a fine sleight-of-hand trick," suggested Pa. "You take out of one RFC pocket and put it in the other PWA pocket and it looses like you have more.” "Not quite that bad." said John Jr., with a laugh “You see. PWA can then sell the bonds to the public—and it has, several million dollars' worth." "Might as well have sold ’em to the public in the first place, eh?" suggested Pa. “Certainly, except that this gets things started when they're needed, and of course the money that was given with the loans was sweetening' to persuade cities to go ahead. “Matter of fact, quite a few cities are now finding that they can borrow from the people direct for less than the 4 per cent RFC charges. “What it’s really done is knock down the interest rate on municipal and public borrowing.” tt B tt EVERY country in the world has t tried the public works attack on the depression: it is one of the lecognized ways of fighting it. Now committees are trying to lay down plans for years ahead so that really valuable public works may be planned and ready, and in future all that will be needed will be to turn the spigot of federal funds. That will save the year of sifting that was necessary this time to keep pork-barrel and foolish plans out. It is figured that such works, launched at the right moment when private employment oegins to fall, may even head off future depressions by spiking them before they get really bad. iCopyright. 1934, NEA Service. Inc.i NEXT: Slums and Housing—the Joneses find, to their surprise, lhat even their own town has a lot of homes unfit for Americans to live in. They discuss what the government is trying to do about it.
! disarm in toto. Today he is at | Geneva, side by side with France, | upholding the thesis that security : must precede disarmament. The i reason is that today Russia fears i war with Japan, just as Franca j fears war with Germany. The Litvinoff demand, there- | fore, is considered here as far j from inconsistent or visionary, j On the contrary it is thoroughly j consistent and practical. Until j the principal nations feel areaI sanable security against being j drawn into one of the constantly ! threatening wars, realists here | consider it a waste of time to talk | disarmament. The precarious situations in the Saar, in Austria and in Yugo- | slavia are cited as further samples i of what world diplomacy must j iron out before either disarmaI ment or international arms con- | trol will be anything but a pious | hope. In other words it is held that | the causes of wars must be removed or reduced before abolition or even any drastic limitation of : the tools of war will have a ! chance. ACCOUNTANTS HEAR FORMER AAA LEADER Business Lacks Integrated Effort, He Asserts. Government "interference with and regimentation of” business was caused by lack of an integrated and co-operative effort cn the part of industrialists. Dr. Charles Reitel, New York City, former chief accountant for the agricultural adjustment, administration, told the Indianapolis chapter, National Association of Cost Accountants, last | night at the Washington. Dr. Reitell told the accountants ' that American industrialists have been too concerned with codes apd i too little with problems of management. Codes will continue to operate. but control and regulation will ; come in the future more through trade associations and less through government agencies, the speaker predicted. A director of the national organization and a member of Stevenson. Jordam & , Harrison, New York management engineers. Dr. Reitell urged that industries should take inventories of their management as well as their physical plants. THREE OUT OF FOUR VOTERS GO TO POLLS Indiana Cast 1.442.565 Ballots, Statistician Announces. Almost three-quarters of Indiana's registered voters exercised their franchise in the recent election, it was announced today by Albert Dickens, state accounts board statistician. Votes east totalled 1.442.565 out of a possible 1.954,199. a total of 73 8 per cent. With th® United States census showing 2.003.091 persons 21 or older in Indiana, the registration figure means that 97.6 per cent of ' eligible voters are registered.
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Entered s Secon<l-Cl'< Matter .? rostoffire. Indianapolis. Ind.
Fair Enough HM PEW A 1 7TTH a little sense of regret, your correspondent ’ * reports that he finally has due up the vanishing football hero of Kansas university who helped Kansas through the first all-victorious season in the history of the school in 1899. then disappeared abruptly and became a legend. The story had given pleasure to the football G. A. R.'s of the middlewest for many years and had acquired anew sort of interest as Fielding H. Yost gradually rose from the status of carpetbagging coach and ocasional
player to his present reverend position of athletic director of the University of Michigan and bishop, as it were, of football. Many times in recent years Mr. Yost, a pious man in matters of football ethics, has decried and deplored the practice of recruiting, proselyting and subsidizing football players. But always in football season, in those gatherings on the road, with fatted heroes of other years perched on the footboard of somebody's bed or squatted on the musty carpet, coddling sweaty glasses of corn or what-not. some one would remember Mr. Yost's year
as coach at Kansas and the mystery of his disappearing tackle. The name of the man was George R. Krebs and skeptics who have rifled the old newspaper files in Kansas City, finding no mention of any heroics performed by him in '99 night have done bettei if they had borne in mind that the football ringer, like men m many other lines of deceitful practice, prefers to opr’-ate under an alias. nan A Helpful Gesture T)ERHAPS the same research in the old volumes of the Kansas City Star would yield results if it were assumed that Mr. Krebs changed his name to Creps for the duration of his season at Kansas. From Frank A. Knight, the sports editor of the Gazette at Charleston, W. Va., jour correspondent has heard as follows: “Kansas university’s phantom football hero of ]899. who disappeared after the final game with Missouri on that Thanksgiving long ago. is George R. Krebs, a well-to-do mining engineer of Charleston. He has just turned 60, is 6 feet 4, and weighs 240 pounds, only fifteen pounds more than he weighed at Kansas. Mr. Krebs still keeps in shape climbing hills. He was captain of the West Virginia team in 1898. the year before he followed Yost to Kansas. He had been Yost’s roommate and teammate at Wfest Virginia in '95 and '96. “ 'When Yost went to Kansas as coach in 1899, he faced a tough iob,’ ” said Mr. Krebs. Most of the players were big farm boys, in fine condition, but knew little about the game. Yast asked me to come out there and play I suppose I was what they call a ringer, but there was nothing wrong except that it wouldn't have been right to let the rest of the boys in the squad know. “ Tt was decided that T should register from some little town in a county from which there were no other students. I forget the name of the town.’ ” (It seems to have been South Cedar, Kan.—Ed.) “I was to play the role of a big country hick. I had four years of varsity experience, but I was supposed to pretend I never had seen a ball. I let the ball hit me on the chest. I fell down. I buried my toe in the turf when apparently attempting to kick. Only one man on the squad suspected that I was a ringer. His name was Moore. Like myself, he had been imported. Later, I think, he played baseball in the Southern League. He had a hunch that I was a ringer, too, and he would hold up his arm and laugh in his sleeve at me. “ ‘At first, I ignored him, but we became roommates and we swapped stories then.’ a tt a Just a Favor for Yost "■ry-vjiE Missouri game was the dirtiest I ever played in. Yost never made a substitution. You talk about Yale playing only eleven men against Princeton last week. The Yales didn’t have to take lhe slugging we took from Missouri. They thought they could play dirty, but they didn’t know the meaning of dirty play. “ ‘Yost warned us not to slug. But there was nothing to prevent me using my knee. Yes, and the stiffarm against those Missouri linemen. I knocked out two taekles and when they carried them off I thought they were dead. “‘But I was distinctly no hero and T do not want the reputation. 1 played no bet tor than the others. I just did Yast a favor and got a chance to see the west. I did get my expenses but, so far as I know, nobody received any pay. When the season was over I felt that my job was done.’” Opinions of Krebs’ power as a player vary. Frank Parent, a substitute quarter back, and Dr. Naismith, who ran the gymnasium class, agree that he individually beat Nebraska and Mr. Parent recalls him as a mad giant in the victory over the Mi.ssouri team which also had a linger, a tackle of enormous size and strength. Fay Mou'/un, another reminiscent veteran of the Kansas team insists, however, that he was not “outstanding.” For any bearing which It may have on Mr. Moulton's opinion let it be said that he lost his own place on the team and was demoted to the second-string when Krebs appeared. Mr. Krebs never has seen the Kansas campus since but would like to attend a reunion of the surviving members of his team if such could be arranged in connection with this year's renewal of the old feud with Missouri. Os course. Mr. Yost should be invited, too, and asked to deliver once more his now familiar lecture on proselyting, recruiting and all the sordid practices against which he has declared himself so vigorously since the days of '99. Anyway, there goes your correspondent's favorite football legend. tcopvrlaht. 1934. bv Un!*>d Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
THERE was 8 time when between 250 and 300 babies out of every 1 000 born in certain large cities of the Unitd States died before they were 1 year old. With the advance of modern medical science these rates have reduced, so that the average rate for 985 cities in 1933 was 57.1. Since the previous year, cities of Texas and South Dakota have bern added to the birth registration area. If only those cities which were in the birth registration area in 1932 are compared with those for 1933. the rate for last year is 55.9—the lowest ever recorded in the history of this country. This is highly sign'ficant, because the period was one of financial emergency and financial depression, with many persons on relief. Furthermore, health authorities believe that the infant mortality rate is a good measure of medical and public health effort. It means that, even during the financial depression, medical and public health officials have held their own in the battle against disease. a a a IT is of great significance to realize that Portland, O Seattle, Wash., and Oakland. Cal., have for sever a years been among the first with the lowest infant mortality rates. In 1933 'he rate for Portland was 33, and for Seattle and Oakland. 38 Smaller cities, such as Ft. Wayne. Ind ; Long Beach, Cal., and Tacoma. Wash., report rates of 33 and 35. Among cities of 50.000 to 100,000 population, Berkeley, Cal., and Newton, Mass., have death rates of 21, and San Jose, Cal., a rate of 23. In contrast with these enviable records. Memphis, Dallas and Atlanta have the highest rates among cities cf more than 250.000. namely, 112, 86 and 83. El Paso. San Antonio and Chattanooga havp the three highest among cities from 100,000 to 250,000, namely, 125, 113 and 89.
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