Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 176, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1934 — Page 9

DEC. 3, 1934

It Seems to Me HffIFOOD BROUN OF all the various newspaper workers who command my admiration and my envy the writer of a daily comic column tops the list. I have no special column or writer in mind—just any comic columnist. In fact he arouses my wonder even on the days when he isn't very funny. Few appreciate the ordeal of being under compulsion to be funny six and sometimes seven days a week. Their fellows, who ought to know better, sometimes pass by such slaves and mutter, “pretty soft

for you guys.” This is the comment of sheer ignorance. Not since Prometheus was chained to a rock has any mortal so exposed his vitals to the vultures. Os course. I speak not from actual experience. Nobody ever expected me to be funny six days in any week. Indeed I even have had bosses who suggested that I never should try at all. But in the course of the years on various papers I have worked in close contact with most of the wellknown columnar wits and I remember in particular the story one man told me of his own breakdown. And this is not intended to be humorous.

llerwood Broun

“I came down to the office about the same time as usual,” said he, “and stuck a sheet of paper in my typewriter. I don’t know whether I hypnotized myself by staring at it or dozed off Anyhow’ I came to with a start and found that twenty minutes had passed without my writing a lin<*. Just to get started I typed out the name of the column and my signature and sat back waiting for an idea. nan A Real Ordeal NATURALLY I'd read all the morning and the afternoon papers. There had been a big fire and several people were killed. That took up pretty much all of page one everywhere. An ex-Cabinet minister was dying and there were threats of a big strike in Chicago. But my job was to be funny. A flood in China and a bad railway wreck in England were not in my alley. India had cholera and there was a nasty famine somewhere in Asia Minor In one hour and ten minutes my column was due “I tried an old trick which had worked a good many times before. I left my desk and wandered around the office trying to borrow a cigaret and some matches. I let the deadline get closer. ‘When I just have to write this stuff of course I will,’ I said to mvself. That always had been so. With fortyfive minutes to go I came back to my machine. That was all the pressure f could afford. I’m not fast like some of the boys. Half an hour is my record on any column. "It was a question of now’ or never and another ancient rule bobbed up in my memory. You’ve probably followed it yourself, Heywood. When in doubt write about prohibition.’ Naturally this was in the days before repeal came along and hit every funny columnist that foul blow way down below the belt. I did a first paragraph and read it over to myself. I said, ’That’s too terrible even for a desperate man.’ I tried three more leads and every one was awful. I looked at the clock and I looked at the window. a a a Close to Suicide “T'vON'T think I'm kidding I don’t believe I’ll ever I Jht- closer to suicide than I was then. It wasn't just the agony of smearing something over the paper in the next thirty-five minutes. I seemed to see my whol" life unfolding before me as a series of days in which I would be whipping and nagging and spurring myself to write little Jimy Dandy columns about gin and bathtubs and speakeasies. "I walked over to the w indow. It sounds silly, but I honestly figure now’ that my life was saved by the fact that the managing editor had that title printed in very large letters on his door. Managing editor — just like that. The letters caught my eye. I thought to myself, ’I don’t have to jump, I can talk to him.’ But that wasn't, very easy either. It took me ten minutes to make up my mind to knock. •He roared like a lion. I walked right in and said all in a torrent, ’I can’t write a funny column every day and I haven’t written on** for tomorrow and I just can't keep it up and I'm not going to try anv more ’ ” “He said, ‘lt’s all right by me. George. Why don't you do it three days a week.’ ” “And did that solve everything?” I broke in. The comic columnist laughed, but without much mirth. “Well.” he said. ”it does make some difference. It means that you only have to look at the windjw half as often.” (Copyright. 1934. bv The Times)

Today s Science BV DAVID DIETZ

THE number of those who have found a soulsat isfving and healthful hobby in gardening is lecton. A lesser but nevertheless extremely large number have found an equally satisfactory hobby in astronomy. A hobby which seems to have been largely overlooked and which might well be embraced either for its own sake or as a natural adjunct to either gardening or star-gazing is meteorology. Every one—and particularly gardener and stargazers—must be interested in the weather. Mark Twain complained that ever?' one talked about the weather but no one ever did anything about it. Well, here’s something worth doing about the weather: Get acquainted with it! An excellent way to begin is with a book just written bv Professor Alexander McAdie of the Blue Hill Observatory of Harvard University. Its title is "Fog." The book has a minimum of text and a maximum of pictures, no less than 52 of them. They are all extremely beautiful photographs of fogs and clouds, most of them the work of Professor McAdie's own camera. "Every fog.” he writes in explanation of the title of his book, "is a cloud, only it is a cloud that rests upon earth. Conversely evert' cloud is a fog. only it is lifted by rising air and shaped by losing energy, chiefly caused by the winds.” a a a STUDY the magnificent photographs in this book - the picture of ground fog slowly rising above rolling hills, sea fog lifting above a bay and disclosing the outline of the shore, cumulo-nimbus clouds alter a rain, sun making a halo through altostratus clouds, and all the others. Read the brief but clear and simple text and you have anew meaning of clouds and their shaoes. The cloud is not a fluffy piece of fleece lazily floating in ihe sky It is something dynamic. Its height, its size, its shape, its rate of change are all the product of the conflicting forces at work in the atmosphere. a at 1 THE water vapor, which forms fog and clouds, Is carried along by the air. The air does not absorb the water vapor but only carries it along, Professor McAdie emphasizes. • Formerly it was thought that the air and vapor were one. but this is not so, for while closely linked they are separate entities. They go along, hand in hand, like man and wife, and to appearances are one; yet each has its own appropriate temperature, pressure and density." Discussing the structure of fogs. Professor McAdie tells us that m a dense fog there are approximately 1200 drops of visible vapor in each cubic centimeter cl space. A cub centimeter is about sixhundredths of a cubic inch. "Fog" deserves your attention when doing your Christmas shopping. You probably know someone who would appreciate the book. It is published by MacMillan it $2.50.

Questions and Answers

Q—Did Lewis Stone appear in the movie version of "Beau Geste" or "Beau Sabreur?” A—No. Q—Dc children whose fathers become naturalized American citizens during their minority have the tnvilfge of voting? A —children follow the citizenship of their father, and upon attaining their majority they have the privileges of American citizenship, including the right to vote.

HUEY LONG—‘LOUISIANA—I’M IT!’

Kingfish Is Exaggeration of South's Picturesque Demagogs

Tfcle I* lb* third *f a eerie* *f article* conrrrnin* Hu** P. Le ng, virtual dictator of louMiana a thousands. Th* eerie* ban hern written by Thomas L Stokes, himself a Southerner, of The Indianapolis Timoa Washington staff. * a a BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 3.—Why is Huey Long? That is a question which prods national curiosity as this unique politic? 1 figure emerges from conquest of his own state and seizes front page newspaper space, now as barker for his state university football team, now with emanations of ambition for the presidency, now as crusader for the redistribution of wealth. The answer is that Huey Long i* merely an exaggeration, in blackface type, of the picturesque and picaresque demagog that has sprung up in the South of the last 20 or 30 years to usurp the rule of the old aristocracy. It has been a period in which captivating guerilla captains could play easily upon the passions and fancy of the mob. The type flourishes on ignorance, and the South still has its share of that. The dpmagog of the South—and nearly every Southern state has had them—springs from a sort of mould. He uses the same kind of tactics in Louisiana, Missi>sippi, Georgia and wherever else he may rise to master the crowd. He is a showman. Oratory is a large part of his equipment. He appeals to the masses and shouts against the money interests, though in most cases the latter have lost nothing of importance if they played his games. He fights a few real battles and many sham battles.

Few lasting refoims have come from his kind. They have not brought forth, for instance, a steady series of governmental, social and economic reforms such as the LaFollettee, father and sons, have accomplished in Wisconsin over a period of years. This is due. partly, to the oneparty system of government in the South. There is not the clash of opposing forces which generates progress. Reform movements rise and fall without making any real change in the system. When times get bad the demagog sweeps back into the saddle. Huey Long has been smarter, bolder, than the usual run, and has faced ineffectual foes. mam AS a showman—and showmanship gets lots of votes still, among a people to whom politics is a drama and a “speaking” is something to travel miles to hear —he perhaps surpasses all who have gone before him. He puts on a show for the people in the backwoods, along the forgotten bayous, whose lives still are drao despite automobiles and moving pictures and radio—for they have few of these. He seems to speak frankly. He knows the psychology of the man with the hoe. He did not serve

-The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen —

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—lt is the fate of almost every Administration to suffer wide and sometimes unbridgeable splits within its own family. This was true during the days of Woodrow Wilson, of Taft, of Harding and already it is increasingly true of the Administration of Franklin Roosevelt. Even within the Cabinet —a comparatively small group supposedly pulling for party and for country—the clash of personalities and

policies is too great, the struggle for power too tempting. The cleavage in the Roosevelt official family has increased ever since its overwhelming vote of confidence Nov. 6. It was brought to public attention by the lekesMoffet row. Actually, it is more ancient and deeper than this. The. battle is between the Npjv Dealers and the Old; the men who favor long-term reconstruction and those who want immediate recovery even if ideals are cast overboard in attaining it; the men who feel that country should come before party and those who would build up Democracy at the expense of the country. a a a ON these issues, the Cabinet and those closest to the President, divide themselves into three groups. There are the outright New Dealers: Ickes, Wallace, Perkins, and to a considerable extent, Morgenthau, Tugwell and various members of the Brain Trust. There are the outright Old Dealers: Farley, Roper, Maclntyre, MofTet, Hurja and Howe. Then there is a borderline group of old-fashioned Democrats who retain occasional streaks of liberalism. sometimes are found in one category, sometimes in the other. They include: Cummings, Dern, Hull and Swanson. Between the first two there is bitter, poorly concealed and continual warfare. It is important because it is symbolic of the forces pulling rtie Administration in two directions. It will get a lot worse before it gets any better. a a a LEADER of the reactionaries is Big Jim Farley. Jim is proud of his conservatism. He thinks the Government should stay out of these new-fangled ideas, unless it can make some money for itself. Perhaps even more potent in the reactionary group is Marvin Maslntyre, presidential secretary. Maclntyre came to the White House without definite convictions, and if he has acquired any since, they are as Bourbon as Louis XVI. "Nut ideas” is Maclntyre's description for a lot of the New Deal program. Because of his position in sorting out what and who should come to the attention of his chief. Maclntyre wields almost more influence than any one in the Cabinet. Old-fashioned and reactionary is Dan Roper. Secretary of Commerce. Roper's influence was approaching the point of minus zero when suddenly it became fashionable for the New Deal to play ball with business. Now he sends out assuring prosperity broadcasts and is supremely happy. a a a OUTSTANDING leader of the New Deal group is Harold Ickes. Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Ickes is a marvelous controversialist and the President loves him for it. He can make the Republicans feel more uncomfortable than any one else in the Administration. More important. Mr. Ickes is a militant liberal, an excellent executive, and has vowed a vendetta against predatory interests. He makes any corporation seeking to rob the public domain even more uncomfortable than the Republicans. As long as Mr. Ickes is in the New Deal, the Farleys and the Hurjas and the Maclntyres will have a hard time winning out. Just as much a New Dealer, but not such a fighter, is Henry Walace. He is good, but has lost in prestige. His Agricultural De-

an apprenticeship as a country traveling salesman for nothing. Speeches, it is said, rarely change votes in the United States Senate. They do in Louisiana. A homely, salty, well-turned story on your opponent will be the talk of small communities for days and it will win votes. This has been nearly the whole stock in trade of some Southern political figures who have had their day. ana BUT not Huey Long, He has far more. He has a quick mind, also a sponge-like mind. He has intellectual pace, just as the athlete or the race-horse has physical pace. He can drive directly to the heart of a subject. He has spent the night studying an intricate legal case involving a problem with which he had no previous acquaintance, and then gone to court the next day with a brilliant argument. Such men as the late Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis have paid tribute to his mental processes. But all these things would not have put Louisiana in the palm of his pudgy hand. There is a boldness which is the

partment is too heterogenous, more idealistic than practical, but a definite force the reactionaries. Miss Perkins, despite an almost pathological aversion to publicity, is a militant fighter against the Jim Farleys. She has come up in prestige since General Johnson left and is conducting one of the best run departments in the New Deal. Henry Morgenthau saws wood and says little. Essentially a mid-dle-of-the-road man, he swings slightly to the Left, though is inclined to be slightly scared of the bankers. The cue to Henry is that he keeps his eye on the President. He is an excellent administrator and stands ace-high with Roosevelt. As to which of these two will win, the New Dealers or the Old, is perhaps the most absorbing political question now holding the attention of Washington. „ (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) , ART EX PE RT T O~SP EA K Alliance Francaise to Hear Mme. Adele Robert. Mme. Adele Robert, in charge of the Arthur Zinkin Galleries, 6 E. Market-st, will lecture before the Alliance Francaise in the Hotel Washington at 8 Thursday night.. Mme. Robert, who came to Indianapolis recently from French Switzerland, where she was born, will discuss "French Art and Civilization.”

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“Oh, mother, you’re no help. AU you think of is howjkjyitti look when you make.it over, for yourself.?

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essence of his success. Coupled with it is an astuteness in practical politics. A keen business and trading sense is part of his equipment. Thus, step by step, by a favor here, by force there, he has built a machine that has few equals. It is nourished, as all political machines are, on jobs. He distributes them lavishly, but with a shrewd economy of effect. He enforces strict discipline. Gradually, through this process, he and his men have acquired control of the state’s machinery. nan HE is adept in the employment of persuasions of various sorts. In its more elementary form it appeared when he let the

KEENAN HEADS STATE HOTEL MEN’S GROUP Ft. Wayne Manager Succeeds Wells as Association President. James F. Keenan, Ft. Wayne, today succeded William H. Wells, Hotel Severin manager, as president of the Indiana Hotel Association, following the election held at the closing session of the association’s convention Saturday in the Claypool. Other officers named were Marsh H. Jones, Crawfordsville, vice-presi-dent; George Bippus, Huntington, secretary; L. C. Levering, Hotel Antlers, treasurer, and Walter B. Smith, of the Smith group, Indianapolis, American Hotel Association executive committee representative. Directors named were George A. Cunningham, Claypool Hotel; A. C. Weisburg and Jacob Hoffman, South Bend; A. B. Jones, Crawfordsville; C. J. Scholtz and F. Harold Van Orman, Evansville; A. U. Thornburg, Marion; E. J. Harris, Elkhart; Harry J. Fawcett, French Lick, and A. C. Thornburgh, Muncie.

INDIANA LIONS BAND RE-ELECTS DIRECTOR South Bend Man Trained Group Which Won Honors. I. G. Eberly, South Bend, was re-elected director of the Indiana All-State Lions Band at the annual meeting yesterday in the Hotel Washington. It was Mr. Eberly who trained the band that won international championship honors at Montreal, Canada, in 1933. Fred Batt, Salem, was re-elected manager, and Walter L. Shirley, Indianapolis, was elected secretarytreasurer. Directors named included Fied Hoover, Salem; R. L. Holben, Auburn: A. H. Smith, Zionsvillle; Mr. Shirley: Dewey Thatcher, Kokomo, and Gordon Butler, Crothersville. The band was rehearsed for a series of state concerts to be played this winter as a campaign to be sent to Mexico City fc f be international convention next July.

farmer know that the road in front of his farm would continue to be the mud-hole in winter, the dust storm in summer, unless political support was forthcoming. In more advanced forms these persuasions are exercised through the banks, the various boards and commissions which govern the economic and business life of the state. His patronage machine expands and contracts according co the needs of the times. He has an investigation staff of his own for which the people pay, the so-called Bureau of Ciiminal Identification, a state agency. Very quickly he can get the lowdown on his political enemies No one knows the bureau’s size. The Senator has a bodyguard

IN OLD NEW YORK By Paul Harrison

NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—On 42nd-st, which used to be the world's most celebrated theatrical thoroughfare, marquees still blaze with lights. But the lights now spell “burlesque.” Famous restaurants, which used to draw the top-hat-and-ermine carriage trade, all have gone. Today there ars hamburger stands, onearm cafeterias and a roaring Barrel House. ... No cabarets, either, to attract the glittering upper stratum of Gotham’s night life. Instead, saxophones squawk in dimly-lighted taxi dance halls, and trained fleas and sideshow freaks entertain carnival crowds in the amusement arcades. The glory has gone from the crossroads of the world, but over the street still hangs the glamor of memories. It has been an eventful

spot ever since 1776, when George Washington stood on what is now Times Square and watched his tatterdemalion army retreat before the British. A plaque in the Paramount Building marks the vicinity where Gen. Putnam checked the enemy advance while most of the American army got away. Not until 1825 was a road built there, and it wasn’t called 42ndst in those days. The property was sold to the city for $lO by one John Norton, whose farm included most of the property that now is Manhattan’s gay rialto. The first building, prophetically enough, was a saloon. On the site of the Times Building a general store. Where the Eltinge Theater now stands, were erected a private school and stronghold of burly burlyque, the boys used to whoop it up in Molly Reardon’s place. Molly was the first queei of the midtown hot spots.

BY 1901 the brothers Considine had opened their famous Hotel Metropole, where was served the biggest free lunch north of the Bowery. A couple of blocks up the street, William Waldorf Astor built the Astor Hotel in 1904. And his cousin, John Jacob Astor, soon put up the rival Knickerbocker. About that time the subway burrowed its way to Times Square, and the boom was under way. The New Amsterdam Theater thirty-one years ago, starring Nat Goodwin and dazzling the town with its splendor. Seats in that famous old showhouse have sold for as much as S2OO each. There was Shanley’s, to which hansoms and victorias brought the city’s gourmets. And Murray’s, farther down the block, a mirrored nightery with the first revolving dance floor. Booth Tarkington and George Ade were familiar figures at the Knickerbocker bar. Barrel organs ground out ‘‘Gee! I Wish I Had a Girl Like the Other Fellows Have.” A few blocks away, on the West Side, the Gophers ruled Hell’s Kitchen. a a a FLO ZIEGFELD, in his career of glorification, also glorified 42nd-st. Glamorous names—Mae Murray, Fannie Brice, Peggy Joyce, Lillian Lorraine, Will Rogers, Ann Pennington, and the rest—twinkled on the fronts of his showshops. And the smartest stay-up-laters attended his Midnight FYolic on the New Amsiiidam Roof. Z.egfeld is dead. Charles Dillingham is dead. A. H Woods, Sam Harris, George White and the rest have strayed from the scene of former triumphs. Burlesque has taken over the Republic, the Apollo and the Eltinge. Other theaters are havens for second-run films. Strippers soon may be working on the stage of Wallach’s. Only the New Amsterdam remains faithful to tradition. It has Libby Holman in her new musical success. Pockets Picked on Bus Clarence Newton, Ewing Hotel, Chicago, told police Sunday that his pockets had been picked whiie he was a passenged on a bus en route here. He missed forty $1 bills. 1

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Here are two contrasting photographs of Kingfish Huey Pierce Long, King of Louisiana. At the left, he is shown making a speech on the floor of the United States Senate —cajoling, pleading, joking. At the right is Kingfish in his most serious role, taken expressly for dignified purposes—lt is United States Senator Huey P. Long, Democrat of Louisiana.

constantly about him which has used rough tactics on newspaper men and others who offend. The State Police force is at his command. So is the National Guard, which he called out in the recent election. Altogether he has an “army” of about 3000 men who could be mustered quickly at his bidding. It is more comfortable in Louisiana now to be on Huey's side. Also it is more profitable. NEXT—Enter Uncle Sam.

INDIANA BAR TO HEAR CAPONE PROSECUTOR Lawyers’ Association to Meet in Claypool Dec. 15. George E. Q. Johnson, noied. for his successful prosecution of A1 Capone and other notorious figures in Chicago’s crime world while he was United States attorney there, will address the Indiana State Bar Association at the Hotel Claypooi Saturday, Dec. 15. His subject will be “Investigation and Detection of Crime From the Prosecutor’s Viewpoint.” Mr. Johnson was Federal District Attorney for northern Illinois six years and, upon his resignation from that office, was appointed to a federal judgeship. He resigned from the bench in 1933 to re-enter the practice of law. He is a member of the Chicago Bar Association managers’ board and served on the Illinois State Bar Association committee which studied and revised that state’s criminal code.

JUNIOR C. OF C. WILL AID BUTLER ACTIVITIES Committee to Help Needy Students Promote Athletic Events. Educational activities on the campus of Butler University will be aided by a committee announced today by Fred E. Schick, Junior Chamber of Commerce president. Appointment of the committee is in line with the Junior Chamber’s program of aiding worth-while Indianapolis institutions. The group will acquaint high school students with Butler’s facilities, help needy students to obtain employment, and promote athletic events on the campus. The committee includes Eural Byfield, chairman; Gilbert C. Moore, James Bennett, George Seidensticker, J. H. Smith, Byron Rogers, Charles Ruth, Harold Norris, H. E. Danner, J. A. Smith, Elmon Williams. Doyle Zarin, Donald E. Schick and Harold Smith. TELEPHONE EXECUTIVE MARKS ANNIVERSARY Shelby J. Finch Celebrates TwentyFifth Year With Company. Shelby J. Finch. 4266 Bowman-av, today was celebrating the twentyfifth anniversary of his joining the personnel of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company’s accounting department. A member of the Telephone Pioneers of America since 1930, Mr. Finch has served 17 of the 25 years as a supervisor. He was promoted to that position in 1917 after having served eight years as a clerk. From July, 1917, to Jan. 1 he was toll supervisor, but since Jan. 1 he has been studies supervisor. Mr. Finch is married and has two children. BOY, 5, HURT IN : ALL Suffers Skull Fracture in Tumble to Sidewalk. Veldia McCoy Jr., 5. was in a critical condition in City Hospital today with a fractured skull he received when he fell on the sidewalk yesterday near his borne at 1850 Gent-st.

Fair Enough n&FEiER r I A HE strike of the 26 students of journalism at '*■ Huey Long's State University is not a serioua threat to the dictator's plan to run for President of the United States on the Youth ticket in 1936. Th* truth is not very appetizing but the truth is nevertheless that in a test case at Louisiana State University, youth, with 26 exceptions, has shown itself to be as docile and as venal as the rest of the citizenship. The dictator suppressed the college paper when he saw an advance copy containing a letter criticis-

ing him for exploiting the varsity football team for political purposes. He raided the plant, personally, and 400 copies of the paper which had been run off before his arrival were confiscated. Not only that but the members of the student staff who were present in the plant were searched so that they could not get out of the building with copies of the paper. After a week of indecision and brooding, the staff finally summoned the gumption to quit but they have received no support from the mass of the students because about half the student body are in receipt of

bribes to submit to the dictatorship of Der Kingfish. Under ordinary circumstances, the money which these students receive would not be regarded as hush money. But in the peculiar conditions at Huey Long's own state university, the doles which they receive from the era and from the university pay roll for the performance of petty jobs become a form of blackmail. If these students were to join a revolt against the dictator’s own flat declaration that the university belongs to him and his threat to fire anybody, student or professor, who uttered a word against him, they would lose their dole money. man Expressions of Terror npHE public funds, under Huey’s firm dictatorship. A thus become a powerful sedative, calming the normal resentment of the student body and deadening the nerves of their character. The terror at Huey Long’s own state university is expressed in every letter which your correspondent has received from Baton Rouge with one exception. . One student wrote, “Feel free to use the facts which I have given you, but not my name or my career at Louisiana State University would be a matter of minutes.” Another closed his letter with the line. “I would not be a student very long if my name were mentioned.” An alumnus of the school who was captain of the football team in his time, writes, “We are in political bondage, subject to Huey’s dictatorship. Therefore the writer’s name must not be made -public on account of business and personal reasons.” “The student body is interested in only one thing, football,” said one of the students. ‘‘lt does not dabble in journalism and expose. I was not ten feet from Huey the night he saw the clipping. He said: ‘Get me Jim Smith (the president of the university). If any one says anything against me, I'll fire ’em. I’ll fire a thousand of the little if I want to. There's ten thousand boys waiting to get into my school. That’s my university and 111 have anew editor in the morning.’ “I have been on the campus three years and I never have seen the student body become more aroused over any social injustice except the removal of the overstuffed lounges from the Huey P. Long fieldhouse. They just don’t agitate. There are some few who do become aroused at times but when they appeal they either are thrown out or get the deaf ear because every second person has a job.” nan They Shouldn’t Deny Jr. A NOTHER letter, written by one of the conformist students complained only that the ci theism of the dictator in the public newspapers had deprived the student body of an enjoyable trip to Knoxville, Tenn., for the Tennessee-L. S. U. game. This young man did not forbid the use of his name. Huey had bribed the students with one footbali trip to Nashville which he paid for out of his salar, of $9,500 a year as United States Senator. He was planning to give them another installment on the price of their citizenship with a trip to Knoxville, also payable out of his remarkably elastic salary. Accused of exploiting the football team and buying the adherence of the youth of his university in this manner, he decided to call off the Knoxville expedition. Meanwhile youth, from whom such high principles always are expected, as represented at Louisiana State University, is no different from the other elements of Huey's political machine whose regularity is renewed every pay day. Huey now knows that youth has its price and a bargain price at that. Meanwhile, also, the twenty-six striking journalists stand suspended, accused by President Jim Smith of “gross disrespect” to himself in rebelling against the dictator’s censorship. They needn’t deny the charge. It is more a citation than an indictment. (Copyright. 1934, by Unite and Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health -BY OR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

TJECAUSE there are so many kinds of rheumatio -■-* diseases, and because the cause are so variable and difficult to determine in many cases, treatment involves an attack on the condition from many different, angles. Every possible source of infection in the body should be found ana removed. Rest is especially significant, because the experience of years shows that damaged tissues recover best when they are permitted to rest. , If a real cure of this kind can be taken away from home, the person concerned gets emotional relief as well as physical rest. If the cure can not be taken away from home, an hour in bed every day after lunch is exceedingly valuable. Many types of vaccines and “shots” hav-y been considered for persons with rheumatic conditions. u m m ALL sorts of drugs have been recommended, including sulphur and various forms of iodine, some combinations of gold, and arsenic and iron. The chief values of arsenic and iron are to stimulate the blood when there is anemia. The evidence in favor of the other substances is hardly sufficient to indicate that they have specific value. Various forms of salicylates have been known for years to be useful in rheumatic disease because they relieve pain. As in every other type of disease, proper control of the bowel is exceedingly helpful. There is no question that accumulations of food and waste matter in the bowel tend to a feeling of illness. BUM MANY kinds of baths and physical treatments have been recommended, but the significant factor in most such methods is the application of heat. If a tub is filled with hot water at a temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and if this temperature is gradually raised to 104 degrees by adding hot water, immersion in the bath for anywhere from fifteen to thirty minutes will be found to give temporary relief of pains in the joints in many cases. However, a very’ hot bath is exceedingly taxing to the strength, particularly of weak persons or thoee with heart disease, and such baths should never be taken without consent of the doctor and without having someone present at the bath to make certain that no accident occurs to the patient. Q—Did George Washington order troops into Pennsylvania in 1794 to put down the Whisky Insurrection? A-Yes. Q—How do federal territories achieve statehood? A—By Act of Congress conferring statehood upon them and approving the constitutions, under which they will operate as states.

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