Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 178, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1934 — Page 13

It Seems to Me HEYM BROUN of the newspaper stories about litt.'e rePeal's first birthday are Bloomy In tone. It *eems the candle drips and nobody has found any gold ring In the cake. I have not at my fingertips any statistics of motor accidents or of arrests for Intoxication in American rities of less than fifty thousand population. The best that I can do is to make a personal report. In Rtiv opinion repeal has proved much less punishing than most of us expected. Naturally the new dispensation rame as a bitter blow to all who had grown up with the speakeasy and had learned to love it. We shared a two-family house with the drys in fool’s paradise. Bishop Can-

non and Dr. Broun were naive in the belief that prohibition had come to stay forever. And each in his own wav settled back to enjoy it. Came the hurricane. It ripped away the shutters from brownstone mansions and tore the curtains from the windows. For a little time it seemed as if each thirsty customer might be compelled to play the role of a wax behind some plate-glass window. I feared th't f'*\ time I robed mug or glass to lips some urchin with his nose pressed against the pane would cry aloud, “That’s the third drink for that fat man in the last fifteen minutes.”

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Vaguely I thought of abjuration. Public drinking Ihocks a modest man far more than public bathing. a a a When Friends Parted RELATIVES and friends were tom apart by the early rigors of repeal. "I’ll meet you at the bar of the Umptyump Hotel,” said my Aunt Caroline over the telephone. I went to the palatial hostelry and found no bar at all. There was, of course, a cocktail lounge, ten or twelve grills, many dining ror.-ns and something called Ye Tavern. The cocktail lounge was one mile long and cleverly arranged , as a labryinth. I could not find my Aunt Caroline. I never have seen her since. We believe she still is alive, for every week or so telegrams come signed “Aunt Caroline” and asking that funds be sent to the Umptyump Hotel to bail her out. The place seems to pall on her. The amounts requested would run into a conidable sum of money but so far we have sent none. If could be an impostor using Aunt Caroline's name. Our disposition is to let the whole thing drop and mark her down as the first victim of repeal. There must be pioneers in any cause and to brave scouts iboth men and women I hasten to add) w’ho first ventured into the wilderness of legal drinking and succeeded in civilizing it never w 11 be forgotten. They have made it possible for every free soul to be once more, both vertical and convivial Gone are the silly little tables of the reconstruction period. In the beginning it was gravely feared drinking would be ruined by coolie cocktails. There w T ere horrid signs around announcing that during all the months containing an *‘R” you could get two Martinis for a quarter. Mass production seemed in a fair way to strangle an art. an Old Days Are Here Attain ALL that is changed. Today when you look at the check it is quite possible to imagine yourself in the golden age of prohibition. The old gin which animated the scofflaws is coming back again ♦o the market. I refer to the bathtub’s proudest product, the synthetic beverage which used to kiss and bum. In the early days of repeal very many of us drank far more than was reasonable. Legal liquor had no strength. The McCoy which had been often so mentioned as a sort of Olympian mctar turned out to be mere soothing sjTup. What I missed most of all was the atmosphere. I am not referring to the mood or color of the meeting places, but to the actual lack of oxygen content in the air. In the hideaways there were inner rooms which had not been ventilated from the day that prohibition first became law'. In such establishments those whose funds had run low’ could achieve a certain exhiliaration Just by taking a couple of deep breaths. Prohibition was too fine a thing to be cut off before its time. I don’t care what the statute books say. It is back with us once again in spiri*. The old faces are back at the old tables. I know a place where you still hav-; to ring a bell and explain that you are a friend of Mr. Beasley’s. I say that repeal is a myth, a mirage, a m itmare which has ended. Prohibition has returned gain as if it were a season. I can't at the moir.en remember which. What does it matter—spring c summer, fall or winter? It’s always fair weather when good fellows get together in anybody’s cellar. (Copyright, 1934)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ—

THANKSGIVING has come and pone and Christmas draws near. Soon winter will arrive in a gust of wind and a flurry of snow'. Winter has its delights—the tang of sharp air that, brings color to the cheek, the bustle and expectancy of the Chrisimas season, long evenings to sit before a roaring fire and crack nuts and tell stories, and above all. the sparkling brilliance of the stars when the night is crisp and clear. Now, as though in celebration of approaching Christmas, the heavens unfold their winter pageant, the drama of Orion, the mighty hunter, who. with his hunting dogs, pursues Taurus, the celestial bull, across the southeastern sky. Taurus came into view as ths summer faded and autumn arrived. The constellation is easily recognized by its bright star. Aldebaran. red in color. It forms the rigm ?ve of the bull. Aldebaran is the end star of a letter *7" formed by five bright stars. These five form the famous star cluster known as the Hyades. To the right of the Hyades and higher in the sky is a compact ?roup of six fainter stars. These constitute the yet more famous star cluster known as the Pleiades. a m a ORION made his appealence about Halloween. Look for him a little south of east. For most persons it is simpler to find Orion first and then use him to locate Taurus. A diagonal row of three bright stars marks the belt of the hunter. Three stars hanging in a row from the belt mark his sword. Above the belt. Betelgeuse. a bright red star, marks the shoulder of Orion. Below the belt is Rigel, a white star, marking the foot of the giant. The famous Great Nebula in Orion is marked by Theta, the middle star of the three forming the sword. It is difficult for the mind of man to comprehend the size of this nebula. From one edge of it to the other is five and a half light-years. From the earth to the nearest star is about four and a third light-years A light-year, as most readers of these articles ;now, is six trillion miles. a a a BEHIND O Icn come his hunting dogs. These are i the latest arrivals in the night sky. having appeared at about Thanksgiving time. You must look low on the eastern horizon for them. Canis Major, the Greater Dog. is closer to Orion, Jit east of him. The constellation is best recognized from its brightest star, Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens. Northeast of Orion and north of Canis Major is the Lesser Dog, Canis Minor. It also can be recognized by its brightest star, Procvon. Sirius shines with ft brilliant white light. The light of Procvon is more golden. Sirius, because it is the brightest star In the heavens, has always attracted the attention of mankind. Chronicles of the rising and setting of Sirius are to be found in both the ancient Chaldean and Egyptian records. In mid-summer, Sirius is in the eastern sky not j in the night but in the daytime. Just before the arrival of mid-summer. Sirius comes over the eastern i horizon just a little in advance of the sun. The ancient Romans called the days of mid-sum-mer tae dog days because of an idea that it was Sirius, which by adding its ray to thewe of the sun in mid-summer, made the days so hot.

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HUEY LONG—‘LOUISIANA—I’M IT!’

1,500,000 Belong to Kingfish’s ‘Share-the-Wealth ’ Chibs in U. S.

Thla it the llfth of a series of articles deseribins Senator Haey Long’s domination of Louisiana. The series ha* been written by Thomas L. Stokes, of the Washington boreau of the Seripps-Howard newspapers. Mr. Stokes, nimself a Southerner, went right into the heart of t/>uisiana to pi his facts. B B B BY THOMAS L. STOKES limes Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS, Dec. s.—Huey Long had an idea at 3 o’clock one morning. He got his secretary out of bed at that unusual hour—unusual for the secretary, not for Huey. By hreakfast time the two had drafted a plan and drawn a layout for tne printer. That, according to Earle J. Christenberry, the Kingfish’s secretary and adviser, was the origin of the “Share the Wealth” clubs. The 3 a. m. baby has grown, by now, into a lusty child and squalls loudly “Huey Long” at many 6pots on the map of the United States, at the cross-road in Nebraska and among the tenement rows in New York City. This, say those who credit Huey with looking beyond a dictatorship of the delta, is the genesis of a national political organization to which the Senator will begin, henceforth, to pay more attention, now that everything has been taken i 's down here. Mr. Christenberry claims tha >ent. 1, the last count, 1,460,000 members were enrolled in “Share Wealth” clubs. There are 200 clubs in New York, he said Seven arc in Brooklyn. Louisiana, of course, is first. It is dotted with them. So is Arkansas, the state of Senator Hattie Caraway, whom Huey helped send to Washington. It ranks second. Mississippi, which recently elevated Theodore G. Bilbo to the Senate, is third. California, where Upton Sinclair demonstrated the strength of those who demand

a greater share in the nation’s material wealth, runs a close fourth. The clubs extend into evpry state, according to Mr. Christenberry. There is no national organization. There are no dues. There are no charters or charter fees. He gave away a million membership buttons at the begir ni; r says his secretary. This had to stop. It became too expensive. Anybody who wants a button for his lapel now must pay for it. an u IN the Senator's office in Washington, Mr. Christenberry has a complete roster of these clubs. It, constitutes an excellent mailing list for Hueys speeches and pamphlets on his idea of sharing the wealth by taking from the rich in heavy taxes and passing it to the poor through Government benefits of one sort and another —an idea, by the way that far more conservative persons than the Louisiana Senator now nurture. Huey has prepared a manual for the “Share the Wealth” clubs which tells them how to organize and includes quotations from the

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

WASHINGTON, Dec. s.—The Senate Munitions Committee, resuming its investigation today, has a much harder job on its hands than before. Some members of the committee are worried lest the gesture of the du Ponts has spiked the show. Senate investigations cost money. And the committee's strategy was to build up enough public sentiment to obtain future funds. This was done in a big way. But the du Ponts went the committee one

better. They proposed Government regulation of munitions manufacture and export. Now, the industry can claim that since the purpose of the investigation was to secure regulation of war weapons, there is no use proceeding further. Why needlessly kill American trade in South America, the industry can argue? Undoubtedly, this argument will be effective with some Senate leaders. But, meanwhile, public opinion continues strong for the investigation. The committee’s total mail ran into hundreds of thousands. Even today, more than two months after the first committee session, letters continue to pour in at the rate of 150 to 200 daily. a a a NOTE to housewives: If you think you have a hard time getting the head of the family to replace the household china when it breaks up, consider the sad lot of Mrs. Henrietta Nesbit. housekeeper at the White House. When a White House plate gets too chirped to use, she has to put it aside and send it, with an official report, to the Assistant Director of Public Buiid'ugs. He looks it over, decides whether it should be permanently “condemned.” If his .-erdict is “aye” he makes out official papers, orders, etc., etc., by which the plate is finally destroyed by being broken up. If a plate actually is broken, the pieces are sent and the same procedure obtains. The housekeeper has to account for every bit of crockery, glass, and other household furnishings in the executive mansion. a a a CAPITOL HILL is buzzing with the inside tip that the President has his mind set on a short and snappy congressional session. Roosevelt apparently wants Congress to wind up by May 1, at the latest, and to that end is quietly trimming his •‘must” legislative program to include only the following: Appropriation measures. New NIRA bill, necessary because the present act expires in 1935. Unemployment insurance. Public Works bill. St. LawTence Waterway Treaty. Taxing, banking, holding corporations, pure food and drug, and numerous other reform measures would all be shelved if he has his way. That the President would like to get Congress off his hands as soon as possible goes without saying. All Presidents aspire to that. But there is many a slip ’twixt cup and lip. Congress has a way of taking the bit in its teeth once it gets well under way. The makeup of the coming body is such as to give rise to considerable doubt regarding the President's ability to harry the members homeward by cherry blossom time. A majority in both chambers, for instance, are hot for bonus action. The President’s program excludes that entirely. But the issue will be raised and consume much time. This is a certainty. Likewise such controversial m

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Bible. Josephus, Plato. Daniel Webster, Government commissions, President Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt—and Huey P. Long. On the cover is a snatch from Oliver Goldsmith’s “Deserted Village.” Milton has the fir\al word in a passage from his mask “Comus,” which commends distribution of nature’s blessings “in unsuperfluous even proportion.” Huey addresses his campaign to the plain folk, in the manual he says: “So it is first necessary that the members of a society should not look at our so-called ‘leaders’ to do all the work or to make the arguments and debate the facts. There are just as good and useful men and women for this work at the plow handles, in the factories and on the crossties, who can organize, secure members and explain our problems in meetings,' as there are in law offices and counting houses.” B B B THREE or four copies of the Senator’s autobiography, “Every Man a King,” which he

questions as inflation, central banks, old-age pensions, bank payoff, and labor legislation are certain to be extensively debated. June 15 is a much safer bet for adjournment, notwithstanding the President’s wishes and skill in handling Congress. (Copyright, 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) 14 SAFETY MEETINGS ARE ARRANGED HERE Accident Prevention Bureau Makes Announcement of Plans. Fourteen meetings to preach safety in the home and to motorists today were announced by the Accident Prevention Bureau of the Indianapolis Police Department, sponsors of the campaign. These meetings including entertainment and music will be giver, at community houses, schools, hospitals, Parent-Teacher Association gatherings and various places of amusement. Music will be provided by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration band. The next meetings will be at 7 Friday at School 50, at 75 N. Bellvieu pi. and at 7:30 Friday at School 32, at 2100 N. Ulinois-st. ISSUE 351 MARRIAGE LICENSES IN MONTH November Record Threatened, According to Bleak West. The number of Marion County marriage licenses issued during November approached the all-time record, according to Judson West, maririage licence clerk in the office of | County Clerk Glenn B. Ralston. The record was set in November, 1928, when 353 licenses were issued. | This year. 351 licenses were given out. In November, 1932, only 241 marriage permits were registered. BUTLER BOTANY CLUB WILL HEAR STUDENTS Teacher Also to Discuss Research Efforts at Meeting. Members of the Butler Bcrany Club will hear talks by Mrs. Mabel Esten. William Daily and Doris Jane Meuser Friday afternoon in Arthur Jordan Memorial Hall. The talks will be based on research the three speakers recently completed. Mrs. Esten teaches botany for the Butler Evening Division; Mr. Daily and Miss Meuser are students. PROFESSOR TO SPEAK Student Welfare Director to Talk Over WFBM Tomorrow. Professor George F. Leonard, director of student welfare agencies at Butler University, will be the speaker on the regular weekly broadcast of the university over Radio Station W r FBM at 5:30 tomorrow. Professor Leonard will tell of the sacrifice which many students make in order to earn their college expenses. Others on the program will be Mildred Baumgart, vocalist, and Irma Mae Steele, violinist, both students at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1934

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Remember tne time Iluey Long went around the nation ducking photographers? That was the time he got the black eye in the famous “Battle of Sands Point.” At the left is a picture taken of Huey a few days after the encounter when he spoke before war veterans in Milwaukee. Huey resorted to a patch to retain the symmetry of his features. At the right is a photo taken of Huey on the golf course. The Kingfish refuses to fellow any style but his own, says he could be a champion without “them books” if he wanted to be.

printed at his own expense, have been distributed to each club. In this book, as well as extolling his own virtues, he defines his share-the-wealth program as follows:

SOVIET TAKES STEPS TO BALKTERRORISTS Orders Speedy Trials and Death for Rebels. By United Press MOSCOW, Dec. 5.—A grimly portentous series of decrees, authorized by the all-Russian Parliament by emergency order, was put into effect today to avenge the assassination of Sergei Kirov. Thousands of workers filed past his bier in the Hall of Columns. As they did, agents of the secret political police sought terrorist suspects to add to the scores already under arrest. At Leningrad, surgeons worked to insure the recovery of Leonid Micoliev, Kirov’s assassin, so that he could be questioned by police, given a summary trial, and shot. Today’s decrees make it possible to try terrorist suspects in secret, without prosecuting attorney or counsel for the defense. Copy of an indictment is to be handed a defendant 24 hours before the court tries him. Sentences of capital punishment will be carried out at once. SENATOR JACOB WEISS TO ADDRESS SOCIETY Cleveland Metallurgist Also on Program at Antlers. State Senator Jacob Weiss will address the Indianapolis Chapter of the American Society for Metals in Hotel Antlers, Monday. Following his address a technical meeting will bo held. J. V. Emmons, chief metallurgist of the Cleveland (O.) Twist Drill Cos., w'ill read a paper on “High Speed Steel.” S. a. Silbermann is chairman of the local chapter.

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I COVER THE WORLD t. a a a a a By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—A new world doctrine of immense importance, the writer is informed, lies behind the stand taken by Great Britain and the United States at the London Naval conference. That doctrine is that never again, if it can be helped, will any vast area or population of the earth be turned over to one power for its exclusive, or quasi-exclusive, exploitation. The present 5-5-3 naval ratio, it w?.. explained, creates something like a balance of power in the

Western Pacific and Far East as among Britain, America and Japan. Though this ratio gives Japan a big advantage in that quarter of the globe, due to geographical considerations, it does not entirely remove Britain and America from influence there. Should the two powers yield to Nippon, however, and permit her to build a fleet equal to theirs, naval critics agree it would amount to complete abdication on their part of any claims to an interest in China and the Far East generally. Instead of being on a somewhat equal footing, Japan would become supreme. nan BRITISH policy for more than a century has been to maintain a. balance of power in Europe. When one side or another has become too strong, she even has gone to war to pull down the dominant side. In the long run, she has felt, this policy paid. When any one nation became too powerful, almost inevitably it overran its neighbors and endangered her. Britain’s policy in the Far East duplicates it foreign policy. Britain fears that if Japan or any other power became too strong there, her own interests would be imperiled. China stands

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limes of over $100,000,000. the Government taking all above that figure. This means a limit on the size of any one man’s fortune to something like $50,000,000. The rest would go to the Government. 2. An inheritance tax which dees not allow any one person to receive more than $5,000,000 in a lifetime without working for it, all over that amount going to the Government for the benefit of all. 3. An income tax which does not allow any one to make more than $1,000,000 in one year, exclusive of taxes, the rest to go to the Government. Huey got four or five votes when he first presented this program to the United States Senate. The second time he got 20. It will be his major legislative aim at the coming critical session of Congress. a a a HE has broken with President Roosevelt, as he has broken with so many political leaders of the past. He is essentially, inherently, the Kingfish. He must be the center of everything, as he has demonstrated for so long in Louisiana. He can not work with any one who questions his actions. He surrounds himself with docility. So the Louisiana Senator is likely to become a thorn in the side of the Roosevelt Administration at the next session. He encourages rumors that he may become a presidential candidate. There are two opinions about this. One school holds that he is not of the stature ever to attract a national following, that what goes in Louisiana will not go so well elsewhere, outside of perhaps a few Southern states. The other school points to the general unrest in the country, to the way Huey went into Arkansas and, with the odds against Mrs. Caraway, talked the state into sending her to the Senate. His success on the stump, among certain classes of people, is conceded. Huey, they say, might run independently in 1936, as a start, and really become a serious candidate in 1940 if he made any headway in 1936. Next—The Long Machine.

' to be swallowed, and India and Australasia menaced. Asia and the Western Pacific contain almost half the population of the globe. Some 900 million inhabitants are involved. It is pointed out that to permit Japan, who happens to be on the spot, to be militarily impregnable means turning over the w'hole future of these people, au dthis market, to the Japanese do with as they please. nan '"f'HIS, British and Americans are convinced, is not good for the p ;oples concerned, nor for the of the world. No responsible British or American statesmen believes Japan wants a big fleet for the purpose of attacking Britain or the United States in their waters. She wishes merely to be able to pursue her plans in Asia without the danger, or even the possibility, of interference. Nipon’s offer of a 3-3-3 or a 2-2-2 “equality” fleet is viewed as strictly in line with the Japanese thesis. If only very small navies, or none at all existed anywhere in the world, Japan would be the gainer. Being close to the mainland, she could conquer all Asia with her powerful army. Nothing could stop her because there would be no navies. Such, it is said, are some of the reasons underlying Anglo-Ameri-can insistence upon maintaining the existing balance in the Orient. ENTIRE FAMILY GETS RABIES TREATMENTS Health Board Finds Disease in Head of Stray Dog. Bitten last week by a stray dog, Mrs. Frank Hartup. 339 S. Auburnst. her husband and her son. Frank Hartup Jr., today were receiving the Pasteur anti-rabies treatment. Mrs. Hartup penned up the dog when it appeared in her neighborhood and acted strangely. She said that the Health Board took it away and reported to her that examination of the head revealed that the dog had the dread rabies. Mrs. Hartup is anxious that those living near her may know of the Health Board report in case they or their pets were in contact with the diseased dog. % BUTLER FORUM CLUB ELECTS NEW OFFICERS Club to Sponsor Old-Age Pension Discussion Tomorrow. New officers of the Butler Forum Club, comprised of students in the Butler University College of Education, are Valentine Williams, president; Ernestine Graber. vicepresident; Thelma Williamson, sec-retary-treasurer; Henlen Wendling. social chairman; Maryana Coulter, program chairman, and Ivan Sommer, assistant program chairman. The club will sponsor a discussion of old-age pensions at a meeting in Arthur Jordan Memorial 'Hall at 7:30 tomorrow night. Leaders will be Miss Graber and Mr. Sommer. Dr. J. H, Peeling is facilty adviser of the organization.

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Fair Enough PEftfß RETURING from a long sojourn abroad, the Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani complained that she had found people hostile and asked "Why are people so hostile just because one has a little money ?” That is a fair question, although you would think that Mrs. Mdivani, if she really wanted to kmw why she finds people so hosiile, would take a • x>d look at herself and her husband and seek the .nswer in what she saw.

She would see a fair or rather attractive non-working people with an income which is popularly supposed to amount to $2,000,000 a year ago who live extravagantly abroad, preferring foreign countries to the land where her fortune was made, whose every mention in the newspapers has to do with some new extravagance. The Mdivanis, as they appear to the people whom she finds so hostile, always are chartering a railroad train or hal f a deck of a steamship for their travels or she is buying him a hero of expensive ponies or a palace in Venice in which to keep

cool in the summer. It was just a dandy little way of arousing hostility that they selected recently when they gave themselves a birthday party in Paris and flew the orchestra over from London. True enough, under the laws, the money is hers, and it is her privilege to feed her dog on caviar if she wants to w'hile millions of other people have to wonder what they are going to use for bread and clothing. ana The People Take a Stab T>UT Mrs. Mdimni was asking why people are so hostile. One factor in the hostility is the fact that her fortune is associated in the public mind with the five-and-ten-cent store business. Probably the five-and-tens are not the principal source of her income but they were the basis of the fortune. Whenever she buys the prince a dozen head of expensive stock on which to ride horseback and bat a ball hither and yon, the people will take a stab at calculating how long how many sales girls or factory hands had to work to provide the money in units of one-tenth of a cent. Conditions in the five-and-tens may be improved nowadays, no particular thanks to Mrs. Mdivani, but back in the days when the fortune was being amassed the five-and-ten girls were the most dismal, pathetic, overworked girls in the country. Then, too, in the five-and-ten business, prices are shaded so fine that the people who work in the factories which produce five-and-ten goods have to hustle like hell to earn the barest sort cf living. So, naturally, when people read of a birthday party in Paris which is modestly reported to have cost hardly anything, they can’t help thinking of the girls in the five-and-tens and the factory hands and wondering how long one of these people would have to work for enough money to pop just one bottle of the champagne which was drunk at the party. ’The party cost hardly anything,” said Mrs. Mdivani. “I should say not more than SSOOO ” Well, can you imagine anything more futile than to try to explain the hostility which Mrs. Mdiyani complains of, in terms which will be understood by a young woman who comes back to a homeland fuil of poor and desperate people and speaks of SSOOO, spent on a party, as “hardly anything.” % st n tt They Did Their Best THE background and attitude of the young prince and the matrimonial affairs of himself and his two brothers also figure in the hostility. There again, no law has been violated for the Mdivani boys were entirely justified in doing the best they could for themselves. But, reasonably or not, popular opinion in this country ever since Consuelo Vanderbilt married the Duke of Marlborough and Anna Gould married Count Boni, has been somewhat less than cordial to foreigners calling themselves noblemen who marry American girls who are in the money. It is none of the public’s business whom an American heiress marries or how much she pays for her duke or count, but Mrs. Mdivani was asking why people are hostile and your correspondent is trying to explain it in a nice way. What Mrs. Mdivani ought to do, if this hostility bothers her, is hire the same press agent who took charge of Samuel Insull when he was dragged back from Greece to stand trial in Chicago and told him, ‘ From now on, you are just a sweet old man with a heart of gold and a beautiful sympathy for the poor.” Mr. Insull changed overnight and. although he never will be able to brush the dust off his knees as long as he lives, at least he beat the rap, showing how hostility can be overcome by any one who cares to obey the orders of an expert. Mr. Insull’s expert would pipe down all mention of parties costing “hardly anything; not more than $5000” and arrange a nice Christmas tree in Madison Square Garden with Mrs. Mdivani graciously handing out simple presents to the five-and-ten girls and telling them they must really get better acquainted. It is amazing what easy, simple gestures will allay hostility. Marie Antoinette made only one mistake. She should have said, “Let them eat hokum.” (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health -BY UR. MORRIS FISHBEIN -

EXPERTS in child behavior are beginning to concern themselves because of the fact that modern conditions of civilization have produced a child who is exceedingly difficult to handle from the point of view of its social conduct. However, ever since the time of Cain and Abel, children have had trouble getting along with one another and there seems no reason to believe that motion pictures, motor cars and other innovations in our environment are primarily responsible for development of ,what are called unstable or difficult children. It seems possible that the shattered nerve* of parents, who have found difficulties in getting through the postwar and depression times, mav be reflected to a considerable extent in the children. nun AUTHORITIES recognize the broken home as one of the most potent factors in causing juvenile delinquency. Os 200 consecutive cases of child delinquency that appeared in a children’s court in England. 101 were found to come from homes in which the parents were unable to get along together. In every one of these cases, there were stories of family quarrels, bickering, over-strained nerves of mothers, and ill-tempered fathers. As an indication of the fact that the delinquency did not represent any distortion of the child’s intelligence or character, the vast majority of these children, when placed in institutions where they had healthful surroundings and proper living conditions, developed quite properly so far as concerns their mental and physical growth. nun HOWEVER, in some cases the damage done in childhood in a. very bad environment may be so great that even years of institutional care will not bring about a satisfactory result. No institution, however perfectly run. can supply the intimate and loving contact and the maternal caresses which every child craves. The difficult child is one whose behavior tends to make him a nuisance to his elders. He is timid or sensitive and lacks sociability. He suffers usually with nail biting, thumb sucking, stammering and habit spasms. He finds difficulty in getting along in school and he is also likely to wander away, lie, steal or betray extraordinary cruelty.

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