Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 179, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 December 1934 — Page 17

Ft Seems to Me HEYM BROUN THE nation's capital begins to steam and simmer once again. I refer, of course, not to the weather, but to the heat of politics. The usual American tradition has been that following an off year election the losers licked their wounds In quietude and the victors, after a couple of whoops, settled down to peace and perquisites. That rule does not prevail in December, 1934. The fight about the fate of the nation still is going on full force. Once more people are beginning to

run up and down the-long corridors of the Commerce Building just as in the early days of General Johnson. They are running to get down their bets for Washington right now in much like Pimlico before the barrier is sprung for a stake race. Much of the wagering is being done in the dark The odds swing this way or that according to the popular guess as to which horse Franklin Delano Roosevelt is going to ride. Some steeds which had been almost forgotten are being groomed again for the big test. For instance some of the dockers say that NRA (out of emergency by Christmas)

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has been showing some marvelous time trials in the early morning. Recently the record of this gelding has been none too good. ana A Shot in the Leg THE difficulty with NRA in past performances has been that although fast away from the barrier he had no staying power. It may be that the horse has had a shot of stimulant. At any rate he is Tearing and prancing once again and there is little present talk of sending him into retirement. At this point, for the sake of convenience, I would like to shift biy metaphors and 6ay that Washington is like a football game. Quarter Back Roosevelt has called upon a substitute from the sidelines and although he lacks weight and experience the newcomer seems to be a sparkplug. I think by now it generally is agreed that General Hugh Johnson had begun to slow up the attack. For a period he was a lovely plunger, but the opposition tackled him so fiercely that finally he was coming into the line standing up. The new back is Francis Biddle, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. Although he does not occupy General Johnson’s old post tjiere is a feeling in Washington that for the moment NRA may live or die according to his efforts. He brings a fresh enthusiasm to the task. To him the Blue Eagle is anew pet and one of possibilities. The veterans of NRA have lost a great many illusions. They still may hope for the best, but- they ran not fail to feel the letdown which comes inevitably when bright dreams break some considerable distance on the wrong side of the farm horizon. Mr. Biddle is different. He is a very young man. I say this advisedly since he preceded me by only one year at Harvard. He is a Philadelphian, a lawyer, of course, and the brother of a Mr. Biddle who does excellent paintings of Tahiti. ana Live Lions for Riddle FRANCIS BIDDLE has come to his post with an idea which is arousing great consternation in Washington. And this idea likely is to cause even greater fear in many strongholds throughout the country. The motion is simple enough, but almost brand new in the history of Washington. As far as I can gather this brash young Biddle seems determined to proceed upon the assumption that Section 7-A means precisely what it says. So great are his powers of argumentation that he has almost persuaded the folk around the office of the attorney general to take a similar attitude. Mr. Biddle is either a man without fear or exceedingly naive. There is no indication that he is bothered particularly about the consequences of his actions. One of his first reckless adventures was his participation in a decision against William Randolph Hearst. This decision was handed down in spite of the strong intimation on the part of Mr. Hearst’s counsel that his client would withdraw from the code and immolate himself at San Simeon if the National Labor Relations Board undertook to assume jurisdiction. It may that being a Philadelphia Biddle will enable the chairman to escape the charge of Communism. But if General Johnson had to face dead cats I predict that Mr. Biddle will be compelled to stand up against live lions. I don’t want to be a pessimist. In fact I actually hope for the best and yet as I see the gathering of forces against the youth from Philadelphia I can do no more than whisper with bated breath, “Hold ’em Harvard!" (Copyright. 1934)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

SIR JAMES JEANS stands by his guns—or should we say his stars? The eminent? British astronomer is still of the opinion that the stars of the Milky Way are from five to 10 trillion years old and that there.is a possibility of\he universe being 200 trillion years old. This view is in direct contradiction to the latest work upon the theory of the expanding universe according to which Shapley and other arrive at an age of some ten billion years for the universe. It was in 1929 that Sir James wrote “The Universe Around Us." The book rapidly became a best seller in both England and America. In it. in a beautiful and lucid style. Sir James set forth his theories about the nature and origin of the universe. To the stars, he assigned an age whichXhen was generally agreed upon by astronomers, namely, five to ten trillion years. He speculated upon how long the stuff out of which stars are made might have existed prior to the birth of the stars and decided that it could be an indefinite period ranging from a minimum of another five or ten trillion years to a maximum of two hundred trillion years. m m m lEMAITRES theory of an expanding universe / gives another picture of the start of the universe. According to the theory, developed in 1933 by Lemaitre and Vallarta. the universe began as one gigantic super-atom. Space began to expand when this super-atom exploded. Knowing the present distribution of the spiral nebulae and the rate of expansion of space—it is one hundred miles a second a million light-years of space—it is possible to calculate when the explosion must have taken place. According to the calculations of Shapley and others, it took place ten billion years ago. Here is a figure which in no way agrees with the trillions which Sir James gets from his theories of stellar evolution. m m m WHEN I wrote my “Story of Science,” in 1931, I used Sir James’ estimate of the universe as the best available. However, in revising the text for the third edition, published this year, I employed Lemaitre s figures, pointing out. however, that it still left many unsolved problems concerning the evolution of the stars. When it was announced recently that Sir James was bringing out a third edition of “The Universe Around Us.” I was eager to see what figures he would employ. He includes an excellent discussion of Lemaitre's theory, bpt he sticks by his own figures. He believes that the theory of stellar evolution gives & better n tion of the age of the universe and that the theory of the expanding universe will have to be remodeled to fit. Only time can tell whether Lemaitre or Sir James Is correct. MacMillan publishes he revised edition of “The Universe Around Us." at $4. It is a book which every Intelligent person should read.

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HUEY LONG—‘LOUISIANA—I’M IT!’

Kingfish’s Political Machine Is Pure Science to Nth Degree

ThU in the tixth of a icriei or articles concerning Huey P. Long. Kingfitb of Louisiana. a a a BY THOMAS L. STOKES Timet Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 6.—Political bosses who would learn the secret of a really effective machine might well come to Louisiana and take a few days’ course in the Huey P. Long laboratory, for it is generally conceded that he has carried the science to its nth degree. Like most political- bosses Huey has made jobs the foundation. But he has gone further and turned various state agencies to political use, to enforce discipline and confound his enemies. These agencies include the National Guard, the State Police, the Highway Department, which distributes his political manifestos, and that detective agency known as the Bureau of Criminal Identification. Since his recent successful invasion of New Orleans, when the state took over several agencies, including the police and fire departments and the sewage and water boards, it is estimated that around 13,500 job-holders are beholden to Huey’s machine for their livelihood. Political bosses usually figure five votes per job-holder. This would make about 67,500 votes before a campaign begins—in a state where 300,000 votes normally are cast. If Huey had played ball with the national Administration he might have Federal patronage on top of this. His finger was removed from the Federal pie by Postmaster General Farley when the Senator went anti-administration in Washington.

Mr. Farley turned these plums over to two men who fought President Roosevelt’s nomination at the Chicago convention, ‘‘Big John” Sullivan, local lawyer and former city political bass, and Edward Righter, another local attorney. Mr. Sullivan started his career as a ‘’reform’’ boss back when John M. Parker was elected governor, and has been on many sides in the last few years. He was for a time allied with Huey. He does not cut much figure now. a a a FURTHER punitive measures against the new Louisiana dictator—in brief, the “squeeze” are seen in Washington's reluctance to give New’ Orleans various public works funds which had been expected. They w’ere held up, significantly, on the heels of the burlesque special session at which Huey’s state machine obtained authority over New Orleans. This reacted somewhat against the Senator in New Orleans, where citizens asked: “Why does the Government take it out on us?”

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

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The crack sleuthing force built up by the Bureau of Investigation is in sub-rosa revolt against its chief, J. Edgar Hoover, and the higher-ups of the Justice Department. The basis of the revolt is that the bureau’s operatives have been turned into a bunch of gunmen. This, they claim, is not what they were hired for. The Bureau of Investigation is charged with exactly what its name impIies—INVESTIGATION. This requires skill, intelligence, long training, not necessarily brawn. Asa result, and because the depression made jobs scarce, the bureau enlisted some of the highest types of college men.

Take the recent casualties in the bureau. Samuel Cowley, killed by Baby Face Nelson; W. Carter Baum, killed in the Dillinger hunt, and Francis J. Lackey wounded in the Brook Hart hunt, all were not only college graduates, but in addition had law degrees. It is among these universitytrained operatives that the revolt is most intense. There also is resentment on the part of these operatives that the work of the bureau, usually clothed in secrecy, is attracting so much publicity. The effectiveness of the bureau has brought about the full glare of publicity on some of its members, notably the chief, Hoover, and Melvin H. Purvis, his Chicago aid. Unless conditions change, a gradual exodus of Justice Department operatives is not unlikely. m m GEORGIA'S famous corn whisky may be very fine for some of the grizzly-throated natives, but the members of the President's party don't think so much of it. David Lilienthal, Tennessee Valley mogul, was inquiring with a grin what the boys at Warm Springs thought of it. They shook their heads gravely. Lilienthal, feigning surprise, retorted: “Well, the newspaper men ought to be able to stand it. Asa matter of fact, this Georgia corn whisky is very historic liquor.” With a wry face, someone in the party snapped back: “Yes, very historic. It's the reason Sherman made his march to the sea. He was looking for water.” a u IT has been done so quietly that few know’ anything about it. but the President jut has heaved a large sized brickbat at the motor moguls. Basis for it was laid on Nov. 2 when he announced a 90-day extension of the auto code. At that time he also promulgated a study of the possibility of changing automobile employment from a seasonal to an all-year-round basis. This survey now 'has been launched, and therein lies the cup of gall for the motor magnates. The latter had moved Heaven and earth to persuade Roosevelt to have the study made by a board consisting of representatives of the Commerce, Interior and Labor Departments, with Dr. Leo Wolman as chairman. The President turned thumbs down on this proposal. He put the investigation in the hands of Leon Henderson, exofficio member of the NRA board, and Dr. Isidor Lubin, head of Bureau of Labor Statistics, two of the most competent and liberal economists in the Administration. More than that, he gave these two young men full power to pick their own assistants and to hold open hearings. This last authority is something that the auto manufacturers have rigorously opposed throughout the history of their code. Henderson and Lubin lost no time in making the most of their opportunity. As their chief aid—the man who actually wall direct the study—they appointed Richard H. Lansburgh. another liberal economist, Secretory of Labor in the first Pinchot cabinet in

Assessing the Long strength,, however, it does not appear that the Government’s move, if it is disciplinary, will accomplish a great deal. For Huey's following is tied tightly to him now, and he has a w’ay of turning such maneuvers to his advantage. ‘‘l don't care what Washington does,” he said. a a a THE Senator uses the newly created State Police as a bodyguard and escort in noisy cavalcades about the state. He piled a whole crew of them, motorcycles and all, into the special train which carried him and L. S. U. students to Tennessee recently for the Vanderbilt football game. In the state highway department Huey has a most effective Paul Revere communication system. but horses are not used. Trucks and automobiles are commandered when he has a message for the people, and overnight it is

Pennsylvania, and a former industrial engineer in Detroit. The choice of Henderson and Lubin was a bitter blow, but the enlistment of Lansburgh is, for the motor barons, adding insult to injury. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) ELECTRIC PIANO GIVEN FOR NEW HOSPITAL Mission Society Acknowledges Gift of Mrs. Herman Tuttle. Mrs. Herman C. Tuttle, 126 E. 43rd-st, has donated an electric piano with rolls of music to the new Flower Mission Tuberculosis Hospital upon its completion. Mrs. David Ross and Mrs. W. C. Smith have been added to the list of workers who have obtained individually more than S3OOO for the fund. Others included in this list, names of all of whom will be on a special plaque in the hospital, are Mrs. James D. Ermston, Mrs. Edward Ferger, Mrs. Robert Elliott and Mrs. James H. Lowes. Mrs. Lowes died recently. Latest donors to the fund include the Amicitia Club, $25; Beta Gamma Tau Sorority. $lO, and the Independent Social Club, $750. TWO CITY MEN GET HONORARY DEGREES The Rev. Bert R. Johnson and W. R. Warren Recognized. By Tim eg Special BETHANY, W. Va., Dec. 6.—The Rev. Bert R. Johnson, 5871 Lowellav, Indianapolis, pastor of the Downey Avenue Christian Church there, and William R. Warren, 1040 N. Delaware-st, Indianapolis, executive vice-president of the Disciples of Christ Pension Fund, were two of four prominent alumni of Bethany College honored with doctorates here yesterday. To Mr. Johnson, who was graduated in 1910, was presented the degree of Doctor of Divinity for “his splendid service to the Christian ministry.” Mr. Warren received a degree of Doctor of Laws in recognition of “his work as long-time editor of World Call,* a journal of missionary interest and appeal.” The ceremonies were part of the formal installation program for W. H. Cramblet, New Bethany president. 5 BARBERS GUILTY OF SABBATH VIOLATIONS One I# Fined $lO, Fonr $1 Penalties Are Suspended. Suspended fines of $1 were assessed against four Negro barbers by Municipal Judge Dewey Myers yesterday and a fifth was fined *lO after all had pleaded guilty to violation of tfce Sunday dosing law. The men were arrested Monday. Charles Vinson. 755 Indiana-av, was fined *lO. Those convicted with him were Richard Osborn. 519 Blake-st; Harrison Pritchard, 835 Indiana-av; George Morgan. 801 In-diana-av. and Joe De Granphenreid, also of 801 Indiana-av.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1334

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distributed to central points and £rom there transmitted to the doorsteps for perusal at breakfast. He excuses this use of a state agency on the ground that he can not get a fair hearing in the newspapers. In his autobiography, "Every Man a King,” he tells how he gave the “truth” to the people when he was threatened with impeachment. “It was all so perfectly co-ordi-nated that, if necessary, a document prepared by me in the eve-

STATE HYGIENE GROUPTO MEET Mental Health Society to Open Annual Sessions Tomorrow. The nineteenth annual meeting of the Indiana Society of Mental Hygiene will be held in the Lincoln tomorrow and Saturday. The society was founded in 1916 to conserve mental health, prevent mental disease and deficiency and improve care given sufferers from mental diseases. “The Pychiatric Approach to Community Welfare Problems” will be the subject to be discussed tomorrow by Dr. Franz Alexander, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis director and Chicago University psychoanalysis professor. Dr. Alexander came to the United States 10 years ago from Vienna where he was a student of Sigmund Freud, founder of the psychoanalysis school. He is the author of a number of books on mental hygiene. Dr. Frank F. Hutchins, Indiana University School of Medicine professor of mental and nervous diseases, also will address the tomorrow evening’s session. His subject will be “Fear Reactions.” Dr. Max Bahr, Central State Hosiptal superintendent, Indianapolis, will preside at the meeting which will be open to the public. AUXILIARY WILL MEET Irvington American Legion Group to Hold Business Session. The Auxiliary to the Irvington Post No. 8. American Legion, will meet at 7:30 Monday night in the home of Mrs. R. L. Schutt, 351 N. Ritter-av, for a business session and party. There will be a special Christmas program enlisting the services of several of the Auxiliary members.

SIDE GLANCES

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ning. could be printed and placed on the porch of practically every home in the state of Louisiana during the morning of the following day.” a a a ONCE a jobholder is safely ensconced in office, he may be called upon for campaign contributions of which few records are kept. Repeal of the state corrupt practices act by the special session removed the last legal inhibition, as hereafter no accounting of campaign expenses is re-

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

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Great Britain and France now are pressing for an early showdown with Germany, and these two powers shortly will be joined by a third if vital Franco-Italian conversations succeed. London and Paris have served notice on Berlin that the tension in Europe is becoming intolerable. Held largely responsible for the highly explosive situation. Germany soon will be invited to come out in the open, join a European peace pact, or be encircled. After the assassination of Louis Barthou, French foreign minister, and father of the plan, doubt arose whether his successor, former Pre-

mier Pierre Laval, would finish the Franco-Italian pact work M. Barthou began. Not only hadV foreign office changed hands but Premier Doumergue had been succeeded by Premier Flandin. These doubts have been lp,id to rest. The Eastern Locarno, kernel of the Barthou scheme, will be pushed to a conclusion. Germanj, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Esthonia, Lithuania, Latvia and possibly Finland will be invited to participate with France as guarantors. tt m a * THE two big question-marks today are: First, will Chancelor Hitler’s Nazi Germany come into the arrangement? Second, will Italy and France bury the hatchet and co-operate? Great Britain is lending her influence to bring Germany in. She not only has expressed approval of the Barthou plan, but has done some very plain speaking for Hitler to hear. “So long as she sits by herself,” declared Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the council, “having no direct communication with the other states of Europe, more and more suspicion will grow and maybe more and more Germany’s troubles will grow.” Ground for the gravest anxiety exists, he admitted, and, until the situation is clarified, Britain for one will go on adding to her armaments so as not to be caught unprepared. Britain and France, by indirect methods at least, are trying to

By George Clark

quired and there is no limit on expenditures. After he succeeded in preventing his own impeachment, when he was Governor, he was reported as saying: “I can buy and sell Senators like sacks of potatoes.” Huey bids for favor with the farmers and the underprivileged by such acts as the two-year debt moratorium, repeal if the poll tax. reduction of automobile taxes, a S2OOO exemption on valuation of homes. The burdens thus lifted are shifted to the backs of others. Incidentally, removal of the poll tax will add many voters, for there are people in this state who can't afford to spend a dollar this way. To meet the loss of revenue thus incurred, he taxed newspaper advertising, cotton exchange transactions, created a state income tax and increased liquor taxes. a a a SENATOR LONG has covered the state with excellent highways and brought other improvements—though not all he sometimes claims—which has been expensive, particularly with the drop of revenues during the depression. Some grumbling is audible now. especially among the business element, about the cost of Huey’s ventures, but farmers with new roads do not seem to care. They have very little to pay. The bonded indebtedness of the state on Sept. 30, was $141,262,553, of which $79,528,000 is for highway bonds issued in the Long administration. Legislative appropriations took a big jump in Long's administration as Governor and in the subsequent administration of Gov. O. K. Allen, a Long man. Appropriations for the session that ended June 30, 1933, for instance, were $86,000 000, twice what they were in 1932. This compared with $46.0000.000 in 1931, $35,000,000 in 1930, and $5,000,000 each in 1913 and 1914. NEXT —The Kingfish in action.

bring Germany back into the League of Nations and the arms conference. Both are speaking over the head of Adolf Hitler direct to the German people. By inference, if not otherwise, they are being informed that most of their woes and most of the woes of Europe are due to Naziism and the Fuehrer. Thus, Foreign Minister Laval let the Saarlanders know that if they vote for the status quo in the Saar on Jan. 13, they can depide their future at another plebiscite after Hitler disappears from the scene. Reports indicate France and Italy are nearing an understanding. It is likely Foreign Minister Laval and Premier Mussolini will meet to add the finishing touches. The stake in the game, it is felt, is the peace of Europe. WOMAN’S NECK BROKEN BY WASHER WRINGER Six-Year-Old Son Returns From School to Find Mother Dead. By Lnited Prr.gg MANITOWOC, Wis., Dec. 6.—Mrs. George Leonard was hurrying through the last garments of her weekly washing. It was almost time for six children to come home from school and as she turned to the tub to rinse the last garment she left the electric wringer running. A wisp of hair dropped over her eyes. Impatiently she flipped it back with a wet hand. An end caught in the slowly grinding rollers of th; wringer. A 6-year-old son, Roy, found her dead when he came home, her neck broken and the wringer still grinding at her tangled hair. NEGRO GETS SO DAYS FOR SHOOTING ‘CRITIC’ Victim Stabbed Him for Refusal to Play Blues Number, Is Plea. A note on the musical life of the city was entered into the records of Criminal Court yesterday. Carl Young, Negro, admitted to Judge Frank P. Baker that he had shot William (Poor Boy) Bradley, Negro, for a bit of critical estimation of his work. But in mitigation of his crime. Young pointed out that the criticism consisted of being slashed with Bradley’s knife because he wouldn’t play “Boozie-Woozie Blues.” Judge Baker fined Young SI and costs and ordered him out of music circles to the Indiana State Farm for the next 60 days. NEW 16TH-ST BRIDGE TO BE OPENED SATURDAY N-ewly Paved Section of Street Also Is Ready for Traffic. The new I6th-st bridge over Fall Creek and the canal as well as the newly paved section of 16th-st from the intersection of Indiana-av to West-st, will be open to traffic Saturday. A. H. Moore, city engineer, announced today. The new bridge over the canal also will permit opening- of the stretch of pavement which will link the recently improved stretch of West-st with Northwestern-av without a jog, Mr. Moore said.

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Entered *• Seeond-Cl**s Matter it Postoffire. Indianapolis. Ind

Fair Enough wnooiw THE attempt of Irwin S. Cobb to define corn liquor for the Federal Alcohol Control Administration is an effrontery which has set your correspondent to examining an old American fallacy. This is the assumption that Southerners, and particularly Kentuckians, are connoisseurs of red liquor who cut their teeth on the rim of the julep cup, pour bourbon over their porridge as soon as they are able to sit in a high chair and go through the remainder of a long life in a gently pickled and elaborately

courtly condition, disputing gravely as to whether the mint should or shouldn't be bruised and sometimes resorting to arms about it. The truth of the matter is, of course, that, barring New Orleans and the pleasure-coast of Florida, there hasn’t been a taste of decent liquor .anywhere south of the Mason and Dixon line these last twenty years, except an occasional pint, quart or half-case smuggled in from the North. But New Orleans is a centra 1American city which somehow came unhitched and landed in alien surroundings. The Florida East Coast.

though Southern in the geographical sense, is an outpost of New York and has enjoyed the benefits of the refined New York taste. The rest of the South, however, has been deficient in appreciation of liquor for many years and eyen in Louisville, K.v., the traditional home of good whisky, during the long drought the provisions for Derby week always were imported by the visiting trade. a st a It H as ‘Visiting Liquor ’ MOST of this merchandise was brought down from Chicago for their personal use by the sportsmen of Cicero. 111., and though much of it was bathtub it was nevertheless very superior stuff by comparison with the available local supply. As prohibition spread over the South the people began to go bask into the dirt-road country and buy crocks of overnight whisky from the farmers. And presently the demand became so great that the farmers moved to town and set up their tin bucketrand-funnel stills in the shanty outskirts so as to eliminate lost motion between consumer and producer. In time, too, the local public enemies introduced further merchandising efficiency into the trade, banding the producers into syndicates, but the product itself never improved and the Southern taste eventually began to regard corn liquor as good liquor. That is why, to this day, with the repeal of prohibition and the coming of more or less potable legal goods, your Southern connoisseur makes a wry face at Government stuff and still clings to his mason jar of white music. The manners of Southern drinkers have deteriorated sadly from the rather extravagant politeness of old since they began to drink mule. This is crazy liquor which causes the victim to imagine that he is a combination of Sandow, Dempsey and the man on the flying trapeze. He wants to rend furniture apart with his hands, fight friend and stranger indiscriminately and perform feats of daring and grace on the big chandelier in the hotel ballroom, while screeching the rebel yell. n n n Cobb Has Fallen Away NOT to evade a sad conclusion, he has become a social risk when he is full of mule and the pity cf ft is that he still thinks it somehow unmanly and a compromise with principle to do his nibbling on the politer liquors which are now made available to him. New York is modest and that is why New Yoric never has troubled to challenge the tradition that the South enjoys a superior taste for stimulants and is accustomed to the best. Even during prohibition. New York never was quite without respectable merchandise and as soon as the bootlegging industry emerged from its formative stage and became a recognized part of the commerce of the city, the people forgot their fears and settled back to enjoy their drams. Certainly New York never bothered to create a tradition that New Yorkers are whisky experts. The truth is that they are the best judges of liquor in the country because they have enjoyed supplies of superior stuff uninterruptedly. And with the best bartenders in the world ready to serve them they naturally get better juleps than the people of Louisville. As for Mr. Cobb’s pretensions to authority, let It be said that Mr. Cobb hasn’t been a Kentuckian lor many years and has fallen away so far that in the last election he made a speech on behalf of the Republican nominee for Governor of California. He may remember when the e wa s good bourbon in Kentucky but that only goes to show how long he has lived in New York and how little he has known about Kentucky in the last twenty years. (Copyrieht, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health -BY l)R MORRIS FISHBEIN

OP course you know that mosquitoes can carry malaria and yellow fever from person to another, but probably you do not realize how many other diseases there are in which insects are responsible for the spread. In 1893 it was demonstrated that Texas fever could be transmitted by cattle ticks. Since then, many other diseases have been added to the list. Actually, any insect which sucks blood may be a carrier of disease. Besides malaria and yellow fever, the disease called filariasis is spread by mosquitoes. In 1878, an English doctor showed that the parasites called fllariae can be transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito. When these filariae get into the veins and lymphatic vessels, they block the flow. This results In large enlargements, particularly of the legs, and produces a disease called elephantiasis. non ANOTHER disease for which mosquitoes are responsible is the one called dengue, known also as “breakbone fever” or “dandy fever,” which occurs principally-in hot areas. The region around Tampa, Fla., suffered greatly from this condition during the past six months. The disease is called “breakbone fever” because of the pains in the bones, and “dandy fever” because the person who gets the disease walks with a good deal of difficulty because of the pain and stiffness. This disease seldom kills persons, but it can weaken them and lay them up for considerable periods of time. So far as is known, the only way to get rid of the disease is to get nd of mosquitoes that carry it. B B U FLIES of different kinds have spread various types es disease. In Africa the tsetse fly spread the African sleeping sickness, trypanosomiasis. Tne common house fly spreads disease by feeding first on manure and decayed materials, and then depositing its filth on food. The stable fly can spread disease in the same way, but it also bites persons occasionally. Another disease spread by biting flies is deerfly fever, or tularemia. The flea also is capable of piercing the skin to obtain blood, and in this way transmitting infection. Such diseases as plague have been associated with the bites of fleas. Finally, there are the body lice, which transmit disease by spreading filth. They are associated chiefly with spreading typhus fever, which has also been called ship fever and jail fever. Various methods have been worked out for preventing spread of disease by insects. Insecticides, such as sulphur dioxide and hydrocyanic gas, are potent in destroying insects in large numbers, but because of their danger to human life they should never be used except by those who understand their techie of control.

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