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It Seems to Me HEYWDODBROUN RING out wild belles! Mrs. Harrison Williams haa dor.** it again. She succeeds herself as “the beat-dressed woman in the world.” Os course her success la America's success with possibly an assist being scored for the Paris dressmakers who voted the award But whatever goes to Prance the title remains in America. I woi*ler how it feels to be the best-dressed woman in the world. That is one of those things I am never going to know. As far as I can guess the feeling must be half exaltation and half a sense of responsibility. Personally I would add to that a little nutmeg. In the spring of 1006 I received two votes as the best-dressed senior in the graduating class of Horace Mann High School. Richard Weekes Jr., received 98 and was duly elected. Even so it was too close for comfort and I have participated in no competition of the sort since. Still I have some inkling of the strain under which Mrs. Harrison Williams must

live. While I was running for bestdressed senior in the graduating class of Horace Mann High School I often spent as much as three or four minutes in the morning deciding which pants I ought to wear. The< gray or the blue? The blue or the gray? I generally decided to take the one which possessed the closest approach to a crease. a a aIt's Xext to Good Credit PICKING a necktie was the great ordeal. I had six. five of which were birthday presents. That took a bit of doing. Naturally I couldn't

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wear the orange one with the purple spots every day in the vear and yet in my eyes there really was no substitute But I mustn’t try to push Mrs. Harrison Williams cut of the picture. She, too. had problems which she was compelled to solve in order to win the title of "best-dressed woman in the world.” Some folk who do not understand the psychology of dress will be cynical and say that the title goes to whichever little ladv spends the most money at the best shops. I will admit that the odds would be at least 4 or 5 to 1 against anybody who tried to capture the championship by wearing little things she just ran up on the machine in her spare moments. But we can not dismiss the factpr of good taste. Next to good credit it is almost everything in the matter of being well turned out. 111-informed critics seem to think that it is merely a matter of so many pretty frocks for evening wear. They overlook roughage. The well-dressed woman will come out on the grouse moors on a braw day all bundled up in some sort of windbreaker which a Dartmouth student would hesitate to wear to a freshman beer night. There's the art of the good dressmaker. He, or she. ran make his client look chic for those occasions where there's some sense in being fhic and hardboiled as all outdoors when that effect is called for. For years I have been preaching that a dissonance dress is not sloppiness but anew art form. Os course I am not the discoverer of this fact. Herrick mentioned the matter in a poem, ‘‘A slight disorder in the dress, etc., etc.,” and there used to be a Bohemian poet in the village who hired a friend to w’ear his collars for the first six days. But if you want calculated carelessness today you must pay the price to those who know how to put creases in the wrong places. man She's in the Money NO story of the rousing victory of Mrs. Harrison Williams would be complete without mention oi the gallantry of the runner-up. Princess Sixte de Bourbon Parma lost by less than a length. Her handicap is discreetly mentioned in a United Press dispatch w’hich says: ‘ The Princess Sixte. whose husband died recently, still is in mourning, hut this spring will w r ear gray and black and white. The mourning even now is of the smartest kind and she is as distinguished in it as she was in her former gay attire.” You can understand her problem. Indeed in fantasy I am sitting by the transom of the boudoir. Stella, the French maid, has just gone into the closet and come out with something done in black ostrich feathers, jet beads and a small pink bow on the right shoulder. Madame is furious. “Non. noli. Stella.” she says in perfect Frfnch, “I w r ould be more triste.” "It looks pretty sad to me.” says Stella in her blunt. Gallic way. “Mv heart is breaking.” says Princess Sixte with great dignity, “and already I am late for my fitting. Anything at all will do and particularly that little knick-knack which came from the shop this morning.” And with that she flounces out. You’ve got to hand it to the Princess Sixte de Bourbon Pnrma Under a strain like that I think she did magnificently to finish in the money. • Copyright. 1934*

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY scientists are working ®n 57 research projects at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh upon subjects that range from sugar and cosmetics to Portland cement and cast iron. With Dr. Edward R. Weidlein as guide. I reviewed these researches on a visit to Pittsburgh. In such activity, believes Dr. Weidlein. director of the institute, lies the road out of the depression for individual business firms and for the nation. •Scientific research has progressed beyond the point where it is chiefly concerned with the mechanical side of industry and the development of laborsating machinery.” he says. “The chief concern of scientific research today is the creation of new industries, of new products and of new uses for old products. “Science has been charged with creating technological unemployment. But today science is creating new employment by creating new industries.” a a a BASED on a plan of “industrial fellowship.” the Mellon Institute is unique among scientific institutions in the United States in that it is a direct servant of industry. Its plan of operation was conceived by Dr. Robert Kennedy Duncan and first tried at the University of Kansas in 1907. It was inaugurated at the University of Pittsburgh in 1911. In 1913. the Mellon Institute was established on a permanent basis by Andrew Mellon and the late R. B. Mellon. An industrial company, or a group of companies, desiring the study of a specific research problem, endows an "industrial fellowship" at the institute. One or more scientists are put to work upon the problem. depending upon the financial arrangement. Having contracted to investigate a particular problem for one company or group, the institute will not aceept a similar task from a competitor. a a a THE Mellon Institute was one of the first research centers m the United States organized expressly for technologic research in chemistry and allied subjects. Since its establishment, more than 3500 companies have benefited directly, either as individuals or as members of industrial associations, from its activities. Notable investigations have been carried out by industrial fellowships on bread, by-product coking, carbon dioxide, cellulose, citrus products, composition flooring, corrosion, dental products, edible gelatin, electrical precipitation, enamel ware, fertilizers, foods, fuels, glue, heat, insulation, inks, insecticides, matches, natural gas. nickel, petroleum, stove enamels. and vitamins, to name a few. Questions and Answers Q—What rank does the head of the United States diplomatic mission to China hold? A—Minister plenipotentiary. Q—Can hens’ eggs be crushed by the pressure of the hands of an ordinary person exerted against both ends? A—Heavy pressure can be applied to the ends without crushing the shell, whereas the pressure of the fingers apphec. transversely will crush them.

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THE MURDER OF BABY LINDBERGH

'Jafsie’ Brought Into Case by Chance Remark to Newspaper Man

Thronch an imiitai combination of circumstances, an elderly educator in the Bronx found himself, within a week of the Lindbergh kidnapinr. the sensational center of the negotiations which, he an and Col. Lindberch believed, were destined to brine about a return of the child. The beginning of this action and the cmei frustration of their hone# are told In the following dispatch, fourth in the current series bv Sidney B. Whipple of the United Press. ana BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE United Press Staff Correspondent • Copyright. 1934. by United Pressi 1 WOULD gladly give slooo—my life savings—to see the kidnaped Lindbergh child restored to his mother’s arms,” Dr. John F. Condon told a reporter for the Bronx Home News. There was nothing unusual about Dr. Condon’s offer to act as an intermediary. Many other, and perhaps more exalted, personages had announced publicly their willingness to be go-betweens, among them Dr. John Grier Hibten, president of Princeton University; Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia, and men of similar rank. Dr. Condon’s offer was printed, as a news story, in the Bronx Home News of Sunday, March 6. Within 24 hours it brought a response from the man who said he was in possession of the child. Dr. Condon was well-beloved in the Bronx. He had an acquaintanceship of thousands. He had lectured at Fordham for years, and was known to the young people of that section as a benevolent, kindly old gentleman who had made a life practice of*“doing good.” On the night of March 8, the good doctor rushed, trembling, into the restaurant of his friend. Max Rosenhain, on the Grand Concourse, and taking him aside, showed him what was the first of a long series

of ransom notes. The note, stamped with the. characteristic red and blue rings, with the pin holes forming a duplicate of the triangle discovered on the original note left in the baby’s crib, “accepted” Dr. Condon's offer to act as an intermediary, and advised him to get in touch at once with Col. Lindbergh to obtain official sanction for his actions. From Mr. Rosenhain's restaurant, Dr. Condon attempted to telephone to Col. Lindbergh. But when the connection was put through, he was too overcome by emotion to talk, and so it was his friend. Max Rosenhain, who told the colonel what the note contained. “Get a fast car and come to Hopewell at once,” the colonel directed. a a a THROUGH the night, Dr. Condon, Col. Lindbergh, Mr. Rosenhain and the colonel’s advisers discussed the note. That it was genuinely from the kidnaper

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

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—One of the chief objects of interest of returning members of Congress is the board of seven men comprising the high command of the NRA. Capitol Hill is brimming over with questions concerning the Blue Eagle rulers, their views, background, what they have done. When Congressional spotlight is focused on the group It will reveal the following picture: -Sirinrv Hillman, thp stvrnna man-

of the board. In the more than two months of its existence, this staunch laborite <he is president oi the Amalgamated Clothing Workers) has clearly shown himself to be the leader of his colleagues as a strategist and negotiator. Quiet-mannered, persuasive, fast-thinking, Hillman dominates the board. S. Clay Williams, chairman, a tobacco manufacturing big industrialist, who is none too happy on on the board. Inside word is he wants to retire. Dr. L. C. Marshall, secretary, an e nomist and statistical expert. Dr. Marshall has won the high praise of his associates as a harddriving administrator. He inclines toward the liberal side, but is suspect in organized labor circles. Leon Henderson, young head of the NRA Planning Division, and one of General Johnson's former lieutenants. A liberal and prolaborite, Henderson has worked in close harmony with Hillman. The two make an effective team. a a a THE national convention secretly planned by the Liberty League for late this month will be without benefit of Senator Bill Borah. When League master minds concocted their scheme, they hit on the brilliant idea of inviting Borah and Alfred E. Smith as the keynote speakers. The brown derby champion signified his willingnes to come. But the thundering Idahoan, despite strong pleas, including a message from Smith, has refused. He may delight in blasting the New Deal and flaying the G. O. P.. but he is enrolling under no third party banner bearing the name of Irer.ee du Pont. a a a SENATE parliamentarians are privately offering odds that West Virginia's 29-vear-old Rush Holt will not be allowed to take his seat when Congress convenes. The chamnion college orator does not reach the Constitutional ace of 30 until next June, and the old-timers say that the oath of office will be withheld until then. Inside word is that the procedure of challenging Holt already has been agreed on among the floor leaders. When he steps up to take the oath a Republican will raise the issue of his age. Holt will be asked to step aside, and the matter sent to a committee. Young Holt's claim that he has a Senate precede it in the case of Henry Clay, who was. seated before he was 30. is discounted by the constitutionalists. They cite a sitting member of the Senate. Missouri's erudite Bennett Clark, as their authority. In his best-selling biography, “Adams the Eloquent.” Clark relates that Clay first came to the Senate through an appointment. He looked older than his 29 years, and as his ace was not generally known, the question was not raised. Clark wrote that not until several months after Clay was seated, when he was asked for his biography for the official record, was his age discovered. a a a ONE method of crime prevention which Homer Cummings has emphatically vetoed is the European passport, or identification card system. In Europe, an escaping criminal can travel only a short tance before he runs up against a border where he must show his

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there was little doubt. Col. Lindbergh ordered packages of ransom money, totaling $50,000, prepared, and gave Dr. Condon full authority to act. A series of further ransom notes, in reply to advertisements published in various newspapers, including the Bronx Home News, came to Dr. Condon—who had used his initials, J. F. C. to invent a signature for himself and thus became noted as “Jafsie”—and eventuated in a dramatic meeting with the professed kidnaper near a Bronx cemetery.' “There are five of us in the thing.” the extortioner told Jafsie, “and we will have to have $20,000 more than the original $50,000 we asked.” nan JAFSIE argued long over the wretched business, but said he would do what he could. But he insisted that the kidnapers must prove they had the child in their

credentials. But in the United States, a criminal can take an airplane in Los Angeles one night and be in New York the next afternoon without disclosing his identity. Cummings, however, holds that American traditions of liberty are too important to be infringed upon and that crime must be eradicated through public crime consciousness the part of the public. Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

ROBIN BREAKS WING; MATE STAYS NORTH TO ATTEND SPOUSE

By bnited Press JANESVILLE, Wis., Dec. 14. A male robin which broke its wing in a collision with a telephone pole and was unable to fly south with the advent of winter, is being attended by its faithful mate which remained behind. The injured bird and its mate have been given shelter at the home of Miss Alice Clithero. PARADERS GREET PROSPERITY TRACTORS Special Train Bearing 400 Machines Arrives in City. A special train of 47 cars bearing “Indiana's first prosperity trainload of farm tractors,” arrived at the Maple-rd station of the Monon yesterday afternoon. The tractors, 400 in number, were sent here by the International Harvester Cos.. Chicago. Celebrating the arrival of the train, a parade started from the harvester company’s branch at 319 S. Missouri -st. The welcoming party, made up of company officials and Indiana dealers for the company held a business session following the parade, and the day's activities were concluded with a dinner at the Antlers at which dealers, farmer guests and company executives were present. LIQUOR MONOPOLY FOR WEST VIRGINIA URGED Repeal Council Makes Recommendation to Legislature. By I niti and Press CHARLESTON, W. Va„ Dec. 14. A state monopoly system of liquor control will be recommended by the West Virginia Repeal Council when the Legislature convenes in January and seeks enactment of liquor regulatory measures. The state's prohibition amendment was repealed in November. Repeal is effective in March, 1935. The council recommendation will provide for sales by the drink in “first class" hotels and restaurants and local option for towns and counties. SAILOR HERE ON LEAVE Paul Todd Visits Family on 20-Day Vacation. Paul Albert Todd, son of Oral Todd. 2323 N. Pennsylvania-st, is home on a 20-day leave of absence from the Naval Training Station at Norfolk, Va. Todd pased examination for the Pharmacy School with a mark of 92.05, placing sixth among 48 taking the examinations. . |

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possession, and suggested they deliver some “token” as proof. “Very well,” said the negotiator in his gutteral German accents, “we’ll send you the child’s sleeping garment.” It was not until three days later, however, that a package was delivered to Jafsie and opened by Colonel Lindbergh at Jafsie’s

CGC REGISTRATION TO BEGINMONOAY All Indiana Counties Will Enlist Young Men. f Registrations for admission to the next Civilian Conservation Corps camps will be received in all Indiana counties starting Monday, it was annonuced today at the office of the Governor’s Commission on Unemployment Relief. Marion county young men may register at the Indiana State •Employment Service, 60 W. New Yorkst after 1 Monday or between 1 and 4 each week day afternoon thereafter, excepting Saturday. In all other counties of the state relief supervisors will receive applications. To be eligible for enrollment, applicants must be between 18 and 25 and must be members of families receiving, or who are in need of, relief. The Indiana quota is 1438. LOGAN MASONS WILL INSTALL NEW HEADS Public Ceremonies and Christmas Party Arranged. Public installation of officers and the annual Christmas party of Logan Lodge No. 575. Free and Accepted Masons, will be held at 7:30 Tuesday at the Masonic Temple, Illinois and North-sts, it was announced today. Officers to be installed are Elmer A. Schaekel, worshipful master; Paul D. Chapman, senior warden; Joseph H. Potter, junior warden; C. C. Ritter, past master, treasurer; C. E. Lucas, past master, secretary; Seth Wells, senior deacon;' Kenneth Jacobsen, junior deacon; William Beeson, senior steward; Norman E. Cary, junior steward; William T. Cox, past master, tyler; Bert S. Gadd, past master, Masonic Temple Assn, director; Fred E. Manker, past master, Masonic relief board representative, and Albert P. Cordes, trustee.

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home. It is related that, for the first time since the kidnaping, the Colonel burst into tears when he saw' the little woolen sleeping suit, with the threads dangling from the sleeves where the tiny aluminum cuffs had been torn off. The suit was taken to Hopewell and again identified by Mrs. Lindbergh and the child’s nurse, Betty Gow. There was no doubt

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

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Administration leaders are considering a startling new plan for the settlement of Europe’s ten billion dollar war debt to the United States. Approximately $420,000,000 from 12 different countries is due but aside from $228,538 which Finland owes, not a penny will be forthcoming. Great Britain, France and other principal debtors have plainly intimated to this Government that they have no intention of paying this or any future installment unless the United States comes forward with some practical plan of payment. Such a plan is actually in being and has the approval of a number of high officials here. Whether and when it will be put up to the

debtor powers is still to be determined and several factors must first be weighed. Realists here no longer expect the war debts to be paid in full, if at all. Some, however, are convinced that something on the dollar might be collected if the United States would take the initiative and advance a workable scheme. nan UNLESS something of the kind is done, it is widely admitted here, Great Britain, France, Italy and the rest will let the semiannual installment dates—June 15 and Dec. 15—come and go without the offer of a sou until eventually anew generation arrives and the whole thing is forgotten. This group feels that before that time arrives the United States should face the unpleasant fact, revise the debt settlements as far as it will, then confront the debtor countries with the offer. Great Britain, it is significantly pointed out, now heads the long list of defaulters. Britain is traditionally jealous of her reputation for paying on the dot. It is her hard-boiled stand which makes officials here so pessimistic about the future. The Great Britain installment due amounts to $117,600,000. As Britain is behind $261,800,000 on past installments, she should really pay $379,400,000. Instead, she has informed the State Department not only that she will

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that the negotiator in the Bronx cemetery was in con:act, at least, with the kidnaped bf by. ana JAFSIE and Col. Lindbergh drove, the following night, to St. Raymond's Cemetery, as directed by the kidnaper in a note sent to Dr. Condon through the medium of Joseph Perrone, a taxicab driver. The “gang’s” emissary paid Perrone a dollar to deliver the message. While Col. Lindbergh sat in the automobile, Dr. Condon walked along Whittemore-av. From across the cemetery fence came a voice —“over here, Doctor, come over here!” Col. Lindbergh heard the voice and marked well its accents Jafsie demanded a receipt from the kidnaper for the $50,000 he was carrying. The extortioner said it would take him ten minutes or more to get one, indicating he would have to “see someone else.” So Jafsie waited. a a a HE was rewarded, nearly half an hour later, by receiving a note which pretended to tell the whereabouts of the baby. “The bak\j' is on board Nellie.” the note declared, directing Col. Lindbergh to go to Gay Head, in Vineyard Sound, where the boat would be found. “There are two women there. They are innocent,” the note concluded. The kidnaper sped away in the darkness with his $50,000. Col. Lindbergh embarked on a two-day aerial tour of Long Island Sound. Coast guard ships saw his great plane zooming above them. Natives at Vineyard Haven saw him step ashore from his plane and heard him make inquiries as to the boat Nellie. There, was no such boat. Col. Lindbergh had paid his $50,000 — for nothing! Tomorrow—The Curtis Hoax.

not pay, but that she does not consider it worthwhile even to enter into any discussion of the subject. a a a FRANCE is due to pay $22,300,000; Poland, $6,616,000; Belgium, $3,100,000; Italy. $2,141,000; Czechoslovakia, $1,600,000. and Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Hungary, Rumania and Finland varying sums to make up the above total. Officials here are divided on the course to pursue. Some advocate a settlement on the best terms possible. They want to remove this stumbling block from the road to world recovery. The old Congress, however, went on record demanding payment of the last red cent. What the new Congress will do is still a question. President Roosevelt is expected to take a hand in the matter. He is known to be dissatisfied with the present status and to be anxious for a satisfactory settlement if such a thing is at all possible. Old line politicians fear there is dynamite in the problem. Others are convinced the President today so thoroughly has the confidence of the people that any solution he advocates would not be taken as a matter of course by the vast majority. These believe he will soon take steps to settle the war debts on a strictly business basis. ST. CECELIA PLAYERS TO PRESENT COMEDY Dramatic Club Starts Work on Production. < The St. Cecelia Dramatic Club, reorganized, will soon present “.The County Treasurer,” for which it has begun rehearsals. The Rev. John Joseph Brogger, O. F. M., is spiritual director and treasurer of the club; Edward Eckstein, president; Anthony Lauck Jr., vice-president; Miss Marie Gasper and Miss Josephine Lawrie, secretaries, and Charles Lauck, dramatic director. The board of directors includes Miss Helen Doerr, Frank Scherrer, Frank McKinney, Frank Gantner, Lawrence Schludecker, and James Hulsman. MASONIC GROUP WILL INDUCT NEW MASTERS Prospect Lodge to Be Host to County Association. Prospect Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, will be hosts to the Actual Past Masters of the Marion County Actual Masters and Wardens Assn., when degrees will be conferred on several Marion Masterselect tomorrow at the hall, Pros-pect-st and State-av. Work will start at 2 and supper will be served at 6:30. Charles E. Kerr is Worshipful Master of Prospect Lodge and Raymond F. Forbes is Master-elect. Filipino Club to Give Dance The Indianapolis Filipino Club will hold a dance Monday to honor the memory of Dr. Jose Rizal, Filipino hero and martyr, at Veterans Hall, 143 E. Ohio-st, it was announced today. The public has been invited.

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Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER THERE is something brutal in the method by which it is proposed to reduce the surplus of moving picture extras in Hollywood, but up to now nobody has offered any better suggestion. As the idea has been explained in dispatches a jury of experts. will view the extras now on hand, some 17,000 in all. and eliminate about 15.000 of them Whether the 17.000 extras include males with forty-niner beards and scrawny spinster types with with the typical spinster's 'run of hair, the reports from Hollywood have not made clear. It appears, from the news pictures, however, that the Hollywood

jury will be principally concerned with little blond cuties and the prospect that thousands of these appealing little numbers will be plowed under ought to jar the chivalry of the country into action. Somehow, the whiskered fortyniners and the spinsterly types seem less pathetic, although it may be that they can get just as hungry and feel just as sad as a little blond lady with tendril fingers and violet eyes, fringed as the literary phrase goes, with curling lashes. I am not quite up on my blond descriptive work at the moment but I believe these lashes look as though

they had been put in with a sooty finger and I hat they intensify the gentle mystery of those violet eyes. a a a The Poor Little Things AT any rate, the blonds are tender little thing* with heart-shaped faces and the standard chassis is such that a member of the NR A jury, charged with the duty of eliminating thousands of them, must feel that he is being a great cur every time he finds it necessary to turn his thumbs down. Up to this time there has been no attempt to say what is to become of them after they have been eliminated. With the surplus potatoes, corn and cotton it was different The natural instinct, even the religious principles of millions of people, w-ere shocked by such deliberate waste and out of the South there came reports of opinionated field mules which refused to tread on the rows to plow- the cotton under and had to be clubbed to it by their masters in their superior wisdom. Nevertheless, the fields were plowed under, though often w'ith a heavy heart, by farmers who bowed to a 6trange necessity never anticipated by the teachings of the human race. It was the same as to the little pigs whose careers w-ere canceled abruptly in the great pig-pre-vention project. But the country can not be so far gone as to consent to any comparable plan for disposing of the little blond extras with the heart-shaped faces. They need sympathy and kind treatment to say nothing of steak and onions and *he problem which they present will not be solved by the mere act of striking their names off the roster of eligibles. a a a IPs a Tragic Situation VTET, thousands of great-hearted males throughout X the country who would be willing to adopt blonds, strictly in the interest of humanity, you understand, will be deterred from doing so by false prejudice. A gentleman’s heart it ay bleed for a strange lady with experience in the moving pictures thrown on the world a thousand miles away but he would long hesitate to send her transportation and introduce her into his own household with the explanation that he was doing this merely as a humane act. The trouble here is that wives are not as humane as husbands when it comes to blond adoption. This is a prejudice even stronger than the one which momentarily objected to the destruction of food. Not even cash bounties from the United States Treasury nor a direct appeal to the NRA on the ground of national necessity would overcome it. When a lady is destitute, a heart-shaped face and scarlet lips, parted as though on a phrase, is a distinct handicap in her quest for a bed and a meal. A man in the same circumstances may carry the banner on the city streets with comparative impunity and a. homely woman with big feet and a whisky red wart on her nose may panhandle at least a fair living. But a blond sufficiently attractive to have played as an extra in the moving pictures would be unerringly misunderstood and the charge on the Police Station blotter would be much more serious than mendicancy. Perhaps it is true, as H. G Wells has said, that the world is over-crowded and that four hundred million people have got to get off the earth. But is it necessary to start with a great bevy of blonds, thousands of blonds with tendril fingers and long] soft lashes shadowing the mysterious pools of their violet eyes? •Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.i

Your Health -BY DR MORRIS HShLLIN -

''THIS year the Christmas Seal, which indicates a contribution to the battle against tuberculosis, bears a picture of a little red cottage built 50 years ago at Saranac Lake, N. Y. In 1884 Edward Livingston Trudeau found that he had tuberculosis. He had apparently developed the disease while nursing his brother. At that time tuberculosis was considered a fatal disorder, so Dr. Trudeau left his home and went to the Adirondack Mountains in New York State to spend his last days on his favorite hunting ground. In a speech, delivered just before his death. Dr. Trudeau said, “Over the doors of the hospitals for consumptives 25 years ago might well have been written these words: All hope abandon ye that enter here.’ While today, in the light of new knowledge, we may justly place at the entrance of the modern sanatorium the more hopeful instruction: ‘Cure sometimes, relief often, comfort always.’ ” a a a 'T'ODAY there are some 660 sanatoriums for the A tuberculous in the United States. In these sanatoriums, tuberculosis is treated for the most part with the aid of rest, fresh air and good food. But modern scientific treatment includes also a careful use of drugs and of biological preparations, artificial pneumothorax, to provide rest for the lung, artificial physical therapy in the way of ultraviolet rays, suitable rest and exercise, and similar measures. So important did the little cottage first built by Dr. Trudeau become in the history of tuberculosis that it has been given the affectionate name of Little Red ” BUZ WHEN you buy a Christmas Seal this year you will see the little cottage surrounded by evergreens outlined in snow, it serves, therefore, as a memorial to a great worker in tuberculosis and at the same time helps to bring increasing comfort, and perhaps increasing years of life, to those who can not otherwise be provided with proper care. It has been reported that there are almost 400.000 children with tuberculosis in the United States and possibly 950,000 additional suspected cases. Were these to be cases of infantile paralysis or even of scarlet fever, diphtheria or measles, they would be considered a national menace. Tub ulosis is just as great a menace and perhap? *.om the point of view of its danger to the community, even more serious because of the duration of the disea.se. Q—Which American President was instructed in writing and arithmetic by his wife? A—Andrew Johnson. Q—What causes the dark green spots in Roquefort cheese? A—The presence of mold. Q—Did Herbert Hoover carry Maine in the 1933 Presidential election? A—Yes.

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