Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 201, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1935 — Page 11

JAN. I. 1935.

It Seems to Me HEYWOD BROUN MIAMI. Fla., Jan. I—l was slumming over in Coral Gables yesterday and talking to a friend about hurricanes. Mine is the sort of mind which makes me dwell cn earthquakes in California, and when in Rome I dream of Visigoths. Both are destructive. but the hurricane has its code and never comes during the winter season to harry the carriage trade and the cash customers. Again it is possible, I was assured, to build against the gales. The huge hotel in which we sat had taken the rap with little damage to its glass and

carpets. Nor was size the necessary factor In protection. The staunch pine houses of the railroad line also had ridden out the tempest. I remembered the remark a Negro in Palm Beach made to me several years ago. It was the winter following the big blow and I asked him if his house had been destroyed. ‘‘Not mine.” he said. "Mine's solid. I built it with my own hands. I didn’t even lose the roof. Os course I lost the windows, but that was on account of some of those villas blowing up against me.”

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Nevertheless I gather that the hurricane is not a pleasant experience. My friend had been through three and he admitted tnat each in turn had terrified him. “It isn't the fear of being killed so much,” he explained, ‘‘because the loss of life may be very slight. It's the noise which strains you to the breaking point. A hurricane can make more different kinds of evil sounds than you have ever heard. It shrieks and it whistles and it groans. bub The Stillness Is Awful SOMETIMES the noise is so horrible that you feel as if a knife has been drawn across the whole throat of the sky. Yes, the sound is very terrible.” But here my friend paused and thought for a second and then he added, ‘‘Of course, I'm not telling it right. There is something worse than the noise. Much worse. That’s the stillness. It comes in the middle of the hurricane. It’s like shutting off an electric fan. The wind doesn't diminish. It just stops. The leaves don't stir, they're dead. Everything seems dead and more than that buried deep under the weight of the sod. I think some scientists say that there is an actual vacuum in the center of the hurricane. That’s what it feels like. You gasp for air. And then with a whoop and yell the storm begins again, raging at you from a brand new quarter. And almost you thank God for the hurricane.” I am not prone to parables, but I wonder if it would be amiss to voice the view that the world in which we live is gasping now in just such a vacuum as indicates the recurrence of the tempest. No one knows from precisely what quarter the wind will blow. The war was the first phase of the mighty storm and we live now in the deadening age of inactivity. a a a Building Time Is Here T JNLIKE the leaves we stir about and make little vJ speeches and shrill noises but we are not wise enough to engage in the great tasks of building houses with our own hands which can ride through the hurricane. That structure which we call our economic system certainly has been sadly battered but now in the lull we have not set about replacing it with steel girders and mighty blocks of concrete for anew foundation. Instead we see all around us patriots with paint pots intent on prettifying the illas of lath and plaster which soon will be whirling through the air and breaking the windows of honest men's houses. If we build right we can not only survive but also save those things in our civilization which are honorable and just and worth the saving. But it can not be done with piety and paint. Listen intently. Cant you hear the stillness? Can't you feel the weight of the air which does not fill our lungs? Now is the time of decision. Are we men or merely a set of straws to catch the wind? (Copyright. 1935)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

INCREASED use of iodine in many chemical and industrial processes where cost formerly made it prohibitive, Ls predicted by Arthur D. Little, Inc., chemists of Cambridge. Mass. The cast of iodine has steadily decreased as a result of competition in the international market between the countries which can produce it. For about half a century, the company states. Chile produced the bulk of the world's iodine, jproriucing it none too efficiently as a by-product oT its nitrate industry. About, 2.000.000 pounds of iodine were produced annually and this scld at a price of approximately $3.30 a pound, bringing in a sum in excess of $6,000,000. Only a small amount of iodine was produced elsewhere. A few countries, particularly France and Japan, produced some from seaweed, which when dried consists of almost 50 per cent iodine by weight. This was the situation which obtained until 1928. In that year a process was developed for removing iodine from the salt water which accompanies the oil from certain wells in California and Louisiana. These wells were able to produce as much as 1200 pounds a day, thus meeting about three-fourths of the annual American demand for 600,000 pounds. Then Italy, as a measure of national security, began to produce its own iodine from deep wells More recently, Russia has entered upon the production of iodine. ana THE result of this, according to Little, is that the price began to go down. The price of Chilean iodine fell to $2 in 1933 and is now said to be only $1 a pound. Asa further result, the consumption of iodine by Industry has begun to go up. During the first seven months of this year. Little reports, more than 1.200 - 000 pounds of iodine were bought bv this country from Chile. This is twice as much as was formerly used by the country in an entire year. The chief use for iodine is in the medical field, particularly for the making of tincture of iodine, the well-known antiseptic. However, it is useful in certain dyes and as a catalyst for certain chemical processes. It has also been considered as an ingredient of anti-knock motor fuels. s a B ONE of the big questions at present is how Chile can afford to make the iodine price. Some authorities claim that Chile can produce it at 25 cents a pound with profit. 4 The drop in price already has reacted unfavorably for the companies of the Irish Free State which have been producing iodine from seaweed. Whether or not Chile can bring the price below that at which it can be produced economically from American oil wells remains to be seen.

Questions and Answers

Q— Are gold and silver mined in New Mexico? A—Yes. Q—What is the derivation and meaning of the name Murnane? A—-It is an Irish family name, derived from the name of an ancient Irish sea god, and is common in East Limerick. Tipperary. Cork, and in parts of Leinster. Q —What type of cases are treated at the new Veterans Bureau Hospital at Roanoke, Va., and what is its bed capacity? A—The hospital is for neuro-psychiatric cases, and has a bed capacity of 475. Q—When was William H. Taft appointed Chief Justiee of the United States Supreme Court, and who did he succeed? A—He wi - appointed Chief Justice from civil life in 1921, and resigned in 1990. a short time before hia death. Ke was preceded by Chief Justice Edward D. White, and his successor is Charles Evans Hughes.

UAUPTMANN ON TRIAIr J u The Courtroom Cast , J

-piIE High Sheriff of Hunterdon County is the sort of person you would expect to meet in the smoking car of the Katy Flyer, or in the lobby of a Midwestern commercial hotel. Short, rolypoly, jovial, with a keen look about the rather narrow blue eyes set deep in his round face. Insignia of a fraternal order in the lapel of a not-too-well pressed gray suit. When you discover that he is New England’s gift to the hilly farm region along the Delaware, you are | somewhat shocked. Certainly there is nothing either lean or lank about John Henry Curtiss. Almost none of j the ordinary phrases applied to ! those of his origin fit the High Sheriff, unless it be the one about "Yankee shrewdness.” High Sheriff Curtiss (5 feet high) rolled into the little offices on the second floor of the almost ancient Hunterdon County Courthouse at a time when Democratic dissension insured Republican victory. By one of those coincidences which bewilder because of their very pointlessness the trial of John Hughes Curtis in the Lindbergh case was under way at Flemington while the campaign banners of "John H. Curtiss” waved in the streets. “I won’t say that it got me any votes,” says the High Sheriff, judiciously, leaning back in a battered armchair and fingering the gold

badge pinned to his tight waistcoat. "But people were a lot interested in the trial and they sort of got to talking about the names. Mine’s Curtiss with two s’s, you know.” b n b Mr. CURTISS with the two s's came originally from Springfield, Mass. You are not surprised to learn that he was for years a traveling man. He served as a member of the Springfield City Council and he will relate with pride how that body put through construction of anew town hall. The High Sheriff moved to New Jersey in 1913, settling first at Newton, where he engaged in a hay and f eed business. He did not come to Hunterdon County until 1926, when lie became a resident of the town of Clinton. His home is there today—“the third house down from the Clinton House.” Tire present Mrs. Curtiss is the second. An adult son by an earlier marriage lives in the West. Good-naturedly satisfied with himself and the world on most occasions, the little High Sheriff when necessary can be a fighting cock. Several months ago he pitched in to help his deputies quell a drunken disturbance and acquitted himself well, receiving a beautiful black eye in the process. His row

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

WASHINGTON, Jan. I.—Senate munitions probers have received a grapevine account of the inside story of the President’s first meeting with his committee “to take the profit out of war,” According to the probers, here is what happened: The President stated he had been prompted to act as he did because, of the growing danger of war. He cited the fact that in both the Spanish and World Wars the United States had been without prepared plans for the mobilisation of national resources, and that with world conditions in the highly explosive state they are today he deemed it urgently desirable to prepare for any emergency that might arise. The President gave his appointees a free hand, but he laid emphasis on two points: 1. His desire for an early report. (He suggested that the committee submit is recommendations to him not later than the end of January.) 2. That in his opinion, legislation should be passed giving the Government power to fix a “ceiling” on profits in case of war. Asa final admonition, the President told the committee he might disregard all, or some, of their recommendatiohs, but that this was not to deter them from making any they deemed desirable.

B B B OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, retired and much-loved justice of the Supreme Court, is now nearing his ninety-fourth birthday and seldom ventures far from his home. On balmy days, however, he walks a block or two with one of his friends. The other day he was walking along Pennsylvania-av with Justice Cardozo. Past them strolled a young lady—an extremely beautiful young lady. Justice Holmes stopped, looked long and rapturously. Then, with a twinkle in his eye, he sighed: “What wouldn’t I give to be 70 again!” B B B IT is a closely guarded White House secret, but the National Labor Relations Board has recommended to the President that he junk the Auto Labor Board. This three-man body, headed by Dr. Leo Wolman. has come under sharp fire from labor quarters on the ground that it is biased and dilatory. Asa result it became the object of a secret investigation by the National Labor Relations Board. Its findings, which have been submitted to the President, confirm labor's charges. The NLRB report holds that the auto arbiters have failed to function, citing the fact that although they were appointed last March to conduct factory elections, to date they have ordered only one poll, and that only a week ago in a relatively small factory. Laborites, who have got wind of the NLRB's condemnation, privately threaten a congressional probe of the Auto Labor Board if the President does not act. 8 B B TV A has gone into the movies. Thp latest device in the publicity c.. ;.paign of the Tennessee Valley Authority is to spread its gospel through talking films. They will show the old dam at Mils'le Shoals, the new dams at Wheeler and Norris, the tree-cut-ting and home-moving in preparation for the “flood,” the foresters’ work of erosion control, and every phase of the highly diverse program. The films will be available free of charge to civic, religious and educational groups.

MANN ON TRlAlrr^*^§p e Courtroom Casl |J^ v Iff* withdraw the special 24-hour guai ~ v h JIL V High Sheriff outside the prisoner's cell or to oi - Hi ¥ , der that a bright light illuminatir MMPP JNjf £ *’ \ m John Hcnry the entrance to Haptmann’s qua: -,■ jjfeljfc. ' ‘ Curtiss (above) ters be extinguished at night. tiftSllpfe . JdMh 4 "What Hauptmann says about tl i ‘ light is a lot of hokum.” he said, 'T IgflHL, V fffp - M repetition of sleeps longer than I do. I'm r< * , wmiW * * IS the Hudson sponsible for that prisoner and I : - ' . M _ .. not letting down any bars. He ** ‘ 1 ” / County farce.” getting better treatment than mo

Sheriff Curtiss is shown with his deputy, Keith Barrowcliff, picking the first panel of jurors for the Hauptmann trial.

with the Democratic Board of County Freeholders over arrangements for the Hauptmann trial was for a time the talk of Flemington. The Freeholders prepared to parcel out space in the courtroom to newspaper men and others. Curtiss promptly announced that he was responsible “for the Courthouse and the jail” and that he would make his own arrangements. This he did, refusing also to consider the suggestions made by a committee of reporters representing the metropolitan papers, members of which had conferred at length with the Governor and the prosecutor’s staff. B B B he remarked scornfully. “T’hell with the committee.” And, of the Board of Freeholders — “Sure, we had a little trouble. They’re all Democrats, and they tried to take charge of the seating arrangement for the trial. I’d have been a fool to let them get away with it.” They didn’t. The High Sheriff proceeded to allocate space accord-

The voice of TVA, which will explain the panorama, will be the voice of TVA’s new publicity expert, Kendall Foss. B B B DURING recent dickering of the German cotton dealers for credits to purchase American cotton, newspapers published an inside story of a conference between Secretary Wallace, Senator “Cotton Ed” Smith and Carl Albrecht. Bremen cotton merchant. Next morning Albrecht called the Agriculture Department on the telephone. “I must make denial of intelligences I read in the newspaper,” he said. “It is not I who have been indiscreet.” The Department press bureau told him they knew it was not he, but Senator Smith who was the source of the statements. “Ach! Your own Senator Smith? . . . Well, well! In my country, we have concentration camps for people like that.” (Copvrißht. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) BUTLER NET SQUAD WILL BE HONORED Cleveland Alumni Will Stage Ceremony Tomorrow. The Butler University Alumni Club of Cleveland will honor members of the Butler basketball team tomorrow when the team visits the Ohio city to play Western Reserve University. Miss Honor Gregory. Cleveland, is general chairman of the dinner and secretary of the alumni group, and Russell Putnam, son of Dean J. W. Putnam, is president. Paul (Tony) Hinkle. Butler athletic director, will be an honor guest and will speak. The club is composed of Butler graduates in northern Ohio as well as Cleveland alumni. Civil Service Post Open Applications for a civil service examination for the unskilled labor position of charwoman in the postoffice custodian service will be received up to Jan. 10. Full informa - l and applications may be had irom Frank J. Boatman, local secretary, Room 421, Federal Bldg.

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ing to his own desires, even renting out one of his own offices to a press association. Contact with reporters and photographers appears to please him, he displays the bluff heartiness of a man “anxious to do all I can.” Much photographed in connection with the Hauptmann case, he has become very critical of camerawork, posing earnestly at his desk for every picture and amassing a collection of prints which he displays proudly to visitors. When it was at first reported that Hauptmann might be confined in Trenton rather than in the jail presided over by his appointee, Warden Harry McCrea, the High Sheriff was loud in protest. The prisoner once safe behind the bars of Flemington prison, however, Mr. Curtiss assumed a dignity and reserve which for a time gave the newspapers an idea that they might have a tough nut to crack. “Hunterdon,” said the High Sheriff, sternly, “wants no repetition of that Hudson County farce.” The reference was to the Hall-Mills case which, while tried in Somerville,

BUTLER STUDENTS WILL BE ENROLLED University Spring Term to Start on Feb. 5. Registration for the second semester at Butler University will begin Feb. 4, Dean James W. Putnam, acting president, has announced. This will make it possible for mid-year high school graduates to begin their college work without delay. Classes have been arranged so that new students may take the prescribed first semester freshman courses during the spring term. Prospective students are asked to send high school transcripts by mail to Mrs. Martha Beblnger Enyart, registrar, as soon as possible. New Students will confer with the freshman adviser, arrange class schedules and take a physical examination to complete their registration. Work for the spring term will begin Feb. 5. Oriental Shrine to Meet Tarum Council, Ladies of the Oriental Shrine, will meet Thursday night at the Lincoln. Mrs. Florence Swope, high priestess, will preside.

SIDE GLANCES

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“You bad better. Iwk around and see how. many guests we ■ rave.for breakfast.”

High Sheriff John Henry Curtiss (above) wants “no repetition of the Hudson County farce.”

drew heavily upon Hudson County for talent. But Mr. Curtiss softened up satisfactorily, a process which he has repeated in his rulings upon Hauptmann. The prisoner at first could have no reading matter, nor could he see his baby more than once a week. B B B “T’M not going to have jail rou- * tine upset,” said the High Sheriff. Mrs. Hauptmann, however, continued to bring little Mannfried around almost daily and Mr. Curtiss, grumbling, continued to grant permission for the child to visit his father in his cell. The prohibition against reading matter, too, was quickiy withdrawn, and those forlorn reporters who were left in Flemington to bridge the long gap between arraignment and trial were able to chronicle daily the jailed carpenter’s progress through a biography of Abraham Lincoln. On two points the High Sheriff remained obdurate. He refused to

IN OLD NEW YORK By Paul Harrison

NEW YORK, Jan. I.—Holiday notes: Until you’ve heard the tumult and the shouting in Times Square, the horns and the police whistles, the noise-making toys in the hands of pitchmen, frequent screams of sirens, jazz bands in the upstairs dance halls, and the low, sustaining roar of the impatient throng—until you’ve heard these things, you have no idea what a raucous hullabaloo is necessary for Gotham to deliver a message of peace on earth.

There’s an effulgent spirit of good-will-to-men. Around a quiet corner I come upon a panhandler counting his takings; he holds a fistful of silver and a few pieces of currency. . . . Stepping into a taxi, I find the windows festooned with green and red streamers, a paper bell bobbing beside the meter, and a sprig of mistletoe affixed to the dome light. The driver sings snatches of carols as we move south, and confides that tips have been larger this season than he has found them in a decade. In spite of its large Jewish population, the East Side seems to have more of the Christmas spirit than any other section. More children, too, and hence more tinsel and trappings and noise. Peddlers line the sidewalks: poil necklaces, twenny-fi’ cents, tree lights, dancing toys, ladies’ unawear “as good as silk,” pretzels, dusty candies, candles, balloons for da kiddies.

By George Clark

withdraw the special 24-hour guard outside the prisoner's cell or to order that a bright light illuminating the entrance to Haptmann’s quarters be extinguished at night. "What Hauptmann says about the light is a lot of hokum,” he said. “He sleeps longer than I do. I'm responsible for that prisoner and I’m not letting down any bars. He is getting better treatment than most men charged with murder. He has plenty of good food, the temperature of the cell block is kept constant, and his quarters are clean.” Like Atty. Gen. Wilentz, the High Sheriff has found the Hautpmann case cutting into his political activities. He wore a Hoffman button in his lapel throughout the campaign, but there were many other things on his mind. There was, for one, the difficulty of getting a jury panel to try Hauptmann. Getting a panel for a capital case is always more difficult in Hunterdon than in certain other portions of the state, because of the number of those who have religious scruples against the death penalty. "Some of them will disqualify themselves," the high sheriff explained, “as the Quakers, for instance.” Mr. Curtiss, one imagines, will enjoy the excitement connected with the trial and his own part in it. One of his varied duties wTI be to ring the Courthouse bell to announce the opening of court, and again when the jury comes in with its vedict. That will be something to hear. should also make a good picture. Next—The Jailer.

■OAKERY windows full of those indigestible gilded cookies, cut in many shapes. Displays of lebkuchen. Lean sidewalk Santas, ringing their bells and winning not so much as a glance from the youngsters. Crowded shops where religious articles are sold each window displaying brightly-painted figures in the Bethlehem manger scene. Several stores display siyiall signs: "Wood (from packing boxes) given away at 6 o’clock.” There’s plenty of kindling in Manhattan, but not much substantial fuel. The management of the apartment house in which I live sells fireplace logs—about twice the girth of a baseball bat—for 15 cents each. Most city youngsters are taught that the Christmas Saint comes down fire escapes instead of chimneys. Stockings aren’t hung i many mantles, either, because most apartment fireplaces are imitations, and are likely to be mere false fronts for private bars. Speaking of apartments and children, I came upon a toy in one shop that shows how city-bound the youngest generation has become. It was a portable flight of stairs, intended to provide a child with “stairs experience.” Seems that thousands of children go up and down only in elevators, and without this educational set of steps might grow up without knowing what stairs are for. BBS PROBABLY the most famous toy shop in America is Schwartz’, on Fifth-av. It started on lower Broadway before the Civil War, when F. A. O. Schwartz came here from Germany. Everybody in town knew him as “Father Schwartz” because he always was interested in the families of his customers and prescribed pink woolen pads and German bitters for all their ailments. After his death, and as the store moved uptown, the place became more and more exclusive, which is a nice euphemism for “expensive.” Now it has dolls as large as the little girls who select them, and toy automobiles propelled by real gasoline engines. LAN!) - EXPERT TO TALK Swiss Gardener Will Address Mem-1 bers of Local Organization. Emile Corboz, Swiss landscape gardener, will address members of the Alliance Francaise d’ Indianapolis following a 6:30 dinner at the Washington Thursday. Asa program feature members will enact a French Christmas jollity. A large cake in which is buried a tiny prize will be divided and the recipient of the token then serve as king or queen of festivities.

Fair Enough wmik Min IWAS sorry to read Charles Dorais' report to the Football Coaches* Union, deploring drinking on the part of the football crowds, because drinking is distinctly an adult practice and I favor anything which savors of maturity in people and suggest that the American nation is growing up. Children rarely go in for old-fashioneds or side-cars or com liquor, but this is hardly a time to encourage childishness in people who are supposed to have come of age.

If you are interested in seeing a demonstration of American conduct at its grown-uppest you may do so the next time the Army plays Notre Dame in New York just after the game is over. At that instant there will be a crash of bottles on the concrete decks, a wild, whooping rush down the runways in which women will be squashed against the walls and knocked flat and walked upon, and a charge out upon the field by several hundred staggering adults bent upon uprooting and smashing the goal posts. Immature men and women, not vet grown up to indulgence in alco-

holic beverages, will be struck on the head and knocked down by the descending timbers or jabbed in the abdomen by splintered fragments borne around the field like battering rams by squads of sportsmen considerably more advanced in their development than themselves. B B B They're Reeling Drunk IT is a fine sight, also, to see among these groups a goodly sprinkling of grown-up women who have put aside the restraints and immunities of childhood and accepted the obligation to get reeling drunk as befits their years. The Army-Notre Dame game is a good one to which to take the children so that they may notice, if they are bright, what is to be expected of them in the way of conduct when they are 21, or say, 19. To be sure, childhood's happy hours are fleeting enough and they should not be crowded too fast. But this is a practical world and it is only a day until they must find themselves called upon to take their places as men and women. It is not necessary that they get plastered, or even mildly whiskyedup on these occasions, but it can do no harm for them to keep their eyes and ears open, observe the manners, condition and speech of their elders and form the resolution to be likewise as soon as they have years enough. Very fair demonstrations of adult conduct may be witnessed at some of the Yale games, also, and I have been told that on the whole, the conduct of the crowds at the Southern games is distinctly mature. But the most encouraging spectacle that I have seen in connection with the big games in the East is that of young girls of, say 19 or 20. dishevelled, pale, sick and either babbling or stretched out unconscious with their boy friends of similar years on the trains bound back to town when the big games are over. B B B They Can't Take It—Yet BRAVE souls, they are not yet able to take it as their elders can, but they keep on trying and in a few seasons become qualified women and men, being replaced by other girls and boys a little younger. There has been some agitation among the educators of late to curtail adolescence in young Americans and a hopeful sign is seen in the character of the Christmas celebration nowadays. Formerly a children’s festival in which the adults momentarily strove to put themselves again In an innocent frame of mind, Christmas recently has become an adult holiday largely devoted to drunkenness for the edification of the children. Thanks to the freedom which is permitted them at this season the young are given fine opportunities to make mental notes on the habits and character. of those whom they are asked to emulate and the effect no doubt will be to rush their development. There are still some reactionary children. I heard of one, a boy of eight, alone at table with nine grown-ups who were drinking toasts around and around at Christmas dinner and, forgetting his manners, broke in to say. “Why don’t you drink to Jesus Christ? It’s his birthday.” (Copyrißht. 1935, by Unite and Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

WITH he advent of the new year, one of the first things you should do is to take an inventory of your health. That’s even more important than the financial inventory which our business men take annually to determine the status of their affairs. A complete physical examination nowadays is more complicated and difficult than it used to be. It includes a careful investigation of the ability of many organs of the body to carry on their functions. Not only the eyes, ears, nose and throat are examined but the doctor also sees whether the heart is doing its work without difficulty, and whether the kidneys are getting rid of waste materials brought by the blood without any serious destruction of the kidneys themselves. The lungs are tested as to the presence of the first signs of infection, such as tuberculosis or pneumonia, and as to whether breathing is properly carried on. ft tt tt BY simple physical examinations, the doctor can find out whether the heart is of normal size and whether the rate and volume of the heartbeats are as consistent as they should be. The blood pressure is measured accurately to find out whether it is of the correct height for age and weight of the person concerned. The doctor examines the blood to see whether the red blood cells and the white blood cells are correct in number, whether the varieties are properly distributed, and whether the blood ls carrying sufficient red coloring matter. He also may test the blood to find out whether there is infection. Your posture should be studied for signs of flatfeet or twisting of the spine, and proper carriage of your weight. Your weight is determined in relation to your height, and a record of the weight will show' whether you are gaining or losing weight in an abnormal manner, BBS A PROPER examination includes a study of your digestion, and your entire digestive canal from the mouth down. The presence of hemorrhoids or of abnormal bleeding should be investigated, particularly if you are past middle age. The doctor also will inquire carefully into your habits as to sleep and rest, your diet and exercise, the amount of outdoor air you get and similar factors necesary in hygiene. Your teeth also should be investigated by a competent dentist, to determine the presence of cavities at the earliest possible moment. Such a survey may mean years of additional life to you, through detection of changes at the earliest possible moment, and it may mean years of additional healthful life, which is of even greater significance. Q—Give the total United States exports and imports of tobacco in 1933. A—-Exports, 420,418,000 pounds; Imports, 2,596,000 pounds. Q —Who was Archbishop James Usher? A—-A Protestant archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, who lived from 1581 to 1656. He is best knowm for his chronology of the Bible. Q —Where and how large is the island of Mona in the West Indies? A—lt is a small island in the Mona Passage, of the West Indies, a strait 80 miles across, which separates Haiti from Puerto Rico. The island ls seven by two miles.

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