Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 211, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1935 Edition 02 — Page 7

STAN. 12, 1935

It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN THE drama and the news interest of the Hauptmann trial in Flemmgton Courthouse can hardly be denied, but has the rest of the world really stopped stock still to await the verdict? Perhaps a columnist does not quite understand the avidity of the reading public for each last detail. Editors throughout the country seem to be in complete agreement that there can not be such a thing as too much on thus case. I dissent. It is my impression that during all the time I

have been reading metropolitan papers closely no single story has commanded a like amount of space. And surely it can not be that the 'rial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann is actually the most important happening throughout the world in the last forty years. It took far fewer columns to tell readers that America had gone to war. The Armistice ate up less space. Fire and flood and earthquake have marched across the front page with headlines of equal size, but not one of those stories penetrated so deeply into the dark continents of news which lie within. To-

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day we seem to live within an era during which the appraisers say. If it ter. t the Lindbergh case it isn t news.” nun He’s Had Enourjh I AM well aware of the fact that in a rough and ready way all good editors have a responsibility in satisfying the curiosity and the desires of the readmg public. Again it may be that each editor would do exactly the same if he were under the instruction, "Make up the paper simply to suit yourself and forget about the readers.” In private discussion I hate met few reporters who did not maintain that the Lindbergh case from its beginning to the present trial constituted the biggest news story of the decade. I can't agree, but even if I did it seems to me that somewhere in the middle of the flood of copy I would try to hold up a lone Canuteish hand and cry out, "Hold, enough!” It is my belief that the law of diminishing returns applies with peculiar force to the use of words. It is trite, of course, but not unfair, to refer to some of the examples of reporting done by Matthew. Mark, Luke and John. And the rewrite men of the Old Testament did exceedingly well in small compass with stories such as the encounter between David and Goliath and the death of Abel. From a newspaper point of view I'm afraid it must be admitted that the account of the creation of the world is slightly underplayed. Gut of the files of ole. papers I could find at least half a dozen news stories which stood out in their own day. The storv Floyd Gibbons wrote of the sinking of the Laconia, one of the best factual accounts I can remember, ran about eight columns but most the rest which I think of offhand were much shorter. an n There Have Been Other Stories lOUIS WEITZENKORN S story of the funeral of * Kid Dropper was a couple of columns. Dudley Nichols took about four in describing a rescue at sea by Captain Fried. It was Lindsey Dennison, wasn't it, who wrote the classic about the Boonton diver in the old Morning Sun? That wasn’t more than a couple of columns. Artists have a saying that it takes two men to paint a picture—one to do the painting and the other to knock him on the head when he’s done. I believe it would help the high standards of journalism if there were more knocking on the head in newspaper offices. Os course, in the case of columnists, it ir ot often be a good idea to knock them on the h ■> before they started. It may be that the association of those who wou. like to see a good deal less printed about the Haupt mann trial is only a minority party. But if the interest is actually as avid as the vast procession of type might indicate then I would expect to see excited little groups of people discussing the case on every street corner. I have been back in New York a little less than 48 hours and perhaps I haven't been on the right street corners, but so far just one taxi driver asked, "What do you think of it?” and I answered, "I don't know ” I mi us t insist that Flemington is not the center of the universe. ICopvr:Kht. 19351

Today s Science BY D\VID DIETZ

VENUS, most beautiful of all planets, returns to the evening sky this month for the first time since last February. Since that time, the planet has been in the morning sky. Look for Venus low in the western sky at the time of sunset. As the months go on. Venus will climb higher in the sky and become brighter. It will attain its maximum brilliance next August, on Aug. 3 to be exact, when it will be 15 times brighter than Sirius, the brightest of all the stars. Venus, twin-6ister of the earth, is the one planet most likely to be inhabited in addition to the earth. The planet is about the same size as the earth and closer to the sun. Dense, heavy white clouds which surround the planet prevent us from seeing its surface. Mercury also becomes visible in the night sky during January. Look for Mercury about the last week of January. It will be very low in the West about the time of sunset, nearer the horizon than Venus and not so bright. Little Mercury is the smallest of all the planets. Only a little larger than our noon, it would fit comforably into the Atlantic Ooan. It is quite certain that the planet is uninhabited, for it always keeps the same face turned toward the sun. Trying to live on that face would be like trying to live on the lid of a red-hot stove. The other face is as cold as empty space. In addition. Mercury is known to have no atmosphere. The planet Saturn, which has been visible in the night sky during most of 1934 nas now disappeared. Asa matter of fact, it disappeared in December. It is now in the morning sky. but too close to the sun to be visible. In the morning sky also are Mars and Jupiter. a a a \ STRONOMERS this month are most interested in the new star or nova that appeared in the constellation of Hercules in December. Astronomers in all observatories have it under careful watch. Dr J. J. Nassau, director of the Warner <fc Swasey Observatory of Case School of Applied Science, reports that he has taken 26 photographs of the nova. N va Hercuiis flared forth into new brilliance on Dec. 14 More exactly, it was first noted to have done so on that date. The nova was discovered by John P M Pnntice. a British meteor observer. A tually. what Mr. Pnntice observed on Dec. 14, had t iken place 150 J years earlier. Nova Hercuiis is 150n ':ght years away. That means its light takes 1500 years to reach us and consequently we have just become aware of something that happened to this star 1500 years ago. a a a SINCE the discovery of Nova Hercuiis astronomers have been examining old photographic plates to find the past history of the star. Several hundred plates were located which contained photographs of the star. These revealed that it had been of a magnitude of 146 on Oct. 4. 1934. At that time, it will be seen, it was an extremely faint star. However, photographs on Nov. 14. 1934. show it to have increased to a magnitude of 13 8. It may be said, therefore, that the star was already beginning to flare up at that time. By Dec. 9. as already mentioned, the star reached a magnitude of 1 9 This means that between Oct. 4 and Dec 9. the brightness of the star increased 100 000 times It Is now known that the increase in brightness of a nova is due to some tremendous heating in the outer regions of the star. This increase in radiation pressure seems to blow the outer layers of the star's atmosphere out like a balloon. Spectroscopic measurements indicate the speed with which the outer envelope of the star expands. In the case of Nova Hercuiis, the measurements indicate a velocity of 100 miles a second.

FRANCE’S AUTO KING DEPOSED

Lavish But 111-Timed Spending Writes Failure for Citroen

BY MORRIS GILBERT NEA service Staff Correspondent PARIS. Jan. 12 The Eiffel Tower once more is just the Eiffel Tower, and no longer a blazing sxy-slgn by night. As the unique advertisement of Frances most famous automobile, it has ceased to exist—and has become again simply a haunt of tourists and pigeons. The extinction of the big Citroen advertisement that recently turned the famous old tower into a garish Christmas tree is symbolic of the apparent collapse of the Citroen enterprise. It cost 10.000 francs a night—s6oo—to run that luminous billboard, and that was a lavish sum as advertising goes in France. The whole Citroen layout was lavish. The famous “croisieres,” those motor explorations through Persia, down through Africa, across Asia, were stupendous stunts. The factories on the Quai de Javel were sumptuous. So were the Paris and Brussels "exposition palaces.” So w'as the brave gesture, not many months ago, when Citroen scrapped his recent model., and began building anew series of ultra-modern stock cars, aerodynamic, frontwheel driven, gadget-laden.

So. indeed, was v e man himself lavish in all ways- -a famous figure at the races, the beaches, the casinos of France. u u a 'T'ODAY, the 20.000 Citroen emX ployes in the Javel shops are laid off. ‘'Temporarily,” it is stated. “Judicial liquidation” of the enterprise may put them back to work again, in some part, some time. Meanwhile, they are on the dole, and hundreds of Citroen dealers are out on a limb. Picture the "judicial liquidation" —which means receivership —of one of America’s biggest plants for making popular-priced cars. The answer, translated in

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

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Members of the President’s official family are clustering around the patronage prospects of the new farm census like honey bees around a molasses pot. First it was Presidential Secretary Louey Howe who tried to get a relative placed on the census roles. Now it is Uncle Dan Roper, Secretary of Commerce. Hugh McCall, brother-in-law of Uncle Dan, operates a farm near Clio, S. C. Roper decided to put him on the pay roll as a district supervisor and asked William L. Austin, director of the Census Bureau, to appoint him. This put Austin in a dilemma. Although Roper is his immediate

superior, jobs for the farm census are the special prerogative of Democratic House members. Austin explained the situation to Roper. The latter told him to leave it to him. He sent an emissary to Allard H. Gasque, representative from McCall's district, with a trading offer—Gasque to offer no objection to the appointment of Roper's brother-in-law, and in exchange to receive appointments to two jobs in the Commerce Department. Gasque ,s still considering the dicker, but it is a sure bet he will

M KINNEY TO HEAD FIDELITY TRUST CO, iroup Led by TreasurerElect Acquires Control. Control of the Fidelity Trust Cos. has been acquired by a group of iocal business men headed by Frank McKinney, Marion County treas-urer-elect, it was learned today. The banking institution, which has transacted business in Indianapolis for the last 25 years, had total assets of $1,850,982 at the close of last year. According to present plans, formal transfer of control will take place Monday morning, prior to the annual stockholders’ meeting. It is believed Mr. McKinney will ascend to the bank's presidency, succeeding Timothy Sexton, who. identified with the organization since its creation. will retained in an executive capacity, it ’s believed. Mr. McKinney, prominent in, Democratic politics, will assume his j duties as treasurer of Marion County in January. 1936. He resigned his post as assistant cashier of the People's State Bank today. He had been associated with the Peoples Bank 18 years. DR. MERTON S. RICE SPEAKS HERE TUESDAY Detroit Minister to Lecture at Meri-dian-st Church. Dr. Merton S. Rice, pastor of the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church, Detroit, will speak on" Poor Boy, Great Man,” at the Meridian Street M. E. Church at 7:45 Tuesday night. Arrangements for the occasion were reported complete today by J. I. Holcomb, chairman. Mr. Holcomb is being assisted by Arthur V. Brown. H H. Hornbrook. John S. Wright, Alexander Taggart. H. P. Sheets. James W. Noel and William L. Taylor. Dr. Rice is to be introduced by the Dr. Abram S. Woodward. church pastor, following an organ presentation by Mrs. Myra Clippinger. Junior members of the church, selected by a committee under Mrs. Hugh Carpenter, will serve as ushers. Mrs. Wilbur Patterson is chairman of the decorations committee, and ticket sale is in charge of Harry O. Garman. Kennedy Reese. William E. Mick and Edgar Henderson. W. C. T. u. backsTist OF REFORM MEASURES Demands Total Abstinence for Pilots, Train Operators. The General Assembly was called upon yesterday by the Marion County Women's Christian Temperance Union to enact legislation requiring total abstinence of "air pilots, train operators, automobile drivers and all who are in any way responsible for the lives of others.” The Union also protested the employment of women as barmaids or waitresses in places selling liquor by the drink the sale of liquor in • groceries, gas filling stations and all other places of business which cur youUi freqent.” the present advertising of alcoholic beverages and an alleged spread of .gambling in Indiana.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

AutoirobUes reported to police at stolen beione to \V R Neukom. 1403 Carrollton-v. Ford V-S coach 16-636 .35 1 . from 919 N. Penn-svlvania-st . _ James Easterlev. 106 W North-st. Ford readier. £l-309 4Mi Xrom dome.

French, shows the scope here of the Citroen calamity. There is talk of the men going back to work this month. There is talk of continuing production under the receivership. There is talk of preserving the big factory in western Paris on the Seine as an important industrial unh or French war purposes. Questions facing the Citroen liquidators and creditors are: How many men can actually count on new and continuous employment? How many cars can be put out a month, how much will their price rise or fall?

accept. Two plums for one is not a bad trade. PENNSYLVANIA'S* GovernorElect George Earle was pressent at the opening ceremonies of Congress. As the first Democratic governor of the Keystone state in many decades he was the object of much flattering attention. But one unknown took a fall out of him. Gov. Eane was surrounded by an admiring group when the stranger walked up and asked. “Are you Gov. Earle?” “Yes.” “THE Gov. Earle?” “Yes.” “So what?” the stranger remarked, and calmly walked away leaving Earle blinking. ana CATCHING a six-pound trout with a “plow line” may sound like the product of an elastic imagination, but that’s the story of Speaker Jose Byrns, and he sticks to it. At a lake in Glacier National Park where he was vacationing, a guide took Byrns and another guest fishing for pickerel. After trolling all day neither got a strike. The tackle, Joe explains, was cord heavy enough to use for a plow line, and a triple-gang hook with a huge hunk of meat on it. The guide, abashed at the empty fish coffers of his charges, decided the tackle was too heavy, and stopped at a saw mill to borrow lighter equipment. Only one pole and line were available, and Byrns generously 'Vesigned in favor of his fishing mate. While the guide and mate departed for another effort. Byrns located a nearby dam, at the bottom of which was a deep pool. He whirled the heavy meat-laden hook around several times, and let go with a hammer-throwing gesture that he now uses for calling the House to order. No sooner had it struck the water than an immense fish gobbled it and started off. After minutes of intense fighting, Byrns managed to iand it—a six-pound salmon trout, largest caught in years. And— At dark, when his fishing mate returned with the guide he still had caught nothing. i C’opvrieht 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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CITROEN, as an industrialist, was like a great athlete who lacked—in the pinch—one vital quality. The quality was timing. He knew how to swing on the ball like a Babe Ruth ir. his prime. The trouble was, he swung too late—or too early. In boom times, the Citroen plant was turning out the tidy number of 700 cars a day. With a humming plant, his tendency toward prodigality expressed itself in big effort. He tried to compete in America, in England, in other lands outside France. He sent his cars through desert and jungle, over the Himalayas, across China, in big propaganda tours. There was something very American in his ideas of spending money to make money.

YORK CRITICAL OF M'NUTT'S ADDRESS Demands Law Divorcing Liquor From Politics. Taking sharp issue with the liquor recommendations of Gov. Faul V. McNutt in his message to the Legislature, L. E. York, Indiana Anti-Saloon League superintendent, today urged enactment of a law that would prohibit public officials —municipal, county and state, including legislators, from engaging in the beer or liquor business. Criticising the Governor’s stand, Mr. York declared: “The people have read with disgust the Governor’s message before the Legislature relating to the liquor traffic. “He uses superfluous language in order to conceal his real object of keeping liquor in politics. “He states that the present law did not put the state into the liquor business. He failed to say that something worse was accomplished —the present law created a partnership between politicians and the liquor traffic. And the Governor offers no relief.” MINOR HOUSE POSTS ROTATED Each Member to Make at Least One Appointment. Minor House positions, such as pages, stenographers and door keepers, will be rotated to give opportunity for the largest distribution of patronage, it was announced by Rep. William J. Black <D., Anderson), patronage committee chairman. Under this plan, it is expected j each member of the House will make at least one appointment during the session. The minor jobs probably will be passed around every week. REPORT IS CORRECTED Phene Company Increase Not Confined Solely to City Area. The Indiana Bell Telephone Cos. reported a gain of 4700 telephones for 1934 as against a loss of 13,500 phones in 1933. The Indianapolis Times erroneously stated yesterday that the gain was shown in the In--1 dianapolis area, whereas the gain i was for the company’s entire area.

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I COVER THE WORLD 0 0 0 0 0 0 By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Under the watchful eyes of an international army, the first ever placed at the disposition of the League of Nations, the people of the Saar will decide tomorrow, by plebiscite, whether they remain German, become French or stay under the League. The outcome is vital to Europe and the world. At the worst, it can lead to another war. At best, it will fit snugly into the series of moves now 7 in full swing to bolster up the peace of Europe for the next generation. The plebiscite comes on the heels of the new understanding between France and Italy, engineered by Premier Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Laval. Simultaneously, too, forces are in play at

London, Paris and Rome to bring j about an entente between France and Germany. Complete success means the re-entry of Germany into the League and the Arms Conference. Once back in the fold, Britain and Italy particularly feel Germany's re-armament can be watched and perhaps regulated. At present only the j sky, or her pocketbook, is the limit. What happens tomorrow in the Saar will have a bearing on all this. Disorders would bring intervention by the international army. If this army is unable to cope with the situation, the League might have to call on French troops. And that would almost surely lead to a FrancoGerman armed clash. a a a THERE seems good reason, however, to expect that tomorrow will pass off without an explosion. Six weeks ago this could not have been said. A startling chance for the better has taken place, for which the French government and the League of Nations share chief credit. Just when the clouds over thu Saar seemed blackest, M. Laval, one of Europe’s most determined men of peace since Aristide Briand, get busy at Rome and Geneva To forestall the probability of bloodshed resulting from the use of French troops,by the League, an international army was brought into being. Britain, genuinely frightened by the fast growing specter of war, quickly agreed to supply 1500 troops. Italy compiled with 1300 more, and Holland and Sweden with 250 each. These neutrals will w'atch over the voting tomorrow, assisted by the regular police. As the Saar is approximately 95 per cent German, the outcome is hardly in doubt, despite a small but bitter opposition. a a a THERE still remain, however, grave financial difficulties. The treaty put the Saar under League mandate for 15 years, but gave the mines outright to the French to make up for those Germany destroyed in Northern France. These mines were to be bought back by Germany, provided the Saarlanders voted that way, but the price was payable in gold. And Germany lacks the gold. Instead of sticking to the letter of the bond, France on Dec. 3 voluntarily agreed to accept 900 million francs (about $60,000.000), 95 per cent of it in paper francs, now legal tender in the Saar. The rest, she would j take in coal. M. Laval, astute, reserved, sim- j pie, met the bellicose German fuehrer more than half way. If Herr Hitler will now go the rest of the distance, admittedly there is an excellent chance that France and Germany may shortly bury the hatchet. , CRAFT CLUB OFFICERS TAKE POSTS TONIGHT Dinner Dance to Follow Ceremony of Installation. Newly elected officers of Calvin Prather Lodge Craft Club will be installed in ceremonies tonignt at the Prather Masonic Temple, 42ndst and College-av. New officers are Adolph Schemekau, president; Clifford J. Walker, vice president; Edwin E. Van Osdol, secretary, and Norman Claridge, treasurer. A dinner-dance in honor of the officers will follow.

world crisis which was beginning to affect France so that his production had dropped to 400 cars a day, the big magnate made his greatest gesture. He junked his Quai de Javel factory and built a much more splendid one, capable of doubling his output. Citroen guessed wrong. If the famous "up-tum” had been at hand and if his big plant development had happened to catch the trend, he world be a Napoleon of finance today. Instead. a year ago. he had to look for 800 million francs to keep running. 0 0 9 EVEN that didn't dampen Citroen's enthusiasm, and he put out his famous new "7.” Judging by appearances and equipment, the “7” was a sweet and stylish little car. Its front wheels were powered, it braked on four wheels, had "knee” springs, and snappy air-streamed lines. Its clutch was a neat little lever on the dashboard and the hand brake was tucked away almost out of sight. The dashboard itself had enough trick indicators on it to fit a prima donna's Rolls. It had no running board, the spare tire w r as housed as neatly as a watch crystal, it was supplied in the colors of the spectrum, and it pulled. It pulled—but it couldn’t pull the Eiffel Tower, or the "palais d’exposition,” or the Citroen “croisieres” all the way from Senegal to the Gobi Desert, or the plunging Monsieur Citroen himself. All those things, these days in France, were just too much for a little light car—even if it did have a chromium cigarette lighter on the dash and a three-way horn.

OFFICERS ARE NAMED BY DAIRY WORKERS Irving P. Ressinger Heads Milk Wagon Union. The National Brotherhood of Dairy Workers, composed of 200 milk wagon drivers in Indianapolis, today announced its list of elected in its final organization meeting at Odd Fellow’s Hall, 10th and Rural-sts. Irving D. Ressinger was named president; Fred B. Hite, secretary and Ward Ratliff treausrer. The Brotherhood will cause to be introduced into the next meeting of the City Council a proposed ordinance to eliminate night delivery of milk in the city. COL. S lERBURNE TO ATTEND AIR PARLEY Fort Chief Accepts Bid to Notre Dame Conference. Col. T. L. Sherburne. Indianapolis, Chief at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, has accepted an invitation to be present Tuesday for a conference at the University of Notre Dame of fliers and leaders in the aircraft industry. The conference was called by the Rev. John F. O'Hara. C. S. C„ pres, ident of the school. Nearly a dozen leading figures in the air industry already have signified they will attend. CAR GOES OVER BANK; DRIVER ESCAPES DEATH Machine Turns Over in Field After Crashing Rail Guard. Clovis Kelly, 25, of 2027 Collegeav, narrowly escaped death early today when his car crashed through a railroad guard at 16th-st and Sugar Grove-av, tumbled down an embankment there and ran wild for 125 feet across a field, turning over several times in its course. Mr. Kelly was thrown 25 feet from the car as it turned over a final time, just before stopping. He received severe lacerations on the forehead, minor injuries to his left leg and possible internal injuries. COOPER UNION LEADER ON FORUM PROGRAM Dr. Everett Dean Martin to Speak at Kirshbaum. “What Has Happened to Liberalism?” will be the topic of Dr. Everett Dean Martin, celebrated director of People’s Institute of Cooper Union, New York, when he addresses the Indianapolis Open Forum at 8:15 tonight at Kirshbaum Meridianat 23-sts. Dr. Martin was on the Indianapolis Forum program last year and is returning by request of many Forum patrons. CENSUS WORK STARTED Federal Agriculture Canvass Is Under Way in County. Enumeration in the Federal Agricultural Census will begin in Marion County today with James T. Tandy as District Supervisor. There will be one enumerator in each of the nine townships, Mr. Tandy said. Dean in Private Practice Bussell J. Dean, former deputy prosecutor attached to Juvenile Court, has resumed private practice at his offices, 807 Meyer-Kiser ’Building.

Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLEK WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 12—Another Mahatma comes out of Los Angeles where Upton Sinclair has temporarily drawn his pants on over his breech-cloth and turned again to the composition of plaintive literature. This one claims a following of 25 million citizens, basing his estimate on the signatures whicn have been appended to his petition. The figures may be too high because there is likely to be some shrinkage when the repeaters, aliens, non-existents and other ineligibles have been struck

out. But even at the most conservative estimate, old Dr. F. K. Townsend would appear to have at least 20 million adherents, all qualified to vote, in his campaign to retire and pension off at the rate of S2OO a month all citizens over the age of 60 years who are not habitual criminals. "If there were an election tomorrow,” Dr. Townsend says, "we could . dictate the result. And if we do not get what we want from this Congress we will elect our own Congress and our own President, too, next time.” Like Mahatma Sinclair who

would have set the people of California to trading parsnips for piccolo lessons and actually knew of an artist who sculped a bust of a farmer for a basket of peaches, Mahatma Townsend is tall and spare and earnest and has a certain look in his eyes, which are dark and sometimes actually swimmy from the contemplation of the ghestlv which man has made of the simple job of dividing up natures bounty. 0 0 9 An Old-Time Doctor LIKE Sinclair, he loves people, believes them much more good than bad, aches in his soul for the poor and hopeless and trusts his fellow-man so implicitly that the thought of any one’s running out on him at election time does not enter his calculations at all. Come election time, thinks he, his 25 million (or make it 20. if you insist', will ignore all other issues and vote in one mass for the candidates who pledge themselves to pay S2OO a month to every citizen of 60 years who is not an habitual criminal. He is 68 years old, himself, a log-cabin case from a town in the northern part of Illinois called Fairbury and an old-time horse-and-buggv doctor. Practicing for many years in Deadwood. S. D.. and the surrounding country, he saw nothing in people to affect his faith in their innate goodness except to confirm it day by day. At first his territory was limited to the cruising radius of a horse, always subject, of course, to the restrictions imposed by blizzard and flood. Later he drove an automobile and sometimes traveled 60 miles to deliver a baby on a kitchen table or take out an appendix or a bullet with only a cowboy for an assistant and a greasy wash-basin, scoured on the stove, for a vessel. With all his humility, he is reasonably proud as he recalls that he never had a case of childbed fever although one baby was born in his buggy and another on a spring mattress as the mother was being carried to high ground to escape a flood. In 1919 he went to California to die, as he says, from the effects of peritonitis but put it off and put it off as dying people do in the southern part of the state and presently resumed practice. But now he has quit medicine again to work for the realization of "an old dream of that wonderful society which Edward Bellamy predicts.” “Rascality and chicanery are the result of the fear of the future,” Dr. Townsend says. "Eliminate that fear and we abolish cupidity and .the desire to cheat and lie. 0 0 0 They Wouldn’t Do That! FRUGALITY is the opposite of what W'e need now, but we are afraid to stop hoarding and saving because we have never had any experience with plenty. Now we need abundant purchasing ability to match our abundant production, but frugality is ingrained in us. We are not squirrels that we must hide nuts or dogs that we must bury bones any more. At first w'e will need a corps of vigilantes or supervisors to check up on the old people and force them into the habit of spending their S2OO every month, within the month. It will not come easy at first in people who have always been afraid of the future. But convince them that they will always get S2OO on the first of the month and the time will come when they will be broke on the 29th.” The Mahatma Townsend, like Mahatma Sinclair, is not sure of certain points in his scheme. Economists condemn it, but he condemns their opinions on the ground that they follow precedent, whereas there is no precedent for the Townsend plan. The children of the pensioners might permanently retire from work to live themselves and support their own children on their parents’ pensions until they, too, reached 60, and acquired pensions ol their own, but the new mahatma, loving people as fie does, can not believe that they would do this. He trusts their honor and self-respect. He is so innocent, with his faith in the goodness of men, that a ruthless reporter could pick up some of his innocent remarks to fashion weapons which would tear the meat off his bones in print. It will be a rotten job, having to stop Dr. Townsend because that will hurt him horribly and he is a benign idealist who has put in his life trying to alleviate hurt. But if he has 25 million votes <or make it 20), then there is bound to come a time when the Roosevelt Administration will have to quit gentling the new mahatma and let him have it. (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.t

Your Health - BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEiN-

MOST common of skin diseases today probably is ringworm infection, which produces the socalled athlete s foot. It is said that 10 million persons in this country suffer from this condition. Many types of organisms are included under the ringworm classification. The condition usually is found between the toes and usually is developed from walking barefoot on the floors of gymnasiums, swimming pools and locker rooms. It is particularly prevalent in these days among high school and college students. The first symptoms are itching and scaling between the toes. Gradually, if the condition gets worse, the skin cracks and small blisters develop n n a THERE are many different ways in which this malady can be treated, including antiseptics, the use of the X-ray and various types of ointments. How’ever, you should be certain that the medicines penetrate suitably, so that it may be desirable to soak the feet a long time in hot water before applying the ointments. Among the most common diseases affecting the skin is that with the ordinary pus germ. This produces eruptions which spread rapidly from one child to another, particularly w r hen a common towel is used. The disease is called impetigo. If a child develops this condition, he should be separated from other children and quite certainly should use separate washing and drying materials. Generally the condition may be controlled, if seen early, by washing the crusts away with warm water and soap, and then applying suitable antiseptic ointment. nan ANOTHER common condition is the so-called seven-year itch, also ca’led Cuban itch and scabies. It is caused by a tiny parasite which burrows into the skin and lays its eggs; At night it comes to the surface of the body when it gets warm under the b-’d clothes and the itching begins. The person who itches rubs and scratches, which tends to spread the condition. An old market woman discovered years ago, or at least reminded her doctor, that sulphur will rid a person of this itch. A hot bath is taken and all the bed clothes and night clothes are changed. Then for four successive nights ointment containing sulphur is used.

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