Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1935 — Page 9
JAN. 14, 1935
It Seems to Me HEYM) BROUN EVEN Before the beginning of the trial at Flemmgton there arose in America a vast army ol feaders racer for annals of crime both past and present. Scores of books have been printed on the art of murder and the minutes of famous trials are scanned more avidly than detective stories. I was n'ner much in tne movement. It became excessive. Scores of whimsical little essays on Lizzie Borden tripped over ea.:h other like passengers at a subway stile. Too many third rate assassins were taken
up as subject matter by first-class writing men. But I do not mean to say that I stood aMrie wholly unmoved by the craze. I. too. have my favorite murder case. The classic school of thought holds to the Hall-M.lls unpleasantness as setting an all-time high But give me any day Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray. Nature, in spite of the axioms, must forever hold the mirror up to fiction and every story writer knows that the quality of recognition is vital in holding the interest of his reader. Now there are many murder ra es of which I’ve read in which I
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wouldn't be found dead. Ruth Snyder and Judd (nay I understood. It is quite possible that I will never live to lift a sash weight in ancer but at least the action was not alien to my comprehension. How could It be? a an Hr Took a Risk THE protagonists in the play fell quite unconsciously into a distorted pattern of .one of the noblest motifs of music drama. And one of the tragedies of the whole affair was the fact that Judd Gray went to his death without ever realizing that he was a sort of tarnished Tristan. •Seldom before has passion been so vulgarized in anv crime and yet Judd Gray was the most ordinary kind of mortal. He was a member of the hundred million in good standing. All that distingui bed him from the Rotanan horde was the lack of the grace of God. Until he met by hapless chance Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray might have been a strong candidate for the title of the average man. He stood midway between Dewey. John, and Dillingcr. Jack. It was the midway role of the little corset salesman which led him to his doom. Always he was crushed between opposing forces which rendered him inert. Like so many of his fellow’ citizens, he w-as ground down bv the necessity of choosing the good woman or the siren. And he knew unconsciously that eithet choice would be fatal in the long run. He was. if you like, wrecked by attempting to steer a course twixt Priscilla and Charybdis. And into the life of each one of us comes the necessity of deciding whether to cling to the rock or risk the whirlpool. Judd Gray took the risk and lost. tt ts a Raying of the Hounds lET no one intimate that I am trying to make a _/ hero of the Kiwanian killer. That would be a feat indeed. No man of slighter color has gone through the green door. But nature in her feeble mutative way is a great dramatist. By the simple device of stripping the episode of all possible glamour and romance a story was produced which gripped the imagination like a phosphorescent wave. In a fictional sense here was the triumph of the commonplace and the mediocre. It represented the very thing which playwrights fumbled for when they first began to outgrow the notion that tragedy was something concerning kings and emperors. Time has swept by and dulled the edge of actuality. but even at this distance it is not my intent to be facetious concerning one who died and two who were executed for it. I ran not help it if backgrounds always interest me more than those things sharply and vigorously painted in the foreground. “Why” should always remain a more important query than “what.” There can never be pity except m so far as the world is ready to look over a man's shoulder and study the road down which he Our customs in crime and trial and punishment do not seem to have been arranged with much thought for the dignity of research for the truth. A system of death and circuses hardly constituted the ideal code. And sometimes what we choose to call “the cry of justice” seems to me little better than the baying of the hounds. And that is why I am not very much interested or enthusiastic about murder trials in general. I hate to run with the pack. (Copyright, 1035 >
Today s Science BY DAY ID DIETZ
MOTHER EARTH has enough room for 5.666.000,000 persons. This estimate of the maximum population which the world can hold is riiade bv Dr. Warren D. Smith, professor of geology and geography at the University of Oregon. Dr. Smith's estimate is conservative compared with that of the eminent European geographer. Prof. Albrecht Penck of the University of Berlin, who believes that the world could hold 7,689,000,000 persons. The present population of the world is 2,024.286.000 people, according to Prof. A. M. Carr-Saunders of Liverpool University. Geographers regard his estimate as probably the most accurate available. Prof. Carr-Saunders believes that the world population is increasing about 20.000.000 a year. The estimates of both are larger than those made bv many biologists in the past, and their point of v w is distinctly optimistic in contrast to the pessimistic views set forth a few years ago in such boo<s a- East's "Mankind at the Crossroads,” Ross' "Standing Room Only.” Pearl’s "Biology of Population Growth,” and Stoddard's "The Rising Tide of Color.” The point of these books in general was that the world had virtually reached the saturation point ■,n population and that further growth would mean overcrowding with a consequent lowering of the standard of living and in many parts of the world an increase in famines and plagues. a a a DR. SMITH sees no need for any such worry, for he does not believe that world population will ever reach the maximum. He believes that the tendency is for populations to become stationary. This, of course, is what has apparently already happened in France. Factors which Dr. Smith thinks will keep the population of the world down include wars, diseases. the natural curbing of the birth rate with the shifting of civilization from an agricultural to an industrial basis, and most important of all, birth control. Five factors, in the opinion of Dr. Smith, have completely changed the complexion of the population problem and invalidated the pessimistic views which formerly were so popular. These are: First, irrigation and improved acrirulture: second, the preservation of food by canning, refrigeration and desiccation; third, transportation of food, as well as human beings, from one p ace to another; fourth, conquest of disease and general improvement m human health; fifth, conquest of disease in crops and animals. a a a TO arrive at his estimate of the maximum world population. Dr Smith follows Dr. Penck's method. This is to divide the world into geographical areas on the basis of climate, pick out a sample area which has a high population and then estimate the possibility of the whole region-on that sample. He begins with the "Tropical Rain Forest.” This region includes one-tenth of the land area of the world, or 5,400.000 square miles. Asa sample of the possibilities of this region both Dr. Penck and Dr. Smith pick the island of Java. On this basis, they estimate that this region alone could hold the entire present population of the world. Dr. Smith puts Its possibilities at 2.000.000.000 parsons, while Dr. Penck would make it 2,800,000,000.
RUSSIA’S ‘STEELY ONE’ LONELY
Stalin, Wedded to Work, Stai'ts 56th Year Minus Trusted Aid
BV MILTON BRONXER NEA service Staff Correspondent LONDON. Jan. 14.—More lonely than ever in his solitary eminence, Soviet Russia's'mighty Stalin observes—but does not celebrate—the start of his 56th year of life. For the same assassin's bullet which recently snuffed out the life of Serge Kyrof, another of the inner ring of the Soviet government, also plunged deep into the soul of Stalin, “the steely one.” It robbed him of one of his closest and most trusted friends and turned to bitter ashes all thoughts of making a:i event of his birthday anniversary. There are few to share it with him. His wife died nearly three years ago. His daughter does not live in Moscow. His 33-year-old son works in southern Russia as an engineer. Even that birthday is somewhat problematical, as befits this strange ruler of men. Some say he was born Dec. 8, 1879, old style (Russian calendar). Others fix it at Dec. 21, 1879. Still others say it was Jan. 2, 1880. So that, with bringing them into accord with our calendar, the dates would be. respectively, Dec. 21, 1879. Jan. 3, 1880, and Jan. 15, 1880. The one thing that is sure is that he is 55. By comparison to Lenin, the Bolshevik demi-god, and to Trotzki, Stalin is largely unknown even at this late day. This is because, unlike Trotzki. he does not wield a facile pen. has not written books in which he is his own little hero and has not in writing and speech attributed to himself all that is startling, dramatic and successful in the Russian revolution.
Stalin started out in life as Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili, born in the little town of Gori, in the Georgian part of the province of Tiflis. His father was an humble peasant worker in a shoe factory at Tiflis. The boy went through the church school in Gori and then entered the Tiflis orthodox Theological college, strangely enough, this school was a hotbed of revolutionary thought, so far as the pupils were concerned and young Joseph was soon in the thick of it, organizing a Marxist circle, spreading illegal literature among the Tiflis factory workers and joining their labor party. He naturally was soon expelled from college. From then on he devoted himself to underground work for the revolution, using various names —David, Koba, Nizheradze. Ivanovich. But the one which pleased him best and which stuck to him was given him by his comrades—- “ Stalin” (the steely one) because of his boldness, resolution and ruthlessness. With the ezarist police and spies on his track, he soon became a veritable in-again, out-again Stalin. Finding Tiflis too hot for him. he went to Batum, where he organized strikes against the oil companies. He was arrested in 1902
I COVER THE WORLD a o a a a a By William Philip Simms
WASHINGTON. Jan. 14.—0n the authority of semi-official sources in the Far East, the writer is informed that Manchukuo is weighing notification to the world that the principle of the Open Door, so far as she is concerned, no longer applies. Manchu officials—unofficially, thus far—are described as taking the position that Manchukuo has nothing to gain by the Open Door principle and much to iose. It binds her to something with whose making she had nothing to do. A free hand would give her greater bargaining power abroad.
These officials hold that Manchukuo, being no longer a part of China, has a right to repudiate the doctrine whenever it suits her purpose. In Washington this development is regarded as of the utmost significance. From the first, it is observed, Manchukuo has been leaning toward monopolies in oil, insurance, banking and other fields, which tended more and more to close the Open Door. The complete closing of it would be no surprise. a a a rjwo a( jd to the uneasiness on A this side of the Pacific, it is recalled that what is now Manchukuo was, until 1931, Manchuria and Jehol— embracing four of the richest provinces of China. What happens there is regarded as a foretaste of what can happen to the rest of China. According to the above sources, Manchukuo originally pledged herself to observe the Open Door doctrine largely as a gesture of friendship to the rest of the world. Then, she was expecting recognition at its hands. Recognition has not come, and diplomacy demands its quid pro quo. If other nations continue to refuse recognition, they need not feel aggrieved if the Open Door is slammed. They certainly can not have it both ways. Such is the Manchu thesis. Japan, it is N admitted, also promised the world that the Open Door would be maintained in Manchukuo. But Manchukuo officials are represented as contending that Japan had no right to make any such announcement. Manchukuo is an independent state, they say. Japan has taken the same attitude. Throughout the negotiations with Soviet Russia for purchase of the Chinese Eastern Railway. Nippon has insisted she has nothing to do with the deal. Though negotiations took place in Tokio. under Japanese guidance, the latter said they were merely offering their good offices. a a a IN the border clashes between Soviet troops and Manchurians under Japanese officers, the Japanese continued to maintain the fiction. If the Russians had grievances to air they should take them up with the Manchus. Lately, in the dispute between Anglo-American oil concerns and Japan over the oil monopoly, Tokio told Washington and London to take their troubles to Manchukuo. Or. if they still believe Manchukuo is part of China, they might take the matter up with Nanking. Thus, if Manchukuo suddenly decides to slam the Open Door shut, and America and other powers complain, there is precedent for Japan to reply smilingly that she has nothing whatever to do with it. Japan is represented as sitting pretty whatever Manchukuo may do. Her nearness to that field, plus other obvious advantages, makes competition from outside virtually impossible, no matter how wide open the door. If it is closed, locked and barred she will be found within the walk
and in 1903 exiled for three years to the Irkutsk province of Siberia. Within a month he escaped and bobbed up in Tiflis. tt n u EVEN then within the Socialist party there was a violent struggle between the Mensheviks, who wanted revolution by semiconstitutional methods, and the Bolsheviks, who wanted to seize power by force. Stalin plumped for Bolshevism and never wavered. In 1905 he went to a Bolshevik conference in Finland and for the first time met Lenin. The year 1907 saw him back in Baku editing Bolshevik papers writing Bolshevik pamphlets. March 1908, he was shipped off to exile in Vologda province. As usual, he escaped and came right back to Baku. In 1910 it was the same story. This time he bobbed up in what was then St. Petersburg, was arrested, exiled and again escaped. There followed the same monotonous story for seven years—arrest, exile, escape. Between arrests he directed the publication of the future great Soviet paper—“ Pravda.” Kerensky's moderate revolution found him back in Petrograd and he played a large part with Lenin and Trotski in organizing the Bolshevik revolution, which took
FHA APPROVAL GIVEN TO THREE CITY BANKS 29 in State Now' Are Eligible Under Mutual Mortgage Program. Three more Indianapolis banks and twelve others throughout the state have been approved as mortgagees under the mutual mortgage insurance program, it has been announced by R. Earl Peters, Federal Housing Administration state di- ■ rector. The three Indianapolis banks are ! the Bankers Trust Cos., Indiana j Trust Cos. and Fletcher Trust Cos. | Thus far a total of six banks in | Indianapolis and 29 in the state have been approved. OLD NATIONAL GUARD TRUCKS GO TO FERA Authority for Transfer Is Received by Adjutant General. War vintage motor trucks which j have been used by the Indiana Na~ ; tional Guard a number of years are to be transferred to the Federal j Emergency Relief Administration. Authority for the transfer has been I received by Adj. Gen. Elmer F. | Straub. About 100 of the old trucks are stored in the guard garage here and others are scattered over the state. The old trucks are being replaced in the guard by 150 new one-and-one-half-ton trucks and 32 new sta- | tion wagons. CLUB NAMES OFFICERS Italian-American Democrats Group Headed by Harry Martinclli. Officers ol the Italian-American Democratic Club have been reelected, it was announced todß3\ The officials are Harry Martinelli, president; Sam Velona, vice president; Frank De Juiio. treasurer; Tony Zappia, recording secretary; Rocco Palomara. financial secretary, and Tony Maio. sergeant-at-arms. Frank L. Martino is chairman of the directors’ board. REVEALS BUTLER GIFT $9700 Contributed by Elias J. Jacoby, University Announces. Various gifts in the last ten years j totaling $9700, have been received ; by Butler University from Elias J. I Jacoby, it has been revealed by 1 John W. Atherton, university finani cial secretary. | The gifts of Mr. Jacoby, who is Railroadmen's Building and Loan Association vice president, have been placed in several of the uniI versity's funds, but never before had been made public. — PHYSICIANS WILL MEET Socialized Medicine to Be Topic at Session in Athenaeum. The possiblity of socialized medicine will be discussed by Dr. R. L. Sensenich. South Bend, before the Indianapolis Medical Society at 8:15 tomorrow night in the Athenaeum. Dr. Carl H. McCaskey will preside*
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Russia out of the World War and to a humiliating peace with Germany. In 1917 he got the position which was the foundation of his future in the Bolshevik central committee. He was also in succession Commisar for Nationalities and for Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection. an tt WHAT is not so generally known is Stalin’s incessant work at all the war fronts when the Soviet government was struggling against various White armies, financed by the Allies and
MILITARY EQUIPMENT DISPLAY IS ARRANGED Veterans’ Unit Prepares Frogram for Celebration April 6. Asa part of the observance of Army Day, April 6, new type equipment being used by regular Army units stationed at Ft. Benjamin Harrison will be displayed on the World War Memorial Plaza. The display has been arranged by Hoosier chapter. Military Order of World War, which is sponsoring observance of the day. Frank E. Henley is chapter commander and Harry R. Hall is adjutant. In connection with the display, music will be provided by the 11th Infantry band. MODEL PLANE CLUB’S OFFICERS ARE NAMED F. Harold Smith Chosen President of Em-Roe Group. New officers of the Em-Roe Model Airplane Club were announced today by President F. Harold Smith. They include: Rollin Millar, vice president; Jimmy Hoggatt. secretary; Ben Reynolds, treasurer; Cecil Flynn, Joe Hancock, James Pulley, Burnie Weddle and Robert Clapp, directors. The club is arranging a flying scale models contest for next month. LILLY TO GIVE TALK ON STEPHEN FOSTER Special Program to Be Presented at Central Library Hall. Josiah K. Lilly, noted authority on Stephen Foster, will deliver an address on the composer at a special Foster program at 8 tomorrow night in Cropsey hall, Central Library. The library Foster exhibit, including manuscripts and illustrative pictures, will be continued until Sunday.
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other interested parties. At times it looked as if the Bolsheviks would collapse before these various onslaughters. Usually, when things were at their darkest, Lenin would send Stalin forward as his special agent. He knew him to be brave, honest and ruthless. Stalin never blenched when he deemed it necessary to have cowardly or treacherous leaders shot. He realized the necessity of food and warm clothing for the soldiers and managed to supply them. Not trained as a soldier, he showed a quick grasp of military strategy. In those trouble years he was in
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. —There has been a lot of speculation as to why Secretary Harold Lckes, branded as a fighter for the people, should be in the weird position of gunning for Robert Moses, New York park commissioner, also branded as a fighter for the people. The inside, though carefully guarded, fact is that lckes is merely acting as “trigger man.” It was he who issued the order, in effect, that
Mayor La Guardia could get no more PWA money for New York’s Triborough Bridge or for other public works projects until Park Commissioner Bob Moses was removed. Actually, the order came from the White House. For although the President usually is the friendliest person in the world, he happens to be nursing a vendetta against Bob Moses which not only is vitriolic but of long standing. a a a THERE was a day when Roose velt, then Governor of New York, appointed Moses on a commission to investigate the failure of the City Trust Cos. This was on the recommendation of Herbert Lehman. Moses did a bangup job and secured the conviction of Frank Warder, head of the New York Bank Department. Also, he reported that the Bank of United States was in a bad way, recommended that something be done about it. Roosevelt indicated that he w’ould appoint Moses on anew legislative commission to clean up the entire banking situation. But about that time the Roosevelt feud with A1 Smith reached a climax. Moses sided with Al, had been one of his closest advisers. Bob is a sort of bull in a china-shop, fearless, uncontrollable, irreverent regarding whose toes he steps on. Roosevelt didn’t like him and apparently could not forgive him. So the appointment never came.
-Th e DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen —
By George Clark
turn at Tsaritsyn in southern Russia where the Whites were threatening the Ukraine granary in the west and the in the south; at Perm in the Ural mountain ranges, and, finally, at the most threatening place of all, the line between Orel and Tula which endangered Moscow itself. In each case he helped his cause to victory. With some measure of peace now granted the Soviets, Trotzki and Stalin fought for Lenin's first favors. Trotzki got the job of creating a formidable Red army which was supposed to idolize him. Stalin got the seemingly lesser job of secretary of the Bolshevik central committee. Lenin’s death in 1924 brought the rivalry to a climax. Stalin won. ( a a a A S secretary, he had control of -*■ the party machinery. There were those who thought he would not dare oust Trotzki, and, if he dared, that the Red Army would make trouble. There was hardly a ripple. The victor divested the vanquished of his offices, his party standing. Then he exiled him to a distant part of Russia and finally booted him out of the country entirely. The men’s opposition was fundamental. Trotzki wanted to work for revo'ution in all the countries of the world. Stalin wanted to stabilize and organize the revolution of his own country first. Out of this grew his huge fiveyear plan to develop great industries in Russia and his second plan for collective running of the farms. He wiped out the kulaks, as the richer peasants were called. Today, with all power in his hands, Stalin is rarely seen in public except when he review’s a parade of the Red Army. Dressed like the simplest worker, he is wedded to his work. In a plain bare room in the Kremlin he labors all day over state papers. When he is through, he goes in an automobile to his plain little home in the Korki suburb of Moscow’. lie has lived to see his government recognized by all the great powers of the world and to see Russia admitted to the League of Nations. Trotzki's policy of seeking to stir up Bolshevik revolutions in other countries would have kept Russia a parish.
Henry Poliak was appointed instead —and later indicted. The program Moses outlined was not carried out. As he predicted, the Bank of United States crashed. Still the vendetta continues. La Guardia will get no more PWA money until Moses is removed as park commissioner. And the irony of it is that Bob Moses found Al Smith lined up against him, supporting Roosevelt’s candidate, Governor Lehman, in the last New York campaign. ana BECAUSE they can eat for ten minutes longer than other Federal workers, employes of the Government Printing Office are extremely grateful to Mrs. Roosevelt. It happened through a mistake. The First Lady, due to dedicate the Mother’s Day stamp at the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, got her buildings mixed and showed up instead at the Government printing Office. It was 11:30. The first shift were pouring out for lunch. Mrs. Roosevelt got into the tide, was buffeted and almost knocked over. She asked a girl why they were hurrying. "We’ve got to be be „k in half an hour and the cafeteria’s crowded.” Later, Mrs. Roosevelt talked the matter over with George H. Carter, then public printer. Shortly, an announcement was circulated giving all workers 40 instead of 30 minutes for lunch. i Copyright. 1935. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) THIRD ANNUAL PEACE CONTEST IS ARRANGED Four District Winners to Compete Here Friday Night. The four district winners in the third annual peace declamation contest of the Church Federation of Indianapolis will meet at 8 Friday night at the Third Christian Church for final competition. The district winners are Roland Boughton, First Baptist Church; John Donahue, Fletcher Place Methodist Episcopal Church; Misss Jane Ann Greenlee, Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, and Robert Matthews, Grace Church of the Brethren,
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Rotary Club, luncheon, Claypool. Gyro Club, luncheon, Spink-Arms. Architectural Club, luncheon, Architects and Builders Building. Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Universal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Smoke Abatement League, luncheon, Washington. Purchasing Agents Association, luncheon, Washington. Indiana Optometrists, convention. Severin. Christian Ministers Association, convention. Third Christian Church. Indiana Lumber and Builders Supply Association, convention, Claypool. Stone, Gravel and Slag Industries, luncheon. Claypool. Indiana States Highway Bridge Letting. 9:30 a. m., Claypool. Marion County Council of Republican Women, 2 p. m., Claypool.
Fair Enough HH MB W 7ASHINGTON, Jan. 14—The good Mahatma W Townsend of Los Angeles. Cal., the latest of the bleeding hearts to invade Washington in a sincere and pathetic effort to wish the world to rights, calls his old-age pension plan the OARP. This word is composed of the initial letters of the official title which is old-age revolving pensions. As Dr. Townsend, himself, explains the scheme, however, it becomes apparent that the title does not begin to cover the case.
Dodoism would be more appropriate. for the new mahatma further reveals that when the plan has been accomplished and every citizen, not a habitual criminal, over 60 years of age, is receiving S2OO a month from the Government, the old people are to become citizens emeritus and a great American senate. “They will supervise the politics, education and morals of our country.” Dr. Townsend says. “All good things have come from the leisure classes who have security and time for thinking and these old people w’ill be set aside in leisure and security. They are the social engi-
neers to whom I am looking. They will have the time and composure to think. tt tt tt Wants Social Engineering "T TP to now. we have devoted all our facilities and U talents to engineering in material things and have neglected almost utterly social engineering. The result is appalling, particularly in Arkansas, Louisiana. Mississippi and parts of Texas where we have been breeding a race of physical, mental and spiritual runts. We have bred the manhood out of them and they go on breeding their own kind and getting worse. I know they go to church and think they are spiritual, but the yelling of hymns in a sagging church house by a sw’amp does not express the sort of spirituality that I mean.” Your correspondent suggested that there were some poor whites along the swamp coast of Georgia, too. who looked as though they might be beginning to grow tails again /ind he said yes, that he had heard so. himself. Moreover, he had been told by a reliable observer that right in the city of New Orleans there were many people, principally Negroes, but some w’hites, too, living in conditions of filth, raising children, in shacks made of old tin cans, on dirt floors, as dreadful as any primitive habitations in Russia. At a mention of the vaunted American standard of living, he laughed coldly. He did not think much of the American standard of living. But to accomplish his great feat of social °ngineering he w’ould look to the advice and super ision of a class of people ranging in years from 60 „o 100 or more, constituting a super-state. The mahatma, 68 years old. himself, and full of experience as a country doctor, is at the height of his professional development or certainly not far* over the hill. o a Expert Opinions — l*hooey HOWEVER, his judgment at 68 is such that with no learning or experience in the field of economics he abandons the work he know’s best and comes into Washington acclaimed by 25.000.000 adherents no better informed than himself, to propound an idea which economists agree upon as the " goofiest notion of them all. He scoffs away the opinions of the experts because they follow experience and precedent, whereas he points out that nothing like the Townsend plan has ever been tried before, although the ailment which it is prescribed for is very familiar. In his own profession, his judgment presumably is sound enough. He would be quick to protest if a butcher walked into a sick-room proposing to cure pneumonia with a meat axe even though the butcher insisted that this W’as anew plan and therefore outside the rule of precedent. The good mahatma pays no heed to the fact that the present mess which he deplores so feelingly was accomplished largely under the guidance and supervision of magnates and politicians w’ithin the age . brackets of those sages whom he would now elevate to authority. Taking dodoism. itself, as an example of the guidance tb be expected from the leader of the: dodo senate, and considering the size of his following, the statesmen in the national capital are beginning to view the Townsend plan with less amusement and some alarm. “We will elect our own President and Congress next time if we don’t get what we want from this one,” the bleeding heart announces. If 99 ignorant mistaken people vote against the judgment of one intelligent man who is right that makes their judgment right by a landslide. It is an age to live in, anyway. (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-
MUCH more serious than the ordinary acute inflammation of a joint are those forms in which infection persists over a long period and may be associated with changes in the blood and in the tissues of a more permanent and damaging character. Scientifically, the chronic forms of joint inflammation are classified according to their causes and to the changes that take place in the tissues. Doctors recognize many possible causes, including changes in the glandular mechanism of the body, errors of diet, poisoning by alcohol, tobacco, or lead, disturbances of the circulation of the blood, changes in the nervous system, and deformities like knockknees, bowlegs and poor posture. Furthermore, there are forms of sensitivity to various substances in which reactions occur in the joints. a a a MOREOVER, there may be inflammation of a joint following a sudden straining or twisting or a blow on a joint such as may occur during athletic sports. Most inflammation of the joints appear in persons past 40, but. of course, young persons are also occasionally affected. Interestingly enough, persons who live in hot climates suffer much less from arthritis than do those in the temperate zone. Symptoms of chronic inflammation of a joint are much like those of the acute types. There may be pain, stiffness, swelling, limitation of motion, fatigue on action, and sometimes deformity. Another exceedingly interesting symptom is the rustling sound or cracking which is likely to be heard in an inflamed joint. This sound is like that of two pieces of leather being rubbed together or like the crackling associated with the crushing of some stiff paper. a a a PERSONS with arthritis feel the stiffness of their joints when they get up in the morning—the reason being that the tissues have had a chance to become set during the long continued quiet. When the condition becomes worse, the stiffness may appear even when the patient rests for just a moment during the day. The afflicted persons finds that he has difficulty in getting up after he has been sitting down a while, and that after bending down he is forced to get up slowly. The explanation of this is, of course, that the tissues shorten during the relaxation and that sudden attempts to lengthen them are accompanied by certain discomforts. If the person remains long ill in bed as a result of a considerable amount of pain, movements on getting up is even more difficult.
Questions and Answers
Q —Who composed the opera "La Tosca?” A—Puccini. Q—What is the address of the Prince of Wales? A— St. James Palace, London. q—is the honey locust the same as the thorn tree? A—Yes.
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