Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 231, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 February 1935 — Page 11

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It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN 'T'HE firs', fruit of the magnificent isolation decreed -I by an effective minority in the United States Senate is the proposal by Senator Borah that he and his buddies set themselves up as an international tribunal to pass upon the conduct of Mexico. Viet ry scored for freedom from en- . 8 •• ' iry Hull s success in insulting a friendly power and disentangling ourselves from maybe a billion dollars worth of business. An Americ. n is as good as a hundred foreigners

any day in the week and a member of the United States Senate could lick 'em both. Brussels sprouts are to be called immediately Borah bullets and never ask for French dressing in any restaurant. They owe us money and so the garnish hereafter is to be known as patriots as Sally Rand sauce. Possibly I exaggerate that extent to which the back-to-the-Jgloo policy has already taken root in this country. Maybe it was merely a coincidence. But I did watch a performance of ‘ Madame Butterfly" at !he Metropolitan Opera House on Saturday which was quite in the

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spirit of the new nationalism. All suggestion of Japan was thrown into the alley. Cio-Cio-San was almost ;x feet tall and built in admirable proportion. When first she began to be flirtatioi with her fan, Connie inquired justifiably. “What's ' *■: her?” and I could not give a reasonable answer. a a a My, My Little Man TOWARD the limitations and necessities grand opera I am prepared to be indulgent. Bu something of illusion files out of the window wl.. i the Pinkerton comes only up to Butterfly's broad shoulXj my uncultured way I have always maintained that the love duet which Puccini wrote for the end of the first act is as sweet a set of notes as a composer ever gathered together. The last high note was. achieved and then abated. Pinkerton began playfully to pu. h his little pseudobride into their love nest. It was a decorous audience and no one laughed or suggested that he phone for a wrecking crew. But it is impossible to keep the mind from straying far afield when once the edge of illusion has been dulled. The program most distinctly said “A Japanese house, terrace and garden in Nagasaki.” Through some adjustment in the new electrical switchboard large fireflies were exploding all over the landscape. The violins might well have sent desirable shivers up and down the spine of even this hardened playgoer. None came. Instead I kept thinking. “If he gets rough with that particular butterfly she'll knock him loose from his epaulets.” Nor did I anticipate pleasurable the harrowing tragic circumstances still to come. So shy and frail a Pinkerton could hardly be expected to desert butterfly in any effective sense of the word. The best he could do would be to run for his life. Indeed Connie, who possibly had been insufficiently instructed in the nature of the story, remarked as Cio-Cio-San elbowed her man around a garden in Nagasaki, “If he don't get away right now she's going to get the good of him.” a a a Perhaps He's to lilame * SOME of the things I blame v.pon the Metropolitan may be more largely my own fault. I am less than the ideal narrator. When Butterfly suddenly produced fair sized midget toe dancer in a blond wig during the course of the second act the lady I took to the opera exclaimed in genuine surprise. "How did that happen?” I wasn't certain whether she wanted me to explain to her the piot of just the facts of life. For all its Italian music and foreign setting, "Madame Butterfly” still stems back to John Luther Lona and David Belasco, and sq William Randolph Hearst should allow it to remain our native reportoire in spite of the exclusion act. Puccini was generous in his excerpts from the star banner and before butterfly dies she places the ring in the hands of the child. At least that’s the way it Used to be done. Geraldine Farrar always played it with the child blindfold’d ard holding up the little American flag as the curtain fell This butterfly handed the national emblem to her offsprings surreptitiously close to the exit and then shoved the 'hild off stage. Possibly under the new dispensation of local price and patriotism it will turn out that Pinkerton wasn't an American naval officer at all. It may be that the story suggests red propaganda and that no man in the American uniform could thus betray poor Dutterflv And I will agree that in Saturday’s version it seemed most unlikely that the Pinkerton could have done any such a thing. At least not without getting his block knocked off. iCopvriKht. 1935)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIET/

THE day will come when it will not be possible for an aviator to chart his course toward a city by noting the dense pall of smoke, dust, and fumes hanging over it. The disfiguring, light-obstructing umbrellas of smoke which have characterized American cues until now soon will begin to disappear from progressive communities. This is the opinion of H. B. Meller, head of the air pollution investigation of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research of Pittsburgh. Mr. Meller believes that the period marked by careless disregard of the penalties that smoke imposes on human health, comfort and happiness is coming to an end. "Science can not longer hold a brief of expediency or unlimited tolerance for uncontrolled air pollution.” Mr. Meller says. "Research and engineering have provided the processed fuels, the fuel-burn-ing and other equipment with which city life can be pursued in comfortably clean and hygienically safe air. a a a AT our command today. Mr. Meller says, are improved boilers and furnaces that will burn high volatile coal practically smokelessly; smokeless fuels for others types of boilers and furnaces; automatic stokers ,o feed the fuel regularly and to burn it effici^ntlj; electrical precipitators, mechanical separators, and smoke and gas washers to insure clean stack gases. With regard to smoke control. Mr. Meller believes that American cities now ■stand where they did 30 years ago with regard to the purification of water supplies. He look' for a vigorous movement throughout the nation for smoke abatement just as a few years ago there was one for water purification. ana \ MUNICIPAL movement for smoke abatement \ must enlist the support of manv groups. Mr. Meller says. Medical men. chemists, engineers, architects, business men. and others must all make their voices heard. "Especially must the interest of the woman in the home be enthusiastically enlisted." he says. "The furnace in the private home is today's largest single contributor to the urban total of smoke during the late fall, winter and early spring.” No family escapes the smeke tax in a city whose atmosphere is so polluted. There has been no recent estimate of costs in various cities except in the case of Chicago. There, a 1933-34 survey found the smoke tax to be S3O 000.000 a year.

I Questions and Answers

Q—Where is the boundary line between Ohio and West Virginia located? A—The Ohio boundary does not extend to the middle of the Ohio river as is the general rule when a river forms a boundary between states, but is on ’he north bank. By the terms of an old colonial treaty. Virginia had jurisdiction to the north bank of the Ohio river, and this still remains the boundary line. ,

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bride ever had more weddings, nor more climatic meeting with her bride groom, than had Marie Louise of Austria when she became Napoieon’s empress. It is March 13, 1810, in Vienna. There is a procession of 83 carriages. They carry Marie Louise and 300 personages. All Vienna is at the sidewalks, cheering their archduchess as she leaves to be the bride of a man all Austrians hated at heart. All through the countryside in . the long journey to Branau, at the Austrian border, are more cheering throngs. Four days before she left Vienna Marie Louise had been wed, by proxy. Her uncle, the Archduke Charles, had stood for Napoleon as bridegroom, the Archduke Charles who, less than a year before, had bitterly fought Napoleon at Aspern. Now she is off to France to meet the Great Conqueror. At Branau there is an elaborate carriage, the gift of the man she never has seen. And there is his sister, the beautiful and domineering Caroline Murat. Now on through Bavaria to Munich, Augsburg, Stuttgart and Strassburg. More crowds, more cheering, more gifts. And there are letters from Napoleon, brought by fleet horsemen, letters that will be revealed for the first time soon in The Indianapolis Times. There are moments ol sadness, too. as when Caroline Murat sent back to Austria Marie Louise's closest friend, Frau Lazansky, and when Caroline sent back to Austria Marie Louise's lap dog. (Napoleon once had been bitten by Josephine's lap dog.) a a a BUT Napoieons letters are a help. She writes to her father: “I am relieved concerning my fate. I am convinced that 1 shall oe happy. I wish you could read the letters Napoleon has written me, and he has already shown me so much attention.” For, at nearly every stopping place on the long journey are gifts, letters, flowers from Napoleon. The last of the journey brings a rcmantic climax. Napoleon had been waiting three days at Compiegne, where a liehly decorated tent had been set up for an elaborate ceremony. But word comes to Napoleon the caravan is in Rheims. He will wait no longer. He will intercept Marie Louise and surprise her. He will be a messenger with a letter from Napoleon. It is raining w T hen he steps to Marie Louise's carriage. A lackey spoils his surprise by bawling, “His majesty, the emperor.’ The precipitate Napoleon takes Marie Louise in his arms and kisses her. She says, "Sire, your picture does not flatter you.” Napoleon directs all speed in getting to Compiegne. There is no stop at the elaborate tent, where great preparations had been made. It is 10 o'clock at night when the emperor and Marie Louise reach the chateau. There are more gifts—Marie Louise's lap dog and canary, and a piece of needlework she'd left behind In Vienna, many jewels and a marvelous piano. There is dinner for throe, with Caroline Murat as the third. Then Caroline retires.' And nothing is heard from Napoleon and Marie Louise until next day. That day Napoleon writes to Marie Louise's father: “Please allow me to thank you for the beautiful present you have sent me, and may your fatherly heart rest assured of the happiness of his dear daughter.” But the Austrian dignitaries who came out from Paris for the expected elaborate tent ceremony are horrified when they learn Napoleon has anticipated the wedding ceremonies.

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S . Alle

WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—The Senate's emphatic veto of the World Court has thrown something of a spike into State Department plans for a revival of disarmament attempts. . . . Actually, American participation in the Court would have no effect upon disarmament. It was the psychology of the move which was considered important. . . . Premier Flandin and Foreign Minister Laval of France postponed their trip to London until after the Senate vote was taken.

They planned to discuss with the British anew attempt to get Germany back into the League, were hoping that Roosevelt was moving back into participation in international affairs. Now they know they will get a little help from Washington. . . . When Thomas Schall blind Senator from Minnesota, disparagingly brought Mrs. Roosevelt’s name into the World Court debate, he was boded down by Republicans and Democrats alike. a a a THE door to the office of Senator Huey Long is locked these days. It bears a notice reading. "We are sorry, but until we dispose of an extremely heavy mail we are open to visitors from 1 p. m. to 2 p. m.” During a single week recently Huey received 64.862 pieces of mail. He has an office staff of 21 persons, or 16 over the five allowed a Senator during session. Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas said of Long, on the Senate floor. “What does the Senator from Louisiana know regarding the true spirit of religion?” . . . Ou the same day a Dallas iTexJ*i

♦ * Marie Louise and Napoleon’s infant heir, the King of Home. *" * the King of Rome. And Marie And then—the moment. Th ► *" Louise writes to her father that doctorsslaptheinfantgently.pl f *> her only thought is f a son. a drop of brandy on its lip: U \ mmOtf m Now it is March iff, 1811, A There is life. Nupoelon's .ting r '* mHHPi * S W party has been arranged to honor Rome is born. ||||P' s ■ li the Grand Duke of Wurzburg, The man who has been actin ■*.**-•, +*■>~ | Marie Louise’s uncle, arrived to be just as other men act in the sam *!||kgf 'X ‘ (1 present at the birth. The party is situation, rushed to the roor Josephine, Divorced by Napoleon. ... • . gjj turned into 12 hours of waiting, where the notables arc waiting. fplk W Mm in w hi c h Napoleon took charge “One hundred and one cannoi THERE are three days at Com- UmL ' ~ J9B much as he would among his shots” is his news. piegne, then a magnificient .. J 0 armies. For more than 12 hours, througl eception at St. Cloud and the. > ; jf , He orders doctors about. He the night, Paris had heard Notr :ivil wedding. And the tremen- * HH . anrt rt „, - . T . . Dame's bells. Now it heard th ious crowds of Paris, as perhaps ” „ l||i out “ e , Loui£ f s cannon—2o, 21, 22—23. Paris goc he most pompous wedding parade J 0 of pam ' For 12 hours he wi ] d :.ver held passes through the tern- \ £ olds £ er , ha “ ds a ” d talks with T h e crowds swecp on the Tuiler Dorarily completed Arc De Trl- V if h ® r : He beiates the doctors .or ies> Guards kcep them fron >mphe and the Place De La Con- 1 their lack of sklll - Worn, <even- breaking through the gates int( :orde, where, only 17 years before -■. 1 “ally he goes to a bath. One of the pa i ace . Napoleon stands at i his bride’s great aunt, Marie An- j * j the doctors comes to him there. wln dow, tears in his eyes. Hi oinette, had placed her head on * J Louise is in dire hanger amb ition has carried him to a ne\ he guillotine block. J Shall instruments be used. It zenith. Marie Louise has give) . .. • ••• •> ** i mav be the mother’s life nr the *

Josephine, Divorced by Napoleon. THERE are three days at Compiegne, then a magnificient reception at St. Cloud and the civil wedding. And the tremendous crowds of Paris, as perhaps the most pompous wedding parade e.ver held passes through the temporarily completed Arc De Trlomphe and the Place De La Concorde, where, only 17 years before this bride’s great aunt, Marie Antoinette, had placed her head on the guillotine block. On to the Tuileries and the ecclesiastical ceremony. Three magnificent wedding ceremonies—and Compiegne. Surely Marie Louise and Napoleon are man and wife. And now Napoleon and Mane Louise have their wedding trip, with her mentors, Metternich and Schwarzenberg, as guests. And such a wedding trip. Its splendor astonishes the people of Holland and the low countries. It serves another purpose, to show these* people the master of Europe has a new strong ally in Austria. England will notice. The Dutch will be held in line to enforce the embargoes against Britain. The news will get to Russia. Back to Pars, and more fetes. Schwarzenberg’s embassy becomes the social center, and for the balls and parties he builds a huge wooden pavilion. During the height of revelry, fire breaks out in it;- quickly consumes it. The emperor leads Marie Louise to safety and returns to help others. Schwarzenberg’s wife is killed, as are several others. The mourning period ends the honeymoon. Marie Louise is not particularly popular with the French people in her first three months among them. They find her haughty and easily embarrassed. She has no friends other than her immediate attendants. But Napoleon spends day and night in her company and she grows to depend upon him. Napoleon has completely changed. There are no longer secret rooms of mistresses in the Tuileries. Napoleon no longer goes to the hunt. He even neglects obvious duties. And Marie Louise writes to her dear papa: “I am happier than you ever thought I could be. My husband shows complete love and confi-

newspaper sent a query to Senator Long's office regarding his religious affiliations. The answer was: "The Senator is a Baptist, and a member of the First Baptist Church of Shreveport.” a a a THE President is paying for his failure to assert his leadership in the selection of the • Speaker of the House. Because of the reactionary complexion of the Ways and Means Committed, he suggested to Speaker Joe Byms that the social security bill be handled by a specially selected committee. But the Old Guarder disregarded the President's request and sent the bill to the hostile Ways and Means group. . . . While the Senate was vetoing adherence to the World Court, confidential information was reaching the Treasury that American banks were quietly disposing of their stock in the Bank of international Settlements. The inside word in financial circles is that in the last few weeks several thousand shares of B. I. S. stock held by American banks were sold abroad. i Copyright, 1935. by Untied Feature Syatheate. loaj

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Countess Walewski—She, too, gave Napoleon a son. dence In me. I assure you that much which has been said of Napoleon is not true.” Napoleon obviously' is in love. (The 318 letters soon to be published may reveal Low deeply.) a a a AND now Paris and all the empire come to love Marie Louise. Because, in July, Napoleon announces to the world that Marie Louise is to be the mother of his child. It shall be a son the King of Rome. The title and honors already are determined upon. Marie Louise, a scant three months after Compiegne, has written to her father that she is ‘in good hope.” And now Napoleon turns away from virtually all matters of state. Holland has been annexed, but is not appeased. The Wellington campaign of Britain in Spain is gaining ground. But what are these?—Napoleon is to have his son! The best doctors of the empire are brought to Paris. Napoleon commissions the greatest French architect to design a great palace for the King of Rome, who shall perpetuate Napoleon I, conqueror of Europe, savior of France, builder of empire, demigod of his soldiers. The prelates are told to prepare for 40 hours of prayer for Marie Louise and the son-to-be. The public told to await the boom of guns at the Invalides—2l cannon shots if a princess, 101 if

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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the King of Rome. And Marie Louise writes to her father that her only thought is of a son. Now it is March Iff, 1811. A party has been arranged to honor the Grand Duke of Wurzburg, Marie Louise’s uncle, arrived to be present at the birth. The party is turned into 12 hours of waiting, in which Napoleon took charge much as he would among his armies. He orders doctors about. He is in and out of Marie Louise's room of pain. For 12 hours he holds her hands and talks with her. He berates the doctors for their lack of skill. Worn, eventually he goes to a bath. One of the doctors comes to him there. Marie Louise is in dire danger. Shall instruments be used? It may be the mother’s life or the infant’s. Which? “Save the life of the mother,” is Napoleon’s decision. “Do what you would if you were attending the wife of a tradesman of Rue St. Denis.” a a a NAPOLEON returns to Marie Louise’s room, hears her cry, “Because I am an empress, I am to be sacrificed.” He can stand only a little more. He staggers from the room. The remaining hours he spends in an adjacent room, annoying the surgeons and nurses by frequent messages of inquiry, orders, pleadings.

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

TI WASHINGTON, Feb. s.—The silver policy of the United States ▼ T is threatening the stability of China and driving that country into the arms of Nippon. China’s monetary system, based on silver, is tottering chiefly because of the demands for the white metal in this country. The financial and business institutions of China, unable to find enough ready cash—which, for them, means silver—stand face to face

with bankruptcy. Commodity prices are falling as silver mounts. Farmers, the backbone of China’s domestic prosperity, are on the verge of ruin. Unemployment is growing. The depression which struck America five years ago has now hit China. a a a MEANTIME the government at Nanking is beset by

And then—the moment. The doctors slap the infant gently, put a drop of brandy on its lips. There is life. Napoelon’s iing of Rome is born. The man who has been acting just as other men act in the same situation, rushed to the room where the notables are waiting. “One hundred and one cannon shots” is his news. For more than 12 hours, through the night, Paris had heard Notre Dame’s bells. Now it heard the cannon—2o, 21, 22—23. Paris goes wild. The crowds sweep on the Tuileries. Guards keep them from breaking through the gates into the palace. Napoleon stands at a window, tears in his eyes. His ambition has carried him to anew zenith. Marie Louise has given him a Caesar. Within a day the news sweeps over Europe. The semaphore telegraph and the heliograph, reflecting the sun's rays, carry the glad news to the large centers. Special messengers take it on. Balloons give the signal to outlying districts. Rome and Vienna and Prague, and the other great centers hold public demonstrations. Little notice is taken of the event in London and St. Petersburg. Napoleon soon was to wish those capitals had exulted, too. TOMORROW: Tragic years and sad partings.

plagues beside which Egypt’s historic seven visitations were mild annoyances. Pirates ply China’s rivers and coasts, capturing ships and plundering cargoes. Bandits infest the interior. So-called Communists have entire provinces in their grasp. Not more than a quarter of China is even remotely under Nanking's control. Floods, famines and pestilences scourge the country in unending succession. To fight these ills requires money. China must build ‘roads train and equip armies. She must reconstruct almost eyery department of government* and rebuild the country along piodern lines. Yet, just as she needs finances most, silver leaves the country or goes into hiding, and the depression gets a stranglehold on her economy, a a a r T' v HAT the United States will change its silver policy to help China is unlikely. ‘’We do not wish to injure any friendly nation,” said Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, sponsor of this country’s silver program, “but our primary responsibility is to our own people.” That Europe will go to China’s rescue is scarcely more probable. Europe has troubles of her own just now, with no letup in sight. Only Japan manifests more than a platonic interest in the plight of old Cathay. And she does not seem to be in a hurry. She has made it clear to Nanking, however, that if China will cut loose from the Western powers and put herself entirely in the hands of her one real friend, Nippon, help will be forthcoming. Japan is ready to aid financially and militarily—for a consideration. Reduced to its simplest terms, the consideration is to permit Japan to exercise a sort of protectorate over virtually the whole country. Nanking cables indicate that China is i.ot willing to pay the price. Nippon, however, can wait. Conditions within China are not improving. Unless outside help comes soon from some direction, China may find herself grasping .at straws. Close at hand, Japan -will be waiting.

Fair Enough HWEGLHt XTEW YORK, Feb. s.—There is new agitation in the land for the abolition of prize fight commissions as a means of saving the grand old prize fight industry which, as everybody knows, is intended to inculcate the ideals of self-reliance, fairplay and chivalry in the young in association with slot-machine magnates, triggers, razors and sportsmen in allied lines. Unfortunately, your correspondent finds two objections to the movement. One is that the prize fight commission is one of

the few jokes left in the world, doing no harm and providing much innocent entertainment for young and old. The other is that the various commissions seem to be governing the grand old art to death, a consummation which would save some lives and avert much suffering. To any one who was intimately acquainted with the combat personnel of the prize fight industry 10 or 15 years ago, the present condition of many washed-up pugilists presents a terrible contrast. Young, athletic and fairly intelligent then, a large proportion of

them, including some who won championships, by now are not only old men long before their time, but shattered physically and fuzzy in the head. That most of them are broke, too, is not pertinent to the case, however sad the fact, because most of the paper-profit millionaires who used to patronize the ringside and fancy themselves to be modern successors of the dissolute sporting dukes of England depicted in the old prints, are busted, too. nan They Were All Bewildered LIKE the paper-profit millionaires, the young pugilists never figured, to be worth that much money and the one class was no more bewildered than the other when it all happened. The pugilists would have com'' ui broke along with every one else whether they were 1 ghters. brokers, merchants, promoters or hard-wor ing employes, so the only difference in their case is that so many of them are so far gone mentally and physically that they could not hold working jobs even if they could find working jobs, and never will be any good to themselves or any one else as long as they live. Nobody ever made merry with more enthusiasm over the efforts of the gladiators, the amusing larceny of their managers and the fantastic humor of the training camps than your correspondent in the days when these young men were be ng beaten out of their minds. The cruelty of the humor was not apparent then, however, because the damage was gradual and the victims, when they did go blind or go to pieces, seemed to wander away and hide. New fighters were coming up constantly and the brisk, stylish, ambitious replacements distracted attention from those who had dropped out. The humor of the prize fight business is as grim as the humor of the police station, so it was with a jolly wit that the trade, including the prize .fight journalists, referred to such a dreadful calamity as paralysis as the staggers, the stumbles and fighters’ dance and the impairment of thought and speech as the mumbles. The shattered victim would come to be knowm as Punchy Smith or staggering Bob Jones. tt tt tt Schaaf’s Death Was Blow STILL, paralysis due to hemorrhage of the brain caused by constant punching on the skull is a common ailment in fighters with any length of service in the ring and the progress of the damage is so stealthy that many a kid has been heard to vow that he would be smart enough to quit before lie became punch-drunk who was suffering from incipient fighters’ dance even then. It was the death of Ernie Schaaf of Boston after a fight with Primo Camera which convinced your correspondent that, however insincere they may have been, the old-time reformers were right, if only by accident, when they denounced prize fighting for its brutality. Schaaf was a virtuous young man, intelligent though rather dull personally, with a body which had been used as the model for the statue on the trophy of the heavyweight championship, w;hich, in recent years, has been moved from pillar to post in the lobby of Madison Square Garden. When he went down under an unimportant jab to the mouth, of itself insufficient to have caused his collapse, the peculiar business arrangements at? tending the fight prompted those present to suspect him of faking. He died a few days later of a hemorrhage of the brain suffered in a previous bout, probably the recent one with Max Baer in which he was knocked unconscious in the 10th round to remain so for four hours. There is no money in prize fighting any more so the present and future crops of fighters can hardly complain that they were denied their chance if the business should dwindle to nothing. Therefore the prize fight commissions should not be abolished but retained in all their clownish pomp and authority to govern the game to death as quickly as possible. (Copyright, 1935, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

PERSONS on relief are getting a better selection of the right kinds of food for their health than are many of us who are free to make up their own diets. The baskets of food distributed to the poor each month generally contain not only the essential food requirements in the way of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, mineral salts and vitamins, bin they also meet the varying appetites of 'he different races or groups of persons. Yet a study of food consumed in restaurants shows that persons buy less of meat, potatoes and heavy foods, and more of desserts. Not only do persons on relief get a more wholesome selection of food, but they get it according to their tastes. Furthermore, the mother in each famliy is urged to get as much extra fruit, vegetables, eggs and milk as she can. These are necessary for growth and repair of tissue, besides providing energy necessary to keep the body at work. a a a IN Illinois the relief commission has developed four standard dietaries planned for seven in each family. These are divided into general, southern, Italian and Jewish classifications. A certain amount of spaghetti is included in the dietary for each group, but macaroni appears only in the Italian and general diets, and is eliminated from the southern and Jewish diets. The Italian group also is allowed much more macaroni as well as vermicelli. The general, southern and Jewish diets include two pounds of spaghetti a month whereas the Italian list includes 15 pounds of spaghetti a month. a a a THE general diet provides quantities of navy beans, which do not appear in the southern di.et. The Jewish list eliminates pork and beans, but does have a good allowance of lima beans. Moreover, the Jewish diet list includes four cans of sardines, to three in the Italian list, and two in the southern list. In contrast tc these allowances, the southern list includes four pounds of salt pork. Salt pork docs not appear at all on any of the other diet lists. Benefit to our nutrition comes not from the foods that are listed or prescribed, or even what is included in the basket delivered at the door, but from what is actually eaten. Money spent for food that is not eaten is. of course, wasted. For this reason, it is necessary to consider the appetites of those to whom the food is served. Q —When did Pittsburgh, Pa„ celebrate its 250th anniversary? A—Sept. 27, 1908. Q—ls the Rye River in England or Scotland? A—Tl;are are three Rye Rivers in Great Britain, two in Scotland and one In England and Wales.

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