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It Seems to Me UEVMD BROUN HERBERT HOOVERS recent hint that he would like to run attain on a sound money platform was greeted in the beginning with derision. But in punching the bag with some of the prognosticators down in Washington I find a few who think that this time the ex-President is much more shrewd than usual. These wiseacres of a winter book on the race of 1936 think that Mr. Hoover's weakness is his great potential strength. This, they say, is not a mere

Chestertoman paradox, but a possibility based upon political experience. It perhaps best can be explained in terms of the race track. Several seasons ago the two crack thoroughbreds of the year met in a stake race. Their prowess frightened away all contenders except one added starter, a no-account horse named Jim Dandy. Even in a three-horse field you could get as good as a hundred to one against Jim Dandy. And yet he scampered home as an easy winner because the two favorites raced each other drunk and reeling in the first six furlongs. Jim Dandy won on his

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Own inertia. . . , _ . And likewise, according to this calculation. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Huey Long might engage in such a punitive campaign against each other in 1936 that any colorless Republican could slip in. And when one begins to talk about colorless Republicans it does seem as if it might be possible to revive the old familiar phrase, ‘ Who but Hoover?” a a a Hurt/ Lacks Organization I AM not yet convinced that anything of this sort 1= likely to happen, but it is an interesting theory worthy of examination. Naturally it is predicated on the assumption that between now and the next election the President will lose an enormous amount of strength and Huey make corresponding gains. Only a month ago the defeat of Roosevelt in 1936 seemed an utter impossibility. In fact, I was looking around to see if I might not sneak in a bet, at the proper odds, that he would carry every state. In spite of currents that have set against him he •still is a cinch in any two-horse race against the usual sort of Republican plater. The peculiarly dangerous quality which Long's candidacy would have j the fact that Huey could certainly make the South a good deal less than solid. He could cut into what has been the Democratic irreducible minimum In every year except the A1 Smith campaign of 1928. Huey's handicap us lack of organization. He has. of '•ourse. a highly efficient and wholly owned local machine in Louisiana, and he can organize likewise in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and perhaps Arkansas and Oklahoma. In the North he has nothing. At the moment it seems unlikely that the La Follettes wr -’d swing to him. but stranger things have happened. The persistence of the Roosevelt swing to the right might leave some of the Farm Progressives in a spot where they might have to swallow Huey. The Fascist quality of Long’s personality and program have not yet been made apparent to the great mass of American voters, but that will hardly be an argument the Roosevelt forces can use effectively because of the similar tendency in their own ranks. a a a Labor Parlg Is Possibilitg MY own feeling is that whil> Huey can raise plenty of commotion his own chance of ever achieving national success is rigidly curtailed by the large Negro vote in such pivotal states as New York, Illinois. Ohio and Indiana. But here again the Roosevelt party would not profit much because the most bitter New Deal failures have been in the use of differentials against Negro labor. The present complications suggest one other possibility which the Washington wiseacres have not yet considered very fully. A Presidential field consisting of Roosevelt. Huey Long and Hoover or his equivalent ought to constitute a very pressing invitation for the formation of a Labor party. Even with the election comparitively close at hand such a party should be able to capture seats in Congress and lay r really promising foundation for 1940. And there have even been such things as political miracles. But the labor groups will get nowhere unless they realize Roosevelt. Hoover and Long, each in his own way. constitute a tragic threat to progressivism. The united front against the Fascist threat would have to include both the liberals and the extreme left, and as yet these gentlemen have shown small ability in getting together. But it may be that at last they have learned the lessons of history, both national and international. After all, it is not a pleasant thing to hang separately. tCopvriirht. 1935*

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

JOHN WINTHROP JR., first colonial Governor of Connecticut, was the founder of the chemical Industries in America 300 years aero. That is the opinion of the American Chemical Society which decrirs the popular opinion that the American chemical industry got its start after the World War when certain German patents were seized. Winthrop will be duly honored when the society holds a meeting in New York from April 22 to 26 to observe the tercentenary of the industry. The date is given as 1635 by a committee of the society headed by Dr. C. A. Browne, chief of chemical and technological research in the United States Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. Dr. Browne reports that Winthrop sailed for England on an errand in the interests of the Bay Colony in the autumn of 1634. During the visit he was commissioned by Lord Say and Lord Brook to found a new colony in Connecticut. He returned to New England in 1635 ready to carry out his commission and with the title of Governor. *Tt is remarkable what Winthrop attempted to do In the New England colonies.*’ Dr. Browne says. “He was interested in the production of salt. iron, glass, potash, tar. black lead, saltpeter, medicines, copper, alum and other chemicals. a a a WINTHROP and his uncle. Emanuel Downing, made what were probably the first experiments upon the manufacture of indieo within the present borders of the United States. Dr. Browne says. “In the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society of Boston, among the unpublished papers of John Winthrop. is a document which should be of great historic interest to chemists. It is Winthrop s outline of a plan, the first of the kind in America, to form a chemical stock company,” he says. Winthrop was bom at Groton, England. Feb. 12, 1606. hf was admitted to the bar in 1625 and then spent the next five years in travel. In 1630. his father sailed for the new colony at Massachusetts Bey and a year later young Winthrop joined him. a a a YOUNG WINTHROP began to import chemicals and apparatus from England. Dr. Browne sal's. The firs' shipment was dated March 26. 1633. and the bill is preserved among the Winthrop papers in the hbrary of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Dr. Browne gives him credit for establishing the first chemical library in America. A remnant of some 70 books from this library are preservec in the library of the society in New York. “Several of them contain upon the fly leaves interesting annotations by Winthrop." Dr. Browne sal’s. The books will be exhibited during the tercentenary meeting in New York. Questions and Answers Q—What is the usual method of calculating the number of words in a manuscript? A— Multiply the average number of words in a line by the average number of lines on a page and multiply the product by the number of pajjjs. Q —What is the value of the Philippine peso in our money. A —Flit)’ cents, , v

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The LOVE LETTERS"? NAPOLEON to MARIE LOUISE

CHAPTER TWELVE The Burning of Moscow IJUILT on seven hills like Rome, with its 200 churches and 1000 bellfreys painted every color, Moscow offered a fascinating spectacle to an observer posted on the heights of Fili. Napoleon placed high hopes in the occupation of the city; its aristocracy was said to be discontented, rebellious and quite ready to join allegiance with the French. On Sept. 15, 1812, with Murat at its head, the Grand Army began its progress through the great city, which General Miloradowitcli, with the Russian rear guard, had only just evacuated. Some volleys of musketry from the Kremlin were silenced by a few rounds of gunfire. At last, it seemed, the troops would have a welcome spell of rest;- what was more, the vast warehouses of the city, where the great middlemen of European and Asiatic trade housed their goods, had eight months’ stock laid up in them. Then—the fire broke out. It started, so Meneval says, in the Kitaigorod quarter (Chinatown) amongst depots of shawls, furs and Chinese silks. It spread to the Bourse. New fires sprang up at various points. Rostopchin, the governor, had had a number of fire bombs made, intending to drop them from a balloon on the French troops; now hundreds of incendiaries, splicing them between strips of wood, began hurling these fire bombs on to the housetops. The governor had had all the fire engines removed, so there was no means of arresting the spread of the fire, despite the severe penalties im posed on incendiaries and the summary execution of 300 “fire raisers.” Thousands of Russian sick and wounded, abandoned to their fate by Koutousof, perished in the flames. The originator of the appalling holocaust w r as a “die-hard” patriot —though in a subsequent polemic with Colonel Boutourlin he strenuously denied the imputation. The truth was that Rostopchin, governor of Moscow, had organized the burning of the city as if it had been a fireworks display. Yet, so tender-hearted was this man—if we are to believe Countess Chotock—that he refused to attend shooting parties as he "could not bear to kill poor defenseless animals”; he was, it seems, a charming conversationalist, a tender father and adoring husband. It may be noted, however, that Countess Chotok describes his appearance as “repulsive.” a a a SUCH was the man who sacrificed many thousand lives, and. as recorded in the Bulletins de la Grande Armee, “inflicted on Russia a loss of several billion francs.” But he had gained his end. Napoleon had intended to strike at the heart of Russia, and all he found, wh°re a great capital had been, was- -a heap of stones. His letters to the Empress betray his consternation at this unpredictable disaster, whose magnitude grew daily more apparent to him. This was one of the rare occasions—perhaps the only one in the Russian campaign—when the Emperor departed from his wonted imperturbability. When he heard the cries of “Fire ” rising in different quarters of the city, he realized that the burning of Moscow had been planned deliberately. "It’s incredible!” he exclaimed in a broken voice, his breast heaving with emotion. "It is a war of extermination, an atrocious form of tactics that has no parallel in the annals of civilization. May the curse of centuries to come fall

The daily Washington MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen WASHINGTON. Feb. 26.—Donald R. Richberg is very uphappy. He is not talking about resigning, but to friends who call on him he inveighs at great length and with much bitterness against his former laborite associates who blame him for the renewal of the auto code. I

Above all, Richberg resents what Gen. Hugh Johnson has been saying about him in the Saturday Evening Post. To a recent visitor he exclaimed: “Those articles justify the letter I sent to the publishers warning them about what Johnson would say about me.” a a a ASHAKEUP of personnel in the government of Puerto Rico is impending. But it awaits one thing—the eocentricity of woman. The shakeup provides that Benjamin J. Horton, now Attorney General of Puerto Rice, shall be Collector of Internal Revenue; and that Jesse Whhtemore. now Collector of Internal Revenue. shall*be transferred to some cushy berth in the U. S. A. But Mrs. Whittemore is not anxious to be transferred. San Juan is a delightful place. Furthermore, the Collector of Internal Revenue enjoys the use of a beautifully equipped government launch. “The trouble with the lady," remarked a man high in the government with a broad smile, “is the yacht.” a a a GENIAL Tom Hewes, special assistant to Secretary Hull, ran into the State Department press room looking for a thesaurus. “I want.” he said, “a good word to use instead of dynamic.” “Dynamic is so rare in diplomacy.” he continued, "that no one

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Before Napoleon’s army reached Moscow, the Russian forces there had been withdrawn, except for the rear guard. The Emperor looked forward to a welcome reception from the discontented aristocracy; and his troops hoped for a rest after their long march. But both leader and

on the instigators of this act of vandalism!” Next morning, as Caulaincourt tells us, when the Emperor reviewed his Guard, his face showed “not the faintest trace of the cruel anxieties which had harassed him during the previous night.” For Napoleon was a past master in that royal art—the art of dissimulation.” The wearer ci a crown —be it a crown of tnorns that lacerates his brow —must smile, smile always! And the brave letters he sent to Marie Louise after the disaster amply bear this out. On Sept. 16 he wrote: “The city is supplied with everything. The nobility have left, the people have remained.” But the same day a violent wind fanned the fire. Caught in “an ocean of flames, Moscow, and one of the richest and most beatiful cities in the world, is no more,” stated the Bulletin de la Grande Armee on Sept. 17. And on the 18th, in his letter to the Empress, Napoleon confirmed the extent of the disaster: Mon amie, I have already written to you from Moscow, I had no conception of this city, I boasted 500 palaces as fine as the Elysee Napoleon, several of them furnished in the French taste with unbelievable luxury, several Imperial palaces, barracks and magnificent hospitals. Everything has been destroyed, consumed by fire for the last four days. All the small houses of the bourgeois being ot timber, they burn like matchwood. It was the Governor and the Russians, infuriated at their defeat, who set fire to this beautiful city. 200,000 worthy inhabitants are homeless, in misery and despair, and the Army have found much wealth of every kind, for in this disorder everything is given over to plunder. The loss to Russia is immense and their trade will suffer badly in consequence. The wretches had incited the population to bury or destroy the pumps. My cold is at an end, my health is good. Adieu, non amie. Tout a toi. Vap. Moscow, September 18th, (1812) Ma bonne Louise, I have received your letter of Sept. 2, before you had the news from Smolensk. By this time you will have received these from Moscow. Today I have been visiting every part of the city. It is a beautiful

seems to know any synonym for it.” ana AFTER several months hs a Senate page, Master Jimmy Young, the smallest of the corps, says his experience has not caused him to change his mind about being an aviator. From u’hat he has seen of politics and politicians so far. he still believes flying a much more satisfying occupation. . . . The recent automobile report by the NRA and the Labor Statistics Bureau by no means concludes the survey of the industry. The two agencies have still to complete a study of the profits of the motor makers. This is expected in a few weeks. . . . For over an hour, Pennsylvania's ’Puddler Jim” Davis had harangued a practically empty Senate with a prepared speech. A woman in the visitors’ gallery adjoining the press section finally leaned over, whispered to a correspondent: “When is something going to happen around here.” . . . Chicago’s Democratic Rep. Michael L. Igoe believes in safety first. In receipt of a five-pound box of candy from an anonymous donor, he offered a piece to a caller. When he had finished it with no disastrous effects. Igoe helped himself. . , . The main lobby of the Department of Commerce building now displays two light-house lamps continually alight. The exhibit is the idea of Light-house Commissioner George Putnam who believes a little discreet publicity will help his service. (Copyright, 1935 by United Featur* Syndicate, luc.j

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city, by destroying it Russia has incurred an enormous loss, only one thousand of the houses are left standing. The troops have found supplies and goods. He has (there is?) plenty of meat, and brandy from France. You must not go to the trouble of writing through the Commissioners, for they only arrive 10 days after the couriers. It is a needless and unseemly restraint. You will write only when you have something to say. What you tell me of poor Lucet (?) grieves me. He was a good man, I sincerely pity his wife. Odiel mon bien. Nap. Moscow, September 18th, (1812) a a a PRACTICALLY nothing remained untouched but the Kremlin, in which the Emperor had taken up his abode; the ancient palace of the Czars, with its half Oriental, half Slavonic architecture, was full of lofty memories. Napoleon was as much moved by the sight of the throne of Peter the Great as he had been when in 1806 he visited the study of Frederick the Great at Potsdam. But the whirling flames of the burning city at one time made it impossible to remain at the Kremlin. Not without danger was the Emperor at last induced to leave this fiery furnace. He took refuge at the castle of Petrowsky. His letter of Sept. 20 is dated from Donna: Mon amie, I am on my way to take up my winter quarters, the weather is splendid, but it can not later. Moscow being burned to the ground and not being a military position with regard to my ulterior designs, I shall have it abandoned. I shall withdraw the garrison I have left there. My health is good, my affairs are going well. Prince Beauvau was wounded in the thigh by a lancethrust, he is faring well and was never in any danger; have his mother informed of this by some one of his friends. The occurrence took place in a vanguard skirmish with the Cossacks. My health is good, be cheerful and kiss the little King three times for me. Tout a toi. Nap. Desna, September 20th (1812). The very same day, the fire having abated, Napoleon was back at the Kremlin, whence a further letter is sent off, to be followed by several others. He makes a show of optimism: “The weather is fine, we have shot so many of the incendiaries, that they have desisted. My health is very good.” Mon amie, I have received your

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led were to be disappointed. For no sooner did the columns of the French enter the city than fires were set. Soon all Moscow was ablaze, its fine buildings crumbling and charred from the flames. The painting by W. Verestchagin, reproduced above, presents the scene which n.et the eyes of Bonaparte’s men as they rode through the city.

letter of September 3d. There is a great deal of rain today; they tell me the rainy season is about to set in; fortunately we have arrived. The army, here, have very good cantonments and barracks My health is good. Pray be cheerful and in good health. My affairs are going well. Adieu, mon amie. Tout a toi. Nap. Moscow, September 20th, (1812). Ma bonne amie, I have just received your letter of September 4th. I have written to you evtry day, I am surprised that you are sometimes a day without hearing from me. What you tell me of the little King gives me much pleasure. I sometimes look at Gerard’s portrait which I think very fine. I suppose you have written to your father. My health is very good. You never mention the Duchess to me, is she in good health? You must never listen to Pauline’s idle talk. Moscow was a very beautiful town, but not a quarter of the houses are leftstanding. Adieu, mio ben. Tout a toi. Nap. Moscow, September 21st, (1812).

I COVER THE WORLD * a a a a a By William Philip Simms TT/’ASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—For the first time in history, the world to- * day seemed about to witness a “war” between the League of Nations and an “outlaw state”—a war in the green hell of the Chaco, with the League on the side of Bolivia against Paraguay.

The League’s ultimatum to the South American republic expired yesterday. On Nov. 24 the League gave it three months in which to accept the peace plan proposed for Paraguay and Bolivia under penalty of being posted as waging an “illegal” war if she refused. Paraguay’s reply was to resign from the League. The League’s next move almost certainly will be to apply sanctions—and sanctions are held by many to be a form of war more deadly at times than shot and shell. The League already has raised its arms embargo against Bolivia. Bolivia accepted the peace proposal unconditionally. Denying arms to one and not the other constituted in itself a de facto citation of Paraguay as the aggressor. Today the citation becomes de jure. The League accordingly is face to face with one of its greatest crises. Its covenant formally makes aggressive war against one

By George Clark

MON AMIE, I have received your letter of September 7th, written on the day of the battle of the Moscova; so you are informed by this time of that great event. All is well here, the heat is moderate, the weather fine, we have shot so many of the incendiaries that they have desisted. One-quarter of the city remains, the (other) three-quarters are burned down. My health is good, keep in good health, be cheerful, kiss your son four times for me, all the particulars you send me about him give me pleasure and make very eager to see him. Tout a toi. Nap. Moscow, September 23rd, (1812). On the next day, Sept. 24, an envoy of Napoleon’s, lacowieff, left for St. Petersburg with words of peace; a letter addressed to the Czar Alexander opened the door to negotiations. And he resigned himself to patience. Next—The Czar refuses peace. (■Copyright, .’335, in France by Bibliotheque Nationale; in all other countries by United Feature Syndicate. Inc. Reproduction either in whole or in part prohibited. All rights reserved.)

of its members a war against all. And, having officially branded Paraguay as the aggressor, it is in duty bound to go to the aid of Bolivia, the victim. At the very least the League would appear to be bound to back Bolivia with money, munitions and other war necessities while, at the same time, doing everything within its power to prevent such things reaching Paraguay. a a a PARAGUAY, in recent months, has been marching from victory to victory. Bolivia has seemed doomed. Indeed these factors may have been decisive, leading one to accept the League’s proposal and the other to turn it down and quit the League instead. Should Paraguay now press its advantage on the field of battle, and defeat Bolivia despite the League’s assistance, the League's prestige would suffer one of its biggest blows. Japan successfully defied the League after her seizure of Manchuria in 1931. But the League never declared Japan the aggressor. It merely used its good offices to try to settle the conflict between Nippon and China. It never went beyond refusing to recognize as independent the puppet state which Japan set up. The League’s next step in the Chaco will depend largely on the United States and the South American neighbors of Paraguay and Bolivia. Without their aid, either active or passive, the League can not blockade the state it has now declared outlaw. Both Paraguay and Bolivia are landlocked. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Peru are chiefly concerned. Without at least some understanding with Washington, any drastic interference in South America on the part of Europe might be regarded here as coming close to an infringement on the Monroe Doctrine. a a a LAST fall the League invited the United States and Brazil to help restore peace in the Chaco. The United States refused, despite its concern for the peace of that area. There is still great fear in certain circles here lest this country in some way be tricked into associating itself too formally with the League. The war in the Chaco has been in progress nearly five years. At first there were merely border clashes. In 1932 the conflict began in earnest but it was not made official for two years after that. It is extremely bloody. More than a dozen efforts to make peace have failed. A commission of conciliation and inquiry sat in Washington as far back as 1925. Another conference was held in Buenos Aires.

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Fair Enough WESmOMLEIt IT is an artistic misfortune that Mr. Bill Davenport, of Collier's Weekly, is not a reporter on a daily newspaper now that a plan is afoot to remove from City Hall Park, New York, the famous statue of civic virtue, otherwise known as the tough guy. It was Mr. Davenport who, in a series of daily pieces in the old Herald, named civic virtue the tough guy at the time of the unveiling in 1922 and created a world-wide fame for a work of stone-cutting which might otherwise have been undistinguished. Assigned to cover the unveiling as a routine job

of work, Mr. Da - enport stood on the steps of the New York City Hall with John F. Hylan. the Mayor, otherwise known as Red Mike or Michael the Red, and, in a mischievous spirit, suggested to Mr. Hylan that the statue was an affront to American womanhood. “He is stepping on a lady,” Mr. Davenport said. “In fact, he is stepping on two ladies, and .the ladies are supposed to represent vice and corruption. They look like nice, clean American girls to me. Are you going to stand for that?” Mr. Hylan said he would inquire into the matter and Mr. Davenport

wrote an article to the effect that the authorities were aroused. This was the cue for many ladies of the public spirited, determined woman type in New York to march on the City Hall and protest against the affront to their sex. The controversy was on. The ladies of the Eighteenth assembly district protested in a body and Alderman Peter J. McGuinness, of Greenpomt, Brooklyn, “the garden spot of the world,” delivered an oration in which he declared that he was not concerned with the affront to the sex as a whole, but that in so far as it concerned the womanhood of Greenpoint he regarded the tough guy as a foul aspersion which he would resent as long as the breath of life remained in his body, nan Storm Reached New Height MR. DAVENPORT then suggested to Mr. McGuinness that the ladies were not really ladies, but sirens. Mr. McGuinness retorted that he was no rounder, but a respectable public servant, ready to match his private conduct with any man’s, but nevertheless knew enough about ladies to recognize a lady in the raw when he saw one. “A siren,” Mr. McGuinness said, “is what they have on a fire engine. You know. Whr-r-roo-00-r-r. Don’t tell me. Never let me catch any shameless crumpets riding the fire engines through the streets' of Greenpoint hollering whr-r-roo-r-r without any clothes on. We have made other provisions.” "This kind of siren is a sort of fish,” Mr. Davenport persisted, and when this unspeakable insult was published in the paper the storm reached anew height of fury. The ladies of the Eighteenth assembly district again marched on the City Hall, insisting that the tough guy be taken away lest the youth of America receive the vile impression that ladies were not only vicious and corrupt but, worse yet, fish. Mr. Silver Dick Enright, who held the office of police commissioner under Michael the Red, detailed detectives to investigate the character of Mr. Frederick L. MacMonnies, the sculptor who had executed the offensive piece. They reported back in due course that Mr. MacMonnies was a man who sometimes had ladies come to his studio and take their clothes off while he made statues of them, plainly an immoral proceeding to their way of thinking. Throughout the scandal Mr. Davenport, with wicked humor, continued to poke up Red Mike, Silver Dick and the Hon. Peter J. McGuinness of Greenpoint, “the garden spot of the world.” The fame of the tough guy spread like that of an earlier work of art, “September Morn.” There were learned discussions in the civic chamber of the distinction between a fire engine siren and a fish of the same name having the appointments of a lady, and of the propriety of a group depicting a nude male of gigantic proportions and rather apathetic mien trampling on .the architecture of two females, even if they were fish. How were the little, dirty-mouthed kids in the streets to know that they were fish? And how could a virtuous member of Engine No. 36 return to face the little woman in his humble flat after riding the streets with a siren?

Indianapolis Flurry Recalled IN the meanwhile, summer drew on and the little, dirty-mouthed kids in the streets began to duck themselves in the sort of bird bath which surrounded the tough guy, to the renewed consternation of the indignant ladies and Mayor Hylan. Accordingly, a policeman was detailed to stand watch at the fountain during the day and keep the children at a distance from moral perils which they wotted nothing of. But, under cover of night, certain vandals, probably in the employ of the big business interests which were always seeking to destroy the city, crept up on the tough guy and covered his southerly expanse with a coat of red paint. The police were baffled. In time, what with fan dancers on Broadway and meat shows in the burlesque houses, the city became inured to the statue of the tojugh guy and the fish or whatever they were. The little, dirty-mouthed kids in the streets were permitted to gambol and splash unmolested in the shallow pool on hot summer days. Life went on in New York just as it had done in Indianapolis, where a group of indignant ladies once had demanded that a pair of male wrestlers in an art gallery be attired in the conventional trunks prescribed by Article IX of the revised code of the boxing commission. In Indianapolis it was explained that in order to disintangle the wrestlers to put tights on them it would be necessary to blast. Asa compromise it was agreed to post a sign in the corridor reading: “Warning—Naked wrestlers ahead.” Now, in 1935, Alderman Peter J. McGuinness is promoting a demand that the statue of the tough guy be awarded to Greenpoint, “the garden spot of the world,” with a promise to dress him in a red union suit and the sirens or fish in costumes of becoming modesty. But Mr. Davenport, who made the tough guy famous, has gone cosmic and is writing intellectual exercises on the state of the republic for a magazine. There is nobody around to finish the story he started with such enviable art in 1922. (Copyright. 1335. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

OXYGEN once was just an emergency remedy rushed in when patients were at the point of death. Today it is well established as a useful remedy in rrtany forms of disease, and it is recognized that early use of oxygen may be far more beneficial than any attempt to deldy Its application, in certain types of cases, until an emergency exists. New oxygen devices include incubators which keep premature infants in a high oxygen atmosphere. For grown-ups there are oxygen tents, oxygen rooms, and special devices for breathing oxygen on a more limited scale. In use of the oxygen tent, the oxygen in the air is kept down at about a 50 per cent level in contrast with the normal level. About one standard tank of oxygen a day is required. a a a IF an oxygen tent is not available, a temporary emergency type of apparatus can be made, consisting of an anesthetic mask with a rebreathing bag. It is also possible to introduce the oxygen through a tube in the nose. In setting up such system, the oxygen must be passed through water j. 9 prevent too much drying of membranes of r" ~and throat. h '

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