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It Seems to Me HEWOOD BROUN OF the three wise who went to sea In a radio pla’trr I think tfc*t Father Coughlin came off by far the worst lam not quarreling with his economic theories because for the life of me I could no? find out what they were. The chief charge I would press against the clergyman is the accusation that he was terribly tiresome. Os course. I nave heard the good father before. I‘ must be that there is an appealing radio quality In his voice for his listeners are numerous. But the

charm escapes me. It is a muddy voice saying muddy things and going over them with endless repetition. Indeed if it were my function to classify the radio priest I would set him down as a soporific Fascist. The fundamental trouble lies in the fact that Father Coughlin is a nut about currency. This is not to v ay that all his theories are incorrect. I merely mean that he is one of that sect which holds to the belief that all the ills of man can be made to disappear with some ledgerdemam gold or silver or paper. Some highly regarded meconomir circles are victims of this

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eame here-v. To me it has always seemed that they went aper the tokens of our industrial civilization and neglected the foundation. In other words they are to fascinated bv the leaves that thev trip and stumble over the roots. And no man or woman has ever made a brief discourse on the subject of money. The famous farmhouse dinner attended by Dr. Wirt I 'h a monologue. I remember ex-P-nator Reed was cross-examining one of the young women who had testified that conversation was literally impossible because Dr. Wirt continued in an unbroken stream of words for some three ar.d a half hours “How ran anybody possibly talk three and a half hours without a break.' thundered the inquisitor. "Now won't you admit that that is a most unlikely story’'’ "But. said the witness, "Dr. Wirt was talking about money.” m m m Money on Endless Topic WITHIN mv own field of acquaintance there is a lady who has a money theorv which she can maintain for five or six hours at a time. I don't know what it us. After a bit gold and silver and bullion and billions swim about in my ears like notes of music. They may charm my savage breast, but they rontnbute nothing to mv education. Somebody ought to tell the Re'. Charles E. Coughlin that he is not talented in the making of snappy sayings. In listening to a broadcast so widely publicized as a smashing answer to Gen. Johnson one naturally expected that when the foe's name first came up it would be coupled with some phrase or epithet of a sizzling nature. The clergyman has had a week to bring up some Big Bertha from his artillery equipment. The best he achieved was "the leadership of a chocolate soldier.” This is not only trite, but in the case of Johnson I can think of no description more inept. In referring to the general's underslung vocabulary” I will grant that the priest did a little better. But it was cunous to find that of the three debaters the clerygman played the lowest down of the lot. Huey's manners were the best. The general came in several lengths behind and Father Coughlin indulged in one paragraph which is really unforgivable. I quote from the text as printed in the newspapers: "Gen. Johnson, your enemies and. if I must say it. some of your fair-weather friends, have heaped upon mv desk the record of your personal life. I disdain to refer to it.” a m a Tnhloid Tnctics Deplored NTOW obviously Father Coughlin did not disdain. I On the contrarv he stooped and almost split h:.- cassock. The device is a familiar one. It is that of the man who larks the nerve to make any frank and forthright charge but merely hints that he could if he would. The reference indulged in over the radio by the good father makes it impossible for the victim to answer. He has been pointed at by a wavering finger of suspicion. While I do not hold that politics or economics is a game like tennis and that there should be some rules and traditions of sportsmanship I still think if is not too much to ask a so-called leader of public thought not to adopt the tactics of a tabloid gossip. On the whole it must be admitted that the great three-cornered debate did not quite come up to rxoectations. The original notion was that three public figures were going on the air in order to discuss the problems of the nation. Instead they discussed their own symptoms, their whims and their phobias. The bout which was advertised as a battle-royal turned out to be a back-fence braw*i. {Copyright. 19351

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

MANKIND moved a step nearer to the duplication of life processes in the laboratory with the dirert production at will of left-handed or righthanded molecules by Prof. Tenney L. Davis and Robert Heggie of the Department of Chemistry of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Such molecules are known scientifically as "unsymmetncal molecules.” Nature has always produced such molecules in plants and animals. Familiar examples are sugar, nicotine, caffeine, camphor and quinine. Important ones produced within the human body include thvroxine. manufactured by the thyroid gland, and epinephrine, produced by the adrenal gland. Such molecules are known as "optically active” because of their effect upon a beam of light which is vibrating in one plane only. Moonlight consists chiefly of polarized light and diffuse sunlight contains a larce proportion of it. These substances as found in nature always rotate the beam of light in the same direction. Thus, for example, nicctme always rotates the light to the left. Some sugars rotate it to the left, others to the right. Both thvoxine and epinephrine, as they occur m the human body, rotate polarized light to the left. But when these substances were manufactured ■ rtificiallv or "synthesized” m the laboratory, forms • ere obtained which had no effect on polarized light. a m a SUBSEQUENTLY it was shown that the synthetic forms had no effect upon polarized light because thev wfre mixtures of molecules, some of which turned it to the right, the two kinds neutralizing each other Methods were developed for separating the two kinds. Furthermore it was shown that these molecules were unsymmetncal in shape and that the two kinds resembled each other in the same way that a persons left and right hands resemble each other. Nov the diffe’-'mce between a left-handed molecule ar.d a right-handed molecule can be very great even though the two molecules consist of exactly the same kind of atoms arranged in the same pattern. Thus, for example, a certain sugar, very sweet to the taste, may consist of left-handed molecules. The nght-handed counterpart of this sugar is absolutely tasteless. a a a THE first report of success in this field came from Greece last year when two Greek scientists at the University of Athens reported that they could produce optically active molecules with the aid of polarized light. Thev succeeded in getting carbon compounds to combine with chlonre to form such molecule. Dans and Heggte. in achieving the second svntnesis of unsymmetucal molecules with the aid of polarized light, have come a step nearer to the duplication of compounds which do occur in nature. They made use of what is known as a circularly polarized beam of light. This is a twisted beam. They permitted bromine to combine with trinitroetilbene in a solution irradiated by such a beam of light. The result was the formation of tnnitrostil-bene-dibromide which was optically active. Q —Which ia the oldest inhabited city? A—Da.tiafccua, in Syria, is reputed to be the oldest eocunuousigT inhabited city In lha world.

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The LOVE LETTERS 0/ NAPOLEON to MARIE LOUISE

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX The Allies Plead for Peace W/TA BONNE AMIE, You have sent me a very beautiful sweetmeat-box, with the portrait of the Kinj; of Rome at prayers. I want you to have it engraved with the caption: I BEG GOI) TO SAVE MY FATHER AND FRANCE. This little engraving is so interesting that it will please everybody. I am sending you Mortemart with Ift flags captured from the Russians, the Prussians and the Austrians. My health is good. The Emperors of Russia and Austria. and the King of Prussia were at Madame’s: they had come there from Brave, and their headquarters were to have been at Fontainebleau on the 18th. They are now making posthaste for Trove. My troops have entered Nogent and Sens. Give a kiss to my son. keep well and never doubt all my love. Nap. “Montrau,” the 20th, 9 a. m. (February, 1814) • The King of Rome praying to God”: the portrait was by Elie Thibault, who painted a replica to serve for the engraving ordered by Napoleon. "Dress him in the uniform of the National Guard,” suggested King Joseph, mixing up in a matter that did not concern him. The Emperor had put Marshal Augereau, Due de Castiglione, who had borne himself bravely in Germany, in command of the army corps at Lyons. Augereau was to fall on the rear of the enemy forces and capture their convoys, either in the Departments along the frontier—Mont Blanc < Savoy) and Ain —or along the upper reaches of the Saone. Augereau was war-weary. Did he not issue, a few- weeks later, the following proclamation, unfortunate for his reputation: "Soldiers, you are released from your oaths by the abdication of a man who after sacrificing millions of victims to his ruthless ambition, has not consigned himself to a soldier's death.” Mon Amie. Have the Duchess de Castiglione sent for and tell her to write to her husband that he should bestir himself, that he ought already to have freed MontBlano and the \in Department, and dislodged the enrmv; let her write to him to that effect, and urge him to fight well. My health is good, the weather is very fine, but that is about all. Adieu mon amour. Tout a toi. A kiss to the little King. Nap. Nogent, 22nd, 9 a. m. (February, 1814) NEVERTHELESS, the hour seemed favorable to peaceproposals. “My brother, I have entered Troyes.” Napoleon wrote on Feb. 24. "The enem/ are deluging me with proposals for an armistice. We may arrange one this morning; but it can not be concluded except in so far as the Chatillon negotiations are followed up on the Frankfort lines.” Such was *he Emperor’s mood when he wrote to Marie Louise to try to encourage “Papa Francois” to develop a will of his own, instead of being a mere tool of the allies. Ma bonne Louise. The cold weather here is most painful for poor soldiers, who are obliged to he in the saddle night and day. Your father was at Troyes, very downcast and rather ill. he did not see much of the Russians—they do not like him. You had better write to him complaining that he does not let you hear from him. that he has forgotten you, and that, while serving the interests of his monarchy, he might help us. that he should be reasonable and have a will of his own and not be the instrument of England and Russia. In short, write him a strong letter commending to him your interests and thoe of your son. Tell him at the same time that we are determined to die rather than agree to a shameful and unfair peace, which, moreover, would be bad policy, for it would not last. Adieu mon amie. Tout a toi. NAP. Troyes. 25th, 2 p. m. (February, 1814.) * Trove. 26th. 6 p. m. (February, 1814.) Ma bonne amie. I am master of Chatillon-sur-Seine. So that the Congress the Allies intended to hold in my country is now under my police. It was thiough vainglory that they determined to hold the Congress in Burgundy. Mv troops are at Bar-sur-Aube, at Chatillon. at Auxerre. Marshal Auger (eau) is marching on Dijon. No armistice has yet been signed. We are not agreed as to the line of demarcation. It would be impossible for the disposition of the inhabitants and peasantry to be better. They come forward to a man. The Russians tried to put forward the Bourbons. They were laughed at everywhere, and no one would second them. On this point the Austrians did not second them, nor would they hear of the Bourbons. Adieu, mon amie. I give you a loving kiss. NAP. Confidence in the future is the keynote of the Emperor's letters. An armistice might be concluded at any moment. Peasants and townsfolk alike, roused to action by the invasion and its menace, were flocking to the standards.

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With affairs in the field going well, Napoleon found time in his letters now to advise Marie Louise, in Paris, upon matters of diplomacy. Against one of her proposals he was emphatically obdurate: her suggestion that she call upon Caroline Bonaparte, the queen of Naples. For this sister of the Emperor’s was the wife of Murat, one of his most trusted generals who only a short time before had deserted Napoleon for the enemv. The defection of Murat was a blow that hurt. He and Napoleon had been close and warm friends. The scene depicted in the illustration above shows Napoleon surrounded by Murat’s children, in a day when he and their father still were staunch comrades in arms.

NAPOLEON hoped very soon to be “rid of all our enemies.” and had expressed his sympathy for the “fine, honest man,” his father-in-law, who had been so frequently betrayed. Let us see how on that very Hav (March 1) his honest father-ir.-iaw responded to the Emperor’s sympathy. Suspected by his allies of half-heartedness, he had to sign a solemn declaration binding him for 20 years. Each of the four allies, England, Austria, Prussia and Russia, undertook to keep up an army of 150,000 men for the duration of hostilities. This prelude to the Holy Alliance—for the league of four laid claim to "holiness”—was the work of Lord Castlereagh. The Emeror's letters show that he had no cognizance of this event. Indeed, next day, on March 2. we find him urging his wife to write to the Emperor of Austria and ask him to be “a little on our side.” Marie Louise responded to the Emperor's love, but in the manner of a spoiled, capricious child. ”1 got up in a very bad temper today.” she had written in her travel diary a short time before. "I have no news from the EmperorHe is so casual in his ways. I can see he is forgetting me. Oh. it’s only women who arc really constant in their love; men are so unreliable.” It is with trivialities that Marie Louise regales her husband at the very moment when his throne is tottering to its fall. Napoleon, answering her letters amid the din and turmoil of the battlefield, takes the opportunity to inculcate some admirable lessons of philosophy. not to say morality. Ma bonne amie, I have just received your letter of March Ist. I was sorry to hear that Madame Montesquiou had made a scene that annoyed you; it was a piece of forgetfulness on her part, she is so good to the little King that you will forget it and always be kind to her. What has been said about Madame Avalotte (?) is very ill-natured; such talk is infamous, for nothing more is needed to bring into ridicule and contempt worthy and deserving people who are highly virtuous and quite blameless. The Duchess, who is such an upright woman, should be the first to disapprove of such illnatured talk, which affects women’s happiness so deeply. It would be better to stab sUv h young women with a knife than to countenance such rumors which dishonor them and make them ridiculous and repulsive. Write to your father and urge him to be a little bit on our side, and particularly not to heed the Russians and English. The enemy is falling back on La Ferte-Milon.

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INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1935

My health is good. Adieu mon amie. Nap. Jouarre, March 2nd. noon. (1814) Ferte-sous-Jouarre, 3rd, 8 a. m. (March, 1814) Ma bonne Louise. I have received your letter of the 2nd. I am sorry to see you pay attention to silly people. Never argue with anybody; it is unworthy of you. It was ill-mannered of Madame Montesquiou to lose her temper in your presence. If she had a quarrel with the Duchess, they should have had it out away from you; never argue with Madame Memorancy (?). It all smacks of smallminded women, and is unworthy of your nature. Never argue with anyone about all this, but hold the Minister of Police and all the Ministers at a distance. In this country people are only too ready to eat out of your hand. Above all be cheerful and look after your health. Mine is good. Adieu, mon amie. Tout a toi. Nap. ana T TOW is it that Marie Louise failed to realize the unseemliness of writing to Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples, after the perfidy of Murat, her husband? For Napoleon had learned, 12 days before, on unimpeachable authority, that his brother-in-law, in order to retain the throne of Naples, had gone to the enemy. Mon amie, Y’ou ask me whether you should wT-ite to the Queen of Naples. My answer is No: she behaved improperly towards me who of a mere nobody made a Queen. My health is good. I am pursuing Bluker, who is much exposed. Be contented and cheerful, my affairs are going pretty well. Tout toi. Nap. Berut-Saint-Germain, March 4th. (1814) After his defeat Blucher had fallen back through Rheims on Chalons where Langeron’s two divisions, coming from Mainz, had joined him. At the same time a third great army, the Northern army, after crossing Belgium had entered the battle-area; it was composed of Russian troops led by Wintzingerode, Woronzoff and Strogonow, and Bulow's Prussian division. Napoleon marched against these new adversaries. At 4 a. m. on March 5 Generals Corbineau and Laferriere launched a surprise attack on the four enemy battalions garrisoning Rheims, and took them prisoner. Nansouty stormed the bridge at Berry-au-Bac and 200 troopers led by Colonel Prince Gargarin were added to the tale of prisoners.

By George Clark

On March 6, the capture of the Craonne heights by the Young Guard, preceded the general engagement with the Russians on the following day. The only way of access to the Craonne plateau was through a defile 200 yards wide. The plateau itself was protected by three ravines, and the Russians were covering the defile with 60 guns. Nevertheless, Victor at the head of the Young Guard stormed the position. Drouot forced his w r ay through with the artillery, while Ney debouched on the enemy’s right wing. Nansouty then brought up his cavalry. The result was a Russian defeat; but not an overwhelming one.

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

WASHINGTON, March 14.—A. newspaperman w'as drawing comparisons between the Roosevelt official family and that of Herbert Hoover. He was talking to one of the closest members of the Roosevelt cabinet. "The chief difference between you.” he said, "is that the Hoover cabinet w’as like a herd of cattle. When attacked, they put their heads together, their heels out. and the enemy had to lick the w’hole bunch.

"But you fellows in Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet separate and get dragged down one by one.” "I 4lsh,” replied the cabinet member to whom this was addressed. ‘‘that you would w'rite that. It would do some of us a lot of good.” Beyond any doubt this is the greatest administrative weakness of Roosevelt’s official family. Not only does it lack unity, but it is ridden with internal suspicion, enmity and outright bickering. This is one of the most immediate problems facing the President today. It is immediate chiefly because of its effect on Congress. As long as party members in Congress see party members in the cabinet carrying on poorly-concealed warfare, there is a strong tendency to do likewise. If the dozen or so executives closest to the President do not hang together, they reason, it is difficult to expect unity among 400 and seme-odd Democrats on Capitol Hill. a a a ILLUSTRATIVE of the extent and in some cases the intensity of the feuding, here is a list of the major inter-Administration rows; The Hull-Peek row is one of the most embarrassing of all, inasmuch as it affects relations with foreign countries. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, believes in a broad policy of lower tariffs and most-favored-nation treatment in negotiating trade treaties. George Peek, Foreign Trade Adviser to the President, is opposed. He believes in quotas and trade restriction unless other countries give concessions to the United States. And whenever he has an opportunity to make a speech Mr. Peek lambasts Hulls policy. Also he negotiates barter agreements with foreign countries, such as the late cotton deal with Germany, causing Mr. Hull to veto them in their final stages. All this is most confusing to foreign governments. The first duty of their trade delegations, on arriving in Washington, is to find out which is stronger with Roosevelt, Mr. Peek or Mr. Hull, and whose policy they should follow’, a a a THEN there is the Roper-Far-ley row. About this there has been no great publicity. Yet it burns fiercely behind the scenes. The Secretary of Commerce and the Postmaster-General never did get along well. They have directly opposite backgrounds. Mr. Roper is a Democrat from the solid South. Mr. Farley is a Democrat of Tammany training. The divergence increased when Mr. Roper campaigned against A1 Smith. Mr. Farley was then one of Al’s fiercest crusaders. Later trouble came when Mr. Farley attacked the mail contracts of the aviation and shipping lines. Mr. Roper is a champion of both interests. He winced painfully when Mr. Farley struck. Another row which smolders continually is that between Homer Cummings and Harold Ickes. The former is constantly letting his lawyers thwart the New Deal activities of the Interior Department. When Mr. Ickes’ lawyers wanted to bring action against the Eagle-Pilcher Lead C© for al*

It was at the “Auberge de l'Ange Gardien,” situated at some cross roads on the highway from Soissons to Lson, that Generals Sacken and Langeron endeavored to intercept Marmont’s army corps, which had been vanquished by Yorck at Athis. From the summit of the Laon heights Blucher had w-atched the battle It was impossible for Napoleon to force the enemy's positions. Next—His brother a traitor, too? (Copyright, 1935, in. France by Bibliotheque Nationale; in any other country by United Feature Syndicate. Reproduction either in whole or in part prohibited. All rights reserved.)

leged frauds against Indians in the Ozarks, the Justice Department consented to drop the case. When Mr. Ickes’ New Deal for Puerto Rico wants action against the big sugar companies, he runs up against the inactivity of Mr. Cummings’ attorney general for Puerto Rico, w r hom Homer will not remove. And when Mr. Ickes’ lawyers want to push prosecution of hot oil cases through district attorneys to direct action, Mr. Cummings makes them run the gantlet of his red tape. A similar row exists between the departments of agriculture and justice because of the latter’s lethargy in handling its cases. ana ANOTHER row has been that between Mr. Ickes and Mr. Farley. This started when Mr. Farley put his Man Friday, pudgy Emil Hurja, in the Interior Department to load it with deserving Democrats. Mr. Ickes objected unless the Democrats also were qualified to office. Finally he ousted Mr. Hurja. Recently this feud has shown at least outward signs of a truce. The Postmaster General is reported grateful that his Cabinet colleague did not turn up any damagir evidence in response to the Huey Long resolution. Another undercover feud—although it never breaks forth in harsh words—is that between "Assistant President” Richberg and Miss Frances Perkins. The Secretary of Labor resents the fact that Mr. Richberg handles labor disputes which rightfully fall under her department. Some attribute this constant feuding to the fact that Mr. Roosevelt’s Cabinet was picked to include representatives of the heterogeneous protest vote which elected him. It includes both political parties, even different factions within those parties. Whether or not this is the cause, it is universally agreed that not since the internal troubles of the Harding administration has interCabinet bickering been so pronounced. (Copyright, 1935. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.t TRIAL DELAY IS WON BY LOTTERY SUSPECTS Trio Accused of Selling Tickets in “Win a Suit” Gamble. Municipal Judge Charles Karabell, at the request of defense attorneys, yesterday postponed the trial of three alleged lottery operators until Saturday morning. The men—Harold Rase, 30, of 512 Insurance Building; Henry Cavalier, 39, of 52 W. Market-st, and Albert Kerick, 46. of 812 Lemcke Buildingare charged with operating a lottery’ scheme in connection with a “win-a-tailor-made-suit” lottery. The lottery’ suits are represented to be worth S4O. it is said, but the real value is said to be approximately sl4. It is understood that Several merchants, protesting that the lottery’ had injured their business, have engaged an attorney to assist in the prosecution. The warrants were signed by a Better Business Bureau 4r. ’estimator.

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Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER WASHINGTON. D. C., March 14.—For one thing your correspondent feels grateful to Huey P. Long. Gen. Hugh Johnson, and the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, and tnat is the revival of the rough-and-tumble repartee in public address and the substitution of personalities for issues. It was foolish flattery of the public intelligence ever to suggest that the citizens could understand issues and, at the present time, when even the great brows of the world are unable to get together on so simple a matter as the

substance and meaning of money, it would be a waste of time for the statesmen to address themselves to matters which they know nothing about in terms which the people couldn’t possibly understand. In these circumstances, it is a pleasure to waive issues entirely and listen to gossip instead. Huey is the most accomplished scandal-monger of his time, but he wears a tissue -paper hide, himself and, though he dearly loves to dish it out, he is unable to take it. Thus he is still inventing heroic explanations of the simple, but impressive pop in the eye which he received at

the Sands Point Club last year although, in the meanwhile his Louisiana cannons or shock-troops have bent many a blackjack over many a citizen's haircut in the simple routine of government under the dictator. The general and the priest can dish it, too, but both have shown the same sensitiveness when it comes their turn to catch. Thus, one dpad cat deserving another, the months to come give promisfe of one of the most fascinating exhibitions of name-calling and you're-anothering in the experience of men now living. a a a Words Without Meaning SINCE the heyday of Warren G. Harding, master that he was of words without meaning, the other-handed or cotton-tail type of statesman has almost driven from public life that sort. w r hich, to borrow a word from Huey, himself, may be described as the polecat breed. Mr. Harding used to bumble about the founding fathers and normalcy and you would thresh down rjl his state papers and never find a “yes” that wasn't accompanied by its own “no.” He wouldn't commit himself to the time of the day off a hatful of watches and his timidity spread to the minor statesmen and even the journalists in Washington. To your correspondent, the announcement that both sides of a political campaign had agreed to avoid personalities and keep the contest on a high plane has always suggested not so much nobility of purpose and dignity of character as a conspiracy of silence and a mutual fear that a personal campaign, conducted on a low r , human plane, would smear them all. Os course, a national campaign conducted on the proposition that one of the culprits is a wifebeater and the other a secret numismatist might not bring out the best qualities of either, and might result in the election of some very unfit public servants. But still, looking over the blank, bewildered faces of the House of Representatives and peering down at Royal S. Copeland, the yardstick of mediocrity, in the Senate, one entertains a belief that the result couldn’t be much worse and a hope that it would be a little better. The same change has come over the newspapers, both editorially and in their handling of news in the last. 20 years. Not since the World War, w T hen the Kaiser had no means of redress in the American courts and it was therefore safe to denounce him in fearless terms, have the papers dealt with an opponent or a menace in the robust language which now' falls so enjoyably from the lips of Long, Johnson and Coughlin. The laws of libel and the alertness of the gentepl type of ambulance chaser have been partly responsible for this moderation but not altogether. For the rest it is due to an intellectual dudishness and a. desire to be considered nice by the better element in the community. nan Huey Disdains Editors INSTEAD of a Jreckle-har.ded name caller with red hair on his arms and a sawed-off pool-cue under his desk, dealing in the quick, plain words that people understand, the editorial writer has become a hom-rimmed, mortarboard type, strutting his philosophy and economics in columns salted with little quotes from unknown classics and words like sophistry, Chauvinism and fiduciary, all to the greater glory and popularity of the comic strip. The average American, being, as Gen. Pershing cnce remarked, too dumb to pour paint out of his awn hat, seldom reads the editorials and, when he does, gets-sore as hell because he thinks the paper is making a mugg of that which he likes to regard as his intelligence. So. far from tagging along with the paper's editorial policy, he saves his resentment until election day and then takes his revenge in smearing every candidate and proposition on the ballot which has the indorsement of the press. Nowadays, in Louisiana, the daily papers are without influence against Huey Long, who beats them to the people with low-down, popular oratory and crawls up in their laps to overcome the high-sound-ing indignation of the press with intimate assurances that everything they say against him is just a pack of lies. Huey is what he is and your correspondent needs no telling what he is. Bv.; as between Huey Long and Royal S. Copeland neither right or wrong, the citizens would choose quickly. Rather go to hell with a wild man than nowhere with the all-Ameri-can compromise (Copyright, 1935, by United Feature Syndicate Ine.)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

ONE of the most dramatic ope"ations in medicine is that which involves cutting into the body of a prospective mother to remove her child. All sorts of superstitions are associated with common knowledge of this operation. It is said to have been called the Cesarean operation because Julius Caesar, it was belie/ed, was bom by that method. The first actual Cesarean operation which can be authenticated was one which took place in Germany in 1610. It is conceivable that the operation had been done before that time, but those cases are not authenticated, the 19th century. a a a FOR a long time there was considerable argument among surgeons as to whether the abdomen should be sewed up or kept together with adhesive tape after the operation. Then gradually stitching came into general use. First authentic record of a successful Cesarean operation in England with both mother and child living, was recorded in 1738. Possibly the first Cesarean operation successfully performed in the United States was done in 1822. However, there is a good record of a case performed in 1794 by Dr. Jesse Bennett of Virginia. This case was not reported at once in medical records, since the doctor had performed the operation on his own wife. man IN that operation the patient was stretched on a crude table consisting of two plawks, and put under the influence of a large dose of opium. The doctor did the operation himself and sewed up the wounds. The patient survived and the child, a daughter, is said to have lived to be 73 years of age. These arp remarkable records and indicate the tremendous handicaps overcome by our pioneer surgeons in their efforts to meet the needs of the ill under primitive conditions. Surgeons work today in hospitals finely equipped. They have the benefit of numerous anesthetic* suited to the individual case.

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