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It Seems to Me HEffIOOD BROUN 'T'HE arrest of E John Strmchey la a very silly business considered fron. any angle. The young English author is charged wi*h being a Communist and according to the news dispatch which I read. “He had Just finisher! a lecture in which he advocated the overthrow of the capitalistic system when he as seised by inspectors of the Bureau of Immigration Now let me point out that within the month sev-

eral thousand school superintendents sat in an Atlantic City convention hall and listened to Henry Wallace, a member of the cabinet, declare that capitalism had about reached the end of its tether Secretary Wallace did not seem to be sad and seemingly the teachers were not shocked. In fact It has become a commonplace for people to say that the old order is done for. To be sure, people who make this statement do not necessarily go on to express the belief that Communism is just around the comer. They may think in terms of a modified Socialism or

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e\en of Fascism. But brokers, bishops and bricklayers <-eem to agree that change is on the way. To be sure the mere statement of a belief does not necessarily bring it about. A mere prediction Is seldom sufficient to loose an avalanche. Although not a member of the Communist party Mr. Strarhe> has been frank enough in stating his sympathies. Still a great deal of his writing and his talking ha s been done from the semi-detached point of view of an economist discussing tides over which he per onally had no control. Even if the young English author did 'advocate' rather than ’predict" or "indicate" the overthrow of capitalism, it is hard to believe that his words would materially accelerate the coming of a crisis. m m m lecture Tour About Finished BUT the silliest thing of all in the action of the Bureau o? Immigration is its timing. When pounced upon Mr. Strachev was Just about done with his lecture tour. According to the theory, he will now be shipped back to England and our Republic will be saved once more from a radical menace. . , . The theory, of course. Is completely cock-eyed. Evelvn John St. Lne Strachev is a writer of parts and prodigality. He has written well and voluminously on current economic problems. Evfn in the most extensive lecture tour he could hardly reach more than a fraction of the large public which has read his books. . . And his books will remain behind him. And they will be more eagerly read than ever. A book buyer for one of the big department stores told me recently that the luckiest thing which could happen to an author was to have his work mentioned by Alexander Woollcott. I'd rather have an arrest and a deportation. In fact. I've already jotted down on my list of "things to do today”— remember to go out and buy Strachey's last three books.” Visiting writers appear to get all the breaks. For Instance young Strachev seems to have found it no trouble at all to get arrested. My friend MacNamara. the singing cop of Paterson, tells me that John Reed had a terrible time breaking into jail some years ago during a silk strike. Jack had just done his brilliant senes of articles on Villa and the World hired him to rover the silk strike. The police had orders not to arrest him. Every riav the wagons drove away crowded with pickets, bn* Reed was ignored. One day Reed was so much more militant than anybody else on the line that a rookie cop took him into custody. Next day the World had a two-column story about the rats and mice and insects of the cell block. m m m Sobndif W ants to Go to Jail THE sheriff was furious and sent for the rookie policeman. • Now see what you've done," he shouted, W’aving ♦he newspaper article in the air. "Didn t I tell you not to let that man into my nice clean jail?" Os course a lot of stuff and nonsense is written about people wanting to go to jail. Nobody wants to go. but it is quite possible to And yourself in the position where it seems more honorable to be inside than out. . Recently I have been anxious to test certain phases of a New Jersey injunction. A Newark newspaper man and I were discussing just what might happen "As far as I'm concerned." I said, "thirty da vs would be a terrible nuisance, but it would hardly be tragic. If they'd let me write I could catch up with some work and it might not be so bad to be absolutely shut off from drinks " What do vou mean no drinks ” said the Newark man whoso iocal pride had been injured by my chance remark. "Os course, you can get drinks in our jail. I don't mean mixed drinks, but the rye and the gin and the Scotch are as good as you can get anvwhere.” And even so I don't think a limited term would entitle me to put on a martyr's crown. iCopvrltht. 1935*

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

\HUGE model. 115 feet lons, of the Cape Cod Canal and Buzzard Bay. is being built by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Const met ion of this model, so large that an ent.re building has been set aside for it. marks the first step m the proposed enlargement of the Cape Cod Canal. . ~ . . The model will be used to solve problems which must be met before the canal can be enlarged. The Cape Cod Canal is 13 miles long, going across the cape from Cape Cod Bay to Buzzards Bay. The early explorers recognized the dangers of navigation around Cape Cod and \errazzano. the Italian explorer, commented in 1524 upon the danger of its fogs, storms and strong rip tides. The Pilgrims of Provmcetown made the first plans for a canal across the cape after several of their number had lost their lives m the dangerous journeys around the rape. George Washington in 1776 sent an engineer to search for a possible rcuic liiiough the cape by which small vessels might outsail the slower vessels of Lord Howe s fleet. m m m IN 1791. the Massachusetts Legislature ordered another survey. Nothing came of that or of nine other similar movements between 1791 and 1830. Finallv m 1870. the Legislature authorized the Cape Cod Ship Canal Cos. to start constriction It was unable to do so. Six more companies subsequently tried and failed. Finally in 1909 the Boston. Cape Cod. New Canal Cos. commenced construction of the present canal and completed it in 1916. The canal was difficult to construct and is difficult to r.av.gate because of the difference m tides between Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay. The average rise and fall of the tide in Cape Cod Bay is five feet greater than in Buzzards Bay. There is also a time difference c .* three hours between the tides in the two bays. Asa result of this, the tide in Buzzards Bay is rising while the tide in Cape Cod Bay is still falling and the tide m Buzzards Bay begin to ebb several hours before high water is reached in Cape Cod Bay. These differences m level cause strong currents to go rushing through the Cape Cod Canal. m m m WIDENING and deepening the canal will introW dure changes in the canal. These, in turn, complicate the process of making the alterations. It is for this reason that the model is being built. The project is under the direct ion-of Prof. Kenneth C. Reynolds of the department of civil and sanitary engineering. The model is being built to a scale of approximately nine feet to the mile and Is being constructed of concrete and sand to form a channel which reproduces accurately the curving path of the canal across the cape.

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The LOVE LETTERS o/ NAPOLEON to MARIE LOUISE

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN His Brother a Traitor Too? TyjA BONNE AMIE, I am forwarding to you a letter from your father. I opened it by mistake, tell me what is in it if it is likely to interest me. I am in good health, though rather fatigued. The enemy is posted in very strong positions at I.aon, where he is hiding. Give a kiss to my son and never doubt all my sentiments. NAPOLEON Chavignon, the 10th, 8 a. m. (March, 1814) Marie Ixmise made no secret of her displeasure at the opening of her mail ostensibly “by mistake.” “1 send you a bouquet and an open letter,” she wrote to the Duchess de Montebello. “Don't conclude that I am getting into the Emperor's charming ways; I opened it only on the orders of the person who wrote it, because it contained a letter for me as well.” The letters she received from the Emperor were so hard to decipher that she called in King Joseph to help her, “as we have got to have the news the Emperor sends published in the newspapers." Asa result an intimacy grew up between them, to which Napoleon took exception: Joseph "has the reputation of loose ways with women. Keep him at a distance.” "King Joseph says very tiresome things to me,” Marie Louise wrote to the Duchess de Montebello. What exactly did she mean by tiresome?” And w r as there good reason for Napoleon's tone of deep distress? Mon amie, I have received your letter. Do not be too familiar with the King; keep him at a distance, never allow him to enter vour private apartments, receive him ceremoniously as Cambaceres does, and when in the drawingroom do not let him play the part of adviser as to your behavior and mode of life, you manage better than he does, i approve of your going to the terrass (?) by the underground passage (?), vhat the King says is nonsense and in any case it is not the business of the public. I hope you are not altering your manner in life in any way, it is perfect, marvelous, and has earned you the esteem of everybody; you have therefore only to go on as you have been doing. When a King attempts to give you advice, which it is not his business to do, as I am not far away from you. you should break off the subject and talk of

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WASHINGTON. March 15.—Members of the Senate Finance Committee, now investigating the NRA, have decided that hereafter they will demand original copies of NRA reports. Reason: Senators have discovered that under the Blue Eagle there are reports—and reports. On the opening day of the probe. “Assistant President” Don Richberg was asked to furnish the committee with copies of the NRA Research and Planning Division report.

This is the document which, among other things, declared: That while pay rolls in December. 1934. were only about 60 per cent of the total in 1926. dividends and interest were 150 per cent of their total in 1926; that code fixed minimum wages showed a marked tendency to become maximum; that 40 per cent of the workers employed under codes are working more than 40 hours a week; that the big industries in general were allowed to fix the lowest minimum pay scales and that the NRA is costing the country $55,000,000 a year to operate. The next morning bound copies of the report were handed each Senator. But when several of them began pouring through the document they found it consisted almost entirely of bewildering charts, graphs and tabulations. All the damning textual matter mentioned above was mysteriously missing. When challenged on the deletions by Alabama's Senator Hugo Black. Mr. Richberg insisted that the submitted copies were no different from the original. ,- We just left out some of the discursive language." he said. “I should say you did." shot back Senator Black. “That ‘discursive' language is exactly what we want to see. Please see that we get it.” Mr. Richberg promised to get him an original copy—if one was available. m * m THE fate of the bonus issue this session revolves about only one question: Can the backers of the legislation muster sufficient support to override the veto of the President? Congress is certain to pass a bonus bill. Whether it will be the Patman measure, which would finance the payment with an issue of greenbacks, or whether it will be the Legion-backed Vinson bill, which would leave the method of financing up to the Treasury and thereby presumably raise the money by a bond flotation. is any man's guess. Because the Vinson bill has the Legion's indorsement the chances favor its enactment. But one of the bills is certain to be laid on the White House doorstep and the real trial ol strength between the

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something else and be cold to him. Be very reserved in your manner to the King; no intimacy, and whenever you can do so. talk to him in the presence of the Duchess and by a window. This, however, is not absolutely necessary. But do not allow him to interfere too much in what is no concern of his and in your household affairs, which never are. Adieu, mon amie. The weather is very bad. Tout a toi. Nap. Soissons, March 11th, 3 p. m. (1814). Ma bonne Louise, I have received your last k?tter. I am forwarding your letter to your father, through the outposts. I am sorry you showed the King vour father’s letter and his (your?) reply. You trust him too much. Such communications should be made to no one but me. Every one has betrayed me. Will it be my fate to be betrayed by the King? Mistrust the King, he has an evil reputation with women and an ambition which has become habitual with him in Spain, and if you wash to please me and not make me unhappy, show the King none of my letters, or of your father’s, or of your own answers. Keep him at a distance. They tell me the King has conceived the insensate and guilty intention of having addresses sent me in favor of peace. Wet*? this to be done, I should be very angry; it would lead to nothing and it would spoil all France’s affairs. Why do you speak to me of this? I say it again, keep the King away from your trust and from yourself, if you care for my satisfaction and happiness. All this depresses ms rather; I need to be comforted by the members of my family, but as a rule I get nothing but vexation from that quarter. On your part, however, it would be both unexpected and unbearable. Adieu, mon amie. Tout a toi. NAP. Soissons, the 12th, 3 r- m. (March, 1814). nun ON the same day Napoleon wrote as follows to Meneval, who had apprised him of King Joseph's intrigues: “I have received your letter; your reply was a good one. I shall treat as an act of rebellion the first address soliciting -peace that is presented me.” Thus Joseph, who had sought to probe his brother's intentions through the meduim of his secretary, was duly warned. He had tried to induce Marie Louise herself to take a similar step. Mon amie. I thank you for the beautiful and precious watchchain you have sent to me. I have received your two letters. The King is intriguing; he will be the first to suffer, he is a pygmy, swelling with his own importance. Without honor and a sense of duty a man can accomplish nothing. I recognized your beautiful soul in your letter and in the love you bear me. I can not conceive how I can have distressed you. it distresses me very much, but I wanted to write to you plainly, so as to avoid all unpleasantness. Adieu, ma bonne Louise. Y’ou know how I value

President and Congress on the issue will then ensue. And the contest will be settled—as has been the case in every previous test—in the Senate. The House is overwhelmingly for immediate payment of the bonus. Whether two-thirds of the Senate can be rallied to override the President remains to be seen. ana WASHINGTONS taxi drivers are noted for their gossipy chattiness. But there is one young driver, working his way through law school, who is wondering whether silence is not goldep. Morning after Huey Long's radio reply to Gen. Johnson, he was hailed by a woman who asked to be driven to the Senate Office Building. 'That was some speech the Kingfish made last night," the driver observed. "Wasn't it,” replied his fare, pleasantly. "I thought Senator Long made a most excellent talk.” "He sure told the General what was what.” "Didn't he!” As the woman alighted she said: "Young man. I am Senator Caraway and I wart you to know how pleased I am at finding such an intelligent chauffeur.” Returning uptown, the taxi driver was again hailed by a woman who asked to be driven to the House Office Building. “I sure got a kick out of listening to Huey Long last night,” began. “I think it disgusting that man should be allowed to talk the way he did.” was the cold reply. "American politics have fallen to a low state, indeed.” The driver shifted to a different tack. “It sure looks that way,” he said. ' But then, all politicians are crooKs and I guess Huey is no different from the rest.” “Young man.” came the angry rejoinder. “I am Mrs. Mary T. Morton, Congresswoman from New Jersey. I have been in politics for 14 years and I am no crook.” Note: Democratic Mrs. Norton is allied with the famous Mayor Hague machine of Jersey City. < Copyright. IMS. br United Fsature Syndicate. Inc.)

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The fatal letter to Marie Louise, which Blucher intercepted and used to defeat Napoleon is reproduced above. It disclosed to the Prussian general that Bonaparte intended to move his army toward the Marne, counting upon the fact that his enemies would not know that the way to Paris was unguarded. But this note to the Empress told them. Instantly all the allied forces threw themselves on Paris. The city capitulated on March 31. Os the catastrophe Napoleon was completely unaware at the time. Only three days before he had reported to Marie Louise that he had beaten his foes badly.

your judgment and your character, and above all how deeply I love you. Tout a toi. Your faithful. NAP Rheims, the 14th, noon. (March, 1814) The Emperor is grieved to lean that Marie Louise has been distressed by his admonitions. Ih was his duty to warn her against King Joseph's intrigues—“a pigmy, swelling with his own importance. Without honor and a sense of duty a man can accomplish nothing.” A reflection worthy of Corneille, and obviously inspired by the classics. And here is another sentiment of the same order, in a dispatch sent to King Joseph on March 16. "Whatever happens, you must not allow the Empress and the King of Rome to fall into the enemy’s hands. . . . Stay with my son and do not forget that I would sooner see him drowned in the Seine than captured by the enemies of France. The tale of Astyanax, captive of the Greek’s, has always struck me as the saddest page of history.” Such, however, was to be the tragic destiny of Napoleon 11, the “Aigglon.” “I shall find him quite grown up,” the Emperor writes. He was never to see him again! A letter for King Joseph was written March 18, 1884. aatt “IYyCY brother, I reached Eper--IVI. nay this evening and tomorrow, before daybreak, I shall set out for Arcis-sur-Aube, where I shall be on the 19th. at noon. I shall throw three bridges over the river and, according to circumstances, advance either on Mery or on Troyes, so as to take the enemy in the rear. This means that the Due de Tarente (Macdonald) will have to dispute every inch of ground. The Due de Raguse (Marmont) has stayed at Bery-le-Bac; the Due de Trevise (Mortier) is at Rheims, and Gen. Charpentier at Soissons. “I am leaving Brig.-Gen. Vincent at Epernay; he is in charge of all the mass-levies. I do not think it likely that Blucher. who has had a good drubbing, will be able to make a move before two days. He will then have to cross the Aisne, and the Due de Raguse,

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as well as the Due de Trevise, will put up a stubborn resistance against him. My advance will throw the enemy's rearguard into the utmost confusion.” What rashness thus to unmask his plans! Mon amie, I forcibly crossed the Aube and the Seine yesterday. I gained possession of Mery, I cut the road from Paristo Troye, I took a fine pontoon equipment from the eneim who has evacuated Xogent, Vitry and the entire bank of the Aube, My affairs (are going) well. My health is good, the weather is fine. Write and tell your father that the idea of compelling me to make peace by humiliating us and taking Antwerp from us is impracticable, that the city has great influence over every country, that they will eventually be beaten, with the Empire more powerful than ever, that you entreat him not to sacrifice the Empire to England's greed, and to take into consideration not the passions of Stadion and the rest of them, but the interests of his monarchy, the welfare of his family, the peace and quietness of his life; let him make peace on the basis of Frankfort; it will be secure, and is the only one comformable with the interests of his monarchy; tell him to beware lest he be compelled, in a few months’ time, to make peace on unf(avorable) terms; to be quite sure that nothing will lead the Emperor to give up anything, for at Chatillon they would again declare it insufficient. Tout a toi. Nap. Flancy, March 20th, 1 a. m. After receiving her husband’s letter, the Empress sent him a rather colorless reply. It was intercepted by the allies’ scouts. She also wrote to “Papa Francois”: “Your army may well be beaten, for the Emperor’s army is finer and stronger than ever. You may find yourself obliged to conclude peace on much less easy terms. Thus you are sacrificing the interests of your monarchy and your prospects of a happy life.” an tt ON March 24th, Marie Louise wrote to the Duchess de Montebello: “I have just heard that the courier of the 23rd was

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captured. What a misadventure! It angers me!" And well it might be! The courier was the bearer i of extremely important news: Mon amie, I have been in the saddle all the last few days. On (he 20th I took Arcis-sur-Aube. The enemy attacked me there at 6 o'clock in the evening; I beat ; him the same day, killing 400i0). I took 2 of his guns, he took 2 of mine, which leaves us quits. On the 21st, the enemy army formed up k. battle array fo* the purpose of covering the advance of his convoys towards Brienne and Bar-sur-Aube. I decided to make for the Marne and his line of communications, in order to push him back further from Paris and draw nearer to his fortress. I shall be at Saint-Didier this afternoon. Adieu, mon amie. A kiss to my son. Nap. (Undated). Apologizing with ironical politeness for having opened the letter, the Prussian General—Blucher — forwarded it to its destination, "iaying it at the feet of the August daughter of His Majesty the Emperor of Austria.” The Allies were now fully informed. Napoleon was turning his back to the capital. The road to Paris was free. The tide of invasion promptly swept along it. The Minister of Police, Savary, to whom Marie Louise related the mishap, failed to discern its frightful consequences; he did not warn the Emperor, but allowed him to be overwhelmed by fatality. We refer to the Memoirs of the Aide-de-camp, Count de Segur. On March 24, the catastrophe began. Whereas all the Allied forces were converging on Paris, the Emperor fancied he was keeping them at a distance by taking them the rear. He pushed his light cavalry towards Bar-sur-Aube, his Guard towards Brienne, thus separating the Emperor of Austria—who beat a precipitate retreat towards Dijon—from Schwartzenberg, his Commandor-in-Chief. To the Empress Napoleon sends a victorious note: Ma bonne Louise, I have been 5 or fi days without news of you. Those wretched Cossacks are the cause of this. I am drawing nearer to you and I hope to hear from you tomorrow. I gave the enemy a good thrashing yesterday. I am anxious to have news of you. Tout a toi. NAP. Bar-sur-Aube, March 28th (1814) nan THE enemy” was the Russian Corps under Wintzingerode —a mere curtain, a make-believe of an army, behind which Napoleon, to his amazement, discovered nothing. What could be happening? An army order issued by the enemy commander-in-chief fell into the hands of Macdonald, who brought it to the Emperor. It announced the victory of the Allies at La Fere-Champenoise. the flight of Marshals Marmont and Mortier and, on their heels, the advance of the Allied forces on Paris. The enemy had indeed stolen a march on him; they were striking at the heart of France —Paris, the vital center of the country. Consumed with anxiety, the Emperor remained the whole night (March 27th-28th) poring over his maps. His choice fell upon the road from Troyes. Along this, covered by the Seine, he would march to relieve the capital. Marie Louise left on the 29th for Rambouillet, and then for Troyes. “In leaving Paris, you lose your crown.” groaned Queen Hortense. “I will not leave home,” shrieked the little King of Rome; “Papa being aivay, I am the master.” “Parisians. I am staying with you," proclaimed King Joseph. “Let us arm to protect the city, its monuments, its wealth, our wives and children, all that is dear to us.” And the very next day, the “Pygmy” took to flight. The Marshals—Mortier and Marmont—agreed to a capitulation, which was signed on March 31, at 5 p. m. Convened by Talleyrand, the Senate decided upon the formation of a provisional government. "A flood of abuse, slander and calumny took the place of the marks of respect and devotion formerly carried to the point of adulation. All sense of independence was cast off by the majority of the official bodies.” The Allies marched into Paris with green sprigs in their bonnets or shakes, and white armlets. “I will treat no further with Napoleon,” declared the Czar, Alexander, and accepted Talleyrand's hospitality. NEXT—Abdication. (Copyright. 1935. in France by Bibliotheaue Nationaie; in all other countries bv United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction either in whole or in part prohibited. All rights reserved.i HOOSIER HIGH SCHOOL DESTROYED BY BLAZE 8125.000 Stinesville Fire Laid to Defective Flues. li<j l nihil I’rri t* STINESVILLE. Ind.. March 15. Defective flues were blamed for fire which destroyed the Stinesville High School and gymnasium last night. Loss tvas estimated at $125,000 by F. L. O’Neal, principal. Classes of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration were being held in the building when the blaze started. All escaped without injury. BAD WEATHER DELAYS MYSTERY PLANE HOP Flight to Be Made When Conditions Permit is Announcement. B<j T iiitril Prrn OAKLAND. Cal., March 15.—Unfavorable weather today delayed the take-off of a mystery plane on a flight from Oakland to Honolulu in testing a robot pilot and anew radio compass. The flight will be made as soon as weather conditions improve on the 2400-mile "great circle" route between the mainland and the Hawaiian Islands. i

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Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER WASHINGTON, D. C., March 15—Probably only a few, if any. citizens ha\’e any conception of the rubbish which is inseri ' in the Congressional Record day after day to be published at the expense of the government. The cast of the record has been estimated by one of the statesmen at from S6OOO to S7OOO a day or sufficient to provide a dole or work r°lief at the rate of $3 a day or $lB a week for at least 2000 families. This would hardly be regarded as a good income in some sections of the

country although the same amount of money might yield desirable results if applied to the wants of 2000 families in those desperi’e sections of the South and West where many people seldom see any money at all any more. The luxury of the Congressional Record is one which the citizens, if they were aware of the character of the report, might be willing to curtail almost to extinction. Os course, the members of the lower house would make pathetic objections to any such proposal because, under the restrictions on debate. they are not allowed to say

much on the floor. Therefore, they use the record to obtain publicity for themselves, inserting speeches which they have written or caused their secretaries to write. The silent orations represent what they would have said if anybody had been interested in hearing from them. The publicity is almast secret, however, because the record is one of the most stifling bores that the world has ever known and is almost as widely neglected as the legal notices in the daily papers. nun Some Classic Examples A FEW samples, selected from recent numbers of the Record will suggest what matter the statesmen are publishing at the expense of the citizens. There is, for instance, the extension of the remarks of the Hon. William A. Pittenger of Minnesota on Feb. 26. On that day Mr. Pittenger said it had been his pleasure to attend the banquets of the Boosters’ Society in New York a short time before and to hear an address by Congressman Wilburn Cartwright of Oklahoma, grand master of the Oklahoma Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows. Mr. Pittenger is grand sire of the boosters. Mr. Pittenger inserted Mr. Cartwright’s speech to the Boosters which ran. in part, as follows: “A certain college professor asked this question: ‘lt a billygoat should eat a rabbit what would happen?’ They were all stumped so he made the answer, “There would be a hare in the butter.’ Now at the risk of being considered a ‘hair’ in butter, I will indulge in a little discourse right here on the relation of fraternalism and American statesmanship.” Mr. Cartwright then discussed the relation of fraternalism and American statesmanship at some length, but in no strikingly original way and presently told the Boosters: “Now I will assure you that there is no lie in w'hat I say to you when I assert that George Washington stands among the greatest men of human history and that those in the same rank with him are very few.” Mr. Cartwright’s remarks amounted to almost three columns of very small type in the Record, thanks to the thoughtfulness of his friend and colleague, Mr. Pittenger, the grand sire of the Boasters. a a a More of the Same ✓"AN Feb. 27, the Hon. Aubert C. Dunn of Mississippi, caused to be inserted a discourse on the topic of the lawyer and justice wTitton by George B. Ethridge, associate justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court and clipped from the Jackson (Miss.) Daily News. This covered more than tw’o entire pages of the Congressional Record. On the same day, Mr. Wood of Missouri, had the honor to insert a long speech which his distinguished, but bashful, colleague, Mr. Connery, of Massachusetts, had delivered over the radio some days before. This speech dealt with labor problems and was by no means trivial or foolish of itself, but had already been heard by his radio audience and could serve no purpose in the Record but to occupy space and cost money. There are also carried in the Record pages of petitions from many small groups of citizens urging Congress to commemorate the birthday of Gen. Kasimir Pulaski, to do something about the state of religion in Mexico and to pass the Townsend or Pope old-age pension plan. All of which, as a few' of the statesmen have been pointing out of late, serves no purpose but to create expense amounting to from S6OOC to S7OOO a day and permits the members to create a show of activity before any constituents of theirs who may happen to have nothing better to do than read the Congressional Record. (Copyright, 1935. by United Feature Syndicate Inc.t

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

' I ’’HIS is the season of the year when scarlet fever is especially prevalent. Occasionally there are outbreaks in schools. In mast of the large cities, many cases are being reported daily. Scarlet fever is. of course, catching. It spreads from one child to another. Time between exposure of the child to the disease and development of the rash is short. Usually the eruption occurs on the skin from two to four days after the child has been in association with another who has had scarlet fever. One attack of scarlet fever usually protects. After a child has once had the disease, it is not likely to develop another attack. However, the severe sore throat and other serious symptoms associated with the disease are in themselves sufficiently serious to make it unwise to expose a child in any way to the germs. a a a r T~'HE germs that cause scarlet fever are capable of infecting ears, nose and throat. As with other diseases, the child who has recovered from scarlet fever may carry the germs about and infect others. The time when most persons are infected is at the height of the disease, when discharges from nose and throat of the diseased child are full of the infecting germs. Scarlet fever usually begins like other infectious diseases, with high fever, vomiting and general feeling of sickness. At the end of the first 24 hours, a bright scarlet eruption appears on the skin. a a a ANOTHER characteristic of scarlet fever is the manner in which the skin peels as the condition improves. If the skin is well cared for during scarlet fever, the peeling takes place in small scales. In care of the skin, it should be bathed daily and covered with oil. There are many conditions in which eruptions like those of scarlet fever appear, so that the doctor has to decide if the condition is scarlet fever or something else. Rashes from sensitivity to certain foods are frequently mistaken for scarlet fever. However, in those conditions, the sore throat, the peculiar strawberry-like appearance of the tongue, and the high fever are absent. If properly cared for. children with scarlet fever usually get well. When improperly cared for, serious complications result, affecting sinuses, nose, throat and ears. Also, the kidneys may be disturbed. To overcome these possibilities, the child with scarlet fever now is kept in bed for at least four weeks and not allowed up for any purpose. It must be kept comfortably warm.

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