Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1935 — Page 7

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It Seems to Me HFYWOoII BROUN 11THEN the role of th<* Lord was first offered to W Rtchard B. Harrison he was loath to accept It. The stage was a field unfamiliar to h;m and he had built up for himself through the course of many years a rmall circuit of churches and colleges where he appeared a.s an elocutionist. No one could foretell whether “The Green Pasture*" wotJld survive or perish and It was distinctly possible that there might be public resentment against the theme itself. Some of the Negro churches

might very well take offense at Mr. Harrison's stepping on a stage and get themselves some other circuit elocutionist. Mr. Harrison weighed ail the factors carefully and decided to refuse the role. At 9 o'clock that night Marc Connelly was to call up for a final answer. Mrs. Harrison was in the room with her hsuband. She had agreed with him that this venture into the theater was too r.sky. And so it was all set that Richard B Harrison should round out his days in doing Shakespeare recitations and readings from the Bible The telephone bell rang and Mr.

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Harrison picked up the receiver. “Yes, Mr. Connelly,” he said, "111 take the role. Ye* I'll be on hand for rehearsals at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. I want you to know that you can count on me. I won't fail you.” The old gentleman replaced the receiver on Its hook and turned to his wife with an amazed look upon his face. “That wasn't what I meant to av " he explained. “It was ail decided I was going to refuse. That couldn't have been me speaking. It mast have been the Lord.” a a a •First Sigh ter*' Melted AT anv rate they could count on Richard B Harrison and he did not fail them. The record was lfiST times. He missed not a single performance until he was seized with his mortal illness. I saw the first performance aud no actor ever carried upon his shoulders a greater responsibility than did this elderly elocutionist to whom the theater wa* an unfamiliar place. No player, to be sure, ever had written for him a finer entrance cue than that shout of Gabriels. “Gangway for the Lord God Jehovah ” But the actor who has to walk out after that line is certainly, as you might say. on the spot. If Mr Harrison had bungled in any way on that f rs? mght The Green Pastures” might very well have closed, in a week instead of running for five V rar His entrance had to mark a very sudden and violent change of mood. It was all right to laugh a’ the angels m the fish fry but now it wasn't funny anv more If the audience chose to identify Mr. Harrison as a comic figure the whole enterprise sank on that instant from the misunderstanding. The house was filled with what is called “a typical first night audience.” It is not the most tender or senstive sort of gathering. Broadway is sentimental. of course, but it is given to laughing at the wrong things and in the wrong places And it laughs too loud. And it thinks of the Negro as a funny man. a * * Second Trumpet Call !•> ICHARD B % HARRISON walked out upon that IV * age and into a hush as deep as the morning of • ication daw. Before he uttered a single lme he hao already gnen a groat Performance He did it with the carriage of his head, the set of his back and shoulders and the glow of the spirit which was within him. . . . • The p.av went on to win its triumph and aoJaim. It was not a particularly smooth first night performance. A few cues were muffed. Gabriel went dr\ m the middle o' a long speech and Mr. Harrison. himself, made a few minor slips. But this was all tolerably unimportant. When Gabriel called there was a man in the wings who had m his own person some of the aspects of deity. His faith was profound and in the days before he died I imagine that Richard B. Harrison must have rpeculated as to what the second trumpet call might be like In him. of all mortals, there could flash a vague feeling. “Some how. some time, this place I have seen before.” \nd I hope that this fine man and actor died with assurance in his heart that to another old trouper there had come the call to Join the original company. •Copyright. 1935) #

Today s Science by DAVID DIETZ—

A RTIFICIAL suns, hung in the airshafts of New /V York apartment houses, is the latest contribution of the General Electric Cos. to the art of living in Manhattan. The scheme has been worked out upon the suggest ton of Clifton E Smith. New York, consulting engineer. It is bemg tried out in a building on Central Park South. The building, a 14-story one. has a number ot windows facing into ventilating shafts, as do counties buildings in New York and elsewhere. Sunlight, of courrse. does not penetrate to the lower levels of tnrse wells with any great success. There is some light, of course, but hardly streams of golden sun- ** At Mr. Smith's suggestion, the General Electric engineers mounted 18 standard floodlights at the ninth floor level in two of the ventilating shafts. These send a flood of light into the lower level of the shafts that is particularly welcome on dark, gloomy days. Tests made at the apartment house indicate that when the window shades are half-way down, there is a startling similarity to natural sunlight. Realizing that the sudden flashing on of these floodlights might come as a shock to some Manhattanite engaged in shaving in the gloom of the early morning hours, possibly resulting in a serious cut, the engineers have arranged an automatic time switch so that it takes the lights 15 minutes to attain their full brilliance. mm m THUS the artificial sun rises and sets in a fashion that to some extent duplicate the lighting conditions created by the real sun. This artificial sun. rising over its ninth-floor horizon in the well of a New York apartment, is somewhat of a comment upon present-day civilization. Undoubtedly the persons who much live in such an apartment are better off for its presence. Light is u eful and pleasant and the next best thing to the real sun mav be something which looks like it. Thfre is one school of modern architecture which sees the future in terms of mechanics. The proproner.ts of this school would prefer to build houses and apartments without wmdows at all. They would depend upon air conditioning to stimulate the breezes BT the tang of autumn They would, of course, abolish both the cold of winter and the heat of summer. Ultra-violet lamps, added to the usual lighting fixtures, would give a healthy indoor tan. a 9 m * | "'HERE is. however, an important question for V city planners to ask themselves. Do we want to wall ourselves up into houses without windows? Wouldn't is be better if we built our cities so that we might take greater advantage of sun and wind and the great outdoors? There have been suggestions which would permit the development of a modem city to take advantage of nature. One is that skyscrapers be built at reasonable intervals with large open fields around them. One architect has visioned such a city of tall spires set amid *rat lawns and beautiful flower gardens.

Questions and Answers

Q—ln which year was the largest production of automobiles in the United States? A—The peak year was 1929. when 4 794 898 passenger cars and 826.817 trucks were produced. Q—Where did Noah's Ark rest after the flood? A—Mt. Ararat la Armenia is the traditional resting place.

The LOVE LETTERS of NAPOLEON to MARIE LOUISE

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Abdication /"\N the very day (March 31) that the Allies marched into Paris, Napoleon was informed at Fontainebleau of the Empress’ departure, and at Essonnes of the battle that had started. The Emperor, who was impatient to reach Paris, caught sight near Athis of a troop of cavalry—Mortier’s

advance guard. “Halt!” he commanded. “How comes it • you are here. Where is the enemy ? Where is the Army? Who is guarding Paris? Where is the Empress? Joseph? Clarke? How about Montmartre? What about my soldiers?” “The army?” replied Gen. Belliard. “It is made up of workmen, Polytechnicians, the National Guard. 28,000 foot, who held out for some little time against 120.000 men Montmartre? Devoid of artillery. Joseph? In flight. The troops? They have left the capital.” “They have all lost their heads, then!” roared Napoleon. “Very well, we must go to Paris.” “Too late!” declared Caulaincourt dejectedly. And the Emperor, overwhelmed, sat down, at 3 in the morning, at a table in the Cour de France post house to write: Mon amie, I came here to defend Paris: but it was too late. The city had been surrendered in the evening. I am assembling my army in the direction of Fontainebleau. My health is good. I suffer at the thought of what you must suffer. Nap. The Court of France, March 31st, 3 a. m. .1814) Then he proceeded to Fontainebleu. Mon amie, the auditor Paravicini has just arrived and given me news of you. You may: 1 remain at Elois; 2 send me whom you please and take thinks upon yourself; 3 issue proclamations and call meetings, as the provisional Government of Paris does; 4 write a very strong letter to your father, commending yourself and your son to his care; send the Duke de Cadore to Vienna. Make it clear to your lather that the time has come for hin. to help us. Adieu, mon amie. keep in good health. Tout a toi. Nap. Font lainebleau). April 3rd, 6 p. m. (1814) a a a r T'HE emperor was dismayed. To an offer of abdication, the reply of the Czar Alexander, which Caulaincourt bore, was as follows: “But what is to be done with the emperor? The father is an insuperable obstacle to the recognition of the son.” While Callaincourt was wrapped in silent consternation, the military chiefs, assembled in an adjoining room, lost their tempers and declared that an end must be made of the matter; further submission would be carrying obedience to the point of servility; the emperor had no right to involve everybody in his downfall; having molded his destiny himself, it was for him alone to bear the evil consequences. And Marshal Ney, spurred on by

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

’IY/' ASHINGTON, March 16.—Democratic House leaders have told the President that the Patman bonus bill probably will be approved rather than the Vinson measure, although the Vinson bill is backed by the Legion and was recommended by the Ways and Means Committee. Both bilLs call for immediate payment; but the Patman measure would raise the money by an issue of Treasury certificates, u'hile the Vinson proposal would leave the financing up to the Treasury.

In inner Administration circles it is suggested that if the Vinson bill becomes law, the President will ask Congress to raise the required $2,000,000,000 through taxation. . . . Missouri’s Senator Bennett Clark is now averaging more than 6000 letters a day against the holding corporation bill. He and other Senators say the deluge is so patently an organized propaganda campaign that they are not even bothering to send out a form letter reply. . . . Senate cloak rooms are buzzing with a report that the Administration is secretly planning to use $7,000,000 of the $4,800,000,000 work-re-lief fund for seadrome experimenting. Directo" of Air Commerce Eugene Vidal and Amelia Earhart. close friend of Mrs. Roosevelt, are zealous advocates of seadromes. ana ILLUSTRATIVE of the intensity of iuter-Admimstration bickering is tne fact that A. C. Shoemaker of Seattle recently was ousted from the AAA for helping elect a Democratic Senator in the State of Washington. Mr. Shoemaker wrote a pamphlet for Democratic Senator Lewis Schwellenbach on 'End Poverty in Washington." Discovering this, Alfied Stedman. AAA Assistant Administrator. called him in, made him sign an undated letter of resignation. Recently Mr. Stedman filled in the date and accepted the resignation. A similar incident in the Coolidge Administration caused a congressional investigation of the Tariff Commission. . , After the recent purge of the AAA the files of three lawyers—Alger Hiss. Lee Pressman and Francis Shea—were carefully searched and sealed. . . . AAA lawyers are now barred from getting carbon copies of rountine letters. Apparently Chester Davis. AAA Administrator, is sitting up nights worrying lest a congressional committee learn something he doesn't want them to know. a a a SETH THOMS, solicitor of the Agriculture Department, is now in charge of AAA legal work. He expects to get a Federal Judgeship in lowa soon. Calling in one of the young AAA lawyers,

this vehemence, made for the emperor's private study: “Sire,” he declared bluntly, “it is time to make an end of it! Your situation is that of a sick man whom there is no hope of saving. You must draw up your will and abdicate in favor of the King of Rome.” The thrust went home. The father must sacrifice himself for his son. It was for the grandfather, for the Emperor of Austria, to intervene in favor of the grandson. “Long live the emperor!” shouted the Old Guard, at the idea of marching on Paris. But how about these others—the excellencies, the dukes, the marshals? The emperor had learned his lesson. On the 4th he signed the act of abdication: “The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon was the sole obstacle to the restoration of order in Europe, the Emperor Napoleon, faithful to his oath, declares himself prepared to descend from the throne, to leave France, nay to give up his very life for the country's good, which is bound up with the rights of his son. with those of the Empress's Regency, and the upholding of the laws of the Empire. Drafted in our Palace at Fontainebleau, April 4, 1814.” And the next day, the Emperor declared his decision in the army orders: “A soldier shares the good and the evil fortunes of his general, his honor and his religion. The Emperor’s honor will never be in contradiction with the happiness of France.” He himself was no longer anything. His last hope lay in the appeal to the Emperor of Austria, which was made by Champagny, Due de Cadore, the bearer of a petition from the Empress: “Once more, my beloved Father, I beg to have pity on me. I entrust to you the welfare of what is dearest to me—my son. . . I should be so glad to be able to say, later on, that it is to you he owes his happiness, his peace, as well as those of his father and of her who kisses your hands very lovingly.” NEXT c.ay, April Bth, Napoleon sent to his faithful Meneval, whom he had appointed as secretary to Marie Louise, a letter in code, instinct with the deepest dejection. Segur, his aide-de-camp, was acquainted with its terms: the Emperor observed that anything was to be expected, even his death. And he ordered the recipient of the letter to burn it after reading it and to make use of its contents with due discretion. The act of one about to die, thought Meneval; and he awaited with the utmost anxiety further news from Fontainebleau. It arrived on the next day and the next day but one. Mon amie, I have received your letter of the 7th. I was glad to see your health was better than was to be expected. A truce has been agreed upon and one of the

he said: "You young Irish and Jewish boys are too smart for me. I can't keep up with you. I want you to promise me you won't pull any fast stuff. Just routine —just routine.” . . . Hugh Gibson. American ambassador to Brazil, always labels his baggage (in his own handwriting) “His Excellency.” Latest slogan whispered inside the Administration: "Now is the time for the President to appoint a few ambassadors.” In other words, several weak spots in the Cabinet might be plugged if the incumbents received harmless diplomatic berths abroad. . . . William R. Castle Jr., Hoover's Undersecretary of State, is nursing a grudge against his old chief. He tells friends that Mr. Hoover induced him to mix politics with diplomacy, thereby causing Mr. Castle the loss of his job when the State Department became Democratic. There is no connection between his two posts, but it is a fact that Dr. J. Gaylord Neff, assistant House physician, is also staff doctor of Washington's Home for Incurables. .. . High position, apparently, is agreeing with Donald R. Richberg. In the five months he has been “Assistant President” the former Chicagoan has put on considerable weight. .. . Ohio's two Democratic Senators. "Honest Vic” Donahey and Robert J. Bulkier, are carefully keeping hands off the bitter fight raging between Democratic Governor Martin Davey and Democratic Harry Hopkins over relief finances. . . . The Kingfish may be fulminating against the President, but the title picture in his autobiography, "Every Man a King,” shows Huey vigorously haranguing a crowd at the Chicago convention with the caption: "Leads Off Fight for Roosevelt.” Members of the Senate and House banking committees —nowconsidering the Administration's banking reform bill—have been surprised at the unexpected support being giver, the measure by Federal Reserve bankers. This becking is distressing to Jenator Carter Glass, who believed he could count on a united banker front against the bill.

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After his aids had brought to him at the palace of Fontainebleau the treaty which he had been forced to conclude with the victorious powers, Napoleon fell into a spell of deep depression. Toward nightfall, he withdrew into his own private apartments, unattended and without saying a word. The painting reproduced above expresses his despair. So dejected did he appear that the Count de Turenne took care surreptitiously to unload the Emperor’s pistols. Later Napoleon asked for them. But seeing suspicion in Turenne's gaze, he remarked: “To kill one's self is the death of a gambler, I am condemned to live.”

Russian Emperor’s Aides-de-camp was to join you for the purpose of escorting you to this place; but I sent word to you to stay at Orleans, as I myself was on the point of setting out pending such time as Colincourt shall have settled affairs with the Allies. It was Russia’s wish that I should be given the sovereignty over the Island of Elba and that I should remain there, and that you should have Tuscany for your son after you, which would have enabled you to be with me as long as it suited you and to live in a pleasant country, favorable to your health. But Sehwarzenberg objects to this in the name of your father. It appears that your father is our deadliest enemy. So I do not know' what has been settled. I am sorry to have nothing left but to have you share in my evil fortunes. I would have put an end to my life if I had not thought that would be hut double your misfortunes and make them heavier to bear. If Madame Montesquiou wishes to finish the King’s education, she is free to do so, but she must not lay too great sacrifice upon herself. I suppose Madame Mesgrigny (?) is returning to Paris. I do not know what the Duchess will wish to do, I fancy, however. that she will first wish to accompany you. You must have 1,000,000 given to King Joseph, and tiie same amount to King Louis, to (King) Jerome, to Madame, and to the Princesses Pauline and Elisa, which accounts for the 6,000,000. Issue a decree to that effect, and let the Princesses proceed to Marseilles and Nice, via Limours, which upsets your arrangements (?). Your State Councillors and Ministers may return to Paris. Take 1,000,000 in gold with you in your coach. Have the same amount conveyed in the King’s, Submit a scheme to me for reducing your Household to such of them are are willing and necessary to you. Two ladies are sufficient to have with you. It will make traveling easier. Beauharnais and Aid (obrandini) will follow later. Have their wages paid to all, down to July Ist, including those who are to follow you. We shall travel with the Court teams and the saddlehorses. . Adieu, ma bonne Louise, I pity you. Write to your father and ask to be given Tuscany for yourself. As for me I want nothing but the Island of Elba. Adio, Amio (?), give a kiss to your son. (unsigned) (undated) Mon amie, I have just received your letter of the Bth, delivered by a courier who had set out on the Bth, at 2 o’clock in the after-

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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noon. St-Aignant and the Emperor of Russia’s Aide-de-camp had arrived, so said this courier, an hour before he set out. You will therefore have been to Orleans this morning; you may stop there if you are traveling with your post-horses, and if you wish to come on to this place, you may do so, but I am writing to you this evening by the courier you sent me. How I sympathize with all your troubles, and fear lest it should impair your health. A kiss to your son. Tout a toi. Nap. Fontainebleau, the 9th, 5 p. m. (April, 1814) nan THE closing words—“if you wish to come"—so poignant because they leave to the empress a decision which ths emperor at bay desires with all his heart, give us an inkling of the motive for the letter in code which upset Meneval so deeply. Would Marie Louise seize upon the opportunity afforded her? “My duty is to stand beside the emperor,” she declared, “at a time when he must be so unhappy. I will join him and I shall be happy anywhere, provided I am with him.” Her lady-in-waiting, Madame de Luacy, a model of married love, who on two occasions, during the Terror, had risked her life to save her husband, secretly prevailed upon her to leave for Fontainebleau. One day, Marie Louise emerged in all haste from her dressing room, crossed a terrace and threw herself into the arms of Madame de Montesquiou, a rigid person, unbending in the observance of all the virtues, which she held in high esteem. She was about to leave. A coach was awaiting her at the foot of a secret staircase, when a person was announced whose nefarious influence had but too great a hold on the weak Marie Louise. The empress, perturbed by this unexpected development, hid Madame de Lucay in an adjoining closet, where she was able to hear every word of the conversation that ensued. And the treacherous adviser succeeded in transforming into a cowardly desertion the high-minded resolution of Marie Louise to bestow upon her husband the comfort of her presence. Gen. de Segur, who was told of this incident by Madame de Lucay, his mother-in-law, does not put a name to this evil counsellor. In Marie Louise’s entourage the emperor had placed one man worthy all trust, one who owed him his fortune, Meneval. It is thus easy to realize with what an easy mind Napoleon, on April 10, asked Meneval for a piece of confidential information. “Try to penetrate the real intentions of

the empress, and to find out whether she prefers to follow the emperor amid all the hazards of his ill fortune, or to retire, either to a state which would be given to her. or to the court of her father, together with her son.” Napoleon, reduced to applying to a secretary for the decision his wife will come to! And meanwhile Metternich was doing his best to disunite them, to separate them from each other. Bausset, whom Naepoleon had intrusted with a letter to be delivered to the empress at Orleans, passed through Fontainebleau, where he received another from the emperor: Ma bonne amie, I nave received your letter. Your troubles are all graven in my heart; they are the only ones I can not bear. Do try and live down adversity. This evening, I will send you the arrangement that hks been made. I am given the Island of Elba; you and your son, Parma, Piacenza and Guastella. This means 400,000 souls and an income of three or four millions. You are to have at least one mansion and a beautiful country (to live in) when you tire of my Island of Elba and I begin to bore you, as I can but do when I am older and you still young. Metternich is in Paris. I do not know where your father is. You should contrive to see him on your way. If you can not have Tuscany and your fate is settled, ask him to give you the principality of Lucca, Massa., Carraira) and the Enclaves, and furthermore for your principality to have an outlet on the sea. I am sending Foulet to see about all the terms. As soon as all is done with, I shall go to Briard, where you will join me and we will proceed, via Moulin, (and) Chamberi, to Parma, and then embark at Spezzia. Aldobrandini will accompany you during the journey. I approve of all the arrangements you are making for the little King; if Mad(ame> Lamberl?) will come, she would be suitable for bringing him up. My health is good, my courage unimpaired, especially if you will be content with my ill-fortune and if you can stiff be happy in sharing it. Adieu, mon amie, I think of you, and your troubles weigh heavily upon me. Tout a toi. Nap. Fountainebleau, the 11th, 9 a. m„ (April, 1814). a a a IN the afternoon, on April 11th, Napoleon received a letter from Marie Louise, which “wrings his very soul,” so precarious does the Empress’s health appear to him.

Mon amie, I have just received your letter of the 11th, this morning. Your anxiety and the state of your health wrings my soul. Tell me whether the plan of going together to Parma suits you; you would proceed thence to the spas at Lucca or at Pisa. Inquire of Corvisart which of these spas is more likely to agree with you. Beausset will deliver this letter: you will receive another which I will write to you when I have seen Caulanicourt, whom I am expecting tonight. My health is very good. I am full of courage; why is yours not like it? I would willingly share mine with you. lour letters are replete with the sentiments that fill your heart; they touch me profoundly and comfort me: I wish I could do as much for you. I am having Menevalle written to. Adieu, ma bonne Louise, my misfortune vexes me more for your sake than for mine. (Tout a toi.) (Unsigned.) Fontainebleau, the 11th, 7 p. m. (April, 1814). At the same time—7 p. m.—the Emperor sent his instructions to Meneval, to whom he had already written in the morning regarding the arrangements to be made for the departure of the Empress. Husband and wife would journey together to Parma, as slowly as the Empress’s health might require. For the Empress, the painful alternative was whether to join her father or her husband. A letter from Napoleon rendered this alternative more tragic. Mon amie, I have received your letter in reply (to the one) Foulet (?) delivered to you. I am very much concerned at hearing you are so dejected and in such bad health. I hope my ministrations and the expression of sentiments I bear you will do you good and restore your health. I am expecting Caulaincourt. I will write you immediately. They offer to give me back a battalion of my Guard, 100 strong in Provence and thence in the Island of Elba. We will travel as slowly as your health requires. Adieu ma bonne Louise, the change in my fortunes only affects me on your account. Love me well and never doubt your Nap. I fancy we might meet at Briard or Gien, whence we would proceed by way of Italy or Provence. Fontainebleau, the 12th, 10 a. m. (April, 1814). a a a ON April 12, Caulaincourt, attended by Macdonald and the czar’s aid-de camp Schowalof, brought to the emperor at Fontainebleau the treaty concluded the day before and which was tantamount to his abdication. There remained only for him to sign it. Night was closing in. Napoleon, unattended and without saying a word, had shut himself up in his private apartments. Alarmed by his dejected appearance, every one anxiously awaited developments. The Count de Turenne had been careful to unload his pistols and put them out of his reach. Napoleon asked for them. By his irritation, his annoyance at finding them empty, Turenne at once realized that he had been tempted to make use of them. Yet he had been heard to say: “To kill oneself is the death of a gambler. I am condemned to live. Besides, the dead alone never come back!” In his distress, there came to him a last revulsion of pride: “I have been faithful to my declaration that I would never sign a humiliating peace. I abdicate but yield nothing.” Next: “Death will not have me.® 'Copyright. 1935. in Franc* by P*Mlntheoue Rationale; In all other countries by United Feature Syndicate. Inc. Reproduction either in whole or in part prohibited, Ail rights reserved.) ,

Fair Enoughs WEMHIfR MIAMI. Fla., March 16.—This community, which has become in recent years the hoodlum's Palm Beach, offering special attractions to the aristocrats of the underworld, is suffering from a mild attack of reform at this writing. The gamblers from New York, Chicago and Detroit who came down to operate a share-the-wealth project of their own in several ornate casinos have been seriously hampered in their business. A local judge has been driven off the bench,

there is talk of investigating the incomes of public officials and destructive criticism is rife. Particularly loud, not to say inhospitable, is a demand that the police departments of Miami and Miami Beach round up and deport, if they can not convict, a large winter colony of racketeers from the North who have been taking the sun and anything else which they did not find too well nailed down ever since the snow began to fall back home. A Department of Justice man reports that he saw 35 distinguished criminals of one kind and another

in one afternoon recently mingling with the customers at Mr. Joe Widener's horse-park and gambling concession. It seems strange that so many undesirable characters should be permitted to camp in Miami, considering that the local police force is augmented for the winter season by leave-of-absence men from the detective department of New York. Chicago, Boston and other cities in a group known as the Foreign Legion. It seems almost as though the local officials do not wish to drive them away. While they remain and well-known underworld characters continue their efforts to spin their wheels to recoup their investments, there is some alarm among the more prominent residents, especially those w’ho live on Miami Beach. Feeling that the local authorities are not as diligent as they ought to be. many of these citizens have hired special policemen to patrol at night the little arches of grass and shrubbery' which surround their candycolored homes lest kidnapers take their children or even themselves. a a a Nobody Bothered Capone THE local political situation is decidedly smelly because, for years past, the leaders of the underworld were made welcome in a growing and fermenting community in which most people were strangers and the majority had pleasure-money to spend or gamble away. This made it very hard to check up on graft among the public officials and. before the city rea ized what had happened, the Mia mis were under the thumb of A1 Capone. Mr. Capone enjoyed even the respect and support of local business men because he would walk into a tailor shop and order 12 suits of clothes and tip tha clerk SSO for his trouble or pay his laundry bill promptly and tip the driver SSO. The business men wished they could have more customers like him and there was sincere woe among his tradesmen w'hen he was withdrawn from circulation and sent first, to Atlanta and then to Alcatraz. Incidentally, it was only when Capone seemed to have gained entire command in Miami that the bright idea of checking his income tax occurred to one of the local citizens wfio passed the Idea along to Herbert Hoover in Washington. There is no telling what Capone would have done to Miami if the government had not stepped in to eliminate him. Nobody here dared bother him. The removal of Capone, however, did not abolish the hoodlums’ Palm Beach. The racketeers had learned to like the sun and the unrestricted night life and the public officials had learned to count among their income their graft from the gamblers. Thus the racketeers have continued to patronize the Miamis in winter and they would be prospering well this year again, but for the obstructive tactics of an_ official called the state’s attorney, Mr. Vernon Haw-~ thorne. This Mr. Hawthorne is a liberal, but he is opposed to thieving in public office and does not believe the criminal colony from the North contributes anything desirable to the life of the community. It has been due to Mr. Hawthorne’s pestiferous zeal this winter that the gambling houses have been unable to show a profit. a a a * Nearly Out of the Red THE harassment of the Deauville Club has been particularly harsh. This plant, w'hich Tex Rickard intended to develop into an American Monte Carlo, was opened this year under the social auspices of Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Magraw of New York, a lady of considerable wealth who sometimes wears evening clothes in the daytime. Mrs. Magraw was recently indicted along with a lot of bondsmen, gamblers and politicians, on a charge of operating a gambling house. Mr. Hawthorne names one Frank Caccarino, alias Frank Zaggarino, of Belmore, L. 1., as the bankroll of the Deauville Club and adds that the club has been able to recoup $176,000 of a SIBO,OOO nut or deficit in the last 16 days. Owing to a peculiarity of the state laws, Mr. Hawthorne is not authorized to prosecute indictments. Therefore no appreciable change in conditions is expected and this essay is not intended as a clarion call or indignant protest but merely a sketch of conditions in a famous American community. (Copyright, 1935, by United Feature Syndicate Inc.)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

PARENTS are coming more and more to realize that they are just as responsible as is the school for proper development of their children, and even more so when it comes to the health of the young ones. The child may be told in school about the importance oi regular use of the toothbrush, about the desirability of washing the hands and of bathing at fairly regular intervals. It remains, however, for the parents to make certain that the child does wash its teeth, that it does bathe regularly, and that it does wash its hands frequently. The child may be told in school about the importance of a well-balanced diet, including plenty of fresh vegetables, fruits, cereals, and other essentials, but unless the parents co-operate by providing such diet, the child can not observe the type of eating that he knows is right. In the school the child may be provided with proper light for study, proper seating for posture, and adequate amounts of fresh air, only to return to a home in which the lighting is wrong, posture never given a thought, arid ventilation impossibly ,bad. a a a YOU should realize that inculcation of health habits in the child must be a co-operative effort between school and home. It is obviously desirable that teachers be informed as to the home conditions and, perhaps through par-ent-teacher associations, obtain the kind of co-oper-ation necessary for best results. In many communities are school physicians who undertake the preliminary examinations, indicating the presence of remediable defects in the child. Frequently the teacher is the first to notice existence of such defects and to call them to attention of the school physician. a a a IN other places there are no school physicians. Under such circumstances the school may well call to attention of the parents the necessity of giving the child a physical examination for detection of such defects. Moreover, once the defects are discovered, you should follow up the matter by making certain that the child gets the kind of treatment necessary to cure the disturbance or stop its progress. A few generations back there were no school nurses, no school physicians, no playgrounds, and no systematized physical education. Today the importance of these accessories to the school system is recognized. The costs of proper health supervision in schools are considerable, but they more than repay themselves in of health! ul child.* ea.

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