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It Seems toMe HEYWOD BROUN ‘ \MR ROGERS Li not excited over Europeg IVI, trouble* " accordmc to a headline In the New Time* above his svndlcated communication. It la encouraging v> h*--ar that America’* eemai philosopher means fr > co on chewinc cum. splitunc inf kes in spite of The threat o' tracedy abroad. What of it if conflict breaks and and take* its toll of millions? These boys are foreicners and besides they owe us money. But what Will actually wrote was: “Beverlv

Hills. Cal . March 19.—1 t ought to feel awful good to us 'even as bad off as wo think we arei to be away off over here and not have to send a protest because Germany has decided to put on some extra help.” It must be good growing weather right now out on the coast. Their spring comes earlier than our own. Red blooms are on the hedges and poppies in the fields. Business is picking up. Hollywood has washed its face and the "industry” is back on its feet once more. Citrus fruits are doing nicely and half a million went into the machines on the afternoon of the big race. Happv

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da vs are here acain and ail that sort of thin*. It 1 true that there has been some trouble, no bigger than a mans hand, in the Imperial Valley, and here and there the vigilantes are mopping up the Red Americans can thank the Lord that we are nor as oher men Fa nsm. Hitler and concentration ramps are wholly foreign problems with which we need have no concern. Mr Rocers is not excited. R- the was, whatever became of that man Mootiev? Didn t I '•r .omcwhcre that the Suprem" Court of the United States was come to cet around to - ncfes did not bestir themselves? m m m Cum Seemed Far Auay -f THINK it was H. I. Phillips who conjectured that X the nine old men grew- just a bit confused and thought that they were dealing wuth money instead of Mooney. It seemed to him that their derision Migccsted that the walls of his dungeon should remain of equal strength and thickness. Rut if is hard to think of a man in iail when we .|t out under the blaz ng sun. Tom Moonev is far awav from us as some peasant called to the colors from the green fields of the Vosges. But Jr * *han 20 vears aco I saw Missouri mules and men tich* parked in the little square of Neufrhateau bevond the gilded statue of the maid. The Marvlandcrs lay to the south on the road to that bic base hospital from Johns Hopkins and Chaumrn* was as polvglot as Chicago. And even in that ba k area set. aside for the training of the new army the guns seemed far away although thev could be heard at night. Up there they used a bugle call instead of a siren to indicate that German fliers had come across the lines. Above the railroad station at Rar-Le-Duc you could see the puff balls in the skv as the batteries reached up to pull down the planes. A bov from Pineapple-st In Brooklyn ga\e me Armv shoes from the base store in Gondrecourt. I remember that he want to Poly Prop and that he was hopeful enough to predict that the war would nn t last forrvrr. I heard later that he vas killed in ihe Argonne. n * • Aat Excited in tUqinninq HE had clerked shoes in Brooklyn but this was a long wav from home. He wanted action. Everybody remarked the fact that It was a long wav from home But somehow or other they did get there and in numbers deep into the blasted groves of Relleau Wood. They had come from way off over there and like Will Rogers thpv were not much excited in the beginning by Europe's troubles. They never realized the pressure which would pry’ them loose from farm and school and country store when the armies of the world decided to put on some extra help. As in Dunsanv's "Night at an Inn" their names were called and they were drawn by unseen forces out to the moloch on the moor. "So. it looks like our worries are mostly all tax worries.” concludes the genial cowboy Kant. But there are things not dreamt of in his philosophy and our taxes flow to the sea to build ships or climb the Appalachians to pay the gun makers of Pennsylvania. And the earth shakes to the tramp of marching men. Will Rogers is not excited or perturbed. It’s good growing weather in California and no one has e'er seen the poppies nse so red. iCnjvrlsht, 19351

Your Health _by dr. morris fishbein-

W rHEN a food disagree* with us, we usually find W nut about it and avoid that particular food. Rcccn.ly investigators have been studying the question of distress after eating, with a view to determining foods that are most likely to cause such distress and the time when the disturbance conies on. Firs’ several persons were taken who knew that thev almavs had distress after eating certain foods. ' T T>cv were fed these foods and asked to note how lone after eating the symptoms appeared. In some cases the distress comes on while the per>on concerned still is at the table. In these cases the reaction is definitely one of sensitivity to the f'wi concerned, in which case the person is likely to be very ill. • n a TN other ra-cs there is some other factor which is 1. v sort of revulsion against the food. In studying x hose cases it was found that in some instances the nature of the food seemed to be unimportant, since there was no given time after digestion and absorption and since, m fact, anything put into the stomach, even water, produced discomfort, or pam, or heart bum. or belching. It was found also that persons who have distress immediate!!' after a meal usually eat hurriedly and a’ times when they are tired, exceedingly keyed up or especially annoyed. This is the disease of the mother who prepares the meal.” savs an investigator, ’and then quarrels with her children or husband at the table: it is also the disease of business men and women who gulp down some food at a counter and rush back to work; and it is the disease of the president of a luncheon club; or of the traveling sales manager who gives public talks at luncheons and dinners." nan THE mechanism of this kind of distress can be studied bv the use of X-ray If the stomach is filled gradually and with repeated swallowing movements. its muscle fibers relax and the introduction of even large amounts of food does not greatly increase the pressure within the stomach. If. however, the stomach is filled rapidly and without much swallowing, the muscle fibers do not relax and there is discomfort. Investigators, years ago. showed that the mere idea of eating will usually cause the stomach to begin to get ready for the food by putting out the gastric mice. If food is taken hastily or in times of annoyance, this preliminary flow does not take place. The investigators also point out that the reason why persons who get indigestion after eating like to rhew gum is because the repeated swallowing after the meal starts the waves going down the gastrointestinal canal and stops the waves in the reverse direction, which produce belching. T Questions and Answers Q—ln which motion picture was the song "■Charmaine” played? A— What Price Glory?* Q—How many bituminous and anthracite coal miners are in the United States? A—Bituminous, approximately 418.703; and anthracite, approximately 104,633. w

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LON G-C O U G H LIN—AND JOHN SON Boyhood Training, Schooling Pointed Trio Toward Divergent Lines

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“Charlie” Coughlin at 7.

THE cloister claimed Charles Coughlin at the age of 12. It was then that he was sent away to St. Michaels College in Toronto. The carefree boyhood which had no graver worrv than parental insistence that he learn to play the piano, despite a preference for baseball, was over. The little anecdotes of this boyhood are trivial, such as dot the boyhood of any normal, happy boy—the time he sneaked out a wjndow t/> play baseball, leaving the piano silent; the time he made a sled of his mothers ironingboard: the time—but you can think of a dozen incidents in your own boyhood just like them. Father Coughlin today recalls how impressed he was hv the preaching of Father Mahoney at the cathedral; oratory appealed to him even as a boy. Preparation for Toronto University completed, he matriculated therp in University College. He played baseball, footbali (rugby>, and handball, with a great deal of zest, and the big frame of ‘'Chuck'' Ccughlin w-as a familiar one on all the playing fields. To this day he is a confirmed fan. nun ENGLISH and debating were favorite studies, and his student fellows remember the sonorous voice that read the lines of Shakespeare with such telling force. Coughlin might have made a splendid actor. He was graduated as a doctor of philosophy in 1911. and in the fall went on a three-month European tour. At this point, it is said. Coughlin wavered somewhat as to his career, owing to his deep interest in law, economics, and politics. But he decided to enter the novitiate, and plunged again into theological studies. It was during this period that overstudy in.iured his eyes, making necessary the glasses he has worn since. His health also was menaced, and he was sent to teach for a year at St. Basil's College in the healthful climate of Waco. Tex. Returning to Toronto, he took his priestly orders in 1916.

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

\ I WASHINGTON. March 22.—1 tis not being shouted from the VV housetops, but Herr Hitler's bombshell announcing rearmament for Germany threw the President's foreign affairs advisers into two distinct camps. Right, after the Hitler bomb burst, Gen. Douglas MacArthur went over to the White House and acted as spokesman for one camp. What he said, in effect, was: "Nothing is going to stop Germany from rearming. Certainly no diplomatic note sent by us will. This is a European problem and our cue is to stay out.”

n n n ANOTHER White House conference was held with Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Norman Davis, itinerant ambassador for disarmament, as chief spokesmen. Mr. Davis leaned toward some form of American protest to Germany. He felt that this was justified under the German-American peace pact by which Germany promised the United States to adhere to the disarmament provisions of the Versailles Treaty. These are the provisions which Hitler scattered to the winds. Mr. Davis also believed that Roosevelt should show Europe that the United States was lining up definitely with its former Allies— France and Britain. Secretary Hull was inclined to agree with him. nun \LL this emphasized more than ever the split which is increasing between the State Department and military-naval officers in regard to major foreign policy. The split is also evident in regard to the Far East. The President, though moving cautiously, is inclined to side with the military-naval group. This is what the latter proposes: A policy of complete Isolation except in regard to I.atin America. Canada, possibly Australia. SpeedT retirement from the Philippine* and Guam, making Hawaii the first line of Pacific defense. A huge Army and Navy. No trading with belligerents during the next war —which they expect soon—and a proclamation by the President withdrawing the protection of the flag from certain types of American shipping. The other group takes its cue largely from Norman Davis. Ambassador Davia Ims been almost

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the only adviser the Administration has had on disarmament, and he has given notoriously bad advice. His chief handicap has that of optimisim. Like Heroert Hoover with prosperity—he saw disarmament perpetually around the corner. The wish was father to the thought. Asa result, State Department leaders were not at all prepared for the recent blows Hitler dealt disarmament. The Army and Navy have been much better posted. uni i WHICHEVER view triumphs, it will have to win out on the most complicated and Jumbled chess board on which the American diplomatic game ever was played. It is a chess board on which Russia has become one of the principal pawns. Her vast breadth of territory stretches some 5000 miles from Poland to Japan. And on both sid 1 ;? i*p*n and her two allies, Germany and Poland, stand ready to bite off large and luscious mouthfuls. Japan sees the minerals and raw materials of Siberia making her independent of the outside world. Poland and Germany see the Russian Uhraine as a corridor which would give them an outlet on the Black Sea, fulfill Bismarck’s dream of a, Germany stretching from Hamburg to Asia Minor. Hitler has been working on the same policy. In recent secret conversations with th° British ambassador in Berlin he has been all too lucid on the point that Germany did not want colonies across the seas. She wanted to expand in Europe. The Ukraine—with the cooperation of Poland —offers the easiest outlet. iCopyrlght. 1935. bv United Petur Syndicate. Inc.<

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Huey Long, the young salesman.

• LIFE as a farm boy didn't appeal to Huey Long. ‘‘From my earliest recollection I hated the farm work.” he says. When he was 10. he tried to run away from home, but was caught and brought back. A railroad cut through Winnfield. The town grew, and the Long farm was cut up into lots. Huey Sr. bought another, 10 miles out. Me wanted to keep his family from the rough influences of the railroad and sawmill workers. At 13, Huey Jr. took up the printer's trade, working at it between school terms. At 15, the talent for oratory became apparent, and he twice represented the Winnfield High School at state rallies of high school students. He won no medals, but he did get a scholarship to Louisiana State University. The scholarship didn't include books and living expenses, so Huey didn't go to L. S. U. He took a job selling a lard substitute from door to door, holding baking contests. nan A SUCCESSION of jobs as traveling salesman of medicine, vegetables, anything, took the youthful Long all over the south before he was 19, Houston, Memphis, Oklahoma City. Stranded in Norman, Okla., and ready to leave town for anywhere at all. he met a stranger on the train platform who staked him to money, a job, and credit for law books. He spent a year studying law there, working as salesman in off hours and during vacations. It was during one of these that he married Rose McConnell. She had won a prize with a bride cake during one of the baking*contests conducted by the young salesman in Shreveport. With a bride to support, the ambitious youngster settled down in New’ Orleans to finish his legal training at Tulane. His money gave out in the spring. He couldn’t wait for the regular bar examinations in June. So he went to the justices of the State Supreme Court and asked them to give him a special oral examination. They did, and at 21 Huey Long w’as ready to face the world as a full-fledged lawyer.

PUEBLO INDIAN WILL DANCE FOR RED MEN Local Group to Be Entertained by Chief Red Fox. The corn dance and snake dances of the Pueblo Indians will be interpreted by Chief Red Fox. of the Pueblo tribe, as a part of the program of the box social and card party to be given by the 11th district Red Men at 7:30 tomorrow night. The party, which will be open to the public, will be held at Red Men's Hall. W. Morris and Lee-sts. Those directing the entertainment are Albert Axum. Oscar Meister, Connie Moore and August Fraul.

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THE boy Hugh Johnson, growing up in the sprawling frontier town of Alva, Okla., showed early his military inclinations. When he was only 15 (but looked older) he enlisted in the Oklahoma National Guard. It seemed more adventurous than acting as his father's assistant in the postoffice, or the humdrum of school of the “little red schoolhouse” type where he got his elementary education. Hugh earned a little money by going out on the prairie and gathering up buffalo bones, which were shipped East to fertilizer factories in those days. But into this rather sleepy frontier existence suddenly came word of the blowing up of the Maine, and that Theodore Roosevelt was organizing his Rough Riders. Hugh had been going to the State Normal School, and the work didn't thrill him. So he was one of several guardsmen who hopped a freight for Oklahoma City to enlist. At Guthrie his father caught up with him, and when the 16-year-old climbed stiffly off the brake rods, the parental hand collared him. nun TO appease the humiliated son, the father got him an. appointment to West Point —as an alternate. The regular candidate was found ineligible, and Hugh took the examination in his place. That is how close he came to not getting in the Army at all. Hugh was a turbulent cadet. Brilliant, he found studies easy, and w’orked at them just enough to “get by.” He stood at the bottom of his class in “soldierly deportment and discipline”—rated in mid-class in general merit. His motto then was “never bone when you can bugle” —that is, “don't work too hard if you can bluff it out.” When he graduated as second lieutenant, Johnson was assigned to the famous old First Cavalry. About this time he married Helen Kilboume, daughter of Col. H. S. Kilbourne. It is quite true, as Long and Coughlin have pointed out, that m 16 years of Army service. Johnson never heard a shot fired in anger. But it is only just to add that it wasn't his fault; he tried hard enough.

Six FERA Men Making Survey of North Side Butler Students Attempting to Determine How People Spend Their Spare Time. Six Federal Emergency Relief Administration students at Butler University, in co-operation with North Side churches, today were making a survey of the section of the city north of 38th-st to determine how people

spend their spare time. The students called at each home and filled out a questionnaire listing the church activities in which the individual participates and his other habits during leisure. Allen Helt was in charge of the

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Hugh Johnson, the prairie-town boy.

project aided by Paul Meadows, j Henry Hudsdh, Gordon Clancy, Rollo Durbin, and James Udder. The information received will be used by the churches. Forty Butler students, majors In the college of education, substituted in the Indianapolis public schools this week for teachers who are attending sessions of the North Central Music Educators conference in this city. Dean William L. Richardson arranged for the Butler students to do the teaching on a half-day basis. Six Butler fraternities will participate in the annual Blue Keyhole stunts next Thursday at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, it was announced today by Harrison Miller. president of Blue Key honorary society, which is sponsoring the, stunts. The participating organizations | and their stunt chairmen are: Sigma Nu. Ashton Gorton; Delta Tau Delta, Herbert. Smeltzer; Lambda Chi Alpha, John Batchelor; Butler Independent Association, James Fick; Sigma Chi. Jack Ochil- j tree, and Phi Delta Theta, William Thomas. Karl Stipher is general chairman and Ralph Brafford is ticket chairman. A loving cup will be awarded the organization presenting the best j stunt. distr7ct”h7s7latin CONTEST TO BE HELD Four From Marion County to Take Part in Danville Event. Four high school pupils who won j a county contest here will represent Marion County in the district meet- ■ mg at Danville tomorrow of the twelfth annual State High School, Latin contest. Eva Noffke and Lois Elliott of Speedway High School and Vida Lane and Ernest Butler of Crispus Attucks High School will represent this county. The contest is conducted under auspices of the Indiana University Extension Division, and approximately 475 high school Latin pupils will compete in nine district meets. District winners will take part in a state contest later.

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Z (oecr the World mu ms WASHINGTON, March 22.—With a widening rift between British and French over how to meet the threat of German militarism, eventual peace or war depends largely on two men, as different as the poles. One is the Right Honorable Sir John Alisebrook Simon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Great Britain. The other is Foreign Minister Pierre Laval of France. Both want peace as sincerely as any two states-

men possibly could whose respective jobs have put them in a position to know better than most that anew world war would likely doom European civilization. Yet so different are their points of view, so opposed their characters, team work is difficult and Herr Hitler may run away with the ball which they are in danger of letting fall between them. Sir John Simon‘is 62. His father was a Congregationalist minister. He was born to comfort in an atmosphere of culture and higher education. Educated at Edinburgh and Oxford, he was early called to the bar. He soon became an inner temple bencher, government coun-

sel and so on up to attorney general with a seat in the cabinet. Slender, with an aesthetic face remindful of pictures of Dante, he holds university degrees conferred upon him for his learning by leading universities on both sides of the Atlantic. Pierre Laval is 52. He was born in the Auvdrgne, one of the most backward regions of France where mountain folk speak a patois which outsiders ran scarcely understand. His father was a butcherfarmer. nan Laval Drove Butcher’d Cart HE drove a butcher's cart himself when he was only 10. Poor, he had great difficulty getting an education. Like Abraham Lincoln, he is largely self-taught—at least he was at the start. For a local priest found him one day jogging along making meat deliveries and puzzling out the mysteries of Ovid. The priest helped him after that and in time, like Sir John, he became a lawyer and went to Parliament and a seat in the cabinet. Stocky and swarthy as a Spaniard, the Flinch foreign minister always dresses in black and always wears a white wash tie. Legend has it that he washes the ties himself before he goes to bed. In Europe, Sir John is called timid. He wants to be firm but hates to offend. M. Laval is noted for his kindly, small-town manner. His direct approach to any subject and his quick perception of the true meaning of events. With the peace of Europe in the balance and much, if not everything, depending upon AngloFrench co-operation to provide a way out. Sir John finds it difficult if not impossible to understand the French, and the French can't understand Sir John. tt tt tt Fears Attack From Air M. LAVAL is logical. Sir John is legalistic. England fears attack from the air. France fears it by land and air as well. Sir John, therefore, is willing to co-operate with France and Germany to make the air safe for Britain, but hesitates to pledge Britain to help make the land safe for France. “He s a lawyer, rather than a foreign minister,” a distinguished labor member of the House of Lords told the writer. “If ever there comes a time when peace or war depends upon a sweeping conception of the whole European situation and a bold stand in advance, we’ll have to resign ourselves to war—if Sir John has to make the decision.” Today M. Laval is fighting desperately to sell his idea to Sir John. He holds that only by an unflinching, united stand on the part of Britain, France, the Soviet Union and Italy can the peace of Europe be saved. In Britain they say Sir John does well on missions he has been given a brief to argue. The swarthy son of Auvergne is now trying hard to provide him with one.

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ SEVEN constants constitute the foundations of tha universe, Sir Arthur Eddington, world-famous astronomer, tells us in his “New Pathways in Science.” “We may thus look on the universe as a symphony played on seven primitive constants as music is played on the seven notes of the scale,” he says. These seven, he lists as follows: The charge of an electron, the mass of an electron, the mass of a proton, Plancks’ constant, the velocity of light, the cQnstant of gravitation and the cosmical constant. These are designated in scientific literature by the following symbols, which I give in the same order as the above list: e, m, M. h, c, G, and the Greek letter lambda. Lambda, the Greek letter “1,” looks not unlike an upside "y.”) “The idea is that we ought to be able to calculate out of these every other constant displayed in natural phenomena,” Sir Arthur says. “Os course we can not always actually make the calculation. It may be too intricate, or we may not yet have ascertained all the rules of calculation.” The electron is the unit of electricity and one of the fundamental constitutents of matter, hence the fundamental importance of its electric charge and its mass. The proton is the nucleus of the hydrogen atom, the simplest known atom. According to the quantum theory, energy exists only in little bullets or packages representing multiples of Planck's constant. v nun '"l''HE velocity of light is, of course, self-explana-A tory. The constant of gravitation is the fundamental value of the force of gravity while the cosmical constant is the fundamental value of the force of expansion, the force which seems to be causing the whole universe to expand like a gigantic soapbubble. Now the numerical value of these constants, Sir Arthur points out, depend upon the units of measure we choose to use. Thus, the mass of an electron is one figure if we express it in grams and another if we express it in pounds. The speed of light is 186,00C miles a second, but it is another figure if we choose to measure it in centimeters a second. It is possible, however. Sir Arthur tells us, to replace these seven constants with seven others. Three of these are a unit of length, a unit of time, and a unit of mass. It does not matter how we choose these. a an THE other four constitute ratios or relationships between the seven original constants. Hence, however we choose our units of length, time and mass, they come out the same. These four. Sir Arthur says, are “pure numbers” and constitute “in the truest sense constants of nature.” The first one, he states, is the mass ratio of the proton and electron. Its observational value is 1840. The second is a relationship between energy, the speed of light and the charge of electron which determines the structure of spectrum lines. It is called the "fine structure constant” and has a value of 137. The Jhird is the ratio of the electrical force between an electron and a proton to the gravitational force between them. It is expressed by 23 followed by 38 zeros. The fourth is the ratio of the natural radius of the curvature of space to the geometric mean of the waves associated with electrons and positrons. It is 13 followed by 38 ciphers. q_Where is the Leaning Tower of Pisa? A—ln Pisa. Tuscany, Italy, on the Amo River, seven miles from the sea and 49 mile* west of Florence.

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