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It Seems to Me HEYWOD BROUN I - * ASSUME, dear reader. that you have some inkling of the unwise gift which I promised t/> you Saturdav When you read thi* I will have started on a vara* son of *wo weeks. If any particularly curdled Cient exclaims Not enouch'" lam entirely ready to second the motion the* it should be much longer. XU destination is <-erret and I have found few sufTetentlv infere *ed to pry jn’o mv privacy. Os course af'er a tough tear of 12 months and many spot where the tele-

phone never rings Better than that I would prefer a fastness where there isn’t any telephone. And that, too. has been arranged. Obviously a columnist’s vacation is one of the most unselfish activities in the world. He abstains from work not so much to please himself as to give a breathing spell to his readers. One never knows but the plan of your correspondent is to come back upon the job a younger and far thinner man. It is his hope that after a reasonable rest of 14 days he may leap into the arena and himself more agile than ever before. It isn’t likely that

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I will return entirely svelt. But Heaven knows I mean to do my best. Somehow one gets a sense of *his own smallness and inefficiency when cradled in the deep and I would go back to the seas again. It is always dangerous for a columnist to go away. But for that matter it is dangerous if he doesn't. While on the job he suffers the risk of his ow’n ;ne wtille during his absence there is the odds on chance that his substitute will suddenly blot om forth with inspiration and knock his eye out. a a a Hoir Tunes Hare Changed! 'T'HEBF are the perils of rolumninc The tides of * Fundv are probably less than the range between the scrivener's ehb and flood Anri if he takes no vacation whatsoever it becomes all ebb which makes Jack an even duller boy than usual. Unfortunately the modern world devises vacations evm more tough than usual. There was a time when the commentator could take two weeks, or even a month off. and return to find that nothing much had happened rxccp that Calvin Coolidge had been made an honorary chief of the Biackfeet Indians. In the mad pace of the present riav the exile has at least a chance of returning to find that his job has been taken over bv a co-operative commonwealth and that the space he used to call his own is now tinder the direction of the collectivist farmers. Even in a brief two weeks certain kings may lose their head' and the map of Europe has become a jug of cream quite ready to turn sour at the approach of anv thunderstorm. I will admit that mv hideaway is going to be a boat and that I presume it is equipped with wireless and even so I have no anticipation of returning as one au courant with world affairs. The average ship's newspaper deals with th? fact that there will be a masquerade party on the promenade deck at P 15 and neglects to report what Gen. Johnson said about Huey Long. bum A Reformer Resolves (HAVE no claim whatsoever on any of the leading lights m American public life and yet quite piteously I make the plea, ‘ don't be as funny as you cin until I return and get back on the job again.” Mv foray from the trenches is less a retreat than a retirement to previously prepared positions. I mean to test and bleed awhile and then return a shade more competent for conflict than on the day I went away. The gaver centers of the ship will never find me. T mean to devote myself to good books, sunlight and sea foam. If I ran not belt myself more closely bv three notches I will scream to get my money back. This is not a world for fat men nor orators who wheeze after climbing one flight of stairs. Long, lean and lank I will come back to get both soul and elbows into the fight to make the next war impossible. 1 want to be the kind of pacifist who is prepared to punch the block off each and every opponent. That will take a bit of doing. So here’s to calm >eac and a searching sun. And when I make my bow again I hope to be more worthy of your attention. I want to hear a slightly more persuasive ring in that, of course I dont alwavs agree with you—” Agr ement be dashed and biowed. Mister, can you apart the time. iCopvrtßht. ISIS, br Th* Ttm*)

Today s Science BY DAVin DIETZ

\\TALL STREET, where alchemv and magic of various sorts were tnpd in the boom day*, if certain economists and political orators are to be aelieved. was once the scene of a real adventure in alchemy. But the climax of the adventure smacked more ot Wall Street alchemy than of the ancient art which was once practiced throughout the capitals of Eui ope. The story has been unearthed by the tercentenary committee of the American Chemical Society which is collect me historical documents for display durinsr the bic New York meeting from Apnl 22 to 26 which w-.1l celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of American chemical industry. The committee finds that sporadic attempts at the practice of alchemy occurred in New England. New York. Pennsylvania, and some of the southern colonies in the early days. The adventures of the Wall Street alchemist were found in a literary historic annual which Gulian Cmmmclm Verplanck published in association with William Cullen Brvant and others. His name was Jan Max-Lichenstein and at one time he had been an adviser to Prince Potemkin in St- Petersburg. ■ Lichenstcm had scarcely become well settled in New York when his old dream of alchemy returned upon him.** Verplanck wrote in 1829. He carefully hoarded his earnings until he was enabled to purchase. a' a cheap rate, a small tenement in Wall Street, w lere he erected a furnace with a triple chimnev. and renewed his search of the ’arcanum magnum. Every day. in the mornm.;. he was occupied for two hours in a counting room: then he was seen walking m Broadway: then he shut himself in h:s laboratory until the dusk of the evening ” m a a \ TEARS passed in thus manner. Verplanck relates. But. he continue*. "Wall Street m the meant.me was changing its inhabitants; its burghers gave wav to banks and brokers; the city extended us limits, and the streets became thronged with increasing multitudes—circumstances of which the alchemist took no note, except that he could not help observing that he was obliged to take a longer walk than formerly to get into the country, and that the rows of lamps on each side of Broadway seemed to have lengthened wonderfully toward the north. “Still the secret of making gold seemed as distant as ever until it presented itself to him m an unexpected shape.” a m m 'll r H.\T had happened was that a newly chartered \ ▼ banking company had decided to buy Lichenstems site for which he had originally paid about SISOO The president called on Lichenstem. Verplanck relates. The alchemist was annoyed at the interruption. but his annoyance changed to joy when he was offered $25,000 for his place. He asked a day to think it over, however, and that night another company offered him $30,000. The first company finally got the lot for $33,000. “He was now possessed of a competency* Verplanck continues. “He quitted his old vocation of clerk, abandoned his old walk in Broadway, and disappeared. but not to another life. I have heard that his furnace has agatn been seen smoking behind a comfortable German stone house ;n the comfortable borough of Easton." Q— the number of justices of the United States Supreme Court fixed by the Constitution, and how are they appointed? A—The number is fixed by act of Congress. The President appoints justices to that court when vacancies occur, subject to the approval Senate.

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WHAT SAY YOU NOW, HERR NAZI? ana nan nan ana nan Reich's Downtrodden Youths ‘Come Back’to Lead Maliia l Parades

OrrminT the world—*nd stolidlr marrhn forth to an uncertain destinr How. in thce rrurial dav* in hi Falhertand s turbulent historr. does the plain German-in-the-street reart to the Naii retimes ne% policies? ... To nod Iht answer, to this ouesl.on. NEA Service assirned Staff Correspondent Marian Yount to o, not to the propatanda-smothered capital cits of Berlin, but to a tTpiral trade town—Leioiif Her observations are contained in a series of three human and penetratint article, written for The Indianapolis Times. The first artiele follows. BV MARIAN YOUNG , NEA Service Staff Correspondent (CopvriKht. 1935. NEA Service. Inc.) LEIPZIG, Germany, April I.—The soldier is cock of the walk i\ Germany again. Men civilians remove their hats when eight or 10 troops march by. Women step irom the curb into the gutter to let them pass. Small boys run up to touch the blood-red swastikas on their arms. Fair, redcheeked girls beam —occasionally one dares to wave a hand. Students on the steps of the university applaud and cheer loudly. This in Leipzig. But in Berlin, in other towns and villages, I saw Exhibited the same awed and awesome reverence for the military. Reichsfuehrer Hitler's earnest young men have donned uniforms of brown, blue and green—and are goose-stepping to martial music over the freshly dug grave of the Versailles Treaty. For soldiering is a young man's business, and German youth—for years jobless and desperately poor in a war-beaten land—has rushed forward eagerly to embrace the tools of militarism as symbols of reborn power. To students the new regime provides excitement. It gives them a chance to wear uniforms To discuss government. To feel growm up.

They salute proudly as they walk to classes past the enormous tablet on which Is written the names of 1000 young men who were killed in action. Nineteen hundred from one university! Todays students are the sons, younger brothers, nephews and cousins of the men commemorated on the tablet. When thev are not marching or studying, the students lead the kind of life movies of Heidelberg portrav. They laugh. They sing. They clank their beer steins and drink to the health of the Fatherland. ana YOUTH is king and kings can be cruel. I saw one laughing officer with a healthy-looking, ash-blond girl in his arms rudely brush aside a tired, middle-aged interpreter in a neat, but not so new suit. To avoid their dancing feet the professional linguist slumped into a vacant chair at our table and gazed olankly at the array of uniforms everywhere. “They needn't expect me to beimpressed.” he said to me when a trooper at the next table rose to salute an officer. “I've seen enough already. I have no hopes. But perhaps we never can be worse off than we have been. “I know a man who lives on 70 pfennmes <2B cents) a day. I know what has happened to the unemployed who used to loiter on street corners. Now they are all in uniforms—marching right past those same street corners.” Not a trace of animation in his face. Suddenly, he asked me if he might have the butter I had left on my plate. Pausing barely long enough to hear my consent, he spread it on one small piece of bread, swallowed it quickly and then slumped forward again, watching the dancers with dull eyes. He belongs to the skeptics. They are the ones that the inner sanctums of the government refer to as ‘ enemies within the gates.” So worn out are they by the past years that the gala uniforms bring no tears of enthusiasm to their eyes. The martial music falls unheeded on their weary ears. BUB IN truth, compared to youth in uniform, the remaining population of Nazi Germany seems dull and colorless indeed. The aged and the middle-aged on the picturesque streets of Leipzig, famous for its 700-ycar-old semi-annual fair, have had their day. The eyes of older men in this quiet little trading city with its

The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen \\T ASHINGTON. April I.—Although there have been definite efforts VV to iron out bickering within the President's Cabinet, there still exist raw nerves and a certain resentment underneath the surface which seems almost impossible to eradicate. This is due partly to the diverse elements of which the Cabinet is composed. Also Cabinet meetings have become a mere matter of routine—possibly more so than during the Hoover Administration.

There is no attempt to discuss general policies, no attempt to attack a problem by the Cabinet as a whole. Usually relatively minor questions are raised. Sore points between Cabinet members are deliberately skirted. Sometimes when a debate results in complete disagreement the President cuts it short and derides the matter within the next day or two himself. Most important questions are taken up in tete-a-tete talks between the President and the interested Cabinet officer. This, of course, is a serious dram on Roosevelt's already overtaxed time. It also happen in many of these discussions that the President himself does most of the talking. When he is finished, such little time is left that a lot of important questions are left high-and-dry. and must await the next session. This is one of the big factors behind a lot of delayed New Deal projects. B B B TAJO matter what the immediate outcome of the present peace-or-war parleys in Europe, the State Department will keep Its fingers crossed regarding anything which bears the handiwork of Sir John Simon. British Foreign Minister. Career diplomats will hasten to deny it publicly, but privately they call him “Slimy John.” and compare his Geneva speeches to his defense plea 6 before a jury. Sir John is one of the greatest barristers in England, but under His leadership. international statesmen claim they can not tell which way British foreign policy will jump.

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dimly lighted cathedral of St. Thomas where Bach was the first organist and its enormous, cold, gray Gewandaus where, 150 years ago, Mendelssohn conducted a symphony orchestra, do not light up as they watch children and young men in uniforms parade the streets. They are too busy earning their daily brpad. often, as in the case of the landlord in whose home I stayed, that task is a difficult one. He is the head of a family which once had money. Proudly he displayed heirlooms, bits of priceless china and pieces of tapestry that once adorned a large house. Now the treasures are lumped together in corners. There is no room in an apartment for them. The apartment, during lair week, at least, is turned over to foreign visitors. The family moves out of its private chambers. A bed is placed in the living room with its purple walls and grand piano. Even the library with its family portraits and wall telephone becomes a bedroom. The porcelain stoves are filled with coal to keep the guests warm and comfortable. But the storerooms and halls where the family sleeps temporarily are unheated. nan T EIPZIG is about as far from Berlin with its hotbed of politics as Philadelphia is from Washington. It is surrounded by carefully manicured farming districts, the very backbone of Germany. Leipzig's citizens are simple, industrious folk who seem far removed from the hysteria of rearmament conferences and political intrigues. They are the people vho are fundamentally responsit.e for Hitler’s continuing power. It is from them the answer to the question, “But what do Germans actually think of it all?” comes. And the answers, in the main, are optimistic. For one disgruntled intellectual and one unhappy former rich man, there are 10 men who believe—or think they believe—or are afraid NOT to believe—that Hitlerism is the reich’s salvation. The capitalist, represented by the bearded president of a concern that manufactures farm implements, was enthusiastic. “My business, thanks to the new tax law, has increased,” he told me. “In America you put up posters that say Buy Now.’ Here,

AN important White House caller the other day was Gerard Swope, head of giant General Electric. With him. the President discussed one of his great dreams for the agricultural-industrial development of the United States. It is the establishment of small ruralindustrial communities where each worker can have about 10 acres of land, raise his own garden crops and work part time in an adjacent village factory. Henry Ford has tried this out in his River Rouge plants near Detroit with considerable success. Other industrialists, however, say it can not be done on a large scale. Mr. Swope's complete reaction is not known. But he has been willing to co-operate with the President to the extent of planning a small General Electric plant at Reiisville, W. Va., the first Subsistence Homestead project. B B B IF er legislation needed emergency restorative measures it is the President's social security program. So hazardous is its condition that it will only be a shadow of wha* vhe President asked for—if it ever passes. Privately, floor leaders are prophesying that the measure will be stripped of its unemployment insurance features and limited solely to an old-age pension system. Inner White House circles are disturbed over the predicament, and the President is considering sending a sharp message to Capitol Hill demanding action. Such a 'crackdown - ' may do the trick—but it is a long shot. (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Ine.j

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1935

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IN UNIFORM AGREEMENT WITH DER FUEHRER Young Nazis, from children to university students, delight in military trappings.

by having no tax on new automobiles and new machinery for the first year and heavy taxes that increase year by year on old machinery, we have FORCED people to buy.” a a a A TALL, blond engineer who speaks four languages and who has lived in half a dozen countries, including the United States, echoed what the manufacturer had said. “The new tax law has increased the farm implement business from 40 to 50 per cent and the output of cars 60 to 70,” he said. “Instead of talk about limiting incomes, each man is urged to make as much as he can, providing, of course, his method of earning doesn't interfere with the general welfare of the community. The price he sets on his merchandise must be fair. That’s Goerdelers job. He’s the price-fixer.” The engineer, himself, switched our conversation to recent governmental activities that have brought down fire on the heads of Germany’s people. “Diplomacy is the thing that is 100 per cent lacking in the present regime. Germans never have learned the art of handling human relationships and statements to the press with kid gloves on their hands. They apparently have no respect for the old adage that you catch more flies with sugar than with vinegar,” he said.

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THE plump, round-faced little baker who served me afternoon coffee and pastry in the back of his tidy shop meant virtually the same thing when he mumbled in broken English, “Other countries don’t understand us.” But the baker Is happy, too. It’s true that he can’t raise the price of bread whenever he feels like it. But he sells more cakes and fancy pastries now than he did a few years ago. His family has three simple meals a day. He figures that Max, his 12-year-old son, may be able to go to the university in a few years. The pleasant little baker’s stern-faced, dark-complexioned

HOLLETT PLEDGED BY HONOR FRATERNITIES Indianapolis Man Is Chosen by Blue Key, Phi Delta Epsilon. By Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., April I.—Blue Key and Phi Delta Epsilon, honorary fraternities at Wabash College for campus activities and journalism, respectively, have both pledged Byron Hollett, Indianapolis. Mr. Hollett was a letterman this year on Wabash’s state championship basketball team. He is serving as editor of the Wabash yearbook and is a member of the Sigma Chi social fraternity.

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neighbor who has a cosmetic and postcard shop next door was patriotism personified. “We made up our mind that Germany is for Germans,” he tcld me. “Our plans will work, voo. You see (this with a nod toward the northwest where lies Soviet Russia) we believe in God. Religion has not been pushed aside by politics. And we have fine soldiers to protect our faith.” Soldiers to protect their faith! I saw them as I came out of the postcard shop into the street. . . . Four out of every six men on the sidewalks wore uniforms! TOMORROW’—How women fare under the swastika.

FHA QUOTA FOR CITY PUT AT $3,823,690 Peters Confident Allotment Will Be Used. India napolis will ha*ve to borrow $3,823,690 from the Federal government this year for home modernization and repair work if it reaches the quota set for this city by Federal Housing Administration leaders, R. Earl Peters, state FHA director, said today. The total quotas for the 71 cities and towns in Indiana, set on the basis of population at an average of $10.50 for each inhabitant, is sl4224,370, Mr. Peters said. He pointed out that these 71 communities are those in which house-to-house canvasses for investigation of building improvement possibilities have been conducted. “We are confident that with much of .the spring work on home improvement now opening we will reach the goal set by the end of the year,” he said. LUTHERAN CHURCH TO MARK ANNIVERSARY Invitations Given Former Members of Congregation. Invitations have been issued to more than 600 persons for a reunion service in observance of the sixtieth anniversary of the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, East and Ohio-sts, April 14, at 8 p. m. An atte* >t has bee.-i made to locate al 1 .ier members of the congreg r vhich In the history of tb has numbered nearly 13 ,ave joined through confirm... The Rev. J. D. Matthius is the church pastor and the committee in charge of the reunion includes Miss Alma Dammeyer, chairman; Paul Schakel, Miss Frieda Jones, Dorothy Elfers, and Harris Koelling. PASTOR TO BROADCAST The Rev. E. E. Moorman Chosen for WIRE Series. The Rev. E. E. Moorman. Linwood Christian Church pastor, will conduct the daily morning devotional broadcast over station WIRE this week. Mr. Moorman's theme will be “Christ for Today.” Music will be furnished by members of the Linwood church choir. The services are on the air each except ‘Sunday at 6; 30.

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Knfptpil ns Second-Clas Matter at PnstofTiep. Indianapolis. Ind.

/ (over the fbr/d VFM PHILIP SIMMS Y Y7ASHINGTON, April I.—The whole wobbly * * structure of European peace, which the old world today is so desperately striving to prop up, may eventually stand or fall as a result of what happens today, tomorrow and Wednesday at Warsaw. Coming from Moscow, the young and debonair Capt. Anthony Eden, lord privy seal of Great Britain, is due in the Polish capital for a series of conferences with Poland's grizzled and legendary hero, Marshal Pilsudski. and his entourage.

If they hit it off, the proposed Eastern Locarno's chances will look pretty bright. If they fail, the Locarno, too, may fail. For without Poland it must remain a pretty rickety affair. If Poland remains outside. It means she may draw even closer to Germany. Together with a powerful, rearmed and war-like Germany, they would virtually checkmate the Soviet Union. With a hostile Poland and Germany on her western frontier, and imperialist Nippon camped on her Far Eastern border awaiting a signal to strike, Soviet Russia's hands would be shackled. She could not wage two major wars 5000 miles apart.

Poland, however, has no desire to play any such role. Her wish is to be let alone —to stay out of war. Capt. Eden, therefore, is expected to try to convince her that her chances for peace are far better on the side of Britain. France, Russia and Italy than on the side of expansionist Germany. a a a Nazi Creed a Direct Threat THOUGH Chancellor Hitler told the world, after the return of the Saar, that Germany's western frontiers are now satisfactory, he has just as categorically let it be known that those on the east must be redrawn. A clash with Russia seems impending and Poland is right in the path. If there is war, she would likely be the battlefield. The Nazi creed that all Germanic peoples of Europe must be united in one great Germany, directly threatens Poland. The Reich wants back the Polish Corridor eventually. And any advance through Austria and Hungary to the Black Sea to get at the Ukraine, or on the other side along the Baltic, would leave Poland an island in the middle of a tumultuous Teutonic sea. Poland is well aware of this. Yet so long as Germany remained unarmed, she w r as not alarmed. Accordingly when France, Britain and Italy miffed her by proposing to Germany a four-power hegemony over Europe for the sake of peace, and without consulting her, she suddenly effected a rapprochement with Germany. By this she served notice on her former allies that she had come of age. a a a Peace for a Generation? / 'T~ v ODAY, however, Poland faces a decidedly ctifferX ent situation. Germany has scrapped the Treaty of Versailles. She has warned that soon she will equal or surpass her neighbors on land, sea and in the air. Hitler's plan for an all-inclusive Germany, therefore, may soon be handed over to German guns to hammer out. That puts Poland on the spot. She must decide soon which side she will be on. By Thursday week, when Premier Mussolini, Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Sir John Simon meet at Stresa, in northern Italy, the die must be cast. Handsome Capt. Eden, within the next 72 hours is expected to get Poland's answer. If Poland stands by the former allies, the Eastern Locarno will probably succeed. It would vastly strengthen the hands of Germany's neighbors in their effort to reach a live-and-Jet-live understanding with the reich. And that, in turn, might spell peace for a generation.

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

BABIES born in quantities and of extraordinary sizes are always interesting. Recently a British doctor collected the records of some extraordinary babies who, because of their size at birth, are called prodigious infants. In the first place it should be pointed out that babies heavier than 10 pounds at birth are very uncommon. In most cases these babies have come along beyond the date when they were expected. In many cases, because of the overweight and the postmaturity, the baby dies at the time of birth. In the cases in which large babies were born unsuccessfully, there is one of a child weighing 20 pounds, well developed and quite healthy; another of a child weighing 14 pounds, and another of a child weighing 16 V2 pounds. n a a IN the last mentioned case the baby weighed 40 pounds when it was 8 months old, in contrast to a normal weight of 15 to 18 pounds. In some instances it has been found that babies which gain weight very rapidly after birth do so because the milk of the mother contains an abnormally large amount of fat. In the case of a baby who weighed 34 pounds when 10 months old, instead of the normal 19 pounds, it was found that the mother’s milk contained 6 to 7 per cent of fat instead of the normal 3.5 per cent. Another baby who weighed 28 pounds at 7 months of age, instead of the normal 16 pounds, ■was found to be receiving mother’s milk which showed an 8 2 per cent content of milk sugar instead of the normal 6.5 per cent. B B B IN each of these instances, when the baby was weaned, it began to lose weight promptly, and fat babies which become quite slender after weaning generally do so because of some trick of nature. In a rare case the oversight of the baby may be due to some extraordinary condition in its glands. In a few instances, mothers with diabetes and abnormal sugar metabolism nurse babies who become very fat. Many cases are reported in which babies weighing more than 14 pounds at birth die during the birth process because of overweight. The modem scientific doctor, who follows the condition of the mother carefully, is likely to prevent the carrying of a child until it develops such extraordinary size. Questions and Answers Q_Where was Joe Penner born? A—Becskerek. Hungary. Q —What was the first name of Boettcher who was kidnaped in 1933? A—Charles Boettcher 2d. Q —What is the deepest sounding ever taken in any ocean? A—lt was 35,400 feet, in the Pacific, off the coast of Mindanao, Philippine Islands. Q—ls Hollywood, Cal., a suburb of the city of Los Angeles? What is its population? A—lt is a suburb incorporated in the city and the population is not separately enumerated. Q —ls there a law prohibiting a Roman Catholic from holding the office of President of the United States. A—No. Q —When will the next United States Census of Religious bodies be taken? A—ln 1936.

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