Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1935 — Page 17

1 Cover ihe World WM PBIUP SIMMS \TCJ ABHINGTON Apr.l 4—Great Britain will vig- ▼ V nrouj-lv opjx *■ the rnnrc>ment of Germany ' • • hot Sir John Simon. British Fr.reirn Miniver. mwts Premier Mussolini and La-.al. French Foreign Minister, in northern Italy nex’ Thursday. Authoritative information received here indicates the key u, the British -tend at Strega is to be fund ‘ ae of Feb. 3. following the weekend conversations between the French and British

ministers in London. The gist of that communique was this: Neither Germany nor any other power whose armaments have been defined by the peace treaties is entitled to unilateral action to modify these obligations." But Nothing could contribute more to the restoration of confidence and the prospect of peace among nations than a general settlement freely negotiate! between Germany and the o*her powers." British action a* fetresa. therefore, is expected to have as its two chief objectives the following: 1. To convince Germanv with•vr perridventure of a doubt that if -he per jsts in her present course.

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nlavinc the lone ■**>:!. arming herself without limit ar ; ,ri re the proposed .collective peace pacts, she viil find all Europe united solidly against her. 2 To ho;' M ’he door wide open for her. never* hev f she shows anv inclination whatever to join r • | prance So* let Ru Italy ’he Lit tie Entente and po ibi\ Poland m a general arrangement to safeguard peace of Europe. mar banner of Conflict Alarming 'T'HE showdown, accordingly, is expected to follow, J to come at Stresa If Mussolinis I >\al and Sir John tan agree there on a course of ac’ir.r,, an Invi’ation subsequently will almost cerr oyt yaking German - for a general setterner* freeiv negotiated Then would come the danger of conflict, should Germsr rebuff all advances and cling to Chancellor Adc.f H.tler repor*ed take-it-or-leave-it stand, follow.nr his rearmament edict Failure of collective security due to the inability r' Oerms.r. neighbors to agree on a common program would likewise precipitate a grave crisis, prance. Italy and Soviet Russia are already under’otki ’o have ready for signature a draft treaty amounting to a defensive alliance. On thor ide. in such an event, would be three po-’cr of the Little Entente -Czechoslovakia. Ru- „ n. , nd Yugo la via but with the role of Great Britain and Poland in doubt. n n n Ao Crying Over Spilt Milk C CERTAIN appearances to the contrary notwithj standing, the point of view of the government at London is that, like it or not. Germanys rearmament is a fact There is no use caving over spilt milk. V’hat is vital is the future. Every one of German vs neighbors therefore, must now make a supreme effort in reconcile their differences with her - offer her their msximums in the way of concesyion’v. t ... If all do this, and their efforts fail, then possibly the peace of Europe ran only be preserved by surrounding Germany with a ring so strong she will not dare try- to break it. FTvcn that, however, in British opinion, would oe on!- a make hist peace a truce which would be broken a snnn a> a constantly shifting destiny gave { !M e ru e. ten. a doyen vears hence. Which why Britain is said to plan the rxplora- ( on of every other avenue offering a possible wav n • \n the idea of roilertive security under the wing of the League, or a league, of Nations.

Your Health by t>r. morris fishbein

HEALTH knowledge is the kind of information yon should have immediately available In times of emergencv. Durinc thp last 10 years it has become a significant part of the teaching in most schools. . tT , In a recent survey of freshmen entennc the University of Michigan, an attempt was made to find out to what extent the health knowledge given to puptl? in high school had been assimilated. The mouern method of testing provides the offering a question with five possible answers, so that the student may indicate which answer is correct. The firs? question was Goiter is not now so prevalent ir. Michigan because < 1 * doctors have removed them; *2* climatic changes; * 3* the use of iodized table salt; <4i the goiters are not being diagnosed; 5 more tonsils are removed. The right answer is No. 3. It has been found tKat ..mall amounts of iodine m the food are important in the prevention of -ample goiter. mm * \N OTHER question was: The proper first-aid treatment of a finger cut is: 'll Suck it. ,- t peroxide on it. *3* Let it bleed some, then e>\ate it. and allow it to seal up with a blood clot. i> Wash it off with tap water <5 Cover it with court-plaster moistened with saliva Almost everybody knows now that sucking a finder that has just been rut. or covering it with a nl.wer moistened with saliva, would be exceedingly bad treatment. Washing h off with tap water is hardlv because tap water may contain cerms. although probably the menace to health would be slight. It -xmild not be so serious to put peroxide on the ru' finger except that peroxide when strong actually destroys tissue. The rorrre method is to let the blood flow to rim* out anv infection; th-n roaculation will seal th wound and promote healing Most doctors still be’ eve. howeier. in the application of a mild antiseptic. mam r T''HF third question was: The proper first aid JL fer turning the ankle is: <l Walk on It. > ’ Manipulate it i3> Complete rest and eleva:ment. <5 Paint it with lodine Ir is bad for injured tissues to subject them to prr-sure so that walking on the injured ankle or --an■.•.'•listing :• would certainly be bad for it. Noth- • > gained bv rubbing a sprained ankle with lin--4,. r ... rr p v painting it with iodine The right step • *o elevate 'he foot and rest it so as to give the t.v- ;e cpnortumtv to recover A fourth question was: The most certain way to recover from a cold is: il> Take a cathartic. *’ T. *'<p a good workout. *3* Go to bed. •4> Cut cowr. on food <s‘ Gargle the throat. There is no reason why one who has a cold should take a cathartic, since this has nothing to do with a id. but .-imply empties the bowels. A person with a cold is sick and should not indulge in overactivity. M • persons who are sick will cut down on food without having this done for them, but as long as the bowels and digestion are working satisfactorily, •here is r.o reason for cutting down on food with a cold. Gargling the throat, under the best of circumstances. merely puts a fairly pleasant taste in the mouth and washes accumulated secretions away. Therefore, the right answer as to what to do to recover from a cold is. first of all. to go bed.

Questions and Answers

Q —Give the full tPV of thp Biblp vprsp that contains the followir.c imp “Your old mpn shall dream dream' your young mpn shall see visions ” A—Joel i. 28 And it shall comp to pass afterward. that I will pour out mv spirit upon all flesh; and your son.' and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions." Q—Are any daily newspapers published in Kingston. Jamaica? A—Only one. The Gleaner, published every morni* teacap: SundajrJ*

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• To take the profit out of war would be the outstanding accomplishment of social justice since the development of our present industrial system.”

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Real Baruch, Able, Likable, Steps Out of Legend

WASHINGTON. April 4—The simple, straightforward, cards-on-the-table testimony of Bernard Mannes Baruch before the Senatp Munitions Committee has done much to dispel the fog that has gathered about him during the past 15 years. And just in time. too. For a very real, likable and able man was on the verge of being swallowed up in a legend. Did the stock market take a sudden drop? There were always many to whisper “Baruch.’’ Did any change of policy take place undej- any President? You can hear the rumors 1 Baruch." Baruch here, Baruch there, a Baruch in every political woodpile. The Long-Coughlin-Johnson debates have kicked up still more dust around him. magnifying the figure behind the dust-cloud into a modern Machiavelli. Yet the mam outlines of the figure behind .the dust-cloud are clear. a o an n u BERNARD MANNES BARUCH is Jewish, 65 years old, silverhaired, pleasant-spoken though aristocratic in manner, and a distinguished figure well over six feet tall. His family, claiming descent from the Baruch who was aid to the prophet Jeremiah, were a cultured and aristocratic strain in Europe, but not bankers nor wealthy. Simon Baruch came to this country from East Prussia in time to study medicine and serve with the Confederate army as a field surgeon. He later made solid contributions to medicine, notably in hydrotherapy. But he did not make money. The four children, of whom Bernard was the second, went to New York City public schools. Bernard then attended the College of the City of New York, of which he is now- a trustee, and to which he has always remained grateful for a public opportunity to get an education. He started in as an office boy at $3 a week. He made friends. He studied. He speculated a little on his bfcvn. At 25 he was a junior partner in a brokerage firm. He married an Irish girl, Annie Griflen. man man TN 1399 Baruch bought the Stock Exchange scat which he owned -■-until 1917. He made a lot of money, more than 10 millions. Then in 1912 he met Woodrow Wilson. Immediately he was drawn to Wilson with an admiration which is today almost, a veneration of Wilson's memory. Wilson turned to Baruch as a “braintruster.'' railed him to Washington in 1916 as an adviser to the Council of National Defense. Baruch was virtually chief purchasing agent for the Allies. His reeent Senate testimony has told in detail how, before accepting the job, he sold practically all his stocks, at a huge loss, and put the proceeds in Liberty Bonds. Dividends from a few stocks he could not sell were given to chanty. On appointment as chairman nf the War Industries Board March 5. 1919, Baruch was virtual industrial dictator in a much more absolute sense than his protege, Gen. Johnson, was to be later.

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"AVrrr from the moment I teas called to government service did I have a dollar's worth of interest in any concern manufacturing munitions of war."

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

\ 4 WASHINGTON. April 4 - Both the Army and Navy have been conVV ducting vigorous undercover campaigns recently to unearth foreign espionace in this country. The Army has been particularly careful along the Panama Canal. Almost its whole route is guarded as in wartime. But the other day a Japanese naval captain was discovered serving as mess boy on the Army transport Chaumont which regularly traverses the canal. He had passed as a Filipino.

And for six months he had served food to officers, worked under the very nose of the War Department. Note —The United States has no redress against spies of this kind, since the Espionage Act comes into force only with the declaration of war. The Japanese naval captain was deported. a a a GEORGE PEEK may be down. but he is not out. The burly Foreign Trade Adviser to the President has just put over a smashing coup in the House Agricultural Committee at the expense of Secretary Henry Wallace and the generalissimos of the AAA, which Mr. Peek once commanded. Calmly disregarding the President's injunction that all Administration legislative proposals must obtain the approval of "Assistant President” Donald Richberg. Mr. Peek went directly to the House committee. He got it to incorporate far-reaching changes in the new farm bill. These amendments if enacted into law will shift the whole axis of the Triple A. From a policy of crop control, its program would be shifted to one of unlimited production and subsidized exports—or. as it is better known, government-financed foreign dumping.

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IT has escaped the attention of most people, but Cordell Hull, mountaineer Secretary of State, has just won an important victory. From the very start of the New Deal, a bitter fight has raged round his policy of general tariff reduction and most-favored-na-tion trade treaties. Various factions within the Administration favored the cut-throat competitive method of quotas and tariff bargaining prevalent in Europe today. But now Hjalmar president of the Reischbank, has announced that Germany's compensatory tariff system has failed. Simultaneously’, Premier Flandin of France has come out for Mr. Hull's old-fashioned methods. Most important of all. a committee of the League of Nations has condemned the uropean system. supported the principles for which Secretary Hull has been fighting. a a a Donald richberg. new NRA chief, is of German descent. His grandfather. Louis Richbere. came to this country after the political upheaval in Germany in 1848. . . . iCopynght. 1935. bv United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

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COUNTY SCHOOL DEBATE TAKES PLACE TONIGHT Fifth Annual Oratorical Event to Be Held in New Augusta. Five high schools will be repre- [ sented in the fifth annual Marion County Oratorical Contest to be held in the New Augusta Community Hall at 8 tonight. A set of Riley 's books will be presented to the winner by Ira Holmes, Indianapolis attorney. Charles Walters. Butler Universityspeech department head, will act as judge, and E. C. Bratt, New Bethel High School principal, has charge of arrangements. Contestants include Margaret Laughner. Warren Central High School; Greyble McFarland, Southport: Charles Ben Davis; Warren Heath, New' Augusta, and Rosalee Harrison. Decatur Central. INSURANCE TALK LISTED A. B. Smillie to Speak Before Real Estate Board. A. B. Smillie, manager, fire insur- | ance department of the Travelers Insurance Cos., was to speak on "What Every Realtor Should Know About Property Insurance” at the R’-’al Estate Board luncheon today at the Washington. Robert Foster, local chairman of the Federal Housing Administration program, explained the details of a time-payment plan of reconditioning rental properties yesterday to the board's property management division.

Side Glances will be found on Page 10 of this edition.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1935

nnHE reporters who watched Baruch in action during the war agree that he did a magnificent job in what was then an untried field. He spent his own monev freely, several times paying committees when appropriations could not bp quickly had. And from his own capacious pockets, too, came money to send home thousands of girl employes of the WIB when they were no longer needed in Washington. To the Versailles peace conference went Baruch then, as economic adviser to Wilson. He was unpopular because he foretold tnat the reparations plans would fall flat, that the war debts were unpayable. With the Harding Administration. Baruch faded out of the political picture. He turned to the study of the farm problem with Alexander Legge and Hugh Johnson, and his researches were gratefully used by many big farm organizations. President Coolidge he liked and admired. Hoover he had known as food administrator during the war. Both Presidents consulted him. The Hoover debt moratorium and the National Credit Corporation (forerunner of the RFC) are supposed to be Baruch's brain children. ana a a a BARUCH was not a “before Chicago” Roosevelt man, but when President Roosevelt was nominated Baruch gave $53,000 and frequent counsel to the campaign. But he was not even offered a Cabinet post, though his money and brains had been a Democratic party mainstay for 10 years. He was. and still is, frequently consulted by President Roosevelt. But his dearest policy, the gold standard, was abandoned in his face, to his chagrin and sorrow. To Bernard Baruch, dollar devaluation was robbery. Baruch has a genius for friendship, and keeps closely in touch with former associates. But with Johnson out, and Peek in a minor job. it is hard to see how “Baruch men” can have much influence today. His headship of the President’s board to devise plans to “take the profit out of war” was merely the appointment of the one man who had the greatest first-hand knowledge of the industrial side of making war. And Baruch's slashing attack on war profits is something of a surprise even to his friends. a a a a a a GARUCH always has been a lone wolf. His stock-market opera- ■*-* tions were almost always lone hands, rather than pools. He doesn't go in for “society.” He likes horses, has owned racers. He likes to hunt on his 23.000-acre estate, Hobcaw Barony, in South Carolina. He has a house on Fifth-av. New York, opposite the Metropolitan Museum, and an office in Wall Street. He recently said he was retiring from active life to have a try at writing books. But Baruch is Baruch, and those books may yet turn out to be histories —of today and tomorrow. \

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Beauty Shows Signs of Ending 3-Year Sleep

By United Press CHICAGO. April 4—Patricia Maguire, the “sleeping beauty” who fell quietly asleep one day in 1932 and never awakened, is showing .signs of returning animation and consciousness, her physicians reported today.

Patricia became 30 years old Monday. Dr. Eugene F. Traut reported her progress in today's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, reiterating his conviction that she is afflicted with a rare form of sleeping sickness. Dr. Traut said Patricia is able to coiyit. add and subtract, reads and obeys simple commands on a slate, and recognizes members of her family. In the most severe stages of her affiliction she displayed no consciousness whatever. ‘‘lf her arm or leg is rotated and she is directed to held the extremity still after 20 rotations,” Dr. Traut said, “she w-ill stiffen the arm or leg at the proper time without being informed of the number of rotations made. "When asked how many children various families had when she became ill, she designates the correct number by raised fingers. When told of additions to these families within the last three years she will give the correct new number if asked several days following the time she was informed. “She has recently held her head up w’hile sitting. She watches people working in her room. She will stop eating to investigate actions of another person in the room. She nods the head to answer a question in the affirmative,"

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BOARD ORDERS HANDS OFF HORSE FOUNTAIN USED BY CITY'S POOR

A generation ago thirsty horses drank from water fountains provided by the city. Today, poverty-stricken families whose water supply has been shut off use at least one of the four such fountains still maintained by the city. Henry Steeg, city engineer, yesterday told the Works Board that the fountains have been costing the city 545 a year. Ernest Frick, board secretary, said that people living near the fountain at Beloit and Hillsideaves, whose water had been turned ofl, were carrying water from the horse fountain to their homes. Hubert Riley, president, looked up from papers he was signing. "Leave that one alone.” he said brusquely. Dutifully. Mr. Steeg checked it off his list and the meeting proceeded. Seaman on Furlough Here Joseph Higbee. seaman second lass. United States Navy, is visiting his sister. Mrs. B. Powers. 2510 N. New Jersey-st. He has a 13-day leave-of-absence. and then will be sent to the U. S. S. Saratoga, aircraft carrier.

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Fair Enough WESMofi MB MIAMI. Fla.. April 4On a little arch spanning the landing where the young Duke and Duchess of Kent came ashore in Nassau to spend their honeymoon and promote the tourist trade, in somewhat irregular letters of red. white and blue, is the pious and patriotic salutation, ''God Bless the House of Windsor.” The House of Windsor is the young duke's house. Your correspondent is not quite clear as to what house the duke's bride belongs to and a search of the morgue of Mr. Jimmy Cox' paper, the Miami Daily News, reveals only a

blurry impression that her house is something on the order of a tenement of all nations on the lower East Side of New York. She is a princess of a former royal house of Greece, but that does not mean anything. The Greeks went out and hired themselves a professional king before the big war and the princess is a member of a royal family of jumbled nationality, now unemployed. On the same principle by which a woman who marries a doctor in the United States become; Mrs. Dr. Smith or Jones,

as the ease may be. the Princess Marina is now a British duchess. Still, a short time ago in Nassau, a priest of the Greek church, the Rev. Theophilos Karaphvllis. pastor nf a congregation of Greek sponge fishermen at Tarpon Springs, Fla., swung out into spare and delivered a stirring tribute to the duchess as a descendant of the ancient Greeks. Veil, he didn't say exactly that. What he said w s, "We have the honor to believe that you feel that in your veins runs thai, Greek blood, the blood that has been glorified bv laurels, victories and trophies sincp ancient days.” "Because oi your presence.” said the Rev. Theophilos Ka.raphyllis, “our joy is very great and we are uplifted with the recollection of days gone by.” a a a They Have Their Own FROM that the reverend clergyman went on to prattle some of the damnedest nonsense that ever escaped the lips of mortal man, including refences to her august family and the religion of her fathers which was any religion that these fathers w-ere required to embrace in order to land and hold the job. Was the reverend pastor just chucking his weight, so to speak, and trying to catch a nod from the former nabobs with the idea of landing a good job for himself back home some happy day in the future? Or could it possibly be true that these poor Greeks were simple enough to palpitate with joy and pride because the young woman had done them the honor to enter their midst? She is attractive enough, but no more so than the daughters of some Greek spongers, and there is no doubt that she is a respectable young married woman. But v that any reason why people should palpitate with pride and joy to find her among them? Have they no respectable young women of their own? Now, in Miami at this time there is established what, you might call the road company of the American White House. President Rooseveit is away fishing on Vincent Astor's yacht in the waters of the British West Indies and the field headquarters, so to speak, is established in the Miami-Biltmore Hotel. There are a lot nf White House correspondents in the hotel and Doc Emithers. the White House telegrapher, and Marv n Mclntyre, the scrawny little traffic manager aid secretary of the company who stands off the pests, winnows out the mail and brings in thp communiques which make tip the newspaper dispatches for the papers. Mr. Mclntyre’s suite is. called the White House. tt tt tt How Times Do Change! BUT. although thus part of the country is solid Democratic territory and the city of Miami overlooks few opportunities to break out the bunting and the American Legion band, there are no arches over any public places in town emblazoned “God Bless the House of Roosevelt and the Democratic National Committee.” The Americans don't bring God into such matters. Mentioning Jimmy Cox, the proprietor of the local paper, who ran for President against Warren Harding in 1920, your correspondent could not remember offhand who was his running mate in that campaign. It was not important, but it was nevertheless annoying not to recall. So your corespondent telephoned Mr. Mclntyre on the floor above and asked. "Mac, was it Skull Cap Charley Bryan or John Davis who ran with Jimmy Cox that time? Or can you remember?” “Neither one,” Mr. Mclntyre said, and his voice could be heard in the quiet evening air from his balcony above without the aid of the phone. “Neither one, my boy. It was a young fellow named PYanklin D. Roosevelt. Remember him.” (Copyright, 1935. by Unit ed Feature Syndicate Inc.)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

By 1975 it may be commonplace for persons to live to the age of 100. This is the opinion of Dr. Philip H. Kreuscher. Chicago, associate professor at the Northwestern University Medical School. Dr. Kreuscher is to be one of the speakers wnen the American College of Surgeons holds a two-day sectional meeting in Cleveland, tomorrow and Friday. The span of life has been lengthened nearly 20 years in the last three or four decades, he says, adding that there is good reason to believe that medical science may extend it another 20 years within the next three or four decades. ‘The average length of life has been extended from 40 to 59 years in the past three or four decades.” he said. “If the public heeds the advancements of medical science the average could be 75 years or more, with many persons Living even to the century mark. “America is being made healthier each year through the aid of a stinding army. 1.500,000 strong —doctors, nurses, dentists and other medical workers—fighting disease. And this fight must go on. “Life has been lengthened because w-e have learned how to take care of our health intelligently.” a it a DR. KREUSCHER says that he has one suggestion for every person “for adding years to his life and life to his years.” “There is just one simple thing you must do,” he continues. “Go to your family doctor once a year for your ‘once over’—a good physical examination. Have it on your birthday and then you will not forget it.” A feature of the Cleveland meeting is to be a community health meeting at which a group of the nation's eminent surgeons including Dr. George Crile, chairman of the board of regents of the American College of Surgeons; Dr. Robert B. Greenough, president; Dr. Kreuscher and others are to speak. aaa DISCUSSING this public meeting, Dr. Kreuscher said: "The medical profession today is willing to share its scientific facts with the public, but the public must be whiling to be enlightened and to cooperate. “Not so many years ago the medical profession would never have dreamed of sharing with the public the information which will be given at the community health meeting. Those w’ho avail themselves of the unusual opportunity, will, if they heed the advice given them, make it possible to prevent many diseases and greatly lengthen their lives.” Dr. Kreuscher will speak at the meeting on "The Ache in Your Back.” Dr. Greenough will speak on “ The Course and Curability of Cancer.” Dr. Winchell McK. Craig, neurosurgeon of the Mayo Clinic, will speak on “Why Are You Nervous?” q where does one obtain information about oldage pensions? A—Write to the Marion County Commissioners’ office, Courthouse, Indianapolis.

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