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It Seems to Me HEWOMI BROW) MIAMI. Nov. 14.— Wc had a meeting against war and Fascism in Bav Front. Park the other night, and I appreciated for the first timo a circumstance which I should have known before. This is a wherc-do-you-come-from town. In other words, Miami Ls a metropolis. One assumes that the folk he meets in Baltimore are Baltimoreans and that the residents of San Francisco are for the most part native sons. But New York and Miami are quite different. These are the melting pots, tvhere men and women of lowa, Oregon and Con-

necticut go when they are about to die or make a fortune. Indeed, Florida in its entirety Is not a typical Southern state, out one of the most characteristic cross sections of America to be found in the entire atlas. All this was impressed upon me as I listened to the speeches and studied the audience at the anti-war meeting. I have seldom seen a more divergent group of speakers on any platform. It was composed of a rabbi, a rector, an I. W. W., a Communist, a suspect Republican, a couple of Socialists, a visiting newspaper

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man whose economic convictions seem to me a little muddled and a Townsendite. As my first encounter with any member of this faith I found his fervor fascinating. The plan itself seems to me economically inadequate. whether it. be viewed from the right or the left, but, it is ’OO per cent efficient psychologically and uill without doubt make itself distinctly felt in American politics. tt tt tt The ‘Helm ed Townsend Plan' e~p'HE elderly gentleman who expounded the 1 scheme was a poor speaker in so far as his exposition went, but under the tropic moon his sincerity glowed like a lighthouse. As he talked of what he called “our beloved Townsend plan” he seemed suddenly to become not one old gentleman but a million or more impulsively leaping down from the shelf to take an active part in the nation’s affairs. There is and has been for a decade a youth movement in America. Ail venerable persons stand accused of being responsible for the maladjustment of the world. They are charged with the crime of having fomented the wars in which the young men died. Indeed, by a curious paradox the elders have been identified as fierce and effective fabricators of evil and impotent warriors for liberty and justice. But in all truth the age of 60 has been shot through with men and women dropped into a kind of limbo where they lingered cn, unhonored and unregarded. Miss Edna Fcrbcr wrote a story once of old man Minick, and he sticks in my mind as the perfect symbol of his generation. He lived w’ith his married son and received an impatient hospitality in a home in which he was both an emotional and an economic kibitzer. a tt tt The Very (dime 11 self BUT row there arises a prophet who purposes to strike the shackles from the millions of Minicks. In fact, the economic rehabilitation of the United States is to revolve around the S2OO a month to be paid to persons over 60 on the stipulation that they spend it within the appointed period. It did not seem to me that the old gentleman whom I heard talking about “our beloved Townsend plan” was actuated to any considerable extent by mercenary motives. Whether the plan ever got to first base or not, its very existence had remade his life. No longer was he restricted to pitching horseshoes or filling in at the bridge table when one of the regular guests failed to arrive. With the proper pride of an agitator dedicated to a mission he could rise from the dinner table each night to say, “And now I must be on my way to talk for the Townsend plan. ’ Anri if the scheme or any part of it ever is enacted >n legislation I rather fear that, certain snowhaired Othellos will find their occupation gone.. They will lose the thrill of broncho busting on the back of a theory. They will have won security and lost the excitement of proselyting. I wish I could have been converted, but, at any rate, I understood what was in the mind of the old man as he reached out with both hands toward the glittering moon and spoke like one newborn of “our beloved Townsend plan.’

Your Health -BY I)R. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

'T'WENTY thousand people die every year in the United Sta'es from appendicitis. The rate is increasing gradually. It was 11.4 for every hundred thousand people in 1910, 13.4 in 1920, and 18.1 in 1930. The average age at which death occurs from appendicitis is 32.4 years, in contrast to an average age of 36.8 years for tuberculosis, 60.7 years for cancer and 64.7 years for heart diseases. Obviously appendicitis takes away human beings at a more productive age than anj of the other serious diseases. Several factors are primarily responsible for this. First, people wait too long to find out what is wrong with them. Second, they postpone operation as long as possible. Third, while they are waiting, they try to get rid of their pains by taking purgatives, or else they quiet, the pain by taking injections of sedative drugs or morphine. Lastly, some cases are diagnosed too late or a wrong diagnosis is made and the appendix ruptures before the operation can be performed. tt tt tt 'T'HE one symptom which practically always L 1 present in appendicitis is pain. If the pain is very severe and stops suddenly, one should not feel too happy about it In many instances nis is because the appendix has ruptured, and the next occurrence is peritonitis. Peritonitis is an infection and inflammation of the lining of the abdominal walls. This is a far more serious condition than appendicitis. Other signs of appendicitis are severe tenderness over the spot where the appendix lies. Doctors also place much weight on the appearance in the blood of an increased number of whfle blood cells or leukocytes. In at least 80 per cent of cases of appendicitis, the leukocytes rise from an amount around 7000 for each cubic millimeter of blood to figures like 15,003 20.0 to or more.

Today's Science BY SCIENCE SERVICE

A SLIGHT decrease in the cancer death rate during the first nine months of 1935 has been noted by life insurance company statisticians. The figures showing the decrease apply only to the company s industrial policyholders but are considered indicative of health conditions among the country’s wage earners, if not of the entire population. Here is encouraging news. For years health authorities. physicians and the public have been discouraged by the continuous increase in cancer deaths despite the strenuous fight being made against the disease. Part of this increase was more apparent than real, many authorities felt. Improved methods of detecting cancer, especially in internal organs or other parts of the body not easily observed, have led to more and more cancer deaths being reported. In former years probably many of these deaths would have been ascribed to other conditions. Now that the fictitious increase has been checked or at least caught up with, further decreases in the cancer death rate whenever it appears can doubtless be hailed as the beginning of a real triumph. The entire health outlook for this year is bright, according to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Cos. s figures. The general death rate is low. Deaths from heart diseases decreased more than 4 per cent. Tuberculosis, chronic nephritis (kidney disease), conditions associated with childbirth, and alcoholism all caused fewer deaths this year than last. Death rates from most of these conditions have been declining for some time but the drop in deaths from diseases of the’heart we , surprising. ■he only conditions which showed increased deaths for both white and colored policyholders during the first nine months of 1935 were scarlet fever, influenza, meningococcus meningitis, diseases of the coronary arteries and angina pectoris, and homicides.

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WORLD WEIGHS HISTORIC MANILA

Anxiety Mounts as Philippines Acclaim Its New President

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Srripns-Howard Forrizn tditor WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. —With undisguised mis gi v ings, Washington and the world are weighing the significance of the historic events of Friday, Nov. 15, at Manila. In the presence of Vice President Garner and scores of other distinguished Americans who have traveled 1 alf-way around the world to witness the inauguration, Manuel Quezon will become the first president of the new Philippines Commonwealth. To all intents, the Philippine Islands then will be free. Cannon will thunder the traditional salute for the new chief of state. Governor General Murphy will cease to be Governor General. His title will be High Commissioner. He will rate 19 guns—two less than Quezon. Ten years hence, the archipelago will become the Philippine Republic and Murphy’s successor an ambassador in a foreign land. But, while America thus redeems her solemn pledge, anxiety mounts, not only in Washington, but in London, The Hague, the Far East and Australasia over the future of the islands. a a a Throughout the orient, Europe and America, observers are convinced that Japan may supplant the United States in the Philippines—not all at once, but when an opportunity presents itself. While the rest of the world is preoccupied with problems nearer home, Nippon is systematically expanding in the East, territorially, politically and otherwise. Once the American flag is hauled down, says Winston Churchill, former First Lord of the British Admiralty—and possible new head of the British navy after the Nov. 14 elections —the whole Pacific equilibrium will be destroyed. Churchill frankly fears the Japanese. He is afraid because in the hands of a stiong power the Philippines would be a pistol pointed at the heart of British and Dutch East Indies, Singapore, Hongkong, India, Australia and New Zealand. British North Borneo is only a step. From there to Java and other Dutch possessions is just another hop. Only narrow straits separate these islands from Singapore, Britain’s Far Eastern stronghold. Westward is India and southward is Australia. French Indo China is only 600 miles from the Philippines across the China Sea. tt a a THE United States should have no delusions about the ability of her Navy to protect the Philippines,” said Churchill. And r.aval experts in this country and abroad agree the American fleet would not have a chance. The Philippines are 11.364 miles from New York and the industrial East. They are 9347 miles from Panama, our Navy’s gateway from the Atlantic to the Pacific. They an* 6221 miles from San Francisco and 4767 miles from Hawaii, nearest American naval base. Admittedly our sea force would have to be double its present size to hold its own in a conflict so

Landis, Burns and the New Deal's Famous Legal Twins, Corcoran and Cohen, Plot Lines of Defense for Holding Company Act

BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. Nov. 14. Four young men, three of them original “Brain Trusters.” are doing the heavy duty for the New Deal in the attempt to save the holding company act from death in the courts. Day and night since Federal Judge William C. Coleman at Baltimore branded the act unconstitutional. and thus started it on the legal path which ends at

Great Lakes Ore Boat Just as Spic and Span as an Ocean Liner and Ernie, Who'd Heard Dire Tales, Tosses Away His Mariinspike

BY ERNIE PYLE Detroit, Nov. h.—The bottom of an ore boat in the Detroit River is a funny place for a fellow to find himself within two hours after he arrives in ‘his city. This was a great big boat, a block and a half long. I suppose. It was a Great Lakes freighter, the long snaky kind that has a little bump of a bridge right up in the bow, and a little superstructure back on the stern, and all the rest is low and flat, like a tanker. Well, the way I happened to get on this boat was like this: A street car marked “Fort—W. Jefferson” stopped, and I got on it and paid 6 cents, and rode a couple of miles and got off in front of the Detroit Hartoor Terminal, and walked down to the dock and up an ordinary carpenter's ladder leaning up against the side of this ship. And there I was. on this boat. a a a NOW. ever since I first put to sea as a mess boy before the mast. I had heard stories about the Great Lakes freighters —how filthy dirty they were inside, and how the men were treated like dogs, and how the officers

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Manuel Quezon, who will be inaugurated tomorrow as first President of the Philippines Commonwealth.

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Gov. Gen. Frank Murphy, right, talks about the inauguration with Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the Philippines House.

far from home—even if the other fleets remained as they are. Which they have no intention of doing. On the contrary, Japan has scrapped the limitation agreements and come out for n armada equal to Britain’s or America’s. A naval race involving Japan, America, Britain and continental Europe lies ahead. Many Filipinos who led the campaign for independence are afraid today they may haul down the Stars and Stripes only eventually to have an invader’s flag raised in its place. a a tt MEANWHILE, from the United States sincere congratulations are going out to the people

the Supreme Court, they have been putting their heads together to plot their lines of defense. Their salaries are modest but their faith, enthusiasm and energy are boundless. Arrayed against them are some of the highest-priced lawyers in the country. tt a a THESE young men—ranging in years from 35 to 40— are Chairman James M. Landis of the Securities and Exchange Commis-

themselves were just a couple of jumps ahead of the apes, and what a low form of life in general Great Lakes freighting was. So when I saw the red side ot the "George R. Fink" in front of me there, I picked up a marlinspike off the dock, having in mind that I'd just lay it alongside the captain's ear the first time he opened his mouth at me. So I climbed up to the top of the ladder and there was a man standing there, wearing glasses and a civilian cap and a green shirt and a lumber jacket, and he says, “How do you do?” and I says, "Is the captain or mate aboard?” and he says, "I'm the mate.” and I says, "Well. I'd like to look around your ship,” and he says, "Go right ahead." Go anywhere you like, just so you don't turn us on full steam ahead.” And he grinned. Well <blow me down, sir, you could have knocked me over witn a stern sheet. a a a SO I wandered around and stumbled down half a dozen flights of steel ladders, and the first thing I knew I was down there on the bottom plates with

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of the islands. Privately and officially, there is real joy in the Philippines’ approaching natal day as a commonwealth. All America is glad, especially for the sake of the doughty President Quezon, whose entire life, boy and man, has been devoted to the cause signified by the events of Friday. But elation is tempered with anxiety. The world has seldom been so topsy-turvy—even during the great war. Nations are out to grab what they think they can get away with. There is increasing suspicion the post-war peace machinery may not function in every case. It failed signally in North China. Would it do any better if the Philippines were attacked?

sion, which is delegated to administer the act; John J. Burns, SEC counsel and former member of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and those Administration legal twins who largely drafted the act and helped to push it through Congress, Benjamin V. Cohen and Thomas G. Corcoran, the former attached to PWA, the latter to RFC. This is not the first big battle for Landis, Cohen and Corcoran. Their handiwork was dominant

coal behind me and six big boilers in front of me, talking to Mr. Olson, or maybe it was Johanssen. Anyway, I said it feels mighty good and warm down here after being up there in the cold, and he said yes, it's nice down here this time of year. But the trouble with it, he said, is that in the winter when it’s so nice down here, the ship is laid up on account of ice in the lakes, and a fireman can't find any kind of job. And in the summer time when it’s nice outside we're down here firing, and it’s really hell firing down here in the summer time. Mr. Olson didn’t seem discouraged. but he did give the impression that he thought it was a queer way for nature to arrange things. a a a TT7E talked quite a while and VV finally I said, "Well, thanks a lot.” and he said. ‘‘Why, that's all right.” And I said, "Well. I'll be seeing you.” and he said, "Come down again any time.” I nosed around into the engine room, the galley, the coal passer's quarters, the bridge, and you never saw anything so clean and shiny in your life.

Winston Churchill . . . Fears Japan.

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John Nance Garner . . . He’s wearing shoes.

For the next 10 years the United States is sovereign in the Philippines, virtually independent though the islands already are. That means this country remains responsible for their security. Yet last summer’s naval maneuvers proved that the United States Navy can not function effectively in the Western Pacific. It is like making the New York fire department responsible for the safety of Philadelphia. tt tt tt THERE are factors, however, which tend to discourage wanton seizure of the Philippines. Britain could not afford to stand idly by and see the islands taken

in two other important acts of the New’ Deal aimed at entrenched financial and industrial power—the 1933 securities act and the 1934 stock market regulation act, the latter of which created the commission which is so deeply involved in this issue and of which Mr. Landis now’ is head. t: tt a WALL Street knows them well, for Wall Street has learned to fear them. The utility interests with their

Then the mate showed me a i couple of cabins the company of- | ficials ride in sometimes, and they ! were just as nice as the finest ! liners. The mate's name was Roland Brown, and he had sailed the Great Lakes for 23 years. The I only time he was ever on salt i water was when he was in a I friend's little sailing boat once off | the coast of Massachusetts. B B B HE'S mighty proud of the clean way his boat is kept up. He ! said he saw some big liners in Los Angeles last winter, and if a i Great Lakes man let his freighter get in the shape those liners were | in he'd lose his job in five ■ minutes. | Mr. Brown says sailing the lakes i is more of a man’s job than sailing the ocean, because the waves up here throw a ship, instead of rolling it, and the lakes are so small you have to navigate all the i time. When I finally got off the boat, ; I walked around to the edge of the ; pier, and took the marlinspike I ! had hidden under my coat, and ■ threw it just as far as I could out i into the Detroit River.

over by a strong, aggressive nation. Australia would not permit it, even if Britain had no other interests in that quarter to consider. And she has plenty of other interests. Holland, too, is tremendously concerned. To a lesser degree, so is France. Also Russia. Here then, many believe, may be the key to Philippine security and to anew Pacific balance of power: That is to say, on agreement among America, Britain, Australia, Holland, France, Russia and Japan, among others, to preserve the new Philippine status quo. The alternative might be a disastrous conflict in the Pacific which nobody wants.

Wall Street connections now are out to best them. Much is at stake, for the holding company act, designed as it is to break up great concentrations of capital into smaller units, is one of the most fundamental and far-reaching of New Deal measures. It was bitterly fought in Congress and will be bitterly fought through the courts. When the constitutionality of the act was challenged in the Baltimore court by John W. Davis, 1924 Democratic presidential candidate, the trio of Burns. Cohen and Corcoran went to bat for the government. a a a ' I ''HEY took off their gloves in the hearing before Judge Coleman, to the dismay of Mr. Davis, and charged that he was a party to collusion of big utility interests which had brought a trumped-up case. They still insist there was collusion, despite Judge Coleman’s finding that there was none, and they will raise this charge in their next appearance. Just where or when this will be remains to be seen. The government was not permitted to be a party to the original case, because of the way it was brought. One of the concerns involved, the Berco Cos., can appeal the decision and has indicated it will, in that case the government can do what :t did before, submit arguments and briefs as "friends of the court.” But the young men will get their chance before the Supreme Court. "Thank God for the Supreme Court!” one of them said when he learned of the Coleman decision.

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J nrrroil n Second Clas Matr-'r at Dostoffue. Indianapolis. Ind.

Fair Enough nnookn EN ROUTE TO BARCELONA. Nov. 14 —The train your correspondent boarded for Spain leaves Geneva at 9 in the evening. There are no sleepers, so passengers arrange themselves on shelves which are called couchettes and merely turn in like vagrants on a bench in the park or subway, subject to the intrusion of other passengers, there being four couchettes—two upper and two lower. The condition, however, is that the subject has to tip 10 French francs, or 60 cents, to the conductor, who may then tell additional pas-

sengers that there are no more couchettes left on the train. Additional passengers may then top the 10-franc tip with a 13-franc tip. but that is unlikely, as there are not many Americans in Europe at this writing. And even if they should do so your correspondent has the right to call their cards and raise the bet. The passenger having oxpensive false teeth is advised to sleep with his mouth shut, as the used false teeth market is always active in Europe and passengers having worth-while sums of

money are cautioned not to fall asleep at all. However, these admonitions all seem foolish, as nobody is likely to have any money on leaving Geneva, and nobody is likely to sleep on a couchette. It will be necessary to detrain about 9 in the morning at a place on the Spanish frontier called Port Bou < pronounced something like Poor Bov>. because the Spaniards with shrewd foresight and judging the future by the past wisely built their railroads with either wider or narrower gauge than those of France. a a a Thai Affair of the lee Hilt IN Madrid your correspondent hopes to look into the celebrated affair of the ice bill, in which poor Senor Daniel Strauss, the Mexican caballero, undertook to operate a game of skill called the straperlo, somewhat similar to roulette, and was shocked and dismayed to see his tools tossed into the street after he had made what he thought were necessary arrangements with the authorities. The Spanish cabinet resigned when Senor Strauss complained to the president of the republic, and two eminent patriots and statesmen were missing from the ministry when it was sworn in again. The affair of the ice bill in Spain seems almost as obstreperous as the notorious affair of Lapostiophe Oncle Stavisky, the Russian immigrant who became pawnship king of France some years ago and almost caused a revolution when he failed to take down the shutters on his place of business at tha sign of the three balls in Bayonne. When inspectors entered to take inventory of banjos, boxing gloves, war medals and other stock which had been placed in pawn with Monsieur Stavisky they discovered that he had lent an extravagant amount of francs to his political friends. And because French pawnshops are state institutions the loss fell on the citoyens. Lapostrophe Oncle Stavisky fell ill of a bullet wound and died. a a a French, Those Funny I'eopfe, (tel Mad THE amount involved is said to have been no more than 20 million dollars—a trivial sum compared to the losses which American citizens suffered in the failure of Mister Sobbing Sam Insult’s enterprises and in numerous other mishaps. But the French, they are a funny race, and they were so incensed that a riot broke out in Paris on Feb. 6 last year in which troops killed 20 people to prevent their marching on the Chamber of Deputies and the lynching of some leading statesmen. The French are still seriously annoyed about the affair of L’Oncle Stavisky. It is unlikely that the jury will agree on a verdict. Both the affaire de la glace in Spain and Lapostrophe Affaire Stavisky in France may be regarded as solemn warnings to the United States to avoid entangling alliances and the combination of American ideals with the corrupt morality of Europe. No American Cabinet would ever resign merely because the police had broken up the tables on which games of skill were played, and even when American banks were popping like balloons in the gay haunts of pleasure at the witching hour of midnight. on New Year’s Eve there was no concerted movement toward the national Capital to lynch anybody.

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Ci CONSIDERABLE attention has been devoted to 4 the activities of labor spies, but up to today no full-length portrait has been done of their brethren, the imported strike breakers. Edward Levinson has done the job in a fast, well-told recital of the history of modern strike breakers in the United States, “I Break Strikes: The Technique of Pearl L. BergofT’’ (Mcßride). The so-called workers are “finks” and the everpresent armed guards are “nobles” in the argot of this loathsome crew\ Levinson writes his history around the career of one of the business’ shining lights, who handled the biggest jobs in his day. Bergoffs career as told by Levinson is a damning indictment of big business as stupid and cruel in labor relations. The finks universally loot and plunder. Their unskilled hands destroy more than they produce. The street-car strikes led to particuuarly horrible incidents. The ony function of the finks is to break the spirit of the strikers. a tt tt HOMESTEAD. McKees Rocks. Ludlow and Herrin, blackest pages in labor’s history, are retold here with particular relation to the leading part of the agents provocateur—the fink and the noble—recruited from the lawless and the illiterate and left free to beat and rob and kill under the protection of “law and order.” And Levinson, veteran New York labor reporter, reminds us that the fink is not embalmed in history like the dodo. The strikes of 1934-35 are marked by frequent violence resulting from the unholy and odoriferous crews shipped into troubled areas by larga employers. He has traced the underworld careers of Bergoff s particular staff in a convincing and irrefutable manner—from police records—and hi.s big revenues fsuch as 31.000.000 from the Erie Railroad, $700,000 from the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Cos. for one job; from the official records. How any employer seeking to break a strike with imported workers would shudder to read these disclosures of how the finks are enlisted and captained, and what manner of men are the nobles!

Literary Notes

Dr. Logan Clendenings new’ book is called ‘‘The Pickwick P.lgrimage” and is a record of the journey he made through England, visiting all the places made famous by the Pickv/ickians—Rochester, Ipswitch, Bury St. Edmunds. Bath. Bristol. Towcester. Dr. Clendening calls it a memorial to the centenary of the publication of "The Pickwick Papers” in March. 1836—a guidebook and biblp for all true Pickwickians. The book will be published next spring by Alfred Knopf. Both Tarkington recently bought a room. It is a Jacobean room, which he discovered in Philadelphia. He liked it, bought it, and had it moved up to his home in Kennebunkport, Me. He had an additional wing of stone built on to his house, where the room, which is about 35 feet long and 30 feet wide, is housed, and now he does all his work there. Ben Aronin. widely known Chicago lawyer, lecturer and teacher, has just written a book called "The Moor's Gold.” It Is a fanciful recreation of the citing years of the fifteenth century In Spain,

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