Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 219, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1935 — Page 15

It Seems to Me HEWOOD BROUN I T has born : air! that. Charlie Chaplin nourishes a secret ambition to play Hamlet, and now Herbert Hoover, who-" reputation is largely associated with tragedy, reveals in pubhe a desire to h* a funny man. It is true, of course, (ha* ho coined one of the most fan.ous ' gags ever to gain currency in America. He would bo wise to lot hi reputation rest on that Strive a ho will it is most unlikely that he will ever think up anything quite so side-splitting as "a chicken in every pot. Indeed, the time has come when his friends should gather about him in a

protecting screen and say with all the good will in the world. For Heaven's sake, Herbert, cut out the wisecracks and be your political age.” It w'&s at the Ohio dinner last week that the former President of the United States cut loose and tried to get himself accepted as another Eddie Cantor. Personally I’m afraid he'll never get by in w'hite face, but, unfortunately, some of the papers humored him and printed two-column boxes captioned “Epigrams of the Great Engineer” or ' Bright Sayings by Herbert Clark

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Hoover.” I will admit that my criticism may be less than scrupulously fair, because I didn’t hear the speech. It may that the Palo Alto playboy has a droll delivery which sells the stuff. I do not even know what costume he -wore or the makeup which he used. But the script itself is not so hot. a a a M allied—Gay M liter I THINK that upon his return home. Mr. Hoover should insert a little advertisement in the local press reading: “Wanted—Ghost to write gags for former public man who is bored with the California climate and wishes change of scenery. No questions asked. Steady work for the right party until next elect ion day.” Several of the headline writers seized upon Mr. Hoover's nifty “There are nests of constitutional termites at woik.” That isn't so bad, but it doesn’t belong to Herbert Hoover. William Randolph Hearst first pulled it almost six months ago. It seems to me hat, Herbert Hoover's timing is all wrong. He hasn’t sufficient pace to be a successful mcnologist. I suppose some vaudeville friend told him to be sure to wait, for his laughs. Unfortunately, the actor didn’t tell him how long to wait. Some of Mr. H 'over's laughs are just around the corner with prospen v, and no audience can waif that long. Let's take any wheeze out of the routine at random and attempt to analyze it: “There are only four letters in the alphabet, not now m use by the Administration. When w'e establish the Quick Loans Corporation for Xylophones, Yachts and Zithers the alphabet of our fathers will be exhausted. But of course, the new Russian alphabet has 34 letters.” b b tt No llunior There NOW, obviously that isn't, very funny. Better performers than Herbert Hoover would lay an egg with that. But what’s wrong with it? Well, first of all. it starts wrong. As soon as any comedian begins with something about the Administration and the use of letters the audience gets an uneasy feeling that he is going to pull some version of the old chestnut about Roosevelt making alphabet soup. As an old showman I have a practical suggestion to make to Herbert Hoover if he really w'ants to get booking as an act in one. He needs some props to distract the attention of the audience from the patter. I think he would be wise to take the old silk hat out of camphor and brush up the tricks in magic which he used to experiment with. For instance, he says, "The new' Russian alphabet has 34 letters,” and then without waiting for a second proceeds to pull a. chicken, a bottle of prohibition near beer, two cars and the flags of all nations from the hat. That might be good for a laugh, but I’m not sure. The safest way to build up the act would be to add eight Albertina Rasch Girls. Paul Whiteman’s Band, Powers’ Performing Elephants and A1 Jolson. And even with all that I still think it might be a good idea for Herbert Hoover to black up and learn to play the banjo. (Copyright, 1935)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

this is thr first of a series of articles in which Dr. Fishbcin will Rive a thorough explanation of foods and their effects on the human body. ‘•ripELL me what you eat and I will tell you what l you are!" says an old proverb. Os course, that doesn't mean that those who live largely on nuts and grains resemble squirrels or donkeys. Or that persons who subsist largely on steak resemble the lion or*the tiger in their voraciousness. The foods we eat enter into the composition of our tissues after digestion and absorption. A deficiency of certain essential elements in the diet reveals itself in extraordinary malformations in body structure and in unusual diseases. When the Queen of France heard that the people were crying for bread, she said, "Let them eat cake.” That was bad advice. A slice of bread costs less than a piece of cake cf the same size and offers more in the way of nutritional elements; but bread differs from cake in lacking appetite appeal. The queen's advice to her people w r as a good deal like most of the advice peddled nowadays on the subject of food. Every one who has suffered from indigestion considers himself an authority on diet. U U tt MOST people take diet for granted. They think back to the time of their childhood. They remember Sunday dinner with soup, chicken, vegetables, fruits, nuts. milk, pie and cream on top of pie. And Sunday night supper! Everything in the old icebox was brought forth to delight the eye and the palate. But times have changed. Nowadays girls learn to cook with can openers. This is not to deprecate the value of canned goods, because I will show later what their usefulness in nutrition really is. Foods have become sophisticated. Thirty-five years ago the average American had a choice of three cereals for breakfast; today, there are several hundred cereals from which he may choose. Once we ate only with the idea of putting energy into our bodies. Nowadays we eat for health and for growth. The purpose of this series of articles is to enlighten the intelligent reader so that he may pick his foods with at least the same care that he uses in picking a motor car.

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

HOW closely man is related to the so-called great apes or anthropoid apes—the gibbon, the orangoutang. the chimpanzee and the gorilla—is one of the questions upon which biologists are not yet agreed. It is sometimes said by the uninformed that evolutionists claim that men are descended from monkeys. That, of course, is not the case. What the evolutionists do claim is that man belongs to a more general animal family, namely, the primates. Included in this family are the lemurs the tarsiers, the New World monkeys, the Old Work monkeys, the anthropoid apes, and man. All the members of this family are cousins, but the exact degree of relationship is still a subject for argument. a 8 a EVOLUTIONISTS represent man’s inheritance with the familiar device of a tree. The trunk represents the original stock, a sort of tree-dwelling, insect-eating shrew' who lived some 50.000.000 years ago. Gradually branches developed from the trunk. The first, to develop is represented today by the lemur, the most primitive of all primates. The lemur is midway between the monkeys and the ordinary quadrupeds. He has fairly good eyes but a dog-like muzzle. Next came the tarsier, a pop-eyed monkey-like creature. His eyes are directed forward like those of the monkey. Then in succession came the New’ Wor'd monkeys, so called because they are found in South America today, the Old World monkeys, found in the tropical parts of Africa aid Asia, the anthropoid apes, and finally man.

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I*nn-\mrriran Airways thi month Inaugurates a service to Manila. Shortly thereafter this service will extend to the Asiatic mainland. Behind this is a story of adventure, of achievement and of daring determination. This is the second chapter of that story, drawn from records and reports of the company and other sources. BY SUTHERLAND DENLINGER Times Staff Writer ■gRITALVS Imperial Railways, Germany’s Lufthansa, Holland’s Royal Dutch Airlines, France’s Air Orient were pushing rapidly toward China through Egypt, India, Persia and Siam. They had a comparatively easy overland route to follow, and once they had established themselves Europe's trade would reach the Far East in just half the three w'eeks required by the fastest steamers to bridge the sea between our west coast and the Asiatic mainland. None knew better than youngish, alert Juan Trippe. or keen, Andre Priester how difficult it would be for American air interests to break into Orient were government subsidized foreign airways to get there first. PanAmerican had spent years overcoming the lead of heavily entrenched French and German services in South America. Trippe and Priester and gangling, fair-haired Col. Charles A. Lindbergh studied a huge map of the Pacific, covered its surface with a weblike tracing of possible routes. And, eventually, they evolved a plan—a plan w'hich in its mingling of caution and daring was typical of all three. tt a COL. LINDBERGH moved the sharpened point of his pencil across a chart of the Pacific. Priester and Trippe watched. The pencil point moved south and west to Honolulu, paused, continued west and north for a distance representing some 1380 miles to a dot that was Midway Island, outermost of the group we call the Hawaiians but wffiich w'as known to Capt. Cook and to romance as the Sandwich Isles. As Juan Trippe, president of Pan-American Airways, and Andre Priester, his chief engineer, looked on, Col. Lindbergh’s pencil continued southwest over inches of blue paper that marked tumbling leagues of watery emptiness to a spot of land so tiny as to be, even on such a large map, almost infinitesimal. a tt a THAT which in a few weeks will be a casual reality must have seemed in 1931 to the ordinary man the wildest sort of dream. Wake Island, for one thing, was a low-lying speck of sand filled with the erie sound of a myriad of seabirds; covered with matted brush, scrub trees, driftwood and coral boulders; without shelter from blazing sun or driving rain; without water and without food. In 1931 no flying boat had yet been built which could cover the initial leg of the course marked out by Col. Lindbergh’s pencil, that from San Francisco to Honolulu. with a safe fuel reserve, to say nothing of pay load. In 1931 there were no methods of operation which would insure safe operation of a transocean airline. In 1931 establishment of a Pacific air service required not only the hazardous and primitive physical pioneering necessary to establish a chain of island bases, but scientific pioneering in order to provide planes, navigating systems, adequate radio equipment, educational pioneering to insure the existence of a flying and ground personnel trained to do that which had never been done before. a tt tt The spot was the lonely midPacific atoll called “The Wake

Egyptian Women Ready to Die Fighting for Independence, Widow of National Hero Tells Writer in Bitter Stand Aqainst British RV ELEANOR PtfKißn

BY ELEANOR PACKARD l nited Tress Special Correspondent Copyright. 1935. by United Press. AIRO, Egypt. Nov. 20.—The women of Egypt are ready to die fighting—physically, if necessary—for the independence of their country, Madame Said Zaghloul, widow of the Egyptian national hero, said today. “We women are throwing all our moral force and encouragement behind the men fighting for the liberty of Egypt,” she said. "We also are ready to give physical force. Unfortunately it is not great, but we are willing to die for an independent Egypt. “Even our little girls of 14 and 15 have been in the streets ready to face guns during the student riots. Many of them are poor children, attending schools founded by Egyptian women's clubs formed to further the cause of independence.” BBS npHAT her words were directed as much at Great Britain as at her interviewer, Madame Zaghloul made clear. She said: “It. is only due to the influence of myself and other leaders that this trouble did not break out long ago. We hoped that Britain would give us a constitution and also remain friendly. But now that Sec- | retary of Foreign Affairs Sir Sam--1 uel Hoare has revealed England's | real intentions, there is nothing to i do but fight." i tThe reference was to Hoare's

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“Colonel Lindbergh moved the sharpened point of his pencil across a chart of the Pacific. Priester and Trippe watched.”

Island Group,” more than 5000 miles from San Francisco and almost 1500 miles from Guam, the next halting place of Col. Lindbergh's adventurous pencil. This was early in 1931. four years before the bronzed invaders we met yesterday had arrived to disturb the solitude of centuries, and somehow those pinpoint islets over which Lindbergh's pencil hovered seem to symbolize the titanic nature of the entire transoceanic airways project. Pan-American in 1931 was hellbent on getitng to the Far East before the great European lines, heavily subsidized by their governments, could get there first. The European airways had but to follow comparatively simple overland routes, while almost 9000 miles of surging ocean chanted an apparently unanswerable challenge to Yankee ingenuity. tt tt tt FAR-SIGHTED American interests in 1929 had co-operated with the Chinese government in setting up air lines in China proper, and China controls the key trade routes to the entire East. It was vital that the fast advancing European lines be blocked from the Orient while Pan-American’s daring program developed from scratch, and in 1932 the line made its first overt move in a worldwide game of aviation chess—a game in which the stake was a market worth billions of dollars. Pan American acquired these Chinese lines, set up a partnership company with the Chinese government, and soon Pan American pilots were flying Oriental airways 1000 miles up the Yangtze River from Shanghai and a thousand miles down the coast from Peiping to Canton. Almost at the same time the air lines of Alaska, potential outpost on a northern air route to the Far East, became a part of the Pan American System against the day when the progress of Soviet avia-

recent speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet in London in which he said England and Egypt were irrevocably bound together by history and geography. This was interpreted here to mean that England would not restore Egypt's suspended parliamentary regime for an indefinite time). “Britain has never benefited us

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tion might make possible an Arctic route to the China Sea. In acquiring the Alaskan lines, however, Pan American merely v/as not overlooking any bets. In themselves, the routes were promising, but the foggy, dangerous Alaskan Peninsula-Aleutian highway to Asia was unattractive for other reasons in addition to its natural handicaps. tt tt a NOT so the southern skyway. Its westward advance is over a series of island w'ay stations, pillars in a 9000-mile bridge, all of which—by some freak of what the jingoes might call manifest destiny are possessions of the United States, although the line cuts between Micronesian island chains belonging to Japan. One need not be more than casually familiar with America's political and commercial stake in the Far East to realize the importance of this first of transoceanic air routes, and to ponder what it may mean to the future of American trade, travel, habits, and point of view—to the future of America, for that matter. Certainly it would seem the complete answer to the isolationists. And yet always the greatest appeal will lie, perhaps, in the adventure of its building; an adventure which will be remembered long after the 8:15 for China has become as commonplace as the Twentieth Century Limited. tt tt tt '"•"'He Twentieth Century Lir.i- --- ited! The name was once—only yesterday—a synonym for speed. But the speed is in our age, and not in the vehicle of the moment. It was only yesterday, in the historical sense, that Bleriot spanned the Channel, that Lindbergh flew the Atlantic. Yesterday that the steam vessels made snails of the beautiful clipper ships, all canvas set for a swift run to Canton River. Yesterday

—not the slightest—only herself,” Madame Zaghloul said with fire. “What she gave with one hand, she took away with the other. She suffocated us, made us mere servants.” BBS Madam ZAGHLOUL. whitehaired and nearing 70, spoke with almost fanatic fervor, her

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BY W. E. M’KENNEY Secretary American Bridge Leajue More and more the better players are beginning to realize that opening leads play an important part in defending hands at contract bridge. No longer can you be content with just opening the top of your partner's suit or the fourth best of your longest and strongest suit. Your mind has to be on the alert. You must try to visualize the possible holdings of declarer and dummy. This picture, of course, can be built up in your mind with the bidding. Today’s hand is a spread for five spades. Declarer has nothing to lese but a heart and a diamond: still I will leave it up to your friends. Ask them what they would do if West opened the five of hearts against them. Isn’t it natural to play low from dummy, hoping that West was leading away from the queen? Well, now can you see what happens? West wins the trick with the queen and returns the eight of hearts, showing that his possible

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that men talked (foolishly, many thought) of a time w T hen great air liners would hurtle across the uneasy breadth of ocean to do for plodding liners what they, in their moment, had done for sail. A rush of wings, a tick of the clock —and that day is here, .is no further away than tomorrow’s news. The year 1936 still may be in its prime when a passenger boarding that same Twentieth Century Limited at Grand Central, and transferring at Chicago to a fast westbound train, will scarcely have reached that doubtful oasis which is Los Angeles before voyagers on the China Clipper have completed a passage from San Francisco to Portuguese Macao, within 40 miles of Hong Kong. tt tt a AND yet if Trippe and Priester and Lindbergh moved swiftly. they moved also without haste. There is a distinction. On its South American lines Pan-Ameri-can operates over 25,000 miles of routes, has never had a. single flying boat accident, maintains schedule above 99 per cent. One reason for this record is a constant effort to be sure, to leave no opening to Misfortune, and this policy, with which the entire personnel is indoctrinated, became the policy of the trans-Pacific project. The advance was gradual, studied. It still is. When the 25-ton China Clipper rises from the water off PanAmerica's Alameda terminus on Nov. 22, and stands out between the tall, gaunt towers of the yetunfinished San Francisco-Oakland Bridge for Honolulu and Manila, she will carry the United States mails, but no passengers, and while she will reach Manila in one-quarter the time required by the fastest of steamships, she will be far from crossing her Pacific bridge as quickly as she can. A few weeks later and the

eyes flashing. She declared that hitherto there had been little sympathy among Egyptians for Italy, but, she added, “there's no telling what may develop with people in their present mood. “We most emphatically do not ! want to exchange Britain for Italy j as our masters,” she went on. “We I are not supporting Italian aims in j

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entry card is the ace of diamonds. West wins with the ace and returns a diamond. East wins and ; returns another heart. This establishes a spade trick for West, and ! what looked like a perfectly safe contract has been defeated by a ! tricky opening lead. * iCopyright, 1935, NILA Service. Inc.)

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Clung Clippers, stilt without, passengers, will extend' their services to Mltcao, on the Asiatic mainland. 'A few mofe weeks, to iron out any possible “bugs,” to make perfectly sure, and the clippers will be carrying passengers. The final step, the step which will shrink the Pacific to one-seventh of its present size, will involve night flying along the island chain beyond Honolulu—at first the only overnight hop will be on the San Francisco-Hawaii leg. tt - tt a THE Pan-American* Clipper: the line's transoceanic test plane, made her first exploratory flight over the Pacific to Honolulu last April. At that time the North Haven was anchored off Midway, disgorging part of the 1.018,879 items of air base equipment carried in her hold to the amazement of the Gooney birds and the perturbation of those attempting to lighter it ashore in a Japanese sampan which refused to remain on an even keel. . The Clipper was several hours out of the Golden Gate cutting a path through the twilight at 8.000 feet. Below her a night-blanketed ocean; above, the brightness of the first stars. In her big cockpit, crowded with instruments, pilot, co-pilot, radio operator and flight engineer were intent upon their work; intent, alert and matter-of-fact with the matter-of-factness of ship’s officers on the bridge during a routine run. Captain Sullivan, “first officer” that trip, glanced up from a jotted computation, caught the eye of Captain Edwin C. Musick, his commander. Captain Sullivan grinned: “Old stuff, this,” said Captain Sullivan, with a wave of his hand toward the glimmer outside the cockpit windows. “We’ve flown this route so often in training that I’ve recognized every cloud we've seen since leaving Frisco.” Formula for success.

Ethiopia. On the contrary we sympathize with Ethiopia. Nevertheless, the Italo-Ethiopian situation has no bearing on the present fight.” Although Madame Zaghloul speaks English she insisted on the interview being conducted in French, explaining, “I am boycotting everything British, even the language, which is hateful to me. We are not fighting for women's rights. We have not even a parliament yet. When we achieve that it will be time enough to think cf enfranchising women.” a a a 'TPHE late Zaghloul Pasha devoted the greater part of his life to fighting for Egyptian independence. He was founder in IS 19 of the WAFD 'lndependence) Party, leaders in the present anti-Eritish agitation. Twice in the course of his struggle Zaghloul Pasha was sent into political exile. His greatest triumphs came after his return. From January to November, 1924, he was premier. In 1919 he headed the Egyptian delegation which went to Paris to lay before the Versailles conference Egypt's claim to complete independence. The delegation was not seated at the conference. The WAFD Party takes its name from this incident. WAFD being the Arabic word for delegation.

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Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER 1% ALADRID. Nov. 21—On further investigation ot -*-*-*• the celebrated "Affaire Strauss" your correspondent is a ole to report that the Spaniards arc a civilized race, a people with a sophisticated sense of humor, who will conduct themselves appropriately in these trying circumstances. In the celebrated “Affaire Strauss” a gambling man who had had experience in Mexico came to Spain to make arrangements, as he thought, to open the old gambling casino at San Sebastian. He also made arrangements to open a casino or store.

as it would be called in the United States, on the Spanish Island of Majorca. Senor Strauss then opened his store in both places, dealing a game which he called "Straperlo, and to his surprise and dizgust was tossed into the street, as the phrase goes in America, by order of the government. He then waited a reasonable time for the return of inducements which he had laid on the line, and when the inducements were not refunded he wrote a letter of pro-

test to the president of the republic. At the present time, special prosecutors are under instruction to examine the evidence against eight individuals who have been named in the case, and two members of the cabinet have resigned because relatives of theirs were mentioned by Senor Strauss. 808 Just a Sucker there is small likelihood that any one will be punished for being involved in the “Affaire Strauss," and the incident is developing into a historic joke. Just how much the senor laid down in the way of inducements has not been determined, nor has it been shown just who took advantage of the unhappy senor’s trusting nature. But the sense of the meeting obviously is that the senor w'as trying to take the Spanish people for suckers and w’as taken himself instead, and that he act“d with extremely bad grace in squawking to the president. who has heavier matters on his mind. “Straperlo,” which Senor Strauss describes as a game of skill, has become part of the Spanish language. “Straperlo” is a verb, which means to trim a sucker, and one who trims a sucker is known as a “straperloeador.” A sucker is known as “Strauss," and although it's not a mortal offense to call a man a “Strauss” to his face in Madrid at this time, it is a good idea to smile when doing it. Spain is occupied with other matters than restitution of Senor Strauss’ inducements. The republic has turned Alfonso’s palace into a public mqseum, with guides in uniform to show’, for small tips, the humblest peasant or small town merchant through the bedroom formerly occupied by the king and queen. The royal throne is a national relic. Paved roads have been constructed as a lure to tourist trade, which seems to be the capital industry nowadays in most European countries. Madrid is a gay and from all outward appearances a prosperous capital, and these who can afford to gamble have sufficient opportunity in private clubs not only here, but wherever wealthy members of the community congregate in force. And, of course, for the poor who insist on gambling there's always the national lottery, which has been running 172 years and which is so much a part of the national government that it occupies a building of its own in Madrid as important as the war department and certainly no less respectable. t: tt a Very Bad Timing npHAT is no great compliment to the lottery department, for the war department has been one of the worst leaches from which Spain has suffered in the course of her many afflictions. Not that the common soldiers let her dow r n. either. It is the high command which devised the disasters. All the soldiers were guilty of was dying heroically—and 10.009 of them, an entire division, died in Morocco in one day in 1921, when the king, whose coat of arms they wore on their belt buckles and cap device, was living the life of Senor Reilly in Deauville. France. That was very bad timing on the part of King Alfonso. There was a sharp break in popular sentiment toward the man who had been knowm as the most popular monarch in the world. This takes us a long way from the celebrated “Affaire Strauss,” but to cut back to the incident of the unhappy Mexican gambling man your correspondent finds that he is only one of those rare specimens in the gambling business—a hard loser. Several years ago in Florida. American gambling men paid their inducements honestly, sending money down to Miami in cash early in the fall, only to discover on their arrival in town just before Christmas that reform had reared its ugly head and that they would not be allowed to operate their games of skill. To their honor and to the eternal shame of Senor Strauss of Mexico they did not write any letters of protest, but merely hoped for better luck next year. Senor Strauss, however, always will be known in Spain as a “Strauss” who was “Straperloed” by some shrewd Spanish “Straperloeadors.”

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(COMPANION volumes are the new’ biography of Garibaldi by Paul Frischauer and the autobiography of his soloier grandson called “A Toast to Rebellion.” The latter is a Bobbs-Merrill book and the former is published by Kendall & Sharp. Mr. Frischauer has written a painstaking history of the Italian liberator. The liberator's grandson has produced a colorful story of a soldier of fortune who fought under more than one flag, always carrying on in the tradition of freedom created by his ancestor. The most exciting passages in Garibaldi's bock deal with his adventures in South America, where he fought against Castro, the dictator of Venezuela, and was imprisoned. Seven Garibaldis, grandsons of Giuseppe, fought for France in the World War. The present Giuseppe, the author, does not carry his story through that period. The reader wishes he had. but evidently for political reasons, since he is in exile from Italy, he preferred to halt at 1914. 'By Mcßeady Huston.)

Literary Notes

Thomas Wolfe, whose “From Death to Morning,” a volume of short novels and stories, will be published Nov. 14 by Scribners, is working on a book which grew out of his recent transcontinental trip and which he calls, tentatively, "The Hound of Darkness.” It is a book about night time in America, the chemistry of night and what it does to people. Americans are a night time people, Mr. Wolfe believes. and it is his plan to do a sort of symphony of night life in America; of Saturday niehts in small towns all night lunch-rooms, the rush of great trains and tracks throughout the night—hundreds of similar scenes. Annie Rilev Hale, the mother of Ruth Hale and Richard Hale, the actor, has anew book called The Medical Voodoo" coming out. in which she attacks some of the most commonplace practices of orthodox medicine.

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