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Ti Seems to Me HEYMBM T WANT to jx>int out that almost a year ago I mentioned Glenn Frank as a good long-shot bet in the winter book of the Republican national convention. It is now announced that the president of the University of Wisconsin is likely to be the Cleveland keynoter. Accordingly, the odds against him will have to be shaved. According to tradition, every keynoter has a shot at the nomination if only he can succeed in stampeding the delegates. It is a little difficult for me

to imagne my old friend Dr. Frank sending anybody into a frenzy, although he is a good rough and tumble lyceum orator. Still poorer speakers have made the grade and almost anything may happen in an open race, particularly if the track happens to be muddy. But what interests me most is the fact that the early promise of a real contest upon basic issues grows dimmer and dimmer. All Republican candidates are gray at night, and the essential differences between Democrats are a good deal less than monumental.

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I do not mean that the onrushing campaign will not include much loud shouting and fist-shaking. There will be speakers to assure us that Armageddon was merely a little minor league world’s series compared to the battle between the New Deal and the Old. But any kind of careful analysis is likely to prove that the commotion upon the surface is not .justified by any deep agitation among the waters under the earth. a it a Why All llie Shooting? THE, Republican cry about economy grows fainter and yet fainter as the Townsendit.es display their strength in G. O. P. primaries. And if Glenn Frank sounds the bugle for attack what becomes of the famous fight against Tugwell and all the other professors in politics? It is too late now for Dr. Frank to hock his Phi Beta Kappa key and hide his cap and gown. After all, he can not appropriately make his address in overalls. The tumult and the shouting are so well staged this year that the melodrama for a moment almost iWttied a slice of life. I blush to admit that for a fov weeks or months I was so befuddled by the excellent theatricalism of it all that I was beginivbft to hiss the villain and applaud the hero. But if the Republicans and the Democrats are gfltfig to stand for approximately the same things, as they always have done in the past, it is fair to ask, "What’s all the shooting for?” Indeed, the management has been so excellent that some of the boys in the cast are actually beginning to live their parts. There are Republicans in the troupe who have spoken their prepared lines about Roosevelt's being a dangerous red so many times that by now they are actually beginning to believe it. tt t> o Gladiators Are Overtrained ONCE upon a time I had great hopes for the national election of 1936. I had assumed that it would be the most bitter of any ever held in modern history. There was even the possibility that the Democrats and Republicans might work themselves up to such a rage that they would forget their scripts and begin to tell the actual truth about each other. But now I fear that the gladiators on both sides have left their fights in the gymnasium. They have trained too hard and spent an undue amount of time in belaboring sparring partners. Senator Borah broke both hands upon the Blue Eagle, and about the best that he can do from now on is to jab and get away. Asa matter of fact, that’s about the best Borah ever could do after the bell had actually rung. Alf (One Round) Landon has begun to stiffen up from too much roadwork. Every time a visiting delegation hits Topeka he has beert Obliged to get into his exercise togs and run back and forth across the Kansas plains to entertain the visiting firemen. They tell me he has slowed up to a walk. The more I think of it the better I like the chances of Glenn Frank. He hasn’t boxed at all, but he has punched the bag continuously. There has hardly been a convention, from publishers to school teachers, in the last six months at which Glenn has not bobbed up to do his fancy stuff. If objection is made that he has worked out against nothing but a leather spheroid with warm air I can only reply, "Well, what o. '-th do you think he’s going up against in Cleveland?

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN—-

ONE of the peculiarities of the average American is his sweet tooth. And how that sweet tooth has grown! Back in 1825, the average American used only 15 pounds of sugar a year. The figure moved up to 45 pounds in 1850. to 60 pounds in 1900, 115 pounds In 1925, and is back to 100 pounds today. But today’s amount Is still proportionately more sugar than is eaten in any other nation in the world. There are many kinds of sugars, of course. The commonest forms come from cane, 'corn and beets, although other substances, such as honey, sirups and saccharins, are used to sweeten our foods. Twenty-five years ago, corn sugar was not refined to its present state. Asa result, we began using beet sugar and cane sugar almost exclusively. Today It is difficult for any one but an expert to tell the difference between cane and com sugar. The United States Food and Drugs Administration requires that sweetening of packaged foods, when brought about by any other substance than cane sugar, must be indicated on the label. But it no longer is necessary to tell whether cane or corn sugar is used for sweetening. tt a a PHYSIOLOGISTS in the field of nutrition say that it is just as healthy to eat corn sugar as cane sugar. The most common sugar used in medicine is glucose, or dextrose. Its chief value lies in the fact that it is absorbed rapidly and it does not require special digestion. In fact, it now is prepared in such form that doctors may inject it in a weak solution under the skin in those parts of the body where the skin is loose. It mav also be injected directly into the vein if the person requires the effects of sugar rapidly. This is particularly the case when he has had an overdose of insulin, when he is in a condition of shock, when his pancreas is sending too much insulin into his blood, or when surgical operations are to be performed on gallbladder or liver. Saccharin, also used for sweetening, is a chemical product and does not provide calories, as does sugar.

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

EACH year the mailman brings to my desk a fat little volume which is a monument to the triumph of science. It is the annual edition of the “Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.” At this moment I have before me the twentieth edition. As usual, it is edited by Prof. Charles D. Hodgman of Case School of Applied Science. The book has now grown to 1951 pages—almost 2000 pages of fine print all devoted to the tabulation of facts. I remember my physics teacher at high school defined science as the orderly classification of knowledge. Baa IN this book, you have it. the tabulation 0 f exact facts, the facts upon which the scientific marvels of the Twentieth Century are based. Here are the facts which make possible skyscrapers and suspension bridges, radios and trans-Atlantic telephones, airships and airplanes, synthetic dyes and new plastics. The handbook is an invaluable aid to chemists and engineers, research workers in general, and to college and high school students. It would make a fine Christinas present lor any one in these classifications.. %

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When sorroiv drives us out of our quiet gardens into the open highway, we must accept it gallantly.

MY RENDEZVOUS WITH LIFE

In this, the concluding article of a series of six, Miss Pickford sounds a call for a full cultivation of self and a gallant facing of life. CHAPTER VI ONLY certain centers are now working in the average man; others are dormant. In a perfect human being all the centers will function fully and Will produce perfect mental unfoldment and a perfect physical body. I believe the man called Jesus was like that. He was a perfect man, a Master who knew the power of thought. Because He knew the truth about all things, He had dominion over all things. When others spoke of death, He spoke of life. He was a pattern for us to model ourselves after. "Alone in all history He estimates the greatness of man,” Emerson said of Him. “One man was true to what is in me and you. He saw that God incarnates Himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of the world.” Do you wonder what certain centers in ourselves are not functioning fully? Well, here is an example. The history of the human race goes back many thousand years. But it is only in the last few thousand years that we have begun to perceive color. At first man knew only black and white. Then red. And finally, by slow development, he saw the primary colors and their combinations. Yet even now a large percentage of people are color blind. And there are myriads of more glorious colors all around us that even the most sensitive human eye can't detect. Think of how many make no response to music. They are what is known as “tone-deaf.” They hear sounds, of course. Yet they listen to great, inspiring symphonies without the slightest reaction. Music is a closed book to them. And so wl- know that, certain centers in those men have not yet been aroused. All great musical artists are striving to achieve pure tone and to elevate man’s thoughts by its sheer beauty. The radio is doing much to educate young people to an appreciation and understanding of music and this may one day prove of priceless worth to mankind. Harmony is a powerful force for good.

TVA Is Bold Attempt to Salvage Great Section of Country From Ravages of Soil Erosion, Ernie Discovers on Trip Through Valley

(Editor's Note—This is the second of seven articles on TVA.) BY ERNIE PYLE TV' NOXVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 21. —ls you're going to understand TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) at all, you’ve got to get It into your head first just where the Tennessee Valley is. The ‘'Valley,” as they call it down here, means the whole area that drains into the meandering Tennessee River, and that takes in a lot of territory. Also, the Tennessee River is a crazy river. It starts up in eastern Tennessee. Since its valley includes rivers that run into the Tennessee, TVA really starts way back east in Virginia and North Carolina. The Tennessee River itself actually gets started just above Knoxville, then it heads down through Chattanooga, toward New Orleans. It misses the northwest corner of Georgia by about a mile. It enters Alabama in the northeast corner, changes its mind about going to New Orleans and makes a big swing back toward the north, and comes out of Alabama right at the northeast corner of Mississippi. It really forms the boundary of Mississippi for a few miles, but never actually enters the state. It is swinging back north now, you see. and has got back into Tennessee again, only now it’s in western Tennessee. It has decided it prefers the Ohio river to the Gulf of Mexico, so it keeps right on going north, clear across Tennessee and then Kentucky, till it pours into the Ohio at Paducah, Ky. tt tt tt TT never gets into the deep South, although its tributaries, which form the Tennessee Valley and hence TVA, do go about a third of the way down into Mississippi and Alabama, and catch a corner of Georgia. Now, it seems that this whole Tennessee Valley region, for a good many years, has been in a bad way because of erosion. Don’t think erosion is just some platitudinous New Deal word either. It really is something actual; one of these insidious things like T. B. that we don't take seriously until *•

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someone we know gets it. Erosion means that the soil is all washing away, and that pretty soon no human thing can live on it. They say that in another hundred years all this region of the South would be like another Death Valley. Today, all these Southern rivers are muddy. But our early explorers recorded how clear and beautiful the rivers were then. That means that before white man came, the land was covered with trees and shrubs which held the soil. But years of plowing, and planting crops without deep roots, have allowed the rains to wash the

OPPORTUNIST SUCCEEDS AT BRIDGE

Today’s Contract Problem North is playing the contract at four spades. East cashes the ace, king, and queen of diamonds and then leads a club. Can you figure how declarer can keep from losing a trump trick? Do not be afraid io take a gamble. * A JIO 7 6 4 V J 8 ♦ 10 7 5 AKJ 4 Q S o m A 2 *965 ™ _ VK743 ♦,J93 W t 4 akQß AB63S A 7 5 4 2 Dealer A K 3 V AQ 10 2 46 4 2 4AQIOJ E. &W. vul. Opener—4 KSolution in next issue. 14 Solution to Previous • Contract Problem BY W. E. M’KENNEY Secretary American Bridge Leagne A SUCCESSFUL bridge player must be an opportunist. Many times you will arrive at a contract that could be defeated, either by a correct opening lead or some exceptionally fine defensive play. That does not mean, however, that you were not in the right contract.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1935

...by MARY PICKFORD WHEN Mama and Jack went away one of my most agonizing thoughts was whether we should ever meet again. And if we did, would we know each other? At this moment I have no positive proof that we will. By that I mean I can’t show any of my five senses this will be so. But by a higher sense, the power of Intuition, I am sure that nothing can ever cut a tie of pure unselfed love. Love is God. And so long as you love any one, you are bound by God to that person, whether he has gone on to another life or not. God is not cruel. He would not let us down. He would not let us build a beautiful comradeship with someone only to tear us apart forever. Sometimes there must be separations, which are necessary for our growth. In this life we face them when we send our children away to school—or when we release them to set out on their own careers. Death is just another such separation; and one that I truly believe will end in reunion. God arranged my meeting with Mother and Jack to my satisfaction in this life. And so why shouldn’t I believe He will do it as happily in the next? He has given the lower animals a sixth sense called “the homing instinct.” A dog will travel hundreds of miles to find the master he loves. And so why shouldn’t a man, who is the highest manifestation of God’s thought, be drawn intuitively to his loved ones when they meet again on other planes? These are the things that sorrow has taught me. And now that I am acquainted with grief, I have even learned

soil downhill. And once a gully gets started, it grows rapidly. There are billions of gullies in the South, and the rain is washing millions of freight-train loads of soil away every year, and it goes on down and makes the rivers muddy, and is finally carried on out to sea, wasted lorever. THAT means that the South is getting in worse shape all the time. Already hundreds of farms have simply been abandoned. Coudn’t make a living on them any more. And other hundreds of thousands are occupied by people

The same is true with many other hands in which good play will allow you to make a slam which was not biddable. A good player always will take plenty of time to study a hand out before playing to the first trick. Let us look at today's hand. North and South arrive at a contract of six diamonds. You can see that, if a spade is opened, the contract will be defated immediately. However, declarer receives a fortunate opening, the deuce of clubs, but still the contract is not made unless North takes advantage of the opportunity given him by his opponents. Therefore, before playing to that first trick, declarer should analyze the hand. He should reason the hand out along the following lines: West has bid spades; undoubtedly he holds the ace of this suit. It wall be impossible to try to establish the heart suit, because there are not enough entries in dummy. Therefore, the only hope to make the contract is to find West with both ace and queen of spades.

Most players would make the mistake of discarding the deuce of hearts on the ace of clubs, figuring they are getting rid of a losing a heart. True enough. they are. but how about the losing spades? The proper play is to discard the nine of spades on the ace of clubs and immediately play a small spade from dummy. West has to go in with the queen ol

that it has its virtues. Since it is an experience we all share, it becomes one of the greatest of all human bonds, one that makes us kinder to others who suffer. You see, men misunderstand each other so often because they seldom feel the same emotions at the same time; but when they feel a similar emotion simultaneously, then and then only are they bound to understand each other. BBS DOMEWHERE I have read that "Happy lives are little lives. They do not live beyond their rose-wreathed walls.” And so, when sorrow drives us out of our quiet gardens into the open highway, we must accept it gallantly. For along the road to understanding we will find inspiring new scenes; and even when we are traveling through the dark valley, we shall be able to see the shining mountain tops ahead. A message that brought me the greatest comfort in my dark hours is called "The Ship.” I do not know the name of the author. But though it has frequently been quoted, I should like to repeat it. It says: “I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue lagoon. “She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until, at length, she is only a ribbon of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. “Then someone at my side says, ‘There! She is gone!’ Gone where? Gone from my sight—that is all. "She is just as large in mast and hull as when she left my side and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of destination. "Her diminished size is in me. not in her, and just at the moment when someone at my side says, ‘There! She is gone!’ there are other voices glad to take up the shout, ‘There! She comes!”’ (CopyrigEit, 193.5, by the Pickford Corp. Feature Syndicate )

whose crops get worse and worse each year, and the people get poorer and poorer, and instead of going forward they’re going backward. There are thousands of farmers in this region whose cash income is less than SSO a year. They live in huts, and their land is so poor it will hardly raise vegetables. If something isn’t done, there’s nothing for their grandchildren to look forward to but the relief rolls. The TVA is a large, bold attempt to salvage a whole big section of the United States. And if it works here, maybe it’ll be done elsewhere. For the Tennessee Valley isn’t the only part of the

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country that’s getting in a bad way from erosion and wearing out of soil. So is our Midwest, and so are lots of other places. If you’ve read this through, you have the location, and the reason for TVA. Tomorrow we’ll begin to tell you what TVA actually is. NEXT—“We Fix Up the Valley.” HOSPITAL ARRANGES CHRISTMAS PROGRAM Services, Entertainment Offered Easthaven Inmates. Timcss Special RICHMOND, Ind., Dec. 21.—Holiday program for inmates of the Indiana State Hospital at Easthaven were announced by officials today. At Christmas worship services tomorrow Chaplain T. F. Tressel is to speak, with special music by the Reid Memorial United Presbyterian Vested Choir, directed by Robert B. Dafler. Trees are to be lighted and carols sung by the Easthaven choir the following night. Christmas Day, In addition to a chicken dinner, each patient is to receive a gift. A snowball dance is to be held Thursday. Junior and senior choirs of St. John's Lutheran Church are to be featured at a New Year's Chapel Sunday. AIR BUREAU APPROVES STOUT IMPROVEMENT Final Sanction Awaited From WPA for New Runway. Approval of a $98,345.50 improvement of Stout Field airport has been given by the Bureau of Air Commerce, a Washington press dispatch states. The bureau's action sanctions the project from a technical standpoint. Final approval must be given by the Works Progress Administration. The project consists of building a concrete runway, and would give employment to 107 men, according to state WPA officials. Scientech Club to Elect* Officers and directors are to be elected at the luncheon meeting of the Scientech Club Monday in the Tioard of Trade Building.

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Fair Enough HIM PEGLER T> OME. Dec. 21 —After a while you begin to realize. perhaps with extreme reluctance, why the Italians regard Mussolini as the greatest man in the world. Mussolini works. Mussolini is afraid of nothing. He takes full responsibility and makes no alibis, and his worst enemy can not claim that he ever took a cent of graft for himself or knowingly permitted any grafter in a subordinate position in his government to get away with anything even remotely comparable

to the notorious jobs of political larceny which adorn the records of the Tammany administrations in New York, the Thompson regime in Chicago or Warren G. Harding’s rule in Washington. If any of his appointees were to undertake anything like that, and Mussolini were to catch him, there wouldn’t be any long Seabury investigation or "hung” juries. Mussolini would send him off to some island and keep him there as an enemy of Italy. In time of war Mussolini might shoot him. Mussolini has no friend but Italy, and he sets a. personal ex-

ample which, if it were follewed by every man and woman in the country, would make Italy the strong, bia\e nation he wants her to be. He doesn t smoke, and he has absolutely no use for alcohol, except art occasional glass of wine. He sleeps eight or nine hours a night, eats very little, gets plenty of exercise in the park which surrounds his house and wastes neither time on social idling nor nervous energy on hangovers. He absorbed about, a pound of scrap iron in 50 some fragments in all in one burst when he was serving as a private in the big war. and he was shot right through the nose by a wild Irish woman who drew a bead on him from the cover of the crowd one day when he was giving the Catholic Church a bit of shoving around. a tt a Finds Time for Baby-Kissing IT must have been a terribly painful wound, but Mussolini gave the crowd a big wave of his hand, adverting a wild riot or lynching and didn’t even send the woman to jail. He just shipped her back to Ireland. He didn't go to bed to be sick, but went on with his work. Mussolini makes a one-man band look like a mildewed tramp scratching himself in the shade of a water tank and waiting for the freight train to come through. He is premier, foreign minister and the last word in everything in Italy, and he finds time in addition to his important tasks to attend to his baby-kissing and hand-shaking and to receive in the course of every year the most exasperating assortment of foreign sighteers, souvenir hunters and muscle-feelers, most of them bores, that it would be possible to inflict on one man if you were to comb the world for them. In fact, they do represent the combings of the world, particularly of the United States, and they wriggle through his defense somehow for no more important purpose than to ask him stupid questions which have been answered a thousand times in his own speeches and writings and in his biography or to ask for his autographed picture. He gives away a lot of pictures, too—big ones on expensive paper about two feet square—charging it up to exploitation like any ham in Hollywood. Fluttering, prattling females, the kind who ere always going to carry a message back to America to second-string politicians who would have a hard time getting into a first-class hotel in Rome, and assorted dopes and imposters drawn from all nations w r ho manage to get through to Mussolini somehow each consume from five minutes to half an hour of this busy man’s day. tt tt U Fascism 0. K. by Italy A ND yet he gives them civil treatment and sends -cv them away happy, futile and more garrulous than ever when it must take the entire supply 0 f his self-control to refrain from punching the buzzer and ordering one of his wrestlers to toss this pest downstairs and then lock the door. To be sure. Fascism is wrong if you don’t like Fascism. But this is Italy. There is abundant evidence that Italy likes it. In Italy, therefore, Mussolini is a great man, who knows he is great and who has enough bland self-appreciation to set himself up as a model and to say to the Italians, "Be like me and you are all right.” Eut the trouble is nobody can be like Mussolini. Millions of them try. but the most that the very best of them can do is to resemble him slightly around the edges. His successor isn't even in sight and Mussolini knows it as well as anybody. So he is preparing to succeed himself after he is dead by setting up his own character as the ideal of the Italian nation—an ideal of true service, work self-denial, patriotism and strength.

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THE melancholy story of how the charming state of Maine declined from the capital of a worldwide empire to a summer playground for people who had made their money elsewhere is told once more in Mary Ellen Chase’s new novel, "Silas Crockett.’* (Macmillan; $2.50.) Miss Chase goes back to the early maritime history of the republic to begin her story. The great age of sail had just dawned, and Maine seamen were the kings of the sea. Every Maine seacoast town had its shipyard and its docks; pleasant little coves harbored great ships from the ends of the earth, and salty Maine speech was heard in Singapore and Sumatra, in Canton and Honolulu. Then came change, steam drove out sail, and America turned its attention inward instead of outward. Maine’s greatness passed, and her people were left—not to deteriorate, for the New England character is too tough for that, but to face tremendously difficult change and readjustment. a a a 'T'HE author tells her story by following the for--l tunes of a typical seafaring familv throurh four generations. Silas Crockett, founder of the line, sailed his ships to the ends of the earth and prosperd mightily. His son inherited a dying business, and wound up on a fishing schooner. His son. in turn, became skipper of a rickety little coastwise steam ferry; and his son, at last, left the sea entirely to struggle for a shore-going job in the 1929 depression. It s a fine book, filled with a nostalgic appreciation of a great era that is gone forever. (By Bruce Catton.)

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Still another; S2OOO is offered jointly by Dodd, Mead & Cos., and Forum Magazine for the best detective story to reach them before next July 31. Manuscripts should be at least 50.000 words in length and the contest is open to every one who has not had a detective story published under the Red Badge imprint. Complete details are available from Dodd, Mead or Forum Magazine. Baa Simon A Schuster have just received the manuscript of ’ Nothing Succeeds Like Success.” by Dorothea Brande. which they will publish in Januarv In this book Mrs Brande. for many years a professional writer and editor, describes the philosophy which revolutionized her life. a a a E. M. Delafleld’s new novel, “Faster! Faster."* will be brought out Feb. 6 by Harper & Bros.

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