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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1936 SMOKY CITY A SHOVEL of coal goes into a boiler or furnace fire and comes out in Indianapolis in your eyes, in your lungs, in your poeketbook. The coal-shoveler, be he apartment house custodt in or factory fireman, home-owner or merely a rnoveler by proxy, seemingly is oblivious of the monetary waste pouring from his chimney. He is oblivious that his shoveling is not beneficial to a community’s health or wealth. Smoke, as shown by th special survey now running in The Indianapolis Times, is just as harmful to stone buildings and steel girders as it is to body membranes. This “No Mean City" with it's no mean smogs would have no smogs, weather observers declare, if It had no smoke. Realty values would be enhanced by smoke and soot abatement. Laundry bills and the work of every housewife would be lessened if this city consumed its smoke before the smoke reached the chimney-tops. Coat fires can be built to consume smoke instead of dollars. Fuel can be used that is smokeless. We have pure va*er but we paid in health before we woke up to the realization of the cost. We can have pure ozone instead of paying $5,000,Ot. j annually to assume a “blackface” role among cities high on the list of “dirty” ones of the nation. Indianapolis citizens do not enjoy eating smoke. They do not like this increased toll from pneumonia. They c!o not revel in the soot which ruins clothing, merchandise, war memorials and multiplies sinus sufferers. Indianapolis can do something about it, and should.

$lO FOR BOSS; $1 FOR HIRED HAND WHFN they get going in the business of turning out mechanical cotton pickers, the Rust brotheis say, they will limit their own salaries to 10 times the salary of their lowest paid employe. At first blush, this doesn't seem to be such a magnanimous proposition. Ten to one is a pretty big spread. Using such a yardstick, a boss paying a good wage scale could do quite well by himself. But let's see how it would work in some of our golng concerns. Take the American Telephone & Telegraph Cos., for example. It's a public monopoly, and the public properly can scrutinize its operation. In 1934 it paid its president, Walter Gifford, a salary of $210,050 and he probably earned it. Mr. Gifford directs successfully a tremendous corporation which pays good dividends to its stockholders and gives good service to its patrons. But what a fine thing it would be if every one of those nice switchboard girls got one-tenth that much—s2l,oos a year. In 1928, Bethlehem Steel paid President Eugene Grace a $831,445 bonus. We don’t recall what his salary was, but we do recall that 1928 was one of the years in which Bethlehem paid no dividends. If the lowliest puddler in a Bethlehem mill that year had been paid $83,144.50, none of them would have objected to Mr. Grace’s bonus. The stockholders, sans dividends, might have felt differently, of course. And while we are indulging in arithmetical fancy, why limit the 10 to 1 scale to corporations? The heads of some unions draw down $25,000 a year. Does the lowest of his dues-paying members get $2500? A congressman gets SIO,OOO. He would really be worth more than that if Congress enabled each of its humblest constituents to earn one-tenth of SIO,OOO. And what if every American family had an opportunity to earn one-tenth of the $75,000 paid to the President? We’re not suggesting that any corporation, labor union or other organization should put this scheme into practice. But in connection with the country's need for increased purchasing power, it is an interesting idea to explore. AESOP COULD POINT A MORAL WHEREIN two news items make one editorial: Washington. D. C.—Senator Wheeler of Montana. telling how some lawyers and lobbyists work their racket, says: “They make a living by scaring business men with misinterpretations of proposed legislation. Then, although the bill may be passed in its original form, they take credit for eliminating objectionable features which never existed except in the lobbyist’s mind.” Oklahoma City, Okla.—Postmaster W. G. Johnston. telling how he rid the Federal Building of rats, says: "We caught five or six big rats in the wire traps—caught them alive. We took a blow torch and singed them good. We didn’t singe the front of them because we wanted them to keep their sight. We burned their tails, then turned them loose. The word spread like wildfire. The rats must have a swell underground grapevine.” CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS THE Republican proposal to collect a million dollars from a million voters for campaign purposes, “broadening the base” of political contributions, is another chapter in an old, old story. The Republican National Committee tried the idea from another angle in 1920. seeking to restrict contributions to SIOOO each—and wound up about a million and a half dollars in the hole. Proposals have been made frequently to have government contribute to campaign expenses, in an effort to avoid the obligations incurred when very rich men contribute large sums to campaigns. Colorado's famous "two-bit’’ law, passed in 1909, provided that each party would receive from state funds 25 cents for each vote received in the previous gubernatorial election. Other contributions were barred, and a strict accounting was required. The State Supreme Court held the law unconstitutional on a technical point, and it was not repassed for a test of the major principle, >- Theodore Roosevelt in his 1907 message to Congress suggested that the idea of governmental subsidies be considered, together with a limit on contributions from any one donor, and publicity on gifts. The 1910-11 acts of Congress, known as the Corrupt Practices Act. limited expenditures in campaigns for Congress, and provided for publicity on contributions. In 1920 William Gibbs McAdoo, former Treasury Secretary and now Senator from California,liaid he believed it would “purify politics immensely” to pay

national campaign expenses out of the United States Treasury. uum A BRAHAM LINCOLN'S first presidential campaign cost only SIOO,OOO, for instance. Most of the money in those days was spent on spellbinders, who were deemed the greatest vote-pullers. Now the money goes for printed matter, radio, newspaper advertising, organizers, helping other organizations, poll-watchers and clerical help. The lavish campaign waged by Mark Hanna in 1896 to elect McKinley over Bryan cost $3,500,000, whereas the Democrats spent only $675,000. Yet this amount was eclipsed by the Hughes campaign of 1916, the Harding campaign of 1920, the Coolidge campaign of 1924, raising the high of 1928. In the Hoover-Smith campaign, the Republicans spent $9,433,604, the Democrats $7,152,511, the 1928 tot* 1 for both parties being nearly $17,000,000. Experts believe that with state and local campaign funds added in, a national presidential election now costs about $20,000,000. The relative support of the parties given by rich men has been analyzed as to the 1928 election, in which 309 gave SSOOO or more to the Republicans, and only 188 made such large contributions to the Democrats. The increase in the cost of election campaigns has caused an increased dependence of political parties on their rich members, many of whom turn up a few years later with important government jobs, tax exemptions and other objects of value. It also causes an increasing percentage of large contributions from the very rich. This is hardly a healthy development in a democracy.

JUST A HAPPY FAMILY WITH one of the Roosevplt boys becoming vice president of Hearst Radio, Inc., and another reported to be seriously wooing a du Pont heiress - all in an election year at that—there does not seem to be much political regimentation inside the First Family. TEACHERS’ OATH VOODOOISM (New York Daily News.) PRESIDENT JAMES ROWLAND ANGELL of Yale in his Alumni Day address harshly criticised teachers' loyalty oaths, with particular reference to the oath required in Massachusetts. Dr. Angell says it is absurd—that a situation should exist which compels President Conant of Harvard to take such an oath, while at the f ime time it allows a. ~ priest to escape such an oath and pour out weekly over the radio, under the blessed name of social justice, the most poisonous and inflammatory economic and social nonsense. . . Compel all persons to take such an oath, if you will, but do not insist on the teacher while you spare the radio speaker, the newspaper editer, the maker and purveyor of the movie and the movie newsreel, all of them far more powerful agents for insidious propaganda than the unfortunate teacher. We think President Angell has the simple common sense view of the matter. This teachers’ loyalty oath business smacks of voodooism. How much more loyalty, for instance, was kindled in the bosom of Prof. K. F. Ilather of Harvard, who didn’t want to take the lecently imposed Massachusetts loyalty oath, but finally took it in order to hold his job and keep himself and family off relief? There will always be a few diehards refusing to take the oath; those who are loyal to the Constitution won’t be made more loyal by this oath; those who are Reds or Pinks at heart will take it with their fingers crossed.

A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson A DVOCATES of strong national defense might deserve a pat on the back if they only talked up a large Army, an aggressive Navy and plenty of submarines, planes and cannon. But their program includes so many other kinds of armament. Red-baiting for instance, and the heckling of timid school teachers and the suppression of free speech. They are the biggest bunch of fraidy cats I ever saw. When they get together, or one of their spokesmen comes around, we are invariably treated to another harangue on the perils of our position. Like the traditional old maid, they are always looking under the bed. I can’t remember when such warnings were ,not going on. It used to be the I. W. W.s who were overthrowing the Constitution, taking over the government and reducing us to a state of servility. Then it was the Pope. Sheeted and masked men rode through the night carrying blazing crosses, protecting us from the menace of the Vatican, the Synagogue, and Harlem. A great rallying of one hundred percenters took place. The nation trembied with the jitters, until a sufficient number of sensible men dared to tear the masks away and disclosed a slick bunch of promoters who were making their fortunes. The enemy was only a mirage created by the overheated imaginations of men well paid to do the creating. And now its Moscow our defenders are scared of. A Red skulks behind every bush and Stalin’s going to get us if we don’t watch out. Again we are asked to arm—and with what? Suspicion, fear, intolerance, hatred, injustice and cruelty. The same old weapons are brandished against the same old enemy—a ghost conjured out of thin air by those paid to sound the tocsins. If our Americanism is so weak and our faith in democracy so feeble as the one hundred percenters contend, we’d better go over to Moscow and take lemons in courage. If we can’t stand up against the persuasive arguments of a few Reds, let’s haul down the flag. FROM THE RECORD ZIONCHECK (D., Wash.): Well. lam a radical, and I am damn proud of it! What do you think of that? Rep. Scott (D., Cal.>: Some time ago I attended a meeting at w r hich I saw a very interesting experiment staged. The speaker got up with a bottle in his hand and told the audience that the bottle contained ammonia. He pulled the cork out of the bottle, shook the contents over the floor, and said, “Now, just as .soon as you people in the audience smell this ammonia I wish you would put up your hands.” Almost immediately a man in the front seat stuck up his hand. Gradually back through the audience, until they came clear to the back, the hands were still going up. Just as soon as the man in the back seat had signified the fact that he smelled ammonia, the speaker took the bottle and drank part of it. He said not to be disturbed about that part of the experiment, because the bottle contained pure water. It illustrates very nicely. I think, the power of imagination. That was a harmless experiment. But when the imagination begins to run riot and when, in addition to the imagination, the malicious element begins to enter, then it ceases to be a harmless thing and becomes a dangerous thing. I refer, of course, 10 the practic * in recM£t years of individuals with very active imaging s who see red riots and troublesome radicals f the country.

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I HOPE no one gets called before a military court about the matter, or has to do kitchen police duty or police his own barracks, but here is one on an officer at Fort Benjamin Harrison that can’t go untold. This particular officer is a confirmed hypochondriac. The other day he called his physician and insisted that he meet him in a certain office in a certain building at a certain time. Arriving to keep the appointment, the physician was surprised to find the rendezvous was the office of a dentist. Inside he learned his Army friend wanted him around just in case. He was having a tooth pulled. Note to commanding officer: I purposely didn't ask the officer’s name, so there. it a u POLICE departments in three Indiana cities sent a representative each to the special session of the Indiana Legislature. After they got here they found they had nothing to lobby for. But they stayed anyway. It was fun. a z a A friend of mine says this happened. to him, and says I can take it or leave it. He says he overheard one lady make this remark to another as they were downtown bound on a street car: “Why he was so homely he looked like a caricature of himself.” a a a SHE’S a regular customer at one of the local restaurants, and, in addition, is rather finicky about her food. The other morning she walked to the counter, and, as her usual a. m. ritual, inspected every piece of pastry carefully before making her selection. Evidently, she wasn't satisfied, for she seemed to want a piece that was very well baked.' Finally, one' of the flip young men behind the counter sroke to the other counter man. “Tell her,” he said, “to keep quiet and we’ll have the bakery burn up a piece for her tomorrow.” a a a THE Soottie begged his mistress to take him for a walk. He’d been cooped up in the apartment all day and he wanted to get outdoors to strut a bit before the Spitz next door. But his mistress, hurried, refused; and the Scottie crept under the bed. He eyed her sorrowfully from beneath the spread that hung over the side. When the mistress left, however, he made up his mind that such disregard of his wishes should be punished. In the 10 minutes that he was left alone he vented his anger on the bedspread and covers. Carefully, he jerked the covers down from the mistress’ side, and pulled her pillow to the floor. Then, satisfied, he hid under the refrigerator in the kitchen. Even the spanking he got when she came home failed to dim his satisfaction over a good deed well done. a a a MY favorite author, I just learned today, is the Rev. Judge A. J, Cotton, Philorn, whatever the “Philom” means. He’s author of “Cotton’s Keepsakes” which started out to be a book of his poems, plus a couple of poems his brother wrote and sent to him out here in Indiana. The book was published in 1858 by Applegate & Cos., Cincinnati—that is published for the author, which means that he paid for it. Well, after Mr. Cotton had written 281 pages of poems and was just about to include his brother’s, he suddenly discovered that to do so would run the cost of the book to alarming heights. So he set down a surprised little note that his own poetic fecundity had been so much greater than he had at first supposed, that now he found he could not include his brother’s poetry and that it is too bad, because it was pretty good verse. a a a THEN, more than likely on the way to the printer with the manuscript, he decided to append an autobiographical note. This ran the book up to 373 pages, and in another note the author announced that he was alarmed at the size of the mss. But before he got to the printers finally, he ran in a history of Indiana frontier by himself that brought the book to 552 pages and the author to the verge of collapse. Included in the book are ghost stories, tales of frontier life, temperance tracts, and a critical evaluation of his ability as a judge that is frank, and it’s a good thing he was good.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

THE prominence of two famous star clusters in the night skies of March—the Pleiades and the Hyades, both high in the southeast sky in the constellation of Taurus —serves to focus attention on the general subject of star clusters. The subject is of particular interest to astronomers today for no theory of the origin of the universe or the evolution of the stars can be complete unless it explains the clusters. The Pleiades and the Hyades are two of the very clusters which can be discerned with the unaided eye. “An observer who examines the Milky Way with a good field glass or smail telescope finds his field of view richly strewn with faint stars, and as he proceeds with his examination he occasionally comes upon a spot where the stars are particularly Dr. Robert J. Trompler of the Lick Observatory says. “Such groups of closely crowded stars, standing out distinctly from the surrounding star field, are called star clusters. The many formations of this kind vary widely in appearance. Some are large, scattered groups of fairly bright stars covering an area larger than the disc of the moon; others are small, but densely filled with faint stars. Some clusters with numerous stars of the same brightness appear like a swarm of bees, Prof. Trumpler says. But he thinks that the most fascinating sight is offered by those clusters in which a few stars of sparkling brilliance are imbedded in a field of fainter ones.

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The Hoosier Forum I disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controve sies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to Soo words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on reauest.i a a a THINKS HOOVER LIVES IN GLASS HOUSE By Mrs. Eldon H. Ewing In Mr. Hoover’s latest speech he evidently was speaking of his Administration when he said only five million people paid income taxes and 63 million have life insurance. In his shots at the present Administration he failed to mention thfe life insurance that the people lost or had to cash in to live on during his term of office. Perhaps he knew how the public liked his Administration by the outcome of the last election. People w'ho live in glass houses should not throw stones. a a a ARTISTS THANKFUL FOR FINE SUPPORT” By Wilbur D. Peat I want to thank you on behalf of the Indiana Artists and the Art Association for the fine support you have given the current exhibition at the John Herron Art Museum. Those of us w r ho work behind the scenes on a project of this kind get our satisfaction from watching the response of the public. Due to the work of your critics and reporters

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN FOR many years belief prevailed that waste products resulting from digestion of porteins would damage the kideny, and so those having kidney disease were forbidden to eat meat, fish and eggs. They were supposed to subsist largely on milk and vegetables. But extended investigation now leads authorities to believe that diseases of the kidney are due primarily to germs. If this is true, the use of diet, obviously, is not the primary method of control. Knowing that the kidneys frequently are damaged in scarlet fever, investigators treated two groups of children having this disease, by giving one group a vegetarian diet and the other meat and meat products. In each group there were more than 1000 children. The amount of inflammation of the kidneys in one group was about the same as in the other. Obviously, therefore, the abstinence from meat did not prevent the nephritis, or inflammation of the kidneys. In fact, the children who had meat in the diet had good color and were energetic, while those who did not receive meat were pale and tired. These observations have led to the conclusion that abstention from meat and meat products does not prevent nephritis. Moreover, the vegetarian diet fails to provide the substances necessary for blood building. a a a CHRONIC inflammation of the kidneys may be due to innumerable causes, and may have vari-

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Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Service Bureau, 1013 13thst, N. W., Washington. D. C. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Q —ls there a Jaw prohibiting a person from throwing his own money away on the streets? A—There is no law on the subject, but a person who did so probably would be arrested on a technical charge and held for investigation into his sanity. Q —What is a cattalo? A—A hybrid resulting from crossbreeding of buffaloes and domestic cattle. Possessing some of the characteristics of both cow and buffalo, the meat of cattaloes is like that, of

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we have been able to reach a very large audience. In return for this assistance we can only assure the community that we will do everything possible to assist in building up a sounder and more wholesome appreciation and understanding, by offering our major activities to the public without charge a r 1 by opening the galleries free oi charge as often as possible Whatever the final consensus of opinion may be about the current exhibition, we are certain that the community at large is realizing that it is more than a dull and whimsical project. It clearly shows that the state is capable of producing creative art of high quality even though all of the painters and sculptors have not reached full maturity in their chosen fields. aa a " ASKS FARMERS ATTITUDE TOWARD GERMANY By an American of German Descent In the last few days we could read a great deal about “Germany seizing the Rhineland.” Any one who is not familiar with foreign geography must think that Germany’s soldiers crossed her border and marched in France. It would be well if we would realize that the Rhineland is and has been a part of Germany and we might ask ourselves: How long would we stand it if somebody said we couldn’t have American soldiers along the Mississippi. In that case

ous effects on the kidney itself, attacking it at one time in one portion, and at another time in another portion. It may be associated with hardening of the blood vessels, swelling due to accumulations of water in the tissues, and deficiencies of the blood resulting from malnutrition. In the acute type of kidney inflammation and infection, patients usually are given fluids, fruits and cereals. During this stage, because the patients are seriously sick for a short time, the diet is not so significant. In the chronic type of kidney inflammation, one has to be certain that the diet is not too rich in sugar and fats, because of the tendency to produce surplus weight. Therefore, these patients should receive enough protein food to provide for body building and tis ue repair. Usually at least 40 grams of protein a day should be included in the diet, and even 60 grams, it has been shown, will not, damage the kidneys or raise the blood pressure. Os course, a person with chronic inflammation of the kidneys can not undertake to outline his own treatment as it applies to diet or anything else. It is well, however, for him to know the essential principles. In this condition, the doctor very carefully watches the water taken in and excreted, to prevent an accumulation of fluid in the body. These are some of the main considerations in control of this disorder.

beef cattle, and the animals are hardy enough to find their own food even in the coldest weather. Satisfactory hybrids were produced after lfng experiments by the Canadian government. Q—How much income does the United States Department of Labor estimate is necessary to maintain a family of five? A—Twenty-six dollars a week on a bare subsistence basis. Q —Can salaries of Federal employes be garnisheed? A—No. Q —Are soldiers who served in Mexico in 1914 entitled to the bonus A—No. Q —What is the vaßte of a United States gold dollar dated 1850 A —sl.so to 52.

we would simply plaster the side of the Mississippi with soldiers. The Rhine with its old castles, with Heidelberg and Cologne is the very heart of Germany. The Rhine is Germany itself. We Americans are known as good sports. Let us be fair in our judgment against Germany. a a a LIBERTY LEAGUE IS NOT G. O. P„ HE SAYS By Pourquoi It is difficult to comprehend the ordinary mind which imagines that any anti-New Deal group must therefore be Republican. To retire some of the current confusion concerning the backing of the Liberty League, it can not be emphasized too strongly that the Liberty League, good or bad, is still principally an organization of leading Democrats. There is absolutely no connection between the Liberty League ar.d any G. O. P. organization. Mr. Farley might well climb out of the mud hole of promiscuous and rash invective in which he has mired himself. He’s trying to pass the Liberty League buck to the Republicans. Remember. Farley was the chap who, but a year or so back, knew positively that the Republican party was no more. So now, “Sour” James, with nothing else to do, is slinging smut at ghosts! BITTER KNOWLEDGE BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK This then must I learn bitterly; Tc live without absorbing love. To build a wall around myself; Beneath myself, and close above. To walk unseeing through my days, Knowing no love, knowing that I Shall have no heartbeats thrill to mine, When daylights fade and twilights die. This then must I 16arn bitterly; That you are- here; your lips, your face, But that warn inner soul of you Has sought another resting place. DAILY THOUGHT For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.—Job 9:17. PUNISHMENT is lame, but it comes—Herbert.

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-MARCH 18, 1936

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

EDITOR'S NOTE—This rvin( reporter for The Time* joes where h* pleases, when he pleases, in searrh of odd stories about this and that. ORLEANS. March 18.—I’m always chasing rainbows, and my new rainbow is this: I want to live for a year in the Pontalba Apartments. Maybe I will, too. for the man who runs them has promised me one, even though he haa a waiting list a mile long. And whe*A you come to see me In my Pontalba Apartment, here’s what you'll find: You’ll stand at the corner of Jackson Square, in the heart of the old French quarter. the Vieux Carre, And you'll look down the street alongside the park, and you'll see a balcony over the sidewalk for the whole block, and you'll see heavy green doors, twice as high as your head, all closed and all looking dark and mysterious. You’ll walk along till you come to a door with my number on it, and you'll press a button, and the door will open, and you'll walk into a long stone corridor, like a catacomb, and shut the door behind you. You'll walk clear to the back, and up two flights of a spiral stairway to my apartment at the top. a a a I'LL show you around my big rooms. There’ll be three of them in the front part of the place, with a hall and little sharp turns and nooks here and there. Then we’ll go out back, and down three or four steps, and on to a screened porch overhanging a patio, and then into another whole apartment, which is really just part of my apartment. Back here will be my “den,” with a fireplace and an extra bedroom or two. And after dinner well go out on to the balcony which runs clear across the front of my apartment, and we’ll sit there under the stars, with a grilled railing in front of us, and I'll tell you about things. a a a I'LL tell you how right out there in front, in Jackson Square, is the very spot where Bienville laid out New Orleans in 1720. How he. staked it out as the Place d’Arms, or public square, and built the Vieux Carre around it. And I’ll tell you about the blood and thunder that old square has seen. About the hangings, and the gatherings of pirates, and how' men were drawn and quartered there, and put alive in boxes, and the boxes sawed in two. I’ll tell you how they built the Cathedral of St. Louis, just there to your left on the west side of the square. a a a AND I’ll tell you about Jackson's statue there in the center of the park. How it was the first statue ever built of a man on a rearing horse, where the front of the horse wasn’t supported. They did it by making the rear of the horse of solid bronze, and the front part hollow. And I’ll tell you how some boys, playing in the park, knocked a ball and it lodged on Jackson’s head. And how they threw sticks at it, and knocked Jackson's head off. And how they were so scared they hid the head in a board pile, and it wasn’t found for days. Now they have two heads, so that if one is knocked off they’ll have another one. And I’ll tell you how the rich Baroness de Pontalba built these two rows of apartments, one on each side of the square, in 1843, just as a gesture of doing something fine for her beloved New' Orleans. a a a AND how they came to be known as the first “gold coast,” when merchants rented each three-story section for S3OO gold, and had their stores on the first floor, and their living; quarters on the second and third. And how the government owns them now, and you can rent one for SSO a month. We’ll sit on our balcony and 111 tell you all this. And over to our left, a couple of blocks aw'ay, we can ■see the Mississippi, shining dully in the moonlight, and w'e can see ship funnels and masts down there, and hear strange sounds of docks. And all around us will be New Orleans, the old New Orleans, the Vieux Carre of the narrow streets and wooden doors and iron grillwork running like clematis over the windows, the Vieux Carre of the old Creoles, and the Napoleon plotters, and the pirates, and the rich men and the fighters and the history makers. . . . Isn’t it a nice rainbow?

By George Clark