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TUESDAY. MARCH 24, 1936

BLESSINGS OF DICTATORSHIP jpREMIER MUSSOLINI, celebrating the Fascist party's seventeenth birthday, abolishes a rubberstamp Chamber of Deputies, substitutes a rubberstamp council of guilds, and brings all of Italy's large industries into his corporative state. His plan to marshal the key industries under direct state control, 11 Duce says, is dominated by the one premise of the inescapability of the fact that the nation will be called to the task of war.” We wish we could say that the Italian dictator doesn’t know what he is talking about. But, unfortunately lor the world, no one else is in a better position to know about the “inescapability” of war. “We are going toward the period in which these industries will have neither the time nor the possibility of working for private consumption, but will have to labor exclusively, or almost so, for the armed forces of the nation.” Then to cap the dreary disillusionment, Mussolini says that Fascist dreams have been “realized, at least as far as Italy is concerned." And we recall that a few years ago former Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania was so discouraged with what he regarded as the irresponsibility of democracy that he arose on the Senate floor and declared: “What this country needs is another Mussolini!” BORAH ON THE STUMP 'JpHE Old Guard whispering campaign against Senator Borah is as illogical as it is contemptible. Here is a man who has served brilliantly for 29 years as an outstanding Republican member of the United States Senate. And now that he promotes his own candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, as he has a perfect right to do, and publicly discusses party policies, as he also has a perfect right to do, the reactionary crowd undertakes to paint him as a mere intraparty trouble makerone who is “more in sympathy with the New Deal than with Republican principles.” What are Republican principles? And who, more than Senator Borah, has a right to interpret them? Whereas the two other most active candidates, Knox and Landon, both bolted to the Bull Moose Party in 1912, Borah can and does boast that he has never scratched the Republican ticket. The Old Guard crowd, which is dividing its support between Knox and Landon, has no adequate answer to this appropriate Borah retort. Personally, believing as we do in political independence, we do not think Senator Borah should be as proud as he is of his record of party regularity. To the contrary, we consider the course of Messrs. Knox and l<andon in following their convictions into the Bull Moose revolt in 1912 more admirable than the standpat politics played at tl at time by Borah. But certainly those who do regard Republican regularity as the greatest of all virtues can hardly find fault with a man who, for the sake of party solidarity, stood by Taft and Harding and Coolidge and Hoover, although disagreeing with the policies of all of them. The Idaho Senator is saying some other things from the hustings which the Old Guard leaders do not like to hear, but which apparently rank and file Republicans consider very much to the point. “In 1932,” Borah reminded a cheering Republican audience in Chicago, “over 10 million Republican voters left the party and went over to the Democratic Party. Why did they go and how are we going to get them back? We can not succeed in the coming campaign without them, and I venture to say that we will not get them back by putting into power those who drove them out. ... If they are sitting in the front row at the Cleveland convention and dominate the platform and name the candidate. that 10 million never will come back and other millions will go with them.” Because he supported some of the New Deal measures for recovery' and reform, the Old Guard leaders would brand Borah as a renegade. It remains to be seen whether the common run of Republican voters think likewise. PLUPERFECT MONOPOLY WORLD-WIDE ramifications of the American Telephone and Telegraph Cos. are expected to be unfolded before the* current hearings on its affairs are concluded oy the Federal Communications Commission. Just how big is this business and financial giant which spreads over several continents? Samuel Becker, assistant special counsel for the FCC, has described it as a five-billion-dollar concern, grossing 934 million dollars a year according to the most recent financial statement of the Bell System. President Walter S. Gifford said four and one-half billions would be a fair estimate. But that is only one phase of its bigness. Its activities far exceed, according to information gathered by the investigators, the routine business of transmitting phone calls. They include the manufacture of all forms of communication devices; sales organizations; financing; control of patents conferring upon the system virtual domination of radio and movie sound-repro-ducing facilities, and even tire promotion of movingpicture enterprises. a a a immense ramifications of the organization are disclosed in a diagram of its set-up inserted In the record of a Senate committee hearing by Chairman Wheeler oi the Interstate Commerce Committee. This chart placed the A. T. & T. at the top, in control of a host of subsidiaries, domestic and foreign. It showed the parent company as owning more than 99 per cent of the Western Electric Cos. iPresident Gifford has testified it holds 99.42 per cent of the stock). The A. T. ft T. and Western Electric are then described as controlling the Bell Laboratories on a

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50-50 basis. Western Electric, in turn, Is listed as sole owner of Electrical Research. Products, Inc., which in turn controls, according to the chart, Exhibitors Reliance Corp., Eastern Service Studios, Inc., General Service Studios, Inc., and E. R. P. I. Picture Consultants, Inc. Western Electric manufactures telephone instruments and equipment and ERPI makes sound-re-producing devices of all kinds, used in broadcasting, movies, public address systems, etc., as well as telephoto and other transmission facilities based on the use of the photo-electric cell. These instruments are leased, it is alleged, under terms which provide lucrative royalties and safeguard control of the appliances through cast-iron contracts and licenses. Os more than usual interest is the revelation, as disclosed in the chart submitted by Senator Wheeler, of the extensive activities of the telephone company in actually engaging or assisting in the financing and producing of movies. The list of those attributed to the company includes the following: “Emperor Jones,” a Krinsky-Cochrane production; “Moonlight and Pretzels,” Manhattan Pictures; “Take a Chance,” Take a Chance Corp.; “Great Adventure,” Arthur Hopkins-Eddie Dowling; “Social Register,” Mickey Neilan; “Crime Without Passion,” H&cht-McArthur; “Crown Prince,” Jessel Musical; “Spanish Feature,” Paramount; “The Vanishing President,” Walter Wanger 'with five more to be made); “Gambling,” Harold B. Franklin (with two more to be made); “Cavalcade,” Cavalcade Pictures (three more to be made); “China Roars,” Clyde Elliot; “Universal Shorts,” Universal; “Educational Shorts,” Educational; and one picture to be made for Earl Carroll. ana FOREIGN subsidiaries of A. T. & TANARUS., as listed in Wheeler’s chart, are as follows: Societe de Materiel Acoustique; Western Electric of Italy; Alpine Western Electric; Western Electric, serving the Near East; Western Electric of Rumania; Western Electric of Argentina; Nederlandsche Western Electric, serving Holland; Swedish Western Electric; Deutsche Western Electric; Western Electric of Brazil; Western Electric of Chile; Western Electric of Cuba; Western Electric of Spain; Western Electric of Mexico; Western Electric of Asia: Western Electric Ltd. of London; Western Electric of Denmark; western Electric of Austria; Western Electric of Poland; Western Electric of Australia; Western Electric of New Zealand, and Western Electric Cos., Ltd., serving portions of the Orient. “Conducting its business through more than 2UO corporate forms,” said Attorney Becker in opening the hearings, “it enjoys a national monopoly in the field of telephone communication and is a major factor in many other industries. “The Bell System engages in activities that might not inappropriately be designated as investment or private banking, on a not insignificant scale. “Such a vast and varied public enterprise requires a thorough study before effective regulation is possible.” ALL HANDS ON DECK! SENATOR COPELAND (D., N. Y.) seems to want to scuttle the merchant marine. No other conclusion is possible in the face of the new bill he is trying to jam through his Commerce Committee. No provision is made insuring construction to lift the United States from bottom place among maritime nations of the world. No alternative is provided for construction when private operators are—-as they are at present—unable to undertake it in a measure sufficient to give us a respectable merchant fleet. No limit is set upon the amount of subsidies that can be dumped into operators’ laps, a not unusual procedure, perhaps, but certainly not one to be perpetuated by Congress. The Copeland-Roper scheme gives wide discretionary powers to a merchant marine authority of three members instead of five, thus making it easier to “pack” the authority. The bill knocks out a prohibition, insisted upon by the Posioffice Department, against appointment of a person having had a financial interest in shipping during the preceding three years. This makes possible appointment of a person holding mail contracts which are to be cancelled, with settlement made by the authority. There is something in excess of $100,000,000 involved in these settlements. Presumably men with a direct interest in that much money would find it a bit of a, strain to remain objective. JUDGES SUBSIDING THE epidemic of injunctions issued by Federal judges against enforcement of Congress’ new Labor Relations Act is subsiding. Judge Bondy of New York and Judge Cushman of Seattle have just refused injunctions designed to tie the National Labor Relations Board's hands. The score now stands 11 to 4 in favor of the government. Nine Federal district judges and two Federal circuit judges have refused injunctions. Only four district judges have granted injunctions. Out of 54 injunction suits filed 30 have been. decided. Os these 20 have been decided for the government; 10 against. This is a sign of sanity. Inferior Federal judges who try to block the administration of Federal laws by the use of their equity powers are inviting a curtailment of these powers by Congress. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson INVITATIONS are out to the execution of Hauptmann. Engraved, perhaps, and no doubt greatly sought after. It will be a social event from which the mob is to be rigorously excluded. Plans sound rather like a swanky tea party with only a fortunate few as guests. So far no rules of etiquet have been made for such occasions. It is to be hoped that the highhat experts will not overlook this, for it may be the forerunner of anew fashion trend. What, for instance. does one wear when attending an execution? Should the man appear in plain business suits? Will ladies be present or is it to be a stag affair? There is also the question of manners. Hysterics, we understand, are not considered good form by the best authorities. Emotionalism is taboo. The invitation system, at any rate, gives a certain respectability to the barbaric custom of capital punishment. It becomes something of an occasion like the Fourth of July. Without, the mobs wait; inside, the state proceeds with the business of strapping a man into a chair and killing him. The guests stand about. One may guess they are not bored. Invitations have to be presented at the door, we presume. High jinks indeed for the twentieth century! The Romans cKd it so much better. They put on their best clothes and made a holiday. We are less brave, but none the less cruel. Our thrills come vicariously. We send a handful of picked delegates, as it were, to witness the event and relate the tale to us. Beastlike, we hover without the walls for news of the affair, to which our imagination: lends a garish dramatic significance.

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ALMOST any one else would have called a blacksmith, or a plumber or a garageman, but this man didn't, even though he was due at a party and wanted to be there. His son, it turned out when the man got home to dress for the party, had been imprisoned for the entire day in a zipper lumber jacket. He had run the slips over his tie as he dressed. When he got to his third-grade class he couldn’t get the jacket off. The teacher clipped his tie off. and the youngster elected to stay it out, zipper on. Well, when papa got home the whole affair amused him. He set about getting his son loose and after working for about an hour, presto—there he was. It was pretty much of a lark, a sort of problem that the man and his son worked out together. a a a WHEN the flood was the worst an excited woman called The Times and asked the switchboard operator: “Where’s the flood?” The operator replied it was in Johnstown. “Is that In Indianapolis?” the woman inquired with a little catch in her voice. The operator was pretty surprised but she said that no, Johnstown was still in Pennsylvania. “That’s good,” the woman said clicked the receiver. a a a POLICE were pretty alert the other night when someone called headquarters and said that there was a man-sized battle going on in the basement of City Hall. Also, men w r ere lying around all bandaged up, the voice said, and something ought to be done about it. Right away. Even though it did not seem logical, police went over to City Hall and peeked in. Sure enough there were a lot of people lying about bandaged. They rushed into Room 7. The “victims” seemed pretty surprised. They were Works Progress Administration workers from the Recreational Division, and they were being instructed in first aid. ana THEY tell me that years ago a great local figure in finance in Indianapolis also was addicted to riding horses. One day the proprietor of a neighboring tavern was astonished to find three workmen at his place, ready to exchange the single front door to a double front door. After hours of arguing during which he was unable to convince the workmen that he had not ordered the job, our hero galloped up. “What,” he demanded of the workmen with indignation, utterly ignoring the proprietor, “haven’t you done that yet? I wanted to ride in and have my glass today.” a a a A Christmas story about James Clark Mcßeynolds, conservative associate justice of the Supreme Court, has just come to light. Justice Mcßeynolds, born during the Civil War and a product of the days when there really was a Santa Claus as well as many a horse-and-buggy, was honor guest at yuletide party in a residence possessing a great fireplace and an 8-year-old girl. The justice, standing before the fire and surveying the little girl’s abundant gifts, said in his deep voice, “Well, this must have been the chimney that Santa Claus came down for you.” The young lady, puzzled but polite, made a noncommittal reply, but later asked: “Mother, who is that old gentleman? Doesn’t he know I’m 8? Why did he want to tell me that old-fashioned story?”

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

WITH the thoroughness of a scholar and the skill of a born popularizer, James Stokley has written an eminently readable and highly informative book in “Stars and Telescopes.” More than a decade ago, Mr. Stokley left the teaching profession to join the staff of Science Service as astronomical editor. A couple of years ago he returned to his home city of Philadelphia to become the associate director in charge of the astronomical section and the Fels Planetarium at the Franklin Institute. By training, therefore, Mr. Stokley is equipped to know what the public would like to hear about astronomy and how to put it in the form which the public would most enjoy. His book differs from most popular books of astronomy in the large amount of space given to the subject of the telescope itself and to the methods employed by astronomers in their studies. One is particularly impressed with the up-to-the-minute character of Stokley’s information, a close follower of the literature of astronomical research, he gives the reader a broad and adequate picture of the latest work in every branch of the field. An excellent feature of the book is furnished by its many diagrams and a collection of some 50 halftone illustrations. These range from views of the Fels Planetarium, the Mount Wilson Observatory and amateur telescope-makers, to the moon, comets and distant nebulae. OTHER OPINION On the Surplus Tax (Henry H. Curran. Director of the National Economy Leaeue.) This undistributed surplus tax is the trickiest of all. It is different from a tax which kidnaps some unseen dollars out of the poor man’s pocket at the present moment. This proposed tax reaches into the poor man’s future. It prevents the employer from putting aside enough for a rainy day, and so insures that the next depression will be worse than the last, just because there will be many more concerns which have not been able to save up enough surplus to stand such a strain. They will go broke and their employes will lose their jo"bs. More than that, this tax prevents the new, little, growing, competitive corporations from saving up enough surplus to compete with the corporate giants of today.

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The Hoosier Forum 1 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 controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reouest.) a a a BELIEVES GERMAN PICTURE SHOULD CONCERN U. S. By R. P. Cunningham. In his sob-sister plea for poor down-trodden Germany in the March 17 column, Westbrook Pegler wrings his hands and demands to know w r hy we should worry if Germany wants to go in for pig-wor-ship, palmistry and paganism, seeing it is none of ours or any other nation’s affair. And the editor, as if fearing we did not get it, backs up Pegler’s plea with a heavy, sixinch, broad column editorial in the same issue. The answer to Mr. Pegler and the editor would run something like this: “The U. S. A. tried that not worrying about that once upon a time, with the result that it landed us, slap dash, into the biggest, bloodiest, and costliest war that ever was.” We remember, all too well, the Kaiser and his “we-can-lick-the-world” complex. Herr Adolph is putting out the same line of chatter. How familiar it sounds! Kant inquired, but in his day got no reply, “If one man can go insane what is there to hinder a whole v nation going that way?” If he had lived until William Hohenzollern’s and Adolph Hitler’s day he would have gotten

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN YOU might think that cows, standing out in the sun for most of the day, would accumulate enough vitamin D from the short, activating rays of the sun to impart this important substance to their milk. This is possible, to be sure, where there is plenty of sunshine. Yet milk, generally, is not a very good source of vitamin D. Since this is especially necessary in the feeding of infants, for the prevention of rickets, some way must be found to add the vitamin to the child’s milk. There are various ways in which the vitamin D content of milk may be enriched. First, the milk itself may be irradiated by use of the ultraviolet light from either a carbon arc or a mercury vapor quartz arc. Second, a certain amount of vitamin D concentrate, of which several types are now available, may be added to the milk. Third, the cow may be fed with irradiated yeast.

IP YOU CAN’T ANSWER, ASK THE TIMES!

Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or in* formation 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 —Who won the Pulitzer Prize for the best cartoon in 1934? A—Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore Sun for his cartoon titled •‘California Points With Pride.” The prize was SSOO. Q—When was the popular song, “Three O'clock in the Morning” published, and who wrote it? A—lt was published in 1921. The music is by Julian Roblodo and the words by Dorothy Terriss. Q—Which President of the United States owned 1 the dog named Laddie Boy? A—President Warren G. Harding. Q —What is bort? A—A material consisting of imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds. It is used in dressing and truing grinding wheels and for light turning operations, and is of little value. Asa gem, bort has no commercial value. Q —What is the legend of the Angels of Mons? A—A story circulated in the early days of the World War. Troops in the small British Expeditionary ri-

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his answer, for Germany, his own Germany, has gone plumb nuts a couple of times. And its last seizure is worse than the first. And yet The Times in its columns pleads with us not to be worried about Germany. a a a SAYS LEAGUE ERRS IN ARGUMENT By Frank Wilson, Wilmette, Illinois The Liberty League pamphlet, “Alternatives to the American form of Government” discusses, page 3, “The Form of Government Provided by the Constitution.” The definite article “the” is used again on page 13. In other words, the League says that the Constitution provides for h “republican” form of government and a “republican form of society” as well, and rules out all other forms of government and of society. It accuses the forefathers of deliberately imprisoning us in an unchangeable form of government and of society. Preposterous as it sounds, that theory, I think, reveals a main drift that already characterizes the coming election. The theory is based on the plain provision that guarantees to every state “a republican form of government.” Does that settle it? No; because that provision only applies to political government—President, Congress, courts. It does not in the least pertain to economicsbusiness and industry, nor to religion nor education. The explanation is that when the Constitution was adopted the words “republic” and “democracy” were

STUDIES now are being made in various research laboratories throughout the country. These, it is hoped, will indicate exactly how much vitamin D may be placed in milk by these methods, and also the relative values of vitamin D in each type. There seems to be some difference of opinion as to whether vitamin D in milk that is irradiated is any less, or any more, efficient in preventing rickets than vitamin D in milk prepared by direct addition of the vitamin concentrate. In general, the most recent evidence available seems to point to the idea that vitamin D units are just about the same in their efficiency, whether prepared by one method or another. It is, of course, quite possible for a mother to make certain that her child receives adequate amounts of vitamin D by giving the child ordinary whole milk and, at the same time, administering a suitable dosage of cod liver oil, viosterol, or such other vitamin D products as the doctor may prescribe.

Force were being overwhelmed by the German armies at Mons, when, according to the legend, a host of ghostly warriors appeared in the sky over the heads of the British troops, shot flights of ghostly arrows at the advancing German ranks, and saved the day for the wearied and desperate British soldiers. Q—What state leads in the production of cotton, oil and sulphur? A—Texas has led in those commodities for several years. Q —Who is the German minister for aviation? A—Hermann Goering. Q —ls the wife of Louis Untermeyer a writer? A—Jean Starr Untermeyer, his wife, is the author of several books, and she writes poetry. Q—ls it permissible to deduct expenses incident to extension work taken to obtain a degree in computing Federal income tax? A—No, such expenses may not be deducted. Q—Would a dishonorable discharge from the United States Army subsequent to the World War prevent a man who served honorably in the World War from getting the bonus? A—No, the man need only have an honorable discharge for the period for which the bonus is given. .M

being used interchangeably, whereas now we understand “democracy” as a family name of which family “the republic” is an individual member. Isn’t that true? Thomas Carlisle illustrates this governmental “republican” conception of democracy in his day, when he says, “The notion that a man’s liberty consists of giving his vote at election-hustings ... is one of the pleasantest. . . . This liberty turns out to be ... a liberty to die of want of food.” We should know that our forefathers in ’76 changed only government, hence that the Constitution speaks only of governmental democracy when it speaks of the “republican form of government.” They left the rest of progress to be accomplished by us who follow after them. a a a COAL SERIES BRINGS SEVERAL QUERIES By Schleime E. Zalnick, Hartford City Your editorial “Smoky City” of March 18 is most interesting. Being in the “combustion business” I fully agree with you when you say “coal fires can be built to consume smoke instead of dollars. Fuel can be used that is smokeless.” But will you not be so kind as to tell the home owners and others how to do it? How to burn smoke instead of dollars? And what exactly do you mean by fuel that is smokeless? Won’t you or some of your readers tell us? CHANGE BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY Today I visited a place Where I had always seen one face; And found, instead, anew one there With strange and inconsistent air. No one says where the other went; If he left or if he were sent. I did not know that I should care, But I miss the face that is not there. DAILY THOUGHT Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.—Job iii, 3. REMEMBER that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of selfsacrifice.—De Tocqueville.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“How do you tell when it’s spring, mama?”

MARCH 24, 1936

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

EDITOR’S NOTE—This rovirif reporter (or The Times toes where he pleases, when he pleases, in search of odd stories about this and that. HOUSTON. Tex., March 24 —Dr. John R. (Goat Gland) Brinkley wasn't a bit more surprised to have us aboard than we were to be aboard. It was just an accident. A reporter for The Houston Press and I were nosing around the docks, and we said to a policeman. “Who does that swell yaeh* belong to?” He said. “Dr. Brinkley,” so we just climbed aboard and introduced ourselves. He was just here for a couple of hours. Ran up from Galveston so his wife could do some shopping. We stayed on board the whole two hours, and had a grand time. Dr. Brinkley even delayed the sailing while we finished what we were talking about. a a a FIRST the doctor showed us over his boat. He's proud of it. and he has a right to be. It’s 150 feet long, and so elegant inside it makes you sick. It has eight staterooms, and a crew of 12. You could cross the ocean in it. although Dr. Brinkley never has. It is named "Doctor Brinkley II,” because he has another one tied up down at Galveston. After seeing the boat, we sat in deep divans on the glassed-in quarterdeck while the doctor unlimbercd about himself. You couldn’t call him egotistical. He's simply proud of himself, and frank about It. “They’ve called me a fake, a quack, a charlatan, a crank and everything else they can think of.” he said. “But I know what I can do, and I do it.” I had been wondering about that. When I went aboard, all I knew about Dr. Brinkley was treating old men with goat glands, that his radio station was run out of the United States and that he wasn't on very good terms with the Medical Association. He was a quack in my mind—a quack with long hair arid dandruff and shifty eyes and dirty fingers. Actually, Dr. Brinkley looks like a well-fed bank president, plus a short, stiff, white goatee. He’s 51. He wears about $30,000 worth of diamonds—stick pin, tie holder and a ring as big as a quarter. a a a HE is rather heavy and slightly bald and wears horn-rim j glasses. He affects the yachtsman's I blue coat and white pants, and in j true nautical fashion says “glad to j have you aboard, sir.” when he lifts , his glass. He’s a pleasant talker—j not a palaverer, but plain and interesting. Whether he’s a fake or not, I have no way of knowing. But if he is, I wish he would give me some lessons in fooling the public. I could do with a yacht or two myself. He was born in a log cabin in North Carolina. He shows you a picture of it, and then likes for you’ to look around where you’re sitting now. He was orphaned at 10, hadn’t ,a penny, worked at night while lie [ studied medicine in Chicago, and then set up as a country doctor in Kansas. Since then he has studied in Europe and operated in China and India and all over the world. He performed his first goat gland operation 19 years ago. He actually took a gland from a goat and put it in a man, a farmer in Kansas. Everything worked out all right, he said, so he kept it up. a a a YOU remember several years ago he had a big radio station in Kansas, over which he advertised himself, and the government took his license away. So he moved to Del Rio, Tex., on the Rio Grande, opened a hospital, and set up his radio station across the river in Mexico. He is on the air 15 minutes of every hour now—by electrical transcription of course. He does about 40 operations a week. Gives only a local anesthetic. He does all the operating himself; patients won’t stand for anybody else. Just as we were getting ready to leave, Mrs. Brinkley came back from her shopping trip. She was bubbling. “Do you know what I’ve found?” she demanded. “I’ve found a man who never heard of Dr. Brinkley!” She fished his card out of her pocketbook. He works in a store here. “You ought to go interview him,” she said. “That’s a story for you. A man who never heard of Dr. Brinkley.”