Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1936 Edition 02 — Page 9

It Seems to Me HEIM BUM ( Hey wood Broun is on vacation. William Philip Simms, Scripps-Iloward foreign editor, bats for him today.) R °ME March 28.—Europe is moving steadily toward a new' balance of power of dangerous complexion and colossal proportions. The lineup today depends on Italy. And Italy’s stand depends on what Britain does to Mussolini. Italy and Germany are nearer than ever to being thrown into each other's arms and with them may go Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Poland, in Europe, and Japan in the Far East. coalition would be one of the most powerful that* tr.e world has ever faced. Rumors persist here and in Paris, Warsaw and Moscow that the Japanese are planning to seize all eastern Siberia while German* attacks in the West.

Britain and France, among the great powers, would be left almost alone to face the coalition. Russia would find it difficult, if not impossible, to wage two major wars simultaneously on fronts 5000 miles apart. But Italy does not welcome the prospect. She. does not relish an alliance with Nazi Germany. Mussolini, it is said, does not love Herr Hitler. But politics, whether national or international, makes strange bedfellows, and there have been stranger than II Duce and Der Fuehrer. Like the Japanese, II Duce

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knows exactly what he wants. Like them, too, he is convinced his country is doomed to dwindle to the proportions of a third-rate power unless it finds room to expand. Again like the Japanese. he has no intention to let any such thing happen if he can prevent it. tt tt tt Italy Has Great Army AND Italy is still far from being paralyzed or powerless. A great potential coalition is waiting with open arms to receive her. Italy herself at this moment has approximately 1,500,000 troops undtr arms. About a third of these are in Africa. The rest are in the homeland. Behind them are some six million more who could be mobilized as fast as they could be used. Germany has 600,000 men trained as only German drill-sergeants can train them. Plus 1,500,003, more just as good who could be mobilized in a fortnight. The Polish army—should Poland come inis one of the best in Europe, and Japan, in the Orient, apparently is impregnable. Mussolini, however, has clearly demonstrated that he seeks no part in any such combination. On tne contrary, he insists he wishes to maintain “European solidarity,” or a collective peace system. He wishes, if possible, to prevent Europe splitting up into hostile camps, each arming against the other. It is pointed out that he has taken rebuff after rebuff at Geneva rather than quit the League as did Germany and Japan. tt tt tt Italy’s Case Explained MUSSOLINI holds that Ethiopians would be immeasurably better off under any civilized nation than to remain as they are. In this he is strongly supported by many -experts on Africa—among them Lieut. Col. Cyril Rocks, former military attache to the British embassy here. During the World War I wrote no single atrocity story that I could not verify with my own eyes. I do not intend to depart from that rule now. But the sheer volume of available evidence supporting Italy’s case that she is merely occupying savage territory whose inhabitants would be better off under any civilized people is astounding. Col. Rocke insists that if his countrymen coUld know half of what he knows they would be horrified. Not knowing, he says, they are driven by sentiment, the Anglo-Saxon urge always to support the underdog, into committing a grave blunder. For the sake of the Ethiopians themselves, he emphatically urges, somebody should lift them out of their misery. That, at any rate, is the case for Mussolini. And that, it seems, is the belief of the whole Italian people. Americans who have lived here many years say that Mussolini has never before had so nearly the full support of his people. If forced by Italy’s struggle for survival, as he sees it, into an opposing balance of power he will accept the inevitable. He will join partnership with Germany and the other “have nots”—reluctantly perhaps, but almost certainly. MONDAY— Britain’s Biggest Blunder Since American Revolution. America Too Easy on 'Dangerous' Reds by RAYMOND CLAPPER ViyASHING lON, March 28.—We Americans know ▼ ▼ how to deal with the reds, only we are, if anything. too easy on them. In this enlightened capital, a school teacher who discusses Communism may not get her pay at the end of the month. In New Jersey a judge recently separated a mother from her children because she was an atheist and a Communist ' When a Communist is allowed for the first time to speak on the air, a crew of engineers stands by to cut

him off if he deviates by so much as a single word from his previewed manuscript. In the South, somebody thinks the sharecroppers are mistreated and he is chased out of town as a red. In England, they don’t seem to know how to handle these dangerous people. In London, yesterday, the United Press reports, a crowd marched to Trafalgar Square and proclaimed Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria the rightful King of Great Britain. Meaning that young King Ed-

ward is an impostor. From this distance that looks like treason. But the stupid British, instead of clubbing the treasonists. furnish a squad of policemen to protect them. Trv' pets were lent by King Edward’s household foot guards to sound fanfares for the uncrowned King. This isn’t the first time that treasonist scene has taken place. They stage it every year, on the anniversary of the execution of Charles I. But it was delayed this year because, on the appointed day, the treasonists were in mourning over the death of the present usurper’s father, their late beloved King George V. As Beatrice Lillie's tourist said, England is so typically British. a a a PRIVATE report from Pennsylvania: Senator Borah’s presidential primary race in Pennsylvania won’t mean a thing. It has been held that unless two or more candidates are running, no preference can be registered. The organization crowd refuses to put up a candidate and expects to throw the delegation at the convention for Landon. . . . In Pittsburgh, 1779 voters have changed their registration from Republican to Democratic since March 1; 209 have changed from Democratic to Republican. . . . Republicans have a slight edge io the state and are gathering the biggest campaign fund in history. However, the Democrats are as strong, if not stronger, than they were in 1932 when Roosevelt lost by a count of 157,000. This time the Democrats have the state pay roll, the Federal pay roll, and numerous municipal and county pay rolls, plus much of the election machinery. And Senator Joe Guffey knows how to use them all—also the Democrats have the United Mine Workers and most of the company union workers who are snuggling up to John L. Lewis, pro-Roosevelt head of he United Mine Workers.

THE QUINS-TODAY, TOMORROW

Plenty of Cod Liver Oil in Diet, Children Are Never Coaxed to Eat

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My! Isn’t Annette getting to be a big girl, though! Three whole feet high, according to that yardstick! Or do our eyes deceive—oh, now we see! It's just one of her womanly wiles, with Nurse Leroux an accessory after the fact. Still, even though she did cheat just a little, that old yardstick won’t tower over Annette for long; she's already a hair over 2 feet 6. This Is the last of a series of six stories written by Dr. Allan R. Dafoe on the development and training of the Dionne quintuplets. BY ALLAN R. DAFOE, O. B. E., M. D. (Copyright, 1936, by NEA Service, Inc.) 'P'HE Dionne quintuplets, whom I think of as “the royal babies of Canada,” eat only plain, simple food. None of it is elaborate or expensive, and it is of the type available to almost any family. Brdad and butter, eggs, milk, crackers, soups, fruit, carrots, lettuce, spinach, and other vegetables, porridge, orange juice, a' little liver. Those are all simple foods, easily obtainable. Evaporated milk is as good as fresh milk, and is free of all germs. Canned fruits and vegetables are perfectly

satisfactory, and tomato or turnip juices are just as good as orange juice if that is unavailable. They con•tain much the same vitamins. tt tt There is no reason why a farmer, for instance, should live on salt pork all winter. That is what I call “dead food.” He can raise a kitchen garden that will provide his family with the vegetables and perhaps the fruits they will need to provide their vitamins during the winter. In cities, most of these foods are readily available in markets or in cans at the corner grocery. In towns, through visiting nurse associations and health centers, much aid can be had by those who are in need. tt u tt ANY city health officer will be glad to help a family with such problems, and the Red Cross has done a great deal of good

WASHINGTON, March 28.—R E. Clements, co-founder of the Townsend movement, did not voluntarily resign lrom the organization, as he and his colleagues announced. He was ousted forcibly. The secret, behind-the-scene maneuvers which preceded nis fall have all the elements of storybook drama—a young, beauteous red-haired woman, great public power, big money, and clashing personal and political ambitions. The eruption had its start early last winter, when Clements canceled a radio broadcast that Dr. Francis E. Townsend, originator of the old-age pension formula, was scheduled to make. Townsend and his intimates placed responsibility for this rebuff at the doorstep of Mrs. Thelma Clements, the 28-year-old, red-haired ex-stenographer whom Clements married in 1934. They accused Mrs. Clements of having secret designs to shelve Townsend, and of high-handed meddling in the affairs of the organization. This rift between the two partners continued to widen as Clements and his wife pushed themselves increasingly to the fore in the control of the organization. Townsend, finally, could stand no more of this. He packed his bags and flew back to California.

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work in making codliver oil available. My advice is preventing rickets in children is codliver oil and plenty of it. We’ve never had any trouble in getting these children to eat spinach. But of course we have an advantage in the fact that the five are together. If one of them doesn’t want to eat her spinach, we don’t insist. Generally she looks sideways and sees the others eating theirs, and, feeling she is going to miss something, follows along. If she doesn’t eat it, we just take it away. Later, then, she wishes she had, and the next time there’s no trouble. Incidentally, we’ve found it best not to try to insist or coax a child to eat anything. It becomes a game, a matching of wills. When it gets hungry enough, the child will eat. Very soon now, we are going to stop daily weighings. As the children approach 2 years of age, the daily variations become less important. Parents ought not to expect a

THERE he conferred with his attorney, Sheridan Downey, a militant follower of the exSocialist Upton Sinclair and the candidate for Lieutenant Governor on the EPIC ticket in 1934. Out of the conferences with Downey came a secret meeting in the Muehlbach Hotel in Kansas City on March 9. Present at this gathering were Townsend, Downey, Gomer Smith, Oklahoma attorney, the third i. "nber of the Townsend board, euu a number of state leaders. Clements was not present in person, but was represented by his attorney. After extended discussion it was decided to increase the size of the board by adding two members. Elected to these places were Dr. R. J. Wright of Cleveland, manager of the Ohio area, and Gilmore Young, a henchman of E. L. Margette, manager of the California area and one of the most powerful officials in the Townsend movement. None of this leaked out to the millions of oldsters who paid regular dues to the organization. Among insiders, however, two reasons were whispered as responsible for the enlarging of the board: I—a larger board would make a better impression upon congressional investigators; 2

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If you don’t believe those Dionnes are anxious to get up in the world, see how anxiously Annette (with back turned) and her sister, Yvonne, study that yardstick. In the scene at the left, Annette probably is saying, “Here’s how high we ought to be on our second birthday, two months from now.” And in the other picture., the methodical young women show you how tall t hey were a year ago. That’s something to please the heart of any youngster, to see “what a big girl I’m getting to be.”

child to gain weight every day. So long as the trend is continually upward over a period of weeks and months, there is no reason to worry. Our weighings will soon be weekly. tt tt tt INCIDENTALLY, we are letting the quintuplets learn, just as rapidly as possible, to feed themselves. They are clumsy with their spoons, and dt makes extra work cleaning up. But they develop self-reliance that way, and parents make a mistake if they continue to hand-feed babies too long, just because they want to avoid cleaning up the muss left by unskilled little fingers. The quintuplets have never been spanked nor punished physically. It hasn’t been necessary. We let them play together in their own way, and straighten out their little squabbles in their own way. The nurses never interfere unless one child is plainly in the wrong. Then that one is taken and set aside from the others. Thus she knows she has forfeited the right to play with, and De with, the others. She has been bad, and she knows it. That’s much better than a whack on the ear administered by an angry, ill-tempered parent. tt tt IT’S the same way with crying. The quintuplets cry very little. That’s because we have always proceeded like this: When one of the babies cried, we would make certain that nothing specific was troubling it, as a pin, or uncom-

more directors were needed to outvote Clements and bring about the ouster. ana FROM Kansas City the group adjourned to Washington, where on March 13 a second secret session was held with the new board members present. Clements, this time, attended. In the end, two more new members were placed on the board, Frank Arbuckle, an ex-State Senator of California, and Thomas Wallace, head of the Townsendites’ radio division. Arbuckle, a close friend of Dr. Townsend, lost no time in •exercising his new powers. He ordered Mrs. Clements to stay away from national headquarters and to refrain from any meddling in the organization's affairs. At the same time her husband was informed that if he did not resign as treasurer he would be removed. Dr. Townsend then came forward with an offer of $25,000 cash to buy out Clements’ half interest in the Townsend Weekly, the private property of the two men. Clements accepted the proposition and the same day submitted his resignatioii as national secretary and treasurer, effective April 1. (Copyright, 1936. by United Featur* Syndicate, Inc.)

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sortable clothing. Then, if there was nothing, we just let the ch Id cry. Like all children, they sometimes try to pull a job on us. When they found that nothing happened when they cried, they soon stopped. There’s nothing in it, so why do it? One thing has been especially borne out in caring for the quintuplets. That is the matter of slight temperature risesMany parents worry when the take a child’s temperature and find it abnormally high, say up to 102 degrees. But that is really nothing at all to worry about unless the condition persists. Slight constipation, nervousness, excitement, any one of a dozen minor things can cause a baby’s temperature to rise markedly. The parent notes this, and worries. But unless the condition persists, it probably doesn’t mean a thing. Much needless worry is caused by the too-ready use of the thermometer in the nursery.

EXTENDS EIGHT INTO NINE

Today’s Contract Problem On a four-heart contract by South, West cashes his ace, king, and queen of diamonds, then shifts to a spade. Can declarer make his contract? 6 A K 8 6 VK9 7 4 ♦S 6 g * A 10 4103 NA Q J 7 5 V 10 w r 2 ♦ AKQ7 w b f65 5 2 5 *KB63 Dealer UJ7562 A 0 4 V A<J J 8 3 2 4 j io a All vul. Opener —4 K. Solution In next issue. 21

Solution to Previous Contract Problem BY W. E. M’KENNEY Secretary American Bridge League WHEN you have a finesse to take and there is nothing in the bidding and the play of the hand to guide you, do you use any set rule? Well, here is one used by most rubber bridge players. They figure that the queen lies over the jack, or, if you try to locate the king, you play for the king over the queen. A good rubber bridge player plays his hand on a percentage basis. In today’s hand, for example, a good player would figure that the club honors should be split, and that is the theory which George Kennedy, one of Brooklyn’s outstanding players, used to make three no trump. In response to his partner’s heart bid, East opened his fourth best heart. Kennedy, declarer, allowed West to hold the first heart trick, but won the second with the

\ LL these common sense things we do at the hospital in beginning the training of the quintuplets are no more than any enlightened parent does for his children these days. I •want to state emphatically that though we have had expert University of Toronto advice in these early stages of the children’s development, we are doing no experimenting. I have had many requests from scientists, some from men of unquestioned reputation, to make blood tests, to try out this stunt or that fad. These children are not guinea pigs, and are not going to be treated as such. The aim of the guardians is to protect them from exploitation, protect their health, and provide every possible opportunity for their development along just as nearly normal lines as is possible for babies who are, after all, unique. THE END

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ace. Declarer could count only eight tricks—one heart, five diamonds, and two clubs. How could he develop the ninth trick? Declarer knew that one of the opponents originally held five hearts and, with the ace of spades out against him, the contract looked like certain defeat. However, declarer now proceeded to cash five diamonds tricks, discarding two spades from dummy. East let go a heart and a spade; West played two diamonds and then discarded two spades, but now he found himself squeezed. He decided to release a small club. Declarer then led the jack of clubs and East covered with the queen. The trick was won in dummy with the ace. The king of clubs was cashed and West’s ten fell, which set up three good clubs in dummy. If West had discarded a heart instead of a club, declarer, after winning the club trick in dummy with the ace, would have led a small spade and ‘the contract would have been held to three no trump. West could have cashed the ace of spades and two hearts, but would have been end-played in clubs. (Copyright, 1936. by NEA Bervice, Inc.)

By J. Carver Pusey

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Entered a# Second-Class Matter at Postoffice. Indianapolis. Ind.

Fair Enough moobEm March 28.—St. James’ Palace is a dull building:, smudged with the soot of Welsh coal, and it looks less like a palace than the back end of a warehouse down by the railroad tracks in Indianapolis. A sentry of one of the regiments of guards stands by his sentry box. He wears a scarlet jacket with tihite and gold trimmings, although he is only a buck private, and he stands just so, with his head tilted back and his mid-

dle sucked up inside, as they say in the army. Even in repose he wouldn’t have much belly, though, for if you disregard the splendor of the uniform and look at the soldier you notice that he is only a tall, limber, pink-faced kid of maybe 20. Now and again some gadget trips a gear under the sentry's guilt buttons and he goes stiflly into action, shouldering his musket in so many counts. Then he stomps his heels on the concrete walk and sets off along his post, swinging his free arm in a certain

way, until he meets another sentry coming toward him. When they come face to face they bang their heels on the pavement, almost kicking themselves in the pants with their high leg action, turn square about and march back to their little outbuildings where they fetch up with a clatter and a banging of metal cleats on the walk to go into their trance again. tt tt Doing Things in Grand Style THE Council of the League of Nations was having a meeting at St. James’ Palace. Half a dozen London bobbies of enormous stature stood about the courtyard regulating traffic and herding back a small gathering of inquisitive civilians as the politicians of the council rolled up in huge Daimler cars driven by very correct English chauffeurs. The British do these things in the grand manner, and no doubt the politicians of the League council have only to pick up the phone and say, “My car, please, when they wish to go out gandering with the pretty females of the night club set during their visit to London. For surely when a bush-league statesman from a pitcher-and-bowl nation is sojourning in London with time on his hands and a pocket full of expense kccount money he doesn’t neglect the opportunity to gander while he may. There was a press entrance to St. James’ Palace, and about 150 journalists of many nations had assembled inside. They were sitting at little writing tables covered with blue felt or standing around the room dropping cigaret ashes and burnt matches on the royal scarlet carpet and discussing the deliberations of the League council in terms of robust familiarity, like reporters hanging around the Governor's office in an American state legislature waiting for the .ways and means committee to sober up. Many of them were regular League of Nations men from the big house at Geneva, brought over because they know the statesmen by sight and know just how far each one may be trusted. tt tt tt It Was Different 20 Years Ago THERE were paintings on the walls of Kitchener and a lot of field marshals that you never even heard of, and up the beautiful red stairs with the red plush handrails there were portraits of old Kings and queens and princes. Reporters stood beneath them, whiling the afternoon away as their ashes whitened the carpet. A cigaret butt began to burn a hole, but nobody seemed inclined to stamp it out. It wasn’t like this in St. James’ Palace 20 years ago, but though the press has been strangled in Italy and Germany, it grows steadily more confident in the democratic countries. Even the German journalists seemed like men in these surroundings. After a long time in St. James’ Palace the Council of the League of Nations was unable to reach any conclusion and decided to adjourn.

Art in Indianapolis 3Y ANTON SCHERRER

JUST when we think we are making progress in the study of taste and trends, we trip over a problem that stops us dead. We’ve just heard about the 22 kids of the Nathan Morris Kindergarten who went to the Herron last week in search of Indiana art. First thing to report is that the kids turned down all the prize pictures because they didn’t have any salt water in them. In their place, they substituted all the marines their eyes could pick up; with the result that-Harold McWhinney’s “Cape Cod Lighthouse’’ came out on top. A checkup reveals that not one of the kids has ever seen the ocean—let alone a lighthouse. On the surface, it looks like the end of casuality. Indeed, we might have subscribed to this view had not Mrs. Lucretia Saunders, who runs “Nathan Morris,’’ come to our rescue with the contributing cause. It turns out to be Capt. Fred Drinkut, the policeman at the Herron. The kids hadn’t been in the museum five minutes, says Kindergartner Saunders, before they discovered that Cap likes pictures with lots of salt water and lighthouses. See? a a a FRED DRINKUT is the man who put Elmer Taflinger in his place. Mr. Taflinger, once upon a time, lit a cigaret in the West Gallery. He knows better now. So do a lot of other prominent citizens—like Judge Smiley Chambers, for instance, who was caught playing baseball on the front lawn of the Art Institute. Policing the Herron wouldn’t be so bad, says Mr. Drinkut, if it were not for the prominent people. Mr. Drinkut got his present job because of past performances, and carries police badge No. 456 and four stripes to prove it. At one time or another he's been a plain cop, an emergency man, a 200-poundor-better bicycle cop, a wagon man, a lieutenant and a captain, which is as far as a cop can go without getting involved. Everybody calls him “Cap’’ now. Seven or eight years ago, when he was still on the force. Cap brought in two dead bandits and three live ones, all by himself. All in one load, mind you. Cap talks about it in whispers even now. He went to Cumberland to get them just as the gang was getting ready to invade Indianapolis. The killing affected Cap strangely—undermined his health, as a matter of fact—and he spent the next two years doing nothing. When he got well, he discovered he was on a pension. After that, he turned to art. ana CAP says he has very little trouble with children at the Museum. Other towns do. Other towns, for instance, have to keep their nudo under glass to prevent naughty scribbling, but Cap says he has never run up against anything like that here. Cap has a system, however. He herds the children into a group in the center of the room and tells them that is the proper way to look at Art. Cap says he has yet to see the picture that can be viewed at close range. Cap is terribly in earnest about Art. So much so, that he thinks everybody ought to join the Herron. Asked whether he had any ideas about furthering the cause, he thought something like the Elks pulled off once might do the trick. The Elks were then on E. Maryland-st and in the throes of a membership drive. One day, they commandeered the city patrol wagon and put Cap and Clif Richter in charge. Every likely-looking citizen was arrested, put in the Black Maria and hauled off to Headquarters. Nobody was released until he signed up with the Elks. Cap said it worked.

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