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FROM INDIANA

By ERNIE PYLE

HEELER, Mont., Sept.’ 21.—You have |

to see the town of Wheeler to believe it,

When you drive through, you think

somebody must have set up hand-painted

store fronts on both sides of the road, as |

background for a western movie thriller, real.

But it's |

Wheeler is today the wildest wild-west town in |

North America. Except for the autos, it is a genuine throwback to the eighties, to Tombstone and Dodge City and Goldfield. Wheeler is a slopover from the government-built city at Peck dam.

Fort It is not on govern- |

ment property, hence is free to go |

its own way.

big construction project. There

P A {

Mr. Pyle

cans and old boards and tar roofing. All except Wheeler. mushroom villages, It has 3500 people, and real houses and stores. either side of the main street. Such places as “Buckhorn Club” and “Rooms—>50c” and just “Hotel.” ="

They have

Taverns Open All Night

T has nearly a thousand homes hind the main drag. It has night taverns, and innumerable beer parlors.

These boom towns | always mushroom up around a |

are 18 of them around Fort Peck. | They are shantytowns proper. | such names as New | Deal and Delano Heights. Their ! houses are made of boxes and tin |

It is. the metropolis of the |

It has 65 little businesses lining |

* { scattered back behalf a dozen all- | The |

taverns open at 8 in the evening and run till 6 in the |

morning. At night the streets are a melee of drunken men. Gambling, and liquor by the drink, are illegal in Montana. But Wheeler pays no attention. You can

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1036

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THE BIG PARADE OF THE LEGION

Convention in Cleveland Aouin Unites U. S. wal Comrades

BY WILLIS

THORNTON

NEA Service Staff Correspondent

(CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 21.—Over the same Cleveland streets that felt the measured tread of its second Big Parade, in 1920, the American Legion will march again

tomorrow.

Sixteen years ago the Legionnaires, still uniformed mostly in the “O. D. woolies” in which they came back

from the World War, their

ages averaging perhaps 25

years, swung down Cleveland’s Euclid-av in their first really big mass demonstration. A local paper commented that it “swept into Cleveland like a strong, clean breeze . . . the convention has gone, but Cleveland still feels the impulse and the touch of the

youth of the whole country.”

Today, resplendent in bright, smartly tailored uniforms, average age verging upward from 40, and fostering under its wing a fast-growing organization of its own sons,

the American Legion, in its eighteenth convention pre-

sents a contrast to that |

other Big Parade of 1920.

This year’s conclave is expect- !|

| ed to be the Legion’s greatest con- | vention, and probably the greatest

Sit in a stud game, or keep ordering forty-rod all |

night. . The taverns don't have floor shows. drink and dance. The music goes till long after daylight. $ Wheeler is 21% years old. It started with Fort Peck Dam, when some guy brought in a trailer, built bunks in it, and rented them to dam workers at $4 a week. Ruby Smith was the first real settler. She started an eating place along the road, and within 30 days "the town had sprung up around her almost to its sent size. DT now runs the Wheeler Inn, one of the biggest all-night hot spots. She goes to bed at daylight and gets up late in the afternoon. She's making money. = un =

Landowner Making Money OE FRAZIER is the entrepreneur of Wheeler, Twenty years ago he homesteaded a large batch of practically worthless land here on the bare Montana knobs. It never-did pay its way. Joe Frazier became a barber in Glasgow, 20 miles away. : Then came Ruby Smith and the Army engineers, and they say Joe Frazier will come out of it easily with $100,000. He owns all the land Wheeler is built on. Wheeler won't exist six months after the dam is finished in 1939. So Joe Frazier doesn't try to sell lots. He just rents them. ° His ‘income, they say, is $2500 a month. Wheeler is all wood. There isn’t a stone or steel building in town. had 15 fires since New Year's. One side of the town has wells. The other side hasn't any. Quite a few of the boys indulge in holdups. torists on the road, register, have looked many times down the barrel of a six shooter. And whereas the cowboys used to get drunk and

Mo-

It has no water system. They have |

| American Legion,

and cashiers behind the cash | | tion of French War Brides, and | hundreds of associations of men | formerly identified with specialized

ride down the main street yelling and shooting up the |

town, nowadays the process is to get drunk and drive down the main highway at 70 miles an hour. They've killed and maimed as many people that way around Wheeler as the tough characters used to with their bullets.

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

ASHINGTON, Sunday.—If there is one thing | more than any other that has always an- |

noved me, it is the person who chronicles his or her bodily ills. Our old friend, Louis Howe, was a fairly consistent invalid for many years, but he said very little about his pains and aches.

{ history. You just |

gathering of war veterans in all Every advance preparation indicates that 250,000 Legion-

| naires, their families, and their

| have special meetings within the

| friends, will storm Cleveland.

” = =

ISTRIBUTION of the bonus earlier in the year has put cash in the pockets of veterans who never before were able to attend the convention. A month before the opening day, yesterday, every hotel room in downtown Cleveland was reserved. Private homes, lake boats, and downtown buildings in which cots and sanitary arrangements can be set up fill the deficiency. The Big Parade this year is expected to take more than 10 hours to pass a given point with its 90,000 marchers, 500 bands, innumerable floats, and gaudily uniformed special organizations. Back in 1920, the American Legion was just the American Legion. Now it draws about it a number of satellite organizations which add to the influence of its nearly 950,000 ‘members, There is the Women's Auxiliary, with 413.000. There is the “40-and-8,” and the rapidly rising Sons of the who already number 38,919. There is the National Organiza-

services or “outfits.” All these time of the Legion conclave which ends Friday.

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a= year’s convention, scanning a world at war or preparing for war, opened on a note of peace. Waiting the opening were certain boxes of earth, from the heights of the Meuse, from a forest called the Argonne, and from St. Mihiel.

| states.

There were clods from Portland, Me., where Henry Wadsworth

| Longfellow was born, and box-

I remember a lady who suc- |

ceeded in telling him and some one else in his pres- |

ence all about a series of operations. His only remark when she left was:

“Quite an organ recital, what?”

I haven't even anything as interesting as that, |

simply the daily routine of what has been on the whole a rather pleasant “land of counterpane.” Today I can read again. It really isn’t too much effort to hold a book, or think about anything, or _%o look at any one, as it was up to yesterday. On ~ the whole, except for the fact that invalids are subject to a certain amount of discipline in the way of

pills, food and physical care, I have rather enjoyed |

the day. I read the papers; James, who came in from Springfield, Mass., and leaves again tonight, came in for a talk, and then I had a talk with my husband before he went to lunch. I had a visit from a voung friend of mine last night. A boy who has been taking 10 days vacation driving his small car from New York state to his home state of Missouri. He came back through Tennessee and spent more than a week at home. Since he had seen his sister ‘and her husband on their farm, I was interested to hear his impressions

| | | | |

on the drought and how keenly he felt about the |

farmers’ probleths. The hardships were all vivid to him. but the joys were as well. His eyes fairly glowed as he told me how much his little niece meant to him, and what a wonder she was at 6 years to ride her pony after the cows. “ Every one needs to get home to touch their particular roots every so often, if it is possible. Sometimes our own particular roots do not happen to be our family, they may have grown to be some friends. They may be some other place than our birthplace—

For the young it is important that there should be

wood plants from Mount Vernon, direct in descent from the box-

wood shoots planted there by George Washington. ‘There was earth from the grave

| of Kossuth, the Hungarian lover

of liberty, from Switzerland, from Venezuela, from each of the 48 All were modeled carefully into ag garden which will remain permanently in Cleveland's Rockefeller Park. And when National Commander Ray Murphy dedicated the garden yesterday, a plaque carried this message to the future: “Here in the soil from the historic shrines of ‘the nations of the world are planted trees to create the American Legion Peace Gardens. “May the intermingled soil of these nations symbolize the united effort of their peoples as they advance to a better understanding. These gardens, planted by men who know the horrors of war, are dedicated to the® brotherhood of nations and peace throughout the world.” " ” ” OLLOWING this opening ceremony, business sessions began today with the “40-and-8” parade as a garnish. Tomorrow sees the Big Parade. On Wednesday and Thursday will come the business sessions to elect a new commander to succeed Murphy, a new national executive committee, and set the policies of the coming year. Among distinguished speakers who will address the convention are Newton D. Baker, war-time secretary of war and honorary chairman of the convention: Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio; Mayor Burton of Cleveland; M. Victor Beauregarde of France, representing French veterans: William Green, president of the American Federation.of Labor, and Rep. J. E. Rankin, chairman of the House veterans’ committee. ‘There will be plenty of other distinguished guests, including Josephus Daniels, now ambassador to Mexico, war-time secretary

| of the navy. Eddie Rickenbacker,

one of America’s leading World War aces, and another famous war flier, Fiorella La Guardia, who is the Mayor of New York City,

Electrical Circuits in Earth's Crust Described by Sciéntists

BY SCIENCE SERVICE DINBURGH, Sept. 19.—Discov- » ery of electrical circuits in the

Union of Geodesy and

The crustal electric currents are

|tude and lie near the tropics of |

{ high northerly latitudes with their|

5 + | Cancer and Capricorn. _ some place where we more easily renew our spirit. | p

Four other eddies also appear in|

Heavy Pneumonia

Toll Indicated

YY ASHINGTON, Sept. 19. — Warning signs of a possible heavy pneumonia death toll this fall and winter appear in reports received at the United States Public Health Service here. Latest reports to the Federal health service from 85 cities and records of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. show there were many more pneumonia and influenza deaths at the end of August and beginning of September this year than last. The figures appear significant because it is too early for the usual seasonal increase in pneumonia and influenza deaths. Health officials, remembering that the 1918

| influenza epidemic got its start in the United States at the end of |

|are about equally spaced in longi- | August, are watching the present

situation but do not yet see any indications of an epidemic. The 85 cities reported to the United States Public Health Service 312 pneumonia and influenza deaths

| fore.

Sixteen years ago, the American Legion marched over the same streets of Cleveland which will feel its tread this year. Here is a parade of 1920, when

members still wore their World War uniforms and were seen as “the youth of America.” Now the average age verges upward from 40.

are scheduled to attend some of the sessions.

Elsie Janis, musical comedy star

who gave so freely of her talents to “the boys” in France in many a rest camp, will appear and entertain them again. # 2 = EPORTS of Legion activities will be read, and it will come as a surprise to many to find: That the Legion is sponsoring nearly 2500 Boy Scout troops. That it is turning from efforts to legislate patriotism by oath and flag-respect laws to efforts to inculcate such respect and patriotism through education. That it sponsors four “Boys States” for training in citizenship and government, and has 300,000 boys playing on Legion Junior baseball teams. That it has carried on a year’s campaign against Communism, Fascism, and Naziism alike. That its auxiliary has brought Christmas gifts and comfort to 66,745 hospitalized veterans, and aided the families of 32,910 more. The trend of i® Americanization and defense policies will, of course, be decided for the future at the convention. A noticeable liberalizing of these conceptions has been evident in recent years. The matter of permanent ‘pen-~ sions for World War veterans is not expected to come up. Thursday morning, Sept. 24,

Latest Balloting Reveals Momentum

Organization was sketchy, compared with the smooth-running machine of today. Here are Legionnaires (1920) being provided with ‘hot coffee at a temporary “canteen.” Note the World War uniforms and the dress of the woman volunteer worker. :

Gov. McNutt of Indiana, past national commander, will present

colors to a new national .com-

Gained by Republicans,

(Mr. Sullivan Writes Thrice Weekly.)

BY MARK SULLIVAN ASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—The Maine election and primaries in three other states showed how great is the momentum a political tide can gather within a two-year period. The tide in this case runs in favor of the Republicans. The speed and force possible in a two-year tide has been shown beIt was shown between 1928 and 1930, when the sweep was in favor of the Democrats. In 1928 the Democrats were at an all-time low. In the presidential election between .Mr, Hoover and Gov. Smith, the Democrats won only 87 electoral votes to the Republicans’ 444. In the elections to the House of Representatives that year, the Democrats won only 165 seats to the Republicans’ 268. That was in November, 1928. Two years later, in 1930, there was no presidential election by which to make comparison. But in the House of Representatives the Democrats won a majority, 219 to the Republicans’ 214. In short, an immense Republican victory in 1928 became, two years-later, a narrow Democratic victory. The question this year is whether the same thing can happen in the opposite direction.

- » ” ” bb the present two-year tide in favor of the Republicans, that

be realized by a look beneath the surface of the Maine election. In Maine, in 1934, the Democrats won two of the state's three seats in the lower house of Congress. This year the Republicans won those two seats back and won them by large majorities. That performance leaves no possible doubt that throughout the country the Republicans are certain to make extraordinary gains in the lower house. : = zn ” i HE tide against the Democrats is strong. Against the New Deal it is yet stronger. This latter tide expresses itself, in some cases, in support for candidates who are Democrats but not New Dealers. This, also, was illustrated in Maine. In that state the Democratic candidate for Senator, Mr. Brann, was universally recognized to be not a New Dealer. His dissent from the New Deal brought him much support that a New Deal Democratic candidate could not have attracted, and he came close to winning. Had he won, he would have become, in the Senate, a follower of the anti-New Deal Democratic leadership provided by such a Democrat as Senator Glass of Virginia. Something like this is going on everywhere. Democrats are being elected to the Senate and House in strong Democratic states and districts hardly possible to be won by any Republican, and many of the

Democrats who are winning are as ||

opposed to the New Deal as any Re-

‘would be for Mr. Roosevelt. It is a

mander who will carry forward the work ‘of the Legion fof ans" other year,

Sullivan Says

ly faithful Coughlinite — he is Father Coughlin’s Washington representative—entered the primary as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator. He came within a few thousand votes of winning over the regular Democratic contender. The vote was about 125,000 to” about 120,000. This strength of a Coughlinite in a Michigan Democratic primary may be accounted for in part by the fact that it occurred in Father Coughlin’s home state. Observers agree, however, that Father Coughlin’s following everywhere is considerable. They agree also that it is, like the priest himself, strongly anti-Roosevelt. Even that large part of it which is normally Democratic is in this campaign anti-Roosevelt and anti-New Deal. With respect to the coming presidential election, most of Father Coughlin’s following will vote for the candidate whom tne priest has indorsed, Mr. Lemke of the Union Party. ” ” ” HE current straw votes seem to indicate that Mr. Lemke will get between 4 and 5 per cent of .the total vote. Most of that is a vote which, if Mr. Lemke and Father Coughlin did not exist,

subtraction from Mr. Roosevelt, and therefore an aid to the Republicans. In two of the three ‘states in which primaries were held last

to the hearts of the opposition, and it usually did. Nobody, ap- = parently, was wise to the fact that but for Mr. Bowers’

He was defeated by President Woodrow WwW ran for re-election with

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Our Town

T'S perfectly safe to say that all Indianape olis boys during the second administra tion of Mayor John Caven were put through the pages of the old “Eclectic History.” Moreover, it's just as safe to suspect that were these boys organized the way the McGuffey Readers are today, top-man of the class would be Claude Gernade Bowers. : Schoolboy Bowers knew his “Eclectic History” b

heart. Indeed, he knew it so well that it got him a place on the old Shortridge debating team (circa 1895). Pretty soon he was the backbone of the team, and before any-

body was hep to what was going

on, Shortridge had everybody be-

lieving that Schoolboy Bowers was the whole team.

Anyway, those were the days

Shortridge originated the battlecry:

“Bowers, Bowers, he is ours.”

It was su sed to strike t Po error Mr. Scherrer

apt citations from the old “Eclectic,” Shortridge wouldn't have been a bit better than anybody else, * After that, Mr. Bowers never forgot the old “Eclece tic History.” It was his standby when he wrote edie torials for the Indianapolis Sentinel (1901), for the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (1917-23), for the New York World (1923-31).

% =” = = Submits His Latest Book

r stood him in good stead, too, when he was private secretary to Senator John W. Kern (1911-17), and there's no telling what Mr. Bowers’ imposing series of historical books might have looked like had he not been brought up on the good old “Eclectic.” : Last week, one-time Indianapolis Schoolboy Bowers, now Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Spain, submitted his latest book, the fifth in a series covering the American scene. This time, it turns out to be “Jefferson in Power,” a 538-page-long book dealing with the 2922 days Thomas Jefferson was President. In its essentials, Mr. Bowers’ new book sticks pretiy close to the old “Eclectic History.” In its details, howe ever, its got the old “Eclectic” skinned a mile, and it shows, perhaps as well as anything else, what Mr, Bowers has been up to since he left Shortridge.

” = = "Twas a Lusty Period

Alon BURR, to be sure, emerges as the villain and Mr. Jefferson is still pretty much the hero, but nobody brought up on the old “Eclectic” knew what Mr. Jefferson had to put up with in the way of backstairs gossip and backroom ' intrigues until Mr. Bowers took the pains to dig it up. “It was a lusty period,” says Mr. Bowers. It sure was. British Minister Merry got mad when Mr, Jefferson received him in house slippers: Mrs. Merry, the minister's wife, had an affair with Tom Moore, the Irish poet: the French minister beat his wife whenever he felt like it and sometimes when he didn’t feel like it; Jerome Bonaparte came over and carried off pretty Betsy Paterson of Baltimore, and there's no telling what else Author Bowers might have found had not the Spanish revolution come along to keep him occupied with other things.

Hoosier Yesterdays

OF Sept. 21, 1916, Charles Evan HOS then Re-

publican candidate for President and now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, entered Indiana on a special train for a three-day speaking tour, Mr. Hughes was making a campaign swing through the country. Among others, he was accompanied by Will H. Hays, present movies czar, then Republican state chairman. The Republican nominee was scheduled for 12 speeches in Indiana on the 21st and a total of 30 in the state during his three-day stay. His voice was already husky from speaking and he did not see the necessity, the newspapers reported, for making 30 speeches in Indiana, but he stuck to his schedule. Mr. Hughes advocated ga permanent prosperity not based on war orders, said he favored the principle of arbitration for labor disputes, warned against lower

ing tariffs and expressed himself as standing for soe cial justice.

Despite his husky voice, Mr. Hughes stopped the train when it started to pull out of Logansport in order to conclude his remarks on arbitration of labor disputes. An impressive figure, the bearded n €€ COM manded respectful attention from crowds \that sure rounded the railway stations where his train stopped, on, who the campaign slggan, “He kept us out of war.”

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal "| "EN million people are injured in accidents each year in this country. A hundred thousand are killed, and 370,000 permanently crippled. Most of the - serious accidents occur on the highways, but many happen also in homes and workshops. Of accidents that occur in the home, 40 per cent are falls; then come burns, scalds and explosions, Others are due to asphyxiation or strangulation; and finally, there are all the cuts, scratches, and bruises with which most of us are familiar,

party has farther to go than the Democrats had in the earlier period. For the Republicans, 1934 was an all-time low. The Republicans in 1934 won only 102 seats in the House of Representatives to the Democrats’ 322

publican. The same change is taking place among Democratic Senators whose seats hold over for two or four years and who are not up for re-election this year. There are Democratic Senators who up to now . 3 have “gone along” with the New But it is apparent that in recent Deal and Mr. Roosevelt but who, times a political tide can run with | from now on, will in the Senate fola swiftness that was not possible a |low leadership like that of Senator few years ago. The causes for the | Glass. : . faster tempo include the loosening of party ties which leads masses of voters to swing from one side to the other, and an acceleration wrought perhaps by the radio. - How swift the present tide is can

some such place. I imagine that is what we older people really are allcwed to live for, to act as the background where youth ¢an turn for the necessary

stoking-up. (Copyright, 1038, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

week, Michigan and Massachusetts, the number of voters who entered the Republican primary was markedly greater tham the number who entered Democratid primaries. This fact, and additional evidence, suggest that the Republicans should carry these states in November. Altogether, the Republicans had a cheering week.

Poll Favors F.D.R.

By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance EW YORK, Sept. 21.—A personal interview poll of 4500 men and women over the country, representing city and farm and rich and poor, indicated today that President Roosevelt has lost none of his preconvention strength and will be re-elected. Fortune Magazine, reporting the results of its quarterly survey of public opinion, says the Presidents standing now is about that shown in a similar survey nine months ago, with the approval of about 60 per cent of the people. The magazine says this approval of Roosevelt has continued “despite judicial dismemberment of the New Deal, enactment of the bonus over erty League Democrats, formation rE ey. Ja 1ulatio a new ' R platform, and nomination of

| centers near-the Arctic Circle. These | for the last week of August this also are about equally spaced in| year and 280 for the corresponding longitude. A corresponding set of | week last year. The life insurance eddies presumably exists in high|company noted a pneumonia death southerly latitudes, but data to es-| rate among its industrial policy i tablish the fact are not avaiable. holders of 31.1 per 100,000 for the

: . : = first week of September, 1936, as Da | ly New Books “ LL oss alti follow the sun

compared with a rate of 19.2 per 100,000 for the corresponding week THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— in such a way that eight of R those weary of discussion on the level of chat- |them are always on the sunlit side

of 1935. alge, which these records ow separately from pneumonia, ter, Charles A. Beard makes an attempt in THE |of the earth and eight on the dark); "470 0 increased death rate. DISCUSSION OF HUMAN AFFAIRS (Macmillan; [side,” the American scientists re-|3s5 per 100,000 for the first week of $1.75) to arrange and evaluate the facts and processes ported. “The current in the day-|September, 1936, and 2.1 per 100,000 discovered by historiography and to apply these to light eddies of middle latitudes is|for the corresponding week in 1935. modern discussions. His first premise is that all dis- |"80¢ ” cussion involves the person, the time, the place, the [considerably greater than that in the purpose, preliminary assumptions and the form of corresponding nighttime eddies. Statement. : However, a contrast of this charac- : To grasp in a realistic fashion any phase of cul- ter is not a common feature of the ture, whether economics, government or esthetics, we = are driven to a consideration of history and what can |circulations constructed from data be known about it. We can't grasp it as totality |obtained at high altitudes. The cenaud Fetluce i io ui Saas Stletes} So mankind must |i. < of the forenoon eddies in middle arbitra undaries to discussion. The pi truth which emerges from this study |latitudes lie near the meridian for ~ may be formulated thus: “It is possible for all who |which the jime of day is 9 a. m, discuss human affairs to distinguish somewhat effec- while the afternoon eddies center on tively between fact and opinion and to have extensive the meridian for which the time is - knowledge of the various positions or points of view about 3 p. m. “The current circulation is clockwise in the forenoon eddy of the . Northern Hemisphere and in the aft-

from which any expression of opinion proceeds or takes direction.” = = COVERED WAGON, 10 H. P. (London, Bles; lernoon eddy of the Southern L $4.12), Guy K. Austin tells of his automobile trip | Hemisphere, Circulations in the Across our continent, from New York to California, eight eddies of the middle-latitude with his family. From an Englishman's point of |belt are related in the same way as View he describes his experiences en route, his impres- |are the rotations in a series of intersions of the vastness of the territory, and has much locking gears when oriented in a fo say of the people and sights of California itself, manner similar to that of these 80 strange to foreign eyes, eddies, :

They are most serious to older people. : For example, 77 per cent of the falls, in which t victims were people 65 years of age and over, were Jatal : Daly. % per esny of falls were fatal to le rom 0 years of age, and only 18 those rom 5 to 14 years old. y pene alls of children up to 4 ears of a . in uy 8) per cent of cases. y 52 Were fail . esting to learn that the most dangerous room in the house for accidents is the bedroom. Thirty-nine per cent of the severe cases developed from falls which happened in the bedroom; 21 per cent in the living room; 11 per cent’in the kitchen, and only 4 per cent in the bathroom. : > In preventing falls, the stairs at home should always be provided with securely fastened rails, and should always be lighted. Small rugs should not be put at the head of the stairs or on landings. If rugs tend to skid or slide on polished floors, a fruit jar rubber sewed to

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ANOTHER factor that emerged in last week’s primaries is the strength of Father Coughlin’s following. In Michigan, a particular-

A Woman's Viewpoint---Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“Q YET rid of your mother-in-law,” says Dr. inevitably come

Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic to nervous American wives. Now, excellent as this advice may be, the probabilities are that it will not be listened to with any seriousness. For the doctor gives us no inkling of how we must go about the process. Getting rid of a mother-in-law is easier said than done. The authorities dismiss them with a mere wave of the hand, but daughters-in-law can’t be quite so airy. You aren't supposed to knife a mother-in-law in the ribs or pour knockout drops in her coffee or hit her on the head with a croquet mallet, when she gets too pestiferous. You can’t even lock her in the cellar for a few days wtihout having the law on you and the neighbors gossiping. : Before she can be permanently disposed of you face the job of persuading your husband that

should be hand-holds every one in the family for use in of the tub or shower. A rubber mat of the tub or shower will prevent

reach of

getting in or out : on the bottom

ere actually have been instances when the mother-in-law has proved an asset to the ‘family.