Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1936 — Page 14

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: guite stupid enough nor smart

agab FROM INDIANA

By ERNIE PYLE

(CASTLE ROCK, S. D., Sept. 23.—It is very hard to find out exactly what is on a sheepherder's mind. I suspect that a great deal of the time, nothing is. A sheepherder sits and thinks. Or does

he? A sheepherder is in solitary. He has hours and days and even weeks with only his dog ane his horse and his thousand baa-baas for company. The sheepherder has a large abundance of what is known as spare time. Which seems to me to raise a burning question. Should a man with that much time to himself be a smart man or a stupid one? If he's smart enough, he will . have the capacity to endure him- .._ self, and pilot his thoughts about like an aviator, and be truly a great man. If he's stupid enough, devoid of imagination, cursed not with the delirium of introspection, then he will become one with the rock and the weed, moving about his shepherding duties with the blank passion of a machine, sewer. hell be all right. But if he should be neither : enough, then he smut eventually flee in terror before so much loneli-

‘mess, and rage around in his vast valley of thoughts, #ns become in time what we slangily describe as i

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Conversations Are Rare

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Table #5 say almost anything. For example, Sheepherder Allen Bovey said, right

$n ihe middie of eur conversation, and apparently |

apropos of nothing whatever: “When 1 was a little baby, my oldest brother ran

&=ay from home, and we never heard from .him

®mg=in. That was 30 years ago. He ran awaly with

Three Swedes, and we never knew what became of |

Bim" That was all there was of it.

I spent about an hour with Allen Bovey, way out

on ihe prairie. He loves his sheep, and his horse Red and his little dog Teddy, even though they don’t belong 10 him personally. He has been herding sheep for mine vears. © : He gets $45 a month, and grub. He lives on the mange. alone. The “sheep wagon” is his home, It is dike the covered wagon of frontier days. The shepesd sleeps in it, and cooks his meals. ..—— / Every evening at sunset Allen Bovey’s sheep come back to the “sheep wagon,” even if not driven, and Jie down and go-to sleep. Bovey goes to bed at sundown, = de has trained himself to be alert to approaching stops. “II a storm comes up, I have to get out, and Tagnt mow, 100,” he says. Sheep will stampede in a

Tou control a herd through the leader. Every Sock bas a born leader. Bovey's leader is a black sheep ihe only one in the whole thousand. = = n “Ernie, You'd Go Crazy!” ILEN is up at dawn, which means between 3 #nd § a. m. Up with his gun handy. Why? Secause Hs just after dawn that the coyotes come. He has lost three sheep this summer to coyotes.

He has Eilled one, but it's dangerous to shoot when

The povole is among the sheep. ; Allen Bovey reads magazines quite a bit. But he sev= his eves are going bad from so much reading.

®i= face i= Jeathery brown, and all wrinkled from

sguniing in the glaring Dakota sun. I asked him what there was about herding sheep thet anybody couldn't do, me for instance. He said, “Youd go crazy in two days just from lonesomeness.”

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ASHINGTON, Tuesday. — I read Dorothy Thompson's article, yesterday with a great deal of interest. She writes about an attempt of one part of this country to attract industry to it because it offers cheap labor. It seems to me that when any one

_. pert of this country suggests such a thing, it is dan-

gerous. That has never been a thing, as far as I know, that we have been proud of. When we could not get enorgh labor we threw our doors open to labor from other countries to open up our mines, to build our railroads and start our industries. Even then we did mot boast that this was cheap labor. It was labor £ we needed and we got it as it came. Now we have enough labor within our own borders and more than we need to meet our demands.. But &re we poing to become bidders against each other, giving as an advantage the fact that we are offering chesp labor? We have it, we have it in plenty, but we should add that with it usually goes underfed chiloren, Jow standards of living, poor education—all nines we are hot proud of.

So we are grateful to Dorothy Thompson. Many

- poopie. who might possibly pass by a statement in the

mews without understanding what it meant will read ang reflect on what she says. 3 is a lovely day today: the air is soft and summer SIE Inpers In its most benign mood. There are almars wsitors in Washington and 1 am glad for their sake that the flowers on the White House grounds Jock particulary lovely. 3 Mr. William Reeves, who has had charge of the ‘Trounds for many years, takes as much trouble ‘over #ery plant as most of us would over a whole garden. He Snows a great deal about the grounds, who planted *wery tree, what the association is with every bush, ang. I think, can practically remember every flower. Samebow in this lazy, rather Southern atmosphere

. ®om pet the feeling that there is really no reason why

=ny one should ever do anything. I am sure that if 2 stayed here long enough at this time of the year, I should be reduced to feeling that tomorrow would always be a betier time to do a thing than today. $Onperight., 1838, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Daily New Books

. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— LITTLE old cottage standing neglected in a tangle of weeds and briers, a car and a few dol32s were all that remained to Lucile Grebenc after Ber personal brush with the depression. The need

- Sor “things” luxuries, seeming necessities, fell away

before the crying demands of the body for food and

shelter, She took stock. Courage she had, and intelligence, snd her two hands eager for work. Refuge awaited her on ber own bit of Connecticut Jand. From that soil should come sustenance and beauty and a patgerm for her days. She would go home. GREEN APPLE BOUGHS (Doubleday, Doran; $2) $=lis the story of her return té the realities of labor and rest, of planting and harvesting through the

changing seasons. Miss Grebenc gained not only the:

fundamentals of living, but found also a new set of

walues and a new faith. . Ee =

N her book, RETURN TO COOLAMI, Eleanor

. 2 Dark (Macmillan; $250) tells the story of a * fwo-day motor trip through the Australian country-

gigs from Sydney to Coolami. In the glide over the : i of conversation and flashes of which reveal the lives of the car's four ocand Mrs. Drew; their daughter, Susan, husband. The journey is an eventful its close the four find new peace and awaiting them at Coolami.

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SHEEPHERDER has company so infrequently | that when he does get a chance to talk, he's |

~ Second Section

Germans Really Like Hitler, Joe Williams Discovers

(Second of a Series) BY JOE WILLIAMS OST neutral critics seem to agree Hitler is a fanatic, Goering a vietim of the war, Goebbels a neurotic These three twisted personalities dominate Germany today. In consequence, what kind of a country is it? I speak from the point of view | of the average tourist, and with | the admission that I saw Germany | at a time when it was on parade, | freshly scrubbed behind the ears and wearing its Sunday. duds. When I say Germany I refer | mainly to Berlin. If in the eyes of | the Western world men like Hitler, Goering and Goebbels are strange | persons to head a government, there are few outward evidences | that the country has suffered from | their malignant presence. Life seems to go along in much | the same way as in any other | metropolitan center. There are crowds in the department stores, long queues in front of the cinema, the beer halls’ are packed with singing roisterers, large, pleasant-faced fraus sit in the Tiergarten in their stocking feet watching their youngsters at play, pedestrians emulate Red Grange in broken field runs through traffic in Unter den Linden, slim, blond frauleins walk past and toss inviting glances over their shoulders. This might be Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. : " " "”

ul the German people are sitting on the rim of a volcano, if they are being led by degrees to another monstrous disaster, they, the masses, remain blissfully ignorant of the impending tragedy. Times may be tough but these people can remember when times were tougher—and that was before Hitler arrived to save them. Hitler has told the German people he saved them, and. they are quite willing to believe he did. The Messiah of the Nazis repeats the details of his rescue each September at the Nuremberg Congress and the grateful recipients are always properly impressed. Sincerely, too. It would be a mistake to believe the German masses are net with

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Hitler. They very definitely are. To them he is their leader in every sense the word implies. People who have lived in Germany for years tell me Hitler is as popular with the masses as the old Kaiser ever was. They also say that even in a secret ballot today he would poll 80 per cent of the votes. On the sidewalks of Berlin, in front of the theaters and the cafes you still see many pathetic results

_ of the last war, armless men, blind

men, shattered human wrecks, all beggers. Yet if Hitler gave the word tomorrow 800,000 more Germans would shoulder their guns and goose step to the front. And Hitler isn’t even a German himself, As a matter of fact the Germans—the young Germans, at least—accept the next war as a matter of inevitability. One day I was driving back from the village where the Olympic athletes were quartered. I was with a young German sports writer. We passed a string of camouflaged lorries and some soldiers. With an attempt at levity I said to him. “They'd better hurry and get these Olympics over or the war ‘will spoil the show.” . . . “It won't be as soon as that,” he smiled. “Next year, maybe, but year after next certainly. We all

* pomp and pageantry. They have

know that. We are ready. It is now a question whether Germany or Russia survives.” Ll 4 a =» HIS is typical of the German mind with respect to the future. France is no ‘longer the arch enemy.’ (Unless of course the Blum administration goes absolutely communistic.) Russia is the common foe—Russia; bolshevism and Jewry. These are all one and the same to Nazi Germany. bd To understand Hitler's success and power it is first necessary to understand some of the peculiarities of the German people. They like to be led. They are hero worshippers. They are nuts about

been weaned on swords, salutes, and symbols. The Hitler technique offers an outlet for all these emotions. Some of the things the German people do seem stupid and idiotic to foreigners. Imagine approaching a friend on the street and lifting your arm and saying, “Heil Roosevelt” before you shake his hand. Every member of the Nazi party does this. Imagine picking up a telephone, getting your number and say “Heil Roosevelt” before you even inquire into the gentleman’s state of health. Everybody does this.

Y reservation at the Furstenhof was made through a New York agency. A copy of the letter was sent to me before I sailed for Berlin. The letter closed with “Heil Hitler and best wishes to yourself.” Every business letter, social letter and love letter ends, or is supposed to end, with’ a bow to the dictator. : To you that is stupid and idiotic, isn’t it? But apparently to the Germans it is a spiritual delight. - They have (and I am again referring to the 80 percenters) begun to revere Hitler. He is taking on the proportions of a God, a celestial phenomenon which Der Fuehrer is enduring with a kindly tolerance in keeping with his no-. bility of soul. There are some who insist Hitler studiously contributes to this illusion by the severe simplicity of his manner. Which may or may not be so. The fact is, however, he is the least ostentatious of all the Nazi headliners. Even this, whether designed or not, is good showmanship. - By contrast in the national scheme of blaring bands, fluttering flags and gleaming swords his modest appearance makes him as conspicuous as if ‘he wore silver spangles and carried a golden wand. The two class hotels in:Berlin

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‘Hitler-Heiling’ a Bit Overdone; Used. in Phone Calls

he dines out it is almost invariably at the Kaisérhof. The management went along with him and his aids when the Nazi movement didn't have much more than a salute and a flag. Hitler and the gang stayed there on the cuff. Now in gratitude they patronize the place generously.

zn FJ = T is generally known that Der Fuehrer neither drinks nor smokes. He is consistent in his ad-

. herence to simplicity. He is fas-

tidious about his victuals. Bernarr MacFadden hasn't anything on him in this connection except possibly broader shoulders and biceps more cunningly sculptured. I. scored what practically amounts to a great international scoop in getting an authentic copy of his diet, and if the Pulitzer prize business is on the level there can be no question as to the 1936 winner. Upon what meat, then, does this Nazi Caesar feed that he is grown so great? None whatever. He's a vegetarian. Maybe there’s iron in spinach, at that. Der Fuehrer’s- waiter reveals that the gentleman has hot milk, rolls and butter and honey for breakfast; for luncheon, potato soup, fish, beets, custard; for dinner, bread and butter, fresh fruit, mineral water. The diet is never changed, the waiter says. This in itself is enough .to convince me Hitler is totally mad. Imagine living in Germany and spurning - bockwurst and Pilsner! . The Chancellery, which corresponds to the White House, is a plain four-story light tan building. This is the official home of the dictator. There is a small, boxlike balcony on the second floor. Across the street is a large public square. People stand there all day" long — hundreds, thousands of them—just to get a gander at Hitler. Once in a while he steps out on the balcony, smiles, salutes, goes back. The crowd is deliriously happy. Some days he doesn’t appear at all. The crowd waits until latg. .breaks up, disperses, disappointed, but understanding. They know Der Fuehrer is wrestling with some mighty problems of state and can’t be disturbed. Watching one of these gatherings I marveled at the patience, the bovine adoration of these people. . . . “So unlike Americans,” I mused. . . . And then I began to think. of Long, Townsend, Sinclair and Coughlin and walked

are the Adlon and the Bristol. Hitler seldom visits either, When

away. "me ro “i, : Nexi{—More camouflage, :

BY SCIENCE SERVICE

ONDON, Sept. 23.—A novel and daring line of attack on cancer—a sort of vaccination—is suggested by Dr. Sigismund Peller of Vienna. j Reduce cancer deaths by causing more cases of eancer, is' the paradoxical suggestion he makes'in a report to the Lancet, medical journal published here. — By deliberately inducing cancer of |the skin, and then curing it, Dr. { Peller believes the present high | mortality from cancer can be reduced... The idea is something like | vaccination, the method of giving a mild attack of cowpox to avoid a possibly fatal attack of smallpox. ! Dr. Peller's suggestion has not yet |been tried. It is presented to feli low scientists for consideration in | their plans for future campaigns {against cancer. It would not help, |of course, those already suffering { from cancer. If cancer does not | yield to present methods of attack, | some bold disease fighter may de- | cide to follow Dr. Peller’s suggestion, { rash though it seems at present. Whether or not Dr. Peller is corI rect, all the evidence at present, as | the editor of the Lancet points out, {is in favor of treating -cancer lo- | cally, at whatever place it may ap- | pear. | Peller’s theories, promising though | they may sound, will not make doctors or patients doubt the need for treatment, by surgery, X-rays or radium, at a stage when cancer is still localized. : Dr, Peller’s theory is that cancer is a general disease which may appear anywhere. The particular spot jon the body where it does appear { depends on some local irritating factor. If the irritation is applied to the stomach, for example, cancer will develop in the stomach, but other parts of the body will escape. One way to fight cancer, it follows, would be to prevent irritation which coyld start the local development of the general disease. This has been

| attempted, withoit much’ success, Thecause so little is yet known of the

various irritating factors which may start cancer. = = = ONSEQUENTLY, Dr. Peller sug- ~ gests the alternate line of attack. Assuming that cancer will develop somewhere, perhaps in an inaccessible spot where it can not be detected until too late to cure it, make it start, by suitable irritation, on a place like the skin where it can be detected at once and cured. This, in Dr. Peller's opinion, would lessen or prevent the likelihood of cancer developing on some part of the body where it can not be so successfully treated. Gs The results of such a faring procedure can not be foretold on the basis of present knowledge, the editor of the Lancet points out. Studies of animals have shown that

and breast cancer is not likely to

cancer of the skin is not likely to develop if breast cancer is present,

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It is to be hoped that Dr.

Vaccination Theory to Combat Cancer Is Suggested for Study

develop when the animal has a skin cancer. The records do not show whether this antagonism holds true for other organs of the body, as Dr. Peller assumes may be the case. The heroic method of using human guinea pigs is fortunately not needed to answer this question, since there is material available in the form of persons who have suffered from skin cancer and been cured. A careful inquiry into “their subsequent histories, the Lancet’s editor says, would show whether or not they have later been attacked by cancer in other organs more frequently or less frequently than their contemporaries in the rest of the population. E ® an » %s

Diners Are to Hear

Edison's Voice

Y|/AsaNaroN, Sept. 23 — Thomas Edison's voice will speak to dinner guests here at the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the American Patent System Nov. 23. Leading inventors, patent attorneys, industrial leaders and government officials will participate in the celebration, it was announced by Dr. Charles F. Kettering, president of the General Motors Research Corp, in accepting the invitation of the Secretary of Commerce, Daniel C. Roper, to serve as chairman of the national committee being formed to celebrate the event. Climax of the centennial day will be a dinner at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington when special novelties of interest to all inventors will: be on the program. Transmission of the original Morse telegraph message will be re-enacted between the old Baltimore & Ohio station in Baltimore tq the dinner hall /where it will be received on one of the two original Morse instruments loaned by Cornell University. The late Mr. Edison is to address dinner guests in his own words from one of his early phonograph recordings.

POLITICS AS SULLIVAN

SEES IT

BY MARK SULLIVAN ASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—President Roosevelt and Mr. Hearst are both accurate in what they say to each other. Mr. Hearst says that Mr. Roosevelt is being supported by the Communists. That is true. Communist leaders in America have said repeatedly that they regard reelection of Mr. Roosevelt and defeat of Gov. Landon as best furthering the ultimate Communist objective. In turn, President Roosevelt says, through his secretary, that he “does not want and does not welcome the vote or support of any individual or group taking orders from alien sources.” That also is true. If Mr. Roosevelt were known to “ask” or “welcome” Communist support, the knowledge would be seriously detrimental to his candidacy. This exchange of asperities will have a certain amount of force in the campaign. To the thoughtful, the incident will achieve its greatest value if it serves to call attention to the largest question before America. That question is the relation of America to the revolutionary changes going on in Europe. Specifically, the question is, can the developments in Europe go on to their end without affecting the United States? -

which America takes for granted as much as the air we breathe. To America, both communism and fascism are utterly alien. To all but a very small number of Americans, both are equally odious.

In Europe, after 19 years, the sum.

of developments is that communism is firmly rooted in Russia (though lately it has modified itself slightly), fascism is firmly rooted in Italy and Germany. In Spain, there is savage civil war between the two. In Prance, there is political and intellectual conflict between the two ideals, with the communist ideal growing. : . " zn = ERE are five out of the six large countries of Europe (together with some smaller countries) subjected to one or the

other of the new conceptions, or battlegrounds on which the two contend. Everybody agrees . that the tide of social revolution is still rising. For America, the question is, can We ride through this storm without taking on some variation of either communism or fascism and without becoming a battleground on ‘which the two contend? It is a living question and a growing cne. The European political terms,

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Wat has happened in Europe | can be put in a few sentences, | though brevity makes precise definition impossible. Beginning in Russia in 1917, a new form of society called communism was set up. At once, communism began an effort to impose itself on other countries. Wherever communism became a serious threat, another new conception of society, fascisnr, arose to resist. The outstanding characteristic of fascism, distinguishing it from communism, is that fascism permits private ownership of property. In most other respects, fascism and communism have much in common. Both make use of dictatorship as the mechanism of government. Both deny most of the liberties and individual rights which in America are

| “Left” and “Right,” have become,

during the last few years, almost as familiar as “Democrat” and “Republican,” The terms ‘“communism’! and “fascism” are becoming familar; there is hardly a political speech that does not mention them. The most explosive development in the present campaign is the charge that one of the candidates is supported by Communists. : If any one knows which outcome of this campaign is the best to avoid what has happened in Europe, that is the outcome America ought to seek. There is a school of thought which asserts that Mr. Roosevelt has the best way, that his alternate veering to left and right is a good sailor's method of weathering the world

guaranteed by the Constitution,

storm. This is probably the best

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

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all our girls to college.

fell in love during her senior

Each day her bitterness increases.

“Now this is my point. Might it not have been

QFTEN question the importance of a college education for girls,” said the father of three daughters. “I am aware that this statement puts me in the category of fossils, but I am influenced

in my opinion by personal problems. “My wife and I made many sacrifices to send The oldest worked six months after graduation and then married a man who fortunately is able to support her in comfort. The second, who had specialized year with a student in the engineering department, and they were married immediately after he finished, and are now struggling hard to make ends meet. youngest, just out of school last June, has also set her head on matrimony. She makes our lives - miserable because there is no money on either side of the family to make their marriage possible.

ing, and given

problem.

in journalis ] =, process. With

My .

follow another.

wiser to have spared my girls all their book learn-

them the price of it as a dowry?

At least I would feel more secure about their future. Most of my friends tell me I'm cracked. It may be true that their education will help them later. I can only hope so.” Thousands of American

parents face thg same

Our educational system, of course, has run too much to degrees, hours, credits and such stuff, although most of us believe that learning is a life

a certain scholastic foundation,

any young man or woman can become educated and well educated. effort, after all. : With the boys, everything is simple. It's the girls who present the baffling educate them for one profession and they usually

It's all a question of self

problem. For we

They for a career, and

prepare _ then get married, and for the latter job, their real one, most of them have no education at :

argument made for Mr. Roosevelt's course as President, and for his re-election. ” ” s HE difficulty is, the net of Mr. Roosevelt's course finds him, at the end of four years, pointed in the direction which the country wants to avoid, and which he says

he wants to avoid. When the Communist leaders say they want Mr. Roosevelt re-elected, we must assume they know what is best for their purpose. What causes the Communists to prefer Mr. Roosevelt is not, mainly, any direct steps he has taken toward communism. Communist Presidential Candidate Browder says himself that Mr. Roosevelt is “capitalist-minded.” Mr. Roosevelt's service to the social revolutionists lies mainly in his stirring up of class hatred. - Class hatred is the soil in which revolution thrives. For the moment Mr. Roosevelt's speeches are mild. But the spirit of his speeches as a whole is pas-sion-provoking. After he delivered his address to Congress last January, even his devoted former aid and present supporter, Gen. Hugh Johnson, said the address was “a rabble-rouseg . . . deliberate appeal to passion . .. the joy of every advocate of class hatred here and in Russia. ..."” ” 2 2 HAT speech, we may assume, and others similar, and the expectation that Mr. Roosevelt will make still others like it—that is probably the main reason the Communists want Mr. Roosevelt reelected. There is a school which feels that to avoid social upheaval, election of Gov. Landon is the best outcome of the campaign. This may be true if stated with a necessary qualification. If Gov. Landon should be elected, and if he should be a mere standpat conservative trying to take the country back to old conditions, he would not avoid social commotion; he would further it. The American system imperatively needs certain modifications. The expecation that Gov. Landon knows this and will bring the modifications about is the best argument for those who support him.

Best Sellers

By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance “HE following were the best sellers in 23 Scripps-Howard cities revealed. through a “Book of the Week,” pall for the week ending last Saturday. : Fiction—"“Gone With the Wind,” “Eyeless in Gaza,” “Drums Along the Mohawk,” “Big Money,” “I Am the Fox.” Nénfiction—“Man the Unknown,” “Live Alone and Like It,” “Around the World in Eleven Years” “An American Doctor's Odyssey,” “Wake Up and Five.” . The: poll will

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By ANTON SCHERRER

UT for my lingering so long in the Wome en’s Building at the State Fair, especial« ly in the department devoted to the display, of cakes, I should never have known that odor plays the important part it does in the awarding of prizes. As I remember the score cards, the smell of & blue-ribbon cake was goof for something like 2§ per cent of the whole cake. Maybe it wasn’t - that much, but whatever it was, it was = = something to think about. I bring up the subject at this time because just before ‘I ran into the cakes my attention had been called by an advertisement —of all things—to the proper appreciation of whisky. Believe it or not, it's a matter of smell, too. To listen to the advertising people, the proper way to appreciate whisky is to pour a teeney-weeney bit into a big balloon glass, warm it with both hands—it takes two hands—and then sniff it.

= = = On Smelling in Public : ~HE process stops there, as far as the advertising people are concerned, but if I know anything about the behavior of advertising people, it can't mean anything but the beginning of something else. Anyway, knowing what I now do about the proper appreciation of whisky and cake, I am prepared te state, in no uncertain terms, that we are headed for a new trend which, for all I know, may be broad enough to include the privilege of using our nose in public. It is high time. If a gourmet has the privilege of sniffing whisky, to say nothing of smelling cake in public, it ought to follow, as a matter of course, that the rest of us have a perfect right to sniff op smell anything whenever and wherever we please—

both as a matter of precaution and appreciation. nother thing that warmed the cockles of my heart last week was the urbane way the new Fourth Christian Science Church takes its place in the sube urban landscape of Irvington. It couldn't be nicer.

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Church Appears Planted : IEWED from some distance, as I first saw it, the effect of the silvery steeple soarirfg high among the trees is one of extraordinary charm. So much so that the church appears to have grown on the spot. Which is to say, it is as much a part of the character of Irvington as are the trees, birds and bees out there—granting, of course, that there are any left after the summer we've had in town. Anye way, the new church is pretty nice. I hope I've made that clear, : a —. I am quite willing to admit, of course, that T am an easy push-over for steeples, but I don’t believe that it has anything to do with my enthusiasm for the new Irvington church. My enthusiasm, this time, runs deeper. It really does. It runs deeper because I've just about made up my mind that an architect can’t do better than hitch

up with nature if he hopes to get anywhere. Harmony with the rest of nature, it strikes me, is the great and governing rule of building, as it is with anything else. It implies, of course, a quality, perhaps spiritual, perhaps epical, to be seen only in the works of those whose Peartgyhent close to the bosom of the earth. Anyhow, the new Irvington church is pretty nice. :

Mr. Scherrer |

Hoosier Yesterdays

- SEPTEMBER 23 By J. H. J.

¥ the latter part of September, 1786, George Rogers Clark with approximately 1000 men set out from the falls of the Ohio River on a punitive expedition against the Indians. The men were dissatisfied from the first, both with the expedition and Clark. They were militiamen, mostly drafted from farms, where they believed they would rather remain. ; Their objection to Clark, although it probably was based on a fundamental dislike of the whole idea, centered around his drinking. Now it is a known fact that Clark drank, and one of his favorite tipples was taffia, a spirit made in the West Indias from distilled sugar cane juice. 5 When the men had marched from Clarksburg to Vincennes and from Vincennes toward the Vere million River without finding any Indians at home

in the deserted villages, they lost all stomach for the

trip and three days out of Vincenn oh ang es 200 of them

Clark returned to Vincennes with the remainder,

closing a chapter in his career perhaps best forgot by all concerned. : per taps “a

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN 7 Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal WEEN blood pours from a wound in the skin, from the nose, or from any of the other orifices of the body, people are likely to become unnecessarily frightened. The first advice to be given to any one who wants to help under such circumstances is to keep cool. A great many hemorrhages may be prevented by taking certain precautions. Broken glass and razor blades should be put into a box and not thrown inte wastebaskets. Sharp axes and saws, butcher knives; hatchets, sharp chisels, and screwdrivers should be kept where children can not get at them. Tools with sharp edges should be used only by those who know how to handle theni : When using a knife,

cut away from the body. Keep butcher knives and other sharp utensils in a special drawer, with all the handles pointed in one direction. If a sharp can opener is used, a jagged edge will not be left on a can. Careful housewives wear gloves when tin cans, careful in opening safe pins, or to receive a puncture Tg arty you ale ais Meat grinders, cream

hair, or other parts of the body with resultant serious , : es ;

The bleeding from ordinary wounds can be cone trolled by pressure with a piece of sterile gauze such as should be available in every family medicine chest, In case of very severe a tourniquet may be applied on the arm or leg just above the place of bleeding. : | : A suitable one may be made by merely tying a loop in a towel or handkerchief, putting this loop about the arm or leg, and then tightening it ently with a rod of any kind.

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