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By ERNIE PYLE

INECLIFFE, Colo., Oct. 3.—One of the main things about Denver is Opportunity School. You can ask almost anybody there, and he will tell you that. Opportunity School is simply this: A big

- business right downtown, where grownup

people go in a constant stream from 8 in the morning till 9:30 at night, to try to learn something that will better their stations in life.

The school is a part of the city school system. Students don’t have to pay anything. They come when they can. They are all eager to learn. They range from 17 to 70. Opportunity School was started in 1916. Within two months, it had 2000 students. Today it has 10,000, and 125 teachers, and needs more. They teach more than 40 trades, from beauty parloring to welding, plus reading and writing for grownups. : Way up here in Coal Creek Canyon, in the mountains 40 mjles

west of Denver, sits a neat three- |

room cabin. In this cabin lives Miss Emily Griffith. She is the mother, the soul, the spirit, the everything of Opportunity School.

“Miss Griffith has been a school teacher in Denver all’ her life.

she was teaching in a poor section in 1916, that made

* her think of such a thing as Ovportunity School. She

talked the city school superintendent into letting her try it. : ; The whole thing was in the spirit. Opportunity School is practical education mixed with understand-

ing. It is, in reality, the soul of Emily Griffith. Her heart is soft for adversity.

No Private Office

Yu could use’ up pages telling how Emily Griffith started and ran Opportunity School. Maybe I can give you a clue in just one sentence. She never bowed to a private office. Her desk always stood in the hall, where everybody passed. More than 100,000 students have gone through her hands since 1918. Three years ago Emily Griffith bogged down under 17 years of helping other people. She got so other people's miseries were too much for her. She couldn't bear to look at sadness, or hear of trouble. She had to resign. She came up to this cottage, which she had been building. When she got here, she couldn't sit up longer than half an hour at a

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: There are a quarter | ‘million people, I expect, who know her and love her. :

It was what she saw around her when

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1936

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same in all fields of trade.

has increased

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Today she is living solely on the miserable retire- |

ment pay of the Denver schools. Fifty dollars a month. She and her sister Florence live on $50 a month—a woman who is recognized even by other educators as being one of the greatest in America. ” z

OES she squawk? You know very well she doesn’t. She says it's fun just figuring out how to make $50 last a month. : A few days after she came here to the cabin, a boy working on'the section gang saw her. The next day he and six -other boys came around with a big box of candy. They were all her former students. Every time she goes down to the village postoffice. there are about 40 letters from her boys and girls. She made speaking trips to Portland, Ore., and Portland, Me. (before her breakdown), and in each

place her hotel room was banked high with flowers

from her “children” who had migrated to those cities. : The same thing happens wherever she goes. On Sundays her cabin is full of ex-students from Den-

ver. Emily Griffith may be poor, but she’s rich, too.

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

A LBANY, N. Y, Friday—All day yesterday the

sessions of the New York state branch of the National Youth Administration went on in Albany. I listened for two days and became very much more intelligent than I was before on the subject of vocational guidance, apprenticeship, and, finally, the rela tionship of youth to the economic and social situation as a whole. Miss Flora Rose, director of the New York State College of Home Economics at Cornell University, said one thing which I will never forget. From her point of view, the two most important things for youth are, economic security--a feeling that they may depend at least on a preparation for life—secondly, emotional security—which, she explains, means that all youth has to feel itself cherished. : I think this particular point is borne in on you most strongly when you visit orphanages and reform schools. I have always had the feeling when I have been to these institutions that you could always sense the desire to belong to some one in the eyes of the children. They want to be necessary to some family or individual, in other words, to be a part of the social order. Such a conference as this, with its opportunities to talk with different people, leaves you stimulated with new thoughts. When I woke this morning to a beautiful day, I felt like saying: “I have spent two good days.” May they bear fruit in thought and action during the coming months. ~~ The weather is so glorious that I decided to have one more day in the open. Mrs. Scheider came up in my car to meet me, and we have cooked our lunch out of doors and are having a free day. I was not able to listen to the President’s speech last night because I was at a meeting of the conference. Early this morning while I was eating breakfast, the maid in the hotel, who has been most attentive, came in and reported to me on what he had said and how it sounded over the radio. I though! she was very kind and considerate, because she knew I would like to know her impressions. I have been reading Carl Van Doren’s “Three I delighted in his appreciation of Elinor Wiley and I was particularly impressed with the last

part of the book. (Copyright, -1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Daily New Books

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

YFournTmENTH century Italy was still influenced by the dissolute court of Queen Joanna: Boccaccio was completing “The Decameron”; and the plague of

the Black Death was being speedily forgotten. But

out of this period of corruption, the influence of the monastery was growing and attracting many to a new and better life. J This is the background for Lucille Papin Borden's new novel, WHITE HAWTHORN (Macmillan: $2.50). It is the adventurous story of Florenza, a child of the streets. By happy circumstance she is taken from her father’s notorious tavern in Florence and placed

_ with the Abbess Bergitta in Rome until she grows to

womanhood. idealistic, this-is.a gay and romantic story

- bf historical interest.

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T= latest story by R. A. Walling is THE CORPSE WITH THE DIRTY FACE (Morrow; $2). Mr.

; Walling’s facile pen drips several mysteries a year,

his “Corpse in the Green Pajamas” being one of the books that Alexander Woollcott “went quietly mad” about last season. The present corpse is one Benjamin Broadall,

_ English banker who was found in his office amidst

t confusion of torn and scattered papers and an his face was dirty was due to , but. this was enhanced by irk

from & heavy ink well which had been hurled as a

_ defensive or offensive weapon. é

Mr. Tolefree, that almost painfully efficient detec-

tive, was interested in Mary Broadall, the lovely

daughter of the corpse; in Joan Pollerby, the worshinful secretary of same; in Dick a fa-

the vorite nephew, and in several of whom

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The rise in prices of all the items included in the cost of living budget since 1933 has been 20 per cent. In that same time, however, the cost of food

40 per cent. Since the beginning

of 1935 the cost of foods has increased 10 per Here 1 am speaking of retail costs, for it is these which affect the consumer. Clothing has not risen as much as food. It

has gone up about 19 per cent since 1933. But

since January,

1935, the cost of clothing has ac-

tually decreased. Rents—which is the cost of housing—have , risen about 20 per cent since 1933 and since the neginning of 1935 have advanced about 12 per

cent.

Let’s apply this to our dollars.

Suppose you

say your dollar was worth a dollar in 1933; then

it is worth 7! Mr. Flynn averages for the whole country.

been different in different places. What will happen to clothing

cents now when you buy food, 81

cents when’ vou buy clothing, and 80 cents when you pay rent. Of course the increase in prices has

These figures given here are

costs I do not undertake to fore-

cast. But certainly food and rent costs are going to rise still further.

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MONG food prices, meats have been particularly frisky in their

upward leaps.

Here is an actual set, of prices on identical cuts of

meats in the same store—a store catering to low-price customers—at

four different periods since 1933:

. June, 1933 37 25

Roast beef ............... “esau Sirloin steak Porterhouse steak Leg of lamb Loin of pork Smoked ham

Sept., -1936 133 42 48 32 35 34

Oct., 1934 29

June, 1934 29 39 43 29

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25 25 21

It will be seen that while some articles have gone up 20 to 40 per cent, the price of meats has riser in .some cases from 80 to 100 per cent

and over.

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ETTING actual comparative retail prices on articles of clothing is difficult. One must be sure the prices quoted today are on articles precisely the same in quantity and quality as on the other dates selected. As an example, I asked Paul Hollister, vice president of R. H. Macy & Co. of New York, to make up for me comparative prices

on a selected list of articles over a period of four years.

Before June, 1933

Sheets 81x103 ..... dame $ 84

Terry towels ............. arisunis Pinafores, women’s .

Wool blankets ........... veiniivs i 54

Shorts, men’s broadcloth ...... Shoes, men’s €amel’s hair coats, women’s..... Pajamas, boy’s broadcloth ........ Suits, men’s Shirts, men’s broadcloth ... . Vests, women’s glove silk. ... Middies, girls’ Stockings, girls’ silk

Oct. 16; 1934 $1.14 .39 37 5.59 AT 5.49 19.94 1.19 37.50 94 1.54 1.29 39

June 13, Sept. 10 1935 1936 $1.12 $1.21 37 44 37 37 4.98 5.98 39 39 4.98 5.49 18.74 18.74 1.39 1.41 36.50 37.50 94 94 1.39 1.39 - 94 94 89 94

Eyes May Be Affected by :

Arthritis

BY SCIENCE SERVICE EW YORK, Oct. 3.—Possibility of arthritis, the rheumatism of a generation ago, affecting the eyes appears in an unusual case re-

ported by Dr.. Frederick A. Kiehle of Portland, Ore. at the meeting here of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology.

Dr. Kiehle’s patient was a 60-year-old woman who had been bedridden for nine years with deforming arthritis. Both this patient's eyes showed a softening and thinning of the sclera. This is the tough coat of the eye-ball which helps to keep it in its rounded shape. Dr. Kiehle feels there is some relation between the eye condition and the arthritis.’ He cited reports of similar cases and urged physicians to investigate the possibility further. Meningitis may affect the eyes by partially paralyzing the eye muscles or by causing defects in vision as a result of scars left by severe inflanmation at the base of the brain. Cases in which this had occurred were reported by Dr. Parker Heath of Detroit. Dr. Heath examined the eyes in two hundred persons who had suffered from meningitis in an epidemic three years previously. ” = 2 QO TUDIES of monkeys showed thal when these animals recovered from meningitis they did not suffer paralysis of the eye muscles, but their eye nerves at the base of the brain were covered with a thick discharge. Lite A case of a rare disease of the cornea of the eye which interferes with vision was reported by Dr. Benjamin Rones of Washington, 1D. C. The cornea is a structufe whicg fits over the iris of the eye like a watch crystal, and which must be transparent or the eye has no vigion. In the case Dr. Rones reported, small opaque spots or nodules appeared on the cornea, interfering with its transparency. Sometimes, instead ‘of occurring as nodules, these spots streak across the cornea in the form of a lattice. The cause of the condition is unknown and nothing can be done (0 remedy it. The condition is usually rot progressive and the amount of vision the patient has depends on where the nodules or lattice appear on the cornea. Dr. Rones believes the condition often runs in families and that it is due to a general disturbance of y proce esses rather than to any l con= dition within the eye. ss = =

Blood Described as Good Tonic YORK, Oct. 3—Human WY blood, accurately typed and carefully injected into the veins by competent surgeons, is the best possible tonic for a number of conitions, Dr. John J. Shea of Meme phis told mémbers of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and ogy meeting ‘here.

Among the conditions for which he advised it are: Before operation on weakened patients; loss of blood by accident or by slow seeping

or Meningitis

hemophilia, the hereditary bleeders’ disease, and purpura hemorrhagica. Blood transfusion. is also valuable, he said, for giving a temporary supply of missing white blood cells in agranulocytic angina.

2 ” ” HE danger of delay in diagnosing and treating cases of prolonged hoarseness. was emphasized by Dr. Hayes E. Martin of New York City. If such cases prove to be cancer of the larynx or voicebox, they may be treated by surgery alone, surgery with radium or deep

‘X-ray treatment, or radiation alone.

All three methods are used at Memorial Hospital, Dr. Martin said. Choice of treatment depends on the variety of cancer and its susceptibility to irradiation, as determined by microscopic examination of a small piece of the growth. Location of the cancer, the stage of its development and any spread from the voicebox to glands and other outer tissues of the neck also determine the choice of treatment. =

Finding of New Star Is Reported

OPENHAGEN, Oct. 3.—A new star or nova has burst forth in the constellation of Aquila, the Eagle, the International Astronomical Union’s central bureau at the University of Copenhagen has been informed by Nils Tamm at the Kvistaberg Private Observatory in Bro, Sweden. - : : The new Nova Aquilae is now eighth magnitude and not visible to the naked eye. The brightening of this star takes on added interest because the most fan#dus nova of this century, Nova Aquilae of 1918, was in the same constellation. : The nova is high in the southwestern evening heavens, not far from Altair, seventh brightest star seen from this part of the earth. The brightening of a star signals a gigantic outburst which if it had occurred to the sun would have im-

‘mediately wiped out the earth and

other planets. One or more expanding shells of gas rush away from a nova at great speeds. Nova Lacertae rose in June of this year to be as bright as the Pole star, and Nova Herculis, discovered in December, 1934, was even brighter.

‘Meat Leads 20 Per Cent Skyrocketing of Prices Since 1933

BY JOEN T. FLYNN NEA Service, Inc.)

NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—The rise in prices which has been irritating the housewife has not, of course, been the

when you buy food ...”

“Suppose you say your dollar was worth a dollar in 1933; then it is worth 71 cents now

It is worthwhile noting that in 1934 as result of the NRA prices wént up; that in 1935 they tended to decline again. While food prices in different places are different the rate of increase is not so equal throughout the country. ; #2 2 = UT rent prices have been marked by great differences. For instance in New Haven, New

York, New Orleans, St. Joseph, - Mo., Baltimore, Cincinnati and Forth Worth, Tex. (to take places widely scattered) rents have not increased at all. In some places as for instance, in Buffalo, they actually have declined. In most places the rises have been moderate. But in still other places they have been heavy—with increases of 100 per cent in some cases. The price of coal is very little

different from what it was® in

1933 and is lower than in 1934, while the prices of gas and elec~ tricity have gone down about 6 per cent as a whole. But prices, after all, are relative. We have seen what has happened to the size of our dollar. But what has happened to the number of dollars we are getting? And what is playing all these tricks with our money?

Next—Wages.

POLITICS AS CLAPPER

SEES IT

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

HOMAS, W. Va.,, Oct. 3.—You can best see how Mr. Roosevelt campaigns through a small incident which occurred at Syracuse the other night, after he had repudiated Communist support. Perhaps you read about it in the news dispatches. President Roosevelt and Gov. Lehman were riding

| back from the armory. to the rail~

road station in an open automobile. As they arrived at the station, the driveway was blocked by a uniformed men’s chorus of the American Legion, which sang several songs. The last one was the President’s favorite, “Home on: the Range.” The White House warbler, Secretary McIntyre, joined in, but the rendition would have been superb without Mac’s assistance. “That’s fine,” said the President. “I think T’ll have some pictures taken.” So he and Gov. Lehman got out of the car and took their stance in the front line of the chorus. Legion hats were placed on their heads. Cameras lined up and the chorus began singing the old wartime favorites, “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag.” Mr. Roosevelt sang with them, and at the end, he threw his head over close to the singer next to him and twisted his mouth down in a barbershop baritone finish. ;

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TRIVIAL inciden¥ to you and A me because it was all done so simply and naturally just as you might act at the end of a good party. Yet imagine Hoover doing it,

think Gov. Landon sings either; at least his Republican friends insist that he is not a radio crooner. Mr. Roosevelt had reason to be tired. He might have been bored at being delayed in reaching his train where rest and isolation awaited. There also was his dignity to consider. Presidents just don't sing in public. He might have politely thanked the Legion chorus for its efforts apd gone on. You say it was good politics for him to do what he did. It was. But the reasen he is a good politician is that such things come naturally and instinctively to him. You say a duck swims well, but that is because swimming comes naturally to a duck. It doesn’t have to take lessons. ; The distinguishing thing about Mr. Roosevelt as a politician is his acute sixth sense. He needs less prompting, less coaching, less bunching by idea men than the average candidate. His best speeches are not the ones prepared for him but the ones he writes himself, when ‘he dispenses with tiresome facts and swings out gayly with satirical refences to angry old gentlemen who have .lost their silk hats. He

liked that touch in his Syracuse s

or Coolidge, or Wilson. And I don’t|

A of this suggests why Mr. Roosevelt functions on the campaign trail with such smooth efficiency, with the natural athlete's economy of effort, with the skilled craftsman’s joy in his work. Mr. Roosevelt's whole week has been made merry by a story which he retells to his. visitors. A Republican candidate, being driven through crowds in a certain city, heard shouts for Roosevelt. Showing some annoyance, a lady politician riding in his‘&titemobile ht to reassure him, “Don’t pay any attention to them,” she said, “they are only working people.” : Mr. Roosevelt the candidate passes by no opportunity. He lays a cornerstone of a new medical unit at Syracuse University and remarks pointedly: “I have laid many cornerstones and as far as I know, none of the buildings have tumbled down yet.” This is a PWA project, one of many for educational purposes, so in a few words, Roosevelt seizes this opportunity to say that such expenditure of Federal money has permitted educational facilities to expand during the depression without loading heavier tax burdens on local communities.

15s everything is grist for Mr. Roosevelt’s mill. He snatches ideas for his speeches out of casual conversations, out of everything he sees, out of the removal of railroad tracks from the main street of Syracuse, out of what 10,000 years of wear and tear will do to the face of Jefferson carved on the side of Mount Rushmore, of the rain-

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“finds

tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones,” and vote fodder in everything. Republicans may charge, as Col. Knox did the other night, that Mr. Roosevelt is a waster at Washington. But when the President puts on his battered dusty colored campaign hat, when he hooks up the loud speakers; to the rear of the presidential train, when he goes off of the government official expense account and on the Democratic national committee account, all boondoggling ceases. Mr. Roosevelt the politician wastes nothing, not even

—unlike the Chicago packers—the squeal. ; 1

BY WEBB MILLER (Copyright, 1936, by United Press) OLEDO,; Oct. 3.—8till dazed after 10 weeks in semi-dark-ness, most of the survivors of the Alcazar still wanderéd around the tortuous cellar passages today unable to face the sunlight above, their hair still matted, uniforms begrimed and yellow faces etched with lines of strain. i Those who emerge burst into tears as they meet friends whom they had not seen since the civil war started. : In the streets, deeply covered with powdery dust from explosions, gangs are cleaning up human and animal debris, carting away bodies of cats, rats, horses, mules and gathering into piles red-stained uniforms and bullet-punctured caps. Hard-boiled foreign legionnaires and Moors throng the sidewalks while roaring trucks with supplies raise dust clouds. Smoke still curls from burning buildings, and the stench of bodies in the piles of refuse is noticeable. Te In the Santa Cruz Museum, partly in ruins, few of the old masters have esca bullet holes or the slashes of bayonets or knives. Galleries are a confused mass of Ro‘man statues pock-marked with bullets and paintings with 50 to 100 bullet marks. Several paintings of Christ on the cross have been

siash ed by a knife. ; ;

“A Woman's Viewpoint---Mrs, Walter Ferguson

VWV/EEN you are a patient in a hospital, you . have

time for cogitation.

I find, thoughts are apt to scurry back to the bank account, because with every passing hour it

dwindles.

Yet, generally,

ings are barely sufficient to keep them alive in health, It is true that only the rich can enjoy hospital care. The rest of us ju: On this question I recommend for your reading

8 booklet, “Rich Man, Poor Man,” published by ~ \ Harper & Bros, which costs only 15 cents. It

authentic,

facts about the number

of our citizens who lack sufficient medical and dental care. What a pity it seems! On the one

Survivors of Grim Alcazar Still Unable to Face Sunlight

Gen. Jose Varela, who commanded the attack on Toledo, told me that among the art objects missing from the cathedral was the priceless cloak of the Virgin of Cuveres, with its thousands of pearls and diamonds. From one ornamental masterpiece tl ~ loyalists, he alleged, removed a cross weighing four pounds, made of the first gold Columbus brought from America. He said also that Toledo’s most famous painting, the burial of tne Count of Orgaz by El Greco, was missing along with most other GreCOS. x . wi . ” 2 Spanish President Sure of Victory By United Press ADRID, Oct. 3. —The government will win the civil war and will give Spain not Socialism or Commiunism, but real political liberty, President Manuel Azanha said here in a forceful interview. He asserted that if the Nationalist insurgents had not received aid from foreign governments the war would have been over long ago. The President mentioned only a declaration that Italy had helped the rebels. Buf the government already had disclosed its protests to Ger-

Italy, against their alleged direct ‘aid to the insurgents. * Azana paced the floor of his magnificent office in the national pal-

their depredations.—By J. H. T.

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Our Town

FHRAIM ENSAW, a boy brought here “~ by Dr. Samuel G. Mitchell in 1820, was the first Negro in Indianapolis. The second to arrive was a woman, Chaney Lively, who kept house for Alexander Ralston, the bachelor surveyor credited with thinking up the ingenious plan of Indianapolis. Mr. Ralston built a brick house on W. Maryland-st, a half-square west of Capitol-av and there lived

until his death in 1827. “Aunt } Chaney,” as she was called, lived at least 20 years longer, and after Mr. Ralston’s death had her home at the northwest corner of Meridian and Maryland-sts. The third Negro to arrive was David Mallory, a barber—our first barber, by the way—who planted his shop opposite George Smith's orchard, which stretched along what is now known as W. Georgiast. A year later (1822), Mr. Smith set up a printing press opposite Mr. Mallory’s barber shop and started publishing the first Indianapolis newspaper. Everybody thought. Mr, Smith’s choice of location just about the slickest way of keeping down the overhead of a newspaper ever heard of. David Mallory prospered until, one day, an itine erant preacher got into his chair. Dave gave him the whole works, then asked him whether he preferred witch hazel or bay rum. The preacher rose in mighty wrath, whipped out a gun and shot Barber Mallory through the heart. Squire John Maxwell, when apprised of this incident, observed that “barbers talk 00 much.” ”

Mr. Scherrer

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Negroes Start Church WH such a beginning, Indianapolis had 58

Negroes in 1827; 73 in 1835. It was enough to

start a church, because that’s exactly what happened the next year. The meetings were held in private homes uatil 1841 when a little frame building, called Bethel Church, was erected on the north side of Georgia-st—near the Canal. There wasn't a sign of a house or a fence between it and the river at the time, In 1857, when the first Episcopal Church on the Circle was removed to make.way for the present

Christ Church, it was bought by the Bethel Church and brought, stick by stick, to the Georgia-st site. It was destroyed by fire five years later. Almost immedi« ately, another wooden church was built to replace it, It was occupied until after the Civil War. Up to this time Bethel Church was the only Negro church in Indianapolis. ” ”

Second Church Built

HE second Negro church, the Allen Mission in Broadway, was built in 1866; the third, Simpson Chapel, in 1875. Today, Indianapolis has 20 such churches and 44,000 Negroes. The Negro churches around here were mighty fortunate in their leaders, For example, the Rev. Paul Quinn of Baltimore, who preached at the first church for a number of years after its completion. He was a man of singular gifts

and as highly esteemed as any of his white colleagues, hs

Later on, he was made a bishop of the Colored Meth= odist Church. And the Rev. W. R. Revels, brother of the U. 8.

Senator from Mississippi, who was pastor of Bethel _

Chirch from 1861 to 1865. : - Which reminds me—although it is a little off the -

record—that it was a Negro who was responsible for

changing the name of Mississippi to Senate-av. His name was John Puryear and he represented the old Fourth Ward in the City Council for six years (circa 1890). Mr. Puryear said he “hated the name of Mississippi.” : :

Hoosier Yesterdays

OCTOBER 3 -JR'ARLY in October, 1790, Gen. Josiah Harmar se out from Fort Steuben (now Steubenville, 0.) on an expedition against Miami Indian villages in In diana. : ‘Harmar had an army of about 1450 regulars and militia, the militia poorly equipped. He reached

Kekionga, now Fort Wayne, but found it deserted by :

the Indians. However, he discovered some 20,000 bushels of corn which, with other property, he destroyed. The militia proved unamenable to discipline. Exe peditions Harmar sent out to find and fight Indians were ambushed and slain. Harmar destroyed another village at Chillicothe on his way back. : { The famous Little Turtle Jed the Indian bands which harassed Harmar’s forces. Jealousy among offie | cers under him was a contributing reason for Harmar’s defeat and retreat. He had succeeded in accomplish ing nothing but elating the Indians and increasing

Watch Your Health

BY DE. MORRIS FISHBEIN % Fditor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal

FREQUENTLY small children will push beans, pieces of chalk, buttons, pencils, erasers or other mae terials into their noses. Sometimes they will pus small toys, coins and similar objects into their mouths and inadvertently swallow or inhale these objects. Occasionally, too, a child will shove some foreign materials into its ears. Usually the mother Becomes greatly disturbed and, in some instances, with plenty of reason. : 3 A foreign substance in the nose is not immediately serious. More harm may be done by attempting to dislodge the foreign substance with improper instrie ments than by letting it alone until competent ade vice can be had. > If blowing the nose in the ordinary manner will

not rid it of the foreign body, sneezing may cause

it to be forcibly ejected. Sneezing, of course, is ine duced quickly by the use of snuff, tobacco or some similar #rritating powder. ; = If a child swallows a sharp pointed object, such as a piece of glass or a pin, first consideration should be given to the danger involved. Small objects will usually pass through the stomach and intestines if the child will eat something like mashed potatoes or some bread, thoroughly chewed, Such a mass will aid passage of the foreign substance down the gullet into the stomach. ; ~ It is best then to have prompt medical advice. By