Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1936 — Page 13

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' - quake that would entirely wipe Utah

afford new glasses.

By ERNIE PYLE

C1800, Utah, Oct. 6.—As we drove across the state line from Colorado into Utah, 1 abruptly abandoned my natural dignified reserve, let out a blood-curdling yell, gave the steering wheel a couple of jerks, and wound

_ it all up with a wild cowboy “yippee.”

Such was the volume and tone of my conduct that the rattlesnakes took to their holes for 20 miles around, and the girl who rides with me cast one

frightened glance in my direction, and then slumped away in a dead aint.

The reason for this unparalleled behavior on my part was that I had just crossed my last state line. I have now been in every state in the Union. Forty-eight states. To confess the truth, I have been wondering for several weeks now just what my feelings would be when I crossed this final frontier. © So I was watching myself very closely as we hummed along at 50 miles an hour and kept looking 3 for the Utah boundary matker along the highway. Finally we saw it in the distance, a fine stone monument. The goal, drawing nearer and nearer. Utah, the last state. : And it .was then I suddenly realized I wasn't having any feelings about it at all. And that's when I decided yell. It was purely artificial. It was merely a manufactured sound to cover up my own emptiness of emotion. ’

But it had a strange effect. For, in addition to

Trightening Poor G—— nigh unto death, it also gave

me quite a’ start and did finally break open a spring of genuine feeling about conquering the last state barrier. ' So much so, in fact, that after driving a co of miles into Utah, I turned around and Et ope to the state line, and took a picture of the monument, and fooled around for 15 minutes, walking back and forth across the line, and I really did then have a sensation "of accomplishment and, if you'll pardon

: me, superiority,

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Gloated Considerably

Ae 1 might add, I did considerable gloating over the girl who rides with me, because she is just a Siome-body &hd has only been in 45 states. : or several years now, I have had only four states to go—Arkansas, Nebraska, Wyoming and Utah. - Ar-

. kansas fell under my wheels last spring.

It looked for awhile as though I might get Nebraska

in a “pocket,” and not be able to ’ get back to it for years. But I slyly worked my itinerary around so that I managed to cut a 150-mile slice of Nebraska for myself the other day, and about the same portion of

“Wyoming. That left only Utah.

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Couldn’t Sleep

ANP then I began to be assailed by weird forebodings. Utah—so near and yet so far. Got so I couldn't sleep. Had strange day dreams about dying or getting fired, or wrecking the car in the mountains, Even went to the extremity of visioning a great earth-

off before I could get to it. the map

I have no doubt that some day Utah, feeli ‘ ng itself 50 greatly honored, will erect a monument the °

desert, commemorating the exact spot of m achievement. They will, of course, if Ts hey star to the line, have to put it right in the middle of the highway. But I believe people won't mind driving around, when they learn its significance.

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

N= YORK, Monday—Miss Laura Delano came : own to see us last evening and i of our red setters, whom : brought Jill, one kennels for g time. win some prizes. : It was quite interesting to see how reluctant the dog was to leave. She ran all over the house looking for the children and my daughter and son-in-law, smelled at their clothes and seemed quite unhappy

she has taken back to her She is showing her and hopes to

not to find them. They had all gone to New York

SO as to be at school and at work this morning. At last Jillifound her brother Jack, and they licked each other all over and seemed so happy to be together again. I really felt that I had to console Jack when Jill was whisked away in Miss Delano’s car and he was left with no one to play with. I wonder if dogs’ memories are long enough for them to realize that every five days their own people come back to them and that the intermediate days have to be lived through? I hope so, otherwise the separation must seem final each time! Mrs. Scheider, Miss Cook and I left the country

early this morning for New York. I have been dash- : ing around doing a number of personal errands and

seeing a few friends. A very interesting letter came to me the other day from an -old friend of my aunt, Mrs. Douglas Robinson. She told me of a charity which she has carried on through these years of depression and made an appeal which I am going to pass along to my readers. If she were not an old friend, I should not feel justifled in doing it. en : It seems that many people have been unable to pay for.lenses and are going without eyeglasses which might make it possible for them to read or sew or engage in certain occupations. They simply can not If all of us who have old glasses stuck’ away somewhere would find them and send them to Mrs. "Arthur Terry, Short Hills, N. J., they could be fitted to many people that she can contact. It would mean renewed activity, comfort and happiness for many of them. : I pass this along to you because I think there must be people who find themselves in the same situation I am in. I have a drawer full of glasses whicn the children have worn at various times. As their eyes have changed, or they outgrow them, they have been put away with the idea we always have, that some time the things we can not use today may be

useful again. > (Copyright, 1936, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Daily New Books

HE tale of the ill-fated ship “Bounty” and her mutinous crew, recently revived in the romantic trilogy, “Mutiny on the Bounty,” “Men Against the Sea,” and “Pitcairn’s Island” by those youthful adventurers Nordhoff and Hall, has become a classic ameng stories of the sea. ae THE HERITAGE OF THE BOUNTY, by H. L. Shapiro of the American Museum of Natural History, (Simon & Schuster;' $3) now brings to the “Bounty’s” many followers first-hand information as to the ultimate fate of Fletcher Christian and his band of mutineers and-actual facts as to the present status of their descendants. Imbued with a lively personal as well as scientific interest in the “hybrid Anglé-Poly-nesian children of the ‘Bounty,’ ” the author proved to be a particularly keen and sympathetic observer and has managed to impart the flavor of his enthusiasm

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Second Section

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1936

THE MODEL GIRLS OF AMERICA

(First of Two Articles)

BY JOHN ROBERT POWERS (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc.)

NEW YORK, Oct. 6.— Smiling from their thousands of vantage points, America’s Model

Girls create an impression that here is the ultimate in desirable loveliness. Exquisite features are a stage on which their

Anita Counihan,6 Might not be | : quick to pick |

out these girls as among the most | popular models if you were to encounter them on the street. Smartly turned out and attractive, they nevertheless might not strike you as being more glamorous or beautiful than a dozen other girls within range of vision. But rest assured they have that certain something which makes , | them in demand to pose for advertisements, billboards, magazine covers and window displays. And it is still less likely that you would have picked them out as potential professional beauties when they first walked ‘into my

office and asked to be registered |-

for modeling positions. Some of them looked quite | plain, and to the uninitiated unpromising. But they' had the | assets that every successful pho- | tographic model must have— | smooth skin, sparkling eyes, fluid lips and tongue, well balanced, regular features, regardless of size, a good smile, and most important of all, the ability 4o retain a certain expression for several minutes.

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- ionable finishing schools in the

| on a ly ‘develops a good income.

Miriam Tilden . . . she cashes in on vivacity.

| East. She's as quiet as a mouse

on the job and frightened to death of interviewers. I like to see applicants who

| wear simple clothes, a minimum | of makeup and who look like

wholesome people—not like wa. models. Sod I look for smartness and poise,

| neatness from head fo foot, hair {| which frames the face and sets

off the features, a mouth that doesn’t stay in hard, firm lines during the interview, a good complexion and definite indications of flexibility. Anyone over size 16 won’t do. Size 14 is the average. ; Once a girl has been launched modeling career, she quickThe average. model earns between $3000 and $4000 a year. To do that she may work only a total of a few months. Those at the © top of: popularity are in.a position

Experimenis Make Improved Pneumonia Treatment Possible

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BY SCIENGE SERVICE

EW YORK, Oct. 6.—Improved treatment of Type III pneumonia is now possible as a result of experiments made in China and reported in the current issue of the journal, Science, published here. The -antibody which helps fight pneumonia germs has been isolated in immunologically pure form, Drs. Bacon F. Chow and Hsien Wu of Peiping Union Medical College réport. The precipitate of antibody which they obtained is much more effective in fighting pneumonia germs than the anti-pneumonia serums now in use, it appears from their report. This is of particular importance in connection with Type III pneumonia, the serum for which has a very low antibody content. While this is the practical significance of the isolation of this antibody, the work is also significant because it gives scientists a much better means of studying the mechanism of antibody action in fighting disease. : ss 8 = HE much mooted question of the nature of antibodies is also | settled by this research, in the] opinion of Drs. Chow and Wu. They | report that their findings “leave little doubt that the antibody itself | is a protein.” This means it belongs | chemically in a class with meat and | eggs, rather than with the fats or the sugdr and starch group. Scien- | tists have not been sure whether | disease-fighting antibodies were themselves protein in nature or whether they were something also carried by protein substances. “On the practical side, the preparation of pure antibody places in the hands of clinicians therapeutic agents where serum therapy was not practical before; e. g., in Type III pneumonia, the antiserum for which has a low antibody content,” the scientists state. % Type III is one of the 32 or gore types of pneumonia which are classified according to the particu lar pneumonia germ ‘causing the disease. Success in treating the disease .depends on determiriing early in the illness the type of germ responsible and giving the corre pneumonia

Types I and It A germs caused over hals

‘nieasurements are impressive:

negie Institution of .. Washington who was guided to it by Clarence K. Eennett of this city. Dr. Glock took several samples cf its wood with a core-cutting porer, and carefully counted the annual rings. He figures a conservative age for ‘the tree at 3000 years. This compares closely with the greatest age known for. .a Big Tree, 3250 years. : The Bennett Juniper grows in a windswept place at an elevation of about 8500 feet. The combination of exposure and the natural slow rate of growth of junipers has kept it from attaining anything near the size of the Big Trees. If is only about 80 feet high, but its trunk 21 feet 6 inches at the ground, with an average diameter of 14 feet 2 inches f've feet above the ground. The slowness of its growth shows up strikingly in Dr. Glock’s borer cores. During the past 700 years the tree has added only two feet So its diameter. : 8 = : Living Organisms Found in Dead Sea TERUSALEM, Sept. 29.—Living organisms have been found in Dead Sea water, which has always been supposed to be utterly devoid of life of any kind because of its exceedingly ‘high concentration - of salt, potash and other mineral matter. The dicovery was made by. Dr. B. :Wilkansky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. : Dr.. Wilkansky collected samples of water in the Dead Sea, at various depths to 22 feet. After suitable laboratory preparation, three microscopic forms of life- were found: One consisting of yeast-like cells, one of short rod-like cells, and the third in the shape of long, fine threads. i A brief account of the discovery has been sent to the British science journal, Nature. Investigations are

heing continded.

A Woman's Viewpoin --

inference.

to earn five figure incomes for a comparatively short work year.

2 2.8 OR the successful ones, I do believe that the gateway to Hollywood swings wide open. Screen stars seldom make good models (they look too theatrical), but'a good model will screen well. Whether or not :she has dramatic. ability is quite another matter. - However, it is interesting: to note that Norma Shearer, Kay Francis, Barbara Stanwyck, Helen Vinson, Dolores Costello, Constance Cummings and a score of others started their careers as photographers’ models. . Within the past year, Anita Counihan, daughter ‘of a cartoonist, and one of the best models «swe ever have had, signed a. Hollywood contract. She is making pictures now.

Generally girl’s modeling ca- |

reer is short, but Frances Donelon is one of the exceptions of the’

profession. She has been a model |

many years and continues to be extremely popular. She specializes in fashion illustrations at $10 an hour. ai

Posing Starts Beauties to Filin Stardom, Success and Marriage

Frances Donelon . . . long in vogue as style model

Vivaciousness has proved to be

a gold mine for Miriam Tilden,

niece of the Tenniser Tilden. The out-of-doors type, she poses for

‘magazine covers and fashion illustrations.

NEXT—How to become a model.

POLITICS AS CLAPPER

SEES IT

BY RAYMOND. CLAPPER

NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 6.—One curious passage—curious in the light of a bit of forgotten political his-

tory—appeared in Al Smith’s speech in which: he left the party. which had honored him for so many years to support Gov. Landon. Smith was belaboring the Roosevelt Administration for its tendency to prefer progressives to some Democrats. The New Deal,'he complained, does not always support: Democrats. He mentioned as an instance of this flagrant derelictién, Nebraska. There, Smith inferred, the President hopes Senator Norris, a New Deal independent, will defeat the official Democratic: candidate, former Rep. Terry Carpenter. - | : Smith is perfectly correct in this The New Deal would rather have Norris back in the Senate than young Carpenter, a hustling gasoline station owner who operates politically on the lunatic fringe and who hopes to win by plugging the Townsend plan.

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NENATOR ‘BURKE, Nebraska Lemocratic National Committeeman, resigned rather than support the official candidate of the party. Carpenter is too wild for Burke. Certainly, if Smith meant what he said so'bitingly about the policies of the New-Deal, he would surely consider Carpenter's political company even more objéctionable. Yet Smith, although in a particularly choosy mood,’ himself objects because ‘the President doesn’t take a shine to any Democrat who wears the, party label. He ) It seems to be slightly discriminating. But that isn’t the ‘most curious thing about this incident. . .Do you by any chance remember what happened out. in Nebraska in

“{VULTIVATE an shility to enjoy things" says

serums for these types is also indi-| Som

cated by Drs. Chow and Wu.

- » - Age Rival for Big

rs. Walter Ferguson “of 2,116,539 ; Landon

1928? Well, Smith was the Democratic candidate for President. He

| was regarded as a progressive—then.

But he was Catholic and wet. So Nebraska people were ‘not friendly tc him. They didn’t want a Cathclic in the White House—although they pretended to find numerous more presentable objections.

” 2 2 ENATOR NORRIS felt that this \ was a false issue. He believed that Smith was.a progressive and that religion had no place in the campaign. So, regardless of his own political safety, he pledged his support to Smith, stumped the state for him, did everything humanly possible to carry the state for Smith. Now Smith objects that Norris is

receiving friendly support from the

President. But perhaps it isn’t so surprising after all. Smith apparently forgot about the matter a Tong time ago. He never even took the trouble, after the 1928 election, to write Norris a note thanking him for his efforts. Once during the 1928 campaign, in a speech at Baltimore, Smith made

a ten word reference to Norris as |

a great progressive. That was all that he ever showed by sign or deed that he was aware Norris had, at his own peril, come to Smith's defense. : : . Smith didn’t have so many friends in Nebraska then,’and Norris didn’t have ‘as many himself after it was over. Because some friends of Norris felt so deeply that-they cut the Senator ‘dead. Even when Smith came to Washington, and made calls in the Senate office building, he didn’t bother to go down the corridor to drop in on Norris. Friends noticed this neglect and trumped up a soothing explanation that Smith stayed away because he was afraid of embarrassing Norris po-

litically. = Norris said’ it was all right—Smith didn't owe him any‘thing. : § 8 nn 3 ET you know how a man feels += nevertheless. Those little things do hurt. They hurt all of us. They hurt Smith because he remarked in his speech here how after all of the years he spent helping Roosevelt up the ladder, the new Presi-

dent, in 1933, never asked for his advice, apparently forgot all about

But it’s the way of the world. All of - us remember the times our. friends have neglected us. At least ‘we remember them much longer than we remember the sacrifices, the acts of generosity, which our friends ‘bestow upon. We are all that way, great men as well as the rest of us. So perhaps on second thought, this little incident is hardly worth mentioning after all. I am sure George Norris wouldn’t think 1t was.

F.D.R Gets N.Y. Aid

BY HERBERT LITTLE } ASHINGTON, Oct. 6.— The : New York Times’ support of Franklin D. Roosevelt gives the Administration the edge in New York City press support, politicians ecalculated today. But they cited figures and estimates that nationally Gov. Landon has a 3-to-1 advantage over the Democratic Administration in press support, with Chicago's newspaper circulation nearly 10 to 1 Landon. In New York, the Daily News, the Times, the World-Telegram and the Post ‘are friendly to the Administration. Total circulation of the four is 2,569,281, according to estimates of Editor and Publisher Magazine. nE

Against Roosevelt are the Amer-

By ANTON SCHERRER

’ HIS is as good a time as any to recall tha : “Leonainie” hoax perpetrated by James Whitcomb Riley and his pals in 1877. : Mr. Riley lived in Anderson at the time; along with Will Ethel, his roommate; Sani» uel Richards, the artist whose “Evangeline” created a sensation in its day; Willlam F. Myeis, afterward Secretary of State; a photographer by the name of Clark, and W. N. Croan, publisher of tie

Weekly Democrat and Mr. Riley's boss. Mr. Riley was the reporter on the Democrat at that time. These congenial spirits met regularly during the evenings of 187677. On one occasion when everybody was especially sour about the publi¢’s inability to recognize merit, Riley pulled from his pocket a manuscript and without further coaxing began reading: “Leonainie—Angels named her; And they took the light Of the laughing stars and framed her In a smile of white.” There were three more stanzas. At the end of which Mr. Riley returned to the subject under dise cussion by remarking that if given to the world over Edgar Allen Poe's name, “Leonainie,” no doubt, would

go over big.

Mr. Scherrer

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Start of the Hoax . E that as it may, that was the start of the hoax, Somebody got hold of an old copX of Ainsworth’s Dictionary, on the fly-leaf of which Samuel Richards (or maybe, Will Ethel) transcribed the Riley poem in imitation of Poe’s handwriting. An old facsimile ; reproduction in a magazine furnished the inspiration. After which, Oscar Henderson, publisher of The Kokomo Dispatch, was dragged into the plot. : Mr. Henderson published “Leonainie” on the front page of The Kokomo Dispatch, issue of Aug. 2, 1877, along with a weird and elaborate explanation o the scoop. \ “Calling at the house of a gentleman of this city the other day,” Mr. Henderson explained to his reads= ers, “our attention was called to a poem written on the fly-leaf of an old book. “Noticing the initials E. A. P. at the bottom, it struck us that, possibly we had run across a bonanza, and after reading it,"we asked who the author was. Then he related the fgllowing bit of interesting reme

iniscence: # 2. =»

Kept Country Hotel

“ IS grandparents kept a country hotel, a sort of wayside inn, in a small village named Chestere field, near Richmond, Va. One night just before bedtime, a young man who plainly showed the marks of dissipation rapped at the door and asked if he could stay all-night, and was shown to a rooms

“That was the last they saw of him. When they went, to his room the next morning to call him, he had gone away and left the book on the fly-leaf of which he had written the lines. “Further than this,” concluded Mr. Henderson, “our informant knew nothing and, being an illiters ate man, it was quite natural he should allow the great literary treasure to go for many years unpiib= lished.” li * ” ” n

Some Bit, Some Didn't

_(YOPIES of this issue were sent broadcast and : 4 placed on the desk of ‘every literary edifor. Some bit, but most of the big shots didn’t, For one,

William Cullen Bryant didn’t and the Boston Trane

script remarked rather testily: “If Poe really did write it, it is consolation to think he is dead.” Another critic recalling the hoax played by Chate terton and the suicide it led to charged Riley with not having the good taste to follow Chatterton’s. example. ; By this time everybody connected with the hoax got scared and nobody more than Mr. Henderson, because it was he who exposed the trick in a subse= quent issue of his paper. After that, Riley resigned from the Anderson Democrat and returned to his old home in Greenfield, He continued his work and was soon taken up by E. B. Martindale who ran the Indianapolis Journal. From that time on his position was more dignified and his poems signed “Ben F. Johnson of Boone”

won him lasting fame.

By that time. too, everybody had forgotten or fore given the “Leonainie” hoax.

Hoosier Yesterdays = ty OCTOBER 6 ELEGATES to the constitutional convention, which assembled in Indianapolis Oct. 6, 1850, were feeling very ‘charitable toward old maids. They proposed a $25 tax on bachelors over 35 “to be appropriated to the benefit of old maids and come mon schools.” Today times have so changed that many single women in. business make more than the bachelor over 35. Apparently, the commonwealth of Indiana was diss turbed over the practice of dueling for a bill was pros posed prohibiting any person who had dueled either in Indiana or out-of-state from holding public or military office. | : Other proposals which might seem cumbersome fo= day called for the election of the warden of the sfate prison, the state printer, and the penitentiary chaplain. . . However, much of the legislation passed by that convention serves today as the basis of Indiana law in protecting the rights and privileges of citizens, The constitutional convention was considered a democratic device for amending the Constitution from time to time as changes in society necessitated.--By T. C.

‘Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal

Tis much more dangerous to inhale a foreign sube stance into the lungs than to swallow it. The fore eign body that is inhaled may go only as deep as the windpipe. Occasionally, however, substances will be inhaled through the smaller tubes into the lung tissue itself, causing immediate, constant spasm: of coughing. 2 If the foreign body is not removed promptly, abscess is likely to form around it. Occasionally the presence of a foreign substance in the lung may associated with an attack on pneumonia, "beca