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VV ENATCHEE, ‘Wash., Oct. 22.—Rufus. Woods is a big frog in a small puddle. They told me at Grand Coulee that I ought to stop in Wenatchee and see him. And I found him the.oddest combination
of epposite instincts I have ever seen. He's a typical small-city civic leader, and he’s also a nervous searcher of the world. In appearance and action, he's the booster, glad to-see-everybody, great-little-town-we've-got-here type of citizen. He is a little heavy, and wears a gold watch chain. He has a wife and ” ~ three children, a house and a car, /~ and owns 8 Very prosperous newspaper. He's a Republican because his father was. He likes to speak at luncheons, and has 10 “calls,” as he says, on his desk right now. But on the other hand, he is a fiend for wandering. He knows people ‘all over the world and enough odd bits of history to make a book. Last winter he said to his Mr. Pyle wife “I think I'll go to Russia this afternoon.” He did. And when he had been peck just 10 days he hopped a boat for Alaska, Be “writes up his trips for his own newspaper. Anfl what a reporter he is! If I had his inquisitiveness’ plus my good looks I'd be another Richard Harding Davis. The reason I'm writing about Rufus Woods is that he’s a sort of hero in these parts.-/He is one of the parents of Grand Coulee Dam. In the summer of 1918 he carried the first story on the idea of damming the wild Columbia at Grand Coulee. And from that day to this, Rufus Woods has plugged that idea to the tune of nearly a page a day in his newspaper—the Wenatchee ‘World. » = =
Roared and Screamed
OR 13 years his was the only daily paper in | America supporting the dam. And he didn't support it mildly. He roared and screamed about it. Hp spent his own money, and his time. He was seoffed at, made fun of, "actually abused by some civic leaders. But now that the dam is going up, people fave been falling over themselves to shower honors on persistent Rufus Woods. And the funny part of it is, the dam won't benefit him a bit. He won't make any money out of it. The dam is 100 miles away. His paper and his town are already in a rich, irrigated section. It was just stubbornness, I guess. 8 8 »
n Sees Drama Himself ES sir, I can see the drama in it myself,” says Rufus Woods. He sweeps his right hand back a veil of vastness. “Just think . . . small town editor , . . lone fight . . . people scoffing . . . stuck to it . . . only daily -in- America for 13 years . . . all kinds of obstacles . ,. and here it is . . . biggest dam in the world.” Whitman College .gave him a Doctor of Letters degree. A thousand of the state’s most prominent men gave him-a tRstimonial dinner. He has been praised, and written up, and presented with desk sets and this and that. He has been mentioned for Congress. But he says: “No, not“ for me. You know, we newspaper men have the greatest job in the world. 1 go to Washington and sit in the gallery and see those Senators and congressmen and I say to myself, ‘I wouldn't trade jobs with a one of you.”
Mrs.Roosevelt's Day
. BX ELEANOR ROOSEVELT EW BEDFORD, Mass, Wednesday.—Just before: we got off the train in Providence at 8:30 this
morning, my daughter-in-law, Betsy, knocked at’ my door to tell me facetiously that she was going up to join her husband at the hotel and take a bath. The joke was that I am always the one who leaves the train to take baths, and Betsy thought she had one on me. for not thinking of it here. When Mrs. Scheider and I went into the station restaurant to have our breakfast, the head waitress came over to point out the table where Louis Howe always sat. “If I'd known in time,” she said, “I'd have put you at that table.” I told her that I recalled sitting on a stool at the counter many times. I used to take the same night train when my husband was staying at Mr. Howe’s cottage in Westport Beach, Mass. One summer the children were in a little cottage next door for a month, As I thought of our dear friend it seemed as though I could almost see his little figure walking through that familiar station with his coat hanging from sagging shoulders and his clothes looking entirely too big for him. When they telephoned me yesterday I thought they said the President would leave the train at 9:30 this morning. So we held up the whole procession while we meandered leisurely down with our bags. We did not realize that actually he was to leave at 9. However, no harm was done for we arrived at the Fairhaven House 10 minutes ahead of schedule. We met large, enthusiastic crowds all along the line, and I think the warm sun which greeted us this morning must have warmed the hearts of the traditionally cold New Englanders, for even the South could not have been more demonstrative. The crowd tried to press in around the automobiles, and I was more troubled than usual.for fear some one would be hurt, It is a curious thing that crowds always surge forward. They really see no more than if they stood still. But there seems to be a desire to get as close as possible to or to touch the to see. This is all very well if composed of little children or o to fzint from the pressure of It is interesting to be back first came here when I was € The occasion was a family Th he thought it would be a good more of his mother’s large family.’
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And 1 should like to say here and now that good guys though they may be—and proved ‘themselves to be—that as pilots to whom the safety of human lives are entrusted “giddy doings on the airways” are not tolerated.
The gentlemen who flew me around this enticing world went ‘ for giddy doings only on the ground. When there were 5% inches of ice on the wings, when there were hot blasts of air from desolate deserts, when there were
typhoons to buck and when navigation was a matter of dead reckoning, the pilots of my experience were deadly serious and entirely business.
The “giddy doings” were entirely on the ground. 2 8 =» OVELY ladies and charming gentlemen—the only kind I have been so fortunate as fo know—may make their own plans to encircle the globe, speedily or at their leisure—at their _own leasure. But so far as this exert is concerned they will find that making “whoopee” is a matter of being on “ferra firma.”
The pilots, navigators, engineers, groundsmen, operating superintendents and the others who have built commercial aviation into what it is today simply will not go for free-for-alls above the clouds. rn . ro <3 While we are on the stibject 1 should like to get into the clear by dragging out my. beloved but late old man’s gag—which was alleged .fo be the definition of an expert, It-was: “An expert is an ordinary man away from home.”
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BY H. B. mins Times Staff Writer
THIS particular piece will be no fault of my own. It will be the second article of the story of a working reporter who flew around the world in 18145 days—whose actual time in the air was eight days, 10 hours and 26 minutés—and who was billed by an editor to be the author of a piece of which the title might be: “Giddy Doings on the Airways.” That would be a swell title for any writer. 1 should like to write of “Giddy Doings on the Air-
But in taking my hair down and thoroughly in line with being the truthful reporter I must break down and admit that as far as I know from my knowledge of flying around the world there are no “giddy doings on the air-
The longer I live the truer I find that definition to be. . Now, I hope, we may go on. s s , 8 IDDY doings in the air” ine volved apsolute safety in flying, no apprehension, perfect confidence in the men at the controls and certain knowledge that we would reach our destinations with no broken bones. If that is true of flying around the, world entirely by commercial airways in record time it is much more true of the ordinary traveler who would journey with time to spare and with no thought of getting out of the clouds and on to firm earth on scheduled time. In view of the fact that there were giddy doings on the ground, if not in the air, I feel that a few should be proclaimed—even if they turn out to be in the manner of perfect parlor yarns. At the bum Dum Airport in Calcutta—the former site of an arsenal for which the inhuman bulléts were named—there ap-
peared a charming and gracious
Englishman. His mission was to request that I take to New York a packet of real India tea for my boss—Mr. Roy W. Howard of The Indianapolis’ Times and the Scripps-Howard newspapers. After much palaver to determine whether the tea would be a package or ga ‘bale too much for my baggage allowance, it was time for my plane to take off. I had agreed to take the packet. : And the gentleman who owed fealty to His Brittanic Majesty collapsed : and confessed that the tea was in Calcutta—20 miles away. I took off with Capt. Jan. Hondong,: senior pilot for K. L. M. Royal ‘Dutch Airplanes—and so far as that trip was concerned Mr. Howard may drink coffee for the remainder of Wi days.
bes ini “much Jevely, - bewitching French neéwspaper woman who flew with me from alluring Vienna to mud-soaked Athens; the dusky, ~brown-eyed Sumatra maiden who, after divorcing a sultan, was searching for another; the beguiling Hearst bidder for
Nellie Bly’'s laurels, the entrance
H. R. (Bud) Ekins is shown here as he arrived in Jaeli, Greece, from Frankfort, Germany. gir Aniny Kedras, United Press Athens corre-
he Grace Bass of Hawaiian hulahula dance fame and the trio of entrancing hostesses ou United Airlines and TWA—Transcon= tinental and Western Airways— back in the U. S. A. Even these traveling companions and incidental acquaintances were not enough to take my mind off the fact that three groups of pilots—German, Dutch and American-—were flying the skyways of this little world in such fashion as to disappoint my heirs. and make a profit for Lloyd's (a free plug for the gallant and daring ' British underwriters)—of London.
there were none. a 2 P there were elofta the: pilots flew ‘over them or around them or under them. They took no chances. They knew their navigation. They knew their weather and they: knew where they were going. My hat is off to them. They have my gratitude. They took me—a mere passenger with a ticket—where I was going. You—in the good old days they
thrills according, to your dispo-: sition or ruined digestion. But I, right here and now, will lay you a bet that your excitement will be on the ground and not: in the air. For the gentlemen who, fly the
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spondent; Robert H. Best, United Press; Mile. Marie Jean Maundury of Agence Littaire International, Pals, and Mr. Ekins, » iy
Mr. Ekins. and Capt. Max Pruss of the Hindenburg talk things over in the control room of the giant Zeppelin. This was the first picture
what goes upstairs must stay up unless they relax at the controls. And they do “stick. "we " Hence 'my salut Capt. Max Pruss of the: dirigible Hinden‘burg, Capt. Q. Tepaz who flew me" from Frankfort to Athens, Capt. Jan Hondong who: steered the ship from Athens: to Batavia,
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me across Borneo to Manila, Capt. E, A. La Porte who flew the Hawaii Clipper to San Francisco and Pilot D. W. (Tommy) Tom-. neon who flew me home. They 8 4fiot permit high jinks in/the air.) they do it, My salutes, my nightcap’ toast to commercial aviation around the world.
(To Be Continued)
BY SCIENCE SERVICE
EW ORLEANS, Oct. 22.—Vaccination against whooping cough does not protect children from the djsease, in the experience of three Cleveland physicians
Cases of whooping cough occurred about as often among vaccinated children as among unvaccinated, Drs. James A. Doull, Gerald S. Shibley and Joseph E. McClelland of Western Reserve University School of Medicine reported to the American Public Health Associatfon here this morning.
Whether or not to vaccinate against whooping cough has long been as much of a question to physicians and health officers as to parents. Apparently it continues to be an unanswered question. Recently a new method of preparing the vaccine was developed and from first reports the new vaccination appeared successful The Cleveland physicians gave the new type of vaccine to 500 children between 6 and 15 months of age.
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lot of what is left. The protein in cow's milk takes up more acid than the protein in mother’s milk, Dr. Manville pointed out.. Consequently bottle-fed
babjes run a greater risk from sum complaint
than breast-fed babies. s ” 2 PPLE powder helps to prevent or to cure the trouble because it makes up for the lack of hydrochloric acid in the stomach. This helps stomach digestion and maintains the “gastric barrier.” Lives are being wasted because public health nurses are not being used enough .in fighting communicable diseases like diphtheria and
scariet fever; Alma C. Haupt, director of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Compahy's nursing b charged. read, She listed five ways in which the public health nurse can help to save lives as follows: 1. By finding cases of commupleatle & disease that may not have
such 3. By teaching patients, families
{and communities about quarantine,
isolation, nursing care, and preventive measures. :
other protective measures ameng infants and pre-school children. 5. By helping with studies of epi(demics, behavior of Do Sisease ‘and results of nursing service | rn * r N many communities there
POLITICS AS CLAPPER
SEES IT
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
ASHINGTON, - Oct. 22. — Is Gov. Landon Roosevelt progressive? The old Bull M , sainted in Republican retrospect as a - mild, harmless progressive, was snorting fire and brimstone in 1912 to a degree that makes Franklin Roosevelt sound like a coming conservative. If Landon thinks everything ought to be turned back to the states and that President Roosevelt is out to undermine the American system, he ought not praising Theodore Roosevelt but denouncing him.
When former Gov. Gifford Pinchot told the Republican candidate that he always described him as a Theodore Roosevelt progressive, Landon replied: “You can’t make that statement too strong.” Pinchot accepted that as encouragement .to go stronger. But after looking over some of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 speeches, the possibility occurs that Landon meant his remark literally the other way. Landon isn’t saying what T. R. said in 1912, ” » #
AKE a fair example, out of Theodore Roosevelt's ‘“confes-
| sion of faith,” made to the Progres- |
and the nati co-opera i “Qur aim should be the same in| this. . on Just te in
sive Party national convention: both state and nation; that is, to
ficient agency for the practical betterment ‘of
“With England striving to make good the human wreckage to which a scrap-heap
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use the government as an ef-
social and economic conditions throughout this land. . ; .
scheime of industrial. || ism has relegated her, with Ger-| {many putting the painstaking sources of an empire at work de-
show that the people themselves, through popular self-government, ¢an meet an age of crisis’ with, wisdom and strength. en 8 8 8 Su “[oustey must submit to such public regulations as will make it a‘means of life and ‘health, not of death or inefficiency. We must protect the crushable elements at: the base of our industrial structure. : “The first charge on the industrial statesmanship of the day is to prevent human waste. The dead weight of orphanage and depleted craftsmanship, of crippled workers and workers suffering from trade diseases, of casual labor, of insecure old age, and of household depletion due to industrial conditions are, like our depleted soils, our gashed mountain | sides and ‘flooded river bottoms, so many strains on the national struc-
ture, draining the reserve strength
of all industries and showing beyond all peradventure the public element Real Sole concern in industrial
‘Theodore Roosevelt was specific. |
He said the anti-trust laws ‘could
® » » proposed a Péderal industrial ‘commission which should have to regulate and con-
complete power teol al the great Industrial sancorms |.
not ‘the nation, attempt’ to do this work, because: they know. that in the long run such ‘effort would be ineffective . . .. the well-méaning ignorant man who advances such a proposition does as much damage as if he were hired by the trusts themselves for he is playing the game of every big crooked corporation in the country.” ; 2 ” »
TE proposed national as well as state minimum wage commissions, Federal investigation of industries like that maintained over mines to-insure standards of sanitation and safety, national and state workmen’s compensation, | prohibition of child labor, and unemployment insurance.
Franklin ‘Roosevelt wouldnt dare
say the things Cousin Theodore said
about the courts and their reactionpy interpretation of the Constitun.
Gov. Landon was a Theodore Roosevelt Progressive in 1912, He dorsed pany works ‘of ‘the New
phone system and {built of PWA funds. Cs What hapened to Landon af the Cleveland convention is a’ mystery. One theory is that, when he eitlod down Io Jap Sus Tus Ponce | he asked some one to get i Roosevelt's speeches for him and that by mistake he was | anided
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Our Towi
IT tickles me to be able to report that + actly 50 years ago, come this Ch William Huber began selling toys: at “Chas lie” Mayer’ s. Indianapolis boys were playin ng with jumping jacks and sling shots at
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| time. Little girls weres busy with rag dolls,
Dolls with China heads and painted hair were .around the corner. Today, lucky little girls play with Dionne dolls,
Two years ago, says Mr. Huber, (they were playing with Shirley Temple dolls and before that with Alice-in-Wonderland dolls. Simultaneously with Alice dolls, Indianapolis girls took a fancy to the Dickens’ series, to little Emily and David Copperfield, for instance. In. 1931 came Meg, , Amy and Jo, the Little Women series. The idea back of the Alcott dolls was almost as big as that of the Dionne dolls, says Mr. Huber. Before that it was the kewpie doll, a creation thought up by Rose O'Neill. - It came to her in a dream, says Mr, Huber, Be that as it ‘may, the kewpies earned $1,400,000 for Rose and lasted 13 years. ‘They went over so big tha they came in porcelain, rubber, wood, cloth and saws dust, chocolate, bakelite and ice cream. Of cour Mr. Huber didn’t deal in the chocolate and ice cr kinds but he handled all the rest. Miss O'Neill alse figured out Scootles, another kind of doll. Scootles, “however was no dream child.
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Iron Toys Appear S for the boys, they didn’t come’ into their own until about 45 years ago when the first iron toys made their appearance. The iron toys put an end to" tin toys, and 1t was high time, too. With the coming of jron toys came locomotives, steam : boats, fire engines, passenger and ireight trains and all kinds of wagons. The first toy automobile was item No. a7 in Charles Mayer's 1902 catalogue. The 1902 catalogue was a humdinger. A Weeden rotary engine sold for $18; a buck and saw with a 22« inch blade for $17. The best toy of 1692, however, was a Studebaker wagor:;, an exact miniature reproduction of the one on grandfather’s farm. It was superseded, of course, by the Irish Mail, and, so help us heaven, by the Fairy Auto Car. Mechanical toys operated by = clockwork and springs came in about 40 years ago. Up to that time boys had to put up with contraptions run by rubber bands and spools and: it was a sore trial. Th “grector” toys blew in about 28 years ago and, curk ously enough, from England. g
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Buys ‘Mechano’ Set
ME HUBER remembers that Otto N. Frenzel bought the first one, a “Mechano” set, for his "little ‘boy Otto. ttle Otto is now something or other in the Merchants National Bank, My, my, how Hime flies. Mr. Huber is full of little surprises like that. vou won't believe it, of course, but according to Mr. Hube the Teddy Bear isn't an American invention at all, It's German, It was thought up by a woman, Mars garet Steiff, living in Gingen, Wurtemburg, who used to spend her spare time making animals and dolls, She gave them to the children in the neighborhood.
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dianapolis in 1903. md still call for them, sa Mr. Huber. Mr. Huber says the tricycle is gone. for good. If “took. little girls an awful long time to discover that sit’ didn’t: get them anywhere but finally they caugh on, The velocipede, however, is still with us. So is the game of parcheesi. . Parcheesi hasn't changed a bit, says Mr. Huber. and is as good a seller today as it was 50 years ago when he started selling toys.
Hoosier Yesterdays
‘OCTOBER 22
CONSPICUOUS visitor Indianapolis 51 ‘yeas ago today was Boston's pride, John IL. Sullivan, then heavyweight champion of the world. He was featured in a minstrel parade that passed through.the city streets in the morning and later in the fobs frequented the prominent hotels. A large crowd fo! lowed him wherever he went. He wore an Alvin Johnson overcoat bound with fur, a Col, Shaw shirt collar that fairly reached to his ears, and a Jim Coy plug hat with broad brim. Mr. Sullivan is said to have had a round with his old enemy, King Alcohol, during the evening, but was not knocked out. He was promptly on hand at Dicke son’s Grand Opera House to do his turn in a. vaude= ville show. His act was billed as "Representations of Classical Statuary.” 4 Patrons in the rear of the auditorium were much annoyed, however, at his activities during the first act before he went on the stage. Walking back and forth through the aisles. .in a truculent manner, Mr, Sullivan constantly babbled about himself and his 'phy= sical powers, so that hardly any one could hess what was being presented. on .the stage. He took a seat in one f the high priced boxes and there also made a nuisance of himself. He was reported to be making $700 a week at the Lime, part coming as salary for his vaudeville acts and part from exhibition boxing matches. While in Indianapolis he refused to fight a bout with Paddy Ryan, because as one person said, “Ryan wanted to fight for a percentage of the receipts in civilization, while he, Sullivan, wanted to get a safe distance away from Justice and. Aight, for siakes, "—By P. M.
XE Warh Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Amer, Medical Assn. Journal ¢ > ~HOUGH practically every one now recognizes the danger of frostbite, cases continue to occiir im large cities as well as in the country. Frequently trappers, hunters, and. Ce frostbitten during ‘In any single yeay thet may be 300 to 400 cases in New York City. Frostbite may occur whenever the