Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1936 — Page 17

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By RAYMOND clAPPER 3 (Emie Pyle, Page 8) =~ JASHINGTON, Dec: 15. Santa Clatis. is - coming back from South ‘America this wotlk “He will find all of the good little boys. and ‘gifls waiting around the White House to ask fof what they want.

Some of them are likely to be disappoint“Santa Claus has been strongly urged to let it ee _— known, gently yet firmly, that Christmas is almost over. In fact, when President Roosevelt left for Buenos Aires he was in this mood jRimsels, Word went around that ad a was time to taper off. Nie Rad Made up his mind ‘that he would have to say “no” much more frequently than before. . This in no wa, iis io na wap discourages hate last forever. You would have to search at some length to find an office. in W official or ¢ private, where some scheme to get ” more out of the government was ‘ not being - hatched. The Navy Mr. Clapper wants more men. Veterans want general pensions for widows. Every government department is bursting with plans to do more for the country, at increased cost to be sure, but worth the price if you are a Jiberal at heart. That's what they all say. Although the banks are bursting with idle cash, Maj Berry's Conference on Industrial Progress proposes that the government launch 8 scheme to guarantee loans to small industries. The*idea of that is that when a risk is too great to ifterest a banker frantic to find reliable borrowers, Uncle Sam would step in and kindly offer to hold the bag. With excruciating birth pains, the Federal government set up its work-relief program for employables

with the understanding that the states and local com-

munities would care for the’ unemployables. = Now Gov. Paul McNutt of Indiana, who has been announced as a Democratic presidential hope for 1940, leads the cry to have the Federal government come.

to the aid of states and local communities. and dole |. .out ‘direct relief funds to support the unémployables.

Resist Curtailment HE progress of recovery has given reasonable vine dication to the Administration’s spénding policy during the acute stage of the depression. But the idea that as recovery -continues Federal- “spending should contract is much more difficult to sell. Groups are resisting furiously any attempt to curtail: Federal aid. : The first move to reduce’ white eollar WPA rolls in New York has provoked “sit-down” “strikes of WPA workers with picketing, booing, and soap-box demands that Congress guarantee all WPA jobs. Young men and women given work in the form of theater projects joined in the strike and were dismissed. This is denounced as a high-handed outrage.

” Administration Sympathetic HIS Administration has been sympathetic and generous far beyond any previous one in recognizing: unemployment as a public problem and in attempting to meet, its responsibilities. It shows no disposition to evade these responsibilities and there is no serious demand that it should. Its policy has been vindicated and that is a great advance. But the fear that has always existed is that, as has happened many times in history, groups receiving benefits will refuse to let go after the need passes, or as it passes. Rolls become cluttered with leeches. Politicians Iooking for votes shed crocodile tears over them, It is the same old story that we have had with the protective tariff, which has continued to protect fat, overgrown infants who should have been weaned long before they lost their second set of teeth.

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

BY ELEANOR, ROOSEVELT.

ASHINGTON, Monday.—1I left the hospital last night feeling much more cheerful, for the doc- : tors felt that there was a chance that Franklin Jr, might not have to have an operation after all. In ‘dnother two or three days I think they will be able to pe a little more definite and then we can be more certain about our plans. People are so very kind, however, that sometimes it seems almost worth while to have unfortunate things happen. Johnnie was called by a very dear friend who had heard of a new medicine which might be of use to Franklin Jr. I had a letter from a lady I do not know at all, telling me of a treatment which had helped her and inclosing a doctor’s article. + An old friend of the boys and mine called me and told me that if Franklin Jr. was going to be alone in the hospital on Christmas. Day, he would be delighted to come in and spend the day and eat his Christmas dinner with him so we would not feel that Franklin Jr. was alone, I could almost have wept from sheer appreciation of the kindness of one’s friends. Johnnie took me to the plane at 8:30 last night and we were greeted by so many flashing bulbs that after I got my bags out and paid for my ticket, I casually walked back toward the car with him and managed to hide behind a large stone pillar for a second so I could kiss him good-by without being photographed in the act. I am not quite sure, however, that I succeeded. Though the day was cold, raw and snowy in Boston, when I took off the night was clear and we had a marvelously smooth trip. As I got out at Newark to change planes, two very solicitous géntlemen offered to walk over to the: dispatcher’s office with me, and 3p do. anything they could about my bags, etc. progressed one of them said: “We are newspaper people.” At which I smiled, looking at the usual photographer's bag and camera which one of them wis garying, and remarked how much they sur-:

prised m 1 ed in Washington at ‘midnight ahd today the weather feels almost like spring. I managed fo get in a little walk going.to and from the hairdresser’s; had people for lunch and several -appotn. ments afterward.

New Books

PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— .

humor and gusto, Edward Alsworth Ross, now redates the story of 1is life from his orphaned boyhood Illinois to the chapter, “I Am Investigated, 1035.” ! YEARS OF IT (Appleton-Cen-fury), he'has been teacher at Johns Hobhins, Indiana, Cornell and Stanford Universities. For 30 years he was professor of sociology at the University of \

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; NEA Service Staff Correspondent Sr v ONDON, Dec. 15. —Probably the Tot self possessed person irr the British Empire, in the face of the chance

that has placed a 10-year-old

‘the little Princess. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary: | For 10-going-on-11, the Princess Elizabeth has always. accepted her royal position with the utmost complacency. She has faced the white: light of relentless publicity with

all the professional aplomb of

Her position before the public of the British

sistibly calls up a comparisen

film starlet. - The “fan mail” received by the little princess has always approximated that directed to Shirley: When she wears a new style or color of dress, British’ ‘mothers

rush to the’ ‘stores to deck t clothes. =

The flood of chocolates and china, hospital wards and .

a to Serie) )N BRONNER

girl in line for the throne, is

a royal Shirley Temple. Isles irrewith the adulated American

heir children out’ in ‘similar

dolls named ‘after the Prin- ¢ "cess is already becoming a.

Her “fan mail” has always been almost as heavy as Shirley Temple’s, especially at her birthday “y time (April 21) and at holiday. seasons. It has required extra postoffice clerks and a special maid to handle, and has in recent . weeks become a cloudburst. # 8 = F there was a single home in 1 the British Isles which did not display a picture of the Princess pefore this week, the deficiency is probably being remedied by a hurried trip. to the store today. Princess Elizabeth has faced the ‘camera scarcely less often. than the childhood idol of America. Her first tooth, her first strug-" glings with baby speech, Her first intelligible word, her first pony, her first party dress of white chiffon of pink satin, her toys, her playthings, her dogs, her nursery, her clothes since she began - «growing up,” all these things liave been relayed to: an avid British public since that day of her birth 10 years ago. By chance or premonition, the Princess Elizabeth has been reared from the very moment of her birth as a potential reigning queen. Had her succession been certain, no step in her upbringing would have been different. From that birth moment, the white light of publicity has played constantly about the fair golden hair of © the Prinéess. Therein she is' different from her illustri-

- the great Vigtoria,.. Nobody t ht aight they were going: to: be queens, and their ehildhoot, ‘Was quite obscure. 2 ” ”

UT on the day of her christen-

| possessed little Princess probably

ing» crowds to see. Since then, wherever she was staying at the Duke of York’s London house at 145 Piccadilly, she has been shown to her public daily. She was really-conscious-of this public interest in herself. Once it is recorded that she was attending a concert with her royal ‘grandmother. When she stood up in the box to see better, the then Queen Mary reprimanded her conduct and threatened to send her home.

“But you couldh’t do that,” protested ‘the: little: Princess, “and disappoint all the people who are waiting to see me come out!” Queen. Mary,. stern and unimpressed, could and did. She had the Httle princess hustled out a backdoor and sent home with a nurse, . . Hence this extremely self“took in her stride” the momentous:event which brought her one step nearer the throne. Especially when she was somewhat younger, ‘her understanding of, and satisfaction in, her royal position, was clear,

Servants have’ always bowed in her: presence; ‘and -visiters .to her parents’ home have always made a point to curtsey or bow when she entered the room. “Royalty speaking!” she cut in crisply one day when a telephone call: was not completed quickly enough. " THE das. when she. was a gold-en-haired baby, and lisped her own 2 pame 1 into. “Lillibet, ” 31S

- Bridestard 4 ‘at the” he oe. 2 of thes ‘Duke. of Kent, onlookers were | ‘amazed at her mabure appearance. Tall for her age, Princess. Elizabeth. was not easily picked out from the adult bridesmaids.

' ing, Princess Elizabeth was carried out on a balcony for ador-

Man Less Evolved in Some Ways Than Apes; Is Claim

BY SCIENCE SERVICE ASHINGTON, Dec. 15—Man.three primitive layers of cells; ens i doderm, ectoderm, and. mesoderm. Drs. Streeter and Wislocki have]

is not as highly evolved, in some respects, as several species of the great apes. This point is brought out in the annual report of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, presented by President John C. Merriam to his board of trustees as their meeting here. The newly-discovered differences are in the internal organs of the great apes, which have been studied less than their bones and skins because they are more difficult to preserve. The present research was conducted by Dr. W. L. Straus Jr. at the Institution's laboratory of embryology in Baltimore. ; . The orang-utan is more highly specialized than man in certain lung structures, and the gibbon is most advanced with respect to the position of the heart and certain of the ma jor blood: vessels that rise near it. Man maintains an evolutionary lead so. far as certain parts of his digestive tract are concerned, but is more primitive than the gibbon in his heart and the first great arterial branches.

In his study, Dr. Straus finds nothing to indicate that man possesses any peculiarly close affinities

fist'as ciesiy sifted to She gi | Ct

R. A. H. SCHULTZ, lio of .the institutioh’s a

And she squelched with a- single disapproving glance the effort of

found that while these layers do account far:the development of the parts of the body itself, the sev- | eral membranes in ‘which the unborn infant is wrapped, as well as other accessory structures, originate from primitive initial tissues that are laid down before the three germ layers are formed. Thé Carnegie institution has been able during -the last year to initiate co-operative. relations with scientists in the U. 8. 8. R., which it is hoped will prove of ‘mutual benefit, ‘the report. states. ‘A ‘review of observations ahd experiences during the 10 years of existence of his macaque colony has been prepared by Dr. C. G. Hartman for the Year

sian biologists in the conduct of a colony of baboons at the ‘Soukhoum Station in the Caucasus. -

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| WASHINGTON,

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diing her: pet dog. "her younger ‘sister, ‘Margaret Rose, 10 commupicate with her by: child-

she ‘goes to St. Leonard School, ~ her. mother. has decided that she shall “gag” for the older girls just like any: ‘other student. "That means - making ‘ tea, running : errands and: even: Shining + shoes for

KNOW YOUR. ‘INDIANAPOLIS . ‘Indianapolis is the home of 30 insurance companies, as follows: Nine - life, nine - assess~ ment, seven fire, three reciprocal, one general casualty and ' one fraternal, :

it, has an ‘unpleasant taste, a fact of - considerable economic importance The. West Virginia ‘researchers have for years been .investigating this : matter of unpleasant flavors in milk and suspected, on chemical grounds, & relationship between unpleasant flavor and Vitamin C. These latest experiments, which prove the relationship, seem also to suggest: the remedy: Keep the vitamin C content of the cow’s feed as low as possible. without’ endangering the cow’s own health,

“Ve Loss Leaders’

Ban Seen Legal

BY HERBERT LITTLE

iN Sdera py ct-brice. +o | found today in ‘the;

~court’s recent ous ruling in’ favor. of. state

Dec. 15.2 Su- |

subject. a1 leaders believed the ‘would add strength | | to- the movement for resale

: ‘Photo from Studio Lisa; copyright, 1936; NEA Service, Inc.

= “Closer moves the day when another Queen Elizabeth may rule Britain. Duke of York ‘in the role of King, pretty, popular little Princess Elizabeth becomes the heir. presumptive to the throne. Here she is shown an an exclusive, new portrut, fon

those who outrank her in. n scholas: tic standing, even if not in blood. The days are past when Queen

“pambina,” and when Edward, he that was King, jocosely met her with a casual “Hullo, Queen Eliz~ abeth!” . ; Was there prophesy irr his careless ‘words? Whether: there was or not, the educational. Feglme,

Ba rnes Urges

EW YORK, Dec. 15.—It has ~been rightly said that the next session of Congress will probably be the most important session since Congress convened at ‘the close of the Civil War. ‘It is also conceded =t little of lasting significance can be accomplished by Congress if the Supreme Court slashes social degislation as it has in the last two terms of the Court. Now the experience with the Supreme Court in reconstruction days is especially instructive with respect to the Court problem today,

Mississippi editor, McCardie, argued in 1868 and 1869.

more bitter against the Court in 1867-8 than in 1936, though there was far less grounds for bitterness than today.

On Feb. 5, 1867, an act was signed greatly extending the of ap-

reconstruction officials against the courts of the. former ‘Confederate States. But it soon threatensd io prove a boomerang to the group that had passed 2

un- ie

“watchful care with which she is

‘Mary greeted”the toddling girl as |

To Curb Supreme Court

BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

especially the famous case of the

The temper of Congress was even

peals which might be taken to the. cases. It was designed to protect

With the

the ceremonial pomp, and the always guarded, 30 these will ‘be intensified now th . Princ gd “Elizabeth 'is at ts a vg throne of Bagisnd a and the British : Empire. r

- NEXT—How. an re ipire thrilled at news that a baby girl was born, . and how the education of a ps tential queen began. = :

Congress

early in March. Despite an able argument in behalf of the constitutionality of the Reconstruction acts, the Republicans were worried.” Sof they decided to take no chances on arty adverse decision by the court. They moved to repeal the Court Act of 1867 and also to deny the court the right to go any further in hearing appeals under the act of 1867. On. March 12, 1868, an amendment to a routine court act was slipped through Congress repealing the Corpus act of 1867. ConHabe Robert C. Schenck, who was in charge of the strategy, spoke out. boldly: “Now I hold that the Supreme Court are arrogating to themselves the pretensions to: settle not merely judicial but political questions. . , . the majority of them pr step by step to the usurpation of jurisdiction which does not belong to them. And I hold it not only my | right, but my duty. as a representative of the People; to clip the wings of that co 4 : 2 8 = RESIDENT JOHNSON vetoed

the new bill repealing the act of 1867. But Congress, as Was ifs

habit in those days, passed it over |

Eis, veto. 2: ovate Jawon Maen

; BY ANTON SCHERRER aid 4

APROPOS my little piece about dime novels the other day, Lee Burns recalls that dime ‘novels weren't dime novels “at all, because they never cost more than a nickel apiece. That's right. And it also recalls the fact that they didn’t even cost tha, because most of them were. read on a. trade and barter plan. Two old dime. novels - were ‘usually good far. one

new one in a trade, 1 remember. ; 5 Sometimes, to be sure, the fellow ; with the latest book held out for more,-but he usually got left. And deservedly so, because of all the mean boys I knew—and I knew plenty—the worst were those who tried to hold you up in a dime novel deal. I don't know whether it was poetic justice or not, but they all met a bitter end. Be that ’ as it may, all the big deals in dime novels I knew anything about ‘were consummated on a two-for-‘one-basis. This cut down the overhead. a lot, because you must never forget that when Lee Burns and I were youngsters, we had more than 2000 dime novels to ‘cope with. We could never have scraped up enough ‘sapital to read them—not even at a nickel a copy— had not somebody been wise enough to think up a circulation system as slick as the trade-and-barter one,

Mr. Scherrer

Exhibit Held KNOW that there were that many dime novels in existence at the time because, 10 years or so ago, ‘the New York Library put on a show of such books and it surprised the youngsters to learn that Beadle and Adams, all by themselves, published more than 1300. It didn't surprise me at all. To tell the

| truth, I don’t believe the New York people rounded

up more than half, and I think Mr. Burns will back me up in my contention. Erastus F. Beadle, I believe, originated the idea of the dime novel. Anyway, there wasn't any Mr. Adams. in the beginning, He turned up much later, at a time when the business was too big for one man 0 handle. Mr. Beadle started producing as far back as 1860 and kept it up until 1897, which, when you come to think of it, embraces more than two genera=

tions of boys.

| Beadle Retired

FTER that, Mr. Beadle had ‘enough to yelire. Curiously enough, he went to Cooperstown, "N. Y., and ‘ended his -days around the old home and haunts of James Fenimore Cooper who, I strongly suspect, inspired him from the start. I don’t know what happened to Mr. Adams.

" Nor do I know what happened to Nick Carter,

Cap Collier, Deadwood Dick and Old Sleuth. For some reason, they too, retired with Mr. Beadle. Strangely enough, we didn’t miss them as much as we thought we would. It's explained, of course, by the fact that Laura Jean Libbey didn’t let us down. Miss Libbey kept on writing until her death in 1924 which, for some reason, also happens to be the year Mr. David Windsor visited America.

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Hoosier Yesterdays

Jaume BALDWIN, author of many ‘childrén’'s books, was born in Hamilton County in 1841, ‘He was the son of Isaac and Sarah Baldwin. ‘James received some education at “the: district sckopin e was- mainly self-educated. - He educated a he well that he soon became a i dwated In 1884 he was given an honorary Ph. D. degree by De Pauw Uni= versity, He married Mary S. Taylor in 1864. Mr. Baldwin taught and was superintendent in Indiana grade school from 1865 until 1887 before going -to New York where he entered the educh department of Harpers Bros. Publishing Co. From '1890 to 1893 he was assistant editor of the organization. He resigned this post to become editor of school books for the American Book Co., a position he held until 1922. “The Story of Siegfried,” published in 1882; is thought to be his first work. With it he started a series of books adapting old stories to young readers and with such success that his books are still popular. One of his best known works, “The Horse Fair,” was published in St. Nicholas as a serial before it appeared in book form in 1895. It tells of a boy's dreams when he has been made to stay home from the fair, Parts of the book are reminiscences of his early boyhood. - Probably Mr. Baldwin's most famous book is “In My Youth,” published in 1916. In it he gives an ine teresting and realistic picture of early Indiana and the district in which he was born and reared. The earlier editions of this book apeared with the name Robert Dudley as author. Mr. Baldwin died Aug. 30, 1925.—By -R. W.

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal °

ARLY diagnosis of ear infections is important if inflammation of the mastoid bone behind the ear and near the brain is to be prevented. Whenever a child is ill and- feverish, his .should be examined regularly. If the carn is swollen, red, and bulging, and if the child has a rising fever that does not tend to subside, the doctor probably -will want to open the eardrum to save the child’s hearing and to prevent Spread of the infectious material ‘into the tissues mentioned. Whenever diagnosis and proper treatment of an infected ear are delayed, the results may be exe

tion