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ERNIE PYLE
DHOENIX, Jan. 18.—You all remember -Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, the one-time police chief of Washington, D. C,, and ‘hero of the Bonus Army mess in 1932.
Well, he lives now on a 60-acre irrigated |
farm six miles west of Phoenix. At his front gate is a sign saying “Hay—Three Bales for $1. Fresh Eggs.” 7 If you drive in youll find him in old clothes, sawing a board or breaking a colt or feeding the chickens, or maybe painting a picture. But whatever he’s doing, he can always stop. When Glassford left Washington three and a half years ago all who knew him said he would be back shortly as Arizona’s Congressman. What has he done since then? Well, between crops he went out to Imperial Valley to mediate the lettuce strike for Miss Perkins. And then last spring he took a three-month contract to recrganize the Phoenix Police Department. But after 45 days a new city administration was elected and it kicked out everybody, including Glassfora. Hz sued for the other 45 days’ pay but never got it. Last summer he was invited to lecture for two weeks at the Colorado Springs forum put on by the U. S. Office of Education. He went, and enjoved it. He lectured on crime prevention and agriculture. . Last fall Glassford entered-the Congressional primaries. The veterans talked him into it. He spent $500—his own money—and made one tour of the state. He lost. : : Glassford has married again. She was his secretary when he was mediating the lettuce strike. After it, was over there wasn’t any more work for her, but Glassford missed her. They were walking down the street one day and he said “Let's get married.” She said “All right,” and so they did, 2.8 8
She’s Delightful Person
HE is a delightful person. Younger than he, and nice looking, and she has sense. They have fun together. The Glasstfords have built a new house where the old farmhouse stood. They like their house, but they poke fun at it. : For instance, there are large blank white spaces in the paneled living room walls. These were left for Glassford to fill with. Arizona murals. But he can’t i what to paint. Gece writes jo oom He has had a few published, but not many. Mrs. Glassford says hell rush in from the barnlot and write like mad for a couple of hours and then go out, and shell stack it away in a trunk and that’s the end of it. Glassford has a den, but they've never got the floor in it. There is a dining room, but they've never got around to getting furniture for it. ” » ”
Owns Two Other Farms
LASSFORD has two other farms, big ones, east of Phoenix. He has to run over frequently to oversee them. : The Glassfords don’t go in for Phoenix society. They like the peace of the country. And they have a swell time together. And yet—they aren’t content. They want to go places and do things. They don’t have to work hard, but if they leave, things go to pot and the farms won't pay. Glassford gets restless. He would like to have a cattle ranch up around Wickenburg. He would like to travel. He would like to organize a state police force. He would like to be a university president. He would like to go to Mexico. He would like to help start a newspaper. He would like to go East for -a visit. He would like to paint more. He would like to do more studying on crime prevention. He would like to be busy in National affairs and do something important. He would like just to git in the Arizona sun, and read and talk, and avoid everything important. He's so much like me he makes me sick.
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Mrs.Roosevelt's Day
By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
ASHINGTON, Sunday. —Friday afternoon I had tea for the Council for the Federation of Women’s Clubs which meets here every winter. Last year my husband was able to come in and say a few words to them, but this year, with Congress just convening and an inaugural addresss in the making, it was quite impossible for him to be present. The ladies were much disappointed and we can only hope that next year he will not be so busy. Saturday morning was one of those hideous mornings which I suppose must go with any inauguration. All the photographers wanted photographs of what I was going to wear on Wednesday. They were set up in groups on the lower floor of the White House and I progressed from one to the other. My only consolation was that there would never be another inauguration and this was really the last time here, and I hope forever, the last posed picture I will have to have taken. The day was a most glorious day, so I stole half an hour and went for a walk before lunch. A large and formal luncheon with Madame Sze on my right and Donna Matilda de Suvich on my left. This was Mrs. Cordell Hull’s first appearance here since she came back from her South American trip and I was delighted to see her and so was everybody else. Mrs. Hull brought me a truly international gift. It was made in Holland, bought in Bermuda, sent to her in the Argentine and brought by her back to me. It js one of those delightfully soft and warm shawls which you never wish to be without once you possess them. } Some people came in for tea. Lady Rhonda and Miss Stanhope, who are here from England, came for «dinner with a few other friends. - A relative of mine had written me that Lady Rhonda was anxious to see me but that she felt it imperative to see the President and if that interview was not arranged, she would feel - her entire visit to the United States had been spoiled. Th= only way. I could arrange it was to put her next te him at dinner, which was done successfully. The President, the children and I went to church this morning and we all look forward to a quiet afternoon.
New Books
PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—
CCORDING to his publisher, Idwal Jones is “one “of the most colorful personalities in California. He has met life as-a laborer, prospector, rancher, stage-worker, cow-puncher, dramatic critic and columnist in New York and San Francisco, motion picture writer, and author of several published books. He is a character out of the West with all of its picturesque qualities and has a talent for strange words and strange people.” This reviewer was not aware of strange words, perhaps being carried along too swiftly by interest in the strange people,- Chinese and Japanese, left stranded by the swiftly ebbing tide of tne California gold rush—stranded, but neither moribund nor useless. The six stories .transport us into a time and kind of living we shall never know, except through the magic of CHINA BOY (Primavera Press). ” n ” “HE answer which 0. W. Willcox gives to the question posed in the title of CAN INDUSTRY GOVERN ITSELF? (Norton) is an emphatic “Yes.” To support this opinion, the author relates the experiences of 10 countries, including such diverse nations as Germany and Cuba, in regulating the sugar industry so as to make it reasonably profitable in the face of contracting markets. The methods by which this objective is attained vary from voluntary but binding aggeements among producers, to practically complete governmental conirol From this Mr. Willcox draws conclusions which may be applied to all fully developed industries in the United States. Since the era of expanding markets has passed, we must and can, he believes, abandon the theory of laissez-faire and adopt a new socioeconomic philosophy which will make possible a rea- ‘ sonable return to both producer and laborer, at the ' lowest possible price for the consumer, ;
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TEETH CARE JUST FUN FOR QUINS
Need for Early and Constant Attention Stressed by Dr. Dafoe
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The quins have been rather gay about their dental inspections, which have been just another romp to them. They laugh or listen attentively to the whir of the motor on the dental engine. The utmost patience has been used at all times in the cleaning and polishing operation. We wait until the children open their
That dental buzz-machine that strikes terror into your heart, and yours, and yours, is just a joke to the Dionne
By ALLAN ROY DAFOE, O. B. E, M. D. @ (Copyright, 1937. NEA Service. Inc.)
ALLANDER, Ontario, Jan. 18.—The 80 pearly teeth behind the gay smiles of the Dionne quintuplets are all sound and good. Two careful inspections by Toronto dental experts have revealed that the children’s “baby teeth,” of which each little girl now has 16, are all in splen-
These inspections, and the occasional polishing with dental machinery which has been installed in the nursery, have never raised a single wail from the quins. For they
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mouths naturally. Nothing is forced upon them, and they are less afraid, for that reason.
Two or three times a year hereafter, Toronto experts will check over our care of the children’s teeth to make sure that all is go. ing well.
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R. W. G. THOMPSON, chief of dental inspection for the province of Ontario; Dean Mason of the dental college of Tcronto University, and others, were pres-
quintuplets. Diet and care have given them almost perfect | teeth. So Yvonne, left; Annette, center, and Cecile, right
are intrigued by the macliine, or smilingly co-operative, but never afraid, as Dr. Di foe polishes their teeth.
ent at the last checkup, and gave the children’s teeth a clean bill. Three dentists have been, and will be, constantly consulted on the dental health of the famous little girls, But these “formal inspections” take place only two or three times a year. The rest of the time we take care of the children’s teeth in the nursery.
The care for “baby teeth” seems to many parents a waste of time, because those teeth are promptly lost when the permanent teeth come along to take their place. But this is a grave mistake, for - a healthy set of “baby teeth” is .the best possible assurance of strong, normal “permanent teeth.” If the child’s “baby teeth” are allowed to decay or become crookedly or abnormally aligned, they are likely to cause trouble when the “adult teeth” arrive. That is why we started caring for the quintuplets’ teeth as soon as the first tooth pushed its way through the pink gums. Careful brushing and cleaning by the
REP. PIERCE WANTS LEGISLATION ABOLISHING ALL STRAW VOTES
By RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer
ASHINGTON, Jan, 18.—For the third time, Rep. Walter M. Pierce (D. Ore.) has launched a legislative assault on straw ballots. He wants them abolished. He says he will keep at it as long as he is in Congress. He believes people are in the mood for action after their experiences ‘in the last campaign. Rep. Pierce decided straw ballots were evil things some 12 years ago, during the Coolidge campaign, when he learned of an incident in a small Oregon town. The regular postmaster was ill and the acting postmaster found a bundle of straw ballots in the office.
The substitute, a Socialist, filled out the ballots in favor of his candidate, signing the names of lumber workers who drifted in and out of town, and sent them in. Later a postal inspector arrived to investigate. He asked where the men were whose names had been signed, and got so stern about it that the acting postmaster finally confessed. The inspector was indignant. “You know you were instructed to send 2ll those ballots to the Republican State Committee!” he said, according to the story. = ”n EJ EP. PIERCE believes that straw
ballots inevitably reflect the desires of the people with money or
power and that they influence elections by swinging wavering voters into line. He thinks the people will pay little attention to them for a time, after last year’s experience, but he wants legislative action to prevent a future recurrence. The first term he served in Congress, Rep. Pierce introduced a bill to ban material on straw ballots from the mails. It had a hearing, but got no further. His second term he introduced » resolution asking for an investigation of straw ballots. It died in the Rules Committee. This year he has introduced both bill and resolution, the first going to the Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads, the second to the Rules Committee again.
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as a part of the regular daily routine. But of course our dental care began long before that first tiny tooth appeared. One of the aims of proper diet is to provide the body with those elements that assure proper bone-building and tooth-nourishment. The mineral salts, and especially calcium, are the essential ones. Milk and plenty of it, fresh fruit and vegetables, such as spinach, oranges, tomatoes, apples and prunes, are all rich in calcium and other bone-and-tooth-build-ing substances. The quins always have had plenty of these elements. As a matter of fact, whenever possible, it is best for the expectant mother to make sure of an extra supply of these substances in her own diet, for the child's teeth are well-formed before. birth, even though the first one seldom appears before the fifth month afterward. As a result of this care in diet from birth, the quins never have had any of the usual teething troubles. We never knew when a tooth was to appear, for there was
nce of the fretfulness and irrital ility that mothers have learned to 2xpect as part of teething. iil - oR Ie n ' ND there has been no tooth i. trouble since. Careful cleaning and periodic Inspection from bir h, together with a diet that co! tained all the requisites for toc h-building, | have kept the qui ns’ teeth white and pearly. The cal ‘ful checking and inspection by dental experts have failed to ret sal a single| cavity or spot. 11 was amusing to see how the quis met the visits of ° the de: tists. Like anything else, they too: the dental inspection “in the ¢ stride.” They laughed and cooed, and grz hbed for the dental impleme its, and were. intrigued by the ela orate apparatus and the wh ie of the motor rather than an: oyed by the inspecting and the polishing. | * EF 7 waiting patiently until they we; » ready and willing to open the r mouths spontaneously, and noi’ forcing them, it became all par’ of a fascinating new game.
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\ series on British employeren ployee relations begins tom Irow on this page.
Sullivan Warns Against Inflation and Its Causes
By MARK SULL VAN
ASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—1If the
Administration is nervous about picking just the right time to begin to stop inflation, so are commentators nervous about the right time to say a beginning ought to be made. For to say the Administration should begin is to say the danger is here. And to say the danger is here has almost the same effect as saying inflation itself is here. And to say inflation is here, or even to warn that inflation may be coming tends to bring about the very thing warned against. If I write here, with any positiveness, that inflation is likely to come. and if enough readers believe me, a considerable number are likely to take steps to protect themselves against the consequences. The steps would consist mainly of buying certain kinds of securities and of buying goods—buying goods not merely for present use but because of expectation that goods will go materially higher in price. And if enough people start doing that, and keep it up long enough, the inflation will come surely. It’s ‘a difficult choice for a commentator. If he warns against inflation, then he helps bring about But if he consciously refrains from speaking, after he feels inflation is on the way, then he does injustice to those whom he ought to warn. It has always seemed to me a pity that while the expert and sophisticated are able to see inflation com= ing, and to guard themselves against ijt, the ordinary person Who will suffer most from inflation, dces not recognize the signs. The warning which the sophisticated get for themselves ought to be made available to the average man. ” 2 # UT I have not answered the question. Mr. Walter Lippmann is fairly positive. He says «The country is in the first phase of an inflationary boom.” And Mr. Lippmann adds that those who do not know this “are living in a fool's paradise,” and the end is practically everybody’s hell. Perhaps Mr. Lippmann did not intend to be as positive as this quotation from his article might imply. He heads his article “trouble ahead,” and this probably expresses the degree of his apprehension. I am not sure I should put it as positively as Mr. Lippmann. It is a fact that most of the materials for an inflationary boom are. in existence. But I think it still may be averted. One requisite for real inflation is the inthe minds of
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inflal ion is not in the minds of the peop! it does not exist at all. WE sn a people become “inflationmind d” they begin to buy goods very rapidly, without questioning the price. Our people are not in that | 100d. Many makers and sellers 0 goods are marking them up in piice,- but consumers tend to quest on the higher prices, complain of th:m and resist them. If we shouli’ have a mild “buyers’ strike” again f any extreme rise in prices, and | f the producers of goods yielde'l to it promptly, thus not interruj ting recovery, the effect might be wk slesome,
” ® ” Li%O, the Administration, if 1 150lute enough, can ky various micans do much to avert inflation, (nd lately the Administration has st med aware of the danger. The {echnical causes of the present condition are explained in many learne | treaties, they include Governme iit deficits and hence Government horrowing, low interest rates partly brought about by Government iiolicy, Government manufacture ¢. money in the form of bank credit, @normous stocks of .goid. But these ‘auses are in turn the effects of oth r causes. Mr. Lippmann describes an underlyir 2 cause as consisting of two Admir stration policies. The Administ; ation creates new credit money. and thereby increases purchasin;: power. It does this by borrowing and paying persons on relief w|.0 do. not produce a correspondi \g quality of |goods, and by encour ging high wages in private emplo; ent. While the Administration {!Rus increases purchasing power, il at the same time foilows a policy designed to restrict production of goods. It encourages shorter workin: hours in factories and it pays ilarmers to produce smaller crops. These two policies, increase of pur‘ hasing power and decrease of proiuction, working simultaneously, {end to bring high prices.
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Our Town
By ANTON SCHERRER.
I DOUBT whether adequate analysis has yet been made of the part illustrators played in putting over the stories I read when I was a boy. Take Mrs. Burnett's “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” for example. Except for the pictures by Reginald Birch, Mrs.
Burnett wouldn't have reached first base. I'm sure of it, because I still remember how Mr. Birch pulled Mrs. Burnett out of every hole she got into.. Mr. Birch
sort of cleared up everything, even to the point of allowing us boys to do some skipping without losing track of the story. That's the sign of a good illustrator. My boyhood was full of similar experiences. “Alice in Wonderland,” for instance, and “Through the Looking Glass” wouldn’t have turned out half so well without the Tenniel illustrations. At any rate, Mr. Tenniel made sense, which is something Lewis Carroll didn’t always do. I still remember Mr. Tenniel’s pictures of the White Knight on horseback in a dim forest, and the Cheshire Cat grinning unexpectedly from the boughs of a tree. They gave me nightmares, I remember but that was all right because I felt that Mr. Tenniel had Succeeded where Mr. Carroll, limited as he was by literature, had failed. At any rate, Mr. Tenniel put “Alice in Wonderland” over for me. The Iliad, too, was a lot more exciting because of the pictures by John Flaxman. And, of course, Charles Dickens profited a lot by George Cruikshank. So much so, that I never have been able to think of one without the other. I guess that’s what the Romans meant when they said that a man had an “alter ego” —another self that got him out of the tight places.
” x ” Dore Illustrated Munchausen
BE that as it may, I remember another book, dealing with the exploits of Baron Munchausen, which had the good fortune to be illustrated by Guse
tav Dore. He got away with it in er great style—a lot better, anyway, than when he tried to illustrate
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For some reason, Louisa Alcott never had a illustrator. At least not when I was a boy, Fi sometimes wonder how much she suffered on account of it. Neither did Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Child’s Garden of Verse.” I am not unmindful of the Mars and Squires illustrations, but somehow they were either too cute or too grim. I just didn’t like them,
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Children in Books Queer
A NYWAY, it always struck me that most children in books were a little queer to start with, and that it was one of the things a good illustrator had
to guard against. For some reason, Mr. Stevenson always had the bad luck to have illustrators who made his children gppear queerer than he had conceived them, which, goodness knows, was queer enough. Of course, the great period came when E. W, Kemble, A. B. Frost, Frederic Remington, Howard Pyle and Maxfield Parrish got around to illustrating boys’ books. I guess I was about 15 years old when I saw my first Parrish picture--a poster advertising Scribner’s magazine. I saw it in Cathcart & Clel= land’s bookshop, I remember, and I bought it. It set me back a quarter. but it was worth it. Less than a month later, I bought the poster he made for the Century people. . This time it cost 35 cents and I mention the fact merely to show how the market responded to my enthusiasm. :
A Woman's View
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
GREAT educator has said, “The time to learn a thing is just before you use it.” This theory is particularly applicable to girls who plan to become housewives. The time for them to begin domestic training is after they become engaged. And it is at this point, precisely, that American’ mothers fail. We turn out countless thousands of young women whose main object in life is to get married. If they succeed in the ambition, the chances are a hundred to one they will have to assume at least some of the household responsibilities, and the ma= jority can look forward to taking on all of them. In short, for the first time in their lives they know exactly what they are going to do. There are no ifs, ands or buts about it. They will be wives, therefore they must finally learn how to be housekeepers and cooks and perhaps mothers. This is as clear as is the fact that they are marrying men who are garage mechanics or engineers or lawyers or doctors or sales men. Yet what do a good many of these girls—ably encouraged by their mothers—do? Why, instead of taking six months off and learning how to cook and market and budget an income, they adopt the truste ful pose of children in a fairy tale who believe that when the crisis arrives some magic power will descend and save them from failure. Of all the many adolescent attitudes with which our society is afflicted, this is perhaps the most pernicious. It seems to me high time mothers interested themselves in the question. The sketchy knowledge our girls obtain from a high school domestic science course, or the hit-or-miss experience at home are as inadequate for their real needs as a core respondence course would be in teaching the baby how to crawl. Bride schools are a step in the right direction, but it would be much more intelligent to set up prebride schools. When a girl knows she will soon have a house of her own—that is the moment she should begin to educate herself to keep a house.
Your Health
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, American Medical Assn. Journal
HILE an increase in the total number of red blood cells is a serious matter, a persistent,
great increase in the total number of white blood cells -
is much more serious from the standpoint of effect on health and life. From his patient's appearance, the doctor may frequently guess that this disturbance exists, but only an examination of the blood, including a counte ing of the white blood cells and a study of their appearance, will yield the necessary knowledge to make a diagnosis. ’ Normal human beings have about 7500 white blood cells in each cubic millimeter of blood. In the condition called leukemia, the white blood cells increase rapidly in amount to 100,000, or even 1,000,000 in every cubic millimeter of blood. As the white blood cells increase, the red ones decrease, the red coloring matter of the red blood cells breaks down, and eventually death may follow. Cause of this strange malady is unknown. It is definitely related to changes which take place in the blood-forming tissue, such as the bone marrow, spleen, and lymph glands. Fortunately, leukemia is rare. There are types of cases which come on suddenly and cause death promptly; and there are chronic cases in which the development is gradual. In very severe cases, the life of the patient is measured in weeks or, at the most, in months. Because of the nature of the condition, the patient be=comes weak, has throat pains. and usually has symp=toms such as those in most severe types of infectious diseases, associated with anemia, hemorrhage, swelling of the glands, spleen, and liver, and similar signs of
. serious damage to the body. One of the first methods of treatment in this type °
of disease is to inject blood directly into the body and sometimes the X-ray is used to ivity of the bone marrow. But alto=-
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