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ERNIE PYLE

ASHINGTON, March Kurt Sell chronologically. In 1909 Kurt Sell was 22. He lived in Berlin, where he was born. Ile was going to law school. Algo, he was studying Japanese. He had started in law, but took on Japanese when he read that the ‘German Foreign Office wanted voung men to go to Japan as translators. In 1910 he was assighed to the embassy in Tokvo, Every morning he had to read to the ambassador a dozen Japanese newspapers. Also he had to translate diplomatic documents, It Kept him busy. But he really learned Japanese,

He was inh Japan four years. When the World War broke out,

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he was ordered back to Germany. | He came by way of America, across

the Pacific. For some reason they wouldn't 3 let him out of New York. So GeorJ \ many shot him back to Chicago, ; as vice consul. He stayed there Mr. Pyle until 1917, when Von Bernstorft and all the German diplomats were sent home on the same ship.

It took them a month to get from New York to |

Germany, the British slit open their shirt collars, broke their cigars in two, stripped them naked, looking for secret documents. Back in war-soaked Germany a strange thing happened to Sell. He was sent to the front trenches as an “official eavesdropper.” He knew both English and IPrench. Had learned them in school. So the generals sent him to the front, even sent him crawling out beyond the trenches at night, to listen to what French and British and American soldiers in their own trenches were saying! It wasn't pleasant, Sell says, 1 asked him if he ever heard anything of importance, “Almost nothing,” he says. n

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Lost 60 Pounds in one year at the

H" was never wounded. But A front he lost 60 pounds. Not enough to eat.

Just couldn't get it. Hardly ‘ever any meat. Not even tobacco. They smoked dried leaves. Kurt Sell remembers perfectly Jan, 27, 1918. Tt was the Emperor's birthday They celebrated by having meat at the front, And while he was ‘eating, brders came transferring him to the Foreign Office ih Berlin. What a day-—the Emperor's birthday, meat, and virtually the end of the war, for Kurt Sell. Was he happy! After the war, Germany sent him back to Japan to reopen the consulate in Yokohama, He ‘was there when the earthquake of 1923 came. He lost evervthing he had-—money, clothes, books, Japanese evervthing, He ‘was four ‘days in the ‘open, without food. The ground shook for a month after the main quake The whole thing shattered him so that he asked to be transferred out of Japan,

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like to be a newspaperman., Back in Berlin, he mentioned it, decided he should come to America the German News Agency. He worked several months in London, learning the ropes. Then several months in New York, In July, 1927, he arrived in Washington, and he has been here ever since He is one of the best newspapermen in Capital. And one of the hardest ‘workers.

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Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Woes, Monday--Most of my older guests went over to dine with Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr, last night, and then she brought all of her party over here for the movie at 9:30. This left for dinner here, most young except for John's two godfathers, Mr. Langdon Marvin and Mr. T. Jefferson Newbold; my mother-in-law; Mrs. Harvey ‘Cushing and Mrs. Eugene du Pont. We had & very jolly dinner with speeches, presents and a large birthday cake, There was much laughter over one young man who found a thimble and heart in a piece of his cake. Tonight Franklin Jr, and John go back to Boston Franklin Jr.'s medical tests are all behind him and on the whole they are very satisfactory, but the doctors have decided that his heart is not quite up to competi-

tive rowing, which is, of course, a sad blow for him. |

However, graduating from college is the most important thing, so he can concentrate all his efforts ‘on that now My mother-in-law is also going back to New York on & late afternoon train, 1 had promised to go to Annapolis for lunch and a speech to the Naval Academy Women's Club, s0 when I left before noon my daughter-in-law, Betsy, took charge. When she discovered that my thought she was getting a cold, she wasted no time in having the doctor come to make sure that she was not starting off with a temperature, When I returned my ‘mother-in-law said she had told Betsy she was quite frightened by her efficiency. 1 thought Betsy was extremely clever to do it and say nothing until the ‘doctor was ih the room, otherwise 1 feel sure there would have protests. The drive to Annapolis was quite lovely. Tt was a windy day but the air was delicious. Lunch with Mrs, Sellers was delightful, The room was flooded with sunshine and we stepped out on the porch afterward to look at the garden which will be showing signs ‘of life¥'n & short time. Back in plenty ‘of time for tea with the whole family,

been long

National Press Club dinner tonight. prepared and hope for inspiration on the spot and ‘it is a nerve-wracking business, Luckily, TI ‘close the evening, s6 1 ought to be able to find something to talk about! Miss Nancy Cook, who came down for the party tonight, and I take the midnight for New York as 1 have some engagements there tomorrow, but 1 will be back here Wednesday.

New Books

PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— NHAPPY Ireland, known to her singers as Dark Rosaleen, Kathleen Houlihan, and the Browne Haired maid, is the DEAR DARK HEAD (McGrawHill) of which Helen Landreth writes. Though an American, the author this history with the care porn of love. ‘Going back to the misty legendary times when the High King ruled at Tara, when the halls of the castle resounded with music and feasting and the davs were filled with hunting and fighting, she tells of Brian Boru, who cirushed the power of the Danes; of the beautiful and sorrowful Deirdre, of the gentle and wise St. Columba. And she tells of the oppression of Treland-—of England's invasion; of a people starving while racke renters seized their crops; of Parnell and Roger ‘Case ment and the Sinn Fein. This is the story of the Dear Dark Head beloved of the Irish, told with both knowledge and fervor. u LS un NLY by accident did Shane Rory meet Torpedo Jones, and consequently embark on the ‘career of Roaring Shane Rory, whose story Jim Tully tells in "THE BRUISER (Greenberg) His rise from the status of small-time fighter to that of victor ovir Hany Sully, the heavyweight champion, was a process of ‘education not ‘only in ‘the art of fighting but in the ways ¢f ‘man. He ledrned that women can love you and yet double-cross vou, that a fighter's days of glory &re foilowed by obscurity, tha! & man ‘may become “‘slugnutty” and land in the insane asylum, that a fight may be “fixed,” and that it is not always the best man who wins, Jim Tully has been a prize fighter himself. From {5s knowledge of the ring he has produced & book which resounds with the authentic speech of fighters, seconds, managers, promoters and dg

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The Indianapolis Times

Second Section

TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 1937

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COURT AND SENATOR BEVERIDGE Hoosier Thought Bench Itself Should Adopt Two-Thirds Rule

By THOMAS 1. STOKES

Timex Shecial Weiter WW ASHINGTON, March 2.—Two eminent constitutional authorities who advocated a two-thirds vote by the Supreme Court, in declaring acts of ‘Congress unconstitutional, held that the change from simple majority rule could and should be accomplished by the Court itself through a simple regulation of its own. They were the late Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana, author of the monumental biography of John Marshall, and former Justice John H. Clarke of Ohio, who retired from the Supreme Court in 1922 and now lives in

California. Justice Clarke, after his bench, frequently criticized that the change should come from the Court rather than be imposed by Conpress or through a constitutional amendment, “When two or more judges, equally able and experienced, who have heard the same arguments oh the same record, are thus clear that an act of Congress is valid.” Justice ‘Clarke said, “this should be accepted by the other judges as sufficient to raise a ‘rational doubt’ as to the validity of their ‘own thinking, and this under the rule, as frequently stated by the Court, would make

impossible 5-to-4 decisions. “My conclusion is that by treating this rule as & reality — the Court could avoid such 5-to-4 decisions and by such self-imposed restraint disarm much very serious criticism and perhaps avoid a much greater statutory or constitutional limitation upon this fateful power which might prove disastrous to our constitutional system and so to our country.”

HESE views were stated in a letter in 1923. Tn the same vear, Senator Beveridge expressed similar views ih magazine articles. Both men were suggesting the reform to meet current criticism of the Court, much like that of today, which had been provoked partly by public resentment at 5-to-4 decisions, Senator Beveridge addressed himself particularly to the proposal then discussed, and subsequently espoused by the late Senator La Follette in his 1924 candidacy for President, that the Supreme ‘Court be deprived of its power to pass on constitutionality of acts of Congress. The La Follette proposal was fought by Senator Beveridge with all the vigor at his command. But he did recognize then, as

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retirement from the Supreme 5-to-4 decisions but insisted

always through his life, the neces. sity of the Constitution being expanded to meet changing conditions through liberal interpreta tion, and he appreciated fully the agitation then going on. He thought that a change to twothirds decisions oh constitution. ability of acts of Congress would allay suspicion of the Court, Congress, he held, had no power to make such a change. “But the Supreme Court itself can,” he said. “For instance, it can adopt a rule for its own guidance requiring six out of the nine members of the Supreme Court to agree that an act of Congress is uncon stitutional before so deciding, If the Supreme Court would adopt such a rule and publicly announce it, the movement to destroy its power ‘over unconstitutional legis lation would soon come to a standstill. » »

“JT is a matter for the justices of the Supreme Court to decide for themselves and it ine volves statesmanship of the first order. It is & question of policy, not power, of good sense and sound judgment rather than abe stract right or wrong. “Once before, after similar ase saults upon the Supreme Court, the justices made public a rule of that kind, Public complaint had been made that important State legislation had been nullified hy a majority of a quorum of the Supreme Court, which majority of a quorum was, ih fact, a minority of the whole Court; and the public was far more irritated by the unreasonableness and unfairness of such alleged judicial action than it was by the striking down of the unconstitutional but popular statutes. “So ‘Chief Justice John Marshall, who was a greater statesman than he was a lawyer, pub-

| lely announced that the practice

of the Court was that the Court would not, ‘except in cases of abe solute necessity,’ decide cases ‘where constitutional questions are involved’ unless by a majority of the whole Court. This destroyed the ground for the criticism that vital constitutional questions had been made by a minority of the Court, “So today the Supreme Court can destroy the ground for the criticism that vital constitutional decidions involving the settled public policy of the nation are made by a bare majority of one justice.” " ” » We HEN five able and learned justices think one way,” Senator Beveridge asked, “and four equally able and learned justices, all oh the same bench, think

|CO-OPERATIVE FARM SEEMS ON WAY TO SUCCESS AFTER YEAR

| Sherwood Bddy's

By JACK BRYAN NEA Service Npecial Correspondent ILLHOUSE, Miss, March Delta Co-operative Farm, Dr. contribution toward solving the ‘problem of the

Southern tenant farmer, has weath- |

ered its first vear, Members of the community have some cash and many hew comforts to show for a year of pioneering. There have been problems. A few families voluntarily left the colony. A few were voted out. But the results shown by the first vear have left the directors hopeful of solid progress for the future. Most

lof the residents seem distinctly bet- | ter off.

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Late last March the first of the

30 families how on the farm left

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Most of them were then on relief or actually homeless as & result of tenant union troubles, They took shelter in tiny cotton houses on the 2138-acre tract bought by Bddy for the co-operative farm ‘experiment. Fewer than 500 acres were

. | ‘cleared. I am feeling extremely nervous about the Women's |

1 have to go un- |

> % @ ODAY there are more than 20 comfortable if not claborate houses. The members built them themeelves from lumber milled on the farm by their own sawmill, More than $8500 in cash will be divided among ‘members, says Sam Franklin, local director. ‘Cash «d-

[vances ‘made during the year for

living expenses are first deducted. Members have already received their first dividend from the consumers’ co-operative store, Each family got back 5 Per cent on what it has bought since last September. The co-operative store is run on the Rochdale system,

| with profits going back to the cus-

has fashioned | | of | into ‘the [' mates, | with his share

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write,” says Mr. Franklin.

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Between $3000 and $5000 worth | have been put |

improvements land, Mr. Franklin estiBach member is credited in this increased value, as an equity in any later division of assets. HF & » BOUT $13,000 was brought in by the cotton crop, below expectations, and some $4000 from sale of lumber, ‘Out of this came operating expenses and $1000 paid on the loan originally made to buy the land and start the project. Many tough problems have been met ‘during the first year, “Most of the people could neither read nor “They didn't ‘even know what a ‘co-opera-tive was, and called it & ‘corporative’ because they'd heard that word.” Some, looking for ample cash and an easy life, dropped out, Mr. Franklin says. A few families were voted off the place by the co-opera-tive council. A few ‘others yielded

to inducements or pressure from out. |

side, to take places on other farms. ” ” u

and screening of houses in ¢o-op-eration with the county health board was not sufficient protection, Drought burned out the corh and the co-operative garden, “But ‘on the basis of the first vear,” Mr, Franklin says, “I think we have given the lie to easy gener alities about the sharecropper being a lazy and shiftless fellow who won't respond to better environ ment, “We have built up a strong group of people, who were not wanted where they came from, but who are building themselves a permanent future ‘through their own ‘hard work."

A social, educational, and religious |

program has been developed as fast as possible. Night classes fh reading and writing for grown-ups are being held, and training in handicraft and furniture-making is being started. The racial ‘problem has never developed at all, No social ‘mixing is attempted, and the Negro and white members live fn separate colonies on opposite ridges. Baquality in work and its rewards is ‘maintained. agricultural

n AN institute has been begun, and the farm fis being developed along scientific

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lines, with crop rotation, At least 800 acres are to be kept in forest, and alfalfa and other crops are

planned as & hedge against a cote |

ton failure, A co-operative dairy herd will be added to the chickens and successfully raised this year. Mr Franklin thinks the farm will eventually take care of between 70 and 80 families. The land was bought for $17,500, with additional sums for improves ments. This is & loan at 2 per cent interest. When it is repatd, it will £0 to & revolving fund to start other similar ventures,

There has been little open ane tagonism by neighboring planters, But croppers on nearby plantations have been warned to stay away, and some efforts have been made to get ‘members to leave,

Some local suspicion has fallen |

on the co-operative because of the many ‘outside visitors, union ore ganizers, sociologists, and students, who have conducted classes and forums in union organization and similar social subjects.

But on the whole the first year |

of the Delta Co-operative seems to have achieved a measure of success.

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The first year of Delta Co-operative Farm at Willhouse, Miss,

Sherwood Fady's effort to solve the sharecropper | | homes in the community. Plain though they seem, they are a great

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fon of proper medical service | improvement over the farmers’ former dwellings. The community

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the other way and exprass their | dissent fn ‘powerful arguments, sometimes with warm feeling, is it not obvious that the law in question is not such a plain infraction of the Constitution as to e unconstitutional ‘beyond all question’? “However, if the decisions of the Supreme Court declaring aces of Congress to be unconstitutional were made by A majority of twothirds of all the justices—6 out of f-<instead of by a majority of one 5 out of H-the average citizen would accept it ‘more wilithgly, .»» That is only human nature, “Tt is said,” Senator Beveridge continued, ‘that to require more than a bare majority to declare an act of Congress to be uncon stitutional would put the party at- | tacking the law at a disadvantage, | since he would have to convince | ix judges that the law ‘was unconstitutional, whereas the ‘party upholding the law would have to | ‘convince only three judges that | the law was constitutional,

Clapper Says

By RAYMOND CLAPPER

Titmen Npecinl Writer

March

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ASHINGTON,

| Many problems press for at-

tention but none more deservingly [than our old friend, ‘the relief prob= [lem, The Administration shortly [will ask Congress for another ap- [ propriation, plenty big. 11 ‘possible, the subject ought to be | considered a little ‘more thoroughly [than heretofore because the matter lof relfef, while still acute, also is becoming chronic, Before it settles into permanent form through the course ‘of habit, some changes might [be desirable, There are two divisions of posi‘tion, both probably correct in the main. | ‘On one side are those who think [that our relief problem will disap[pear automatically as recovery pro|gresses, The National Tndustrial |Oonference Board estimates that continued increase in business ac [tivity at the rate which has pre[vailed in the last four years will |ereate a general labor shortage by 1040. With such business progress, tlie board does hot believe that the United States is destined to carry a permanent body of unemployed at | public expense, b Ww %» N the other wide are those Who think that several ‘millions, | perhaps five or six ‘millions, always will have to be supported with pub[Tie funds. Of course, some take the | position, as an Assistant Budget Director «<id with regard to unemsployment ih the District of ‘Colum: |'bia, that the churches ought to take [care of these people—presumably [the Crodless as well as the righteous | wis A matter of Christian charity. | Put relief officials, predicting a | continuation of aid ‘on a large scale, regard ft as a public, not a religious obligation, It is difficult for the argument to proceed because here, in velt's second term, we still have no accurate figures as to the humber out of work. Everyone ‘makes his own guess, There has been much talk abAhut an unemployment census, or a national registration of wunemployed, but nothing has been done, Harry Hopkins gets as much ‘money as he can out of Congress and spreads it around as far as it will go. Those who do not get in on this distribution take their chances with local authorities, | Hoover fumbled with the relief | problem toward the end of his term and Roosevelt has fumbled with it lever since. This would seem to be an appropriate time to ‘take stock [and ascertain in s0 far as possible what the prospects are, what the

To Study Relief Problem

| Be this objection would seem to be insignificant compared | with the vital circumstance that [ a law passed by a majority of the Senate and House and approved by the President is to be stricken down or upheld, “The other familiar argument,” he watd, “in favor of the b-to-4 rule is that ours is a government by ‘majorities, and that to change this as to the Supreme Ootirt | would be violative of a fundamental principle of our inutitutions, “Ts not this unconvincing in view | ‘of the fact that impeachment of national officials ‘must be wanctioned by two-thirds of the Sens | ate? ‘Or'that in jury trials verdicts | ‘ean he reached only by unanimous | vote? ‘Or that two-thirds of ‘Con- | gress are mecessary to pass a bill over the veto of the President? Or that treaties can be ratified only by two-thirds of the Senate? “My we mee that the majority principle does not ‘permeate’ our fhutitutions after all.”

It Is Time

[ 'I'ER several ‘months’ investigation and study here and abroad, Miss Maxine Davis has published ‘her findings in a vols

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‘might impress him, but

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| ‘didn't weem to mind it in the least, | waw him in A better humor than he was the day

ume ‘entitled “They Shall Not Want.” Tt is done in language that | a reporter, and therefore a Congrossman, can understand, and might be of some help in talking | the ‘problem through.

Miss Davis says WPA has little | to recommend 1b, that its benefits | are out of all proportion to its cost, | that it fx welf<perpetuating, causes | dislocations in local financing and ordinary employment, and that the | longer it remains the harder 1t Will | be to Toot out, She assumes that some unemsployment Trelfef will be necessary | indefinitely and that it ought to | be organized on a permanent, not | an emergency pump-priming bavi, She favors a cornerstone of na- | tional unemployment exchanges, | buttressed by real national unems | ployment insurance and planned | relfef work programs which would | call for useful ‘work, not “made” | work to enable relief recipients to kill time, Firm establishment of uns employment exchanges which would chock malingering and provide an effective ‘clearing house between jobs and workers, is regarded as | the control point of the whole program,

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i si ss FROM THE RECORD | Rep, Buckler (¥.-%. Minn.) Some people ‘have wald ‘we ‘have the Securities and Exchange Oommiyeyion to regulate the Stock Exchange, But that reminds me of a law that was passed up in North Dakota @ few years ago, The gophers over there got to be so numerous “hat they started to eat up vome of the crops. The Legislature passed a bill providing for a bounty to be paid for ponhers, ‘Of course, the Tarn ors went to trapping the gophers. All they had to do was to take the tail of the gopher to the auditor and get the money. Later on ft was found out that the farmers were turning the gophers loase. The farmers then were asked why they were turning vhese govhars loose, becatee they only had one tail, and they had already been patd for that, The farmers repited: “1 know, but he will go out and raise ‘more gophers with tails.” That fs just about the way the | Securities and Exchange Oommis- | yion regulates the Stock Exchange Lup “are in New York.

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Senator Pope (OD. Tdaho)=Victor Hugo once said: “There is one thing

problem fs, and how ft should be | stronger than armies; and that is

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an idea when its time has come.”

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By ANTON SCHERRER JrATH ER, 4 against gambling, too. He didn't say much, but it was enough to show us kids that, he had made up his mind, after which thera wasn’t much we could do about it, Indead, it always struck me that Fathep tightened up when we {ried to get him to change hig mind, which, of course, didn't make the effort worths while,

Anyway, 1 distinctly recall that every time we tried to show him that maybe, under certain conditions, gambling had its good points, immediately he would enlarge the scope of his condemnastion until finally his definition of gambling was broad enough to in clude even church raffles and the innocent diversion of Ewapping marbles, a Which was why Father's cons uct surprised me when he caught me ih the act of gambling. vy ME. Neherrer I wan about 16 years old at the time, T pussy, Anvs Way it was the year Father took ux all to Burape and tucked ux away in Switzerland in a little watering place called Baden, which had a lot 0 recommend it 1h the way of pretty walks and scenery, The bigs gest thing about Baden, however, was its Kiurhaiy, & lovely hotwe and garden set hsfde for the sntertaifns ment of its visitors, Well, T had the Tun of the Kurhitz becatize Fas ther had provided ‘nie with a #eason tiekst, And it Wak pleasant enough becatse every afternoon ft gave He A chance to listen to the folly music on the terrace, After that, it was ‘my habit (o #6 to the reading room Which was loaded down With ‘newspapers fiom all parts of the world

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CAN'T ‘exactly remember whether ft the newnpapers were dull that day, it Was becatse T was seated the way I was, but T tlistinctly recall that one afternoon 1 saw a crowd in the foyer intent on getting somewhere, and getting there faut, 1 joined the erowd, 1 remember, and before T knew what ft was all ‘about, T found myself in A wmptuously appointed room which, without anybody telling ‘me, 1 immediately recognized as a gambling hall, Before T knew it 1 was gambling too, Tt was 1» easy to catch on. 1 had five francs, the equivalent of & dollar, and 1 handed it to the croupier A frana at a time, with duch happy results that 1 just couldn't help telling father about his precocious son when 1 got home that evening,

was hachuss or whethep

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Father Congratulated Him

NSTHEAD of blowing me 1p, as to expect, Pather, 1 remember on ‘my Nuccess, and if T had had any sense at ths might have known he had something up his ¥leeve, 1 wtill remember how he went about it He wanted to know how 1 was going to spend (ha money, 1 wald T might buy A watch=T1 eertainly had enough to buy the finest ane in Switzerland but ha discouraged 16, Next, T duggented a set of Gibbon’ ‘Rize and Fall of the Roman Empire,” thinking that he frowned on that, too. Finally, fh shesr desperation, 1 asked him what do, Fuppoding. of course, He way lucky enough to have all my money. To ‘my amazement,

I had every ight congratulated ma

| ‘he advised that I return to the gambling hall thy | ‘next | fortune,

poe whether 1 couldn't double ‘my go with me for good ck, Well, the next dav T lost every cont. 1 felt awful

bd about letting Tather down like that, but hs Fact is, 1 never

day and He maid he'd

I was cleaned out

A Woman's View

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

OWEVER mich we may dislike the idea of cens sorship, conrcientious Parents cannot but Eres with Di, John Haynes Holmes, New York clergyman, in his Tecent oriticism of Hollywood's matrimonial cncaAphdoy, He calls them ‘progressive adultery.” hai to find a bettar definition, T think Letting other people mind their own business is all very well, hut it happens that what the moving pics fire BiaTs do, at Teast fh the Newspapers, is our bss ners, Do hot otir children pattern theft very Hves upon such behavior? Tr Hollywood publicity were consistent we could sveriook mitch of ity obvious faluity, But it is a8 erratic as A wild Matreh wand, We Nmile ¥mugly as we read the treacly sentimens talivi of Buch Victorian tories as “Five Dinwmore,” Nobody could possibly be ro pious and good as the oyentiires Who walk through their pages, You Bink NO?

Well, watch the avid way in which our young girls devorir the moving picture publications that contain, in modernized version of course, the same farfetched and fulsome descriptions of the viitues of our radia ane woéroen entertainers, Phin Ay we have sald, would be o, k. if the children A1d not also have access to the front pages “of the newspapers, where these same parfect beings, thy pditant exponents of the romantic love in this age, comport themselves fn quite another ‘manner, As parents we would never tolerate without protest vilch behavior ih other ‘moral leaders, Preachers, tomohers, ‘even politicians must maintain certain utandards of decency, Yet Hollywood hay an influsnca over oul children Almont as powerful as all the others

put together,

Your Health

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Vititor, Afertonh Meiichl Awvh, Jourhil

HIOKENPOX is one of the most contagious elinw canes that attack children, in that it spreads about as rapidly as does measles Almont invariably from 14 to 18 days after a child has been exposed 1a chickenpox, he will come down with it, All sorts of names have been applied to this atls mont, Th rome parts of the country it 18 Known ny watsrpox, plaspox, sheeppox and oryNtalpox, Thess NAMES Nally are from a resemblance of the blixters to the substances mentioned or of the disease to A vimilar one which eccuts fh animals, Doctors call the disease “varicella.” Tt fs how generally recognized that the cause of chickenpox is a gotm so vmall that it Will pass through a porous clay filter, too ¥mall to He ween with an ors dinary microscope, Presence of this germ has been demonstrated by the fact that the material in a chickenpox blister will produce the divease in somes one who has not had it, It 1% not known with certainty just how the discass {% transmitted from one person to another We know that ft does not occur fh animals, bub fs peculiar to man, We know that it is probably transmitted directly from one person te another, ale though 1t may be tranymitted on woiled clothing oF linens, Most cases involve children 5 to 8 years old, and 52 por cent of people have had ft by the time they are grown up, Girls have it more often than bays, and native white childien mote often than foreighe born or Negro children, The best way to prevent a child from having chickenpox, of courss, is to keep him away from other children who have the disease, Children with ehickenpox should not be permitted to go to wchool. Tt may he possible to vaceinat® childien agaist chickenpox, but the disease ordinarily {8 ¥0 mild that vaccination is Nol customary as a ous tine or even as a means of preventing vmall epidemios,

Tt would ba