Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1937 — Page 17

WEDNESDAY MARCHA, _1007

‘Vagabond

FROM INDIANA

ERNIE PYLE

WASHINGTON, March 24.—I was sitting alone in the smoking compartment,

reading a magazine. The train was bouncing |

through the night at 70 miles an hour, making an awful racket. I thought I'd go to bed pretty soon. But just then the curtain was

pulled aside, and who should walk in but Jim Watson. |

I had never seen him before, but I recognized him from his pictures. We stared at each other as if we

were about to speak, and then I raised up sort of automatically, like a Knee-reflex, and said: “Aren't you Senator Watson?” “Why, yes,” he said. And he came over with his hand out ready for a big shake. He sat right down and started talking. Some rough things have been said about Jim Watson and his political philosophies, and they may all be true. But you'll have a

Mr. Pyle : that he knew more Hoosiers than anybody else in the state. He said yes, he expected he did. After all, he’s been campaigning Indiana for 50 years, and he likes people, and remembering them is his stock in trade.

like him.

We got to talking about his book of memoirs, | which came out last summer and got him such a |

lambasting from the liberal reviewers.

He said he never intended to write a book. A bunch of his friends—Senators and Congressmen—

were up at his house in Washington one night and |

he got to reminiscing, Well, days, and when the friends went home Mrs. Watson said, “Jim, why don’t you write some of that stuff down so the children will have it in future years?”

So for three months he dictated a few hours every |

evening to a stenographer. When he was all through he put the typed manuscript on a library shelf—for the children.

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Friend Took Manuscript

EEKS later a close friend from Indiana was

there, and Mrs. Watson showed him the manuscript.

and they published it. And you know,” Watson said, never had a talk with anybody house about it. And I've never read the book, either.”

“to this day

But Watson is really working on a book for pub- |

It's to be called “Fifty Years in InHe thinks it

lication now. diana Politics.” good. Jim Watson is 72. He looks in fine fettle, and savs he feels great. Says he has never thought about his health one way or the other, and has never taken care of himself. Ate too much and drank too much,

but he feels fine. ”

Has Law Office in Capital

HE spends about half his time in Indianapolis, and half in Washington, He has a law office in Washington, and business falls into his lap. He says he probably couldn't make a living any more in Indianapolis, the law field is so crowded. He says Fred VanNuys, who beat him for the Senate, is one of his best friends. He says he never could get sore at somebody who whipped him.

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A couple of men came into the smoker and sat | along | They said all right and |

down. Watson said “Well, how you gettin’ now?” or something like that. we all got into conversation.

Watson sat with one hand on the one fellow’s knee,

and the other on mine, and I gathered from the talk |

that we were all old cronies from way back. But after Senator Watson went to bed, I found _ that the one man had met him only once, at a convention in Chicago 20 years ago, and the other one

had never seen him before. Grand old politician.

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

IRMINGHAM, Tuesday.—At the end of my lecture in Little Rock, Ark, fst night, Mrs. Scheider leaned over and whispered something in my ear. Being slightly deaf I only caught the words, “Mr. Farley may come.’

obliged to act as my ears and repeat each question for me.

“My whole attention was on the audience for this |

is the part of the program I enjoy most, because I feel people are getting what they want. on to the end, sat down and discovered, in little chairs at the back of the stage, the Postmaster General | and the Federal Housing Administrator. Mr. Farley and Mr, Stewart McDonald had stopped | off a train just long enough to say “hello” and tell me that they had seen the President and that he probably would get home a day later than I. a kind and thoughtful act. Up early this morning, for we had to change trains in Memphis. Once on the train we ate our usual breakfast in a beautiful car. After reading the papers we immediately returned to work. I was aroused from the correction of a manuscript by a tapping on the window as we stopped at a station.

to large groups of children. In one place a lady told me they were children from the mill and that the other children in the town had not heard I was going through and would be disappointed. In seeing these rather delicate-looking children I could not feel they showed much enthusiasm at being allowed to come to the station. I have a feeling somehow, that a good big bowl of bread and milk would have been much more beneficial.

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This quotation from a letter from August Strind-

perg to Gauguin characterizes in a kernel the phil-

osophy and temperament which Paul Gauguin reveals |

in his INTIMATE JOURNALS Wyck Brooks; Crown Publishers). Gauguin has become a legendary monster who left a comfortable, respectable home and fled to Tahiti to paint, leaving his wife and children to fend for themselves. In order deliberately to destroy such misinformation, Gauguin’s son has published the journals which were kept during the years in Tahiti. Although claiming no distinction as a writer, Gauguin has set down in print his vitality, unconventionality, and arrogance, his emphasis on personal expression in art—both in examining his own painting and that of such contemporaries as Degas, Cezanne, Van Gogh.

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comes a deft and ironic satire of conventions, cus- |: - K ! | law more concisely and in language |

toms, and the disciplined rigors of being a New England Brahmin. John P. Marquand’s THE LATE GEORGE APLEY (Little, Brown) is a novel in the form of a memoir, the story of George Apley’s life

as it was shaped by Puritan influences in the hey- |

dey of American expansion of the last century. There are the gorgeous detail of life at Pequod | Island; the membership in innumerable clubs, redoubtable symbol of caste; the manners of Beacon Street—the texture of an aristocracy which dis-

appeared with so many other American qualities in |

the War. George Apley is no figure of heroic proportions; but with the last pages one senses that the author, - who so slyly satirizes his example of a decadent society, has in the end found him lovable and a bit

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1937

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DETROIT-TEST T UBE OF SIT- DOWN

Control of Labor After Organizing Surge Is Union's Big Problem

drive have their eyes fixed.

he told a lot of happenings out of the old |

When the friend left he slipped it into his | suitcase and took it to Bobbs-Merrill, in Indianapolis, |

I've | in the publishing |

ought to be pretty |

Motors.

(Second of a Series)

By WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent

DETROIT, March 24.—The confusion and turmoil of the sit-down strikes tends to obscure their likely result. While 6000 strikers occupied the Chrysler plants under hourly threat of an attempt to oust them by force, little thought could be given to the “after-the-sit-down” situation. Yet that is where the permanent effects lie, and that is where the higher-up leaders of the C. I. O. unionization

Of course it is important that a prolonged and successful sit-down forced a reluctant agreement from General But even more important is the fact that all such

settlements leave behind them a larger union membership, encouraged, well organized and well led, in plants where

no union ever gets a baker's ¢ dozen of members before. It is the growth in union membership, even more

than' the spectacular sitdown, that is permanently important. The most recent effort

to organize the auto industry, staged by the United Auto Workers under A, F. of L. leadership from 1933 to 1935, had dwindled away until some said the U. A. W, had only 2000 members in Detroit six months ago. That it shduld have today in the same area around 100,000 is tremendously important. Kelsey-Hayes Wheel had six months ago only 40 U. A. W, members. Today the union claims 5000. That the union has a large majority of Chrysler workers is generally admitted. It has six months in which to demonstrate a conclusive majority in General Motors.

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HAT is why leaders believe the real problem is “consolidating the gains of the General Motors strike (and the Chrysler strike when that is over). There are now more than 100 organizers at work recruiting and setting up organization machinery in 156 chartered locals.+So short a time ago as December there were only about 50 locals. Branch offices directly financed by the U. A.W. international union are already open in half a dozen places in Detroit and also in Flint,

| month

But the right to wear union but-

Mrs.Roosevelt' sDay

I was a little mystified, but | questions were beginning and the Governor was |

I went blithely |

It was |

At two stations I | had to go to the step of the car and say a few words |

Saginaw, Grand Rapids, Lansing and Pontiac. It can afford to run them. If the present claimed membership of 250,000 rises by the end of the to 300,000 as expected, there will be a formidable income. - Dues of a dollar a month mount to $3,600,000 a year on that membership if it holds up and all pay their dues. True, there is no checkoff in the General Motors settlement.

tons in the plants is almost as effective. The paid-up-dues button changes each month, and when a man must wear not only his mem-

| bership but his paid-up status on

cap or shirt at all times, obviously

it is easy to make it hot for delin- | quents.

= » = HE telephones in union headquarters ring constantly with

| requests for help, direction, organ-

izers, advice and just moral support. Many of the requests come from plants not even remotely connected with the auto industry. “We've started a sit-down at the Goldfarb Ashtray Co.,” may be a typical phone request. “We're all sitting and the place is closed. What do we do next?” If an organizer is free, one is sent. If not, advice is given over the phone. If supplies are needed and can be furnished, the union sends them along. It bought up a large supply of old Army cots for service in the Flint strike, and these are now perambulating about Detroit, 50 here, 150 there, shifted as need arises. U. A. W. headquarters, an ex-

{ pansion of the former rooms occu- | pied by the union when under A.

F. of L. direction, presents a scene of harried excitement. “We need more posters!” “We're out of application cards!” “How about an organizer out at the Michigan Automatic Mangle Co.?” “Where are those buttons for the Kircheval Ave. plant?” “The sound truck hasn’t showed up yet at the Malleable Iron Works!”

2 =n ” URTHER complication arises from the fact that the UAW now is taking anyone who wants to join, auto industry or not, AFL jurisdiction or not. Many have problems totally unfamiliar to the UAW organizers, who respond with such advice or material aid as they can. Understaffed and inadequately equipped, the headquarters reflects a desperate atmosphere of “Make hay while the sun shines.” It is shining as this is written, with applications coming in faster than they .an be card-indexed, one headquarters worker said, almost complainingly. Typical of the regional offices is that on the west side trying to sign up 140,000 auto workers never organized before, in plants like Ford, Kelsey-Hayes Wheel, Cadil-

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More sit-down strikers, these in the Dodge plant, typical of groups which awaited the result of negotia-

tions with Chrysler, and ignored a court injunction ordering them out of the plant.

But note the union

button on the collar of the cigar-smoker, note the fa ct that the game is contract bridge, and note the

prophetic “Handle with Care” sign on the side of the impromptu table.

lac, Fleetwood, Ternstedt, Timken and Michigan Malleable Iron. The present organizer says there were not 200 union members on the west side six months ago. Now, the second floor walk-up offices are a seething scene. A dusty center hall at the head of the stairs branches off to a long hall at the left. The notes of a determined piano in a music school off the hall continue an endless practice tune. In the last room, a sign says “Mozna Zaplacic —Podatek Tutaj.” A stream of members continues to file in to pay dues there. They know what

the sign means, for in this part |

of Detroit Polish is practically the national language. n o ” N one room before a desk, organizers amateur and professional come with their problems and get advice, or more tangible help. “All for one, one for all!” cries a legend painted on the wall. Walter Reuther, in charge of the office for the UAW, is addressing a meeting of shop stewards from Kelsey-Hayes. Soon they file out, each with his special steward’s badge prominently displayed. Those who have been waiting for the meeting to close, short mustached Poles, tall husky Negroes, and many of that dapper, trim-looking young American type seen increasingly in steel, auto, electrical and rubber union

JUDGE URGES SIMPLER LANGUAGE BE USED IN INSTRUCTING JURIES

By NEA Service

KRON, March 24—When a jury | goes wrong in a case, 90 times | out of 100 it is because the jurors |

| good before higher courts when that | case reaches them on appeal.

= ” = UDGE WANAMAKER has some facts to back up his idea. Some

| didn’t understand the legal points! time ago he sent out a question-

involved. | This startling opinion is not that of some wild-eyed theorist, but of | a practicing judge who hears cases | every day in Common Pleas Court | | here. He thinks judges fire too | | many 16-cylinder legal words at jurors, who want to do right but just do not understand. The judge is Walter Wanamaker. | He is no newcomer to law, but the | son of a judge who formerly sat in | the same court. Reared in a legal | atmosphere, Wanamaker is thege- | fore not unconscious of legal tra- | dition. But he says: “We bring juries into court composed of women from their homes, laborers from their jobs and farm- | ers from their fields, throw a barrage of legal terminology at them {and expect them to absorb it and | render a just and legal verdict. “Jurors are bewildered during the | trial by objections and exceptions | of the lawyers, and rulings of the | judge. When the case is ready for the jury, we try to make the | | jurors understand eight or 10 | points, all crammed into a brief 30 | minutes of instructions, while it has | taken lawyers and judges years of study | to understand those same points.”

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guage:

. the better practice is to {ollow settled precedent. It is always safer to lay down familiar rules in language universally adopted and approved than to undertake to give a new version in more doubtful lan- | guage. “So even though the trial judge . may be able to state a rule of

| stumped 203 of them.

He believes that in most cases the | judge is really charging the Court I Appeals rather than the jury—| that is, instead of telling the jurors | in plain words what it is all about, | [pe is speaking for a record that will make his handling of the case look

| naire to people who had served as

jurors. He got replies from more

than 800.

Everybody hates to admit that | | he doesn't understand something. |

Yet only 619 ex-jurors claimed they always understood the judges’ instructions. There were 224 exjurors who admitted frankly that they did not. That was what they admitted about their own understanding. But they had a lower view of the understanding of their fellow jurors. Sixty-four of the former jurors said they thought less than 25 per cent of their fellow jurors knew what the procedure was all about. A total of 267 ex-jurors felt that 50 per cent or more of their fellow jurors didn’t understand what was going on, while 278 said they felt 75 per cent or more of their fellows really

| understood. And only 42 of those

questioned said they thought all the jurors understood everything 100 per cent. ” 2 2

HE questionnaire then asked about specific legal phrases. The ex-jurors were asked: “Did you understand ‘preponderance of the evidence’?” And 232 admitted they didn't. “Proximate cause” “Negligence” as a legal term was not clear to 110, and 136 admitted they did not have a clear understanding of “reasonable doubt.” Judge Wanamaker has another innovation in his courtroom. Instead of the jury sitting at one side of the room as is customary, this judge places them at a long table directly in front of his bench. Thus he is certain that anything he can hear, they can hear. Further, when the time comes for the judge to instruct them in

| side said quite frankly

the law, the jurors simply swing about on their swivel chairs, and the judge talks to them at close range. Of the ex-jurors answering the questionnaire, for that arrangement, with only 320 against it. And several of those who favored the jury box at one they liked that because they could watch the judge's face and see how acted to the evidence.

” ” ” Joon WANAMAKER is confi- | dent that if a well-handled test | case can be made, in which the jury |

has been charged in simple, clear |

language omitting all obscure legal phrases, it will be upheld. Then the way will be opened for better justice | because juries really will understand | what it is all about. Judge Wanamaker is a former | American aviator, shot down by the German Ernst Udet at Chateau Thierry in a “dog-fight” with oe Richthofen “Flying Circus.” turning to Akron after the ay Wanamaker practiced law and was elected overwhelmingly to the common pleas bench in 1930, where he | has served since.

Judge Walter B. Wanamaker

521+ voted |

he re- |

crowds, jostle about Mr. Reuther with questions. He jumps from Polish to English as he answers them. His problem is. in small the problem of the UAW—to weld this mass of sit-downers into a permanent, cohesive, disciplined organization. That is the great problem of the C. I. O. leadership today, drawing more thought and energy than even the more spectacular sit-downs as they occur.

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If they succeed and can make of the present unionization wave in Detroit a “permanent wave,” then in a year’s time the most conspicuous open shop town in country will have become a union town.

NEXT—“Ford Is Next!” read the pickets’ banners in Detroit. Will he be? America's rugged individualist faces still another test of his ability to “go it alone.”

present phase of the sit-down strike in the Chrysler plant at Detroit consists of wishes, or demands, from diverse sources, that President Roosevelt say something, or do something. Of all who hold this wish,

the one who has the greatest reason is Governor Murphy of Michigan. It is on Governor Murphy that the burden of responsibility rests most directly. It is on him not merely because he is Governor of Michigan. The burden is on him in a particular and personal way. The position in which Governor Murphy now finds himself can best be understood by following the steps that led up to it. Early in the year a sit-down strike began in the plants of General Motors at Flint, Mich. General Motors applied to a Flint judge. for an order directing the sit- | downers to leave the plant. The judge granted the order. Quickly the strike leaders found and publicized the fact that the judge was a holder of General Motors stock. [This was an awkward fact, and the judge's action was unfortunate. But this had no bearing on the subsequent developments. General Motors, on Feb. 1, applied to another Flint judge and he issued | the same kind of order. Any judge | anywhere would have done it. That | the action of the sit-downers was |an illegal trespass is about as clear |as any fact or principle of law.

| n ” # HE court's order to the sitdowners to quit was delivered [to the Sheriff. The Sheriff read it [to the sit-down strikers. The sit- | downers, according to newspaper re- | ports, “booed” the Sheriff. It was | clear the sit-downers had no inten-

tion. of obeying this or any other |court order. At the very moment . [When the application for the order | was pefore the court, when the law- | yers for the sit- downers were argu- | ing to the court against the order, the sit-downers, far from showing | respect to the court or apprehension | about what action the court might | take, actually enlarged the area of | their strike. They continued to | keep the two buildings they had [held for four weeks and they threw an additional force of sit-downers into a third building. After the court's order to quit had been read by the Sheriff to the sitdowners, they sent a telegram to Governor Murphy saying: “We have decided to stay in the plant.” The sit-downers were now in contempt of court. In accord with Michigan procedure, General Motors went before the court and called the judges attention to the fact that his order was being ignored. Thereupon the court issued a “writ of body attachment.” This writ directed the Sheriff to arrest the strikers and remove them.

» ” ® LEARLY the Sheriff alone could not arrest and remove several hundred men. Faced by this situation, the Sheriff could have followed

either of two courses. He could have sworn in as many deputies as he considered necessary to carry out the order of the court. In most jurisdictions, and presumably also in Michigan, the Sheriff could have sworn in every citizen of the county. \ The other course open to the Sheriff was to apply to Governor Murphy to give him the assistance of the National Guard to carry out the court's writ. This request the Sheriff made on Feb.5. To this request Governor Murphy never made any reply, certainly no formal one. Instead, for more than a week, Governor Murphy, while making no reply to the Sheriff's request for as-

Murphy Should Have Used Militia at Flint—Sullivan

By MARK SULLIVAN ASHINGTON, March 24.—A |sistance, conducted a conference be-

tween the officials of General Motors and the officials of the sit-down strikers’ union. Governor Murphy said he was doing this “in accordance with the wish of the President of the United States.” After some two weeks of conference, a form of agreement emerged and the sit-down strike was terminated. Governor Murphy went to Florida. He had been under strain and deserved rest. But if he thought that his sense of triumph or his peace of mind would be long-lived, he must lack understanding of the forces with which he as Governor was called on to deal. By early March Governor Murphy was on an

to confront the sit-down strike again, this time on a much enlarged scale and under circumstances far more difficult to handle. o ” T is a common assumption that if Governor Murphy had faced the Flint strike squarely and given the Sheriff the assistance the Sheriff had asked for, the present Detroit sit-down would not have taken place. This is an assumption only, but’ it is a reasonable one. During the Flint strike, newspaper accounts said that the strike was unpopular in that community, that the strikers were a small fraction of the workers, and that the nonstriking workers were eager to see the strike terminated, even willing to help evict the sit-downers who were resisting the court’s order. The facts about this cannot be clear, for the present, we have only the hurried day by day observations of the newspaper correspondents. Some time, if the sit-down strike throughout America becomes as important as now seems probable, historians will search with minute care for accurate data about the conditions that existed in Flint. Without looking up the Michigan law, it seems safe to take for granted what is commonly assumed, that the Governor's clear duty was to meet the request for assistance when that request was made to him formally by the Sheriff as an officer of the court. A request by the Sheriff is in effect a request by the court. The court had declared the sitdowners to be trespassers and ordered them to leave. This order the sit-downers had refused and flouted. Thereupon the court had issued the writ of arrest and eviction and the Sheriff as the agent of the court asked the Governor for assistance in carrying the writ out. The point where the chain of law and enforcement broke was the point at which Governor Murphy failed to meet the Sheriff's request for assistance.

HEARD IN CONGRESS

Rep. Sirovich (D. N, Y.): May I state to the distinguished son of Kentucky (Mr. Robsion) that I have always entertained the greatest respect and admiration for his human qualities, for his gracious disposition, and for the amiable way in which he has always battled for human rights. In stature he is at least 6 feet and 3 inches, and in personality and appearance the distinguished Representative of Kentucky has always appeared to me another Abraham Lincoln.

Rep. Robsion (R. Ky.): gentleman from New York will yield further, I am reminded that when I first became a candidate for Congress a friend of mine said, “You remind me of Abraham Lincoln.” I stretched up about six inches, but he said, “You need not stretch up, you are just as homely as Abraham Lincoln, but you never did have the sense*and never will have the sense

of Lincoln.”

airplane hurrying back to Michigan |

If the |

Our Town

| By ANTON SCHERRER

ITHOUT meaning to boast too much, | and yet with a slight smugness which I | know must be offensive to some people, I | may say that I am old enough to remember the time when breakfasts were served on

blue China—sure, the old willow pattern depicting the story of the mild-mannered mandarin and the mincing maiden making love on the rickety old bridge. Time was when I knew the whole story

of their great and complicated love, but so much has happened in the meantime .that I have great difficulty now patching the pattern together. I do remember, however, that the story was as involved as the Chinese perspective on my plate, than which there was nothing more complicated in my boyhood, unless, perchance, it was the curious portrayal of the Japanese lady on Mother's fan. I finally got onto the Chinese notion of perspective, however, and in the due course of time learned to understand the sense of a mandarin handing a cup of tea to a lady sitting in a valley, no matter whether the mandarin was standing on a hill some 30 miles away. Fact is, I learned to take it in my natural stride, with the result that when it came time to be invited into the mysteries of H. H. Lee's tea store, I was more or less prepared for the adventure. Mr. Lee had four tea stores planted in Indian= apolis at the time, I remember, and they were so much alike that if I confine myself to the one at the corner of Meridian St. and Madison Ave. it will be more than enough to describe them all.

Mr. Scherrer

o o' ” He Was Bearded Briton R. LEE was a bearded Briton brought up in all : the traditions of his race. His stores were as spick and span as anything you could find in town, and charged with a smell unlike anything around here, Analyzed, the smell was made up of Edam cheese, Smyrna figs, Damascus dates, a blend of I don’t know how many spices, and the exotic perfumes of perhaps a dozen kinds of coffees and teas which he kept hidden in black japanned containers back of the counter, The containers, I remember, were decorated with Chinese colored pictures, which in their way were just as exciting as anything on the blue willow ware. Indeed, they were more exciting, because they ventured beyond the field of lovemaking, which, after all, has its limitations. At any rate, it was in Mr. Lee's store that I learned that the Chinese were interested in other things besides lovemaking—in horses, for instance, and boats and sports like shuttlecock and battledore, to say nothing of their interest in long pants. Indeed, except for Mr. Lee's store, I might never have learned that Chinese women wear long pants while the men go around dressed up in long, flowing gowns. » ” un

Mounting Reversed

S for horses, Mr. Lee's pictures were pretty posi= tive in the fact that a Chinese rider mounts his horse from the right side and with the right foot. I also picked up that the Chinese owner puts his horse in the stall with his face outward. In China, they have funny notions about boats, too. Anyway, in Mr. Lee's store, they rowed their boats standing up, facing the bow. Funnier even, they hauled the boat on shore by the stern instead of the bow. Well, T learned so much about China in Mr. Lee's store that when it came time for my teachers to take up that part of the world, there wasn’t any more to tell. Anyway, it was all of five years after my initia« tion to Mr. Lee's store that my teachers got around to China.

A Woman's View

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ISS TRUDY showed us proudly around her model kitchen, pointing out its perfections. And well she might be proud, for it was the last word in modern efficiency. Snow-white walls, spotless floor, coquettish curtains at the windows, and no end of electric gadgets, little and big, to amaze us. Range, refrigerator, pastry mixer, food chopper, juice squeezer, all sorts of cunningly contrived labor savers, left us wiser and envious. The ultimate per= fection was achieved in the small desk with its grocery-list pad, chained pencil and bouquet, above which hung a mirror. But alas, the possessor of this gorgeous culinary palace is not Miss Trudy but the public utilities com= pany for which she works. That is the most exasperating point about all these model kitchens. The woman who does her own cooking can’t afford one, and the woman who can afford one doesn't do her own cooking. To be quite frank, however, the place was too per= fect to suit my depraved taste, which, in kitchens, runs to clutter. It savored of the laboratory. There was no muss, no odor, none of that breathless suspense which went with cooking in the old days, when we children got under Aunt Charity’s fat feet and nother shooed us out of doors along with a few straying chickens. You know now that everything is bound to come out right because there are automatic heat controls, time clocks, proper weights and measures and all that kind of exactness. But these newfangled cooking rooms have none of the charm which hovered over the old home kitchen, where the coal range glowed in its corner like some crouching but amiable tiger with fiery eyes. The deal table was littered with pots and pans and cutlery. Crocks of yellow cream and mounds of golden butter topped the high shelf built to evade the reach of infant pilferers. Long red ropes of apple parings made lacy decorations around the wooden mixing bowls. And what deiectable smells! When the big oven door was opened and we all peered inside to see how the big triple loaves of bréad were browning—that was excitement! If the cake fell, tragedy stalked the house. On cold mornings getting ready for school, the sausage sizzling in the frying pan crooned a sweet duet with the purring tea kettle. Cooking was not such a perfected art in those days; it was high adventure, and the kitchen was the heart of the house. It was Home,

Your Health

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor American Medical Assn. Journal LANDERS, commonly called “farcy” by farmers, usually affects horses and mules rather than human beings, but it can be communicated to man, There are cases, incidentally, in which cats, goats, and other animals have been infected as well. The disease evidently is spread from animal to man by contact with discharges from infected membranes of the nose and throat or from skin infections. The organism also may be present ih excretions from the bowels of those who are infected. The germ of glanders is not so capable of resisting exposure to sunlight or air as is the germ of anthrax. When it affects a human being, glanders is so serious that everyone having it should be isolated immedi= ately, either at home or in a hospital, and infected | animals should be promptly destroyed. Whenever a horse is found to have it, every other horse in the stable should be tested. Infected animals must be removed and destroyed immediately if the condition is not to spread rapidly among others As evidence of the manner in which a change in our customs may affect distribution of a disease, it is important to note that cases of glanders have steadily diminished since automobiles began to displace horses. There were seven cases of glanders in a certain New York hospital during the first 20 years of the last century, but not one case appeared there during the first 20 years of this century.