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FROM INDIANA ERNIE PYLE NEW YORK, April 2.—This would Le en-

titled “The Private Life of a Radio Gag

Man,” except that the gag man I'm writing about hasn’t any private life. All he does is work. A “gag man” is the writer who thinks up the jokes and skits used by comedians on the radio.

Eugene Conrad is one of the half-dozen outstanding gag men in the radio business. He is more tian a gag man. He writes entire shows for the air. He wrote all of Burns and Allen’s stuff for four years and a half. At present he writes Jack Pearl's stuff. And he does all kinds of free-lance: theater and radio writing on the side. He is my nominee for the hardest worker in New York. Conrad and his wife haven't been out to dinner with friends a dozen times in the last eight years. He hasn't had a vacation for ages. He never goes to a show except as a professional observer. He has no car. He seldom leaves towr. . I ‘asked Conrad if he enjoyed doing jr Rothing but work. He said he must, or he wouldn’t do it. : . ‘But in spite of his nose being worn down by the grindstone, he is a colorful fellow. He dresses like "a fictional Broadwayite—derby, gloves, stick, spats, brown shirt, roomy tweed suit. His hair and mustache are coal black, and he is big, like a football player. : = His greatest eccentricity is the way he doesn’t sleep. He averages three hours a night. He has gone. five days and nights without closing his eyes. Takes pills to keep awake, ard just keeps working. Despite such punishment, he ic 180 pounds of health. He lives and works in a two-room apartment on the ninth floor of a Broadway hotel. "He can look right down on Times Square, tae heart of everything. | There is just himself and Mrs. Conrad and the cat. Mrs. Conrad and the cat can’t stay up five days and

nights. Walls Soundproofed I ONRAD’'S walls are soundgprooted so he won't disturb other residents while working all night. His phone rings on the average of every 15 minutes. Mrs. Conrad answers in the other room, and if it's important enough to disturb Gene's muse, she pushes a buzzer. Conrad is a native New Yorker. He is a Colgate man ('15) and was an advertising man in Canada for many years. But once he wrote a little playlet for the Masonic lodge in Hamilton, N. Y. It was so successful he went into the business.

He has never had a failure., He has written eight of the “Vanities” and “Top Hole” and thousands of vaudeville skits. He shifted over to’ radia about. six vears ago. He has written cialog for more than a thousand stage and radio players. . © “Radio gag writers are the world's scarcest commodity,” Conrad says. He dcesn't know why, either, for thousands of people want tol be gag writers. B

All Jokes Are Old

He: says there aren't any new jokes. He says every comic situation was thought of long ago, so now you're reduced to dressing uj) the .old ones. He has a library of radio jokes, thousands of them. typed on cards. But he hardly ever uses the library now, for he knows all the jokes by heart. In spite of thinking up joes all the time, Conrad never cracks a smile. They siy|there is hardly a gag writer in the business who ever laughs.

Mr. Pyle

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I asked Conrad how much a good gag writer makes. | I can't | see how a man who makes $30,000 a year could keep |

He said they average $40,000 10 $50,000 a vear.

from laughing. :

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

ASHINGTON, Thursdey—The little ceremochy of laying the wreath vesterday at Mount Vernon took me back to war days and I thought of

Marshal Joffre, Premier Viviani and Mr. Arthur Balfour. The English always perform this ceremony with grace and seem to have.a real veneration for George Washington. They should have, for after all, while he did break away from the mother country,

it was the mother country. I suppose one can be | proud of one’s son's achievement even when one |

may not entirely agree with his point of view.

Mrs. Hull and I walked up the hill with: our |

guests. We stopped to look at the old coach and went through the kitchen and into the house. As we stepped out on the porch overlooking the river, Lady Tweedsmuir remarked: “I should think you would love ‘to come out here to-live.} 5 It would certainly be a wonderful place to live, but so many people visit 1 every day that I think we would have little privacy. It seemed to me that "we were surrounded by hundreds of people on our walk. and everv other hanc apparently held a camera. The President sat in the car outside waiting for us and talked with Col. Dodge, who has just recov-

ered from a serious illness and therefore could not

be the guide, as he usually'is, in showing the house. The President and His Excellency drove home together. Mrs. Hull, Her Excellency and I occupied the car behind them. It cccurred to me that ever since 10 that morning they had not had a minute

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The Indianapolis Times

Second Section

FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1937

Fi tered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

REMEMBER 20 YEARS AGO TODAY?

(Third of

a Series)

By RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer

X7ASHINGTON, April 2.—Twenty years ago today, on a rainy spring Monday# Congress convened for the

purpose of declaring war.

The historic day started with a suffragist breakfast for Miss Jeannette Rankin, first woman to be elected to Congress. Even in that grave moment Miss Rankin stole

the front page headlines from her male colleagues.

She

was overcome with emotion when she tried to speak to the

women who honored her.

Not so Alice Paul of the National Woman's Party. After the breakfast she sternly sent her votes-for-women pickets out in the rain again with their yellow and pur-

ple banners. . At the Capitol they ran

into pacifists, trying to mass

at the east entrance and being fought back by police; also

the opposing ‘‘Pilgrims of Patriotism,

to stand on the Capitol steps. With the Pilgrims were Dr. William T. Manning and several other

clergymen. A few of the pacifists got through to Senators in the corridors of the office building. Senator Pomerene of Ohio repulsed one group by saying “You're the best ally the Germans have got,” and Senator Wadsworth of New York walked away from another group saying, “I won't stand and listen to a bunch of people call their own country names.”

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UT the sensation of the morning came when Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, then 67, lashed out with his fists at one of his constituents. Stories differed as to what was said, but all agreed that Alexander Bannwort of Boston, secretary of the Woodrow Wilson: Independent League, which opposed war, somehow aroused the Senator's wrath. Senator Lodge struck him, and then a Western Union messenger who was passing at the time came to the Senator's assistance and administered a thorough beating. Mr. Bannwort was hustled off to jail with a black eye, and Senator Lodge was the center of afi admiring group of colleagues when the Senate convened. The President's address was postponed until evening so the two houses might first jrganize and elect leaders. Champ Clark was elected Speaker of the House without trouble, , although the Democratic majority was small. Claud Kitchin of North Carolina was made floor leader. In the Senate an abortive movement was started to remove Senator Wil-

liam J. Stone of Missouri as chair-

man of the Foreign Relations Committee because he had opposed armed neutrality. . Rep. Julius Kahn introduced a conscription pill. At last came the speech by Woodrow Wilson, a rather long one with a great deal in it besides the phrases which are still quoted today. ” n " HE entire first half of it dealt with submarine warfare and freedom of the seas. “The present German warfare against commerce is a warfare

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who were allowed

against mankind,” he said. “It is a war against all nations. American ships-have been sunk, American lives taken, in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of. Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion. . .. “The German Government denies the right of neutrals to use arms av all within the areas of the sea which it has proscribed, even in the defense of rights which no modern publicist has ever before questioned their right to defend. .. “There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of mak- | ing, we will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our nation and our people to be ignored or violated. The wrongs against which we now array ourselves are not common wrongs; they reach out to the very roots of human life.” . » ” n S Dr. David Starr Jordan had been mobbed for suggesting, he said that war would involve extension to the allied governments “of the most liberal financial credits in order that our resources may so far as possible be added to theirs,” and urged “the very practical duty of supplying the nations already at war with Germany with the materials which they can obtain only from us or by our assistance.” At the end of the address the tone changed. “Our object then as now is to vindicate the principles of peace and the justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power,” the Pr~sident said. . .. ? “We are now about to accept the gage of battle with this nati ural foe to liberty and shall if | necessary spend the whole force of the nation to check and nullify | its pretensions and its power. We | are glad now that we see the facts with no veil: of false pretense | about them, to fight thus for the

| ultimate peace of the world and

for the liberation of its peoples, | the German peoples included; for | the rights of nations great and small and for the privilege of men | everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world

Somaio: Lodge Struck a Pacifist as Congress Heard War Message

Arrow points to President Wilson delivering his war message.

must be made safe for democracy. Its. peace must be planted upon the trusted foundations of political liberty. | “We have no spglfish ends to serve . . . no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. . | 2 nn “YT is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into a war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we. shall fight for the things we have always carried nearest our hearts— for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free, “To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, every-. thing that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has| treasured. God helping her she can do no other.” There was great excitement, and people snatched extras from the arms of boys on the street. In New York the Metropolitan Opera halted its performance so the audience could sing “The Star Spangled Banner.” Mme. Marguerite Ober, German prima donna, fainted was carried from the stage. ' Tomorrow—Yellow paint burning effigies.

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LEGISLATURE MADE NO ATTEMPT TO REPEAL ‘LOYALTY OATH’ LAW

NDIANA has a so-called Teachers’ “Loyalty Oath” Law. but the Legislature, unlike the lawmaking bodies of some other states, has

specifically including the “loyalty” oaths and the “red rider.”

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“red rider” and the House acquieseed, amending the repealer, however, with a “pale pink” provision that teachers may include

system of government we have operated thus far upon the principle that all power over society resides in the people only by the representatives of the people. If laws governing the econornic life of the people are to be made, they should be made by the representatives of the people. This is the democratic principle. Perhaps in any given case no regulation of economic life should he undertaken. Men might easily differ-dbout any regulation. But if od regulation is made, all believer the democratic system will agree that it ought to be done only by the constituted legislators of the democratic society. This principle is under attack all over the world today. In Italy, Ceermany, Austria, Portugal and several other countries, the principle is sneered at. And in this . country there is a rising school which, while not sneering, is trying to force an

structure in favor of an entirely new and different one. ” un 2 FP HIS 'new idea is that the economic life of the people should be regulated not by-—Con-gress or legislatures, but by organizations of producers. This, I think, would be bad enough, but it is infinitely worse since they hold that the regulation should be rnade by producers in an industry, which in- | cludes the workers, but of the em- | ployers. Of course they concede that this should be done under the “supervision” of the Government. But in practice this becomes a kind of necessary evil. And as the new | system gets under way and is developed, it is inevitable that the role of the Government or at least of the democratic agencies in the

representatives, not of all the |

entering wedge into this democratic |

| there is no space to examine here. | The worker is ignored. ‘There is |

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Flynn Fears Employers’ Control of Economic Life

By JOHN T. FLYNN

Times Special Writer

EW YORK, April 2. — In our/the Guffey act. Here the remedy

proposed for the soft coal industry is to organize it. It. is to be regulated: If'is to be subjected to price fixing and production control. The machinery set up for this is to organize the employers into producers’ associations or codes in each district. Each such group of producers will name their "own boards. These boards are given legal status, although elected not by voters or citizens as such, but only by employers. They have the power to make rules and regulations having the force of law when approved by the commission and it is intended that they shall get together and fix prices subject to the approval of the commission. ” ” n HE commission is a body which - is to exercise government supervision. But how much supervision there will be will depend entirely on the personnel and later upon certain developmental factors which

nothing about collective bargaining or living wage in the law. A lone

provision provides that the district |

board shall have one worker representative and as the boards may be

as large as 17 members, it will be |

seen what a grim jest this is. The point is that this is a beginning inthe direction of recognizing the dangerous principle of so-called self-rule in business, which, is the basis of the corporative state and

is, as I have indicated, a departure |

from our traditional democratic technique. have to develop along that road. This means that slowly we will find means to strengthen and extend and

perfect the control of producer em-

plovers over our economics life. Con- | gress should go mighty slow in set- | Government will grow less and less. | ting its foot upon this new and An example of this principle is | perilous road. : :

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ur Town

ERHAPS you should know something about Mrs. Frederick Sterling, who needs

less sleep to keep going than anybody around -

here. Mrs. Sterling's lack of sleep isn’t notice-

able, because she is a healthy looking woman with a twinkle in her eye and the love of music in her blood. She used to be Verna Palmer, but she left that behind when Mr. Sterling entered her life, I lug Mr. Sterling into this story because he knows most about his wife's sleepless condition or lack of sleep, or whatever it is that’s got into her. The case hasn't. been . diagnosed as yet. I Mr. Sterling says that Mrs. Sterling used to be as good a sleeper as anybody around here, Fact is, he didn’t worry about her condition’

‘until about a month ago, which was

just about the time the Ohio River went on a rampage and pitched Mr. Scherrer Louisville into darkness. : Mrs. Sterling went without a bit of sleep listening to the radio during those frightful days, but Mr. Sterling didn’t give it a second thought, because he figured that his (wife was more or less like all other Indianapolis women at the time. Which was probably right. Since then, he’s done a lot of worrying, however, because when other Indianapolis women, started sleeping again, Mrs. Sterling didn’t. To tell the truth, Mrs. Sterling hasn't been in bed since the Louisville flood. : And this is why. Seems that when the river acted up? the people of Louisville had everything fixed to entertain the 20th biennial festival of the; National Federation of Music Ciubs. They had spent two years getting ready for the event, only to find that they were up against it. : ” n ”

Had to Find Another Town

ELL, the next thing to do was to find another town for the big festival—what's more, te find somebody willing to run it off. Which, of course, accounts for Mrs. Sterling, who was given a month to do what took Louisville two years to accomplish. To hear Mrs. Sterling tell about it, it's going to be one of the biggest things ever pulled: off here, and I'm inclined to believe it. Anyway it's going

to take a whole week—April 23-29—andy include °

morning, afternoon and evening performances. Before it's done, you'll have a chance to hear 4000 performers, to say nothing of the Indianapolis Sym-= phony Orchestra led by Mr. Schaefer and the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Hans Kindler, who works in the same town Mr,

Roosevelt does. ” ” »

That Isn't Half of It

HUCKS, that isn’t the half of it. John Charles Thomas, Rudolph Ganz, Beryl Rubenstein, Guy Maier, Bomar Cramer, Scott Malcolm, Reginald Godden, John Powell, Rudolph Reuter, Dalies Franz and the Kreiner Quartet are going to be here, and I don’t know how many glee clubs and choruses from all parts of the country, Mrs. Sterling has even contracted for a Mothers’ Chorus, whatever that may be. | Indeed, Mrs. Sterling didn’t overlook a bet, unless, perchance, it was Clyde Beatty and his cats. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Sterling considered Mr. Beatty, but Mr. Sterling ruled him out. He thought Mrs. Sterling ought to catch| up ‘on her sleep before tackling Mr. Beatty. Maybe next year, said Mr, Sterling.

A | [1- x pe A Woman's View By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON :

PRIL 6 marks the 20th anniversary of America’s entrance into the World War. It is therefore fitting that this date should be Tthosen to inaugurate the “No-Foreign-War Crusade” of the Emergency Peace Campaign, under the direction of Harry Emerson Fosdick with Admiral Richard E. Byrd as hone orary chairman. A handbook of ways and means by which individ=-

uals and groups may help to keep the United States.

out of war has been issued, with 37 organizations represented. This means that millions of citizens of both sexes are actively interested in the movement. It is particularly gratifying to find that most of the names of the long list of sponsors are those of

re 1C | men. Lawyers, publishers, educators, churchmen, soIf we begin it we will |

cial workers, labor leaders, writers. And last, but certainly not least, those of two retired generals— Henry C.ay Newcomer and Smedley D. Butler. Various races and religions are included.

For this, mind you, is a real movement to educate America away from the thought of war. It can be done if a sufficient number of men get behind the cause. Hitherto war has been looked upon as a manly art. Its proponents sometimes argue that the male, being a born fighter, enjoys it. Which is just about as silly as saying that boys enjoy being eaten by lice, drained of vitality by dysentery,

Press Gives G. O. P. Scant

to themselves. Just talking to people that length of / ET result has been that no new communism in their

time and being politely interested is a really terrific strain. I often think in our effort to show visitors all we believe they should sie, we force upon them such long hours of sightsecing that they must reach a point where it is difficult to keep up any interest in the kaleidoscopic pictures which pass before them. : At 8 o'clock we were al. ready to go to a formal dinner given in honor of Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir. After the dinner, the Howard University glee club and Mr. Todd Duncan gave us a perfectly delightful program. The Governor G:neral told me that when Lady Astor wished to give him a special treat she arranged to have some Negro spirituals sung for him.

New Books

PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

HAT line from an old poem, “For men must work, and women must weep,” is ncw. hopelessly outmoded. Into offices, stores andi factories daily hasten crowds of women—women who not only are not weeping, but who are working, and working courageously, some because they must,-some because they like it. IF WOMEN MUST WORK, by Loire Brophy (Appleton-Century), is written for women “who would

like to know how other business women have met and’

solved their problems.” It is full of case histories thas add realism and emphasis to the excellent advice offered by the author not ¢nly to the girl seeking her ‘first job, but to the matiire woman becoming an - executive. These histories may no: be so spicy as those in “I,ive Alone and Like It,” but they sound more plausible. find this a book from whith they may extract many good ideas. ; : > ” » 2 T is, perhaps, inevitable ’hat a biography by Edith Sitwell should reflect sccial rather than political conditions. She says in the author’s note to her VICTORIA OF ENGLAND (Houghton Mifflin) that this book is “intended as a port: iit of the Queen and some of her contemporaries, anc as a record of certain social conditions.” She thiiks the political questions of the great reign have be:n handled by more competent writers. : * Miss Sitwell’s attitude to ward her subject is funda-

mentally sympathetic, but slie livens the familiar story

of Queen Victoria with oc:asional touches of irony, almost mockery. Her obligations to Lytton Strachey and his biography she ackiiowledges with grace, and quotes him freely. She also quotes from the Queen's Journal, and from the Correspondence, the later volumes of which were accessible to her as they were not to Mr. Strachey, Flinn re prety

| tions except Ohio.” The oath

Women job-seekers and job-holders will”

{were climbing aboard

made no attempt in recent years to repeal this statute. Surveys show that laws of this type generally are an outgrowth of social, economic -or political unrest. The Indiana statute has attracted little attention in recent years.

These laws were born in the fratricidal days of the Civil War, Kentucky and West Virginia being the first states to require sworn fealty to the Union by teachers. Modified oaths were enacted by Arkansas, Missouri and Nevada in 1866, but for a half century thereafter (until the World: War, indeed) no further action was taken, and present records do not even reveal final disposition of these old statutes. . ” 2 E-3 HODE ISLAND (1917) and Ohio (1919), led the modern revival of the oaths, followed in 1921-29 by Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Florida, Virginia and Indiana, and in 193135 by California, Montana, Dakota, ashington, Arizona, [Georgie Massachusetts, Michigan,| New Jersey, Texas, Vermont and the District of Columbia. A 138 furves by the National Education Association shows oaths still are required in all these jurisdiclaw never had been rigidly enforced in the Buckeye State, and was quietly repealed in 1935—about the time, strangely enough, that many states the “antlred” bandwagon. Passage of the famed “red rider” to a District of Columbia appropriations bill (which requires teachers to swear they have not taught communism before they may get their pay checks) focused widespread attention on the oaths, which were soundly attacked by virtually all teaching groups and others interested in civil and academic liberty. The oaths have been consistently supported by such organizations as the D. A. R.

The American Legion in 1934 fa- | vored the oaths, but in 1936 re-

_ versed its stand and condemned

| any curbs en freedom of teaching,

West

North New York,

oaths were enacted in 1936, and none is proposed this year. The swing, indeed, is in the other direction—toward repeal. The United States Senate already has voted outright repeal of the

SCIENTIFIC

Its branches weighted with ripening fruit, this luxurious tomato plant, whose roots have never known soil, was the envy of gardeners visiting the New York Flower Show. - Raised from a seed, it has been nourished entirely by

study of courses, but must be careful not to treat the doctrine “with favor or support.” The Federal repealer now is in conference. | The Massachusetts Legislature has advanced a repealer to third reading, after a'campaign against loy-

| alty oaths in that state.

Georgia and the District of Columbia are the only states whose laws forbid the teaching of specific theories of government or economics, though Florida's regulation treats elaborately the nature of the American form of Government, and Rhode Island’s ‘requires detailed statements of a teacher's personal, civic and professional contacts.

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Mee states require a simple statement that the teacher will support and/or defend the Constitution, though California, Colorado, Indiana, Montana, North Dakota,

Oregon and Washington add the re-

quirement that the teacher will by ‘precept and example” teach love, respect and/or undivided allegiance to (1) the national flag, (2) the state flag, (3) law and order, (4) the American Government, and/or (3) American institutions. Oaths generally - are associated with first employment of a teacher or certification requirements, but in Michigan, Montana, Oklahoma, Oregon and West Virginia, they are a definite part of the yearly contracts. Eighteen states do not have specific machinery for enforcing the loyalty oath statute, though (as in

‘the District of Columbia) there is

indirect enforcement machinery in that teachers may be refused certificates, and/or deprived of their pay, unless they comply. ; In Oklahoma violation of the oath isa misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment; in West Virginia a teacher who does not sign the oath may be fined $5 to $20 for each. month cf school board secretary fined $10 to $20 for delivering salary drafts, and in Colorado any administrative officer may’ be fined and/or imprisoned for allowing a teacher to as-

sume his duties before subscrib.

violation, and the:

| sylvania, who ‘served

Attention, Clapper, Says

By RAYMOND CLAPPER

Times Special Writer

ASHINGTON, April 2.—¥ou can judge for yourself what the national political situation is from the fact that the Republican National Executive Committee met here this week and not a line about it appeared in the newspapers. . Not that the Republicans attempted to meet secretly. The explanation is that the Republican Party no longer is news. Reporters have just quit checking in on the Republicans. They take ii for granted that nothing is happening. So when the party insiders gathered with Chairman John Hamilton, the newspaper reporters were not clustered around the outer door waiting for news and speculating as to what higher strategy was being shaped. They were all absent — busy writing about the attacks of Senator Glass and other Democrats on the Roosevelt court plan. That small incident reflects the national political ‘picture quite accurately. ‘Republicans, so far as national policy’ is concerned, are in a state of suspended animation. ” 2 ” THEN the Senate voted the Administration crop insurance bill, Republicans did not even ask for a roll-call. Republican leader McNary indorsed the bill as did Senator Capper, Republican farm belt spokesman. The chief objections, practically the only ones, came from two Democratic Senators, King of Utah and Maloney of Connecticut. Thus the Republicans are helping to put the Government into the insurance business. When the Guffey Coal Control Bill, a substitute for the one invalidated by the Supreme Court a year ago, came up, the first speech in favor of it was made by a Republican, Senator Davis of ‘Penn- ¢. Cabi-

confining } combatant aid behind the lines.

nets of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. How times have changed. Discussion among Republican Party leaders reveals that so far as national politics are concerned they are. content to wait and see

what turns up.

® n ” LTHOUGH great fundamental questions are up for decision in connection with the Supreme Court issue, questions which involve the future scope of Federal power, and which touch some of the very springs of opinion from which the Republican Party came, the party is sitting on the sidelines, ‘officially at least. It is opposed to the President, but prefers to have Democrats fight the battle, its assistance to nonHowever,

among Republican

leaders there is resistance against carrying this attitude to the extent of abdicating in the Congressional elections next year and supporting the re-election of Democratic Senators and Representatives who have’ broken with Roosevelt on the Court

issue. As party leaders analyze the 1938

| situation, Democrats will fight out

their differences in their own party

primaries. Those who are opposing"

Roosevelt now will, in many in-

stances, find themselves opposed for

renomination by pro-Administra-tion Democrats. It has been suggested that Republicans should abandon their own primaries and pitch into this internal Democratic fight to ‘help save the lives of Democrats now opposing Roosevelt. Some party leaders see a serious practical objection to that. It would mean that in such instances

Republican voters would have to abandon their own local primary

candidates for state and- county

and blown to bits by bombs. ,

War is man’s business—so much is true. Buf even the stupidest one is slowly beginning to realize that, it is also mankind's boomerang. Nowadays, with the means of waging it so perfected, the weapon cannot be cast toward another nation without having it come back and slay the sender also. Men have always made wars. Now if they are to survive they must learn how to make peace. Thoughtful members of the sex everywhere admit the truth of this, and the brave of our land in April will begin a great struggle with the forces of prejudice, ignorance, brutality, fear and greed which will require of them more courage and perseverance than is demanded of many, battalions of soldiers. Those of you who believe in peace and desire it should help in the struggle.

Your Health

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor American Medical Assn. Journal

NE of the methods of treating infantile paralysis which is now in an experimental stage is the injection of serum from a person who has recently recovered from the disease. This is called convalescent serum. There seems to be no certainty of opinion as yet among physicians as to the exact value of this method. In one part of the United States, doctors in general seem to be convinced that early use of the serum will help prevent extension of the disease and also limit the number of muscles involved. Elsewhere, however, doctors do not seem to be convinced ‘that the serum has any real value in this connection. Exercise in water as a means of encouraging the activities of weakened muscles has recently been having a great vogue, particularly because of the type of work carried on at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation with the co-operation President Roosevelt. : The chief advantages of the swimming pool method is the aid that is derived from support ‘of the weakened muscles by the buoyancy of the water. The swur.ming pool itself, of course, is not a cure for paralyzed muscles} At such pools competent teachers are available who encourage use of weakened tissues, control the patient's rest and activities, and do everything possible t& handle each case scientifically. : Another advantage is that under these conditions, patients see other victims who frequently are not so well off as themselves, and are thereby encouraged to make greater efforts leading toward .cure. Besides gettin tients must be treated with all other methods known

to medical science, in order to preserve their general hygiene, ;

water exercise, however, these pa=

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