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ERNIE PYLE

EW YORK, April 15.—There are two kinds of burlesque strippers—trollops

and nice girls. The ones I have met are nice | And the angle that gets me down is |

girls. how a girl can be nice and still undress be-

fore a thousand men. ' The average person will say it just isn’t so—that

4 woman who'll appear naked before a house full of

men can’t be, in private life, a nice girl. But I'm sure it’s true. And more than that, they seem to be no different in personality or thoughts from a girl who would faint at the very idea. Ne We've just had a strip-teaser up to our apartment for break--fast. Her stage name is June Marshall. Her real name is Elsie Hicks. She's from Berkeley, Cal. She undresses four times a day at Minsky’s Gaiety, on Broadway at 46th. We sat and talked and laughed for a couple of hours. I told her I'd asked her up because I wanted to write an honest column on just how a stripper feels" about doing it. She said she'd try to answer. me truthfully. : “Help me with this question,” I said. “You are modest and sensitive. You wouldn't think of taking off your clothes in this room, or before a man you know. Yet you can undress before a thousand goggleeyed goofs you don’t know. How can you reconcile that?”

“I've wondered about that, too,” she said.

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Mr. Pyle

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"I just don’t look at the two things the same way

that's all. It’s impersonal on the stage. It's my job.” “Do you feel degraded by it?” I asked her. , “No, I don’t. I honestly like my work. I'm in the

_ show business. and I came up out of the chorus,

and it was an advancement. There's no other way I could make as much, or have steady work.”

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UNE MARSHALL has been a show girl for six years. Started on the West Coast, traveled with Fanchon & Marco all over the countrv. and made a

10-month show tour. of the Orient, going as far as

Singapore. J But she’s been in burlesque less than a year, and a stripper only since November. She’s doing mighty fine now. She’s just signed up to go to Paris in May for the exposition. d she’s thrilled. “Aren’t you ever embarrassed when' you're out there?” 1I asked, getting back to the point. “Not any more,” June said. “I don’t think about it. But I was at first. Plenty.”

| &# » a Audience Doesn’t Worry Her

s OW do you feel about the audience? Don’t you get to hating all those men out there staring at you?” “No, laughed again. never seen any of them. I'm nearsighted and can't see the audience at all.” Miss Marshall gets a lot of fan mail. Every Monday morning she gets sort of a theatrical review letter from an anonymous Wall Street broker who sees the show every Sunday. A college boy recently “spoke” a letter to | her — had it recorded on a

phonograph record, gn sent it to her.

I dont think about them” Then she

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

SHEVILLE, N. Lo} Wednesday—Those wild Howers we went to see were as lovely as they said they would be. Mr. Eaki , who is superintendent of Great Smoky National Park, drove us up a road made by

the CCC boys Wher an old logging trail had once been. We found whole hillsides carpeted with wild flowers—white, purple, pale blue. On the way we stopped to look at quite an extraordinary stone bridge which the CCC boys are building. One of the young WPA artists presented me with a charming pen and ink sketch of it for the President. . Back at the hotel we bade goodby to our kind hosts, Mr. and Mrs, Andy Huff, and started on 2 longer drive to Clingman’s Dome. As we climbed it got colder, and soon we saw patches of snow under the trees and the rhododendron bushes. By the time we reached the top it was beginning to cloud up, but we could still get the sweep of the mountain ranges rising up one above the other as far as the eye could reach. We came down into the Cherokee Reservation, and I was reminded of avery lovely story which Mr. Lawrence, secretary of the Cherokee Tsali Foundation, had written me. They wish to erect a monument to Cherokee Tsali’'s memory. The only reason this tribe is still on this reservation is that Tsali, with his sons, came in to suffer the penalty of death for the killing of a Federal soldier. He made the condition that the rest of his people should be spared and allowed to remain on this territory. : . The whole story has, I believe, been told in Collier’s weekly of Feb. 20 by Herbert Sass. As I looked at some of the Cherokee Indians’ craft work today, I thought that Tsali’s spirit must be content that his sacrifice had brought at least some measure of security to his people. We stopped long enough for a cup of coffee, around 2:30, for we found that winding roads made our

| progress rather slow. I had very pleasant memories

of the Grove Park Inn, so we went there for the night, arriving about 5 o'clock. During the past three days I think we have been asked to visit at least a dozen places. I only wish I had the time to tarry along the way to see all the things people are anxious to show us and to accept all the hospitality which is offered with such true Southern warmth. Unfortunately, however, our time is limited and there are just a few things I had planned to do. If I tried to do everything, I am afraid this would cease to be a vacation and become a very strenuous journey.

New Books

PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— OVERS of Napoleonic literature will welcome a late addition to this field. ST. HELENA, by Octave Aubry (Lippincott), is one of the most readable of the many biographies of Napoleon I. As the

title indicates, it is an account of the final exile. The author has not only delved into all the available material concerning this period of Napoleon’s

life, but has actually lived on St. Helena for a time. | The book might have been tedious, concerned as it is with the rather humdrum existence of Napoleon | and his staff on St. Helena. Instead, every character i is alive and vital. ' had any contact at St. Helena is analyzed.

Each person with whom Napoleon

And through it all stalks the pathetic figure of

| the “Little Corporal’—once so much respected and | feared—now shorn of his power and deserted by all. | but a few of his friends. | interested in their own welfare than in that of . Napoleon. - The book is beautifully illustrated with | many photographs and portraits.

Even they seem to. be more

= 2 3 HAT we are a nation of joiners is brought out in Charles W. Ferguson's FIFTY MILLION

BROTHERS (Farrar & Rinehart), a panorama of | American lodges and clubs. ' man’s desire for a common interest with his fellow | /men; so he joins the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the | Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of America, | or any other .of the existing orders. :

The root of joining is

Mr. Ferguson says that “our lodges and clubs, even

| in their singular variety and exuberance, are but a | perfectly natural expression. of American life—not a | - side-show spectacle to be gawked and snickered at.

uzzle. Through their ress literally by degrees to an understanding of the motives that lay hold they n pke the mass,

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THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1937

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CORONATION NO FUN FOR ‘YARD

By MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Staff Correspondent

ONDON, April 15. — Famous Scotland Yard, from the Commissioner down :to the humblest detective, and the London Building Inspectorate, from the top to the bottom, will heave mighty sighs of gi rclief when the festivities in connection with the coronation of King George VI on May 12 are safely over. "For the sir Philip 01g htmare W. Game of the police is that some crank may take a potshot at one of the

visiting royalties or statesmen. The fear of the building inspectors is that some reviewing stand may crash and cause a tragedy. The work of Scotland Yard in connection with the coronation began long ago. The Yard leaves nothing to chance. It got into touch with the highest police forces of the leading nations of the world and asked them to help in checking up, on prospective visitors to Englgnd. Not the decent, law-abiding folk, but pickpockets, confidence men and crooks generally and, above all, the men likely to harbor a grudge against heads of states and, therefore, liable to attempt an assassination. ™ : " When King Gorge VI rides on the morning of May 12 from Buckingham Palace to Westmin-steri-Abbey and then back to the Palace, the line of march will not only be maintained by thousands of troops and police. but there will be dozens of plainclothes men looking, not at the parade but at the crowds. Moreover, Sir Fhilip W. Game's aids at Scotland Yard will have checked up on every person occupying a window or balcony or grandstand seat along the route of the procession. #. @ =n ; HE same will be true of the 8000 highly-privileged persons admitted to the Abbey for the Coronation ceremonies. ‘To show just how careful the authorities

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The coronation parade of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth will trace its way through miles of streets in the heart of London. The map shows the course of the procession, from the time the King and Queen quit Buckingham Palace to be crowned at Westminster Abbey. The route shown by the dotted line will be down the Mall, into Whitehall, to the Abbey. After the ceremony the procession will follow the Victoria Embankment to Trafalgar Square, Pall Mall, St. James Street,

Piccadilly, Piccadilly Circus, Regent

Street, Oxford Street, Hyde Park,

Constitution Hill, and so back to the Royal Palace.

are at this time, the list of newspaper ‘reporters to “cover” the Abbey and, therefore, have seats inside the church, had to be submitted to the Coronation Committee weeks ahead of May 12, so that every name on it could be checked up and verified. + THe police have been made especially nervous and more careful because last summer, when the Duke of Windsor was still King Edward VIII, a man threw a pistol at the feet of his horse as the King was riding away from a military ceremony. The man disclaimed any intention of harming Edward and got off with a light sentence, but it showed the authorities how easy it would be to do serious mischief. 3 ” ” NGLAND is always looked upon as a country where the people are so law-abiding and where royalty is so respected -that attempts upon the Royal Family are unthinkable. But this is a serious mistake and Scotland Yard, with the records before it, knows it is an error. Thus to go back no further than the 18th century, King George III was twice attacked. George IV, when still Prince Regent, was attackéd on June 28, 1817. Queen Victoria, who reigned

for gover 60 years and who grew to be so legendary a figure with her ‘ subjects, was, nevertheless, the victim of five attempts upon her life. These took place June 10, 1840, March 30, 1842, July 31, 1842, March 19, 1849, and March 2, 1882. Her son the late King Edward VII, when Prince of Wales, was visiting in Brussels on April 4, 1900, when an attempt was made on his life by an Anarchist.

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HESE occurrences, coupled with the comparatively recent assassinations of King Alexander of Jugoslavia in Marseilles and President Paul Doumer of France in Paris, have all served to make Scotland Yard doubly anxious. The Yard is not only troubled about protecting its home notabilities, but there will be many royal princes and shining lights from all over Europe— many of whom might conceivably be in danger of attack froth refugees, who have-a political if not personal cause for hatred. - The Building Inspector’s Department also has its troubles. As early as last January, the Government Commissioner of Works commenced the erection of grandstands around Westminster Abbey, along the Mall and Constitution Hill and other points where the Government has con-

GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE MENACES ~ AMERICAN CROPS THIS SUMMER

Grasshopper Za tlefRonds for 1957

swerves away from Minnesota, where intensive poisoning campaigns for several years have kept down

The Kingdom of the Grasshopper: light-shaded

pated strength, 84,000 tons (twice a

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By DR. FRANK THONE Science Service Editor in Biology ASHINGTON, April 15.— Grasshoppers to rival the locust plague of Egypt menace the crops and rangelands of the United States. Unless spring brings persistent, cold rains when the young insects emerge from the eggs now in the ground, 1937 will go down in history as the worst grasshopper year since the sky-darkened days of the Kansas pioneers—maybe even worse. Such is the warning of scientists in the U. S. Department of Agriculture. They are in position to prophesy this creeping, flying, devouring doom because they have been making a careful survey.of the overwintering eggs now in the ground. Never in this century have there been so many—and the winter weather has done them practically no harm. They are ready to hatch as soon as the ground is thoroughly warm. The prospective empire of the grasshopper covers practically all of the prairie and plains region, and extends into the intermountain areas of Utah and Arizona. Heavy infestations are reported from the foothills of the Rockies in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado, eastward to central Illinois. The situation in western, central and southern Iowa is reported as especially menacing. There is an isolated region of severe infestation in the northern part of Michigan’s lower peninsula.

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EDERAL and State scientists know how to combat the pest, and farmers have learned to serve as shock troops with the poisoned bran bait which Government funds have supplied. A bill to provide a war chest for this year’s campaign against the insects is now pending in Congress, If the grasshopper plague- develops to its full antici-

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This is an antifrasshopper “field piece” invented in Montana and made of an old Ford rear end and drive shaft, an empty oil drum, and

some odds and ends of lumber and sheet metal from

heap. It is an effective poison-bait

the farm junk spreader. : % :

of poisoned bran will be required for effective control. Bran bait is made by mixing coarse bran with an arsenic compound, usually sodium arsenite. Molasses was formerly added, but is now usually omitted. It has been found that sawdust can be substituted for part of the bran — the ’hoppers apparently do not notice

that they are being cheated.

The prepared bait is spread thinly over the areas where the young grasshoppers, their wings still ungrown, are crawling. It is sown by hand, or with a broadcast sowing machine. . ” » »

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antigrasshopper artillery was built by a Montana farmer, and has

been copied ‘by several thousand

t ists of the rear end | P8L a dozen

of an old Ford, with the drive shaft still in place. The shaft is raised up vertically and a light circular tray with radial slats atop is fixed to it. As the wheels are drawn along the tray whirls round. Bran bait is poured on to the tray from an old oil drum, and thus flung out in a wide swath. Grasshoppers threaten not only sown crops like corn.and the small grains, bgt also the range plants of the-West.. Their uncountable bil= lions devour vast quantities of provender that would otherwise become beef or mutton. The rangeland grasshopper problem is aggravated, too, by the fact that some 30 species are involved, whereas the principal mischief done by grasshoppers in the grain-rais-Ing areas is the work of less than

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Famed Police Organization Lays Plans to Guard Lives of Royalty

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The coronation of a British monarch (pictured is the procession for King George V and Queen Mary) brings out throngs in which lurk untold tragedies. What maniac or frenzied enemy may be among the

millions who line the track?

under the load of curious spectators?

that London officials guard.

What defective grandstand may crash

It is against these possibilities

trol of the space. These stands are designed to accommodate thousands of government officials, guests of the government and other favored one$, who can thus sit in comfort and watch the coronation parade either on its way to the Abbey or back to Buckingham Palace. | The object of starting erection of these stands so early was to give the building inspectors a chance to test them as to their strength and safety. The inspectors are also testing all stands

erected by private speculators, who have rented many choice spots along the line of the parade. And the inspection will not be a mere bluff. In past times there have been some very serious tragedies due to careless grandstand building. One of the most terrible of modern days took place. during the coronation of the late Czar Nicholas Second of Russia in 1894 when a huge grandstand collapsed and hundreds of people were either killed or seriously injured.

Flynn Discusses Purchase Of War Materials in U.S.

By JOHN T. FLYNN

Times Special Writer

EW YORK, April 15—It is becoming increasingly clear that war industry in. this country is greater than anyone knows. Are our steel mills, our copper smelters and, to some extent, our textile mills selling large parts of their production to warring European hations? And if so, how are these nations paying their bills? In 1914 these nations were rich in money, while: we were poor, though rich in resources. And yet their ability to buy. for cash and with their own funds came- to an end within one year of the outbreak of hostilities. Now these nations can no longer be looked upon as rich in funds. What, then, are they using for money as they go shopping for war goods in America? There is no certain answer to this question as yet. But it is certain that England and Germany and France and Italy cculd buy a good deal of war material here if they were pressed. \ All of these nations are pressing for loans in their own countries. They have been urging their°®nationals to bring in gold and metals to their treasuries. How much ready

have been able to gather is difficult to say. But it must have been considerable. #2 8 = : URTHER, some of these nations at least have been exercising a. good deal of control over their foreign trade. And these governments have been managing their exports in.such a way as to enable them to use the foreign credits set up everywhere for war purposes. However, if war comes they have one considerable resource which

they can use: All of these European countries own large amounts of American investments. The investments are owned by citizens and subjects, not .by the governments. The last estimate of the Treasury was that this total of foreign investments was around seven billion dollars. Last year there was a tremendous flow of European capital into the United States. And this flow con-

tinues. Much of it is foreign money |:

in flight from the disturbed areas of Europe to the still troubled, yet more peaceful atmosphere of the United States. :

® ” o i the event of war any nation in Europe could find means to use the securities owned by its citizens here to buy munitions. They could seize all the securities owned by their citizens or they could call on citizens voluntarily to deliver foreign securities to them. The for-

eign nation doing this would pay its citizens for these securities with its own bonds. It could then sell the securities in this country and use the funds to buy munitions or anything it wished. This was done in the last war, one way or another. Mussolini did it in the Ethiopian war. It has been already employed by Hitler in a small way. But if war comes, these nations will not hesitate to seize these securities. It will not do, therefore, to be too sure that war industry cannot grow in this country again because of the poverty of foreign nations. And, as a matter of fact, the trade has already begun. It has progressed, perhaps, as far as it had gone: in the middle of 1915. This is a dangerous spot to be watched.

Sit-Downs Are Disliked by

Public, Menc

“rJHE sit-down strike, at any rate in its pure form, is rather an improvement on the ordinary strike,

for it avoids all the incitement to riot inherent in *picketing, it gives the strikers a chance to consider their situation without any confusing bellowing of labor leaders, and it keeps the boss from. putting in strike breakers. : “The last may te, in some aspects, an invasion of his rights, but it is the sort of invasion that any sensibl~ man must learn to tolerate in time of war. He suffers no permanent damage, and when the day comes to take his men back, if if ever comes, they do not return to him bandaged, sore and vengeful, but with whole skins and unbroken skulls, ‘and in reasonably good

ken Contends

strikes is not that the bosses do not like them; but that a large part of the public does not like them, That dislike may be due to the fact that they sometimes involve defiance of court orders,-or it may be due to some other and deeper cause, but whatever the fact, the dislike itself is so palpable that the politicians, whose ears are always to the ground, have begun to take notice of it. “In a little while, if the present performance goes on, they will begin to pass drastic laws on. the subject, and then a good many poor men will find themselves in the dock, with ambitious district attorneys howling for their blood, and a formidable public opinion .against them.”’— (Henry L. Mencken, in The Balti-

Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

T becomes more evident every day that modern criticism is posted on two distinct points of view: (1) the critics’ assumption that I know nothing, or (2) that 1 know everything. And I don’t mind saying that

of the two, the assumption of my omnis cience is the more embarrassing. I know whereof I speak because I meet it every day, which is to say that I can’t escape it. Like as

not, most of you are in the same fix, too. Not content to explain the unfamiliar in terms of the familiar, the critics stay up nights nowadays thinking up terms less familiar than the unfamiliar thing they are talking about. > Their approach is more or less the same, and usually takes this turn: “Francis Poulenc’s piano piece (or anybody else’s, for that matter) has the spiritual content of a lily painted by Georgia O'Keeffe,” or ‘Aloysius Ditto’s latest book has the bite and burr of a print by Pablo Picasso.” I have survived these classic examples, but just to show you that the practice is as pernicious as ever, I cite something I picked up at the breakfast table’ the other morning, to wit: “Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse has attained the stature of Charlie Chaplin.” Maybe it’s all right, but who in the heck is Charlie Chaplin? To ke sure, all the critics don’t take as much for granted. Nevertheless, they credit me with knowing more than I do. In support of which I submit my" present predicament. And yours, too, because neither you nor I can read a review today without suspecting that we have to understand everything about painting in order to know something about music. Else, why do the music critics persist in prattling about “color” and “stipple scales” and “shading” and the like?

8 a =a Literary Critics Do It Too phi that way with| everything else, too. . Literary critics are forever talking about “structure” and

“plasticity,” presuming, I suppose, that I know every thing about architecture. Well, I don’t.

And speaking of architecture, I read somebody’s criticism of a building the other day and, doggone it,

Mr. Scherrer

if he didn’t ring in the word “rhythm,” which might

have been all right if I had known something about music.

I don’t know where this sort of thing is going to end, but I have a hunch it's headed for something to worry about. At any rate, I’ve worried ever since a critic in the New Yorker spoke approvingly of the “Schmalz” style developed by a German tenor.

2 ” os ‘Schmalz’ Means Grease

HE word “Schmalz,” if memory serves me, is a good old Teutonic connotation for grease or suet or melted butter. In other words, it’s something lifted right out of the kitchen. Considered as a style, it is something we associate with German Christmas cakes, and not with tenors—not even German tenors.

Indeed, a tenor is just wasting his time—and

ind, too—trying to compete with German Christmas cakes.

Ce A Woman's View By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ASam official the other day expressed his feel ing about women in politics with these words: “When I first took office I was an enthusiastic champion of women. I thought they could do a great deal to improve conditions. But during five years’ service I have been completely disillusioned. I have decided that the average feminine mind is not able to meet real problems.

“What do I mean by that? I mean that women become agitated over trivial things. They make issues out of matters which are not important. And they stir up hornets’ nests about purely idealistic problems —which are beyond the power of politicians to mend.

“They will send telegrams, for instance, on the merit system, or peace programs, or educational projects, and come in droves to beg clemency for a criminal who has been played up in the papers, Their minds seem to run almost entirely to impractical issues, and the majority are too emotional to do effective work in official positions. “Those who are not ruled by their emotions: generally belong to the type that keeps its job by worke ing the old sex stuff. “You've asked my honest opinion and there it is.” Now whether we agree or disagree, this statement. is worth our study, for there’s no denying that women have disappointed even themselves since their advent into this particular male sphere into which they exe pected to introduce such magnificent reforms. I am persuaded, however, that most of the fault for this lies not with women alone, but with the political system itself. The men had made that system so rotten before we ever got into it that the high-minded woman hesitated to mix with the scum that so often makes up the class of petty politicians. So much for the lady. As for the other kind, her behavior also was natural. A group that has so often been obliged to obtain its favors, economical, social and domestic, with physical allure instead of worth is not likely to forget the trick in politics. It strikes me that the men need not spend much time worrying about feminine political ‘shortcomings. They've got plenty to do to look after their own,

Your Health

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor American Medical Assn. Journal

wie the fact that a person has infantile pare alysis is once established, it next becomes neces sary to examine the various muscles carefully to determine which are involved. Methods of treatment depend largely on the results of such examination, since ways are known in which the muscles may be strengthened and recovery hastened. : The infantile paralysis victim must have absolute rest in bed. Such rest aids recovery and obviates unnecessary irritation to the affected tissues. Nursing must be exceedingly gentle, and must minimize as much as possible any movement of the patient. Any functioning or working of inflamed tissue is dangerous. A specialist will usually fix the patient’s limbs and tissues in such a position as to prevent movement and, at the same time, to have them in the best possible condition after the acute inflammation has passed. From six to eight weeks of such treatment may be necessary, to permit the damaged nerve cells to make as much recovery as possible. : It has been said that even the weight of bedclothes may provide dangerous pressure on weakened tissues. Simply propping the patient up in bed may cause & disturbance in the back. Placing of a pillow under the patient’s knees may start a deformity. It is especially important, therefore, at that stage of the disease to avoid the use of home methods of treatment. Chile dren frequently are rubbed with all sorts of linimentg or lotions. Cultists or quacks of one type or another attempt manipulations or vibrations of the tissues, which invariably harm the patient. . Only after all the tenderness and pain have left the affected tissues should manipulations be undere taken, and even then they must be made most cautiously. The paralyzed child will be encouraged gradually to move his joints and muscles, but should never be permitted to do it to the point of fatigue. * Far too often, parents who do not understand the condition will urge the paralyzed child to move or permit him to be massaged by incompetent. healers,

with the result that complete recovery may thereby * Joe: ulti ;