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MONDAY MAY 17 1037

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FROM INDIANA ERNIE PYLE OLEDO, May 17.—In Toledo there is a very queer restaurant. I had heard about it before 1 got here and thought it would make a good .column. So 1 went around there with some fellows for lunch. The restaurant is a big place, and there

must have been 150 men and women eating lunch when we went in. A waiter with pad and pencil came up to take our orders. He said to me, “What'll you have?” I didn’t

say anything for a couple of seconds of course, and then suddenly the waiter turned toward the kitchen and yelled so loud you could hear him all over the place: “Hey, this. rube won’t order. Come here.” ® ‘So ‘waiters all over the place threw down their dishes and came running, and those apes grabbed me fore and aft and on each side and underneath, and jerked me away from the table and dragged me clear across the restaurant, and kicked open the front doors . and wbisshhh—there I was right the sidewalk, thrown out of the place! > Well, that’s the way things go in that restaurant all the time. . It’s a madhouse. The whole business (and a very prosperous business it is too) has been built up on the policy of insulting the customers.

Mr. Pyle

i ir hats | The waiters all wear galluses and keep. their | on and talk all the time. If you're getting bald they |

call you “curly.” If youfe completely bald, they

come along and polish your head with a rag. If you

spill something, theyll bring a big baby-bib and tie it around your neck. : : When they set the table they just bring an armload of silver and throw-it at you. If you eat lefthanded, as I do. a waiter will stop dead in his tracks and point at you apg yell to the whole house. Hey, | look at this rube, don’t even know which hand to eat with. Haw! Haw! Haw! # = x

‘Rolls and a Cup’ ~~HE head man said to me. “A new customer always gets rolls and a cup on his first visit here.” And just then a waiter came running and yelling, “Rolls and a cup for the new customer.” He had an empty cup and two rolls of toilet papef on a plate. Everybody laughed, mending me, although I didn’t see i ny about it. Em course the waiter came around and said solicitously: “Is there enough water in that soup, or would you like me to put my thumb in it?

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across the table.

the waiter neither smiled

Once in a while a waiter got up and walked on the And from the kitchen there was a constant bedlam of dishes breaking, pots falling, women screaming, bells and whistles going off, moans, shouts humpings. . a Hi meal a waiter kept going around the restaurant like a. newsboy, yelling “Here ya are— News-Bee, World-Telegram, Daily News—read Ernie Pyle’s column—read -all about it!” He was holding high in the air a big roll of toilet paper. | » 2 o " z ‘We've Caught a Thiel’ HEN we started to leave, I cquld hardly lift my ; topcoat from the rack, it was so heavy. Waiters came running from everywhere. They felt in ‘the pockets and yelled, “We've caught a thief! We've caught a thief!” And then they started unloading the pockets. They took out enough knives and forks to set up the whole restaurant. They took out salt and pepper shakers, and jars of sugar, and bottles of catsup. And all the time yelling, “Boy, did he try to make a getaway!” Everybody in the place was howling. : By that time I decided aw to hell with it, I might as well get in the spirit of the thing too, so when-they were all finished I picked up a handful of knives and forks and, put them back in my pocket, and at the counter I took three cigars and two chocolate bars and walked on out the front door. Haw! Haw! Haw!

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

ASHINGTON, Saturday.—The graduating class ! of the Todhunter School came down Friday for the week-end. They have been busy sightseeing yesterday and today. Both evenings we have had movies and our two sons, James and Elliott, and their wives enjoyed them as much as the young people. Friday night we had “Lost Horizon.” I could not help wondering, as I looked at all the young people, what “shangri-la” meant to them, either in the book or in the movie. One of the newspapers down here is sponsoring a contest in which people are invited to express their ideas in 25 words. I am curious to know what the majority of people think. From my own point of view it is the attainment of that peace and contentment whia have within oneself only if one feels that idea of happiness one has created for those or loves is actually attained. “Captains Courageous,” our last night's had decided on work rather than an evening of entertainment, though I think the movie is really lovely and well worth seeing. Yesterday I had my first garden party for the women executives in the various departments. It was a beautiful day and I was glad of the opportunity to be out of doors, not only during: the party, but during a public lunzh which I had in the garden for the senior class from Arthurdale, W. Va. their accompanying teachers and our own household group. 'From the picnic I went with Mrs. Helm and Mrs. Scheider to Secretary and Mrs. Woodring's lovely place, which they allowed the Women’s National Democratic Club to use for their annual spring party. This house was begun by Gen. Washington for Nellie Custis, his adopted daughter, and though it was not finished for five years and’ Washington did not live to see it completed, the setting, trees, and the house itself are reminiscent of the taste which developed so much beauty at Mount Vernon.

In the morning I visited the Girl Scouts’ practice |

house and we planted a tree as part of their participation in Better- Homes Week.

lew Books PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

BACKWARD glance at the travelers of the 17th and 18th centuries is permitted us in GRAND TOUR (Dutton). Richard S. Lambert's compilation of authentic essays, illustrated with delightful old prints, gives an accurate and entertaining account ot the ideal tour, then so highly recommended to broaden the mind. Wealthy young aristocrats, carefully .wagned ‘to avoid Popery at all costs, set out from London for a very doubtful crossing of the Channel. Paris, Geneva, the ‘Alps, Italy, and sometimes Germany, were included in the itinerary. The journey was slow, the mode of travel uncomfortable, the roads bad, sometimes dangerous. Even in those days innkeepers and attendants knew how to get the highest prices from the gullible tourist. But what did these young men waht to see and learn? In what were they interested? is pleasant literary contrast to our age of speed furnishes the

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CTUAL experiences of an ARTIST AND NATURALIST IN ETHIOPIA (Doubleday) are set

down in a most unusual form—a day-by-day record

as kept by the artist, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and the naturalist, Wilford Hudson Osgood. The concurrent diaries of these two on the seven months’ Field Museum-Chicago Daily News Ethiopian expedition in 1926 have been arranged and combined by Osgood, Fuertes having met accidental death shortly after their return to the United States. Over 4000 vertebrate specimens, the principal aim of the expedition, were collected. Keen-cut word pictures depict native settings of birds and animals. . Many plates in color and a short biographical ploy ute impress us again with the art world’s loss in the

- death of that great painter of birds—Louis Agassiz Fuertes. rf ”]

MONDAY, MAY 17, 1937

(Fourth of a Series) . “YTN"HE same thing all around,” said the young man in the gray suit. He smiled broadly at his companions

“Right you are, big boy,” said the girl with the blond hair. The young man in the checked suit and the girl with dark brown hair added their approval noisily. Only

nor - looked approving. He

brushed a thin wisp of gray hair back from his forehead, turned and headed for the bar.

“Those ‘young people bother me,” he said to

the rotund barkeeper.

“They've been drinking too

much tonight. And it's a long drive back to town.”

“Aw, forget,

it,” said the barkeeper. "You've

been working in roadhouses for 40 years and you've

spent 39 of them worrying about drunks.

Don’t

forget drunks lead a charmed life.” A light rain was falling as the young men and their girl friends descended” the front stairs of the

roadhouse and

made their way to the automobile

parked by the side of the drive.

~ David Dietz x hair. mother I'd be home early.” The young man in the checked suit took the wheel and stepped on the starter as the other three settled flown in the car. He raced the motor, threw the car into first

“Two o'clock,” said the girl with dark brown “You'll have to step on it, Al

I promised

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74 SEVEN HORSEMEN

A Broken Neck, Fractured Skull, Pinched Lung and

Smashed Pelvis Ended Career of Four Who Mixed Liquor and Carelessness.

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with a. jerk and started: noisily. |

He shifted to with a grating

down the drive. second . clumsily clash of gears. He turned the corner into the main road, shifted noisily to high speed and pushed the accelerator down to the floor boards. #8 a HEAD was a sharp turn topping a little hill. A wooden fence marked the outer edge of the turn. Beyend the fence the ground fell away steeply to alittle creek. The driver saw the turn too late, jammed on the brakes too hard. The car swerved .to the outer edge of the turn, struck the fence. There was the sound: of splintering wood, a woman's screech, then a series of dull thuds as the car rolled down the embankment and came to rest at the edge of the creek. An hour later the driver of a passing truck noticed the wreck. He phoned the village police from a neighboring farm house and waited to help get the four victims out of the wreckage. By the time they got the four to a hospital in town, the girl with the dark brown hair was dead. “Broken neck,” explained the resident suregon of the hospital who examined her. Medically speaking, a broken neck is a fracture of one of the -vertebra in the region of the neck. Lhe spinal column consists of a ‘series of articulated bones, matched together in a fashion as complex as a jig-saw puzzle, but far more cleverly. For many normal actions depend upon this articulation. Thus. for example, rotating the head from side to side, is made possible by the way in which the first and second vertebra are arranged. 2. »n% pn ACH vertebra has a hole through it so that the backbone or spinal column is really a hollow tube. Growing from the ke? of the brain, the spinal cord extends down through. this tube. Together the brain and spinal cord compose the central nervous system. = Thirty-one important nerve trunks extend from the spinal cord to various parts of the body. The spinal cord, therefore, is the connecting link between these important nerve trunks and the brain. The danger in any injury to the spinal column is that the fractured or misplaced vertebra will crush, tear or otherwise injure the spinal cord. Irreparable injury to the spinal cord is a sentence of death. If the injury is in the neck. region, the higher centers of the brain are affected quickly and death may be instantaneous. If the.injury is lower down. ‘paralysis sets in, the extent of the paralysis depending upon the site of the injury. A slower, lingering,

but nevertheless death ensues. : The hoy in the checked suit died a few hours after his arrival at the hospital. ‘A basal fracture of the skull,” was the house surgeon's verdict.

unpreventable

2 2 ” HIS is the type of injury constantly seen by surgeons in automobile accidents. It is a fracture of the portion of the skull which lies under the brain, separating the brain from the nose and mouth cavities. A fracture of thé dome of the skull is more easily handled by surgeons. Pressure on the brain can be relieved. It is even possible to remove splinters of bone from the brain. But a basal fracture usually results in the rupture of large blood vessels. - There is terrific hemorrhage. Vital areas of the brain are affected with a resultant slowing up of the heart and. difficulty in breathing. The bleeding may be so profuse that blood pours from the ears as well ‘as from the nqose and mouth. The boy in the gray suit died on the operating table. He had suf-

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis,

at Postoffice,

A few minutes before, they had been a party of gay youngsters speeding. along the road. Now the police

fered a fracture of the pelvis, a break in the massive cup-shaped ring of bone at lower end of the trunk. A splinter of broken bone had punctured the bladder, resulting in severe hemorrhage. An attempt had been made to sew up the punctured bladder, but the attempt was useless. Loss of blood and shock had reduced the boy to a state of collapse. The surgeons had realized all this before- they operated, but ‘without the operation death would have been inevitable. They took the only chance that held out any possible hope,

RUMANIAN

FASCISTS MAY FIND | LEADER IN EXILED PRINCE NIKI

By MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Staff Correspondent ONDON, May 17.—Niki Brana, wandering around in exile over the map of Europe, and Prince Nicholas of Rumania may be one and the same man physically. But elder brother King Carol of Rumania may find out some day, to his own cost, that Brana and fhe Prince are widely different mentally and politically. Nicholas, at home in his own country with the wife of his choice, had every reason to be a good boy so far as Carol was concerned. Niki in ‘ex¥e, because he stuck to that same wife, has every reason to be hostile to his big brother. And there is always the Fascist-Nazi Iron Guard ready to take advantage of this situation and hold out inducements to the embittered Prince, The Iron Guard wishes to see a sort of Mussolini-Hitler regime in Rumania. Bitterly anti-Semitic, it hates Magda Lupescu, King Carol's non-Aryan sweetheart. Some of its members have committed murders before now. Though “dissolved” on paper, the Guardists are very much in being and ready to make trouble whenever they sega good chance. Niki may be their "good chance.

” n n I% would add another chapter to

the recent troubled story of Rumania. It all began when Crown

Prince Carol married Zizi Lambrino during the World War. V on a trip around the world, his marriage was dissolved ~nd he was forced into a loveless marriage with the beautiful Princess Helene of Greece. Threé years later, he fell a victim to the charms of the redhaired Lupescu. For that he paid a heavy price. He was disinherited as Crown Prince and sent into exile, living fora time in England. When told to leave that country because he was plotting to get back his birthright, he lived in France with his Magda. Upon the death of his father, Carol's son, Michael, became King, with the country run by a regency of three, headed by Prince Nicholas. Had Niki been selfish he could have continued at the’ head of the state until his young nephew came of age. Instead of this, he fell in with the plans for Carol's return to Rumania, largely engineered by Madame Lupescu. When Carol flew back to Bucharest on June 6, 1930, to grab back his kingship, the first loyally to greet him was Niki.

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QFVERaL years ago Prince Nicholas married the divorced wife of a Rumanian diplomat. There was no objection .to Madame Savianu except that she is not of royal blood. King Carol strenuously _ob-

He was sent

jected to the match and sent his brother into enforced leave of absence for a year. When he returned, Nicholas was still true to his wife. Wild and whirling words occyred between the two royal brothers. According to the Bucharest gossip: Niki: “But you yourself married Zizi before you married Helen, who divorced you. And there's Magda.” Carol: “Enough, and shut up! I am King! I am boss! ...” Niki Brana in exile, therefore, has numerous grievances. His brother, whom he-helped back to the throne, has proved himself ungrateful. And in. the worst possible way by condemning what he himself had done when he married a commoner.

” n ” LREADY emissaries of the Iron Guard are on Niki's trail. They want to make him their candidate for ruler of Rumania. They are holding out to him a cup whose irgredients include a chance for the crown, an opportunity for a shining revenge and an evening of scores with Magda Lupescu, who so successfully behind the scenes arranges many of the moves on the Rumanian checkerboard. ; Much Balkan history will depend upon how the golden-haired, blue-eyed, dancing-footed, exiled:

| §-inceling reacts to the temptation,

HE girl with the blond hair lingered on for a few days. She had suffered a crushed thorax. One lung had been punctured. Air had entered the chest cavity, collapsing' the lung. The surgical treatment seemed successful, but pneumonia ended the story. The story just told is arr old familiar one to the surgeons of every big hospital. They are four

of the most common causes of death in auto accidents. They are not, however, the only ones. It would take a text-book to list them all. Nor can all the automobile accidents be blamed on too much drinking. Accidents happen at all

hours of the day and night, fre-

quently to folks who haven't had a drink of whisky in six months. Speed and carelessness are largely to blame. Icy winter pavements cause plenty of skidding into the curbstone, but straiigely enough cut the toll of serious accidents. It is on dry days when the sunshine is bright that the most serious collisions-occur._

» ” ” INALLY, we must recall that ‘while automobile and traffic. accidents occupy the major portion of our attention, the fact is

that traffic accidents are exceed-

and passing motorists were removing their crushed aud bleeding bodies from the wreckage of the automobile.

ed by the number of accidents in the home. In 1936 there were 110,000 fatal accidents in the United States. Of this number 39,000 occurred in homes. Just as children are frequently the victims of traffic accidents so they are often the sufferers in home accidents. -Dishes or pots of hot liquids left where children can pull them down are the frequent causes of frightful burns that end fatally. Industrial accidents are still many though industry can point, with pride to the fact that safety campaigns nave cut the number of fatalities from 36,000 a year a quarter century ago to 18,000 in 1936. ‘The conquest of cancer requires the intensive and skilful work of trained medical men. The average citizen can co-operate only to the extent that he can visit his physician once a year for a thorough physical examination, thus making it possible to diagnose the disease early if it occurs. But accidents are squarely the problem of every citizen in the * nation. Here is one horseman of death who can be fought by each person. Today we. face the ironic situation of permitting carelessness to be a major cause of death.

NEXT—Fighting the = White Plague.

Holds Court Discriminated * Against Nation's Farmers

By SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE

JQ USINESS has long had the right to act nationally through the corporate form of organizations. In the Wagner case decisions, labor now has won a Similar right. But by decision of the Supreme Court in the Hoosac Mills case affecting the AAA, agriculture is still legally a local problem. The decision of the Court in the AAA case, that agriculture is a local matter, still discriminates against the farmers and blocks their progregs..: The reasoning of

the Court . m ority . in that. cdge

was in direct contrast with the reasoning of the majority in the Wagner cases. In the latter, the Court recognized that the employment of labor affects interstate commerce in the meaning of the Constitution. But in the AAA case the Court completely ignored the fact that farm prices #nd production in one state affect farm prices and production in other states. The Court has said in effect that the farmers cannot co-operate with each other

| tect their incomes and ‘their prices.

and with their Government to pro- |

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Ind.

Qur Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

ODAY I want to tell you how the Peme"broke Arcade got its name. It's high time, too, because if you get around town the way 1 do, you can’t help knowing that they are changing the arcade into a garage. And for all I know it may have a new name before Jong. ; ] I don’t know whether it was an oversight on the part of the owners or whether it was their sense of

showmanship, but whatever it was, it remains a fact that the arcade was without a name when it opened in September, 1895. What’s more, it wasn’t until six months later that it got its present name. It was six months, I remembe, because it took all that time to run off the state-wide contest. Everybody got into ihe contest. not only because of the honor of naming a new building, but because the prize was unlike anything ever offered before. Believe it or not, the ree ward for naming the new building was a season ticket good for a year at any good theater in Indianapolis at the time. The ticket was worth $500 if it was worth a cent. One of the names submitted, I remember, was Dicktal Vonbo. It didn't get the prize, but it represented a lot of thought on the part of the contestant. At any rate, it showed that the contestant knew that George A. Dickson and Henry M. Talbott were the owners of the building and that Vonnegut and Bohn were its architects: Dickson and Talbott owned and operated the Grand. English and Park theaters at the time, which

explains why they were able to think up: the kind of

a prize they did. 2 alas

Name Had Literary Flavor

T= first prize went to a woman in Noblesville, I believe At any rate, it went to somebody oute side’ of Indianapolis, and it created no end of talk, because everybody wondered how anybody outside of Indianapolis could think up a name so. fraught with literary allusions. The members of the Indianapolis Literary .Club were tremendously impressed, I remember. And so was everybody else when it was pointed out that Sir Philip Sidney (circa 1580) wrote his celebrated “Arcadia” at the home of his brother-in-law, the Earl of Pembroke. - ” " ”

Confession Spoiled Everything

I" was the neatest analogue ever invented, and there's no telling how Noblesville might have benefited by it, had not the godmother of Dickson and Talbott's venture spoiled everything. I still don’t know what possessed her to do it, but it's a matter of history that when the reporters came around to applaud her literary attainments, the Noblesville woman broke down and confessed that Sir Philip Sidney and the Earl of Pembroke didn’t have anything to do with her choice of name. She said she picked “Pembroke Arcade” it sounded pretty.

A ‘Woman's View

- By MRS. WALTER FERGUSCN

YY Har did I tell you? Any newspaper writer who ventures to hint that a dog is an animal ine stead of a holy creature is jeopardizing her reputation. I offer the following “fan letter” as proof. If is one specimen of many. “Dear Madam: In perusing my paper this evening, I, out of pure curiosity, read your column, as 1 do not usually do so and do net think I shall in the future. I am the mother of two strapping, fine boys

but I also have a pet, a dog of whom I am véry fond, and just cannot but help resent your attitude. Personally after reading this alleged column I would say that you have never had a pet and are a selfish, cold-hearted, unwomanly person. I advise you to stick to some subject you are more familiar with. You will ‘not then seem so terribly ridiculous and ignorant, poor Mrs. Ferguson!” : From this anonymous opinion, which is popular with nine-tenths of the reading public, let us hear what Kay Austin, writer for The New York WorldTelegram, who keeps us un on the buying habits of the swanky set, has to say on the subject: “ ‘Qui m’aime, aime mon chien’ (which is French for ‘love me, love ‘my dog’) —this legend emblazoned across the bright metal dog tray with food dish to match makes elegant dinette equipment for your pet. Made of Mexican corn leaves, the new dag beds are round and cool for summer. Sturdy, though it gives a fragile wicker effect, the bed boasts its own gay pillow brilliantly appliqued in a variety of patterns. are included in a selection of designs among which you are sure to find one to suit Fido’s® personality. “April showers, seasonal thoug ey. be, will ba an inconvenience to your pet unless jhe steps out neatly inclosed in a raincoat. The latest model which fits snugly through the body sports a hod. which ties under the dog's chin and protects his forehead and eyes from random raindrops.” Although this sounds like pure hogwash to country ears, it does raise the dog in our estimation. Howe ever, we continue to look with suspicion upon an urban ideal of progress which protects canines from random raindrops while it lets women and babies starve in slums.

Your Health

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor, American Medical Assn. Journal HE very name “angina pectoris,” is reminiscent of

because

the pain that this disease causes; in fact, pain.

is probably the most significant symptom of this disease. Angina pectoris occasionally is confused with coronary thrombosis, which also may cause severe pain in the heart.

The pain of coronary thrombosis comes in a sin-.

gle attack with prolonged pain, whereas the pain of

angina pectoris occurs. at frequent intervals of short

duration and: without symptoms between the attacks. In each of these diseases, there is interference with the blood supply to the heart muscle, but with different effect on the heart.

In coronary thrombosis, the interference with the

blood supply is prolonged and brings about serious damage to the tissues. In the case of angina pectoris, the interference is momentary and may not result in permanent damage. : The heart is nourished, not so much by the blood which it pumps to the utmost ends of the body, as by blood vessels which come to the heart as they come to other tissues and organs of the body. These blood vessels originate in the largest blood vessel coming from the heart. Obviously, therefore, any changes which occur in this large blood vessel at points near the heart muscle may interfere with the flow of blood into the heart. As people get older, the blood vessels sometimes thicken and harden. In association with this process, they also become narrower. When there is a general process of this type, af« fecting the blood vessels of the body. the vessels which supply the heart with blood are also affected. A muscle at work requires a certain. amount .of blood-carrying oxygen in order to do its work satis factorily. The tissue of the heart is muscular tise sue. If a heart muscle does not have enough blood and oxygen, it manifests this disturbance by pain. The heart itself reveals its inability to get suffie cient blood for its use by a similar pain. When pain occurs in angina pectoris, the symptom

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Knight-on-horseback and Indian motifs.