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In Europe By Raymond Clapper

Reciprocal Trade Bargaining in Austria Illustrates Hull's Plan + For Expansion of World Business.

IENNA, Oct. 2.—What Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade program could mean if it were more widely accepted may be better understood by telling what is going on here in Vienna. When he is talking about the necessity of removing barriers, Mr. Hull has in mind hundreds and thousands of instances: throughout the world, all operating in the same direction as the restriction here which allows only 80 American automobiles to be sold here annually. . Austria’s argument in favor of this restriction is that, without it, the one Austrian automobile plant would have to close down, throwing 4000 men out of work. This plant makes 2000 baby-sized cars a year. Our people reply that the number of automobiles per capita in Vienna is pitifully small and that if more cars were let in they would give employment to chauffeurs, to accessories factories which are established here, to garagemen and to Austrian tire factories, thus putting "to work far more than the portion of the 4000 automobile workers who might be displaced by the importation of cars. Some Americans think this would be a particularly good time for Austria to ease up on its automobile quotas, since the iron and steel business here is booming because of the outside demand for arms. Austrian iron mines date back to the Middle Ages. The province of Styria was a center. of armormakers. In modern times it became a center of arms manufacturing.

Under the treaty that ended the World War the manufacture of arms was forbidden, and the plants turned to automobiles among other things. But recently the needs of arming nations have levied new demands on production. Austrian iron and steel output jumped 40 per eent last year because of munitions orders. Exports of steel to Japan were doubled

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and those to China were five times larger than pre- .

viously. Agree to Increase Quota

The Austrian Government has relented to the extent that it will let in 70 additional American cars a year if, in exchange, the United States buys additional Austrian goods to three times the value of the automobiles. Gardner Richardson, U. S. commercial attache here, called American automobile agents to this office and suggested that they organize a jobbing corporation to buy up and send back to the States enough Austrian goods to.allow 70 extra automobiles to come in. Such a company was formed, and will soon be ready to begin operating. Under the agreement among the existing American agencies here, it will be limited to them. As a result; General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are going to buy up Austrian cheese, leatherwork, skis, Tyrolean stuff, needlework bags, or whatever they think they can dispose of through their new Jobbing corporation, which is called the International Goods Compensation Co. : That seems like a lot of work, just. to sell 70 cars, but it also shows how strong the pressure is for expanding international trade. And it suggests in a small way the vast potentialities for commerce if the hampering barriers could be removed. :

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

F. D. R's Party Finds Victoria Wet But the City Otherwise Charming.

HICAGO, Friday—After returning from a most interesting day, I took off from Seattle last night by air. The weather Thursday morning was most unkind and sheets of rain poured down upon us as we drove to the dock, but by the time we reached Victoria, B. C. the rain had stopped and there were some signs of clearing., Our two grandchildren were much excited. As a result, before the end of the trip, one of them came into our stateroom with a request that he be allowed to remain there because he and his sister

. were making life a little difficult for each other and

those around them. I have often found a little peace and quiet is a good thing for children’ on all-day trips. I was impressed with the wisdom of our Canadian hosts when I found they had arranged an exclusive meal in a separate room for our youngsters so they would not have the excitement of a big luncheon table and the conversation of grownups. Victoria is a charming city.

he had spent 21 years of service, in one capacity or another, in the Government of his Province. When it is really clear, the view from the windows of Government House must be gorgeous. Everyone was most kind and hospitable and the Lieutenant Governor and the President seemed in a happy mood when they made their respective speeches. After lunch we drove along the shore to the dock and I longed for the sun. It must be a beautiful drive with theysunlight on the water. I envied people with houses looking across the water at the Olympic range, which in clear weather stands out in full beauty. The Prime Minister told me he had once boasted to an American naval officer about the view from his house and the officer had replied: “Don’t forget that a great part of it is given you by the United States.” ; ‘

New Books Toda Public Library Presents—

LTHOUGH there are many who believe the problem of child labor no longer exists in this country, abundant evidence to the contrary is presented in a recent study made by Katherine Dupre Lumpkin and Dorothy Wolff Douglass, which is brought to us in their book CHILD WORKERS IN AMERICA (McBride). Particular emphasis has been placed on the investigation of conditions among the children of sharecroppers and tenants working in cotton in Southern states and children of the migratory family groups in other agricultural pursuits, such as strawberry, tobacco, beet and cranberry pro-

duction. These children suffer not“only from physi- .

cal deterioration due to long hours, tiring work and unsanitary - living quarters, but also from mental handicap caused by the curtailment of their schooling. The fact that most child workers are necessarily employed in blind-ally jobs, entirely routine and nonprogressive, is one of the greater evils of the system. “What children have to look forward to, who go to work as early as 15, is ‘unsteady work in monotonous and unskilled occupations, for small wages, with little chance of increasé in earnings and considerable chance of enforced idleness’.” These two authors have made an exhaustive study of the situation, illustrating their points with descriptions of actual cases. The results will arouse concern in the mind of the most disinterested reader.

» » » “ ITE us & book on North Africa as seen through Arab eyes,” and that is what Knud

Holmboe has done in DESERT ENCOUNTER (Putman). Mr. Holmboe was well qualified to do this;

_ for although he was the son of a Danish manufac-

turer, and although he had previously visualized his future in a’ French monastery, the belief that Christianity had failed had drawn him to the Islam faith. : Donning the Arab dress and setting forth in his antique car, he began the courageous journey which took him through Morocco, Algeria, Tunis and the Italian colonies of Tripoli and Cyrenaica. His abil-

ity to speak Arabic and his acceptance of Mohamadism er

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By David Dietz

Times Science Editor

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rence of cancer since. ” ” »

O understand the importance of early diagnosis, it is necessary to realize the nature of cancer. Cancer is an abnormal growth, but there are other types of abnormal growths which are not cancer. Any abnormal growth, whether of bone, cartilage, muscle, fat, or skin, is called a tumor. These are divided into two classes, benign and malignant.

The benign tumor does no.particular damage. If it is unsightly or uncomfortable, it can be removed by surgery without fear of its return. The malignant tumor is cancer. Its deadliness arises from the fact that after a certain period, it reaches the stage of so-called “metastasis.” When this occurs, cells break loose from the cancer, travel in the blood stream to other parts of the body, settle down and grow into new cancers. The importance of early diagnosis lies in the fact that treatment must be instituted before metastasis begins. There are only three methods of treatment known today. They are surgery, X-rays and radium. Sometimes a combination of two of the three is used. But there are no useful serum treatments for cancer and there are no secret treatments. Reputable medical men do . not keep methods secret. It is the great law of medical ethics that every advance in medicine must be made public for the good of the whole world. Dr. Emil Novak of Johns Hopkins, former vice president of the American Gynecological Society, has called cancer “the arch enemy of women.”

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HE two types of cancer which T women fear most are cancer of the uterus and cancer of the breast. One important fact that should always be remembered is that the .onset of cancer is not accompanied by pain. It is only in the very late stages that cancer becomes painful. Therefore the woman suffering some slight pain

because she doesn’t want to be told she has a cancér is doing herself a double injustice. She is worrying about a cancer which she probably doesn’t have and she is neglecting to obtain treatment for some condition which, in all probability, could be quickly and easily remedied. Dr. Novak points out that the sign which should receive immediate attention from the woman is unnatural bleeding of any sort. This may not be due to cancer. But it should be accepted as the occasion for consulting the family physician at once. Women are frequently referred to as “the weaker sex” and it is not uncommon for women to think of themselves as less fitted

and fearing to see her doctor

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1937

{Last of a Series)

OST women regard a diagnosis of cancer as a death " sentence. On the contrary, such a diagnosis may be a gift of many years of life. Women are particularly fearful of cancer and therefore it is particularly important that they realize this fact: Cancer is curable if diagnosed in time. The woman who avoids visiting her doctor because she is afraid that he is going to tell her that she has a cancer, may be signing her own death certificate by that action.

Either she has a cancer or she doesn’t

have it—and the chances are greatly in favor of her not having it. If she doesn’t have it, a negative diagnosis will allay her fears. does have it, an early diagnosis will enable treatment to be instituted while there is yet time. A few months’ delay may mean the difference between every hope for a cure and utter hopelessness. It 1s true that cancer is second in the list of causes of death in America today, exceeded in its devastating power only by heart disease. than 125,000 men and women die annually of cancer. But the records of the American College of Surgeons give incontestable proof that cancer is not a hopeless disease. In the archives of the college are the reports of 26,000 “five-year cures.” This means, the reports of 26,000 cases which were diagnosed as cancer five years ago or more, treated, and have not had a recur-

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for the difficulties of life than are men. Yet the statistics fail to support this view. Speaking this September before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Prof. F. A. E, Crew, famous biologist of the University of Edinburgh, cited statistics to show that in England the death rate was higher for boy babies, boys and young men than it was for girl babies, young girls, and young women. His studies showed that after the age of 20, the young women outnumbered the young men and the ratio of women to men continued to rise throughout the remainder of life. At approximately the age of 70, he found, the deaths of women began to outnumber the deaths of men by large numbers simply becaues there were so many more women left alive to die, at that age.

” ”» » . VEN before. birth, the same rule seems to apply. For every 100 girl babies born dead, ‘there are 110 boy babies lost. : It is a fact that in general women worry more about their health than do men. There seems reason to believe that the nervous organization of woman is more sensitive. Every physician must give much of his time to the neurotic patient, the patient whose ailments are imaginary, whose symptoms are the results of some psychological maladjustment. While it is probable that there are a larger number of women among (such patients, it must not be thought that the number of men is small. - Physicians and surgeons must be constantly on their guard against this type of patient. There is the patient—you may find it hard to believe—who actually is

Why Women of Today Live Longer—

Cancer Is Curable if Diagnosed in Time, but Delay May Be Fatal

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X-rays constitute one of the three acceptable means of treating cancer. A scene in the X-ray department of a present-day hospital is depicted here. Radium and surgery are ' the two other methods of dealing with cancer.

hunting for an operation. Finally, the ‘chronic appendix” is removed. The patient is all right for awhile and then begins to develop a “chronic gall bladder.”

This is not to say that there are not chronic diseases of these and many other organs. The point is that the physician knows that he must be on his guard in dealing with these cases. At Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, the rule is followed that surgeons do not operate upon these chronic cases until the staff psychiatrist has been called into consultation. It is also a fact that psychological maladjustments can have actual repercussions. At Michael Reese Hospital, cases where

and then recurred, were studied by the psychiatric department. In every case, the need for psychiatric treatment was revealed. In conclusion, let us repeat that women of today may be thankful that this is the 20th Century. The advances of medicine have reacted particularly to their benefit.

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HILDBIRTH, once left to incompetent ‘midwives, has become one of the chief concerns of the medical profession. By proper prenatal care, the health of mother and child are both guarded. Modern obstetrical methods make cases .simple which would have been sure death. two centuries ago. Suffering is reduced

stomach ulcers had been cured

Roosevelt Sees Great Change in Dam Projects Since 1934 Western Trip

By NEA Service ASHINGTON, Oct. 2. — A great deal of water has flowed over the dams since President Roosevelt made his western trip in 1934 inspecting the giant irrigation and power. projects of the West. And when he saw them on his present trip, a great deal of concrete had flowed into them during the .threeyear interval. One of the dams seen by the Presidential party is near Boise, Ida. It is the Owyhee Dam, one of the less costly of the projects. It nicked the national pocketbook for only a little matter of 52 million dollars. But it is impressive none the less. Until Boulder Dam in Colorado

was completed, Owyhee was thel.

highest dam in the world, more than 400 feet. Today it is complete, and the irrigation project is getting under way for which it exists.

2 ” ” HE Bonneville Dam, 42 miles east of Portland, Ore, is bigger

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in every way. Here the cost of the dam and initial power installation 'is estimated at 51 million dollars, with PWA allotments of 32 million dollars already backed up behin the nearly-completed dam. ! Three years ago, only the foundations and cofferdams of Bonneville were to be seen. Today the dam and its 7 million dollars worth of fish ladders are almost ready for the test.

The salmon fight their way up the Columbia River each year to spawn.’ Then the little fish float back to the sea. Bonneville Dam, 170 feet high, is a little too much for even a salmon to jump. : So the 10 million-dollar salmon industry insisted that means be provided for the salmon to get past the dam. The fish ladders are the answer. : But Grand Coulee is really big. stuff. Here the Government is spending between 113 and 180 million dol-

A WOMAN'S VIEW

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“ EAD END” is a great picture. It unrolls before us the life drama of a man doomed by perverse fate—or would it be truer to say by la short-sighted generation?—to sure disaster, . : The senselessness of our materialistic concept has never been revealed more sharply. Those who cry out against the parole system, and who pass appropriations to build larger prisons, ought to look a long time at the evil thing exposed by. this play, the breeding place for crime. Every slum is a dead end for morality. If we only used as much common sense in getting rid of crime as we

and contagious diseases! We should think ourselves very great fools if we permitted wells polluted by typhoid germs to be utilized, or allowed the distribution of milk from tubercular cattle. Yet in the end it might be no worse for America’s future for these plagues to go unIs to let our slums remain. Because of the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of small groups, millions of Americans can't afford decent homes for their children and other millions live huddled together like animals in shanties. Y The Government has at last taken notice of the housing problem, but. it can’t be dumped completely into Uncle Sam’s lap. The people have to furnish the will behind the enterprise. A campaign to get rid of the

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slums in the home town would be a |

lars, depending on what you reckon into the cost as integral parts of the project. 2 «8 ERE the work ished, though a year ahead of schedule and already bigger than Boulder Dam. When finished to its 550 feet of height and three-quarters of a mile of length, it will be the largest concrete dam in the world. Here, to irrigate a potentially-fer-tile region of 2 million acres, a lake stretching 151 miles northward upstream to the Canadian border will be created. At the Fort Peck Dam, 50 million dollars of PWA allotments are already stacked: up in the greatest earthen dam in the world, and probably more than 80 million dollars will be spent before 180 miles of artificial lake begins to pile up back of the broad earth embankment. Here flood control and river regulation are the chief objectives.

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10 .a minimum and both mother and child are guarded from in-

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Sensible public health measures and a sensible modern attitude

upon the subject of exercise, dress, and the like, give girls the opportunity to lead. healthy, robust lives. : The development of knowledge of the functioning of the ductless glands is giving the medical profession a new insight into the factors which control the normal cycles of life. Theelin, one of the hormones or drugs produced by the ovaries, is now available to physicians and can be used as a therapeutic aid when indicated. The other ovarian hormone, progestin, is more difficult of preparation but probably will become more available in time. . The advances of psychiatry are giving the medical profession a better understanding of the neurotic . personality and of those maladjustments, which, to. a greater or lesser extent, affect many women. Finally, those diseases not yet completely conquered are being made the subject of intensive investigation. Only this summer, Yale University received a. gift of

$10,000,000 to set up a program of :

cancer reseafch while the U. S. Congress passed a bill providing an

annual appropriation of $700,000

for cancer research under the direction of the U. S. Public Health Service. : ‘ Medicine moves steadily toward its goal of healthier and happier lives for all.

See this page Monday for "THE NEW DEAL—AN INVENTORY"

Jasper—By Frank Owen

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By Anton Scherrer

'Cheap John From Texas, Dealer In Notions, Carried Small Coffin Under His Arm on Trips to Europe.

MAX GIBBS was his real name, but as far as I know everyone called him “Cheap John from Texas.” Even the sign outside his place called him that. : Cheap John ran a market stand on the

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Sts. long before anybody thought of putting up Tomlinson Hall. I don’t know where he kept himself while the building was under construction, but I

remember how relieved I was to find him back at the old stand when Tomlinson Hall was opened. After that, of course, Cheap John was as much a landmark as the steeple on the Court House. To be sure, he didn't look like anything grown in Texas, but he made up for it in other ways. For one thing, his smile was broader than anybody else’s even if it was a little longer in coming. That was because it had to come from behind a red mustache. And the way he rubbed his hands at the start and end of a sale was a little more genuine, I thought, than his competitors. The way he shuffled his feet helped a lot, too, because it made it appear that he had all the time in the world to give you. Cheap John’s stock consisted of thread, pins and buttons, and the hundred other mysteries that go to make up what are known as “notions.” Occasionally, however, he also sold bustles, laces and cigarets, and once I remember he had a stunning stock of soiled ostrich feathers. Cheap John never went in for style trends, but better than anybody else around here he knew how to give you value for your money,

Sold Watches on the Side

On the side, Cheap John also sold watches, and they, too, were ‘unlike anything around here. There was a rumor gt the time that he bought them in Vienna and Budapest, in cafes frequented by impecunious noblemen and the like. Be that as it may, it was generally known to us boys that Cheap John made many trips to Europe, possibly as many as a dozen or more. And every time he went, he carried his own coffin. What’s more, he carried it under his arm. You heard me. The coffin was about the size of a shoe box, and almost as light, too, because it was made of copper. It had to be light, because it had to be carried under the arm. Cheap John had everybody fooled, though, because he glways kept the coffin wrapped in an Indianapolis newspaper. As for the shoe box size, I can explain that, too. That was because a shoe box was the right size to receive his ashes. I happen to know that, because besides carrying the coffin around with him Cheap John also carried a letter of instructions to cremate his body and return the ashes to Indianapolis in case anything happened to him away from home. Well, believe it or not, nothing whatever happened to him on the dozen or more trips he took to Europe, As far as I know, he died right here in Indianapolis.

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Jane Jordan—

Wife Told to Forgive and Forget;

Perhaps Marriage Will Succeed.

EAR JANE JORDAN—My husband and I have : been separated for about eight months. We have two boys, one 5 years old and the other 10 months. This is the reason we are separated: Before my last baby was born my husband used to go out one or two nights a week and stay until 1 or 1:30 in the morning. Every Sunday he would leave in the afternoon about 1 or 2 o'clock and come home at 1 or 1:30 the next morning. Now he says he wants a divorce but still he comes out one or two times a week. He says he comes to see the children but he always manages to come when they have gone to bed or are just going to bed. I'm old-fashioned and don’t believe in divorce. What I want to'know is do you think my husband really wants somebody else and does he really want a divorce? If he does, why does he come out to see me all the time? M. R.

Answer—I haven't the least idea what your husband wants. I do not know enough of your affairs even to make a good guess. I only know that when marriage ceased to be fun and became trouble your husband made a desperate attempt to regain his bachelor freedom, and he still insists that this is the life he wants. Ris Unfortunately a woman can’t put on her hat and walk out when her home becomes a hospital, for she is the patient. Her resentment toward her husband for his ability to escape while she remains bound makes her disagreeable, thereby giving her husband additional reason to stay away. Now the man has had eight months of trying te get back where he was before life became so worrisome. He knows now that it can’t be done. The pull of the children prevents it.. He comes back and goes away; torn between the family he left and his wish for irresponsible happiness. His bad conscience gives him trouble. : : I believe you have a chance to win him back if you can find a way to make the prospect more pleasing. If you can forgive him for being a man, biologi= ‘cally entitled to more freedom than you ever will have, and if you can content yourself with less than you expected when you first married, perhaps you could begin again and make it work. . 2 2 2 DEAR JANE JORDAN—I have been going with a fellow over two years. I would rather dance than eat, but he doesn’t care for dancing. He would rather play poker or gamble. There are four of us girls who go dancing on Fridays. My boy friend says that I can’t go to these dances and still go with him. He thinks I will let some other fellow bring me home although I told him I wouldn’t. Mother has gone with us and watched us and she knows we do no harm or she would object to our going. I told my boy friend if I gave up dancing he would have to give up poker, but he says there is no harm in poker. We are not engaged. PUZZLED.

Answer—Your boy friend is a selfish young man who wants everything his own way. He has not the slightest right to object to anything you do; but he can stop coming to see you if he wants to. What you have to decide is whether you would rather go with him or dance. I can’t decide for you because I don't know which you prefer. JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems in a letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in this column daily. 4 —————————————

Walter O'Keefe—

HEN Franklin D. Roosevelt visits another coune '¥ .try he doesn’t meed balconies, bombs, cannons and a preview of the next war to put on‘a good show. Wednesday he ed loose his million-dollar smile on the Canadians, off a few gracious remarks and got a much more sincére ovation than, Mussolini did in Berlin. : A I1 Doochay chose to ignore the struggle in Spain, and F. D. R. made no mention of the war in Wash

Now that Benito is home the Nazis can pull their right arms down out of the stratosphere and this week explained why Germany has been its neck in the armament race. They needed all those munitions so that Adolf could charm his chum. This seems like a good time for Russia to

the Reich. There isn’t a shell left.

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