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ed the year round. Many consider it Paradise.

holdup man. Things are peaceful. Yet in this == 0 an auto turning over three times ; on a Put-in-Bay road, and of a low-down thief who was sent .off the island last winter and ordered never to. come back. Life on the Erie Islands isn’t what it once was. Isolation has become only relative. The main islands are connected by telephones. They're putting in a dial system this fall. 3 There is a telegraph cable to : the mainland. There are lots of autos. Steamers and airplanes run Mr. Pyle from the mainland in a stream. But regardless, there is something different about living on an island. Something that once in a while gets under your skin, like sitting’'in a room by yourself and brooding. The two big events of the island year are the Inter-Lake Regatta, in August, and the grapeharvesting season a few weeks later. During the four days of regatta, hundreds of yachts and sailboats pack the harbor and cluster around the islands. Thousands come to see the races. Even old residenters who might be annoyed by all the fuss say it’s really a wonderful occasion. :

Then comes the grape-picking. That is a unique period. Class lines disappear. Every able-bodied person on the islands turns to the vineyards. It becomes sort of a holiday. It is autumn, and fun is in the air. And they wind it up with harvest parties. “ There are six wineries on the islands. At Put-in-Bay, that of Roy Webster is the most flourishing, as he makes sort of a night club of his home, which . he calls New Castle Inn, and it is the spot to go late in the evening. . : ‘ One of the things that puzzled me was why these islands should grow such luscious grapes when you see only a few vineyards on the mainland, just a short distance away. The answer is in two parts. First, they say, there’s actually something about the soil that gives the grape a finer flavor. They don’t try to say what it is. Second, due to the surrounding waters, the season is later by about two ‘weeks than on the mainland. Hence less danger of a crop being killed by frost. Winter temperatures here run about four degrees warmer than on the mainland.

"They Like the Winter

Everybody seems glad when winter comes. For then the hubbub of summer excursionists disappears, and people settle down to their own lives. They say they have their best times in winter. Of course, even in winter the isolation isn't great. You can get to the mainland once a day by airplane. If the ice is thick, you can drive across it. If it’s broken, the ferry starts running. Inhabitants of these islands ride the airplanes as people do in Alaska. They are not afraid to fly; they think nothing of it, even the older ones. The air service has missed only four scheduled trips in eight years. They do not use skis. They fly

* with ‘wheels, and frequently use the ice for a landing

field. These islands, incidentally, are the only place outside of Alaska that I know of which have all their

mail hauled by airplane at regular postage. Just put.

3 cents on a letter and it leaves by airplane. Parcel. post likewise. i After all this, there might be a question in your mind. What are people like who are born and raised on an island in Lake Erie? Well, they’ye just like

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‘My Diary

: .By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Bids Her Grandchildren

Goodby as They Prepare to Depart.

ATCHOGUE, N. Y. Sunday —Friday afternoon I said goodby to my they will be gone in a few days and I shall not see them till I make my next trip to Seattle. In Poughkeepsie I ran into some people who were much excited over the purchase by Father Divine of an estate across the river from my mother-in-law’s house. I always feel sorry for anyone who has to sell a country place they have lived in and enjoyed for . many years. One has so much more sentiment as.a rule about one’s country life. It must, however, be pleasant to feel that in the. future this place will be “heaven” to some people, even if it cannot be to its former owner. . I had a little time to spare in New York. My brother met me and relieved me c: a taxi-fare and my rather unusually large number of bags, and so I stopped at Finland House, Inc. X was much interested in their beautiful woven materials, glass, pottery and a modern type of furniture which would fit very well into a room of the sun porch variety. . From there I went on to the Pennsylvania Station to take the train for Long Island. I found long lines at every -ticket window and murmured to myself, as would every old resident of the Hudson River Valley, “Nothing would induce me to live on Long Island.” Of course, nothing would induce some of us to live * anywhere else than where we are accustomed to living. But that isn’t as flattering to the .pot we are rooted in as it might seem. It simply means that most of us are lazy and like the things to which we are accus- . tomed. Por most of us it is far easier to move along a beaten track.

Hope for Change in Wind

One of my hosts met me on .the train and, in consequence, the trip went quickly. Just as we arrived at our station, the heavens opened and we saw the pretty and very efficient young girl who had come to meet us hop out of the roadster and start _ to put up the top. I decided it was part of wisdom to let those who knew what they were doing do ! the work and get wet and was therefore the only dry person to get into the car. There are advantages in being elderly and rather helpless. "We reached the “Little House,” as it is called, in - time to sit and cool off before dinner, and then our : os served us a delicious meal on the porch. This i {is a beautiful place which gives you a feeling of re- : moteness, for you are buried deep in the woods. Just now the enjoyment of the woods is a trifle difficult because the prevailing winds have brought clouds of mosquitoes. They fell us that a northwest wind would drive them all away, so we pray for a change in the “ wind and realize anew how helpless we are in the ; face of nature’s vagaries. “

Bob Burns Says—

: ; : OLLYWOOD, Aug. 1.—1 get a lot’a amusement

jest quietly listenin’ to fellas out here in Holly- ' wood who are supposed to be experts, spoutin’ off ! about somethin’ they don’t know anything about, It . jest goes to prove that old sayin’ that “everybody is . ignorant, but on differ'nt subjects.” .

I was listenin’ yesterday to one of those “experts”

.- ‘sound off about how to build a log cabin and it put i me in mind ‘of 'Uncle-Snub. That's my uncle that got awful rich through oil property. As soon as he . got rich he tried te be “toney,” too, and he went into an art gallery to buy some pictures, i=" The art dealer said, ‘We have here the original . painting ‘An Artist's Mother’ for $50,000.” Uncle Snub |" says, “No, I'll have'ta have something else. You see, i I've already got that picture at home on the feed

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Annual Regatta and Grape Harvests Provide Big Moments in the Lives Of Island Dwellers on Lake Erie.

'JPUT-IN-BAY, O., Aug: 1.—More than 1000 people live permanently on the half dozen or so Lake Erie islands which are inhabit-

You don’t:

have to worry about getting run over by an auto, they say, or being knocked on the head by a

week’s local paper I've just read of

grandchildren very sadly, for’

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(Fourth of a Series) By David Dietz wd

Times Science Editor res.

there hangs ever the fearsome specter of the red death—pellagra. How horrible the disease is, only

know. : ; It begins with a red rash that covers hands and face. The victim grows gaunt and thin. e develop in the mouth so that it is impossible to eat. The sunshine, greatest friend, becomes a curse, for the ujtraviolet light of the sun irritates the rash and makegit worse. Finally the . disease “#ttacks the mind, so that, when death arrives at last, it finds a half-living sack

of skin and bones from which reason has already. fled.

than there was once, Medical men today know how to treat and even prevent pellagra. That there is any pellagra .at @ll is a direct challenge to the whole nation. For the means are at-hand for.making the red death of the Soutira memory of the past like the. black death that swept over Europe in the Middle Ages. fix Some day, when fewer “history books ere written about the generals who fight battles and more are written about the benefactors of mankind, the late Dr. Joseph Goldberger, of the U. 8. Public Health Service, will take his rightful place as one of America’s great heroes. » ” 8 :

F% it was Dr. Goldberger who discovered the cause of the red death and showed the world how it might be cured and prevented.

study pellagra the common theory was that some germ was responsible. But Dr. Goldberger saw that it was only the undernourished and the hungry who contracted + “the disease. or virus invelved, he exposed self to the disease in every possible way. He even permitted the blood of persons dying from pellagra to be injectéd into his own skin with the hypodermic needle. But he didn’t catch pellagra.

lagra were living on a diet that contained only corn bread, molasses and “sow belly.” And so he persuaded the U. S. Public Health Service to furnish. him with enough money to feed properly a group of children who were suffering from pellagra. They recovered. » Meanwhile, in the laboratory, Dr. Goldberger and his colleagues put rats on restricted diets and

sembling pellagra. Thus he proved that pellagra was a disease of starvation, a disease caused by a deficient diet. Today we know that the rats in Dr. Goldberger’s laboratory did not have true pellagra. But, fortunately, it was a related disease, close enough to keep him on the right track. From these experiments with the rats he concluded that the important substance missing in the diet of the pellagra victims was a substance that could be found in yeast. But he also concluded that it was not the Vitamin B —today called Vitamin B1 —that prevents beriberi. He called this new something the P-P factor —that is, the pellagra-preven-tive factor. Then he gave yeast to pellagra victims and found that they got well. THE nation woke to the wide spread of pellagra in the South during the floods of the Mississippi River in 1927. That

VER the poverty-strick-en pottions of the South

those who have seen it

Terrible sores

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But there ‘is far less pellagra

appear in time.

When Dr. Goldberger began to

* To prove that there was zig gern *cipient pellagra.

He saw that the victims of pel- -

saw them develop a disease re- -

Way Vitamins |

flood drove thousands of poor ‘Southerners out of their wretched cabins and into Red Cross camps, where the horrified doctors’ and nurses soon began to realize the terrific amount of pellagra in‘ the # Dr. William De Kleine, directing the medical work in the flood for

‘the Red Cross, called'on Dr. Gold-

berger for advice. : Dr. Goldberger told him. how pellagra could be fought. Fitst it was necessary to give the victims. yeast which contained the P-P factor. As long as these poor people Tived on their pitifully restricted diet it was necessary to continue to give them yeast. * «Ti. ; The next thing was to encourage them to grow ‘gardens. and «add green vegetables to their diet. As

gardens have sprung up around the miserable

e cabins of th people pellagra has: disappeared. Pellagra is on the decline in the South today. If the campaign against it is continued it will dis-

But meanwhile been discovered in the: North as well, . Severe pellagra is . often encountered in the North among chronic drunkards who have been living on coffee, doughnuts and whisky. It is also possible that many people, living on moderately restricted diets, have a condition that. might De considered an in-

A new chapter in ‘the war against pellagra was written this year with the isolation of the PP factor. This is now known to be nicotinic acid. It gets its name from the fact that ‘it had previously been extracted from nicotine, long before it:was known to exist in yeast and many other substances and to have: a direct

connection with good health.

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X 7ITHIN the last year it has

been possible to manufacture nicotinic acid in the chemical laboratory ‘by. synthetic means that cut its cost to a fraction of

the original cost. The successful treatment of pellagra with syn-

thetic nicotinic acid has been re-

ported by Dr. M. A. Blankenhorn and Dr. Tom D. Spies of the University of Cincinnati and by other medical men. The story of Vitamin B serves to . illustrate how complex: the whole ‘subject of vitamins is growing. Dr. Goldberger showed that it was a complex substance when he separated the P-P factor from it. So the vitamin -that cured beriberi was spoken of as Vitamin Bl, although the tegm Vitamin B is still sometimes used to designate it. The rest of it was spoken of as the Vitamin B2 complex. We know now that this complex contains, in addition to the P-P factor, the following things: —

Vitamins B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, the

filtrate factor, and Factor W. The rats in Dr. Goldberger’s experiments; it is known today, were suffering from a shortage of Vitamin B2. This vitamin has been isolated and has been given the name of riboflavin. It is green-ish-yellow. pigment that occurs in

Side Glances—By Clark

these”

pellagra has

In refugee camps like that “shown above in the 1927 . Mississippi flood, where thousands were inoculated against typhoid, : the U. S. Public Health Service uncovered the wide extent of pellagra in: the South. At right, upper picture, is a victim ‘ before treatment. At right, bottom picture, is the same victim’s arms - after brief treatment.

milk, yeast, egg white, lean:meat, - . liver, hear, and kidney. = _ © - That no deficiency disease due to the lack of riboflavin should exist in human beings is surprising since this vitamin seems to ‘be necessary for the normal func- - Of the world, have each named a tioning of all living cells. Perhaps - discovery Vitamin the human system needs so little quently the name is meaningless of it or is so successful in storing ~~ ‘ar “Conserv its supply that a: min His meant... . : : shortage never occurs. : Th s = 8 47 s % n° D* M'CAY suggests that som other members of the B2 central international com-

! HE mittee take over the job of una been scrambling the vitamin alphabet.

He nominates the League of Naimportant to the Normal gro%ts tions for the job. After all, the needed by chicks, others by League hasn't much to do these pigeons, others: by rats. There ' days, anyway. vei rain are no human diseases which can The list of vitamins will grow be traced to deficiencies of them. by leaps and bounds as investiThe- complexity of the Vitamin gators turn their attention “to B family, Dr. Henry C. Sherman, , other animals from the rats, the famous vitamin expert of Co- guinea pigs, chickens, and pigeons lumbia University, points out, is that have been used in medical one Feasoh Noy fhe Sverage pes laboratories. a son 0 get an adequa amount of vitamins through his Bim SS ample bas bes food. In this way, he points out, jaryge are dependent for growth the individual not only gets those unkn ubstances vitamins whose necessity has been upon. some Qwn 8 nice. Ee or Try. offers - We might as well call 1t.a vitawhich may be extremely import- min. Strangely enough this subant for buoyant health even Stance is present in the uring of though their absence causes no normal individuals but missin : in known deficiency disease. ; the urine of persons suffering The experiments of Dr. Sher- from pernicious. anemia. man and his collaborators with Who would expect a trail leadVitamin B2 or riboflavin have ing from mosquito larvae to shown that rats fed larger @ : amounts of this substance than needed to prevent disease, show improvements in health, growth and weight. "It may be, although it has not yet been proved, that human beings benefit likewise from additional amounts of rib-’ oflavin, : Day by day, the vitamin alphabet is getting more and more scrambled. The Journal of the ‘American Medical Association observes: s “There are more substances with vitamin effects than there are letters in the alphabet.” ; ' In more picturesque language,: Dr. C. M. McCay of Cornell University says: “The average vitamin student is now afflicted with as’ many al-:

phabetical - vitamins as. Job was with boils.” ise: + * Vitamin B is not only. complex. “It is‘now: fairly certain that Vitamin ‘Dis at: least quintuplets. Three investigators in three parts

Times Special ne . EW YORK, Aug. 1.—Cornelia Otis Skinner, whose mono-

been a treat for the little old Hokinson ladies wherever, has quit the women’s club circuit for the legitimate theater. : ‘With Brian‘ Aherne this fall she will do Farquahar’s frolic, “The Beaux’ Stratagem,” and thus bring ‘the name of 8 er back to Broad‘way where it belongs.

Everyday, Movies—By ‘Wortman

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effect on the human body: - names, D1, D2, etc, have been |

H. Conseless it is specified whose Vita- .

logs and “one-man” shows have

pernicious anemia? " What does it mean? Time alone will tell. Other recent experiments have indicated that there is some growth substance—agairl ‘we might as well call it a vitamin—needed for the normal growth of trout. : The existence of a related family of Vitamin Ds has been revealed by the study of the Vitamin D conteit of various

fish liver oils. At first, the po-

tency of different oils was thought to be.due entirely to the amount

‘of Vitamin D in each. But it was

found that certain animals responded better to one oil than - gnother. :

“It is now fairly certain that there are at least five Vitamin .

‘Ds, all differing slightly from one another but having the same The

suggested for them. ~~ . 8 8 8 : N the end, it is quite possible

that the vitamin alphabet, pic- - turesgue as ‘it has been, will dis-

appear from use. The tendency is.

developing to substitute names for

letters. Thus, Vitamin Bl is being

called thiamin, Vitamin B2, riboflavin, Vitamin C, ascorbic acid, and so on. ; ; It must be remembered that the

only point. of resemblance be-

tween the vitamins is. their necessity for life. They do not resemble each other in chemical formula nor in their effect within the body. This was realized at the very start of vitamin research when Dr. E. V. McCollum, the pioneer vitamin student of Johns Hopkins University, pointed out that Vitamin A was soluble in fats while Vitamin B was soluble in water. Bui because so many substances contain more than one vitamin, a diet deficient in one vitamin is often also deficient in others. Thus Dr. Tom D. Spies and Dr. Charles D. Aring of the University of Cincinnati have shown that pellagra is often complicated by a peripheral neuritis which is actually beriberi. In the next article of this se-

ries, I want to emphasize the fact

that vitamins do not tell the whole story of safeguarding nutrition. :

NEXT—The strange wasting away of the blood called pernmicious anemia. ;

|Cornelia Otis Skinner Quits Women's Club Circuit

Miss Skinner says she is getting away from her one-man. shows “bes

cause I really feel that I had car--

ried the monolog as far as I could

go. The'show I did last year, ‘Edna;

His Wife, had a number of bad voices in it and I was developing a larynx that sounded like Jeanne Eagle’s in ‘Rain.’ Besides it had a number of parts in it and scenery, so I felt, why not surround yourself with actors? But I had:a good response ‘to the monologs.”

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—What is the name of the sour - acid in vinegar? 2--Name the seaport and capital of French Guiana. 3—-What is-a micrometer? 4—-What is the introductory music of an: opera called? . b=-What is a gnu? 6--Under the Constitution of the U. 8., where is the power to declare war vested? 7--Does an alien man become an American citizen by marrying a woman citizen of the

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer os

It's Going to Cost You 24 Cenfs - For Picture of Benjamin Harrison ‘In Spite of Our Columnist's Plea,

WENT to call on Postmaster Adolph Seid- . ensticker the other day and found him enthroned in his new office in the northeast corner of the recently completed addition to the Federal ‘Building. He received me, in

| his shirtsleeves (white with a blue-embroid-

ered monogram an the elbow), and proceeded to show me around the new place. There wasn't a thing he didn't let me see. He even took me ouf on the balcony "overlooking the park and Mr. Seidenticker says he loves pigeons and if he’s telling the truth, he’s got the sweetest office in town for the money. With the pigeons out of the way I can get down to my business with the Postmaster. I went to call on Mr. -Seidensticker not because I wanted to learn about a postmastors love for pigeons, but because : eard some ugly rumors about Mr. Sel the new issue of Presidential Mr. Schemer stamps. Maybe you don’t know about it. Well, in that case let me advise you that the postal people are getting out a new issue of stamps bearing pore traits of all former Presidents arranged in accorde ance with the tenure of their office. That means, of course, that George Washington’s portrait will be on the one-center, John Adams on the two-center,-Thomas Jefferson on the three-center, and so on until we reach Abraham Lincoln who has the hard luck to draw the 16-cent denomination, for which there?is little call. > . After the 16-cent Lincoln stamp will come all the other Presidents, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, our 23d President. With the theory clicking the way it has up till now, you'd expect, of course, that President Hare rison would get his picture on the. 23-cent stamp, Well, that’s the big surprise I picked up in Mr. Seidensticker’s ‘new office.. President Harrison isn’t going to get anything of the kind. He's going to get the 24-cent stamp. There isn’t going to be any 23-center, Nobody knows why, not even Mr. Seidensticker. Of course, it’s possible that Grover Cleveland with his two terms (22 and 24) may have thrown a monkey wrench into the postal people’s orderly plans, but even so -that’s no reason why we shouldn't have a 23-cent stamp to represent our 23d President. You bet I gave Mr. Seidensticker a piece of my mind.

Coolidge on $5 Stamp

I cooled down a little when I heard that President McKinley would ‘get the 25-cent stamps That is as it should be. After that, however, everything went haywire again. Theodore Roosevelt,’ our 28th Presi ‘dent, is going to. get the 30-cent stamp; Taft (27), the . 50-cent stamp; Wilson (28), the $1 stamp; Harding (29), the $2, and Calvin Coolidge (30), the $5. Believe it o> not. : : ;

. Mr. Seidensticker says he believes the people in Washington are working on the 24-cent Harrison stamp right now. Some time ago they requested a photograph of the Weinman bust of Mr. Harrison at the Herron Art Institute, and Mr. Seidensticker said he sent Irving Blue, a postal ,clerk and amateur photographer, to take a picture of it. Mr, Seiden- . sticker sent it to Washington and they must have Teed it, he'says, because he hash’t heard from them since . Robe seers There’s no telling when the Harrison stamp will be out. It will be some time, because the way things are going the series hasn’t reached Andrew Jackson yet.

| Almost, however, because the 7-cent Jackson stamp

goes on sale next Thursday.

Jane Jordan— : Phase of Youth's Home Situation

May Be the Cause. of His Jealousy.

DEAR JANE JORDAN- This summer I have been going with a boy whom I met toward the end of school. We got along perfectly until he began being so jealous of other persons, girls as well as boys. It has gotten so that we have nothing to talk about when we’re on dates because he wants all my conversation focused on him and he wants to talk about nothing but me or what he is interested in. A certain amount of jealousy is very flattering, yet when it makes everyone else in the party feel embarrassed: and uncomfortable, then I call that going

too far. Still, I like nim better than any boy I've ever known. What can I do? : B. R.

Answer—The key to this boy’s behavior lies somewhere in his home situation. I imagine you will find that he has a brother or sister of whom he always has been jealous.: Face him with it. He will deny it, of course, but that doesn’t mean that your remarks may not strike home. Somewhere in his childhood he encountered a rival for the affections of parents and was never able: to convince himself that he was as good as the competition. Help him to see that he is expecting the impossible from life and is headed for disappointment. Explain to him that he is a very greedy young man. He wants to receive more than he gives. He wants exclusive devotion but his way of striving for it will bring just the opposite results. His demands are ton great, and they make him a burden instead of a pleasure. Perhaps you can be a real help to him, but if he just won't see the light, all you can do is replace him with somebody else, DEAR JANE JORDAN-—What can a girl who has been away to college for several years do toward meeting boys and having dates in : during the summer? I have but have lost contact with the Can you tell me some of the approaches to a lem of this kind? MERCI.

Answer—Can’t your girl friends help you out? Surely they know plenty of boys. Sometimes girls

somewhere along the line. :

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