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Quarrel Over Quintuplets Almost Becoming National Issue in Canada; Sisters Won't Visit World's Fair.

(CALLANDER, Ontario.—Everyone who has ever read anything about the Dionne

~ Quintuplets has had some intimation, I sup-

pose, of the hatred and intrigue and jealousy that swirls constantly around their pretty black curls. 5 ‘The thing is corfiplicated beyond all possibility of complete understanding. To.say that Dr. Dafoe wants the children handled one way and the parents want

something else is like reciting in advanced trigoriometry eclass that two and two equal four. The situation seems to be getting worse. It is in politics, races,

nal issue. It seems definite that there is a8 growing sentiment among the French population of Canada on the side of the Dionne family. I am afraid there may have to be compromises to take. care of the pressure. To one of the staff I expressed the fear that some day Dr. Dafoe might get so utterly disgusted he would just up and quit. But they say they don’t think he ever will. Dr. Dafoe literally puts those children ahead of everything else in his life. The Quintuplets will have to have a million-dollar estate, because the only privacy theyll ever have is the privacy they can buy. Their estate is ‘already around $750,000, invested in Government bonds. By 1940 it should hit a million. ‘But there are great temptations to run it up too fast. I understand there has been an offer of $750,000" to show them at next year’s New York Fair. “Well, how about it?” I asked. “They're older now. It wouldn’t be like showing them at Chicago Just after they were born. Mightn’t they be taken down, and live the same routine they're living here, without hurting them?” The answer was “No.” They would all die. They will not be shown at New York. It is now costing around $2000 a month, or $100 a week apiece, to maintain the Quins. Yet I don’t ges Tow the Quintuplet organization is run as cheaply as

For it is an organization, now employing about 20 people—nurses, domestics, police, doctor, lawyer business managers. Maybe some day they will be able to manage themselves. But now, they must have smart men to manage things for them. But the children are learning, even at this early age. For example, NEA Service’s exclusive picture contract forbids the public to take pictures of the children. But now and then a visitor sneaks his camera past the guards, and puts it up against the window for a shot. The nurse can see when a lens is right against the glass. So if she sees one, she sort of casually gets her hand in front of the nearesf child's face, as though she were fixing her hair or something. Just from that, the children have picked up the idea. And one of them—I believe it's Emilie—covers her face with her own hands when she sees a lens at the window. Talk about Lindbergh!

Show Will Go On

The Quintuplets’ financial future depends on how well public interest in“them holds: up. Up here they feel that interest will ebb and flow in cycles until

Mr. Pyle

they are grown. up. Visitors have fallen off this .

summer. - Nobody knows how much the depression has to do with it, and how much a waning interest. Twice a day you can see them—9:30 and 3—no admission charge, no parking charge, no catch at

all. Except. for sickness and ido. viglent weather, |

the Quin show always ‘They even play outdoors at 30 below, and a come in wintertime. So if you have any plans for coming to Gps to see the Quins, come ahead. You'll see them: {Ard personally, I highly recommend the trip.

My Diary By Mré. Eleanor Roosevelt

Luckily First Lady Runs. Out of Gas Near House With a Telephone.

YDE PARK, N. Y. Thursday.—I had a most ignominous experience yesterday afternoon. The night before I had carefully noted the fact that I needed gas in my car. It registered almost, but not quite, empty. I was driving my aunt and uncle around some of, the country roads and we had just come out on a road which was about a mile above our own lane, when my car stopped. Two young women were standing outside a nearby house and I asked if they had a telephone, for I knew at once that I had run out of gas. This hasn't happened to me in years. As far as I can remember, the last time was somewhere in Central New York when I was on-my way to Watkins Glen. Miss Dickerman and I happened to be going through a valley and the entire valley apparently had quatreled with the telephone company and had removed their telephones. At the first house at which we stopped, they placidly announced that no one for two miles in either direction had a telephone. We finally borrowed a gallon of gas which took us to the next gas station. Luckily, this time, the house across the road had

a telephone. After calling our own house and getting |

Miss Dorothy Dow, one of the most versatile and capable secretaries, to start .off to our rescue, I chatted for a while with the kind people who allowed me to use their telephone and then went back to sit on the road to wait until the wherewithal to start the car made its appearance. We came home to find three young people waiting for me. They had made an appointment for an early hour in the day but had an accident to their car and therefore were delayed. The young girl, who had written and asked to see me, interested me very much. She is an orphan and was brought up in an orphan asylum and her great’ ambition is to do social service work. She managed $0 finish high school in spite of being moved eight times to different families during her course. She has held an office job, but is now doing domestic work.

Believes Idea a Good One

She wants to help girls, who, like herself, had no homes when they first left the institutions and started out to make their way in the world and felt lost and lonely. She wants someone to help establish houses where these girls can live until they are completely on their own feet and independent. She wants a chance to fit herslf to do this work. She is pretty and’ young, only nineteen, and I could not help thinking that, even if she manages to win an opportunity for preparation of this kind, it might: not be long before she is married and doing something different. I think her idea a good one, for I have always felt that these children are turned out in the world at a pretty defenseless age. I. would not limit such homes to girls, for I think the boys have just as hard a time. I hope that something can be done to help my young visitor, for she struck me as having real quality and a kind of ambition which was not purely selfish.

OLLYWOOD, Aug. 12.—In every town, you'll find some fella who knows all the landmarks, the old twisted oak, the rock with a face on it, and he can use these to tell a stranger exactly where to find any place ‘he’s lookin’ for. My Uncle Orky is that way. I was standin’ on the corner talkin’ to him last summer when a stranger walks up and says, “Neighbor, can” you tell me how to get to the Hos place?” and Uncle Orky says, “Sure, stranger, oe go down the road seven shaving cream ads and two

'Y cigaret posters, then turn right at the toothpaste

ad and drive past four soft drink signs and youll find the Hoskins place ‘right pshing the big hotel

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receive speech correction work. Times Special

AFAYETTE, Aug. 12.—

From Moses, recorded in the Bible as ‘slow of tongue,” King George VI of England, who stutters, a calloused “world has not understood speech defects. Demosthenes, the famous Athenian orator, won fame centuries ago when he corrected his own stuttering by placing pebbles in his mouth, standing by the seashore and making his voice * rise above the roar of the waves. A far cry from this crude corrective device is the Purdue Speech Clinic, in which scores of unfortunates with faulty speech are being helped scientifically to overcome their handicap. The need. for such a scientific approach to the problem is apparent, according to Dr. Max D. Steer, clinic director, when it is’ considered that 10 per cent of all people in the United States are speech defectives. “There are a quarter million

schools,” he said, “near; times the number of blind and deaf mutes combined.” Dr. Steer explained that stutterers constitute only about a tenth of speech defective chiidren. Only 4 per cent of those of school age receive treatment. The director cited a list of famous stutterers, including Charles Lamb, Charles Darwin and Som-

fallacy of the popular opinion that speech defectives are not intelligent. ” ” 8 : LLUSTRATING the dangers of unintelligent handling of speech defectives, Dr. Steer told of a 12-year-old boy who disappeared from his home in a small Tennessee town. The youth, a stutterer, was sought vainly in the nearby hills by seaching parties. A few weeks later; he returned to his parents, explaining he had lived in the hills as a hermit. “I wanted to live: by myself where no one could tell me how to talk,” the boy told his parents. “The parents of this boy,” Dr. Steer said, “were under the illusion that their son possessed bad speaking habits. “They stopped him in -his speech, forced him to repeat words, phrases and sentences, and penalized him. for having a tendency to stutter slightly. “These people didn't realize it, but they forced their boy to resort to the life of a hermit. Rather than speak, the would-be hermit ran away to live alone, where he wouldn't be required to talk.” * .This is the ever-present danger that prevails in a family where the child or. children have a slight

down the ages to .

Steer. continyed, .

stuttering children in the public 8 “must exercisé*the utmost care ia

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erset Maugham, to indicate the

corded. an elementary school stutterer.

hesitancy in. their. speech, he added. A child in the adolescent stdge passes through a period in

. which there is very little control

over the muscles of the mouth, jaw, throat and lips, all of which,

+of course, are used in speaking.

During this formative period,

‘the child: has “wild tensions on words and phrases and sounds;

he will repeat certain sounds in an attempt to force his speech equipment to function.” This condition is known as ‘stuttering.-

8 2 8 URING this formative period in the child’s speech,” Dr.

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correcting the mistakes. Above all, do not make the stutterer aware of the fact that he is stuttering. “This was the case of the runaway youth. He had been corrected and penalized to the extent that he was afraid to speak. This is a detriment in the school room, too. If the child is aware that he stutters, he will reply with ‘I don’t know’ to a query from the teacher rather than face the embarrassment of stammering the answer.” The training given a “primary stutterer’—one that is not aware of his speech defects—at the Purdue clinic is based on muscular relaxation and co-ordinated physical hygiene. By getting the child relaxed, his mind entirely free from the realization that he stutters, training is best adapted to the case. To the question of what training is given persons classed as “secondary stutterers,” Director

- Steer answered that the child

who knows he stutters is taught to stutter correctly. “By this we

‘mean that the person is taught

to talk without any of the facial grimaces that accompany stuttering. Soon after this training, the stutterer is speaking without

‘the usual peculiar facial grimaces

with only a slight faltering in his: speech.” Correcting: stuttering is only a small portion of the work done by the Purdue clinic. Correction of

“defects caused by a cleft palate,

faulty phonation, peculiarities found in persons lacking a knowledge of the English language, and

Miss Mildred Templin, supervising clinician of the Purdue clinic, demonstrates the use of an audiometer to test hearing. Her subject is one of the 30 children selected to education student, illustrates work in muscular and speech co-ordination for children en- : : rolled in the speech correction courses.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1938

Correcting’ Faulty Speec

Problem Is Approached Scientifica ly at Purdue: Clinic

With this apparatus breathing and its effect. on choad: can be reDr. Max D. Steer, clinic director, is sondueing the test with

correct speaking techniques are offered by the clinic’s trained staff.

2 2 8 HE clinic is equipped with

the latest scientific appara-

tus for speech training and correction work, and new methods of treatment are being developed constantly. At present: 39 super= intendents, principals, teachers and nurses of the public schools’ throughout Indiana are doing work in the speech clinic on correction work and speech training. Three courses are being offered during: the current summer session and 30 children selected from a list of 1100 applicants are receiv- - ing ‘correction’ work” in: connec tion with the summer courses. A recent survey by Dr. Steer and Dr. Thurman B: Rice, head of the Physical and Health Education Division of the State Health Board, showed .that less than 1 per cent of the schools in

, the 92 counties had speech cor-

rection facilities. “With the results of this survey staring us in the face,” continued Mr. Steer, “and the large

With teachers" attending the clinic in the Sackground; ‘Nate Paulos, Purdue physical |

: An important step in correcting faulty speech is to determine whether the victim is righthanded or lefthanded. This is done by means of a pattern-tracing test. Miss Louise Stevens, clinic staff - member, shows the pattern the hoy is tracing while blindfolded.

enrollment in speech’ cortection work at Purdue this summer, we have proof that the need for

5 speech correction work in Indi- _ ana’s public schools is being Teal-

ized.”

Wall Streeter Writes Tender Missive to New Dealer, Who Replies in Same Vein

Times Special ASHINGTON, Aug. 12—Men who bite dogs are less unusual than Wall Streeters who praise New Dealers.

Hence perhaps the most extraordinary document in Washington is the farewell note from John W. Hanes to Jerome Frank. Hanes, Wall Street big shot, was appointed to SEC over New Dealer protests and recently promoted to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Frank, corporation lawyer who has brain-trusted and litigated for the New Deal from its beginning, is the SEC commissioner who wrote “Save America First” (subtitle: “How to Make Our Democracy Work”), outstanding New Dealer opus. “Dear Jerry:” wrote Mr. Hanes. “Not the least of my sorrows at leaving SEC is the thought that I shall not see you daily while at my desk in the Treasury. f

“Never have I been associated .

with anyone whose mind and personality - 1 found “so Sunline

Your judicial and fair-minded approach to our many problems has completely won my admiration.” , Mr. Frank, framing that one for his office wall, replied in kind. Wrote he: “. . . My admiration for your integrity, intelligence, and good sense has steadily grown. You are to me a constant reminder that America need. not despair of the ability and willingness of certain of its business leaders to help this country by the use of constructive imagination to find lasting prosperity for its millions of jSiizens, 2

2 s 8 = OMMISSIONER FRANK, .whose mind Mr. Hanes found so stimulating and who- often is called Washington's “most brilliant,” .recently took off for vacation at Martha's Vineyard. “At the depot

| he bought train reading matter—

two 10-cent detective story pulp. magazines which any schoolteacher would call the “trashiest” type.

“Rex Tugwell first tipped me off to these,” Frank explained, defensively. “He said they were just’ as entertaining as any other mystery stories and why pay a dollar or. two when you could get the same thing for a dime?” Mr. Tugwell, former No.. 1 ‘New Deal brain-truster, now has ‘a $15,000 job under New York's Mayor LaGuardia as head of city planning machinery. He comes down occasionally, reading 10-cent mystery pulps en route, to see Harry Hopkins at WPA, Secretary Ickes about PWA stuff, sometimes the President and other old pals. Johnny Hanes: finds it easier ‘to get husiness leaders and New Dealers. together than to make rival labor leaders sit in the same room.

He can’t get A. F. of L’s William

Green to méet C. I. O.s John: Lewis or any other C.-1I. O. man. A. F. of L. leaders won't let thelr. Ppresident do: that.

Side Glances—By. Clark

Everyday Movies—By Wortman.

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11s it against the: law to wash : an American flag? 2—What species of bird fis largest? 3—Who recently knhovked out Freddie Steele in a middleweight boxing contest? : 4—-Can wonien vote in the Unjied States at the age of

a many eggs does an average laying hen produce annually? 6—Who was Jacobus Stainer? T—Isa pair of twins two or four :

children? y . 8—Of which country is cairo the capitals “ba ; 2 2 : Anewers . 1—No. - 2—Ostrich. . 3—Al Hostak. .4—The voting age for’ both males and females is 21 years, 5—About 150.

6—Famous violin maker.

".T—A pair of twins is two obldren. .

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Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

Simeon Coy Knew His Politics and He Knew His Saloon Business, buf A Gang of Small Boys Bested Him.

THIS is a chief history of Simeon Coy, a shrewd but untutored saloonkeeper who had everything his own way around here until Nemesis turned up in the shape of a gang of little boys with a pitcher and a dime. Sim came to ‘Indianapolis in 1843 by way of Greensburg when he was 12 years old. Three years

later he got a job painting buggies with the Shaw, Carriage people. He stayed with

the job to open a saloon. Three: years after he had the saloon going he became a citizen of the -old 18th Ward, the bloodiest political battleground in:Indianapolis at the time. Or any other time, for that matter. Sim was mixed up in every fight and achieved such a splendid record that, in Be, Was Sled, to represent ward in the Yo Ae Si Council. With the saloon as his Mr Scherrer headquarters, Sim spent the next five years perfecting a political machine, the like of which had never been seen around here. Nobody knows where he picked up his extraordinary gift for organization. It was just after the election of 1886, that some-

with. For some réason, Sim was suspected right away, along with some others. Not only that, but the Federal Jury indicted him. After long delays and several trials, Sim landed in the penitentiary to serve a sentence of 18 months. Almost immediately after his release, he was elected to the City Council again, Well, in 1890, Sim ran the saloon on Washington St, "east of the Belt. That was the one Nemesis

; picked to play her trick. One day a gang of little

boys showed up with a pitcher and laid down a dime. It was called “rushing the growler” and it’s just another way of saying that back in those days a decent saloonkeeper was- supposed to fill a pitcher, no matter how big: it was, for a dime. Sim eyed the size of the pitcher for a moment and then proceeded to draw the beer. To his surprise the beer would not foam in the lively manner which up to that time had been its redeeming characteristic. No amount of shaking or sloshing did any good, witht the result, of course, that before Sim could realize it, the pitcher was brimming full, netting the kids ¢t

titled to. Word Got Around The funny part about it was that after fhe kids left, any number of customers showed up, all carry-

. ing pails and pitchers, and in no case could Sim geb the beer to foam. Still funnier was the fact that when Sim used his own containers, he had no trouble putting a bead on the beer. Here was a mystery,

| indeed, and it took over a month to solve it, Sim

losing more money every day. It might never have . been solved had not a customer in his cups given the trick away. It was simple as everything and amount. ed to nothing more than greasing the inside of the growler with butter or a piece of fat. To this day there is a legend that the first man in the Middle West to be victimized by a greased growler was Sim Coy of Indianapolis. I don’t know whether there is any truth to it or not, but there is this to support the legend: Chicago didn’t hear of a greased grovies until 1891, fully a year. i after it was worked on Sim

Jane orden:

Thinks Husband Can Repay Parents And Also Have a Home of His Own.

EAR JANE JORDAN-I know a young couple in the late twenties who have gone together for five years. He has a very good education acquired at the expense of his parents’ savings. Now that he would like to marry, he finds himself as the sole support of his, parents. His father is unemployed. He feels deeply indebted to his parents, yet he loves the girl and wants a home and children of his own. What should he do? He has a good position. Should

forts and provide a separate home for his parents even if it means that they have to live in a ‘less desirable location than he and his fiancee have been accustomed to? Or should he ask her to live with his parents and keep on working at the position she has at this time? A FRIEND. 2 8 y f J :

do is to ask the young lady to live with his parents.

material comforts, it will be nothing in comparison to what they would sacrifice by not living alone during the first years of their marriage. When they are making their adjustment to .each other it is a great advantage not to have an: audience ’ for every little difference of opinion. - I see no reason why the young woman should not work to help her husband until- she has children to keep her at home. Any woman with the qualities requisite for a good partner would quickly recognize her flance’s debt to his parents. If the parents spent the money they were saving for. their old age on their son’s education it is his duty to pay it back with interest in the same spirit in which it was given. Although his debt is a debt of honor, it is just as binding to this young man as if he had borrowed the money from a bank. I would not think so except that these parents had to give up their security in old age in order to educate their son. However, it is one thing to take care of parents but quite another to live with them. Each young wife ‘has a right to a home of her own where she can run things in hér own way without the inevitable criticism, silent or audible, from her in-laws. Any girl worth her salt will be willing to work hard for such privacy in her marriage, A JANE JORDAN.

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New Books Today

Public Library Presents—

PPORTUNELY—while ‘Indianapolis surveys het own recently completed and important project, Lockefield Gardens—there appears an excel-lent-book, THE CHALLENGE OF HOUSING (Farrar) by one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the subject, Langdon W. Post. Until December, 1937, chairman of the New York City Housing Authority, and Tenement House Com-

history of this “weakest link in our- ‘economic. i the results of years of personal experience, a veritable Darsage:of facts colored by a deep sense of social ce. : Under chapter hendines: “People Live in: Houses Made the Slums?” “The

“Danger Signals” and “Toward a Solution,” the au thor presents a dramatic picture of inadequate housing in the United States, with: iis"attendant evils of crime and disease.

from the time of Jacob Riis in he Builds up bis. sate Tor some, Bind of government subsidy - against the futility of private enterprise,

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the history of ths fight against, the slim a Nineties, Mr. Post

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