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Texas 'Polio,' a Cripple 9 Years, Finds Way to Make Himself Useful; Hopes to Get Into Warm Springs.

HOUSTON, Tex., April 5.—A young fellow named Justin House called up and said he was crippled from infantile paralysis, and

Now, although I've recently written about Warm Springs Foundation, I have no more influence there than a field mouse. But I went out to see Justin House anyway. He was sitting on the front porch in his wheel chair. He turned out to be a fellow of magnificent physique, like President Roosevelt. He weighs 172 pounds, and his chest and arms are muscular and powerful. But he can’t walk. He is 28. He was stricken nine years ago. He likes to draw little parallels between himself and President Roosevelt. Their birthdays are the same day—Jan. 30; both were stricken immediately after swimming; both in the legs only. Justin quit school after his sec- . ond year of high school, to go to work. His father was sick and the family poor. His father died a year before Justin was stricken. He ran a milk route when the paralysis overtook him. He was in the hospital for three months. home. time became heavy on his hands. So an old fishing captain came and taught him how to make

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By now, Justin has made 120 of them, of all They are intricate, lead-weighted draw-string He sells them for $5.

sizes. affairs, for casting for bait. He had a leaning toward music.

a career. So he started.

A wealthy man in Houston for three years financed | him through the Houston Conservatory of Music. |

Justin doesn’t know who it was. He started giving violin lessons. pupils now, and feels that with some neighborhood advertising he can get more. He also does music reviews for some neighborhood newspapers. Putting all these things together, he earned about $600 last year. He says he is not good enough to play in the Houston Symphony.

good money. Tries to Be Cheerful

Just a few days ago he saw his first movie in nine © years. . were pretty punk, but he immensely enjoyed the news

It was a double-bill of Westerns. He said they

reels. This summer he'll go to the ball games now and then. He goes to most concerts. After nine years he has finally got over his selfconsciousness at being carried around in public. At home he has wires rigged up across the room alongside his bed. so he can pull himself up and sort of walk back and forth, for exercise. He has had one bad fall. He broke his knee in three places. The healing wasn't perfect. Three times since these misplaced knee bones have slipped. The pain is more than he can bear. The first time he fainted. The other times he has been nauseated for hours. Despite all of this, Mr. House is not of melancholy spirit, and says he never has been, He admits he gets irritable at times, too full of the knowledge that he has to depend on somebody for everything he wants. Although he can't walk, he uses his steel braces daily. He puts them on, and screws down the ratchet until his legs are pulled out straight. It hurts, too. It seems to me that when a young man, with only two years of high school, can have the interest in. himself to study music, try to make his own living, and even keep his legs stretched with the hope of walking again some day, he has earned at least a spiritual medal.

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Back to the Problems of Growing Children and Question of Manners.

EATTLE, Wash, Tuesday.—This routine of grandchildren at home, the hospital, mother and baby, does not provide any very new or interesting subjects to write about. Particularly when everything goes as well as it is going in this particular family at present. However, it is amusing as a grandmother, to find oneself going back to the problems of young and growing children again. I wonder if there ever was a familv where some child didn't dawdle over his food until all the grownups decided that it would really be good for him or her to starve, Also, the question of the need for manners comes

up today just as it used to do. Someone remarked to |

me this morning that, when they were young, they were taught never to he rude to an older person and, therefore, they found it difficult to understand the manners of today. I can remember mv own very self-conscious curtsies to older visitors and my irritation at having to sit politely and listen to conversations which meant nothing to me, and that my grandmother felt that my generation had lost all the niceties of good manners. The root of good manners is really kindness of feeling. I often think we don’t explain to children when they are voung enough, that they receive what they give in this world. The rudeness to anyone, ot lack of thought for other people's feelings, is apt to bring an unhappy and antagenistic atmosphere into any relationship.

WPA Pay Too High?

If our lives can be said to be calm and uneventful, the mail, at least, continues as varied as usual. I have everything before me from the plaint of a young woman with six children, whose husband can't find work and yet can't get on WPA, to a diatribe from a gentleman in California who tells me that WPA is unpopular with the great mass of people who earn low incomes. often below WPA wages, simply because those on WPA are being paid too much.

Here is a nice question. Should you

ber of people down to a lower standard of living by paying them so little that their buying power is negligible?

as setting a lower standard of living.

Day-by-Day Science

By Science Service EWEST transparent food wrappers are made of tightly stretched rubber. The day is not far distant when you may be buying a broiler chicken encased in a “skin” tight casing of clear rubber, and sealed in a vacuum inside this rubber covering. Made of special rubber the new coverings look like deflated toy balloons with an extra wide mouth. How this balloon is put around a broiler is a splendid example of man’s ingenuity. The wide mouth of the rubber sack is placed over the neck of a special wide open container and the balloon is expanded in a reverse sense i. e. it is enlarged by creating a vacuum between it and the container. Chilled to a low temperature the sides of the container “freeze” the rubber in this expanded shape. Next the broiler is dropped into the frozen rubber sack, the air is exhausted from around thé chicken and finally the neck of the rubber bag is twisted into an air tight seal. The rubber bag with its chicken is dipped into warm water. The heat “thaws” the rubber which contracts to its original dimensions or at

least tries to for it stretches taut over the chicken in

a clear, dustproof and germproof coating.

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(Second of Two Articles)

By Everett R. Holles

United Press Cable Editor

(CAUDILLO FRANCISCO FRANCO of Nationalist Spain is determined to run his own dictatorship and has served a warning of “hands off” to the rest of the world, including Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.

Gen. Franco could not have won the 32-months-long civil war without the men, guns, tanks and planes of Hitler and Mussolini but he insists that their bills have been paid—at long prices—and that there can be no question of the New Spain becoming a vassal state for either « 'naziism or fascism. In this, the stubborn-willed Franco is finding strong support from Great Britain. The British, holding a trump card of vast financial resources needed for Spain's rehabilitation, are out to “neutralize” the wartorn peninsula and, if possible, regain their own position as topdog there. Italy and Germany will gain large trade and other advantages, of course, but Gen. Franco is insistent that he will restore Spain's traditional neutrality and independence and make her powerful enough—with a standing army of nearly 500,000 men—to stand on her own feet. But he needs money, which Italy and Germany cannot give him, if Spain is to cease being a thirdrate nation and become a power in the Mediterranean.

He must heal deep bitternesses, even among those who have been fighting on his side. Knowing the temperament and fiery individuality of the Spaniards, he realizes that Italian or German domination might soon bring another rebellion, One of his greatest tasks throughout the war was in keeping his Spanish soldiers from flying at the throats of the 50,000 or more Italian Blackshirt troops sent by Mussolini to “save Spain from Bolshevism.”

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ANY an Italian legionnaire listed in Rome as a fallen hero in Spain was stabbed or shot behind tire lines in outbreaks that on several occasions assumed the proportions of an uprising. Gen. Franco himself has ho

Side Glances

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1939

Franco: The Newest Dictator

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deep affection for either the Italians or the Germans. Many Nationalist officials say that if Mussolini should refuse to withdraw his troops, now that the war is over, Franco would run them out. " Dispatches from: Madrid say that between - 15000 and 20,000 Italians are being concentrated at Almeria, ready to be shipped home, and that only a “token” force of Blackshirts will accompany. Gen. Franco on his triumphal entry into Madrid, perhaps on Easter Sunday. Behind idealogical bonds, based on a common hatred of communism, Gen. Franco probably will adhere to the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo pact against communism. But he is no more anxious than the Japanese to stretch the alliance into a military pact committing him to supply men and guns for the dictators of Rome aiid Beflin whose ambitions he does not share. "The Spanish war was less than 30 days old when Franco realized that he would be defeated unless he obtained foreign aid. Several years before II Duce, watching the rise of Leftist strength in Spain, had promised: “When the critical hour strikes in Spain you may rest assured that Italy will fly to her assistance.” A Leftist Spain meant an enemy of Italy at the entrance to the Mediterranean, » ” 8

ERR HITLER wanted a friend below France's unfortified southern border for the eventuality of a European war. But Gen. Franco was wary and, when Europe came close to war

last September, he rushed a message to Paris assuring France that he would remain neutral, That and other evidences of Gen. Franco's independence annoyed Hitler and Mussolini. They are said to have told him rather bluntly that he was being "too nice’ toward London and Paris. Mussolini kept his word and “flew” to Franco's assistance— with planes, bombs, thousands of troops led by Italian army commanders, guns, tanks and artillery. Italien warships were “rented” to Franco. The Nazi manpower supplied by Hitler was far less imposing, probably never more than 8000 or 9000 Germans. They were mostly engineers, aviators, tank and antiaircraft experts. They remained stolidly aloof from the Spaniards. But German machinery and arms were everywhere. They shone on land and sang in the skies. Two out of three shells

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fired by Gen, Franco's guns were German-made. Mussolini's Spanish venture cost him about $375,000,000 and 13,000 casualties—a toll of Italian blood greater than his conquest of Ethiopia. 8 ” ” ERTAINLY Mussolini and Hitler were not making gifts to Gen. Franco. What was the price? German control of industry? A Nazi submarine base at Cadiz? Surrender of Majorca to Italy? Gen. Franco denies it. He says he has paid dearly for all this Nazi-Fascist support. that Italy's and Germany's claims amount to a mortgage in perpetuity on Spain are refuted. “The moral support sent to us by Germany and Italy is due to the fact that they understood the gravity of the Communist menace and appreciated the purpose of our crusade,” he said recently. “Nationalist Spain never will consent to the slightest mortgage on its soil, or on its economic life and will defend at all time to the last handful its territory, its protectorates and its colonies if anyone dares to make an attempt against them.” . He ridicules allegations that he is ready to let Germany and Italy establish military and naval bases on Spanish soil. The British holders of Franco's notes, playing at the old British game of economic-politics, are willing to let the account run on, providing Gen. Franco sees things Britain's way. In fact, if British money can accomplish it, Hitler and Mussolini may soon be in quiet retreat from Spain. Before he is established firmly as a dictator, Gen. Franco must solve internal bitternesses that may require methods as stern as any he used in war. Machine guns are quite likely to rattle again at night time in some Spanish courtyard, suppressing opposition within his own Nationalist ranks. Throughout the Civil War there was deep underground dissension and conflicting views about the new Spain. Monarchists opposed Rightist Republicans. The strong Falange Espanola—Spanish Fascists—want a dictatorship on Nazi-Fascist lines. The Monarchists want a king, but even they are fighting among themselves as to who should sit on the throne. Ardent Catholics opposed champions of a state religion. Regionalists from the north clashed with the Falangist

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1—-What is jurisprudence?

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Flag of the U. S.? 3—What type of canal is the Panama Canal? 4—Which former U. S. Government official went to Mexico to negotiate a settlement of the oil controversy? 5—What is the correct pronunciation of the word accented? 6—Name the capital of Denmark? 7—Who was recently nominated by the President as the first Ambassador to Panama? 8—Off the coast of which State are the Farallones Islands? ’ o. » ® Answers

1—The science of law. 2—James B. Upham. 3—Lock and lake type. 4—Donald Richberg. 4—Ak-sent’-ed; not ak’-sent-ed. 6—Copenhagen. 7—Hon. William Dawson. 8—California.

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supporters of an iron-fisted central government, Falangists were bitter toward the old privileged class, the Monarchists and owners of vast estates who would like to see the feudal system restored. But, throughout the war, Gen, Franco compromised with the future, putting off to another day the decision which he knew eventually must be made. The time is coming soon. No decision he can make will satisfy all of those who have fought for him and supported him, °

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UTSTANDING in the troubles is the question of restora-

tion of the monarchy, an issue on which he has made a dozen evasive statements.

« The .Falangists, who number more than 3,000,000 and are far stronger than both the Carlists and Traditionalists, point to Gen. Franco's middle-class birth and his feelings for the poor and middle class as evidence against any restoration. The general opinion among those who know Gen. Franco is that, after the initial work of establishing the corporative state has been completed, the monarchy will be restored. . The question also remains as to whether Spain's king, would b2 a Bourbon, as demanded by the Traditionalists or a candidate of the red-capped Carlist Requeles of Northern Spain who went to war in 1870 In opposition to Bourbon succession. The odds seem to favor 26-year-old Prince Juan of Asturias, second surviving son of Alfonso XIII, because even the Traditionalists are opposed to Alfonso’s return. : 88 nN

EN. FRANCO gave a clue to where his favor lay when, a year ago, he refused to let Juan join the Rebel navy with the explanation that “it is my duty not to imperil a life which may one day be precious to us.” The cause of the Carlists was weakened when their candidate for the throne, the Duke of Sun Jaime, was killed in a Vienna taxicab accident two years ago. The Carlists contributed far more to Gen. Franco's cause, however, than the Traditionalisis or even the Falangists. While the Spanish Fascists were doing police work and propaganda behind the lines, building up their ranks to more than 3,000,000, the Carlists were in the front ranks of nearly every battle. Only about 800,000

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of them remain foday, SO enor= mous were their casualties. Gen. Franco sought to curb the Falangist-Monarchist troubles in

July, 1937, by merging them into

the Falange Espanola Tradicionalista and abolishing all other political parties. The bitterness in his own ranks of followers may be largely responsible for his decision to keep a strong standing army indefinitely—about 500,000 of his 900,000 troops. The generalissimo says in. explanation that Spain must have strength at arms “to be sure of her freedom and be able to stand’ strongly in an international situation.” Gen, Franco has made it clear that he will be the supreme 'master of Spain under a totalitarian goverriment, eliminhting all ‘elec-

tions, political parties and organ-

ized opposition. But he does not intend to imitate Germany and Italy in their racial policies.

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T= Falangists have a program for cutting up the big estates and giving out: parcels of land to poor farmers, contending that agricultural production will be increased 60 per cent, Gen. Franco has established the national syndicalist labor center as Spain's sole labor organization. The laborer is not obliged to join, but it is that or nothing. Lockouts, strikes and boycotts are prohibited. He has set up labor courts whose verdicts are final. The dictator promises security of wages, workmen's compensation, improved living conditions in “happy and comfortable homes," increasing buying power on the part of the workers and national credits to farmers and fishermen. One of the most revolutionary social changes which Gen. Franco

has brought about has been what.

he calls the “liberation” of the Spanish women. Girls and young women, before 1936 in almost oriental seclusion, have been mobi= lized into the Nationalist “Auxilio Social” to work in hospitals among the poor and refugees. It is doubtful whether Gen. Franco will announce any decision on the questions which his followers are waiting for an answer until he is well on the way toward rebuilding war-torn Spain. Gen. Franco must begin reconstruction with an empty treasury because Spain's gold reserve— fourth largest in the world at the start of the war—has vanished.

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Our Town

|By Anton Scherrer

Riley's 'Little Orphant Annie’ Spent Last Years of Her Life in a White Cottage on the South Side.

J TRY not to keep mentioning the South Side, but every now and then so much Union St. lore piles up that I just have to put some of it on record. On top of the pile is the item marked 2225, the address of a sixe

gabled, white-painted little cottage between Raymond and Tabor Sts. It's the Union St. house in which Riley's “Little Orphant Annie” spent her last years. James Whitcomb’ Riley was a little shaver

about eight years old when Mary Alice Smith, a 10-year-old orphan, was brought to the Greenfield home of the poet's parents. Twenty years later, in “Where Is Mary Alice Smith?” one of his rare prose pieces, Riley told just how she was brought—‘ by a reputed uncle, a gaunt, round-shouldered man with deep eyes and sallow cheeks and Wet! looking puaze) whose home she was leaving to become a hired girl, Mary Alice was a queer little Mr. Scherrer girl unlike anything Jim had seen up to that time, She was forever talking to herself, carrying on image inary conversations with heaven only knows whom, And she had the weirdest collection of ghost and goblin stories of anyone in Hancock County. Made ‘em up, mostly. She was at her best, though, when going up and down the winding stairs in the Riley home. Some-

| how it “dazed her with delight,” Mr. Riley rememe

bered. “Up and down she went a hundred times a day, it seemed. And she would talk and whisper to herself, and oftentimes stop and nestle down and rest her pleased face close against the steps, and pat one softly with her slender hand, peering curiously down at us with half-averted eyes. And she counted hem and named them, everyone, as she went up and own.” One day, consumed with curiosity, Jim asked her why she spent so much time on the stairs. “Oh, ‘cause I kin play like I was climbin’ up to the Good World where my mother is—that's why.” You can find all’ this and much more in “Where Is Mary Alice Smith?” one of the best stories contained in “The Biographical Edition” of Riley's Works (BobbsMerrill Co.).

Lost and Found

Well, that more or less, was the reason Mary Alice Smith was made the subject of ‘Little Orphant Annie,” a poem first published as “The Elf Child,” and later, for a little while, as “Little Orphant Allie,” for Alice—see? Riley lost track of the little girl after the year she spent in the Greenfield home. It tormented him all his life. At one time, indeed, he put an ad in the papers—a Lost Ad, if you please—to learn what had happened to her. I doubt whether he ever learned all the details, but here they are: Six or seven years after leaving the Riley home, Mary Alice married John Wesley Gray, a farm. boy of the neighborhood and lived on Wesley's farm near Philadelphia .(Hancock County) until the death of her husband, about 17 years ago. Then her daughter, Mrs. L. B. Marsh lived at 2225 Union St. Indianapolis, invited her to live Nits her. Two years later, she died in the Union St. ome, As for the Lost Ad, Mrs. Marsh happened to run across it and got in touch with the poet. He was in Florida at the time. When he got back, he was too sick to see anybody, even “Little Orphant Annie,” then almost 70 years old. As a matter of fact, Riley never did get to see her again because shortly after that he died.

Jane Jordan—

Girl, 21, Is Advised Against Financing Dates With Boy Friend.

Eee JANE JORDAN—I am a farmer's daughter, 21 years old. I have been going with a high school boy of 18. He is of a very large family and still in school. I have furnished ali the transportation and finances when we go anywhere which is not often. He seems to care a lot for me when we are alone, but acts rather odd when we are together in public. Do you think that I imagine this, or is he just bashe ful in public on account of the difference in our ages? I always have had a desire to go to dances, shows and good clean night clubs. Should I accept dates with a man who has a nice car and money to take me to places I want to go to, or should I just sit at home and continue with my present friend? A WORRIED GAL.

Answer—Your boy friend is abashed because he is not assuming the masculine role with you. It detracts from his self-esteem to go out with an older girl wha furnishes transportation and pays for the evening's entertainment. This doesn’t mean that he isn’t fond of you. On one side of his nature he finds it pl4 sing enough to go with a girl who takes the initiative and assumes the responsibility, but such a setup doesn’t make him feel very masculine, particularly before an audience. He would be more at ease with a younger girl who throws responsibility cn: his shoulders. For your part, it would be much better to find a man of your own age, able to plan for himself and for you, and to pay for his own plans. If you have found such a man, by all means encourage him. ”» »n n

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I have a girl friend whom I like very much. She and her boy friend have split up. He loves her very much and would like to go with her again. But there has been so much said that I am afraid both have their feelings hurt. She is a very good girl, pretty and attractive. He is nice, too, and they make a nice looking couple, There were two letters in your column which both parties were accused of writing. I am quite sure neither one wrote them. They were signed Puzzled and Perplexed. How can I stop these busybodies from nosing in the affairs of others? He is going with ane other girl now but would rather go with my friend, He said he never could love another as he does her and she speaks very highly of him. F, B. D.

Answer—Let your iriends handle their own probe lems. If they want to get together again, rest ase

sured that they will do so without your aid.

JANE JORDAN.

Put vour problems in a letter to Jane Jordan who will answer vour questions in this column daily.

New Books Today

NE of the most versatile of modern Christian leaders is Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the Alsatian ore ganist who turned to a quest for the secret of Jesus that led him to a medical college and to a forest hospital in the Congo. Dr. Schweitzer, whose books on Jesus, comparae tive religion, the mysticism of St. Paul, and Hindu philosophy are authoritative, wrote the story of the miracle in his own life in “Out of My Life and Thought.” Now in the AFRICAN NOTEBOOK (Henry Holt), he tells of the miracles that have been wrought around his hospital at Lambarene, on the hill where Trader Horn once lived. : The book is anecdotal, full of earthy stories of taboos so strong that the victims died from the mere fear of the ju-ju, tales of mail-order catalogs im Equatorial Africa, and of natives whose greatest sur prise on going to Europe is that man can there lord of the earth. (int The stories are told for their human interest, underneath almost everyone af them one can see love that Dr. Schweitzer has for the people whom he works and his confidence that -