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From Indiana—Ernie Pyle

Thoughts While Touring Texas— Including Reasons Why He Didn't See the Governor and Other Items.

ACO, Tex., April 12.—There isn’t a thing in this column about Waco. I'm writing it in Ft. Worth. We just came through Waco today without stopping. The only reason I know of for that Waco date-

line up there is just to confuse you. Do you confuse easilv? Thank you. Austin being the capital of Texas, I suppose I

should have written a column about the Governor of Texas when we came through. But I fled. without doing it. For if I wrote that he was a bad Governor, it would make two-thirds of the people in Texas start out after me with butcher knives. And if IT wrote that he was a good Governor, the other third would sit back and call me a fool. So having put my foot in it that far. I will now withdraw it, and if you want to know anything about the Governor of Texas you'll have to come down and find out for yourself. And in case you do, I assure you that vou can sit up all night, without once getting sleepy, just listening to the fantastic, fearsome, significant and wonderful story of what can be done when a radio, a democracy and a flour salesman get together. And speaking of Governors, here's a minor item which has nothing whatever to do with Governors. The other day in some city, I forget where, I was sitting in an outer office, waiting to see a man. The office bov (absent for the moment) was apparently still in high school. for I noticed a zoology book lying open on his desk. Of course I had to take a peek. (Pyle the Peerless Peeker.) And on the open page was a description of a half-bird, half-fish that lived in prehistoric times.

An Unfailing Memory

"Fossils of it have deen found in Kansas. dating from the time when that state was covered with water. This thing I'm describing resembled a duck. except it had a long sharp beak like a swordfish. It had no wings. It had two stub feet, stuck way back, which

it used as oars. Its name was Hesperornis Regalis, which didn't | help it any. The poor thing could not fly, nor walk, nor stay under water. All it could do was swim around | on top and look foolish. It seemed to be in an aw ful | fix. I don't blame it for going out of existence. The news that the Dionne Quins are going to be taken to Toronto to see the King and Queen makes me mad. Why don't the King and Queen go to Callander to see the Quins? Of course. it'll be nice for the kids tc get out and take their first train ride and see a city. But it's just the idea I don't like. Who do the King and Queen of England think they are, anyway? The St. Anthony Hotel in San Antonio has those “radio-eyve” doors. It's the only hotel I've ever seen that has them.

Mr. Pyle

About three feet from the door you walk between | Your passing cuts a beam or! something, and makes the door swing open just =

two short bronze posts.

vou get to it. When we were there three years ago, I went to the | St. Anthony, walked up to the door. stuck out my hand to give it a big push, and then it suddenly | opened itself. I alinost went flat on my faca. But I have a long memory, and they didn’t fool | me this time. The doors opened just as I figured they | would. But wouldn't it have been funny if they had abandoned the thing in the meantime? I would have walked right smack into the glass and bloodied my nose. Thal’s some free publicity for the St. Anthony, but | we didn’t stay there. We stayed at the Plaza. I've got a little item about the Plaza, too. If you leave a | morning call, the operator phones up and says, “Good | morning. Mr. So-and-So. it is 7:30. and the tempera- |

ture is 76.” Except that the morning she called me, she said the temperature was 38. I could have | killed her.

My Day

By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt Children Guests at Easter Party:

Mlle. Curie White House Visitor. |

Wom Tuesday.—At 4 o'clock yesterday | afternoon, a small children’s Easter party was | held in the East Room. Mr. Baker, who had been en-

tertaining out on the lawn, came in and performed |

for the voungsters. Nancy Forbush's marionette show also was a great success. Afterward, the children all went in to supper in the big state dining room and, as they finished, they climbed down off their chairs to hunt for Easter eggs. I went in to announce what | each child's proper share of eggs was, because I feared that some youngsters might have a greater capacity for finding things than others, which would, perhaps, mean a tearful end to the party. There were no grandchildren here this year, which was sad and made me the only hostess for my youthful guests. Mademoiselle Eve Curie arrived while the parents of these youngsters were having tea with me and Joined us. What a charming person she is! You are conscious first of her intelligent face and her lovely

brow and eves. Then, like all Frenchwomen, it is her |

well-groomed, chic appearance which strikes you. She

is more conservatively dressed in many ways than an |

American woman might be. but every detail is carefully thought out.

Gives Layman’s Viewpoint

She has been lecturing on her mother's life and |

other women scientists She. herself, is not a scientist and so she talks from the point of view of the well-informed layman. which, 1 am sure, is more helpful to the average audience than the lecture of a scientist would be. At 5:30, the Minister from PFinland returned, bringing with him Madame Herporauto, the most successful novelist in Finland. She showed me with

pride the costume she wore, a hand-woven draped |

shawl around her shouders, with ornaments made as they made them in the Thirteen Hundreds. These were actually copied from those dug up by some of the archeological excavations which are now being made. Af one end of a long chain hung a collection ‘of little bells which announced to the servants the arrival of their mistress and which also served to ward off the evil eve. From the other shoulder hung another chain terminating in a sharp knife used by the lady of the house, perhaps as a weapon for defense, but also in the course of her daily routine for cutting meat or other food.

Day-by-Day Science

By Science Service CIENTISTS are getting closer every day to what amounts to successful gland transplantation by methods which do not involve transplantation at all. The insulin treatment of diabetes is a classic example of this type of what might be called pseudntransplantation, but which scientists term substitution therapy. In diabetes as everyone now knows, certain cells in the pancreas, which is a gland, do not produce enough of the chemical substance, insulin, which regulates the body’s sugar utilization. By giving insulin extracted from glands of cattle, however, the diabetic patients deficiency is made up. The effect is close to what might be achieved if he could be given a new set of insulin-producing cells in his pancreas. It is not the same, obviously, because, for one thing, the patient must continue to get doses of insulin day after day, since the amount given one day may be used up by the next day. One sten toward improving the situation was the development of “slow-action” insulins. By the addition of certain chemicals, insulin can be altered so the body absorbs it more slowly, and the patient can be given larger doses at a time, but at less frequent intervals. The effect presumably produces a situation jo he iy nore ike that brough by normal

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Second Section

By Robert D. Potter

Science Service Sta®t Writer

to have greater safety in its

tion known as safety glass.

contained collodion which had gradually evaporated until the bottle. appeared to be empty. On hitting the floor, the amazing Benedictus bottle broke into pieces but those pieces did not. scatter. The unnoticed thin layer, of collodion on the inside of the bottle held the shattered fragments in a firm grip. This discovery led to the belated Benedictus patent for safety glass, issued in 1914. The patent of J. C. Wood, an Englishman, in 1908 for a “sandwich” type of safety glass antedated Benedictus by eight years. The newest advance in safety glass, honored by the Franklin Institute, demonstrates how . far industrial research has come since the early days of Benedictus. A new plastic material known as polyvinyl acetal resin now ferms the inner laver of the familiar three laminations of the “sandwich” of glass that is so widely used in automobiles. The trade names of the various products possessing this new ma- | terial are many, but all hinge on the use of polyvinyl acetal resin. ” = = IVE companies have shared in the development of this new plastic. They are E. de Nemours & Co., Inc; the Lib-bey-Owens-Ford Glass Co.; the Monsanto Chemical Co.; the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., and the Union Carbide and Carbon Chemical Corporation. Safety glass made with the. new plastic has many superior properties. At ordinary temperatures it is four times as “strong” (resistant to impect) as is the regular safety glass. This superiority is

I. du Pont .

GLASS bottle dropped in 1903, which shattered but did not spread its fragments, and the urge of America

motor cars, are the two basic

factors in development of the life and injury-saving inven-

A Frenchman, Edourd Benedictus, was the man who dropped the historic bottle back in 1903. The bottle had

even more marked during winter temperature conditions, for its “strength” mounts to 10 times. Equally as remarkable is the resiliency and elasticity of the vinyl safety glass. This is no small matter when an accident may send one crashing into the windshield. The new plastic is five times as elastic as former types. The new glass, when broken by hammering, can be rolled up into a “rug” without the glass particles leaving the inner binding vinyl plastic material. Such amazing and valuable properties were a long time in atriving in commercial use. It was not until the early 1920's that the trend in automobiles was from the open cars of the roadster and touring car type to the sedan, two-door coach and coupe. The added comfort to the driver and passenger was met by ordinary plate glass but the flying splinters in accidents constituted a serious menace to life. Thus. urged by public demand for a safe glass-enclosed car—and a trend to higher driving speeds with resulting increased risk if an accident occurred—the developments in improved safety glass came into being. ® = = BOUT 1924 the first experimental glass for automobiles was offered to the public. It consisted essentially of sheets of ordinary celluloid between two thin pieces of plate glass. Prices of from $10 to $12 for a square foot of this glass were not uncommon. By 1928 the safety glass was improved with the use of cellulose nitrate as the “filler” in the sandwich. This material did its job satisfactorily, but. being susceptible to sunlight and moisture,

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New Class Reduces Driving Peril

Research Yields Product Far Stronger I han Present Types

An 11-pound bag of shot dropped on these samples of different kinds of safety glass shows which is best—the new polyvinyl acetal resin filled Notice the comparative breakage.

glass, at right.

failed to give the length of life desired. The discolored windshields and windows of cars of this era still on the roads make the handicaps of this type of material evident. From 1930 onward, however, improvements came rapidly. To block off the destructive ultraviolet light of the sun—cause cf the discoloration — special plate glass absorbing the sun's actinic rays was developed. When it was used as the outer layer of the sandwich of glass the discoloration stopped. And then, as a still more improved product, cellulose

acetate was employed for the in-

ner layer of plastic. Finally means were found to seal the edges of the glass sandwich so that moisture could not penetrate between the layers and create that opaque whiteness which had ever marked this fault in safety glass. When all these advances were made, the use of safety glass all around the car came into practical reality. Today, in many states the use of such safety glass is wisely made compulsory by law. But industrial research was still not satisfied and out of this dissatisfaction has come the new vinyl plastic, bringing greatly improved strength during the winter driving season.

Earliest commercial lose nitrate as the “filler”; a sample of it is at left. The two samples in the center are two later types, employing cellulose acetate

pe of safety glass used cellu-

and acrylate resins.

Secret of the new safety glass is a synthetic resin known as polyvinyl acetal resin, so elastic it can be stretched to almost twice its

natural length, as Miss Wynette Price, does here. resilient filler for the glass “sandwich.”

It furnishes the

Boy Thought

‘Doomed Saved By X-Rays

| EW ROCHELLE, N. Y. April 12 (U. P.).—Harold Holt will leave the hospital today te begin | life as a normal boy less than a | month after his physicians in Pittsburgh gave him two weeks to live. He had a Wilms tumor of advanced stage. Dr. Alexander J. Chilko saved him with deep X-ray

therapy treatments. For six months more, the 21:-year-old boy must remain in New Rochelle where he can be near the ‘hospital for weekly treatments. | After that he may return to his home in Monongahela, Pa. One child in every 1000 is born | with the malignant Wilm’s tumor land almost all have died, medical | men claim. Dr. Chilko had been experimenting with ' therapy treatments on {two New Rochelle children and {heard of Harold's case. The boy had one infected kidney removed, but the tumor had recurved. Harold's father was away on a boat trip when the doctors decided that he was doomed. His mother, Mrs. Wilma Holt, 27, was with him. She had barely received the bad news when the offer came from Dr. Chilko to pay hers and the boy's fare to New Rochelle and all expenses of the new treatment. The mother and child arrived by |airplane March 16. The boy clutched a toy airplane in his hand. Today Harold becomes a ward of the townspeople who when they first heard of his plight, and learned that his mother could not afford to make the trip here, of- | fered to send her the money for

[her fare or send an automodbile to Pittsburgh for hér and the boy.

By Thomas L. Stokes

Times Special Writer

ASHINGTON. April 12.—With a postoffice box as temporary national headquarters, the bouncing

(D. N. C) is promoting America’s newest organization, the Vindicators. It has to do with stopping immigration, stamping out isms, deporting undesirable aliens, registering and fingerprinting all aliens and keeping America out of war, according to the Senator. He claims 60,000 members to date. It's a fairly cheap lodge to join. For a dollar vou can become a member, get a year's subscription to the monthly bulletin, a red, white and blue ribbon for the lapel with a “V” in the center, a red, white and blue feather for the hat, and a flag of the order. There's been some trouble about the flag. The Senator originally appropriated the flag of pre-Revolutionary days, designed by Benjamin Franklin, with a rattlesnake in the center and the word, “Don’t Step On Me.” “But we discovered,” he explained, “that someone else uses that flag. We'll have to design another one.” He's rather proud of the selection of a name, “I picked it right out of the air,” he said. “I didn't have to think long. It came to me, just like that He snapped his fingers. “I thought of four or five names. I first thought Gladiator would be a good one, but 1 found they were aliens. Vindicator means defendsr,

fender against the various isms.’ He's planning an active campaign | when Congress adjourns.

going.”

orator Senator Robert R. Reynolds | {mon to deliver a charter to a group

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EANWHILE, he’s mailing copies of his speeches in the Senate— 200,000 copies altogether, so far—and speaking whenever he gets an opportunity. He said he had a meeting scheduled April 24 on Boston Com-

there.

He explained how the idea originated. “I've been trying to get a bill passed for some time, you know, to stop immigration. It is much better when you want to pass a bill to have people behind you. You know how propaganda works. I thought it would be wonderful if I could band people together. “I thought the best way was to organize units, forums, where people can get together and talk in public. It's better to have things out ih the open than to keep them smothered.” Los Angeles, which has nourished so many movements, including the Townsend Plan, seems to be taking

‘Ham’ Show

By Science Service NEW YORK, April 12. Twelyeight thousand radio “hams,” members of the American Radio Relay League, will have their own show at the New York World's Fair, They will show each other and the visiting public in’ the Westinghouse Building how their short wave sets. with which they talk by voice or in code around the world. operate, by means of a 40foot display. Built by League mem-

and I think the country needs a de- bers, it will trace what happens in-

side a radio transmitter when a person. talks over the microphone and what occurs on the receiving

“I'm going out then and get it end, by means of 6490 winking

| lights.

'Vindicators' Organized ” Senator To Stamp Out Isms, Preserve Peace

most eagerly to the Reynolds Vindicators. He said there is a big and live chapter there.

The organization draws no color line, he said, and is nonsectarian and nonreligious.' Bob Reynolds has been known about the Senate as a. jovial fellow, a free talker, a hail-fellow-well-met, and few have taken him seriously. Since he has been harping on the Americanism, anti-Com-munism, anti-Fascism line, few remain in the Senate to listen to him while he orates by the hour. He's a great traveler and globe trotter and he often was amusing when he told about ‘his travels. ” ” ”

HE Senator and the late Huey Long were friends. A story is told of their first meeting here in the apartment of another Senator. “I've seen you somewhere before Huey said to Bob. “And I've seen you somewhere hefore,” said the North Carolinian. They studied each other. “Oh yes, I remember now,” said Bob Reynolds. “It was when I was running a skating rink in Baton Rouge and you were selling swamp Toot.” Some think the North Carolina Senator is getting the Huey Long deliverer complex. Some speak of him as a. “Fascist menace,” pointing out that while he carries no weight in the Senate he is effective on the stump. Bob Reynolds has become serious. Still, somehow, it’s hard to take him seriously. Those who are alarmed by him say it's not the Senator himself they worry about se much, but what influences may be behind him. Nobody seems to know just what these are.

Abdominal Fluid Substituted in Transfusions

EMPHIS, Tenn., April 12 (U. P.) —Use of ascitic fiuld, which is found in the abdominal cavity,

as a substitute for blood in transfusions has been successful in 10 experimental cases, it was revealed today by Dr. Harry A. Davis of the University of Tennessee Medical School. The fluid is chemically thé same as blood except that it lacks the cellular or corpuscular structure, Dr. Davis said. “Lack of that quality, ? he explained. “made it impractical for transfusions where the corpuscules and protein content of more blood was needed; but the fluid, nevertheless, was entirely satisfactory in treating cases of shock due to -loss of blood.” Dr. Davis said one advantage of ascitic fluid is that it can be refrigerated for as long as five months, stored in large quantities and moved great distances. For that reason it would be extremely useful in war. Another advantage, Dr. Davis said, is that the fiuid can be obtained without cost by hospitals since it often is drawn from the abdomens of patients suffering from certain types of heart disease and cirrhosis of the liver. “In such persons,” he pointed out, “the fluid collects in abnormal quantities and is removed. to relieve pain Frequently we remove 12,000 to 15,000 centimeters of the fluid from a patient.” The fluid is administered by the same method as blood, he said, and is typed in a similar manner. Dr. Davis said use of tire fluid still is in the experimental stage but that it had been used successfully in 10 cases and that reactiofis

: had been noted. in only two patients.

Side Glances

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|Our Town By Anton Scherrer

Grandfathers’ Club the Latest Thing, and Mrs. Walker Winslow Gets Credit for a Very Fine Idea.

KEEP hearing more and more about the

good things that go on in Indianapolis. This time it's the “Grandfathers’ Club” which meets Monday afternoons at Mrs. Walker W. Winslow's home, 3834 N. Delaware St. Mrs. Winslow thought up the idea several years ago when her mother visited her. That's when she noticed that older people are lonely without some one

of their own generation to talk to. Mrs. Winslow got busy right away. She hunted the neighborhood for women who were living with their sons or daughters. At that time she found three and these women met and enjoyed each other's company until all passed away. They all died within a year of each other. Three years ago, Mrs. Winslow's father, W. S. Epperson, came to spend the winter with her. It was

Mr. Scherrer the same story. Mr. Epperson did his best to get ine

terested in the modern activities of the Winslow menage, but in the end it began telling on him. Again Mrs. Winslow scoured the neighborhood, up and down Delaware and Pennsylvania Sts. from 36th to 40th Sts. This time she found five likely looking subjects, and invited them over to meet her father. They came the following Monday afternoon, and had such a good time that they have kept coming ever since. At present there are three members, two having passed away. The men meet at 2 o'clock and stay until 4. Light refreshments are served, but it hasn't anything to do with their coming. The men are so interested talking about the good old times that they forget all about eating, says Mrs. Winslow.

The combined ages of the three members of the Grandfathers’ Club figure up to 243 years, distributed as follows: W. S. Epperson (84), Albert Sahm (80) and Alan R. Dow (79). Right now, all three men are wondering what the world is coming to,

Paganini's Violin

Which leaves me just enough room to tell what happened to Miss Jeannette Orloff once upon a time, Seems that when Miss Orloff finished her violin les sons with Prof. Beisenherg, she went to the Cincinnati College of Music and studied under Leandro Campanari. Well, the year the Campanaris visited Italy, they took Miss Orloff with them and it was there, in Genoa, that she played on Paganini’s fiddle which hadn’t been touched since the death of Sivori, Paganini’s only pupil. It all happened like this: The old fiddle which had been kept sealed under glass for nigh on to 60 years needed restringing, and since Campanari happened to be around, they couldn't think of a better man to do the job. Anyway, the violin was unsealed. The Mayor of Genoa, the Aldermen, and a big crowd of musicians, including Miss Orloff, stood around to see that Campanari handled the thing right, Then Campanari played a couple of pieces on it, after which he handed it over to Miss Orloff who played one of Beethoven's Romanzes. The ceremony ended with sealing up the fiddle again, and as far as I know, it has never been touched since,

Jane Jordan—

Solve Own Problem, Try to Save Marriage, Young Mother Told.

EAR JANE JORDAN-—I love my husband very much. We are pqth 21. When my baby was born I went home to my mother’s because of financial troubles. We lost everything we had. Finally he got a job and started to pay me a little money each week. He has hurt my feelings many times by doing things he shouldn't do and.I.ve always forgiven and worked for him. - Now he has sued for divorce. He told me that in a year or two he would be sorry, and that his reason for wanting a divorce was to please other people. His people don't like me and mine don’t care about him. He says he still cares about me. The judge told me to contest the divorce but I am just undecided; so if you can help me in any way I'll appreciate it. Should I let him get the divorce or contest it? G. R.

Answer—What grounds does your husband have for divorce? Unless you have done something to entitle him to divorce, he can’t get one. The*judge asked you to contest the suit so that he could hear both sides of the case. Otherwise how can he make a fair decision? If you and your husband could move far away from your families and start over alone, you might have some chance to make a satis sfactory home for vour child. But as long as you are influenced by what your people think of your husband and he is influenced by what his people think of you, you have small chance to make a go of marriage. Since you both feel some affecticn for each other, it would be better for you not to break up your marriage if it can be avoided. Can’t you decide for your= selves instead of letting your families decide for you?

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EAR JANE JORDAN-—I am a boy 18 and in love with a girl 16. I have been going with her for 10 months. About three months ago her parents found out that I am a Catholic and not an American. I was told not to see her again. I have been seeing her in secret. Now I am going to leave and will be gone for a year. I want to ask her to wait for me until I get back, but I am afraid that she may regret it in time to come. I do love her an awful lot and don’t want to lose her. Should I ask her to wait for me, or should I tell her to have other dates during that time, and when I get back see if she has changed her mind? ROY.

Answer—I think it would be better not to bind the girl by any agreement. If your affection for each other is strong enough it will survive a year’s separation without benefit of an agreement. It doesn’t occur to you that you might change your mind within a year's time, or does it? Perhaps this is why you hesitate. ; JANE JORDAN,

Put vour nroblems in a letter to Jane Jordan whe wil answer vour guestions in this column ‘daily.

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