Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1940 — Page 15

THURSDAY, OCT. 10, 1940

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Hoosier Vagabond

SANTA CLAUS, Ind., Oct. 10.—Youll all heard of Santa Claus, Ind. the town where you send your Christmas packages to get a ‘genuine Santa Claus postmark on them. Santa Claus has only about 60 inhabitants and is just a few houses strung along the black-top highway that rolls up and down through these hills of southern Indiana. : Santa Claus, ar® old, old town, was bigger at one time. But when the railroad came it missed Santa Claus by about four miles, and the town dwindled. In 1355 the local people applied for a postoffice. At tha time the town was called Santa Fe. But there was already a Santa Fe, Ind. up north of Indianapolis, so the Postoffice Department notified them they'd have to think up another name. This notice came just a few days before Christmas. They held a town meeting over it. Somebody suggested keeping the Santa, and changing the Fe to Claus. It was adopted. It has been a postoffice now for 84 years. ‘The famous postoffice is in half of an old frame building. A general store occupies the other half. Throughout the year, Postmaster Oscar Phillips

and one assistant easily handle the'mail. But in De-"

cember they're snowed under. Last year Mr. Phillips had to hire 14 extra clerks, and they worked day and night. Even more will be needed this year.

Trouble Quer Santa Claus

Mr. Phillips doesn’t know how many pieces of Christmas mail they handle each year, because no definite count is kept of the hand-stamped stuff. But he thinks it will run close to a million pieces. If the Santa Claus office got credit for all the postage, it would be a great big second-class postoffice. But the bulk of the stuff arives with stamps already on-it, Santa Claus really becomes only a forwarding station. Each year thousands of letters arrive here which never reach their destination, and wind up in the dead-letter cffice. It’s this way: ! Suppose you live in Akron. You address 100 letters to friends in Akron, tie them all up, and mail the

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town’)

THEY OPENED UP the Guard House out at Ft. Harrison this week and turned all the soldier prisoners loose ¢n the polo field. Not to .play polo, though. To hunt some $225 bridgework. Yessir, It happened once last year, but it didn't develop into a treasure _ hunt: like this. Alfred Buck, 4rainer for Conrad Ruckelshaus and one of the town’s crack polo ‘players, is the owner of the bridgework. - In one of the games. last year, Mr. Buck lost his bridgework, but only momentarily. He located ‘em a minute later. Last Sunday, though, he lost the bridge in a particularly savage rush down the field. They were .going so fast he didn’t know exactly where it was, but they stopped the game and the Rolling Ridge team went hunting. They didn't find ‘em. So that's why they opened the Guard House this week. So far no see.

Lost: One Bus

AND TALKING ABOUT LOSING things, for quite a while last week-end there were some fears in Athens. O., that the Butier-Ohio University football game wasn't going to come off. It seems that the Butler team stepped off their special bus and crowded into the Athens Hotel the other evening, leaving all their equipment on the bus. Later on, they wandered outside. No bus. Finally, somebody got curious and the boys started looking. They couldn't find it. The affair Kept picking up in tempo and finally the

Washington

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—We are slightly behind schedule on plane production. William S. Knudsen of the Defense Advisory Commission says that this month we will produce 3900 to 950 planes, whekeas the schedule called for 1133 That lag is not great and there is no real anxiety about our ability to catch up with the schedule. But there is real concern over something else—it is that the original schedule will have to be revised upward. , : We had planned to be producing about 3000 planes a month by April of 1942. That schedule probably will have to be inereased. Events have shown that it is later than we thought. The British particularly are pressing for more planes than had been contemplated. They expect to hold through the winter, and during that time they hope to equal or pass German air strength. That can only be done with a very heavy contribution from us. The British Purchasing Mission is in daily conference with Ameri= can officials now over upward revision of their purchasing program. The British are confident that if they can get the planes they ¢an not only hold Germany off but turn loose air destruction on Germany, which is the only way in which Britain gan take the offensive. . Along with this it is expected that the American public will become increasingly insistent upon greater air strength for us. Cerainly the Army and Navy will demand it in view of the growing tension.

Custom Tailored Planes

Some within the Defense Commission feel that our aviation industry is being pushed as hard as it can be, and are giving thought to the possibility of having to make a new departure in order to provide the considerable expansion beyond that originally intended. No policy has been developed but some think that rather bold measures may be advisalle.

As they explain it, airplane production still is pretty much in the custom-built stage and without the volume technique of the automobile plant. Small

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Wednesday—An imposing number of gentlemen met me at my apartment soon after we reached New York yesterday morning. I hope they are going to accomplish something which will be of real assistance to the various semi-rural sections of the country. The peo- ® ple in these sections, while they can raise a certain amount of food for themselves, need other occupations to bring their incomes up to a decent level of existence. I started late for a luncheon appointment uptown and encountered such a traffic block on Fifth Ave. that I finally stepped out of the taxi and walked a little way, and. took a taxi again where I thought the way looked clear. The 5 driver told me with some amuse- : ment that it was Mr, Willkie's parade blocking the street. By that time I was so late that I hardly listened to what he had to say. Seeing that I was really concerned about the time, he thought up the quickest possible way to reach my destination and took me down the ramp to 45th St. and thus finally te my restaurant. After lunch I saw Miss Rosamond Chapin. who told me a most interesting story of her efforts to have cpera produced in this country in the English language: This seems to me a sensible idea, for if the same operas-are produced in German, French and

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By Ernie Pyle

package to Santa Claus, Ind. But since you are dumb —and knowing your letters are addressed to people Tight there at home—you wrote “City” on’ your envelope, instead of Akron. Then here, in the mad rush at Santa Claus, they jerk off the wrapper and start stamping your letters, But they're all addressed "City,” and the clerks have no idea what city, and the original wrapper is all mixed up with others, so there's nothing they can do. Sanfa Claus has benefitted by® its fame, but not an awful lot. These 14 people get a month's work, and the few businessmen make some money from tourists. The business houses in town consist of one general store, a restaurant, a filling station and a “Candy Palace.” There is no place for a traveler to stay all night. > Tourists flock through here by the thousands. Thev say that, on the week-end before Christmas last year, 25,000 people stopped in Santa Claus. Nothing much was done to promote or commercialize Santa Claus until six years ago. That resulted in dissension, which still exists.

The leading businessman of Santa Claus is Milton Harris, who moved here from Vincennes a few years ago, took leases on all the property in town, and then built this lovely brick “Candy Palace’ in a cow pasture right in town. . Back of that he built a Toy Village, filled with lit-

tle buildings in the shape of blocks and doll houses |

and so on. In these are displayed the products of toy manufacturers. Also in the village is a Santa's Workshop. } Si Mr. Harris’ venture is commercial, yet he has a dream of some day seeing the entire town rebuilt into the form of a real Santa Claus village. At the other end of town, up on a hilltop, is Santa Claus Park. This was started by Carl A. Barrett, who lives in Chicago and is president of the Illinois Automobile Club Mr. Barrett loves children and he loves Christmas. So he bought this land, and erected a huge concrete statue of Santa Claus. He intended to make it a park that would become known around the world, His venture was non-commercial, But trouble developed between Mr. Barrett and Mr. Harris. Santa Claus Park came to a standstill. This trouble is now in the courts, and I understand a decision is to be handed down next month,

Athens police car was tearing around town from one garage to the other searching for the missing bus. It showed up in front of the hotel Saturday morning to be greeted by a worried football squad. The driver explained that he couldn't get into the garages because the doors were too small, that the parking lot wouldn't let him in because week-end business was too good and that he'd just hunted out a drive-in grocery and parked in the back of it all night. The hidden bus play, eh?

About The Avenue

WE TOLD YOU YESTERDAY ahoul bingo being back in vogue around town. Well. you ought to know, too, that Indiana Ave. is back in action, although it must be admitted that it’s not quite in the style to which the Avenue has been accustomed. The hot spots are going. Sunday liquor sales are being made, but prices are up somewhat, supposedly because of the risk” involved. But there is no curb service as yet on liquor and no immediate signs that it will be resumed. This conditicn is to obtain until early in November. You know, the 5th.

VanNuys Still A Hold-Out

SENATOR VANNUYS' STATEMENT that he will support Senator Minton and the “Democratic ticket in Indiana” simply means that the senior Senator won't swallow the third term. He never makes any reference to the Roosevelt candidacy. . . There are three Pantiac agencies in town of which the sales managers, oddly enough, are all named Myers. . The Indiana duck hunting season begins on Oct. 16th, which, of course, is registration day. Well, that's one way for some of the boys to get in some target practice.

By Raymond Clapper

plants have been enlarged. It is like the cuztom tailor with his small shop. Business picks up and he puts on more tailors, but still does the work by hand. It is a larger shop but still a custom-tailoring shop. In contrast you have the huge garment factory where men’s suits are turned out by machines. That is not simply an enlarged custom-tailoring shop but a plant at which the business of making large quantities of suits is approached in an entirely. different way. Some are thinking that a fundamental change of process may be necessary. as in the change from | making Rolls-Royce automobiles to making Fords or Buicks. That would mean supplementing existing aviation production with huge new plants, differently | laid out and equipped with different machinery.

The Bottleneck Problem

| Any such program would encounter many difficulties. There is question whether we have time to do it. More acutely there is the bottleneck of machine-tool production and the bottleneck of engineering and production personnel which already has had to be diluted in order to make possible existing expansion of the industry. There will be the fear of existing aviation industry that surplus equipment will plague. tiem all when the emergency has passed. There is the question of whether the Government shall not only finance this work but shall own the properties, and what hand, if any, it shall have in the management. Those are some. of the matters which Mr. Knudsen had: in mind when he told the Army Ordnance Association in New York that there is a school of thought in Washington which feels the Government should go into husiness on a large scale. On top of all this pressure for additional airplane production is the urgency of other defense production, Then, too, the defense program already is resulting in a business boom which is stimulating civiljan consumer buying rapidly, and this is making demands on production facilities. Steel production has practically reached capacity and the demand is growing daily. Here briefly are sketched enough high spots to suggest that in the coming months we are facing the severest test of our ability to produce. It is an

to resort to unprecedented methods.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Italian, I cannot see why. if the-translation is good, we should not have opera in English and bring it

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(Third of a Series) By LUDWELL DENNY

VV ASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—The obsession ' indispensability often keeps

a

President from delegating lesser powers

cessor.

the creature of his official or unofficial family is usually erroneous. weakest Presidents are actually controlled by political bosses, or brilliant

associates or a ‘Morgan.”

Even a Harding—the worst example of control” in this country—was not bossed directly by those he unwisely entrusted with high responsibility. They worked around him, rather than through him.. They betrayed him as well as the Government. The result to the country may have been the same, whether he was responsible directly or | indirectly through negligence. But “control” -is hardly the word. Mark Hanna hand picked McKinley for the White House, but could not make that President bow to him. They went along together, for the most part, because they had common party loyalties and similar political principles. Andrew Mellon did not impose his belief in financial supremacy on Coolidge. The President. needed neither conversion nor leading in a policy so much his own. Indeed, the suspiciously stubborn Cal was less ‘open to suggestion than almost any President in our times, As a matter of fact, Cabinet officers are much less important than the public thinks—which is unfortunate. They are not Cabinet ministers but “secretaries.” Their authority ends with the routine. None of them makes policy alone, few of them help the. President make it, and some of them are not. even informed in advance of decisions made for them. o ” o

T degree of theirgresponsibility, of course, varies with weak and strong Chief Executives. Men such as Secretaries of State Adams and Hughes were powerful. But only by sufferance of the President, which is the important point. A President can, and often does, dismiss a Cabinet

Only the

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to subordinates, and destroys his confidence in the adequacy of any White House suc-

This human factor, as well as the oneman nature of the Presidency, perhaps explains why our executive aids are apt to be less able than their counterparts abroad. These aids include the Cabinet, head of other Federal agencies, the White House secretariat and the President’s few close unofficial advisers and confidants. The common "notion that a President is

officer without explanation, and without cause other than that the boss wants someone else to take his orders. 3

The laws of 1789 creating the’

first heads of departments did even recognize that they would form a Cabinet. That function has grown in custom but not in law.. Under our system -.of government—unlike the parliamentary system—the ultimate executive responsibility is in the President alone, and cannot be shared by him with his appointed associates. He is the responsible authority and is elected as such-—subject alone to the people. He is the only official, aside from the VicePresident, who is chosén by the whole electorate and is directly representative of the nation. More important than the pow-

“ Moreover

as such, is the somewhat more independent “fourth branch” of Government. The latter was not foreseen by the constitutional Fathers, but time and necessity have established it. The fourth branch in-

erless Cabinet,

cludes the so-called separate ad-.

ministrative agencies, combining executive-legislative-judicial functions or parts thereof, and similar _ hybrid functions given to certain Cabinet departments.

” 4 ” HIS growth, though not started by the New Deal, recently has ‘been |accelerated. Basically it is caused by the complex nature of industrial civilization and consequent complication of governmental problems. the nature of bureaucracy is to perpetuate and multiply itself. For these, and many other rea-

sons, the Federal Government has expanded until today it includes: 10 departments, 134 subsidiary bureaus and units and 68 so-called independent agencies. Meanwhile the number of Federal employees (not including military forces) has jumped above a million, The World War, then the depression and expansion of Federal paternalistic responsibilities, and now preparedness : for another war, have stimuiated here the world-wide trend of more Government machinery. Thus the halfmillion Federal employees of 1916 doubled during the World War, fell again to almost half a million in’ the next decade, and under ° the New Deal have about doubled again, After the Civil Service Commission was set up in| 1883 and the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1887, about ‘500 agencies were created in the 1900-1930 period (not all of which have lived), Critics credit - the New Deal with producing half of the existing agencies. Of present agencies more than 115 make law by issuing rules and regulations affecting the public, and many have judicial functions. Such powers have been delegated by Congress, because of the impossibility of writing advance rules to cover adequately the wide variety of new regulatory problems. : ” n ”

N some cases, as that of the

flexible-tariff provision, the President is given direct power.

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‘In others his power is only ape

“ pointive and indirect—but potent,

nevertheless. Growth of these agencies has caused two counter-movements. One would reduce their power, The other would make them even more controllable by the President. The first is represented: by | critics of the New Deal, by efforts to amend the Wagner Act and reduce drastically the Labor Board's powers, and by the sweeping Logan-Walter bill to curb all except a favored few of the administrative agencies. Evidence of the opposite trend is the Roosevelt success in having administration of the Wage-Hour Act put under the Labor Department and bituminous-coal control under the Interior Department. Since the present Supreme Court has upheld the broad powers of such agencies, which critics had called unconstitutional, the fight is now to get. Congress to reverse this governmental trend of 50 years. Congress may pass an amended Logan-Walter bill (now through the House) ‘to prevent administrative absolutism.” Modification of some methods of the Labor Board and other agencies is probable in any event. But the powerful fourth branch of Government certainly will surAnd Presidential influence over it is not apt to decline.

NEXT—O ver Cohgress and Courts.

GALLUP TAKES JOHNSON OFFER

General Words if Poll Is Right on Election Forecast.

Times Special PRINCETON, Del, Oct. 10.—The following statement Was issued today by Dr. George Gallup, director of the Gallup Poll. in commenting on a recent attack on the poll by Gen. Hugh Johnson. “Gen. Johnson has offered to eat his syndicated column if the poll is correct in forecasting the election in November. I accept the General's offer and will be knocking on his door the morning after election to hold him to his promise if the poll is right. “As conductor of a poll, I can only be seriously wrong once. If in any election I make a mistake like the one committed by thes Literary Digest, I may be as extinct as that publication. 5 “But a columnist may be sericusly wrong as to his facts—he may be seriously wrong: as to his assumptions—he may even be seriously wrong as to his prediction of events or forthcoming elections, yet the public will continue to read his column and. in fact, the column may even be more interesting because of the mistakes committed. “There has never been a time when the Institute has nnt been criticized by persons supporting the candidate who is behind. What the General says about us sounds a good deal like what the astounding editors

|of the new defunct Literary Digest

said about us in 1936. “The Institute does not claim to be infallible. In fact, it has constantly stressed the margin of error which is inherent in any work which involves the. sampling process. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the Institute has not erred in five

within the range of understanding and appreciation of a good many more people. You can not imagine] a German audience without opera in German. That) is one reason why they enjoy it so much, because it! is part of their daily lives. I carried home Miss Chapin’s translation of “The Magic Flute” to read. I feel sure that there must be people in this country interested in her idea to promote American artists here, since they can no longer go abroad to gain their reputations and must, therefore, be recognized as artists by us. I saw a good many people in Democratic headquarters and then went to see Miss Minna Citron’s murals, which are being exhibited in the Art League Building. © They will be placed in the postoffice in Newport, Tenn.,, and I think they will be a notable addition. By this time in the afternoon. 1 had more or less caught up with myself. and I arrived on time at the tea given by the Business and Professional Women. After spending an hour with them, I returned home to dress and dine and ge with Mrs. Henry. Morgen‘thau Jr. and. Miss Thompson to see Mr. Maxwell Anderson’s new play. “Journey to Jerusalem.” The settings fer this play are very beautiful and 1 par-, ticularly enjoyed the first act. The whole play seems te me interesting and well worth seeing. ‘The busy round is going on today. and this afternoon we go back to Hyde Park.

years in predicting correctly the winner of any election.”

393 INDIANA NURSES LISTED AS RESERVES

Times Special WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—There are 393 nurses registered in the First Reserve of Red Cross in Indiana, headquarters here reported today. More than 17,000 are ‘registered throughout the United States. ; Enrollment in the First Reserve of Red Cross nurses signifies willingness to serve with the Army or Navy during national emergencies or with the Red Cross at the scene of disaster. To qualify, a nurse must be unmarried, between 21 and 40, graduate of an accredited nursing school, member of the American Nurses’ Association and pass physical examination. *

Said He'd Eat

By

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Ernest K. Lindley

Biographer of President Roosevelt

Two Facts Have Bearing on

Charge WPA Pads Its Rolls

HE accusation that the Roosevelt Administration 1s preparing to “pad’ the WPA rolls for vote-getting purposes doubtless will be heard again many times before election day. In appraising the truth of the charge and of the rebuttal by the Administration. two basic

facts are helpful.

The first is that the WPA rolls are not a measure of unemploy-

ment. WPA and related relief agencies never have pretended to provide temporary work for all unemployed werkers. They have asia never provided jobs even for all unemployed persons who were willing to work and in need of relief.

When WPA

was set up in 1935 as the backbone of a Federal workrelief program, the theory was that the Federal Government would provide temporary jobs for all the needy unemployed who were willing and able to work. The states were to assume full responsibility for the care.of the so-called “unemployable” needy unemployed. The unemploved who were not in immediate need were to receive no aid— although later the Federal-state

Mr. Lindley

unemployment compensation sys-

tems provided some of them with financial help. However, ‘the plan to provide temporary work for all needy employable unemployed—at least to the extent of one job per family— never was fulfilled: This was because the sums appropriated were never -large enough. As a result. ‘WPA always has had a waiting list of persons certified by local authorities to be in need of relief and able and willing to work for WPA, but to whom PWA jobs could not be given because of lack of funds. During the last 12 months this waiting list has remained in the neighborhood of 1,000,000. It is now about that figure. To absorb this waiting list, WPA would need now about a 60 per cent larger appropriation” than it has.

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HE second basic fact to keep in mind is that as cold weather arrives, there is a seasonal rise in the demand for relief. Outdoor’ jobs, especially in the rural and small-town areas, dwindle. Construction slows up or stops in the North. This seasonal rise may be offset partly by increases in industrial production. But up to a point; the latter may not reduce the relief load very much, since the first people to be re-employed are usually those who have been out of work for only short periods and have not gone on WPA or local relief. The charge that the Federal relief rolls were increased for election purposes was made in 1934, 1936 and 1938. The 1934 figures on

stantiation whatsoever ‘for the charge. The 1936 figures show a slight rise during the fall in WPA employment, followed by a decline beginning in December and extending until the fall of 1937, when the usual seasonal upturn began again.

The drop from November to De--

cember, 1937, was about 10 per cent. This gives some support to the argument that WPA rolls were kept up until election and then pruned. However, there was an improvement in business generally during the winter of 1936-37 and the spring and summer of 1937. n EJ "

N 1938, WPA rolls rose month by month until December. The rise was: due to the economic recession and the overcoming of it by the appropriation of more money for WPA and other public works. Here, as in 1936, there was a small drop in the WPA rolls after election-—about 5 per cent from November to December. But, again, as in 1936, this corresponded with a~business upswing. On the statistical record, WPA cannot be completely exonerated of adjusting its employment schedules slightly — but no more than that in over-all figures—to political purposes. There has been evidence. also, of instances in which funds were channelled into particular states or communities for political purposes—as during the Senatorial primary in Kentucky in 1938. 3 The bad reaction to the intrusion of WPA into politics in 1938 convinced the top people in the Administration that it was sound politics, as well as better government, to avoid anything savoring of it in the future. This undoubtedly was the policy of Col F. C. Harrington, the army: engineer who succeeded Harry Hopkins as WPA Administrator.

NLRB GIVES RESULT

OF CLIMAX ELECTION

Times Special

WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 10.— The National Labor Relations Board today announced the certification two American Federation of

Labor affiliates as the sole collective ik selected by | course — from Miami to the Ba-

of

bargaining agencies

WINDSORS ‘T00 BUSY FOR TRIP

Want to Visit U. S. Very Much, Aide to Duke Reveals In N.Y.

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 (U. P).— The Duke and Duchess of Windsor “want very much’ to visit the United States soon “but they're simply too busy,” according to Capt. Vyvyan Drury, aide to the Duke. “There are no definite plans. for the Windsors’ visit yet,” he said here yesterday, “It should be appreciated that the Duke” is serving in an official capacity on behalf of the British Empire as Governor of the Bahamas, and much as he would like to visit | the States, he has too much to do.” Capt. Drury, a former school mate of the Duke at Eton, said he was not here to make any arrangements for the Windsors’ trip, but merely had come to take his wife and child, who have been in Newport, to the Bahamas.

Await Navy Commission From other sources it was learned that the main obstacle to the Windsors’ visit here was the expected arrival of the United States Naval Commission. Although one Naval Commission = already has visited Nassau, no surveying of prospective air and sea bases has been done.

Both the Duke and Duchess were reported very anxious to visit the United States again. The Duchess has president of the Bahamas Cross and she spends two mornings a week there, rolling bandages, passing out wool and doing clerical work. | Meanwhile the Windsors will have | to make yet another move—their sixth in three years—because their present hosts, the Frederick Sigrists, will be taking possession of their home next Wednesday.

May Go to Hotel

And for the first time in all their moving, - it appeared that the Windsors would go to a hotel—the Royal Victoria, where Lady Mendl, the American-born Elsie de Wolf, was expected to visit them next month. S Greta Garbo also was expected in Nassau as a guest of the Swedish industrialist, Alex Wennergren, who

been made

planned to take her—incognito of

secret ballot by employees of the hamas aboard his huge yacht, the Climax Machinery Co. Indianap- Southern Cross.

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The election was held Sept. 18. The winning unions are A. F. of L's Platers, | —A special seven-member senate

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INQUIRY BODY NAMED WASHINGTON, Oct. 10—(U. P))

and Helpers International Union, | committee was named today to in-

Local No. 171, and the International [vestigate the problems of Association of Machinists, District business” numbers on relief offer no sub- 190

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Doctors Argue Colds in Head

By Science Service

CLEVELAND, Oct. 10.—A new scientific controversy over whether acid or alkaline noses recover faster from a cold was started at

the meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology here. Discovery that during a cold or sinus infection. the nasal secretions are more alkaline than normal led Dr. Noah D. Fabricant. of Chicago. to, declare that it is time to acidify, not alkalinize, the nose during a cold. An alkaline state, on the contrary. may be nature's provision for fighting the cold just as fever is part of a disease-fighting mechanism of the body. This opposite view was taken by Dr. Hilding, of Duluth, Minn. “Before we set out now to acidify the sniffing American,” he said, “let us be very, very cartain that we are not breaking a link in a purposeful chain of events by virtue of which nature will cure the snuffles if let alone.”

NAVY BUYS INDIANA BLANKETS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—(U. P.)

—The navy has contracted with Seymour Ind.. blankets.

Woolen . Mills, $172,518 worth

Seymour,

for of wool

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and recommend remedial legislation.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—In the Northern Hemisphere is the evening twilight longer m summer and fall, or in winter and spring?

2—Name the house plant that folds

its leaves when

touched.

and droops

3—In what book is the legend “The

Old Man of the Cully : outnern city 1s a Federal Penitentiary located?

5—Which country had the first rail

road?

6—Can stars be seen in the moon's

crescent?

T7—What is a cosmopolite? 8§—Name the American architect

who rebuilt Louvain Library in France?

Answers

| 1—Winter and spring. 2—Sensitive plant. 3—'“‘Arabian Nights.” 4—Atlanta, Ga. 5—England. 6—No. : T—A citizen of the world, at home

in every. country.

8—Whitney Warren.

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