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BrOuH, the Naturalist 90

VTERY much indeed I would like to be BrOun,
the old naturalist" and a reporter on the
home life Of the native flora and fauna. Flora,
however. never have known very well and my con-
facts with Connecticut fauna have been only slightly
more extensive.
Captain Flagg. suppose, is fauna and l ike him,
but he no longer has much to contribute to any
symposium the affairs of the world and how to
stop them. Flag IS, I fear. tired radical. Much
the world is not to his liking but he has given up
practically all active protest
In the days of his youth he bayed at the moon.
But at the END of thirteen years ne has reached a
conviction that matter how he howls the blame
thing Will wax and and never alter its ap
pointed rounds by any little in spite of his disap-
prOval.
So Flagg won't do a representative of the most
inspratiOnal pOtentalities of the BrOun farm fuana
The big black snake who lives upon the rock at the
edge of my neighbours lake has a somewhat more
rugged revolutionary character than Captain Fagg
the airdae.
Not in eight years during which have known
him has that snake ever despaired of establishing
the rock as his own domain. Hundreds and hun
dreds of times he has been chased back into the
swamp and vet on every sunny day he swaggers out
again to take up his accustomed post. There is no
sinking about this snake Whatever he does is frank
and above board. And Yet I find his technique
merely matter of being logged. He brings no new
idea method into his against the advance of
civilization.
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Haywood Broun Heyucood, You Bore Ne

4 ND 10 isn't easy. ANY hermit worthy of the
y name. first Of ALL must be companiOnable He
ought 10 be the sort of person who delights in self
examination and IN exploring the attic corners Of
his own mind Until I am able to become vastly
more interested in myself 1 shall continue to COM
mute.
Vanity cOnCeit and self-assuTance are not alto
Fether lacking in my makeup and even so 1 can not
quite accept myself fascinating saga. 1 know
how the plot comes out.
7 could wish for a greater number Of vagaries
an TOO often when 1 sit upon the porch and COM
muue with myself I can not escape becoming rude
and saying. You bore the life out Of me. Why
don't YOU get new line2"
AS far as I have ever heard, no newspaper
columnist has ever succeeded as hermit Too much
intrOspectiOn has gone before the great adven-
begins. The average COlumnist knows himself
and his limitations so well that he finds no joy or
kick IN spending a weekend with no other COM
panion than his own ego.
I imagine that even the better heTmtS have this
difficulty al times and their salvation apparently lies
in turning to nature as friendly gossip and a con-
Venient stOOge.
There have been gifted individuals to whom a lit
tie grove of birch trees offered more scandal de-
tail and surprises than Monday column written
by Walter WinCheH.
These fortunate folk know just when the swa-
lows may be expected to be blessed with events and
the precise season of the year when every Orioe is
that way about some other Until 1 know the
birds little better I must depend upon friends and
neighbors TO me from being solitary.
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death scene was due to the great
respect they had for the actors.
People rarely went to see a
play in those days." he said.
They went to see the actors.
Ada Rehan was the drawing card,
not the Tanning of the Shrew.'
People went to see Mckee Rankin
and his wife in Joaquin Miller's
The Dainties, but their interest
was little held by the play.
Edwin Booth, Mansfield, Fanny
Davenport, Nance O'Neill and the
great Italian tragedian, Salvini,
could appear in almost anything
and the S. r. o. sign would be
out.
And" Mr.. James continued,
believe me, those actors lived
up to their parts on and off the
stage. They Travelled in style with
hotel and stage luggage galore, but
that didn't make them snobbish.
/ remember one time 1 was
stranded in Baltimore and wanted
to get home.
AT that time ]. K. Emmett had
a troupe playing at the old Holt
day street theater there and I
knew one of the stage hands. I
went around to see him and he
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Your Health
-BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

YOU may have read recently Of the sudden death
Il Of a banker while he was flying in an airplane
His death was due TO The condition called CorOnary
thrombosis. or the ClOgging Of the small blood
sells IN the heart muscle.
President Coolidge and Senator Thomas Walsh
died Of this kind Of heart disease. and so have many
other well advanced in business and statesman
ship
The corOnary arteries which supply the heart
muscle with blood. are small blood vessels about the
size OF a quill on a feather. which go around the
heart and which give of branches passing down.
ward toward the apex Of the heart
The result Is an occasional attack Of pain in the
heart. but this is not serious the sudden and
complete blocking Of the heart.
"THEN such sudden and complete blocking
w occurs, there Is severe and tremendous pain
This pain is not a matter Of a few minutes like
the pain in angina pecors but lasts for hours and
II the person lives and IS kept absolutely quiet it will
gradually wear of in few DAYS.
Some slight soreness persists and. with a sudden
effort the severe pain may come on again.
There Is no way 70 reach the point at which
coTonary blood vessel blocked The only possible
treatment is absolute rest so that nature can DO
much as possible TO repair the damage.
This IS done IN two ways.
First. the blood vessel that is not blocked will
only supply the side OF the heart that it usually
supplies but will also send blood in roundabout
manner 10 take OF the part that has Been shut
Of
Second. the CT may gradually be dissolved and
blood may work way through II. a
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Mr.. James tone of voice i'm
piled he would trade old days for
new equipment.
Work may have been hard, but
we used to have our laughs" Mr..
James recalls in another vein.
Il remember one time" and he
chuckled, when they were play
ing Alexandra Dumas Camille
at the English. In those days, the
backwards of the private houses
which faced on Ohio street ran
down to the alley in back Of the
theater.
We'll, sir, they had just reached
the death scene.
You know that's a very tense
moment in Camille The audi
ence was in the sway of the drama
when all of sudden the milk
man making his Ohio street
rounds started to ring his bell
through that alley. That just
about wrecked the act, although
the audience, with a few eXcep-
tions, was able to control itself
MIR. JAMES paused a moment
1Vl and then explained that one
of the reasons why the audience
didn't burst out laughing when
the bell interrupted "Camille's
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Despite JohnSon's explosives.
Clarence Darrow's reports on big
business and little business, can
not be laughed of. Price-flxing
remains a sore spot. A hundred
complicated questions are crowd
ing in on a man already discour-
aged and weary.
HOUSING-The big drive to
take up the midsummer slack, TO
help reduce federal relief rolls
through the gigantic Slum-clear-
being launched. Upon it depends
construction prosperity next year.
LOANS TO INDUSTRY-The
R. F. c. has just received from
congress the right to put the
government further into business
by lending money 10 industry.
This new start on the old, hand
out game has just begun.
TARIFF-The President has just
received unprecedented powers to
negotiate trade treaties changing
tariff rates without ratification by
congress. A score of nations and
several hundred lobbyists have
been bounding the state depart
ment TO begin.
STOCK MARKET - For the
first time in history the govern
ment will attempt to make Wall
Street walk the straight and mar
row. The commission faced with
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the vaudeville act which later he
wrote into the widely played THE
Old Homestead"
He also remembers the time the
great Salvini came to Indianapolis
and played at the Park theater.
HE was a most peculiar man."
Mr.. James recalled. "He never
would use gas lights when he
made up, but insisted on having
the stage carpenter make him a
crude wooden candlestick, just a
block of wood with shallow hole
in it, in which he would stick a
candle. That's all he ever would
use"
The curtain fell on Mr.. James
career as a stage hand in 1882 and
he became a city fireman, a post
he held until his retirement be-
fore the war.
Now, he spends most of his
time sitting with "the boys" at
engine house 20, at 352 North Bev-
vile avenue, but his thoughts are
in the wings of the English theater
listening to Lawrence Barrett
render in magnificent fashion the
words of Shakespeare's famous
melancholy Dane.
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said they were leaving for st. Louis
and he'd let me ride as far as
Indianapolis in the baggage car
with the props if I'd help him
load.
"I agreed!
Before the train left, I bought
some sandwiches and sarsaparilla
and I made myself comfortable in
the baggage car and set out for
Indianapolis.
Pretty soon my friend came
into the car with a great load
of fruit and food in a basket. l
told him he shouldn't have spent
all that money on me and he re-
piled that the cast had bought
that food to see me home
Nov, you couldn't find any
nicer folk than that, could you?"
Il II
MIR. JAMES remembers the
wi days when the present
Capitol motion picture theater
used to be the Park theater and
before that the Metropolitan Va
riety theater. 1t was during the
theater's earliest years that Den
man Thompson used to present
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Writing Colunrns-Such a Life!

ITO be sure I speak Symbolcally. am referring
i 10 my own efforts 10 battle without benefit of
water snakes as the advance Of civilization The
carter snake may have quite opposite ideas Indeed
/ don't even know that he is a garter snake. don't
know that he Is he. All I can say is that he has
bitten no one as vet. If he possesses effective
weapons Of aggression he Is fool to have waited so
long
And that is the great heresy of nature and most
Of the members of Its current kingdom hereabouts
Birds snakes and little mammals fataliSts
every one Of them. They accept without criticism
the state of life to which it has pleased providence
10 call them
To is true that the tadpOle becomes frog but
here ambition ends Never does frog work himself
up into being a pickerel. or a wOodchuck. As soon
as he becomes frog he admits This is as far as
can be expected 10 go
And I guess I won't become a hermit for fear
that I might be injected with the same defeatSm.
I do not want 10 live and Die a cOumnist. 1 do
better than that. VINO couldn't?
,CouvrCht 1884 bv The Tines
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Blu DreaU Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON south has caused
w high for the
briefly, is this:
heaped the head of one man more
President of the United States Upon
depend immediate of the
bills passed with several important
felt
had chosen wrong distant holiday.
they right fact that the next
be crucial Washington Here some
LABOR-Srk strikes popping every
country strike the Pacific
Milwaukee railways wakout,
kept of labor disputes knocking at Rooe
labor BILL settle these,
has barely begun function will miss the guiding hand of the
the White House.
Of the Roosevelt departed south
frequently life
Johnson his explosive
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and democratic methods, the
course Of events in Germany must
bring a sharp realization of what
the alternatives really are. THE
national socialist state" says
DR.. Prick, the minister of the in
terror, lis built up on uncondi-
tional obedience to the orders of
the feuhrer and his deputies"
How has this doctrine worked
out? To express disagreement
with the fuehrer is forbidden. Yet
many Germans disagreed with
him. The result was that they
plotted underground. In place of
free discussion there was conspi-
racy and intrigue.
1t required about five hundred
years of constitutional develop
ment among the English speak
ing peoples to turn the pugnacity
and the predatory impulses of
men into the channels of talk,
rhetoric, bombast, reason and per-
suasion.
Deride the talk as much as you
like; it is the civilized substitute
for street brawls, gangs, conspira-
cies, assassinations, private armies.
No other substitute has as yet
been discovered.
THE doctrine preached by the
l. Fascists that a nation can
think and feel with one mind and
one heart, except on details, is
contrary to all human experience
For a short time, in a mood of
exultation or under the crushing
power of terrorism, nation may
appear to be of one mind.
The idea that these armies of
Black Shirts and Brown Shirts
represent some great new twen-
tieth century invention can be
entertained only by those who
have never read any history.
They are Enthusiastically a rever-
sion to political practices which
prevailed in western Europe up to
about the seventeenth century.
Democracy is not the creation of
abstract theorists. 1t is the crea-
ton of men who step by step
through centuries of disorde,, eS-
tabIished a regime of order.
9 Copyright. 1891
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Today's Science
By F..
David Diefz

N AIMS in various parts of the United States dur
IN ing June made a start toward breaking up the
drought, but it still is too early to consider the
drought as ended
The United States weather bureau reports that
tropical storm moved inland from the Gulf of Mexico
into Louisiana on June Is 1t moved to the north
east from there into the middle Atlantic High
damaging winds were experienced in the gulf sec
ton and in localities in the south the rainfall
for the week in excess of nine inches.
Moving eastward, the storm had, by June 10,
brought much needed rains to Ohio West Virginia,
Pennsylvania and New York. There we're also salts
factory rains in western Oklahoma, most of Kansas
and Nebraska, the northern Mississippi valley and
the northwest.
The southwest however, including practically all
of the great basin, failed to receive any benefit.
During the first twenty days of June according
to the weather bureau rain occurred practically
all drought sections east of the Rocky mountains,
but lin many cases showers have been irregularly
distributed, with some localities receiving generous.
even excessive amounts, while others are still badly
needing moisture.
THE seven days from June 10 to June g. accord
i ing to the weather bureau were characterized
by high temperatures in nearly all sections east of the
Rocky mountains. Little rain fell in most
southern states while uneveny distributed showers
occurred in the central and northern districts.
The temperature averaged from to II degrees
above normal large area of the interior of the
country while most eastern states the temper
allure was from to degrees above normal.
Light to moderate rains the rule in the in
terror valleys ana northwest With some heavy tails in
the southern Ohio valley area, the western lake
gon and a few north-central localities
THE showers were sufficient to maintain the i'm
proved outlook resulting from the previous rains in
most parts of the drought area, and cultivated
crops especially, show substantial progress in many
places j. B. Kncer chief of the division of climate
and crop weather of the United States weather
bureau. says.
"XXTHILE the improved situation is being MAIN
w tanned" Mr. Kincer continues the rains in
most places have been sufficient only for current
needs of cultivated crops with widespread rains in
substantial amounts still necessary for permanent
relief.
This is emphasized by the fact that most of the
interior droughty states, following extremely dry
spring, have received far, less than the normal
rainfall since the beginning of June
"A favorable feature of the showers has been
their at frequent intervals and mostly in
moderate amounts, which have assured the maxi
of benefit from the amount of rain received.
Only in limited have they been excessive and
damaging.
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scattered them there for the
beauty of their coral sand and
bending palms.
Columbus was reminded of the
Christian legend of st. Ursula,
prioress of a convent, who went
forth on a religious mission with
her band of 1000 virgins.
So he called them the Islands of
the Virgins.
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this task still is in embryo.

this task still is in embryo.
COMMUNICATIONS - Another
commission to control telephones,
telegraphs and radio, also, for the
first time in history, has not even
rented spittoons and coat hang
erS.
What accentuates Roosevelt's
absence is the fact that his is
the most centralized adminiStra-
ton in years. Some of his cabinet
officers will scarcely hire an Of
flee boy without trotting over to
ask the man in the White House.
So the summer may be hot,
hectic and at times delirious.
The component parts of the Off
cial family will step on each
others toes. Fireworks should be
brilliant, feudage bitter.
WHO called them Virgin
w islands? Possibly not even
the President, as he nears their
shores, knows the origin of the
name.
1t was given by another great
Observation-Disclosures.
He was on his second voyage,
1893, and he was impressed by the
great number of islands in that
part of the Caribbean, as if ma
ture, with a prodigal hand, had
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HJeemC Me
By
Haywood BROUN

CTAAIFORD. Conn. July s. - The Broun farm
y never has had a name or any reputation 10
speak Of either I wouldn't go quite so far as 10
call % an abandoned farm since strive 70 give 1t
respeCability by paying il party calls almost every
holiday and weekend. T. serves to grow a few
wanted green apples and does its best 10 keep me
from being a city chap with all the provincial no
tons which that term implies.
Although the fact trains make the Grand Cen
trail station in less than fifty minutes something Of
the wilderness Of the frontier still obtains along
these few narrow acres. The birds Of the air and
the beasts % the field are occasionally in evidence
even though the big town is scarcely thirty miles
away as the crow flies. The men who laid the high
WAYS 10 Manhattan had not a drop Of crows blood
among the lot Of them. The roads 10 this retreat
double and turn and help to preserve the illusion
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NAAaa AA|AE HAAI AAA-EAAA AaA "A AAN-
NIT With very little outside
interference.
At times I have considered
that possibility quite favorably,
but each year I put It of. Be
ing a hermit is one Of the
things which I am saving up
for my old age. But 1 do not
think it is a profession which
any man should embrace with
out some preliminary training.
II I couldn't be a regular
first-class hermit then I
wouldn't want TO be a hermit
al all.
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TO-DAY AND TOMORROW
BY Waller Lippmann

ITO those who for one reason
Il or another have been losing
faith in constitutional government
Nogales international., 1934-08-04
The Sales Tax Is Here To Stay

Arizona's privilege sales tax may rVal the Cololaoo
river as a political issue in Arizona
Tn fact according to sagacious observers 1t ap-
destined to eclipse the controversy that spread more
t oo the mudded campaigns of other years than is de-
osited in generation by the muddy waters OF the Colo
rado
The sales tax is here to stay!
For that statement take the word of the political cog
noscen Gentlemen who seldom if muff calling their
shots correctly authority for the assertion that the
sales tax-ke the gasoline taX-is permanent part OF
Arizona's revenue making machinery.
In the opinion of these observers the position OF can
didates for many fcesparticuary legislative seats IS
either funny or fallacous
Arizona they say, at least during the current emef-
pency NEEDS the income from the state sales tax AS
one astue observer pointed out for Popour from what
source not from the sales tax can the state obtain SUI
ficient money to carry on relief work?
Certainly not from almost impoverished farmers, debt
burdened and numerousy obless home owners nor from
hard hit business men badly stricken group of
per mining companies.
Property this observer went on to say, is taxed
ing burden; complete collapse would follow additional
tax load.
So when the next legislature-probably containing
many members elected pledges to abolish the sales tax
convenes what will it do? Where will the enemies OF the
sales tax find the million and half dollars that that
law produces?
Why, from the reenacment of another sales tax mea-
sure our prognostcator predicts!
For these reasons and Others which this purveyor oil
Potpour has forgotten close political observers chuck
ING up numerous sleeves at the plattunous pledges Of
many candidates.
CpHoEN1x EVENING GAzETTE)
Nogales international., 1934-08-04
GENERAL ELECTRIC
ORDERS GAINED 52G6

NEW YORK, Aug. 3:-During the
second quarter of this year the Gen
ei'al Electric Company received or
ders amounting to $54,005, ,988, ac-
cording to a statement by the pre-
sident of the company, Gerard
Swope. This figure compares with
$35 .539, 1853 worth of orders received
in the corresponding quarter of
last year, and repre-ents an in
crease Of So per cent. Business of the
General Electric Company during
the second quarter of this year was
the largest since the third quarter
of 1881.
For thu first six months of thi
year. President Swope stated that
orders had amounted to $92 .154 642
During the corresponding period of
last year orders were $61,051 500. so
that orders this year represent a
gain of 81 per cent over 1893.
Nogales international., 1934-08-04
JOHN A. JONES
ARIZONA TRADE ON UPGRADE

PHOENIX, Aug. 3.-Arizona busi-
ness is better: The mining situation
is improved in a score of ways: 1000
men have returned to work in the
mines the past two weeks.
The federal drouth relief program
is resulting in increased employ
ment and a more cheerful outlook
for farmers and livestock men.
Phoenix is looking forward to the
greatest winter tourist season it ev-
er has known.
Preparations are being made to
establish a federal housing agency
under the measure recently signed
by the President which probably
will mean many advances in the To-
cal realty field.
Employment figures are jumping.
Efforts are being made to establish
Nogales international., 1934-08-04

Young Brownie (Harold j. Brown,
Jr). on the small end of big ci-
gar.
Nogales international., 1934-08-04

A candidate urging everybody to
Nogales international., 1934-08-04
FOR SUPERVISOR

| hereby announce myself
as a candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Super
visor in District No. /.
r. T. FRAZIER
Nogales international., 1934-08-04
OBSERVED
HERE AND THERE

The American Legion naming
three candidates running for the
same office, as a committee for a
dance to be held at the Legion club
house on the night of Saturday Au-
gust 18th, said three being Harry
Farrior, Joe Karam and c. c. Cren-
shaw, who seek the Democratic
nomination for County Assessor.
A certain individual telling news
papers what they should and what
they should not print. He should go
into the publishing business.
Johnny George telling about the
strike on the Pacific coast.
G. C. Cheshire insisting that his
employees register for the fall elec-
tionS and himself not yet registered,
Cat least he wasn't up to Monday.
A candidate urging everybody to