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Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FISHBEuN-

NTHEN you stop to consider the fact that child
w born today may expect to live sixty years, in
steady to the thirty-f1ve years a newborn child
could expect in 1885, you might realize how much
has been accomplished by medical science in the last
century.
In fact more progress has been made in the last
fifty years than has been recorded the previous
fifty centuries
Yet there remain many diseases to strike into
the hearts of men the fear of pain, disease, and
death.
1t is but sixteen years since influenza swept the
world and desoated many communities It is only
year since epidemic encephalitis struck terror to
the people of a great city Diseases like amebic
dysentery once limited to the tropics are now seen
in the temperate zone.
THE advances of civilization bring with them
new disease hazards, from poisons and accidents.
Cancer, the most dread disease, has come to be
Sidered the natural end of life for the aged-its
cause and specific methods of treatment not yet
determined.
The prediction that many of these diseases will
be eliminated is more than justified by the speed
of modern research
Physics, chemistry, engineering, and other SCI
enceS are as much responsible for Of the ire
mendous achievements of medicine as are laboratory
investigators and physicians at the bedside.
The microscope and the X-ray have vastly ex-
tended the power of vision Electrical apparatus has
made it possible to test accurately the functions of
the heart and the nervous system.
ME purpose of medicine is to make healthier
and more efficient human beings.
The average boys and girls entering universities
today two inches taller and weigh seven to ten
pounds more than did their parents and grand
parents who entered these same universities in pre-
vious generations
With the vitanlins and with the newer knowledge
of nutrition even better bodies will be available in
a few generations.
Moreover, it is reasonable to predict that the
knowledge available for controlling the birth of
the unfit and the degenerate eliminating hereditary
strains that lead invariably to weak bodies and to
disease, VIII be widely applied in the future.
Diseases like pernicious anemia and diabetes,
formerly considered invariably fatal, are under
control BY our knowledge of the glands, we may
regulate the size of the human being, the shape of
his body, the speed of his loving and many of his
functions.
Yet only beginning has been made in the avail
able knowledge.
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He's Not So Dumb

PASSENGERS who were shipmates with him on
his subsequent crossings to and from Europe
discovered IN Primo an agreeable companion as in
tellectual as man need be to get along in the
smoking groom society of liner considerate
and respectable in his conduct He spoke three
languages.
The letters which he wrote to young London
waitress of Italian parentage, published in the
course OF her suit against him for breach of prom
se were written in pretty language which was close
on to poetic in spots.
Prize fighters ordinarily employ ghosts for their
literary laborS, but there that about Prinos
love-letters to the girl who had brought him his
they were strictly homemade out of his own ma
teriaIs.
His manager adopted for Primos house-flag
figure of wild boar with curly tuSks and sewed a
felt reproduction on the left leg of his fighting
trunks. But Primo, himself, was not in sympathy
with the idea. He called it "De Leetla Peeg' and
nnocently explained that it was just an idea some
body had had. He did not consider himself wild
animal or fearsome creature but only dressed as
he was told to- even adopting oversize shoes which
were Stuffed With Wadded paper where his feet
weren't, to cooperate with his proprietors.
He never really knew how much money he had
earned. He had more vice-presidents than a trust
company and himself was merely the stock good will
and fixtures. They campaigned him as horseman
campaigns Steed and if an opponent whom he had
never seen before nor heard of suddenly COL
lapSed from a push in the face that was no reason
Tor Primo to inquire whether any had ticked the
opponents nude ribs with the cold muzzle of a
pistol in the dressing room beforehand
He did the fighting, to give those activities &
unknown, discovered that he not rich man
after ALL but just property owned and operated by
frm which Included some characters well known
to the police.
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find some way of raising his
salary"
DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has
l. passed the word to senate
Democratic leaders that they
must be sure to authorize q cam
paign fund investigation for this
years primaries and elections be-
fore adjourning. Two such
measures are pending: One by
Senator Borah and one by Mis-
souri's Senator Bennett Clark.
The President favors the lat
ter because it permits inquiries be-
fore primaries have been held.
Ohio's bald little Senator
Simeon Fess was whip-c cracking at
Idaho's Borah: did you ever see
a dream walking?" Borah: mo,
but I've been listening to dream
talking" Farmers aren't the
only drought sufferers. City
workers in the stricken area,
whose occupations are dependent
on agriculture, have also been
badly hit, SO much so that the
President has added $50,00O,O0O to
his drought relief appropriation to
keep them. Henry Fletcher,
new Republican national chair
man, is an accomplished Spanish
linguist. He served many years as
diplomat in Latin American
countries.
Political Washington has it's
eyes fixed on the Home Loan
Bank board, or more exactly On
Walter Newton, one of its mem
berS. One of Hoover's White
House secretaries, Newton was
appointed to the board by F. D.
r. after the retiring Republican
President had asked him, as a
personal favor, to take care of
Newton. The latter's term
expires July 81, and speculation is
hot as to whether he will be re-
named. The best bet is that
he will. Pennsylvania Rep
resentative Thomas G. Cochran is
a coffee connoisSeur, personally
tests and brews all he consumes,
will drink no other kind.
copyright. 1884, BY United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.l
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''Yet the revised version now
nearing completion sacrifices none
of the inspiring and impressive
effects which made the pageant
the sensation of the year.
"All of the mass effects are re-
tanned, new music has been writ
ten and individual acting is en-
phasized."
DEITY JUNE MILLER, IL
- year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank L. Miller of 1415 West
Thirty-second street, will appear
tomorrow at the Kimban theater
in Chicago. She will dance the
national Mexican heel and toe
dance. She has made many ap-
appearance in Indianapolis.
ZANE JOHNSON BURROUGHS
- will present her voice pupils in
two recitals at Roberts Park
church. The first will be given
Friday, June %, and the seconld
on Wednesday, June 81.
The following students will sing
June %:
Dorothy Jones, Olive Montel,
Freda Brooks, Joe Ragains, HUI
bert Marshall. Shelbyville; Lorene
Mitchell Trison of Winfall, Grace
Yates, James Gilbreath, Florence
McEowen, Fred Martin, Maxine
Moore, Helen Louise Titus, Will
liam Kendall, Ruth Wagner, Mrs.
Joseph Sahakian, Marjorie Pur-
Wis, Betty Keske, Mrs. Eugene
Van Sickle, Helen Shepherd Sed-
wick of Martinsville, Dolly Buch-
anan, Esta Buchanan, 10 Ellen
Burroughs, Betty Sanders.
Also on Wednesday, June 81,
the following will sing:
Thelma Harris Thompson, Mrs.
w. H. Day, Minnie Alice Kelly of
Greenwood, Virginia Van Amman,
Marjorie Payne Breden, Imogene
Goebel of Shelbyville, Meridian
Kurtz, Marjorie Byrum, Helen
Dirks, Mrs. L. NJ. Holtz of Shelby
vile, Lena Carson, Mrs. Claude
Breeder, Edythe Hatch of Shelby
vile, Mrs. George Hoagland, Ina
Cornell Kahlie, Beulah Bailey,
Charles Carson, Margaret Cornell,
Delmer Huppert, Margaret Ellen
Ehlers, Alma Jean Ehlers, Betty
Hooker, Mary Suzan Siger, Betty
Starr.
The Methodist Hospital Music
Guild chorus will sing two num-
berS. Mrs. Burroughs is the di-
rector and Fanetta Hitz Brady,
accompanist.
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But It's Already Gone

T UIGI SORESI young Italian, undertook a SAL
IL wage job with Primo's affairs but the bank
ruptcy action came during Soress administration
so the New Deal has still to prove itself Mr. Soresi
knew finance, but he did not know the racket of
prizefghting
Primos pay for his big fight was to have been
$135,OO0. But the money was attached and by the
time he has paid his way out of debt he may find
himself not much better off than he was when Leon
See found him wearing burlap wrappngs on his
feet because he couldn't buy the outSize shoes which
he required.
But he was a gallant fighter and a sportsman
When his battle came Maybe he take that
around to the grocery store in his home town of
Sequala when he is old and trade it in for length
of sausage.
Copyright 1884 by The Tines
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Word has been received by this
department from New York that
Indianapolis will be included I'M
nationwide tour of this great
Jewish pageant.
The pageant first was produced
outdoors in Chicago last year and
drew thousands of people.
A group of noted dramatics,
writer's, composers and stage tech
nicians have been working for two
months on a revised version which
eliminates the need of carrying a
staff of several hundred people
and twelve carloads of scenery
and equipment.
This will enable the pageant to
be presented in any normal sized
theater.
Meyer w. Weisgal, general man
ager of the pageant, states that
the decision to present 1.-The Ro-
nance of a People" in a stage ver-
sion was reached after a thor
ough-going survey of the field.
"Since the pageant was started
last fall" Mr.. Weisgal states, 1--WE
have received virtually hundreds
of requests to stage it in various
cities.
I'm order to meet these de-
mands We have prepared an en-
tirely new version of the monster
pageant that thrilled hundreds of
thousands and broke all theatrical
records by crossing 100000 in
fifty performances in five cities.
This new version cuts the cost
of production by one-fourth,
makes unnecessary the carrying
of staff of several hundred &C
tors, stage directors, musicians,
artists, property managers and
other people.
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Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

CHALLOW arms Of the Arctic ocean once extended
- far southwark into both North America and
Asia That was 500,000,000 years ago, according to
experts of the Smithsonian institution who have
reconstructed the map of that ancient world from
the distribution of fossils found in the rock layers.
The Smithsonian scientists have found fossils Of
Arctic ocean animals in North America and Asia.
They conclude that where the fossils are now the
ocean must have once been. And so they conclude
that narrow bays Of the Arctic must have extended
as far south as New Mexico in the west and
Georgia in the east. In Asia, they believe that the
Arctic extended down into central Siberia, Korea
and central China.
In America, they believe that mountains or high
plateaus prevented these of the Arctic ocean
from flowing into either the Atlantic or the Pacific.
The dominant creature of the oceans 500,000,000
years ago was the nautiloid cephalopod molusk
whose nearest living relative is the chambered naut-
Illus The cephalopod was creature with tentaces
like the octopus. 1t lived in a shell. AS it grew
larger it secre5ed chamber to the end of its
old shell and moved out into it,
The present-day chambered nautilus is small but
ancient nautiloids sometimes reached lengths of ten
feet.
THE appearance of the ancient cephalopod seems
to have been closer to that of the squid or octo-
pus than to any other living animal. the Smith
Sonian scientists say
They believe that it was free swimmer and
dominated the shallow seas in which it lived. The
of chambers composing the shell were of course
hollow and helped the animal keep afoat.
Throughout the entire row of chambers, scientists
have discovered small shell tube. Some scientists
think that this made sort of natural submarine of
the cephalopod and that it could rise sink by per-
hitting water to enter this tube.
monograph the cephalopcds of Manchuria
has been prepared for the Smithsonian Institution
by DIR. Riuji Endo, professor of Mukden college.
1.-The largest of the Manchurian creatures was
perhaps little more than foot long" he says. "A
few extended their champers in the form OF coils.
approaching the practice OF the present nautilus"
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO -ROUND
: Bu Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON 16ost of the printed about the steel
w pictured leaders pretty difficult fellows
of General Johnson their
a lot
offered compromise the steel
his offerings knocked down like ninepns
establishment of arbitration
handle the automobile labor problem
consists representative from labor from
impartial chairman named by the President
the turned thumbs Such board they sad
radical demonstrate their desire they
a
This establishment of board of ve representatives of
employers the A. F. of from the union
and impartial chairman.
this
the
operation" and vetoed the DEAL
another plan This time board of three impartial chair
representative of employers to be elected by all the
cfooIu
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ONE YEAR UNDER BLUE EAGLE
4 Little Tired But Still Forcefu Johnson Will Carry On
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
Times Special Writer

WAsHNGToN June l8-For full year General Hugh john
w fought roared compromised
the hottest the whole New
is MIRA.
job formally year.
doesn't get but johnson still loves it,
Taking exactly like mounting the guilone
hat wouldn't work." said
Today the most spectacular revolutionary in Amer
history the task of assayng Mr. Johnson and NRA
confusing Amid the beowing of industry the complaints
small business
lsy otshout all concerned be-
difficult the the cha and the
poison ivy
that hardboiled
has made plenty mistakes perhaps
realistic critics
surprisingly that other could done
WELL when they another
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OBVIOUS Improvement.
General johnson long ago de-
scribed NRA as a field of con-
troversy and compromise. 1t is
and that's why hardly any one is
completely satisfied with it.
All the intensified pressures of
the worlds most firmly entrenched
industrial system have been
brought to bear on the doughty
general. Pressure from the most
powerful industries, from re-
vived and more militant labor
movement, from hundreds of
small and often greedy businesses.
A FTER a year in which Mr..
"A Johnson has got down to
brass tacks with the nations in
dustrial leaders one after another,
it is plain enough that industry
dominates the MIRA show.
General johnson has made in
dustry, which must always power
fully influence government in any
such system as ours, concede GER
tain increases in employment and
purchasing power in exchange for
manifest and manifold rewards.
Industry is pretty well satisfied.
Outstanding labor leaders say that
labor has gained at least as much
through General Johnson and
NRA as any weak labor movement
could reasonably expect.
Now take a look at Johnson.
His most important enemies
concede him a rugged honesty and
devotion to MIRA aims despite all
false starts, er-ambitious hopes
and retreats.
He is a tremendous success as
a promoter, possessed of uncon-
querable zeal, drive and enthusi-
asm. His mind is fast and facile.
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properly required five times as

properly required five times as
long.
n Il
Hinder General johnson and
~ President Roosevelt-they're
Loyalty devoted to each other-the
country has jumped from cut
throat competition, sweatshops
and starvation wages, child labor,
laissez faire and relative chaos
into-something else.
No one can tell to what extent
MIRA aided business improvement
in its first year. But nearly 3,00O,-
GOO persons were put to work
again, total industrial pay rolls
have increased and latest charts
indicate that increase in the aver
age workers income is beginning
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NEW YORK, June 16.-They say Cameras mind
was numb when he wilted like towel in the
ring and offered full surrender. He said nothing in
that final episode of the eleventh round but he
turned an eloquent countenance toward Mr.. Arthur
Donovan, the referee. To me it seemed if he
wished to ask question. 1t would have run, what
ever am I doing here?"
And in numbness and befuddlement Primo found
wisdom In other words he had to have his head
knocked off before he learned to think usually
the world was blur. At a distance of eleven feet
Camera could not tell whether certain quizzical
face at the ringsde that of Arthur Brisbane or
the gorilla who could like them BOTH In fact he may
quite we'll have imagined that through the power of
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'WOOdman, Spare That Tree

T THINK it the solitude almost as much as
the right hand punches which cut Camera down.
Max, the magnificent, assumed the rights of a
champion even before the bout began. He lolled
about his dressing room to complete few phone
calls and lei Primo wait in the ring for several min
uteS before he put in an appearance.
Some fifty thousand folk had been poured into
the bowl but Primo sat upon his high stool like
school boy set in corner for failure at long div-
sion To be there buzzed behind him the voices
of few bearing water and sponges, but there
never the voice Of friend.
And when the bout began the gaint of Venice
grew more lonely as the agony increased. He might
have been the tall pine in the tracklesS forest which
falls unseen, unheard and unheeded Out of the
babel there came no single voice crying out, Wood
man spare that tree" 1t is a commonplace to OBJ
serve that of the loneliest spots in all the
world may be the center of busy mart and Car
solitary stranger in the city of dreadful
night.
The blows rained down upon his head. Bloody it
and bowed. But drop from the mercy
seat came to ease the eyes of the poor gored OK.
Up rose the floor, once, twice and eleven times
The walls of the universe came tumbling down as
Camera tasted the slow death of the evening. He
could if he would write vivid book than
Hemingway for Camera ought to know by now the
point of view of the animal marked for slaughter.
Most distinctly Max matador. The challenger
was every inch the actor. He fought good fight
and gave the worst imitation of John Barrymore
ever seen any stage.
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Immediately he developed a re-
markable gift for spectacular
speech and exalted invective.
NIFTY TWO years old now, he
L is square jawed, broad
mouthed, red-faced and stocky.
His features give the impression
of being scrambled, but many
women think he is handsome. He
dresses carefully, wears clothes
negligently. Tireder than he once
was-for he really does work until
after midnight oftener than not
he remains direct, forceful,
usually friendly, racy, salty and
hard-voiced.
Granted that he would rather
run around Robin Hoods barn
than really crack down oh any
industry and precipitate an NRA
court test and that codification Of
500 industries has shown him to
be such a master COMPROMISED
that many folks have been eXas-
perated. Mr.. JohnSton'S chief
Misunderstanding to associates
arises from the same quality as
his greatest strength.
He think best in enormous
terms. He can go strong on a
national scale, operate the World
war draft and dynamite the war
industries board-as he did-and
put over the industrial organiza-
ton of nation of 125,000,000.
But Johnson'S heart is not in an
administrative job. Faced with
writing and administering hun
dreds of codes, faced by a forest
of details on which decisions must
be based, he is impatient of de-
tails and often founders among
them.
Again, General johnson trans
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lates intellectual disagreements
with him into personal terms. He
often assumes those who don't
agree with him are simply So
and-So's. His conception of in
dustrial organization would bring
employers into one vast group,
workers into another composed of
industrial unions. His success in
getting the two groups to agree
among. themselves and then with
each other has been spectacular,
but the fruition of his hopes
would take years. In fact, by
rushing through codes as rapidly
as possible, General johnson has
tried to do in year-without any
factual, scientific, pertinent infor-
nation at hand-a job which
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In actual practice, of course,
this meant that the latter would
be company union man.
The operators knew this. John
son knew it. So again he turned
thumbs down.
The tug-of-war from then on
was bitter uphill struggle for
NRA chief. Argue and plead as
he would, the steel barons grimly
refused to bulge an inch toward
allowing a representative of the
A. F. of L. steel union on the pro-
posed arbitration body.
Faced by unyielding obduracy
Johnson finally proposed a board
of three: An impartial chairman,
an employer, and a union man,
but none to have any connection
with the steel industry.
To this the steel barons finally
assented. They had virtually won
their point.
CENATOR GEORGE NORRIS
~ knows just how this amend
ment to abolish the electoral COL
lege came to be defeated.
He withholds the names. But
this is the story;
The day the issue was to be
voted on a well-known senator
came to him.
George" he said, I'm for your
proposition. I think it is most
desirable reform, and I want to
vote for it. But my colleague is
against you. I don't want to en-
barraSS him, so :.
II understand" Norris said. An
hour later the colleague came to
him, remarked:
Senator, I'm in a quandary.
I'm for your amendment, but my
colleague is not. He is up for re-
election, as you know. I don't
want to put him in a hot spot, so
I'll have to be against you."
The amendment was lost by a
two-vote margin.
THERE is one young RFC Off
L. cial who in the opinion of
Chairman Jesse Jones has a
bright future before him. Jesse's
opinion is based on the following
incident:
The young man was on a recent
fishing trip and neither he nor
Jesse had much luck.
But just as they were about to
quit in disgust, Jesse landed
fair-sized fish. He was jubilantly
displaying his catch, when his
youthful companion hauled in
fish twice as large.
After they had returned to
camp. Jesse asked his subordi-
nate:
Which of us got the bigger
fish, do you think?"
Why, you did, of course, Mr..
Chairman
Relating the episode, Jesse,
laughingly observed: There is, a
smart young man. III have 20
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FIR Enough
By
WESTBRO6K pE6LER

NEW YORK, N. Y, June 16-The public will not
see much more Of Primo Camera not only
because he was too badly damaged in his fight with
Baer ever to be of much use in the ring again, but
also because Baer confirmed an old suspicion that
Primo never could fight. But, in giving the gross
exaggeraton from Italy his discharge papers it is
only fair to write in his service record that he
guilty of conspicuous bravery and grand pride in the
battle in which he finally got his He comes to the
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to approach that in the cost of

to approach that in the cost of
living.
Meanwhile, General johnson,
whom few had ever heard of a
year ago, has become one of the
big figures in American history.
He won't stay out the second year,
but he charges into it as if he
had no thought of quitting. He
thinks when heavy industries and
construction pick up there1l be a
new burst of added employment,
thanks to NRA.
Codif1cation is virtually over
and General johnson wants to
clean up remaining codes in short
order. He feels he can now turn
his whole organization loose on
administration and compliance.