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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-18
And the Frugal SiUiss-

THE Swiss franc is made of silver and is about
Il the same size the Spanish 1-peseta piece
and the American quarter. The Swiss franc is
worth about 33 cents, the American quarter is
worth IS cents and l peseta is worth IA cents.
Then there is the Swiss 5-franc coin, but it is
valued at about S165
The Swiss take little pride in the superiority
of their franc, but by odd quirk of human ma
ture they may be heard deplore the high cost of
living which exists among their people This
makes it necessary to pay high wages and this too,
makes it necessary to charge good prices for mer-
chandse, with the result that living is more ex-
penSive in Switzerland than in the United States.
And, although the League of Nations, with its
lavish expenditures in Geneva, has contributed much
to the prosperity of the city and the rise in prices
there many Swiss who feel that this is somehow
not just right, either. A young Swiss woman with
a clerical job in the League receives a salary Of
10000 francs about $4,000 year. 1t will be
long time before any Swiss firm pays 5000 francs
year to woman clerk in its office, but the trend
is upward, and employers naturally view the flu
ture with alarm.
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Times Books

THOSE optimistic folk who still find room to hope
l. that mankind may yet be able to escape blowing
itself up with its own instruments Of should
give thanks for the existence of that gifted English
man, H. M. Tomlinson l know of no other writer
who can speak earnestly and persuasively Of our
dire need to put curb on the great god Mars.
Mr.. Tomlinsons newest book is called Mars His
Idiot" (Harpers; $3.50, and it should be read by
every one who wants to see the race evolve
and decent social order.
His point is simply this: That rapidly
moving toward another war which We dread and
hate but whose inevitability We seem ready to
cept and that that will very probably wreck
our civilization beyond hope of repair
THIS, says Mr.. Tomlinson, is not guesSwork; it IL
Il perfectly obvious. We. the world a whole, are
heading straight for war; the last nearly ruined
all of us, its successor will do most certainly.
This breathing space is probably last chance TO
save ourselves.
And this in turn. he points out, is not merely
matter of disarmament" Our ornaments made
necessary by way of living.
We abolish only by abolishing the things
that cause war-the sovereignty of great powers.
special interests, the monopoly of raw materials.
trade barriers and so on.
1t is marvelously eloquent and moving book
that he has writteni savage ironic and deeply
thoughtful. Do not iss it.-(By Bruce Cattono !,
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Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

THE medical profession is making definite prog
reSs in the study of both influenza and the
common cold two diseases which long have been
mysteries III many ways. Recent researches indicate
that both o. these diseases caused by lterable
vruSeS, that is, by organisms which too small to
be seen in the microscope and which capable of
passing through the pores of the finest filter.
In both cSaeS, medical men hopeful that
the future will see the development Of vaccines
which can be used successfully to combat these
diseases.
SUMMARIZING the recent investigations in the
~ field Of influenza, Dr. Henry T. Chickering
states that these have definitely established the fol-
lowing facts:
l. That influenza is a virus disease.
2. That anti-bodieS. agents that enable the ami
NAL to neutraiZe the virus causing the disease ap-
pear in the blood during convaescence and persist
for time.
8. That the immune serum containing these anti
bodies has the power to prevent experimental in
lection in ferretS and mice
4. That it is possible 10 induce active immunity
IN animals by simultaneous injection of the virus
Among the research men who have made impor-
tant contributions in their field are Smith, Andrews
and Laidlaw, working in London, and DR.. Francis
OF the Rockefeller Institute in New York.
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Duty Comes First

NATURALLY, the daily column comes first but
' under the stress of my situation 1 skimped on
it little and finished the essay in two hours in
stead of the four which is the regular period re-
served for this work
Indeed while 1 am in this confessional mood I
may as well admit that eager to get out
and observe what was going on that broke rule
OF many years standing and failed to reWrite my
composition after completing the first, or what call
rough, draft
Some commas were in the wrong places, and
probably there was very little cadence. This was no
piece of singing prose but just a newspaper column.
Posterity probably will be about it, and the alb
senCe of the usual polish and finish may even lead
to a controversy. Perhaps a century hence some
scholar will appear with the theory that Broun was
a malingerer or a myth and that all the columns
actually written by Bacon.
Worst of all, my sacrifice in vain At 8:45
began calling UP the various people to whom my
pastor has given me letters. Not one of them was
awake and stirring I had to tWiddle my thumbs
until nearly IL before a single New Yorker of my
acquaintance had reached his place of business
And So may I ask, if this is the way New York
wastes its mornings, what earth do New Workers
do with the nights? l mean to investigate that
problem just as soon as I get through with the
Statue of Liberty and the Metropolitan Museum Of
Art.
Copyright. 1880
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oh, This Peace Racket!

MEANWHILE, however, though resisting the rise
IVl in wages as stoutly as they can they are
charging magnificent prices for food and lodging,
which the principal industries of Geneva.
The League of Nations has trapped itself in the
city and not get away, now that its $10000,000
permanent Palace of Peace is almost finished The
League lives easy money furnished by appro-
pratons of the taxes paid by various nations which
belong to the club, and the frugal, honest Swiss
profteering in peace quite enthusiastically
any manufacturer of shoes uniforms shells
ever profteered in
Perhaps the United States Senate will wish. to
investigate the peace racket and the proposition that
if profit taken out of peace there would be
peace.
Very definitely the party is for Americans
in Europe, but those who took part in the days Of
the Scent franc and the infinteSmal mark simply
have no regrets.
Still, it is shock now to realize that the once
mighty dollar is just poker chip, too, and not
blue chip, either.
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THE other Sunday morning a
l. friend and I walked all over
the Detroit Zoo. 1t was pouring
down rain, and we were the ONLY
visitors in the park. We roamed
around In the rain a long time.
and had many nice talks with the
| animals.
We came to the tapir's home,
out ne wasn't out in his front
yard; we couldn't find him any,
Where. My friend said he was
probably tapiring off from Satur-
day night. Later I threw nv
friend over the moat into the
lions den, and didn't have to
bother with him any more.
The ZOO resembles any large city
park. 1t is rolling, and full of
rocks. Macadam walks wind
around through it. The Enclosures
for the animals are just scattered
about, and run from places no
bigger than good-sized room, for
the badgers, up to an acre or more
for the bison.
The back side of each Enclosure
seems to be huge pile of rock,
but If you look closely you'll see a
concealed door leading back into
it, and inside the rock pile is the
animals home. He goes back in
there when he gets tired looking
at people, and also in the winter
time.
In front Of the rock pile is
large open space, with grass and
trees and rocks in it, and here the
animal lies or sits or walks about,
while the people look at him.
Then between you and the ami
NAL is this moat. The inside bank
slopes down gradually from the
Enclosure, but the outside bank
is straight up and down, made of
rock, and usually six or seven feet
deep. The animal, it is figured,
could neither leap, fly, bound,
crawl nor burrow his way across
this moat.
THE Detroit Geological Park
l. covers 125 acres. 1t is way
out in Royal Oak, about IS miles
from downtown. And yet it is
host each summer to some two
million visitors. People who are
too tired to walk can ride around
the park on a little railroad.
John T. Millen, an old-time
animal man and quite a charac-
ter. is director of the ZOO.
There is no doubt that this
new style of ZOO construction
gives the animals a more natural
appearance. And you don't have
that plying feeling that comes
over you when you see an animal
in a cage. The animals them
selves seem very happy about it
all.
But I have friend in Detroit
who won't go near the ZOO. He
was out there once Then he
went home and drew diagrams on
paper and did lot of figuring.
He comedies that probably the
zoo builders knew what they were
doing. but-he thinks that if some
fine summer day a bee should
come along and sting a lion on
the proper end, it would give Mr..
Lion just enough inspiration to
send him across the moat, with
about six inches to spare. So this
friend of mine won't go near the
zoo in the summertime. e
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Setting the Clock Ahead

or course, If any part of the control Of this town
~ were placed within my hands I would change
certain Of the native customs. Up in the country
I have completed a days work about the time that
people here are lolling down to breakfast.
For instance, Just the other morning I arrived
In the Pennsylvania Depot at 645 o'clock This tardy
arrival kept idling the train for hour
so before reached destination, but had an
opportunity to see from the window some of the
delightful suburbs such as Newark and Manhattan
Transfer.
Moreover, I felt that by working little more
rapidly than usual l could attend to my chores as
usual and still be free at noon for sightseeing
There are buses near by which take one to
Chinatown, and the night clerk at the hotel thinks
he can procure me ticket which will enable me to
visit the Statue of Liberty and another for the Metro
politan Museum of Art.
After six months in Stamford I am just shade
hono5ck in the big town. and I would like to see
the TlumnieS.
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on NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. or New
Years. days like that.
Il never thought" she saws,
that some day they'd be tele-
phoning about me and my chill
dren."
The little Nagles are shy chill
dren, siding toward the door
when company arrives. They are:
Mary, II; Peggy, 10; Teresa, 8;
Freddie. 7; Eileen, 6; Billie, 4;
Jacky, 8; Frances, 2; Lawrence, l,
and Elizabeth, 2 months.
EILEEN, the family beauty, has
~ blue eyes like her mothers.
long, black lashes, and wild rose
complexion.
The close-cropped heads of her
brothers give them Prussian
look, but they're Irish, just the
same.
Jacky, his mother hopes, is to
become a priest. She thinks he
shows "priestly traits" already.
How? Well, for one thing, he's
always boxing with his father.
And you know most of the priests
are athletic"
Mary is learning French. May
be some day she'll be an interpre-
ter. Teresa is to become nun.
And that Margaret! Last Christ
mas she got roller skates, and her
mother can hardly keep her off
them.
I'm sure" says Mrs. Maggie,
that Margaret will do something
athletic when she grows up. May
be she'll teach physical training"
II ATHLEEN NAGIE thinks all
IN her children will find places"
She says, They're good children.
l keep them home and I know
their friends are all right. They
don't run the streets"
One treasure Kathleen Nagle
has chung to through the rising
and falling of the family for
tunes. 1t is a christening robe,
made of Irish linen by her great
great-grandmother. All the child
rem have worn it.
The little dress, trimmed with
embroidery and ribbons, was
stitched on one of the earliest
model sewing machines.
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BY ERNIE PYLE

nETROIT, Nov. 18.-If you've
~ ever had a secret desire to
stand right up to a big lion and
look him in the eye, you can do
it here in Detroit.
The lion isn't in any cage or
cell either, and there are no bars
between you and him, nothing but
thin air-or SO it seems at first,
anyway.
The trick, you see, is that al
though the animals run around
loose in rocky tracts of ground,
without even fence around them,
there is deep moat along the
edge that they can't get across.
If you stand back a few feet
you can't even see the moat, and
it gives the illusion that in just
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y es, Mrs. Nagle re-
peated, II like big fami-
lies"
She practices what she
breaches, too. At SO, Mrs.
Nagle-the only Irish rep
resentative, to date, in Tor
onto's 100000 Baby Der
by-is the mother of II
children.
She has been married IL years.
Kathleen O'Connor she was when
she met John Nagle.
Daughter of one of the O'Connor
boys who married a Moriarity. Old
John Moriarity, her grandfather,
living in Toronto still, was we'll
known here years back as a boxer.
II ATHLEEN was 10, visiting her
IN parents near Orilla, Ont,
when she met John. He lived
nearby, at Perch. Kathleen was
on a holiday from her job in
Toronto and went back soon.
One day, two years later, she
met John on the street. He asked
about the folks back home and
would she like to see movie
some time?
Six months later they were mar
ried.
There are five boys and five
girls now in the Maggie household.
One baby, a twin, died at birth.
Nine of the 10 have been born
since Oct. 81, 1926, and are eligible
to be counted in the Baby Derby.
With no hesitation, their mother
confideS that she expects to do
more scoring before the end of
the race.
CHE'S a new contender for the
- $500,000 prize. More than a
year ago she heard about the
contest, SO she sat down and
wrote letter to newspaper,
asking if she were eligible.
No answer came. In the curious
way such things sometimes hap
pen, the letter failed to reach it's
destination.
Kathleen wondered about it.
She decided that what she had
heard about rich man giving
all his money to some mother
just because she had a lot of
children was as ridiculous as it
sounded.
Last August, from the dusty file
where it had dropped, Kathleen
Nagels letter reached the proper
desk.
Out to the Nagle home hustled
reporters and photographers. Mrs.
Maggie was interviewed, asked to
pose for pictures. She was told
that, of course, she might enter
the Baby Derby.
MRS. NAGLE'S score is tied
1VA with that of Mrs. Manuella
Darrigo and Mrs. Grace Bagnato.
Only Mrs. Lily Kenny Gf her
claims can be substantiated by the
records) is ahead.
Kathleen used to be a cook at
Rosary Hall, home for girls in
Toronto. Before that she worked
on the switchboard at st. Michaels
Hospital. Often she used to take
calls there from newspapers, ask
ing if any babies had been born
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Kathleen Maggie wore it herself
once. She's going to give it to
the one of her children who mar
ries first.
She wants them to marry-all
of them.
IF the girls find husbands as
good as their daddy" says Kath-
leen Nagle, that's all I'll ask"
II Il =
CHOULD she win the 100000
~ there are three things Mrs.
Nagle wants:
l. A home of her own.
2. A blue dress.
3. A trip to California-not to
see Hollywood, but "the place
where they had the earthquake"
She wouldn't travel, though, un-
less she could take the whole fam
lily. The worst thing about having
baby kathleen Nagle speaking)
is going to a hospital and leaving
the family. She worries about how
they're getting along.
The Nagles are on relief. John
hasn't worked in four years, ex-
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Do You Want to Face Big, Bad Lion
and Talk Back to Him? Here's Chance

about two seconds you're going
to be eaten up at one gulp.
There are now three ZOOS in
this country built that way. The
first was at st. Louis, the second
was Detroit's, opened in 1928, and
the third is the new Brookfeld
Zoo in Chicago.
The Hagenbecks, famous animal
men of Germany, were a lot of
help in building Detroit's Zoo
logical Park. They knew, from
vast experience IN handling ami
mails, just how far a lion could
jump, and consequently how wide
the moat should be built. They
sent over couple of sculptors
and designers to help lay out the
enclosures and animal houses.
Schroeder, the head animal man,
is from Hagenbeck'S.
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BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN
(Copyright, 1885. NEA Service. IN

TORONTO, OntY Nov. 18.-Mrs Kathleen Nagle
shifted her 2-monh-old daughter to the other arm.
YES" she said, Il believe in big families. Not
three or four chdren-not five six. mean BIG
families I'd like to be the mother of the biggest family
in Canada"
Mrs Nagle was smiling sitting by the kitchen stove
of her four-room home, minsterng to Baby Elizabeth.
She blue sweater her cotton dress for the
day was cold. The baby wrapped in a blanket
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EWZnough
BY
WESIbR0Ok PEGLER

DARCELONA, Nov. 18.-For graphic demonstra-
II ton of the fact that money is merely system
of barter like poker chips. and not worthy of the
respect and fear which it engenderS. would suggest
a small collection of American and European coins
at their present valuation.
Spaniards have big strong super-con Of honest
appearance, slightly larger than American iron
dollar. 1t represents five peSetaS. and although it
obviously is a better coin than the hard American
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dollar. 1t IS worth only 10 cents.
The French franc is now valued
at about cents in American
money and is made of brass.
The French 5-franc piece is about
the size of silver dollar, but it
is made of aluminium. or some
other light, slippery metal. AL
though it represents about 50
cents in American money it can
be turned out in quantity at the
foundry at the rate of cent
each.
OF itself, the 5-franc coin
would seem to be worth less The
French have abandoned the fra
III xx.1,a @l,
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touring Americans used to light cigars to the dismay
and disgust of the French people in the of Won
derfu nonsense and have substituted the silver
piece. This 1O-franc piece is slightly smaller than
the American halfdollar, but it is worth 60 cents.
or just about the the Spanish 5-peseta.
which is almost twice big. So. side of
imaginary line between France and Spain a given
amount of silver in coin is worth twice as much
on the other side.
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Literary Notes

S. S. Van Dine otherwise known as Willard
Huntington Wright whose new Philo Vance
mystery. The Garden Murder Case" has back
ground OF horse-racng, has been an ardent turf
enthusiast all his life. He knows horses and rae
ing from personal experience, and the simplest way
OF finding him during the racing season is to have
MN PACED at the nearest track. He has his
own betting system and boasts that il hasn't mt
him in the poorhouse yet
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Yet Kathleen Nagle says they're
all happy. Maybe she'll win the
100000 and maybe she won't. If
she doesn't, something else will
come along.
I'm sure of it, she says.
Things will take turn"
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cept for odd jobs. There are no
rugs on the floor of the Maggie
home, no curtains at the windows,
very little furniture-some beds
(rather rickety), chairs, a table in
the kitchen, and the much-worn
baby carriage.
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Haywood BROUN

NEW YORK, Nov 18-Reay this is rather
L nice city they have here. I am seriously con-
elderlng settling down and finding out what metro
poitan life is like. OF course the regulars of this
big town take in their stride many things which
to me are amazing and exciting. Eyes which have
been accustomed to maple trees and fields of waving
corn naturally open a little wider at the sight of
the tangled traffic that thoroughfare which
believe Is called Fifth-av. That would be Man-st
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BY ROBERT S. BROWN

BY ROBERT S. BROWN
XNASHINGTON, Nov 49,
w A boondoggle is a gadget.
A gadget is a thingumbob.
A thingumbob is rigamagig.
A rigamagig is a useful some
thing" which men or boys do
around the house or in their COM
munity for a utility purpose.
Today 'boondoggling" is widely
applied to the entire program of
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WtNII 10 III DtdIIIIOIU, NUIIH.
Naturally, it Will take me little
time to pct used to the hustle and
the hustle. Only this morning 1
went all the way from w. 44th-st
to E. 46th-st in three quarters Of
an hour fat Where I come from
it would have been necessary to
walk the distance. But, then, Of
course, we make no pretense of
living up to the pace which is
maintained here.
OF course, / IKE the chic sky
scrapers and the towering women.
They are at their very best along
about dusk in heavy fog. And
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THE BABY DERBY-A YEAR TO GO!
Fate Almost Cheated Mrs. John Nage of Chance to Win Prize


o Of The o
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everybody Is 50 friendly here. Even
the consabulary and the justices Of the peace seen
more mellow than those I have encountered il
New England.
The Washington times., 1935-10-29
New Aviation Stunt

CONNEAUT, Ohio. G.N.S0.
With his fuel nearly exhausted
a pilot landed his plane on the
highway near here recently, and
TAXED up to a gasoline station.
He refueled, took off on the
roadway and continued his jour
ney before his name could be
learned.