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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05

II has its own press. its own
magazines. and strangest OF all
treasury whose ineXhauStlble supply
or funds can have come from but
one place ~ Moscow. the future
capital or America in the Com
munIst dream.
Past masters OF the art Of capital
ling human misery, poverty and
discomfort. experts at the trade OF
seizIng the mind of youth in its
most imaginative age and distOrting
its normal progress, the leaders of
this growing machine Of destruction
have organized branches among our
American workers: they are estab-
fishing SO-called youth movements
.n our colleges and high schools;
even into the sacred portals OF some
Of orr places Of worship. their
Goddess. destructive trail lies plainly
marked. They have organized IN
everv circle OF American life. but
thank God We. too. are organized to
combat them"
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Your Health
BY DIR. MORRIS. FIsHBEIN

nNE system" of diet that has been widely adver-
" tlsed is named for DR. Hay who was gradu-
ated in 1891 from New York college. He has been
associated at various times with sanatorums in
which most of the emphasis is placed on diet.
Finally, he wrote book called Health Via
Food, which is mostly miSinformation concerning
what food will actually do in the human body In
this book the author talks great deal about acidosis
and deficient drainage
This system really consists of a few simple pieces
Of advice about diet. One is that you eat sparingly
and only when you are hungry; two that you eat
foods that are nourishing; and three, that you
avoid eating at the same time two foods which can
not easily be digested together.
Every one will agree that it is inadvisable to
overe&t, and every one will also agree that it is
well to eat foods that nourshing.
That part of the system which says that proteins
and carbohydrates and starcheS can not be success
fully dgested when taken at the same time and that
eating them together results in acdosiS and all sorts
OF resulting disease is as have already explained
in this series of articles absolutely without any
scientific foundation.
ITO prove that there was no foundation for these
4 ideas, DR.. Martin A Rehfuss of Philadelphia
tested the diets on 200 normal men. He also tried
them on great many sick people.
Some were fed mashed potatoes and chopped beef
together, as foods which represented concentrated
starches and protens
Dr. Rehfuss discovered that it took only three
minutes longer for the sick people to digest the beef
and potatoes together, than it did to digest the beef
itself
This system of diets also leans strongly on mix
lures of salads of vegetables prepared according to
fancy formulas, such Fountain of Youth Salad y
Pale Moon Cocktail" Easter Bunny Salad " "Star-
tied Chicken" and Parcel Post Asparagus" There
are all sorts of directions for torturng carrots into
funny shapes
These diets, of course. are relatively harmless.
except that it is nuisance to eat them The worst
dlficuity is that the person who is sick will try to
cure himself by using only these diets without find
ing out what is really wrong
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Times Books

TT is the fashion nowadays to deride Rudyard Kip
ling as the spokesman for blind nationasm and
stupid imperialism; and certainly no one who re-
flee on the horror which those two forces have
loosed on the world of late can swallow some of
Kiplng's preachments with the easy compacency
OF days gone by
But when ali is said and done, the fact remains
that this same kipling is of the most prefer
naturally gifted story tellers that ever drew a
breath and this the seventyfth year of his life is
made the occasion for bringing out new compila-
ton of some of his greatest tales
HIS book is called "a Kipling Pageant" Double
Il day. Doran; (S3). 1t contains some of the finest
stuff; excerpts from the Jungle Books and Just
So Stories tales about Mulvaney Ortheris and
Learoyd; THE Brushwood Boy and THE Man VINO
Was" Drums of the Fore and Aft" and The Light
That Failed, together with good selection of his
verse.
And whatever you may think of Mr. Kipng's
insular faith that England rules by divine right YOU
must admit as you read these Stories that he can
give modern short story writer's cards and spades and
beat them to fragile.
short story, to Mr.. Kipling, was not slice of
lfe sketch, study in despair or a bit of charac-
ter analysis it was what its name implies a short
story, and he saw to it that it held your interest
all the way
Well worth owning, this book (By Bruce Catton0
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Today Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

II has long been tradition of Great Britain that
L the eminent scientist should spend some of his
time making himself ineligible to the general
public Perhaps it started with the great Faraday
who instituted the annual lectures for children at
the Royal Institution.
Faraday, and others after him. at Christmas sea-
son, gave course of lectures for children In re-
cent years similar lectures have been given by Sir
William Bragg, Sir James Jeans, Prof. A. " Hill
and others.
A MOTHER part of the tradition has been the
writing of books for the general public The
names of past and present scientists come to mind
HUXLEY. Tyndall. Kelvin, Lodge Eddington Jeans
and Bragg
1t is not surprising therefore, to find an astron-
omy for laymen from the pen of the astronomer
royal of Great Britain The book, just published,
is Worlds Without End"
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more than fill with remorse any
honest physician who ever gives
serious thought to a procedure so
contrary to his every normal
precept.
Incurables who are sick in body,
particularly if there is added dis
comfort, or actual pain, are sick
in spirit as well, and the wish for
death is often not real, but only
the expression of a transient in
tolerance of discomfort or of
spell of depression.
Medical science has made great
strides in recent years in the
easing of pain and the ameliora-
ton of discomfort.
In the presence of death the
doctor is face to face with the
great mystery which all this art
and all his skill can not fathom.
He knows much about the exter-
nal signs of life, of disease and of
death, but no one knows it's inter-
nal meaning. He can cure many,
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PU Still Take America

DUT granting all these great improvements Italy
- still is no better off in these matters than the
United States with its noble institutions graft and
lncompetency. 1t can not be claimed that Italy has
as much education We. Americas democratic
highways good MussolinS dctatoria roads,
and there are more of them American public build
ingS are bigger, more numerous and equipped with
deserving party members just regular in their way
as Fascist are in theirs And the American public
debt, like American education, is bigger in gross
figures, though possibly not large per capita.
MusSolini has rallied Italians together with GER
tain exceptions, and made them ambitious for their
country Americans, on the other hand, agree among
themselves that their country is in terrible shape At
worst she is better off than Italy at the best.
There is one phase in which the American situa-
ton is distinctly preferable Although the Demo-
cratic Party holds office, Republicans still have cer-
tain legal economic rights and may not be put away
on an island merely for speaking out of turn 1t is
not treason to the state to call Mr.. Roosevelt
spendthrift or even crackpot and certain Repub-
licanS have avaed themselves of that right fire.
quenty in the last few years
No member of the opposition party would
consider such desperate folly in Italy But then
there is no opposition party.
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so did outside capital, to bore open
the mountains that were full of
coal. With industry, of course,
came better schools, roads, and all
that goes with little more
wealth,
Coal mining is the principal
thing down here. They figure
there's enough coal here to hold
out through 100 years of steady
mining. Four large coal COM
panies own more than two-thirds
of the land in Wise County.
There are about 20 towns and
settlements in the county, rang
ing from 5000 down to 100. Such
famous men as John Fox Jr. and
c. Bascom Slemp came from Wise
County. The coolest ever recorded
here was 26 below zero. That was
a mere frost compared with night
before last, when 1 had to go to
bed with my overcoat on.
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All, Those Flashing Eyes

TN the days before Mussolini he without pride
l. OF race or interest in current events Now he
walks erect with fire in his eye valor and patriotism
in his heart and confused tumble of hatredS in his
brain. There are so hatreds in all, beginning with
England and continuing down the list of nations
which voted sanctions against Italy.
True he reads the papers now instead of snoozing
in the folds of his cape. But they Italian papers
which are censored and deliberately calculated to
impose on his new intelligence, to increase in his
mind the Importance of certain issues and events.
1t would be foolish to deny that it is a great
spiritual pleasure to hate the English Americans
have done this and found it good fun, from time to
time, ever since Bunker Hill. Germans few years
ago could hate the English from a standing start
with fury which makes the present Italian wrath
seem quite mild distaste although the Italians are
picking up speed and style in their hatred.
Those ardent party members whom it has been
my privilege to observe belong to the very COM
Portable class who doubtless pay the taxes they are
unable to avoid as the American tax slaves
They have jobs and money to spend and it is much
more prudent and profitable to belong to the party
than to be excluded from it.
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Literary Notes

LIE begins with the most difficult problem of all
l. the creation of the universe. He tells us that
we have choice between the concertina universe"
and the explosive creation universe"
Other problems discussed by Mr. Haslett include
the problem of life other worlds the origin of the
continents, the mysteries of the weather cosmc rays
the origin Of man, the famous old question Of is
man machine?" the nature of the atom and the
riddle of sex"
Reading Mr.. Haslett's book I am reminded of a
sentence from Bertrand Russell: I'VE know very lit
tie, and yet it is astounding that we know so much,
and still more astounding that little knowledge can
give us much power"
We recommend Mr.. Haslett's book to you as
suitable Christmas gift for a scientifically inclined
friend. Macmillan publishes it at 81.
In the next issue Of the American Magazine
William Seabrook, author of Asylum" will tell
some of the provocative experiences that have re-
suited from the publication of his best-seller.
The American Criterion, newcome- in the
magazine field, is seeking contributions written in
liberal vein either literary political topics
The December issue. its second has just appeared
the newsstands II contains letter, Please Mr..
Ernest Hemingway: article by Silas Brent called
rs the Supreme Court Unconstitutional; piece
called Walter Lippmann, Our Humpty Dumpty" by
Herbert r. Mead; two short stories. poems book and
play reviews and essay columnists by Arthur
Gordon The magazine is edited by Lester L. Doniger
and is published at 14S W. 23d-st. New York.
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Problems in Contract Bridue

klng-Jack of spades over North's
heart and spade bid. 1t looks as
if it is almost certain that East
will get heart or spade trick.
But just go back over the bid
ding,
South opened the contracting
with two clubs, which is a guaran-
tee that he is going to take II
tricks in his own hand. Now
can't you see the foolishness of
doubling seven? All North has to-
have is two aces and that adds up
to Is tricks.
Again, let me repeat. to. de-
feat any seven contract is bound to
give you very fine score. You
need not double
The double, in mary cases. is
the very thing that allows de-
clarer to make the hand, as it To-
Gates the missing high cards.
Copyright 1885. NEA Service. Inc)
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BY ERNIE PYLE

XXTISE, Va, Dec. 1.-THE peo-
w pie of Wise County, which
is Edith MaXwell's county, seem
so proud of their community and
what they have been able to
make out of it, that I went and
looked them up.
They have been rassling with
nature down here since before the
Revolution, and it has been a
pretty rough rassle, and I think
the people have done pretty we'll.
White man first looked upon
Wise County in 1851. Of course
it wasn't Wise County then. A
fellow named Christopher Gist
was leading an exploration party
sent out by the Ohio Company of
Virginia.
1t took Gist Is days to cross
what is now Wise County. The
first night here, he killed bear
and a buffalo. Gist wrote in his
diary that the rocks, mountains
and laurel thickets made it tough
going, and that it was the worst
travelling he ever saw.
Nobody bothered with Wise
County for 20 years after that,
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came back next year, and the
Bollings have been here ever since.
They have multiplied and multi
piled. They say there are 1900
Of them in the county now. Part
OF them are still the very top of
society here. And part of them
are the very bottom, too. The
county police records are splat-
tered with Bollings.
The early settlers were most
all English, Scotch and Irish.
Again and again the people here
will say to you, We've got the
clearest strain of Anglo-Saxon
blood in this country
And I guess it's true. You see
some mighty fine looking speci-
mems around here. There was
some degeneration from intermar-
riage in the early days, because
there wasn't any way to get any
where to meet any new girls. But
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asked, nor suggest any such
counsel"
4
THUS has every physician
Il sworn not to take life. Based
on the knowledge of and expert
ence with the science and art of
medicine, it is their opinion, by
and large, that this oath is even
at the present time both just and
wise.
The greater the experience a
doctor acquires the more he comes
to realize how much more there
still is to learn and withal how
much more there still is to know.
In a patient he sees a disease
with which he has had experience
in many ether patients, and vet
he finds a new personality, new
reaction, a new response different
from all others, which requires
that his art be flexible to meet
unpredictable situations, and in
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there isn't much of that any more.
Less than 10 per cent of the coun-
TVS population is colored. I
haven't seen a Negro since I came
here.
Life in Wise County in 1856 was
plenty tough. All people could
do was hunt, trap and do little
scratchy farming Of corn, sor-
ghum and beans. Even to this
day only a fifth of the county is
tillable. The rest is rock, hillside
and forest.
=
THERE weren't any roads
IL then; just few ungraded
cart trails. They used ox-carts.
Nearly everything was made at
home. There were only 1000 peo-
pie here when the county was
formed. Today there are 10000.
Things began to change in 1890.
Two railroads came in then, and
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Wise County Filled With Bongs Coal Mines and Tradhons
and Ernie Hints That Gets So Cold That Even Byrd Couldn't lake II

when a man named Hamilton
came in. Nobody knows whether
Hamilton killed bears, or bears
killed him. That's the last we
hear of Mr.. Hamilton
But we do know what happened
to Mr.. Prince, the next man who
arrived, in 1778. He ate too many
chestnuts. He had 500 acres CT
chestnut trees, and he loved chest
nuts, SO he partook of so many
so fast that he lay down and died,
in considerable pain.
Not long after that came the
Bollings. They say this family is
the same one that produced the
wife of President Wilson.
II
DENJAMIN BOILING came
- here from North Carolina,
made a clearing and built cabin.
One morning when Mrs. Boiling
went to the spring for a bucket of
water, a panther leaped out of
tree and started eating her. Mr..
Boiling killed the panther, traded
his claim for a rifle and two
hound dogs, and went back to
Carolina.
But he changed his mind and
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The Rebels and the Fighters

ON powdery blue afternoon Lee, from the emf
~ nence OF his pedestal on Monument-av, might
nave seen the distant hills at the far rim of the
horizon Lee gazes south because they say his heart
was always with the homeland. And at the other
END OF the street Stonewall Jackson in impacable
bronze, looks north but if you ask an explanation
they Will tell you that it is because he never turned
his back upon the damn Yankee armies
And so / wondered what the shades would do if
Robert L. Morgan, the armhole presser blew upon
silver bugle and summoned back to life the rebels
and the lighters from two ancient conflicts. Mar
snail, OF course, may be wiser now, but I am afraid
ne would handle living case in the terms of stuffy
legalisms But would have hopes in Patrick Henry
and even in Lee and Jackson.
Naturally, it might be we'll to give them some
part OF the background before asking their assist
ance In specific case l think it might be possible
to convince Patrick Henry that the National Asso-
cation OF Manufacturers has taken over rather ex-
tenSlVely the function of his foe, the late King
George L would cite for the dead patriot the fact
That these lnduStriaSts in convention assembled
nailed visiting speaker diScourteouS because he
dared to plead for the right of workers to organize
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The Proper Approach

a ND l think that Patrick Henry and all the other
4 dead revolutionists of Virginia might be inter-
ested in hearing about the speech delivered at the
same convention in New York by S. Wells Utley.
president OF the Detroit Steel Castings Co. HE sug-
gested, read, with particular emphasis that en-
p1oyers assume political leadership of their en-
ployeS. Properly approached, he said, 90 per cent
OF workers would follow their employers to the end
of time
This, l believe Mr.. Utley identified as "the Ameri-
can system" And so 1 wonder how Patrick Henry
would construe the phrase properly approached ]"
and whether he would favor system of democracy
under which the worker to live and vote and
eat and die only by the permission of the employer
Was this in the mind of the GRIM orator when
ne made his public choice of liberty death as
preferable TO despotism?
Perhaps it is quite fitting that Richmond should
again be the cradle of the fight to organize and as
Morgan, the armhole presser, gallops into battle
maybe he will hear beside him the clank of ghostly
cavalry in the blue gray twilight as the Morgans of
Virginia rise up from their graves to ride once more
INTO the thick of the fight for human rights and
freedom.
Copyright 1885,
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EIZnouNh
WESTBRO0K PEGLER

y ONE, Dec. ll.-With due allowance for all the
~paved highways public buildings and railway
stations which MusSolini has built and for his feat
OF teaching ignoramuses to read and the whole
Italian nation to hate EngliShmen there are still
some phases of life in Italy which might deter even
the most pteous American slave from renouncing
his citizenship and filing an application in Rome
The beautiful highways are closed to all but
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the end he sees what he has not
experienced before.
The instances are few in which
the physician can say definitely,
positively, when death with no
easing of pain will be certain. AL
most every doctor has seen what
he might consider as miracles
happen before his eyes.
Patients in prolonged and sup
poSedly hopeless suffering, kept
under the influence of drugs, or
who may pray to be killed for re-
lief, suddenly and for unknown
reasons are in comfort and enjoy
a relatively long respite before
death.
nTHERS supposedly doomed to
~ die, and who may beg for
similar relief, have been known to
recover and live for years.
The recollection of but one sim
gle experience of this kind will
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oIlclal motor traffic, because the
leader who built them also built
up a war which is consuming all
available fuel. Public buildings are
full of officeholders. including the
same proportion of deserving party
members that are to be found in
New Deal offices in Washington.
The Italian tax slave is paying
bills even as his brother in bond
age on the other side of the water.
And though education is in
deed wonderful thing in the
case of the humble shepherd on
the hillside, who now reads news
papers instead of browsing the
hours away, this huddled figure,
as ignorant as his own sheep, is
closer rOnci6erat inr1
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economic warfare because it is so
hlled with the ghosts of other days and other
battles When Weinberg declared to high heaven
that he would fight for employers rights up to the
very threshold Of the Supreme Court the long shad-
oWs OF John MarshaipS house were already inchng
down the street toward the Courthouse lawn And
the church where Patrick Henry made his rhetorical
choice and defed The crown is just around the cor
ner. And think that it was in that same church
mat Jefferson Davis was praying when the messen-
gers came to say that Grant had reached the de-
lenses Of the city.
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ISOLATION to Precious
Contract Problem
RY w F. M'KFNNFY
ID W. L' NA AALAtHNGA
Secretary American Bridge League

Secretary American Bridge League
HOW often have you heard a
Il l. person at the table say, We'll,
that is a free double"
There are no free doubles in
contract. Just because a man
has bid seven-odd is no reason
why you should double. This
point is well brought out in to-
days hand, which is the second
in series of grand slam hands
sent to me by Earl Bryan of
Cleveland.
1t is true that East holds the
king-queen of hearts ana the
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WOuIu HghL up 70 the Supreme
Court all efforts to cause unrest
among their workers. Robert l..
Morgan, an armhole presser in
the plant, testified that the fore
man had asked nim to sign a
paper saying that all the en-
ployes were contented with their
Jobs and did not want to be an
noyed by union organizers. He
said he refused to sign because
he wasn't contented and then he
got fired.
l say that Richmond seemed
a curious city in which to light
upon skirmish line of the new