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Your Health
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

THE many peculiar ideas about diet do not stop
Il with these notions alone. They 60 on in many
to what termed courses on dieting actual
training regimenS that being advertised widely
and sold to people who are still unaware of what
diet can actually do in the body.
Most of these courses consist of anywhere from
IL to "a lessons which mailed to the purchaser
with the understanding that he is getting some real
secrets about what diet can do for him.
The courses contain great deal of ma teral about
administration. This is miSnomer if ever there
was one, because scientific doctors longer even use
the word.
They also say great deal about the fact that
the body becomes congested with great deal of un-
dgested and decaying food material and that this
exceedingly poisonous This statement also is untrue.
One of these writers goes so far as to say that
grapefruit and tomatoes will dissolve tumors gall
stones and blood clots when, of course, everybody
who gives the matter a moments thought knows
that neither grapefruit nor tomatoes singy or to-
gether will do any such thing.
TNHERE is a health school out West which pro-
IL notes the idea that there is no such thing as
infectious disease and that all disease comes from
wrong eating.
The promoters of this school say that toXemia is
the most dangerous disease, that it is established by
wrong life, impairs digestion and results in all of
the infectious diseases.
People who believe these notions will believe any,
thing that is told to them.
1t is significant that all of the promoters of health
schools related to the diet have something to sell
in the way of special foods special apparatus special
SyrlngeS other materials which are guaranteed to
wash out the nteStineS stop the autotoXema and in
that way prevent disease.
If people only had little better knowledge of
the way in which foods digeSted and absorbed
by the BODY, they would not SO readily fall victim
TO the claims OF these dietary system promoters
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Most good players figure that.
when their opponents arrive at a
seven bid and they can defeat the
contract, they will get a very good
score, because it is certainly un-
wise to surrender a small slam
contract for a doubled grand slam
contract.
Earl Bryan of Cleveland, re-
Gently selected three grand slam
hands from various duplicate
games there. Today's hand is the
first of the series.
A word about the bidding.
North's Jump bid of two spades
over one diamond is a slam de-
mand bid, provided the original
bidder had sound opening bid.
AS soon as South goes to three
diamonds, it means that the hand
is going to be played for at least
six odd.
Now. of course, North is inter-
ested in getting to a grand slam.
Naturally North, with his long
string of spades. thinks the hand
should be played at seven spades.
East has right to figure that
he can defeat seven spades, but he
should not double, for fear that
the opponents will go to seven no
trump, against which he has alb
Solutely no defense.
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Starting an Ugly Scandal

COING to the far end of the suite in one bound
~ began to type column-in fact, this very
one. heard the tinkle of the phone and before I
could interfere Connie saying, 81 told you only
10 minutes ago he isn't in"
1t was the wee lass again. and in the excitement
of composition 1 had forgotten to note her as an
exception along with Mr.. Hughes. I sgnaled fran
tically for recount, but Connie was committed
mo, can't tell you when he'll be back He isn't in
Washington any more; he's gone to Richmond No.
I'm not related to him"
What all that?" I inquired.
she wanted to know was 1 your wife, and
didn't want to give her the satisfaction"
It's no satisfaction" I objected mildly; cts a
pleasure. But do you see what you've done? You've
created a public scandal. After ALL that girl is
budding journalist. Is it fair to me? Is it fair to
the Hotel Willard? We must flee at once and to
Richmond in order to make you honest telephone
conversatonalst. But what made you pick Rich
monde"
I've got cousin there"
How is your uncle in Sacramento?"
Hes dead"
How very fortunate" answered. And so this
column is being written train heading toward
historic Richmond.
Copyright 1885,
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British Officers Get Their Share

A ND in addition to all these opportunities the
n British offer their distinguished orders by spe-
cla decree of His Majesty the King, proportion Of
which inevitably falls to any officer who arrives at
the rank of colonel. They have their Order of the
Garter, their Victorian Order their Indian orders
and their orders of the British Empire.
= In conversation with Capt. Davey, assistant
attache of the British embassy in Rome, dscov-
cred he had served at military academy in Canada
and had visited West Point with their hockey team
He therefore knew Maj. Phil Fleming of the Amer
lean Corps Engineers, now in charge of the Passa-
maquoddy job in Maine. Capt. Davey said that, even
in brief acquaintance with Maj. Fleming he had to
realize that he an uncommonly fine Army
officer Yet Maj Fleming had initials behind
his name and he wears only few ribbons
If ribbons denote the ability and ferocity to per-
form patriotic services American Army and Navy
officers must be an inferior corps compared with
their colleagues in Europe A second lieutenant in
European army likely will wear more colors on his
chest than 20 coones-not necessarily grzzled-
of American forces. And certainly European major
with regaa behind his name and no more rib
bons than Maj. Fleming would consider himself
tragic failure and go out and shoot himself
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Nations. This he still is doing,
although Premier Laval is making
frequent efforts to effect settle
ment.
Meanwhile, the British fleet is
still concentrated in the Mediter-
ranean and Italy blames Great
Britain for the Leagues action
in voting sanctions against the
Fascist state.
Thus, war hazard exists con-
stantly in that situation, just as
it did in 1898 in Cuba when the
battleship Maine was anchored in
Havana harbor.
I was in Rome when Premier
Mussolini announced from his
balcony on the Palazzo Venezia
that the Ethiopian advance was
about t. start despite the oppo-
sition of the League. Therefore,
I have keen appreciation of the
fervor and impetuosity of the
Italians. If the Italian crisis
passes Europe can go ahead ar
ranging alliances for the next
war" without this present danger
of a premature explosion.
THREE big European nations
l. today are ION the march
Russia, Germany and Italy. In
those countries an atmosphere of
going places" prevails. Those
three countries have lusty post
war governments run by energetic,
comparatively young men. Their
nationalistic sensibilitieS are of
the sharpest and their people, at
least those who dominate the
scene, are aggressively patriotic.
To put it in plain American, it
wouldn't take much showing to
start something" but the situa-
ton is still far, from being five
minutes to twelve"
While Italy at the moment oc-
cupies the spotlight, Germany is
the country which Europe chiefly
is watching. AS every one knows,
lllC 1Cl lA1o4lo al IiOW CAlSdSCQ III
reconStructing their army, and
military observers believe that in
two years Germany will have the
most formidable fighting force in
Europe, with the possible excep-
ton of Russia. Much emphasis is
being placed on aviation. Vast
new airdromes are appearing
throughout Germany. New classes
are being called into military
training.
In Moscow, found the Russians
to be acutely Mai conscious"
The Soviet army maneuvers were
held in the Ukraine around Kiev
Sept. 9 to IL. Some strategists
think the Ukraine would be the
objective in event of Russo-Ger-
man war.
n
T WITNESSED a review of the
i Russian troops in Moscow on
Nov. 7 when infantry, artillery,
cavalry and tanks passed before
Josef Stain. One of the most
vivid sights / saw was huge
tanks roaring into Red Square az
high speed, one at a time cata-
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Perhaps They're Only DrOss

TN breaking down row of ribbons into its COM
ponent parts it might be discovered that some
of them only nominal dross The pretty yell
low with purple stripes might have been awarded
to dashing officer merely because he didn't forget
to wash his neck and polish his buttons for
tire semester when he was cadet in a military
academy a quarter of a century ago. The red one
with diagonal white bars could be nothing i'm
portant than souvenir badge given by king to
those who marched in his coronation parade. An
other might mean that our hero, with great devo-
ton and skill, successfully carried out raid by
WELL armed fighting squad and seized village police
station up in the mountains 20 years back
War for liberty and justice! All wars are wars
for liberty and justice. decoration may drop out
of the mail to remind officer that grateful
sultan of sandy patch somewhere east of Suez
enjoyed his visit to his palace the time he passed
through on a vacation cruise. They add up in time.
On a continent whose troops, away off in far
places, always burning down cluster grass huts
somewhere and chasing natives up trees-with pos
sbly the support of gunboats lying in the river
medals constantly being devised
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Mountainous WISE Va Where Edith Maxwell Sits in JAIL
Are Like Poor People in Any Small Town. Ernie Finds

TINE roadside all along is we'll
L populated. You meet truck
after truck hauling tobacco to
market. You see tobacco hang
ing in barns. You see nice farm
houses-not as nice as in Iowa,
but nice.
AS you get closer to Wise,
things get poorer. One and two
room cabins and shacks are fire.
quent. There is no level place,
and they are perched on hillsides,
and down in valleys.
You see looking, cold
looking men on the road. You see
women in red calico chopping
wood.
saw COW caught on top of a
board fence. She couldn't get
over, and she couldn't get back.
I stopped and told the mountain
eer chopping wood in his yard.
He said "Sir?" I told him again.
He smiled and nodded, and said
"Oh yes, thank you, and started
back to release her.
picked up mountain boy, still
of school age but not in school.
He was bumped over, walking
without hat or overcoat in the
blizzard. He looked poor and ig-
norant. He talked like anybody
else. When he got out he said,
I'm certainly thankful to YOU"
XXTISE is town of about HOO.
w 1t looks even smaller than
that. You can stand in the
center, and see open country only
two blocks away in any direction.
There are just two blocks of
stores, forming the main street.
All the buildings are old. There
is one three story brick building.
Most Of them are one story.
Houses are scattered back from
the main street.
There is a small old-fashioned
hotel, and large and fairly nice
high school. The school is out in
the country. yet only a few blocks
from downtown.
The county buildings take up
one side of one block in the heart
of town. The courthouse is in the
center 1t is three-story, of light
brick. On its right is two-Story
annex, connected with it. On the
left, sitting alone, is the red brick
jail. 1T was once home. Edith
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Today's Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

ACH year with the arrival of December, it is
IL my pleasant and self-imposed duty to serve
as scientific adviser to Santa Claus For two decades
have struggled to keep abreast the tide of scientific
literature. A considerable portion of my task has
been to evaluate those books on science meant for
popular consumption.
shall begin this year by calling attention to an
event OF the hrSt magnitude in the publishing of
books of popular science DR.. Forest Ray Moulton's
Consider the Heavens" Here is a book which every
person interested ir astronomy will want upon his
booksheves.
nR. MOULTON is one of the worlds great as
~ tronomers and mathematicans, the author of
score of scholarly treatiseS. In collaboration with
the late Prof. T. c. Chamberlin he made one of the
major contributions to modern coSmogony the plan
etisma hypothesis of the origin of the solar system
For many years he was head of the department of
astronomy at the University of Chicago
Forced to retire because of the age rule he was
TOO young in spirit 70 be inactive. He became one
OF the guiding spirits and important executives in
Chicagos Century of Progress fair, an exposition
which glorihed the importance of science in the
modern world.
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organized and smoothly working
under Dictator and Supreme Com
mander Hitler.
1t is the economic general
staff which is by all odds most
interesting. One would have to
go to Soviet Russia to find any,
thing that equaled it in power.
The economic chief of staff is
DR.. Hjalmar Schacht, whose for
NAL title is minister of economics
and head of the Reichsbank. But
he is in fact super commander of
the ministries of agriculture,
labor and finances-with finger
in the foreign office and every
other branch of government.
The army general staff tells
him what it must have, and some
how or other he gets it for them
while the foreign Office keeps
Germany out of war. At the very
top stands Hitler.
FINDER the economic general
~ staff, all the industrial life
and trade of Germany must toe
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nessee. Wise is closer to five other
state capitals than it is to Rich
mond. You can drive from here
to Kentucky in 20 minutes.
THE Trail of the Lonesome
Pine" was written about the road
that runs through Wise. You
remember how it goes: I'm the
Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia,
on the trail of =" etc. The
Blue Ridge mountains aren't any,
where near here. These noun
tains are the Appalachians. Even
the song-writers don't get things
straight.
This is mountain country all
right. The last 60 miles in here
is so crooked it makes you dizzy.
The mountains are good sized.
Not long straight ridges, like the
Blue Ridge, but terrific splatter
of sharp peaks. Just a conglome-
rate upheaval.
I came through in a blizzard.
The hills and valleys were just
taking on their coat of white.
Through the snowy haze, they
were beautiful Today there is
an inch of snow in Wise, and last
night it was above.
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nOCTORS do all right" replied Connie. The
~ man got $50 for snatching Patrcias tonsils."
But this high school pupil who wants to hear
about journalism may be the Walter Winche of to-
morrow. 1t is possible that the timid little
fellow with the shining face and the trusting eyes
may grow up to be another Walter Lippmann and
much can be done with Lppmanns if you catch
them young"
But it isn't little boy. This high school pupil
that wants to know about journalism is little girl"
But that's all the more reason why she shouldn't
be snubbed Think of chvalry. What would Gala
had have DONE or Robert Fulton?"
Il don't care" insisted Connie. she's too fresh"
But think of the persistence of the wee lass. She
will make her mark in the days to come as a jour-
naliSt a member of the Canadian rural police
force. / like her force of character I wish 1 had
some. should have started my column an hour ago.
Here goes, and don't want to be disturbed for
20 minutes. Remember I'm out to everybody
except Chief Justice Hughes"
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BY HUGH BAILLIE
President of the United Press

T ONDON, Dec. 10.-While war
~ talk is in the air throughout
Europe, there is no feeling that
hoStilities are imminent. This
impression is based on informa-
ton gathered in the last three
months in Rome, Moscow, Berlin,
Madrid, Geneva, Paris and
London, including conversations
with Hitler, Mussolini, Litvinoff,
Laval and many other statesmen,
diplomats and persons in a posi-
ton to know what is going on
behind the scenes.
do not think that any high
government official expects war
now. However, if war should come
it would be a fantastic nightmare,
with machine-gunners dropping
out of the clouds in parachutes,
airplanes depositing baby tanks in
the back areas of the enemy, and
many other modern gadgets of
which the general public has only
the slightest knowledge.
The most immediate war threat
still centers in the Italian opera
lions in Ethiopia, although at this
writing fresh efforts are being
made by the British and the
French to come to terms with
Mussolini and have him call off
his enterprise.
4 ::
NTUSSOLINI said, however, in
4V1 a recent interview, that he
was going forward in Ethiopia
with or without the League of
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changes machinery for Rumanian
oil; engines for Argentine meat;
coal for Italian lemons.
WHEN it comes to trade with
w America, old-fashioned bar
ter is raised to almost ridiculous
absurditieS. An American film
company took a live rhinoceros
as pay for Hollywood picture.
For American lumber Germany
trades moth balls and dry-clean-
ing chemicals; for oil it gives tank
ships and steel pipe; for cotton it
exchanges the steel baling ties
that goes around the bales.
The boycott by Jewish-American
importers and merchants has dis
organized this whole trade.
German factories are told just
what they can have, how much
they shall pay for it, and how
much they shall receive.
But it is all a desperate game
Germany and Hitler are playing.
1t is a game with time and with
the morale of a people
If Germany can nave peace and
the raw materials to build her
great machine, she will emerge
once again as dominant, driving
power. She dreams of a new day
of might-on land and sea and
in the air.
CHE would gain her ends by
- peaceful conquest if it is pos
sible. She believes supremely in
her own superiority and in her
ultimate destiny. She hopes that
internal conditions in France will
force France to abandon her mill
tary alliance with Soviet Russia
and Czechoslovakia and Ru-
mania and Yugoslavia, and that
she will be content with the
domination of Western Europe
and Northern Africa.
Germany will give the seas to
England. She wants only to turn
to the East.
She sees in the vast lands Of
Western Soviet Russia the ulti-
mate new lands that it will take
to fulfill her destiny.
She would like France and Eng
land to understand that she wants
no more trouble with Western
Europe, and that if they will only
let her alone she will eventually
crush Communistic Russia.
But neither England nor France
can quite make up their minds
whether they prefer a great Rus
STA, again nationalistic and i'm
perial in size, or Germany
mightier than ever before in its
history
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of the United States-a pitiful
$20000,000 against our own $10,-
0OO,000,000.
But to keep cannon rolling out
of the great Krupp works, and war
planes looming from factories in
strategically placed centers in
middle and eastern Germany, she
must somehow OF other import
the needed copper and rubber and
cotton and Oil and a hundred and
one other items that she lacks in
her land that is so inadequate to
her great dreams.
So it is that in order to build
her war machine she must have
two great general stats. One is
the army general staff, whose
duty it is to build and train and
inspire an army, and lay out its
grand strategy.
But almost equally important is
the economic general staff. It's
duty is to build the guns and bar
racks and motor roads and fast
tanks and 218-mile- an-hour
bombers.
ERMANY now has both these
~ general STATS beautifully
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putting into the historic square
from side streets and tearing
across it while the tank COM
mander saluted, his head and
shoulders thrust up through the
turret manhole.
Civilians who paraded through
Red Square by tens of thousands
after the military had finished
carried banners and effigieS de-
voted to the Nazis One was a
huge red fist and arm which kept
humping huge Nazi head with
trip hammer blows. Another was
a colossal red figure Of Com
munist holding midget Nazi in
its palm. People paraded with
these and similar objects in high
glee.
The Russians are quite open
about their military preparations,
or at least they give the impress
sion of being open. They make
motion pictures of their maneu-
vers and thus invite attention to
their mass parachute descents
with every parachute carrying a
machine gunner, and to their war
planes which carry baby tanks
under their bellies.
One thing which strikes an
American abroad these days is the
large number of individuals who
are uniformed members of army
organizations or auXiliaries. Uni
forms are especially noticeable in
the streets of Moscow, Berlin and
Rome.
Swords, fancy-hilted daggers,
bayonets and pistols are worn
freely by men in uniform. The
vastly impressive demonstrations
which I saw in Rome, for in
stance, were organized on short
notice ana consisted of great
parades of uniformed men-not
all soldiers, OF course. The de-
parture of actual troops for the
front was never carried out os-
tentatiously. On the contrary,
these departures we're dominated
by a distinctly business-like note.
TN Berlin, the guard goose steps
L daily in Inter Den Linden,
usually watched and followed by
a crowd, and there are many uni
forms to be seen in the streets
and theaters.
France and Britain do not have
such a display of uniforms. In
London there il more noticeable
surface interest in wars and ru-
mors of war than in New York.
There are no more uniforms in
Piccadilly and the Strand than on
Broadway. In fact, even in
Gibraltar, which is town built
around a fortress with Scotch
Highlanders and other British
troops constantly in view and
warships locked just at the foot
Of the street, the inhabitants
seemed to accept the situation
with calm detachment.
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walking down the street. I have
seen COWS on main streets in IL
linois, too.
The school children are dressed
as we'll as they are in Washington.
The people on the streets are
dressed in fashion, not rube-like
at all.
The country men loaf in the
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Maxwell is in there now. A low
stone fence surrounds the court
house lawn.
There is no railroad through
Wise. Small buses come through
several times day. Cars are
parked on both sides of the street.
Most of them are new and shiny.
Very few Model rs. I saw COW
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BY ERNIE PYLE

VX7ISE, Va, Dec. 10.-When
w Edith Maxwell went on
trial here for killing her father, the
Washington newspapers sent re-
porters down to cover it.
They sent reporters because
Wise is in Virginia, and Virginia
is in their territory, because every
body knows Virginia is just across
the Potomac from Washington.
But listen to this! Toronto,
Canada, is closer to Washington
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EUZnouqh
BY
MUSHROOM PEGLER

D ONE, Dec 1o.-There is no more beautiful sight
= in this world than European army officer of
the rank of major and better permitting himself to
be gazed upon and appreciated by lovely ladies in
the lobby or bar of stylish hotel
Young lieutenants and captains are beautiful too
but generally they have not yet reached full bloom
so to speak. Their epauets just as pretty in
pale blue rose or yellow, edged with gold tape and
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courthouse corridors. They look
very poor. They wear overalls,
and thin old scraps Of clothing.
They are unshaven and look
pretty mountainy. But they talk
about the price of grain seed, and
about work in the coal mines.
They look and talk the same as
poor people in small towns every
where.