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4 RefOTRleT Resolves

Il HAVE no claim whatsoever on any Of the leading
Il lights IN American public life and yet quite
piteouSly 7 make the plea. don't be as funny as you
can until I return and get back on the Job again"
NY foray from the trenches Is less a retreat
than a retirement to previously prepared positions.
I mean to rest and bleed awhile and then return a
shade more competent for conflict than on the day
I went away.
The gayer centers Of the ship VIII never find me.
T mean to devote myself to good books. sunlight
and sea foam. II I can not belt myself more closely
by three n0tchcs I Will scream to get my money
back.
This is not a world for fat men nor orators who
wheCze after climbing one flight OF stairs.
Ions. lean and lank I Will come back to get both
soul and elbows into the fight to make the next war
impossible 1 want to be the kind Of pacif1st who
is prepared To punch the block of each and every
opponent. That Will take a bit of doing. SO here's
TO calm seas and a searching sun. And when I make
my bow again 1 hope TO be more worthy of your
attention
want TO hear a slightly more persuasive ring
in that. of course I don't always agree with YOU
Agreement be dashed and blowed. Mister, can you
spare the time. %
Copyright. 1855. BY Ths Timesl
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AN important White House
"a caller the other day was
Gerard Swope, head of giant Gen
eral Electric.
With him, the President dis
cussed n Of his great dreams for
the Observation-Disclosures devel-
opment of the United States. 1t is
the establishment of small rural
industrial communities where each
worker can have about 10 acres of
land, raise his own garden crops
and work part time in an adjacent
village factory.
Henry Ford has tried this out in
his River Rouge plants nea De-
troit with considerable success.
Other industrialists, however, say
it can not be done on a large
scale.
Nh. Swope's complete reaction is
not known. But he has been will
ing to cooperate with the PreSi-
dent TO the extent of planning a
small General Electric plant at
Reldsville. w. Va, the first Sub
sisterce Homestead project.
IF ever legislation needed
i emergency restorative measures
it is the Presidents social security
program.
So hazardous is its condition
that it will only be a shadow Of
what he President asked for-if
it eve passes.
Privately. floor leaders are
prophesying that the measure will
be stripped of its unemployment
insurance features and limited
solely TO an old-age pension
system.
Inner White House circles are
disturbed over the predicament,
and the President is considering
sending a sharp message to Capt.
toll Hill demanding action.
Such a breakdown" may do the
trick-but it is a long shot.
fCopyright. 1885. by Omitted Feature
Syndicate. 1nel
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Your He
by DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN-

A born in quantities and of extraordinary
ID sizes are always interesting. Recently a BRUSH
doctor collected the records of some extraordinary
babies who, because of their size at birth, are
called p%rodigious infants.
In the first place it should be pointed out that
babies heavier than 10 pounds at birth are very
uncommon. In most cases these babies have come
along beyond the date when they were expected. In
MANY cases, because of the verWeight and the
postmaturity, the baby dies at the time of birth.
In the cases in which large babies we're born
unsuccessfully, there is one Of a child weighing 20
pounds, well developed and quite healthy; another
of a child weighing IA pounds, and another Of a
child weighing 16A pounds.
TN the last mentioned case the baby weighed 40
L. pounds when it was 8 months old, in contrast to
a normal weight of IS to 10 pounds.
In some instances it has been found that babies
which gain weight very rapidly after birth do so
because the milk of the mother contains an abb
normally large amount of fat. In the case Of a
baby who weighed 81 pounds when 10 months old,
instead of the normal 10 pounds, it was found
that the mothers milk contained s to 7 per cent
of fat instead Of the normal 35 per cent.
Another baby who weighed % pounds at 7
months of age, instead of the normal IS pounds,
was found to be receiving mothers milk which
showed an 3D. per cent content Of milk sugar in
stead of the normal 65 per cent.
TN each of these instances, when the baby was
i weaned, it began to lose weight promptly. and
fat babies which become quite slender after wean-
ing generally do so because Of some trick Of nature.
In a rare case the overweight of the baby may be
due to some extraordinary condition in its glands.
In a few instances. mothers with diabetes and
abnormal sugar metabolism nurse babies who be-
come very fat.
Many cases are reported in which babies weigh
ing more than IA pounds at birth die during the
birth process because of overweight. The modern
scientific doctor, who follows the condition Of the
mother carefully, is likely to prevent the carrying
of a child until it develops such extraordinary size.
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dimly lighted cathedral of st.
Thomas where Bach was the first
organist and it's enormous, cold,
gray Gewandaus where, $50 years
ago, Mendelssohn conducted a
symphony orchestra, do not light
Up as they watch children and
young men in uniforms parade the
streets.
They are too busy earning their
daily bread. often, as in the case
of the landlord in whose home l
stayed, that task is a difficult one.
He is the head of a family
which once had money. Proudly
he displayed heirlooms, bits of
priceless china and pieces of
tapestry that once adorned a large
house. Now the treasures are
Jumped together in corners. There
is no room in an apartment for
them.
The apartment, during fair
week, at least, is turned over to
foreign visitors. The family
moves out of its private chambers.
A bed is placed in the living room
with its purple walls and grand
piano. Even the library with its
family portraits and wall tele-
phone becomes a bedroom. The
porcelain stoves are filled with
coal to keep the guests warm ana
comfortable.
But the storerooms and halls
where the family sleeps tempo
rarily are unheated.
7 EIPZIG is about as far from
- Berlin with its hotbed of pol
itics as Philadelphia is from
Washington. 1t is surrounded by
carefully manicured farming dis
tricts, the very backbone of Ger
many.
Leipzig's citizens are simple, in
duStrious folk who seem far re-
moved from the hysteria of re-
armament conferences and politi-
cal intrigues. They are the peo-
pie Who are fundamentally re-
sponsibie for Hitler's continuing
power. 1t is from them the an
swer to the question, But what
do Germans actually think of it
ALP" comes.
And the answers, in the main,
are optimistic. For one disgrun-
tied intellectual and one unhappy
former rich man, there are 10
men who believe-or think they
believe-or are afraid NOT to be-
lieve-that Hitlerism is the reich's
salvation.
The capitalist, represented by
the bearded president of a concern
that manufactures farm imple-
ments, was enthusiastic.
My business, thanks to the new
tax law, has increased" he told
me In America you put up
posters that say Buy Now Here,
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LAAdAAaE " vital hAAAAOA ITO IL AAo10
They salute proudly as they
walk to classes past the enormous
tablet on which is written the
names of 1900 young men who
we're killed in action. Nineteen
hundred from one university! To-
days students are the sons, young
er brothers, nephews and cousins
Of the men commemorated on the
tablet.
When they are not marching or
studying, the students lead the
kind of life movies of Heidel-
berg portray. They laugh. They
sing. They clank their beer
stems and drink to the health of
the Fatherland.
MOUTH is king and kings can
Il be cruel. 1 saw M laugh
ing officer with a healthy-looking,
aSh-blond girl in his arms rudely
brush aside a tired. middle-age
interpreter in a neat, but not so
new suit. To avoid their dancing
feet the professional linguist
slumped into a vacant chair at
our table and gazed olankly at the
array of uniforms everywhere.
They needn't expect me to be-
impressed" he said to me when a
trooper at the next table rose to
salute an officer. I've seen enough
already. 1 have no hopes. But
perhaps We never can be worse off
than We have been.
L know a man who lives on 20
pfennnigs C28 cents a day. I
know what has happened to the
unemployed who used to loiter on
street corners. Now they are all
in Misunderstanding right past
those same street corners" Not
a trace of animation in his face.
Suddenly, he asked me if he
might have the butter I had left
on my plate. Pausing barely long
enough to hear my consent, he
spread it on one small piece of
bread, swallowed it quickly and
then slumped forward again.
watching the dancers with dull
eyes.
He belongs 10 the skeptics. They
r the ones that the inner sane
tums of the government refer to
as enemies within the gates" So
worn out are they by the past
years that the gala uniforms bring
no tears of enthusiasm to their
eyes. The martial music falls
unheeded on their weary ears.
TN truth. compared to youth in
Il uniform, the remaining popu-
lation of Nazi Germany seems dull
and colorless indeed. The aged
and the middle-aged on the pic
tureSque streets of Leipzig. famous
for its 7~00-year-old semi-annual
fair. have had their day.
The eyes of older men in this
quiet little trading city with its
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Questions and Answers

O-Where was Joe Penner born?
A-Becskerek, Hungary.
o-what was the first name of Boettcher who
was kidnapped in 1888?
A-Charles Boettcher I'd.
Q-What is the deepest sounding ever taken in
any ocean?
At was 35.4oo feet, in the Pacific, of the
coast OF Mindanao, Philippine Islands.
Q-Is HOLLYWOOD. Cal, suburb Of the city of Los
Angeles? What is its population?
At is a suburb incorporated in the city and
the population is not separately enumerated.
Q-Is there a law prohibiting a Roman Cathohc
from holding the Office of President Of the Uniteo
States.
A-No.
Q-When will the next United States Census OF
Religious bodies be taken2
Am 1896.
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BY MARIAN YOUNG
NEA Service Staf Correspondent
f~---~4-L fo7E NEA Earvfrz Iuc }

7 EIPZIG, Germany, April 1.-The soldier is cock of the walk il
l. Germany again.
Men civilians remove their hats when eight or 10 troops march by.
Women step from the curb into the gutter to let them pass. Small boys
run up to touch the blood-red swastkas on their arms Fair, red
checked girls beam-occaSonany one dares to wave a hand. Students
on the steps of the university applaud and cheer loudly.
This in Leipzig. But in Berlin, in other towns and villages, 1 saw
Reichsfuehrer Htlers earnest young lien nave donned uniforms
of brown. blue and greenland are goose-sepplng to martial music
over the freshly dug grave of the Versailles Treaty.
For soldering IS a young mans business, and German youth-for
years jobless and desperately poor in a war-beaten land-has rushed
forward eagerly to embrace the tools of miitarism a symbols of re-
born power.
To students the new regime provides excitement. 1t gives them a
chance TO Wea uniforms To discuss government. To feel grown up.
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Nuzi Greed a Direct Threat

THOUGH Chancellor Hitler told the world, after
l. the return of the Saar, that Germanys western
frontiers are now satisfactory, he has just as cate
gorically let it be known that those on the east must
be redrawn. A clash with Russia seems impending
and Poland is right in the path. If there is war,
she would likely be the battlefield
The Nazi creed that all Germanic peoples Of
Europe must be united in one great Germany, di-
rectly threatens Poland. The Reich wants back the
Polish Corridor eventually.
And any advance through Austria and Hungary
to the Black Sea to get at the Ukraine, or on the
other side along the Baltic, would leave Poland
an island in the middle of a tumultuous Teutonic sea.
Poland is well aware of this. Yet so long as
Germany remained unarmed, she was not alarmed.
Accordingly when France, Britain and Italy mltted
her bv proposing to Germany a four-poWer hege-
mony over Europe for the sake of peace, and with
out consulting her, she suddenly effected a rap
p%rochement with Germany. BY this she served
notice on her former allies that she had come of age.
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neighbor who has a cosmetic and
postcard shop next door was
patriotism personif1ed.
I'VE made up our mind that
Germany is for Germans" he told
me. Our plans will work, 100.
You see (this with a nod toward
the northwest where lies Soviet
RUSSIA we believe in God. Reli-
gion has not been pushed aside
by politics. And we have fine SOL
diers to protect our faith"
Soldiers to protect their faith!
I saw them as I came out of the
postcard shop into the street. .
-Four out of every six men on the
sidewalks wore uniforms!
TOMORROW-How women fare
under the swastika.
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There is no attempt to discuss
general policies. no attempt to at
tack a problem by the Cabinet as
a whole. Usually relatively minor
questions r raised. Sore points
between Cabinet members are de-
lberately skirted.
Sometimes when a debate re-
suits in complete disagreement the
President cuts it short and de-
cides the matter within the next
day or two himself.
Most important questions are
taken up in t~ete-a-teIe talks be-
tween the President and the in
terested Cabinet officer. This, of
course. is a serious drain on
Roosevelt's already overtaxed
time.
II also happens in many Of
these discussions that the Presi-
dent himself does most Of the
talking. When he is finished,
such little time is left that a lot
of important questions are left
high-and-dry. and must await the
next session.
This is one of the big factors
behind a lot Of delayed New Deal
projects.
MO matter what the immediate
- outcome of the present peace
or-war parleys in Europe, the
State Department will keep its
fingers crossed regarding anything
which bears the handiwork Of Sir
John Simon, British Foreign Min
lister.
Career diplomats will hasten to
deny 1t publicly. but privately they
call him Shiny John" and COM
pare his Geneva speeches to his
defense pleas before a jury.
Sir John is one Of the greatest
barriSters in England. but under
his leadership, International
statesmen claim they can rot tell
which way British foreign policy
viii jump.
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HOLLETT PLEDGED BY
HONOR F~RATERNITIES

indianapolis Man Is Chosen by Blue
Key, Phi Delta Epsilon.
By Times Special
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Ind, April
blue Key and Phi Delta Epsilon,
honorary f%raternities at Wabash
College for campus activities and
journalism, respectively, have both
pledged Byron Hollett, Indianapolis.
Mr.. Hollett was a letterman this
year on Wabash's state champion
ship basketball team. He is serving
as editor of the Wabash yearbook
and is a member of the Sigma Chi
social fraternity.
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PASTOR TO BROADCAST
The Rev. E. E. Norman Chosen for
WIRE Series.

The Rev. E. E. Norman, Linwood
Christian Church pastor, will con-
duct the daily morning devotional
broadcast over station WIRE this
week.
Mr.. Moorman's theme will be
Christ for Today" Music will be
furnished by members of the Lin
wood church choir. The services
are on the air each mcrrug except
Sunday at $50. -
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Todays Science
BY DAVID DIETZ-

XXTALL STREET. where alchemy and magic Of
w various sorts were tried in the boom days, II
certain economists and political orators are TO De
believed. vas once the scene Of a real adventure IN
alchemy. But the climax Of the adventure Smacked
more OF Wall Street alchemy than Of the ancient art
which was once practiCed throughout the capitals OF
Europe.
The story has been unearthed by the tercentenary
committee Of the American Chemical Society which
rs collecting historical documents for display during
the big New York meeting from April p 10 IS which
WILL celebrate the 30Oth anniversary Of the founding
Of American chemical industry. The committee finds
that sporadic attempts At the practice OF alcnemy
occurred IN New England. New York. Pennsylvania,
and some Of the southern colonies in the early DAYS.
The adventures Of the Wall Street alchemlst were
found IN a literary historic annual which Gullan
Crommeln Verplanck published IN ASSOCIATION with
William Cullen BRYANT and others. His name was
Jan NaN-LiChenStein and at one time ne nao oeeh
an adviser TO Prince POtemkin IN St. Petersburg.
"LichenStCin had scarcely become well settled IN
New York when his old dream Of alchemy returned
unon him. VerplanCk wrote in 1929. He carefully
boarded his earnings until he was enabled 10 pur-
chase. a. A cheap rate. a small tenement IN wall
street. v lere he erected a furnace with 6 triple
chimney. and renewed his search Of the 'arcanum
msCnum. Every dsy. in the morning.. ne was
occupied for TWO hours in a counting room; then ne
was seen walking in Broadway; then he shut him
self IN his laboratory until the dusk Of the evening
WEARS passed in this manner. Verplanck relates.
i But. he continues. Wall Street in the mean
NaMAE was A1A-AA us 4AAA10AAnAAAEs 10 "a - -afN
way 70 banks and brokers: the city extended its
limits. and the streets became thronged with increas-
ing multtude-circumStances OF which the alchem-
fsr took no note. except that he could not help OBJ
serving that he was obliged 10 take a longer walk
than formerly 10 get into the country. and that the
rows OF lamps on each side OF Broadway seemed 10
have heightened wonderfully toward the north.
still the secret Of making gold seemed as dis
tsnt as ever until II presented itself 10 him IN an
unexpected shape
WTHAT had happened was that a newly chartered
w banking company had decided 70 buy Lichen-
stems site for which he had originally paid about
$500.
The president called on LichenStein. Verplanck
relates The alchemist was annoyed al the inter
ruptiOn. but his annoyance changed 10 JOY when he
vas offered $4,000 for his place. He asked a day 10
think il over. however. and that night another COM
pany offered him $4,000. The first company finally
cot the lot for $4,000.
he was now possessed Of a competency" YER
pisnck continues. He quilted his old vocation Of
clerk. abandoned his old walk in Broadway. and dis
sppesred. but not 10 another life. I have heard that
his furnace has again been seen smoking behind a
comfortable German stone house n the comfortable
borough Of Esston-"
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THE plump, round-faced little
baker who served me after
noon coffee and pastry in the back
of his tidy shop meant virtually
the same thing when he num-
bled in broken English, "Other
countries don't understand u.s."
But the baker is happy, too.
It's true that he can't raise the
price of bread whenever he feels
like it. But he sells more cakes
and fancy pastries now than he
did a few years ago. His family
has three simple meals a day. He
figures that Max, his 1~2-year-old
son, may be able to go to the
university in a few years.
The pleasant little bakers
s~tern-faced, dark-complexioned
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Marshal PilSudSki, and his entOurag'
If they hit it off. the proposed
Eastern Locarno'S chances will look
pretty bright. If they fail, the Lo-
carno, too, may fail. For without
Poland it must remain a pretty
rickety affair.
If Poland remains outside, it
means she may draw even closer to
Germany. Together with a power
full, rearmed and war-like Germany,
they would virtually checkmate the
Soviet Union.
With a hostile Poland and Ger
many on her western frontier, and
imperialist Nippon camped On her
Far Eastern border awaiting a signal
to strike, Soviet RusSia's hands
would be shackled. She could not
moro two NJ iO,. uro &c 5O00 n1i1eS q mart
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by having no tax On new automo-
biles and new machinery for the
first year and heavy taxes that in
crease year by year on old ma
chinery. we have FORCED people
to buy"
A TALL, blond engineer who
"A speaks four languages and
who has lived in half a dozen
countries, including the United
States, echoed what the manufac-
turer had said.
THE new tax law has increased
the farm implement business from
40 to so per cent and the output
of cars so to TO-" he said. In
stead of talk about limiting in
comes, each man is urged to make
as much as he can, providing, of
course, his method of earning
doesn't interfere with the general
welfare of the community. The
price he sets on his merchandise
must be fair. That's Goerdeler's
job. He's the price-f1xer."
The engineer, himself, switched
our conversation to recent gov
ernmental activities that have
brought down fire on the heads of
Germany's people.
Diplomacy is the thing that is
100 per cent lacking in the present
regime. Germans never have
learned the art of handling hui
man relationships and statements
to the press with kid gloves on
their hands. They apparently
have no respect for the old adage
that you catch more flies with
sugar than with vinegar" he said.
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Peace for a Generation?

TO-DAY. however, Poland faces a decidedly differ
i ent situation. Germany has Scrapped the
Treaty of Versailles. She has warned that soon
she will equal or surpass her neighbors on land,
sea and in the air. Hitlers plan for an all-lncluslve
Germany, therefore, may soon be named over 10
German guns to hammer out.
That puts Poland on the spot. She must decide
soon which side she will be on. By Thursday week,
when Premier Mussolini, Foreign Minister Pierre
Laval and Sir John Simon meet at StreSa, IN north
ern Italy, the die must be cast.
Handsome Capt. Eden, within the next Y hours
is expected to get Poland's answer. If Poland stands
bv the former allies, the Eastern Locarno will prob
abIv succeed. 1t would vastly strengthen the hands
of Germany's n~eighbors in their effort to reach a
lve-and-let-live understanding with the reich. And
that. in turn, might spell peace for a generation.
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LUTHERAN CHURCH TO
MARK ANNIVERSARY
Invitations Given Former Members
of Congregation.

Invitations Given CORNER Members
of Congregation.
Invitations have been issued to
more than 600 persons for a re-
union service in observance of the
sixtieth anniversary of the Trinity
Evangelical Lutheran Church, East
and GHOSTS, April IA, at 8 p. m.
An ate 1t has beea made to To-
cate all 1er members Of the con-
greg which in the history Of
tt has numbered nearly
Is ave joined through con-
frn-
The Rev. j.. D. Nautilus is the
church pastor and the committee in
charge of the reunion includes Miss
Alma Dammeyer, chairman; Paul
Schakel, Miss Frieda Jones, Dorothy
ElferS, and Harris Koelling.
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I viii return entirely svelt. But Heaven knows I
mean % do my best. Somehow one gets a sense Of
his own smaIlness and inefhciency when Graded in
the deep and I would 90 back to the seas again
It is always dangerous for a columnist TO go away.
But for that matter 10 Is dangerous If he doesn't.
While on the rob ne suffers the risk Of his own
inepttude while during his absence there is the
odds on chance that his substitute viii suddenly
blossom forth with inspiration and knock his eye out.