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Evening star., 1935-11-22
STREET CONTRACT LET

massachusetts Avenue Award
Goes to Corson q Grumar.
A contract for improvement Of
Massachusetts, avenue, between Wis.
consin and Nebraska avenues. was
awarded today by the Commissioners
to Corson g. Gruman Co.. on q bid
of $55,s77. Work will start in about
10 days.
At the same time, the Commissioners
ordered construction Of sanitary and
storm water sewers at the adult tuber-
culosis sanatorium, being built at
Glenn Dale, Md. Contract was awarded
to Natalie Martell Of Baltimore, for
$11 1,65375.
Evening star., 1935-11-22
PNEUMONIA FATAL
TO v. |. CR0UNSE
Former Newspaper Man
and Trade Association
Representative Was "a.

William Livingston Crounse, IA,
veteran newspaper man, at one time
head of the old New York World
Bureau here and in recent years
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Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN-

MANY of the persons you with peck marked
1V1 faces had chicken poX when they young
and were permitted to scratch the itching blisters
that result from this disease.
Scratching of the blsters may cause infection
and form collections of pus or matter under the skin.
If the scab over these marks comes off, little in
dentations in the skin remain.
If, however the poX are permitted to dry of their
own accord and the scabs allowed to fall off
naturally, there is seldom any mark left from the
disease.
Chicken poX usually affects children under IL
wears of age. Few, if any, die from the disease but
there are occasional secondary infections which may
become serious.
The disease may begin with slight fever, but
it is often mild that the fever does not appear The
day after the first sign of illness, an eruption or rash
appears somewhere on the body
USUALLY it resembles number of widely scat
" tered pimpes, which develop into blisters con-
tanning yellowish, watery fluid. When the first
blisters begin to dry and disappear, others may be
formed.
Chicken poX is dangerous from the sign of the
first symptoms until the crusts and scabs have dis
appeared from the skin.
Sometimes there is intense itching. but, as diff
cult as it may be to prevent scratching every pos
sble means should be taken against it, if you do
not want the child to continue with permanent in
dentations.
In caring for a child with chicken pox, you should
adopt the following procedure:
l. Keep the child clean
Q Trim its fingernaiS close.
3. Wash its hands frequently.
4. Keep the child in bed while it has fever.
5. Ask the doctor to prescribe a lotion or ONT
ment to stop the itching if it is so severe that the
child persists in scratching.
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Today Science
BY SCIENCE SERVICE

A LIBRARY of $1,000 human teeth has been
N assembled by Professor Moses Diamond at the
Columbia University Dental School. Professor
Diamond, who is head of the department of dental
anatomy believes this is the first clinical library of
its kind ever established.
1t includes the teeth of many races and, in adul-
tion thousands of freak teeth of various sorts Prom
its study Professor Diamond hopes to arrive at some
conclusions to the evolutionary changes which
taking place in human teeth
During the millions of years in which the human
race has evolved from earlier stocks teeth have
bee smaller DR.. Diamond believes. They have
also developed more assures and defects which
hasten decay. he says
He also thinks that there is little doubt but that
the wisdom tooth is disappearing. Primitive African
races had three bicuSpdS each side of the upper
and lower jaw, but modernS usually have only two
Teeth are important in the study of the evolu
uonary chain" Professor Diamond says Many sig
nlfcant ldentificationS have been made through
human teeth, of which the earliest known is that
OF the Mousteran youth, belonging to Neander-
thaloid race and estimated be about 10000 years
DID, Definite racial differences are found, but these
are net extreme
When we discuss the process of change from
primitive to modern times, do not speak in terms
OF generations or centuries, but in terms of hundreds
OF thousands of years.
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Washington Us. States Rights

A ND yet one can not very we'll forget that the
most VociferouS advocate of states rights in
America today is William Randolph Hearst He has
fought with splendid vigor and fury the centralzing
tendencies OF the New Deal. 1t has been his notion
that Washington should be curbed in its large ex-
penditures for relief purposes.
The constant suggestion Of Mr. Hearst has been
that such things should be left to private charity and
local agencies, and if California puts levy as
nigh as IS per cent upon net incomes which rise
above S250,OOO year, it would seem to be doing no
more than following the advice of it's famous son
and laying up sufficient treasure to take care of it's
own without benefit of Ickes or of Hopkins
And Florida, as we'll is somewhat pinched out of
its own traditional position of unimpared local SOW
eregnty. Only few days ago the Governor was
indicating a desire to keep away all visitors who
were not sufficiently affluent to make their stay a
fully paid-up vacation period.
But now the state is asking Federal money to aid
in the repair of storm damages. rather imagine
that states rights in all communities is theory
meant to apply only on and sunny afternoons
when there isn't cloud in the sky
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More Defense
by GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON

nALLAS, Tex Nov. Ill discussed Saturday
IL one of several counter-editorials in Scrinns-
Howard papers dissenting from my criticism of gov
eminent departments Another, on Henry Wallace
refuted nothing said about Mr. Wallaces indecison
George Peek is the father of Farm Relief and the
genius of Mr.. Roosevelt's final capture of the rock
rloped republican and bloody-shirt areas of the
corn belt. Nobody can take that away from
him. ~
Peek deliberately avoided being secretary bv in
sSthg that farm organizations support him unan-
rnouSy-Wel knowing that Simpsons Communist
FARMERS Union wouldn't support him.
For II years he and fought for what Mr. Wal
lace spent all that time making up his mind about
that very equality for agriculture" particularly NJ
pflce equivalent to the tariff which has increased
farm income as the editorial records But we also
fought and are fighting for maintenance of farm
export markets, which Mr. Wallace has fritered avav
as hgures quoted Saturday SO clearly showed
mat editorial cited figures farm votes for croo
control as being farmers votes for Mr. Wallace
mat is on par with the recitation of partial figures
on export trade support mudded foreign policy
Ihey were not farm votes for Mr. Wallace They
were farm votes for the gentle rain of checks
WONDER II the editor woud vote against having hi,
salary lncreased-no matter what he thought of the
treasurer OF his company.
I said that the financial and fiscal affairs of ,bs
United States are in the worst mess in history and
that Henry Morgenthau is inclined to boast Of III.
TACT mat ne doesn't know much about anything-at
least about finance
The editorial comment misquoted this to make il
appear that had said Henry doesn't know much
OF anything about anything and less than nothing
ABOUT finance 1 didn't say it. Morgenthau him
self has said what quoted over and over again as
the public prints bear ample record
Nothing in the editorial refutes nv statement
that our fiscal affairs the worst mess in his
tory. Nothing could. I made an understatement
The whole world knows it-but the defense offered
IS that this secretary is financing the greatest
peace-time debt in history at the lowest interest
rate in history"
Financing the biggest debt in history"-that is
enough to support my criticism of utter fiscal chaos
This is ar ugly subject. The less said about It
the better. happen to know that my friends in the
editorial department don't like broken pledges Of the
fortnight word any better than do.
Copyright. 1885. by Unite Feature Syndicate Incl
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Rah-rdh Son q Bit Embarrassing

HOWEVER, in an effort to advance the share-th
Il woe movement must admit that one episode
in the storm was highly embarrassing to me.
For many years l have been artculate on the
side Of those who hold that football is taken much
too seriously by young America. have urged on
many occasions the mood of making the game pas
time rather than bitter battle. And now I find
that IN spite of all my eloquent preachments I am
the father Of a rah-rah SON.
We were sitting in the hotel on the morning of
the late and unlamented storm. 1t wasn't due to
break for another half hour or and the comm uni
cation lines were still Open Some at the t>h;e
said Il think I'll wire my family to tell them not
to worry whatever happens because I'm in a safe
place"
Woodie arose and said with all due solemnity
Il think I'll send something if there's still time"
He took good deal of pains and care in preparing
the dispatch and so when he back was i'm
pertinent enough to ask to whom he had wired.
ITO the Horace Mann football team" he answered.
But what would you be telegraphing them about?"
I wanted to know.
Il merely wired he said with great dignity, "as
hurricane sweeps down upon Miami my last words
are beat ST Johns"
You see" he explained, I've got 10-dolar bet
that we don't lose a game all season."
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Speaking of National Habits

CAN this be craftsmanship? Can any wine be so
~ sublime that it were a crime to drink other
wine in its presence? And if so is it not perhaps
as bad an error to wear silk socks grown in Japan
crop of 1881, in the same ensemble with cotton
undershTt crop of 1926 from the fields of Zeke
winch, of Corinth Miss? Granted this Mr. Which
might take luxurious trips to Europe to sell the bales
of his 10 acres
But probably the baron is doomed to disappoint-
ment Tor he is challenging national taste for SIM
pie, nghtlng liquors, complicated with whipped
cream house paint, cherries and pineapple slabs
which existed long before prohibition and became
sCrong national habit during the long rebellion
he presents product which reeks of mystery
ana FANCY manners and breaches temperance to a
people VINO drink only to get tight SO if it is true
Cnat Americans do not understand wine then if ia
equally certain that any one who recommends tenn
Perance does not know the character of the race
AS a connosseur the baron prescribes a small
splash OF champagne before dinner few delicate
passes at glass of white wine with the fish and q
lew sturdy llcks at a red wine with the meat fol-
lowed by champagne with the dessert and BRANDY
with the coffee. He knows nothing about the tradi
tonal American meal of six whisky sours followed bv
a i-oone steak with fried potatoes washed down
with rye and ginger ale
would give something for the movie rights with
SOUND 10 the scene of CONSERVATION on an Illinois
central amer should the baron put himself down IN
oToer correct dinner from wine list consisting of
canned Martins and Manhattans sherry port vhis
ky and gin ~ ~
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Boy Who Found Out He didn't Know All Asks Roosevelt for Help
Another Seeks Government Loan Of $3.50 for Shoeshne Business

cents. I'm one of those boys that
thinks he knows it all and found
out different.
BILLY HINES.
"P. S.-Don't ask mother to
send me the money cause she
hasn't got it"
A MOTHER young correspond
1 n ent wrote the President tell
ing what he would do to help in
dustry get back on it's feet.
He said:
Dear Mr.. President: am y
years old and am the son OF a
war veteran. We are q, family of
eight, and I am doing my share
10 help the family by shining
SHOES on the sidewalks of New
York. feel that I could do much
more business if the government
would arrange loan for me of
$3.50 so that I could buy addition
al materials.
This would not only help me,
put 1t would also help the manu-
1acturers who make the supplies,
and also help business conditions
in general.
The materials I need are"
Clhere followed a list of q cans
OF black, 40 cents, 4 cans of brown.
40 cents, etc.
a MONG the more unusual re-
4 "A quests for assistance was one
from a man who wanted the Re-
lief Administration to finance a
dictionary for him.
l am student of Literature
ana am a pauper," he wrote. land
unable to purchase the Books that
wants TO obtain in my home. T
wants to know could the (FERA)
give me some financial aid. In
helplng me obtain The Webster
New International Dictionary
second Edition. with Reference
History I am unable to purchase
this Dictionary, in my Search for
knowledge, and as a Reference
work to my other Studies.
I am a Married man of "a
LlVelng a honest life. + have no
dictionary at all in my Home. II
1000 Of the population of U. S. of
america. would read more Books
Tor search for knowledge, those
that or able to purchase them.
there would be annually a year So
less crime committed. A we'll
read man and we'll educated man,
Is better law abiding citizen
than an illiterate man"
The applicant concluded with
this pos, script:
Its pity the U. S. is the
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Leading Nation in the Publishing
Books and those that desires them
are unable to purchase them.
They thirst for knowledge in a
land of plenty books"
FREQUENTLY the White House
Il mail contains letters of thanks
for relief payments. Here is one
from man in the East. He said:
Dear President: Pardon the
boldness, but I could not help it.
Sunday we had two little chickens
in the oven. You never said any
thing about chickens so I could
not help but think of eX-Presi-
dent Hoover. He promised two,
but I forgot what they looked like
all the while he was boss. That
IS dollars goes long way. Thank
ing you, I remain a friend.
Another reference to President
Hoover was contained in a letter
from man who had been vice
president of a corporation when
the crash came. He had eventu-
ally been forced to appeal for
food.
Circumstances embolden me-"
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he wrote, TO appeal to you di-
rectly. I am trusting you will ex-
cuse the seeming presumptuous-
ness which I assume because of
my strong personal faith in you.
I should certainly not have at
tempted it with your predecessor"
TWO of the most curious cases
l. to turn up in White House
correspondence concern two Grip
pies One is a man, the other a
woman. They live in different
states.
The woman suffered infantile
paralysis at 10. During the years
following she persisted in trying
to learn to write, though she
could not use her hands or arms.
The letter to the President was
written in a strong but unusual
script. The woman informed. the
President she had learned to
write with her mouth.
The man lost his right arm and
left hand in a hunting accident
in 1907 He described himself as
a painter. And he, too, had
learned to write by holding the
pencil in his mouth.
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Observation-Disclosures of 1918

OF course, the baron is one who can shut his
~ eyes roll glass of wine under his nose breathe
deeply and tell you which side of whose hill it came
from and how long ago. But for all know there
may be wheat farmers and parsley men who can
90 almost as much in their respective lines
People do not ask who grew the wheat which goes
into ther bread or the cotton in their understands
or in what year. There is great difference there
For IN vine the year is important and even Amer
leans feel thrill of pride in their sophistcation
when they have learned at considerable cost in
money and heartburn to guess when a wine was
grown without squirting at the label on the bottle
For all the insistence of the Frenchmen that
wine Is simple food and not rite all the litera-
tre on the subject tends to battle and intimidate
those very Americans to whom the customer appeal
mas oeen addressed since repeal.
The baron has given little book which lists
hundreds of wines according to the regions even
the very acres which produced them and their years
with further important distinction as to whether
they were bottled on their home grounds or else
where IN an assembling plant The book says a GER
tain wine is still hard but getting better" Another
is dryer than its neighbors" 1t speaks of body"
ana hnesse." One authority says it is a crime to
drink certain wine iced and an indecency to drink
other wine in the noble company of Montrachet
Under the circumstances the American runs grave
FISK OF committing serious offenSe.
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For the President and not his
secatary or any one else"
The letter said:
Dear Mr., President: My name
is Billy Hines. And I just wanted
to know if there was any way
what could get home. I live at
-, Seattle, Washington. I am
only IS years old but I look about
II. I am at Hutchinson, Kas.,
now. I wish you would hurry the
anser cause my capitale is only 81
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And the other 10000 are ready for
the emergency, according to a re-
cent survey by Fortune magazine.
The cost of the U. S. Army in 1885
is given as 1926 100000. In 1896, a
little more will be spent for military
purposes-s365 900 900, or million
dollars day. This, the War De-
partment hopes, will bring the en-
listed men strength up TO 10000.
with modern equipment.
ID ESERVE forces. army chiefs
IN estimate, would provide about
100000 men in two years. BY the
1920 act, the national guard total
is placed at 100000 and there are
10000 reserve officers.
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In the American Army, if an
emergency arose today, only 10000
men would be available for swift
action. The entire strength of the
United States land forces is 1880
enlisted men-with approximately
10000 officers, the list topped by g.
generals.
THIRTY-TWO thousand regulars
L are in our foreign possessions;
$4,000 in continental United States.
Just $4,000 men-about 5000 more
than could be packed into Yankee
Stadium in New York City.
=
OF this $4,000, about $4,000 are en-
gagged in various kinds of clerical
and educational tasks; 10000 officers
and men are on the Mexican border.
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I do joining another war. And the
answer to that is No"
The Twelfth Man shook his
head sagely in uttered Nos
Other World War veterans in
nearby beds echoed his senti-
ments.
Big I'm didn't hear.
He was looking out the west
window.
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BY ROBERT w. HORTON

ITTHts NpPFTdI WFIEeF
VXTASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-THE
W Presidents mail recently
contained a letter from Billy
Hines, Billy is IS. He confessed
to having learned a lesson and
appealed to the President for help.
The following admonition ap-
peared on the back of the envel-
ope:
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that burns you to death and you
can't get your breath-kept me
from getting a holders job
Couldn't be around gas fumes you
sea- as he nodded to emphasize
his words.
XXTELL, I took odd jobs" said
w Big I'm land finally got
to work parking cars at the old
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-11

come upon farmer with an l8-acre patch whose
crop is such that he afford to go all the way to
the United States on fast, expensive boat put him.
sell IN at hotels, ride the trains and buy few wine
dinners for his prospects merely to sell the produce
OF his 18 acres.
For if the baron were in cotton or wheat or
parsley IN the United States with only Is acres under
his pillow, he would hardly find it worth while to
90 iartner than the county seat to market his CROP
ana that in his own FLYER And if he were to buv
meal for prospective customer it probably would
amount to no more than a hamburger and a cum
OF coffee at the lunch wagon
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things without giving one whoop
and that's about the way it was
with Charlie and the other boys
that day.
The number just wasn't on
Big 'Un's' piece that time" he
said.
Were you ever married?" he
was asked.
Nope! And I feel about it like
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EuZnough
BY
W'ESIBRO0KPEGLE

GENEVA, Nov. II. - Our subject is earnest
" French wine grower from Saumur who has been
calling the American trade in New York and Bos-
ton and who is naive enough to hope that he will
live to day when the American people including
Mr.. Roosevelt's common man. will drink and APP
preciate wine and shun the cocktail which pickles
the palate he says and avoid the cigaret for
several hours before indulgence in wine Our subject
says the cigaret has tendency to fry braise the
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BY ARCH STEINEL
Times staff Writer


lots - eggs, bananas,
and even men. That is, they
do most of the time-even
in death, sometimes.
This is about one of the
times when the dozen lot
was broken and of big
'un," the Twelfth Man, who
was left in the Veterans
Hospital on Cold Springs-rd,
to tell about it.
So as the clock climbed around
to II a. m. today, Big 'Un," known
on hospital charts as Erby Bowers,
"a. of 1927 w. Market-st, sits By
a hospital window looking toward
the west and back to IL a. M,
Nov, II, 1918. in the sector of the
Moselle River in the Argonne.
Big 'Un." they called him that
in the A. E. F., because of his
fec., doesn't philosophize, about
the breaking of the dozen lot. He
needs pumping" to tell the
story, because they were good
eggs" he says, and Charlie, his
buddy, was one of them.
NOR does he see in the time
~ II a. m, Nov. II, 1918, an
omen.
Just war and it didn't have my
number on it." grunts Big I'm"
Shading his eyes with hand
pitted and worn by his trade of
iron-molding, trade he could
not work at since the war because
of mustard gas, he looked out to
the west into the Argonne.
I'VE was the Three hundred and
fourteenth engineers, Eighty-ninth
division. We'd been getting ready
to throw pontoon bridge across
the Moselle. A big push started
on Armistice Day. Twelve Of us
in one squad sort of hung together
and then there was Charlie
Crampflll, our corporal.
VOU know what buddy is?"
Il He paused to let the ques-
ton sink deep.
Then he answered that ques-
ton.
Charlie was NINE he said.
you know an egg that'd share
his last makings with you. One
that'd give you the last puff off
butt. Good guy! You ought to
have known him.
1--WE was going into No Mans
Land, the whole regiment, but
course just the II of us close
to each other. I heard it. WHI-n-
nin," and he whistled the siren of
shrapnel shell.
The other II, all good eggs,
didn't hear it. Dirt flew in my
mouth, ears, and I was f1attened
on the ground. Seemed like moth
ing but smoke and dirt where the
shell struck. Maybe I heard
scream, I don't know" He looked
out to the west again.
"THEN the captains whistle
Il blew again." he continued
"and he waved to go on. What
else could you do? You always
went on when the captain
whistled. I crawled forward a
piece" He looked to the west
again.
Il went on without the squad.
They couldn't hardly find a dog
tag of 'em--eleven of 'em-and me.
Pretty good eggs, buddies, 1 mean,
all of them, especially Charlie"
He stopped and opened his
knotted fist, clenched it again.
Things quoted down. The
Armistice was on. A few planes
flew overhead and I came back
home.
The gas I got over there-you
know it's like swallowing medicine