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, 1935-04-25
Not Quite So Bloodthirsty

Despite all the jngling Of Sabers In Europe THESE
DAYS. IL In evident that national leaders. when push
cd right to the brink of actual h~ostilities, do not want
TO fight.
italy and Abyssinia began drifting toward war sew
eral weeks ago. Troops were modified. frontier gar
risons we're strengthened. war talk filled the papers.
IT looked for a time as II q fight could not be pre-
vented.
NOW, however. 1t Is announced that the council OF
the League OF Nations has persuaded the two govern
ments To settle their dispute over frontier territory
An Africa by arbitration. MuSolini himself, sup
posed to be about as fierce a man-eater as any dicta-
, 1935-04-25
"A Dash Of Ice Water For That
War Fever

Congress evidently is in the mood to do something
pretty drastic about the profits which are made in
wartime.
The House Of Representatives seems to be going
down the line for the McSwain bill, far milder than
the one presented to the Senate by Senator Nye.
But 1t has added to il a provision for 100 per cent
taxes on excess profits. and it seems likely that In
the end We shall get a compromise between Senate
and House bills-a compromise bill far stronger
than would have seemed possible a year ago.
And whatever may be said about the military
value. or otherwise. OF such a bill. there Is one way
I'm which ii ought to be exceedingly useful. When
the war fever begins to sweep the land, a law Of
this kind ought to act very much like q sponge
dipped in ice water and applied to q fevered fore
head.
For what it aims to do Is simply to make war as
mattractive to all the people as it Is to the lads
who have to 60 out into the front line trenches and
offer themselves as targets.
"A member OF the Senate Munitions Committee ex-
pressed 1t thus:
~Our bill Is drastic because war Is a drastic thing.
The tax collector who comes for one mans money
is not nearly 80 solemn and forbidding a visitor as the
draft officer who knocks upon another mans door
for his young son.
1T is our intent clearly and honestly to let every
person In the country know that he will be expected
to bear a large share Of the burden Of any war"
We talk a great deal about the horrors OF war.
but we don't really mean all OF it. We never can
forget that when war comes business will boom.
Wages will be higher. profits viii be higher. every
body will be busy, and those OF us who don't have
to do any fighting will. really, be better off than In
peacetime.
And because that Is true, 1t is very easy for war
fever to sweep MS off our feet.
Arranging things in this new way ought to help
linn TO keep cool in @ time Of crisis. II we knew In
advance that profits. salaries. and wages would be
subject to very strict limitations. and that income
and other taxes would Immediately shoot TO dizzy
heights, 50 that all OF us would feel the war burden
In q direct and unmistakable way, 1t iS likely that
we shouldn't agree to 60 to war at an-unless the
reason for doing 80 was clear and overwhelming.
And that, in turn, would be q boon Unreasonable.
no find N way to check the war-madness-that Is
what people everywhere have been seeking ever
since 1918. wouldn't a bill Of this kind come close
20 doing it2
, 1935-04-25
Inspect Your Children
For Signs of Measles
Editor. Journal OF the American Medical Associate
and Of Hygeia. the Health Magazine
by DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

and Of Hygeia. the Health Magazine
While you are dosing your children with the an
nual spring tonic OF sulphur and molaSses. be sure
to look them over carefully for any sign Of measles.
This, you should know. Is one Of the Oldest spring.
time diseases affecting children.
The usual treatment Of measles involves merely
putting the child to bed, protecting it against cold,
taking care of its diet and OF its eyesight, and guard
ing 1t against the complications which are more
dangerous than the disease itself.
The number Of deaths from measles is exceedingly
low. However, when the complications Go occur. or
when measles Is severe. its results are exceedingly
serious.
The room should always be kept fairly warm to
lessen the danger Of pneumonia Persons with colds
should always be kept away, because the danger Of
complication in the lungs is greater than any other.
After the child has recovered. 1t needs a good diet
to permit it to build its blood and its body as a
whole back to the proper condition.
In addition to the usual treatment. medical science
has developed a method which Is Of great value in
making the attack Of measles lighter and In lessen
ing the total number Of complications. A rather
large epidemic Of measles occurred In Glasgow.
Scotland, in the spring Of 1884, giving the physicians
in that community opportunity TO test the value Of
this new method.
The treatment involves the injection into the child.
Immediately alter The diagnosis Is maze, OF the Dlood
serum from a grown-up person who had an attack
Of measles in childhood. The blood serum may be
collected even in advance Of the appearance Of an
epidemic and be stored away in an ice chest to await
the time when It Is needed.
The serum Is used not only to treat the disease
when 1t occurs, but also to inject children who may
be exposed to measles. with the idea Of preventing
severe attacks Of the malady in these children. Much
depends. Of course. on the stage or duration Of the
disease at the time when the serum is given.
The Scotch investigators found that the attack Of
measles may be expected to be very light in 80 per
cent of those who develop the disease, if they are
given the blood serum within four days Of the time
when they are exposed to the infection
II the serum is given from the fifth to the seventh
day after exposure to the infection. so per cent OF
the cases are found to be very mild. Without the
serum, only IA per cent Of cases Of measles are found
to be mild.
1t is understood, Of course. that the blood serum
must be taken from persons who had measles in
childhood or who had measles fairly recently. How
ever, the blood serum from persons so years Of age
was found to be just as suitable as that from young
men and women.
On the other hand. the blood serum taken from
people who have not had measles will not have the
power to weaken the attack Of the disease.
, 1935-04-25

Instability OF currencies, debased
currencies, add to the woe.
The devalued dollar, for example,
Is not the same old dollar" Nor
Is the devalued British pound the
same old pound" Men who re-
ceive either in pay are receiving
reduced pay. and goods produced
under it are produced at less cost.
oil other things being equal. But
in the United States the cost Of
goods rises because ID Of the at
tempt to maintain a pegged price
OF raw products. and 90 because
the worker Is trying to maintain his
standard Of living through restric-
ton (again a monopoly Of scare
ny, rather than through an in
creased share In the profits Of pro-
duction.
A. the moment, there Is a fright
that japanese goods win swamp
American markets. Japan has a
cheap currency. low wages and mass
production.
But suppose japanese goods are
skut out: Japan buys much more
from the United States than 1t
sells. II Japanese goods are shut
out, viii Japan not cease to buy?
And Of what does it buy the most?
Cotton. And the south needs the
japanese market badly, since other
markets have slipped.
Actually, a readjustment to nor
NAL Of currency and tariffs. would
be more likely to remedy the sit
uation than an extension TO new
zones OF the trade and economic
wars that are wracking the world.
The adding OF one artificial barrier
after another to trade simply Is
building up a structure that will
collapse into chaos, tearing down
with 1t other structures that we
have taken ages to build up. con-
sentative economists are warning
us.
Business men have begun discuss
ing such international problems As
being directly i%ntegrated to the OPP
their business. Econ
omists OF larg- businesses doing an
international trade have been wear
ing an anxious look for months
now. A new hurdle is added every
week over which trade Is supposed
to jump-but some day the hurdle
rrl be too high and trade will drop
lead In its tracks, these economists
say.
, 1935-04-25

tor alive, seems to have concluded that arbitration
is cheaper than fighting.
It is an encouraging development. It indicates
that the league can still be Of service to the cause OF
world peace. and 1t shows that Europes statesmen
are not quite as ready to 60 to war as recent news
dispatches had led us to suppose.
, 1935-04-25

Moses, Of New Hampshire, one Of
the last Of the Republican Old
Guard. has long been noted for his
caustic wit. The other day he had
occasion to discuss with a friend
the Kansas Republican rally which
is going 10 be held next month un-
der the Craftsmanship Of william
Allen White, noted publisher. The
, 1935-04-25
News
Behind the
News

Capital and world gossip. events
and personalities. In and out o.
the news. written by n group OF
fearless and informed newspaper
men or Washington and New York
This column Ia published by The
Herald as q news feature. Opinions
expressed are those Of the writers as
individuals and should not be in
terpreted a. rejecting the editorial
policy Of this newspaper.
, 1935-04-25

She rewarded him with a generous
tip and met the cynical appraisal
OF the clerk who stared at her
from behind the desk with world
weary eyes.
Millicent knew the mans type.
She stared at him haughtily and
said. Let me see your register,
please"
He handed her the book and she
looked back through the pages TN
I'll she found the name under which
she had registered and the room
number that had been assigned 10
her. Then she closed the register
and said. What rooms have you
vacant. please?"
He handed her a chart. Mill
cent saw that the room she want
ed was vacant, but she pointed to
another room and said. What's the
price on this by the night?"
"A dollar seventy-fve."
CHE frowned. slid her finger
= down until it rested on the
room she wanted.
This room?" she asked.
That" he said. will be
$3.50"
I'm take it." she told him.
opened her purse. slid a bill acroa1
the counter. wrote in the register,
Miss Millicent Jones'" and said,
will you please have a boy bring
up my suitcase?"
He banged the palm OF his hand
down on a bell and yelled.
Front" A sleepy looking bellboy
emerged from an elevator, sized
Millicent up with insolent eyes,
and picked up her suitcase and the
key which the clerk handed him.
Millicent pocketed her change, fol-
lowed the bellboy TO her room,
handed him a small tip. closed and
locked the door and even took the
precaution Of drawing the shades.
Then she went to the place where
she had concealed the notebook
in which she had written Drim-
Colds dictation. The notebook
was still there.
Millicent took the notebook.
dropped II into the suitcase and
faced herself in the mirror. She
now had every Bit OF valuable evil
dence in the case in her posses
sion. She had the shorthand note
book which had caused Bob Caise
so much concern. the books OF
account which had been stolen.
the note in Bob Caise's handwrit-
ing which definitely linked him
with the woman in the black ar
mine coat.
What a prize l would be-" she
muttered. Anyone who captured
me now would have every shred
OF evidence in the case"
Her meditations were inter
rupted by the ringing OF the tele-
phone.
Millicent stared at IL with a
feeling Of panic. The steady. tas
sistent ringing OF that telephony
bell seemed TO indicate that she
had been discovered.
Slowly she crossed TO Il and
took the receiver from the hook.
The voice which came over the
wire was that OF the clerk at the
desk. Miss JONES'" he said.
there's a gentleman here to see
you"
Il don't want to see him. /
know no n in the city. There's
some mistake"
The gentleman" the clerk
said. gave the bellboy a tin and
is on his way mp. I'm just letting
you know"
Millicent gripped the telephone
receiver. wondering what TO do.
As she wondered. imperative
knuckles pounded against the
door.
1TO Be Continued
, 1935-04-25
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

BEGAN HERE TODA
MILLICENT GRAVES. secretary
60 GEORGE DRIMGOLD. finds her
employer In his Office dead.
40 help her. lie sends her 10 n
beauty shop where she IL trans
formed into n brunet. then takes
her home. introducing her ms bis
secretary. h nee Happ'a son.
NORMAN his stepsOn. ROBERT
CAlSEI MRS. HAPP, DICK
GENTRY. Happ's partneri and
VERA DUCHENE Mrs. Happ's
maid.
In Happ's home MIIIicens sees
the mysterious woman I'm slack
ermine whom she believes has
some connection with D~rimEOld's
death
The chauffeur A. found dead
Later Hnpp In kidnapped
MiIlicent and Norman learn the
ear driven by the woman TN err
mine belongs Co PHYLLIS FAIL-
C0NER and go 20 her apartment
While they are there someone
man follows co find ont who a. In.
Millicent. alone. the
missing suitcase containing Happ'a
business She steps into
h corridor. carrying the suit
case sees n man coming toward
her.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XXXVI
INTELLIGENT Jared at the NAH
- walking down the corridor
her eyes wide with startled com
prehension as she recognized him.
For several seconds she did not
realize that the unequal illumina-
tion Of the corridor made IL virtu-
ally impossible for him TO see her
Only when he paused before the
doorway OF the apartment she had
Just left did Millicent fully appre
ciate that Richard Gentry was
coming to the apartment upon
some errand in connection with
those stolen books OF account.
Gentry paused at the door. start
ed to tit a key into it, then. ap-
parently changing his mind. ne
raised his right hand. Knocked
twice. paused. knocked twice more.
repeated these two knocks after an
interval, and then gave one last
knock.
Millicent, watching. saw that he
did not wait for an answer but.
following the knock. Immediately
fitted a key to the door and en-
tered the apartment.
II was al that moment that Mill
cent suddenly realized her predica
ment Gentry was undoubtedly go
ing after those books. He would
discover that they were missing
and IL would be but a matter Of
seconds until he dashed out to the
corridor. aware of the theft Of the
suitcase containing those precious
books. Perhaps he would make for
the elevator but II was far more
likely that. in his haste TO descend
he would dash down the corridor
toward the stairs.
Millicent snatched up the suit.
case and such was her excitement
that she was entirely unconscious
OF its weight as she sped down the
stairs She had started down the
last flight leading TO the lower
floor when she suddenly realized
that she would be trapped between
the lobby OF the apartment house
and the sidewalk. held back by the
weight of the suitcase.
THERE was no time to balance
the probabilities. She had to
think and act fast. A window
opened onto the fire escape and
she flung the suitcase over the sill
down TO the steel-barred platform
and followed II. almost before the
suitcase had thudded TO the steel
grating.
She had barely gained the plat
form and adjusted her skirts about
her ankles when she heard the
sound Of feet thudding down the
staircase She turned toward the
corridor and saw Richard Gentry
dashing past, running rapidly.
, 1935-04-25

Winnings-This may or may not
be an omen. "A group Of Senate
reporters perusing the Maryland
racing entries the other day with a
view to increasing q few Of their
hard-earned dollars On the ponies.
, 1935-04-25
The W. rld
AT a Glance
BY LESLIE C
Central Press Staff WRITER

NEW YORK, April a "A step
forward, ever SO slight. has been
made in penal reform. 1t has been
brought on by the prisoners them
selves in what was once one Of the
worst prisons in America.
Prisoners in the Ohio state pen
itentiary. in Columbus. struck in OPP
position TO the states parCla policy.
A few months ago there would
have been terrible puniShmentS
meted out to the prisoners. Today,
representatives Of the men r per-
mitted to state their cause. The
prison management has changed.
Said the representatives Of the
prisoners in this century-old, over
crowded prison:
The parole board has only two
systems. If a man comes before it
with a bad record, il says you can
not be let out, prison Is the place
for you.
If he has a good record. the board
says you can behave in prison, but
apparently cannot on the outside,
so you had better stay in prison a
while. The prisoner doesn't have
a chance.
Some prisoners have had as
many as ten continuances by the
board.
The parole board Is violating the
spirit and the intent Of the indie
terminate Law, which gives the
board the power to parole prison.
ers at almost any time.
There Is one man in here sent
up for chicken stealing and given
a one-to-twenty-year term. He has
already done IA years. But a man
who committed criminal assault was
released after ten months"
Terrific Sentences
Penologists and criminologistS are
in despair over prosecutors and
judges.
Because a man is a lawyer is no
reaSon that he knows humanity or
the mental ills Of man any better
than his fellow men. On the con-
tlary, the law is a class profession,
a profession which rarely rubs up
against life, other than political
life. which is largely corrupt.
Judges have no qualities to fit
them to judge mans ills. They are.
chiefly, politicians who have
achieved office through no elevat-
ing means.
Such men pass judgment and pass
sentence.
Our prisons are filled with men,
in the main young men. sentenced
for long periods. And our streets
are filled with criminals who have
political pull. They are the ones
who do obtain parole, or who never
are convicted in the first place.
Penologists plead for a clinic to
pass on al persons UP for sentence.
They urge the fitting Of the reform
to the man. They demand a stop
to this man destroying system Of
locking persons in foul places. shut
ting them off from normal life, and
forcing upon them abnormal condi-
tons and the communicating COM
partnership Of lost souls, and feed
ing them on a diet that adds the
wreck Of their bodies to the wreck
Of their minds and the loss Of their
souls.
, 1935-04-25

One news man played a straight
"hunch" parlay on two horses
named Gold Standard" and De
Both won. paying, respect
lively $40 and S34.10.
p. S. The reporter works for the
Street Journal.
HOpeful-Former Senator George
, 1935-04-25

The New Deal suffers, and must continue to Suf-
fer, from being forced to do sleight-of-hand tricks
with the old deck.-W. X. Elliott, Harvard professor
, 1935-04-25

ANY one who goes in for kidnapping deserves all he
gets. I never approved Of it.-Arthur Dutch Schultz
Flegenheimer, alleged one-time Bronx beer baron
, 1935-04-25
ok DARK BLOND
Il CAPtErON kaNoRAKE es nv

He shot past the window and she
heard the bang OF his feet on the
lower stairway as he ran down to
ward the lobby.
MiIlicent looked below her and
saw an alleyway. shaded and
gloomy. piled with garbage cans.
boxes, barrels. broken packing
cases. and other bits of rubbish
She felt certain that. while perhaps
an occasional truck might rumble
through the alley way. there would
be but little traffic through IL and
few pedestrians.
She turned the suitcase over on
it's side. used II as a seat. crossed
her ankles. tucked her skirt about
them. placed her elbows on her
knees. and waited.
After some minutes she heard
the thud of feet as two men la
boriously climbed the stairs. One
Of them was talking and. while
she could not catch what was said.
she recognized Dick Gentry's voice.
and could tell that he was both
angry and frightened
The pair climbed up the stairs
to the third floor. She waited
anxiously. but did not hear them
return The shadows heightened
a GOODNESS filled the air. Millicent
felt cramped and weary.
Had the two men remained In
the apartment on the third floor
or had they returned by way OF
the elevator? She had no means
Of knowing. and realized that she
never could know without exposing
herself TO danger.
She picked up the suitcase.
pushed ii through the window to
the corridor, stood listening for a
moment but heard nothing except
the distant rumble OF traffic and
the pounding Of her own pulse in
her ears
CARRYING the suitcase, she de
- scended the stairs. The lobby
was deserted She crossed to the
door. tugged il open and her heart
gave a wild leap as a cruising cab
driver, seeing her struggling with
the door and the heavy suitcase.
slid his a to the curb and flashed
her an inquiring glance.
At her nod he slammed on his
brakes, jumped across the inter
vening stretch Of sidewalk. picked
up the suitcase. and said. where
TO. Miss?"
She had no particular destina-
ton. She dared not go back 10
Jarvis Happ's house. She remem
bered the name of the cheap hotel
where she had spent the night
which followed Drimgold's murder
She gave the cabby the name OF
the hotel and added. I'm in a
hurry. Please make It as fast as
you can"
The cab lurched into motion and
Millicent, flashing q glance back
at the apartment house. saw Q
cabriolet swing around the corner
and glide to a stop at the curb.
She saw Bob Caise jump from
the car almost before IL had come
to a stop.
Millicent settled back in the
cushions. too frightened to look
back again, fearful that Bob Caise
would see her and start in pur.
suit.
The cab swung into a main
artery OF trafHc and Millicent. sud
denly realizing that she was q
fugitive from justice. leaned back
In the corner Of the cab so that
her face would be invisible TO traf
fc officers or curious pedestrians.
The cab rounded a corner TO the
left. pulled In close to the curb
The driver Ierked the door open
helped Millicent TO the sidewalk.
carried her suitcase init the hotaL
, 1935-04-25

meeting is for the avowed purpose
Of injecting a bit Of life blood into
the @. o. p.
Moses referred to the meeting as.
Bill Whites party Of the resur-
rection."
Buttermilk has approximately the
same food value as skim milk.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-07-30
SURPRISE IS
 SPRUNG, BIG
 LIQUOR SUIT
Suit for Seventeen, One Half Million Dollars Set
 tied for $500, 900

SEATTLE, July 3o.--Coming as a surprise on the eve of the trial the announcement was made last night that the Governments civil action to collect seventeen and one quarter million dollars from the Reifel liquor interests of Vancouver B. C., has been settled out of court for $500,000.
 The announcement was made by Sam E. Whitaker, special assistant United States Attorney.
 The Government took tEc court action to collect the huge sum from Henry Reifel and his son, George c. Reifel, for customs duties, pen alties and Internal Revenue taxes alleged due on approximately ter million dollars worth of liquor the defendants are accused of snug gling into the United States.
 The criminal indictments charg- ing the pair with smuggling liquor during prohibition days, are still or the docket.
 Recently Government counsel an- nounced an attempt to collect only $3 ,OO0 900.