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Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

A FTER the proteinS and the carbohydrates in our
Il food In order of Importance, come the fats
There is a limit to the amount of fat we can eat
put whatever we do take in provides about nine
times the energy or calory value of stored protens
or or glycogen which is carbohydrate
Furthermore. fats have their chief value in the
human body as the carriers of vitamins which are
found more abundantly in them than in anv other
foods Vitamin D and Vttamin A especially are
found In fats. They are known as the fat-soluble
vitaminS
Fat appears in the human body in two forms
There is that of the tissue, ana that stored I'D to
provide the body with materials in times of starva-
ton
Carbohydrates when taken in excess NAV be
deposited IN the body in the form of fat But when
carbohydateS and proteinS are stored in the body
they retain at least three parts of water. Fats may
be deposited in the body without water.
NXTHEN fats are digested, most of the process
w takes place in the duodenum, or upper part of
the small intestine. The fermentS which take care
OF this digestion the juice that comes from the
pancreas and the bile which comes from the liver.
Fats are not as we'll used by the body as carbo-
hydrateS or protens. Psychologists have had hard
time fixing the safe low limit governing the
amount of fat that we ought to eat
When people trying to reduce and are taking
small amounts OF food daily for example as little
as 800 to 900 calories the amount of fat to which
they take should be restricted from 20 to 25 grams
each day This is about one twentieth of pound
or little less than an ounce
When person is eating a well-balanced diet
containing $500 calories day he take twice as
much lat each day, or about two ounces
II he is a hard worker and takes from 5000 to
$500 caloreS day. at least 100 grams may be in fat
A hundred grams is a little less than quarter
pound
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You're Heard Just Thousand?

MOT only that, but give him conversational
L bu-pen catcher to listen to hts comment and
he will carry tall glasses until dawn even in
February June when football is by normal men
forgotten.
He remembers Heffelfnger and Coy Hinkey,
Mahan Rockne, Doc Williams and all the Smiths,
ancient and modern, with anecdotes
about each, most OF them pretty dull to be sure.
but intimate and authentic. He knows how many
men which team had what side of the line when
Stanford recovered the tumble a particular Sat-
urday Is years ago.
He can tell you and will, in spite of he'll unless
you dive out the window, how many freshmen are
coming up this year at Ohio State, just what sort
of line Michigan will have two years from now and
how many backs were lost by graduation at Pitt
last fall.
have heard a hundred of him, a thousand of
him in fact talking hour after monotonous hour in
rooms at New Haven, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago
and Champaign until combatants and innocent by
ISLANDERS both lay exhausted gasping and red-eyed
from smoke and red-eye on the beds and on the
floor. He is walking, sitting, babbling compendium
of a million and unimportant facts and opinions
on a subject which designed for kids to play
and old men to talk about
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What Delayed Them?

TT MAY be so, but What delayed these gentlemen
Il from making known their diSmay and their
anger? Surely it is true that there were few, if
any, to cast aSperSionS the house of cards while
the structure was being reared high Babel toward
the sky Only when the system collapsed of its
own weight were there any utility magnates to say
Tut! Tut"
Even when the whole fantastic scheme swayed
In the evening breeze if it hurricane there
were leaders in the industry who were still willing
TO give 1t aid and comfort and proong the legerde-
main. And every one knows that.
Indeed, their defense after the crash was newt
ably the same as that set up by Samuel insult.
He was fooled by his own fabrications And so
were they If the best face is to be put upon the mat
ter
Surely we have ample evidence in this country
that burnt children, far from dreadng the fire be-
come addicted to it and there is no reason on earth
why another utility empire like that of Insults
could not be reared all over again AS a matter of
TACT Irapper Sam, with slight break in luck could
do it himself
The jury said that Mr. insult was guilty of no
wrongdoing. Very likely they were right He was
part or an unfortunate system. The diSmayed and
angry utility magnateS of whom Walt Lippmann
speaks with such reverence are pawns in the same
set-up. think that any attempt to make division
on the basis of good and bad elements might be tn
same difficult hair-sptting operation as dividing
Butch Lippmann columns
Copyright 1880
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Literary Notes

From Hollywood comes the story OF H. G. Wells
address at the dinner given by the Academy in his
honor He was introduced by Charlie Chaplin who
had been introduced by Cecil B. De Mile He said
You ask me what think of Hollywood 1t leaves
ne speeches. And he sat down.
Ronald Kirkbride, author OF River Of Souls"
Private Life of Guy de Maupassant" and Dark Sur
render" who for the last two years has been bus-
ness manager of Story Magazine has become editor
in chief of new monthly publication Sports Illus
trated.
In addition to his writing Mr. Krkbrde is well
known as an amateur tennis player, having won
several tournaments. and as an aviator.
Others interested in the publication are DR..
Kurt Simon of the former owners and publishers
of the Frankfurter Zeitung; S. Holt McAloney and
John Escher, formerly with Time Stuart Scheftel.
publisher of Young America; Alvin z. Hewitt ana
w. II. Kirkbride.
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It's WOnderful-But Boring

CTILL there is something wonderful about the
~ vastness of his store and the inexhaustible en-
thusiasm with which he treasures it, recounts it and
adds to it year by year. Put it all in shelf of
books and the lumber bill would be enough to build
a house but the net result would be merely another
of those strange collections which nobody on earth
but our subject would be idle enough to read, even
train.
1t has been explained to me that this interest is
due to tenacious desire to cling to the heroes OF
YOUTH but that hardly answers the question.
Youth plays baseball, too, but the customer,
though reasonably well-nformed is able to drop the
subject from time to time, and his information IS
limited to performances in the major leagues. Foot
ball embraces thousand colleges, with teams run
ming back through the years for three quarters of
century.
There is nothing to be done about it. 1t is one
of those things that are and must be. The only
escape is to leave the go off in corner ana
get quietly drunk to the ordeal.
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Today's Science
by DAVID DIETZ-

A LII through 1885, astronomers have been particu-
4 larry interested in studying Nova Herculis the
nova or new star" which fared forth in the con-
stellation Of Hercules shortly before Christmas of
1884.
Nova Herculis, the fifth conspicuous nova of the
Twentieth Century, was discovered by British ANA
teur astronomer, j. P. M Prentice Dec. IS, 1884
originally too faint star to be seen without most
powerful telescope, it has become as bright as
third magnitude star when Mr.. Prentice first
noticed it.
1t continued to grow IN brightness and attained
Its maximum few days before Christmas of last
year 1t was then brighter than am average second
magnitude star, but not equal to first magnitude
one.
THE haring up of the nova at Christmas time
l. added new zest to the perennial Yuletide dis
cusson OF the nature of the star of Bethlehem 1t
has been suggested many times that it might have
been nova. Had Nova Herculis grown to first mag
nitude proportions last year, it would have added
even greater weight to the theory,
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.SWdpping Glass Beads for Franchises

4 ND, by and large, as Walt points out, they have
L N dealt with legislators and won their affection
much after the of the tranScontinental
magnates Of the pioneer days. They have always
been ready to swap glass beads for franchises.
The result, writes Walt has been a truly sem
sational development of the industry as a suppier
OF electricity at diminishing cost and increasing
efficiency However, that still leaves us in the dark
about the violence of the protest against the iva
upon the part of these enterprising men dedi-
Gated to loW-coSt power.
Even Butch Lippmann when pressed, is prepared
to admit that the conduct of the courageous utili-
tarians has sometimes been mildly unethicaI This
development" he confesses, has been accompanied
by many grave abuses of trust and much fragrant
proflteering."
The error of the Administration, he thinks lies
in treating the industry unit instead of dividing
1t into good and bad clements
This process is known as dividing black cats from
those which are dark gray.
There are in the industry as every one must
know, says Walt, executives and fnanciers who are
and have been dsmayed and angry at the kind of
thing represented by the insults
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the grand finale in current stage
hit.
That meant 30-mile span, but
the scene was wildly applauded.
Bridge talk resulted in a Song of
the Oakland Bridge" popular in
the SOS.
IN that era, William Tecumseh
"A Sherman, bank manager and
Mexican War veteran, later Civil
War luminary began plans for a
pile trestle and earth fill across to
San Leandro. That petered out,
too.
Coming of the railroad brought
still other plans, including one
which featured rail tracks and
vehicular and pedestrian lanes,
with booths and saloons to make
the bridge a place of popular re-
sort for moonlight promenades."
That, too, was abandoned, moon
light promenades and all.
Emperor Norton" the town
character, who had decisions that
he was Emperor of North and
South America" issued grandiose
proclamations in 1868, ordering i'm
mediate construction of a bridge
so vast that a mere extension ran
from Sausalito to the Farallone
Islands, 20 miles out at sea. And
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IVA Grew Our Of Beliefs Of Norris Roosevelt That Power From
Rivers Belongs 10 People That Can Reqeneae Great Territory

men, many of them clearing reser-
voir of 10000 acres. Number of
families moved out-875. This
dam also year ahead of schedule.
Total cost-$29, 100000.
PICKWICK LANDING - In
western Tennessee, SIS miles down
river from Muscle Shoals. Started
last March. To be finished in fall
of '38. Will have 37O0 men at
work by next summer; about 1900
now. Reservoir of $4,000 acres,
displacing $50 families. Total
cost of dam, reservoir and city for
workers-$28,000,000.
GUNTERSVILLE-In Alabama,
up the river from Wheeler Dam.
Work has just started. Surveys
complete. Construction highways
being ( tilt.
Two other dams have been
authorized-at Chickamauga, just
above Chattanooga, and at Hi
wassee, IN North Carolina. The
exact sites have not been an
nounced. No actual work started.
THAT is the dam phase of IVA.
Il Here are the other things
IVA has done in a year and a
half:
Cheap electrical current is be-
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Delaware bridge at Philadelphia,
and the Quebec bridge.
San Francisco's two new bridges
will be even longer than this string
of giants.
VISUALIZE the vast amount of
steel that went into Boulder
Dam. You'll have to multiply that
by nine to approximate the
amount of steel that is reaching
out over San Francisco Bay and
the Golden Gate. The bridge prof.
ectS also require half as much con-
crete as went into Boulder Dam.
The San Francis o-Oakland Bay
bridge will be AZ miles long-the
worlds longest span. 1t is really
a combination of two types of
bridge, each longer than any other
the world has ever seen.
Two mile-long suspension
bridges, in tandem, with a central
support, will carry traffic from
the city to Yerba Buena island, in
midday. There it's highway plunges
into a tunnel through a hill rising
above the bridge level.
From this point cantilever
structure bridges the water be-
tween the island and the Oakland
mainland, two miles away.
The Golden Gate bridge will
span the world-famous entrance
to San Francisco Bay, and will
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his mad effort was as effective as
others up to that time.
The engineering problem was
breath-taking. Costs were prohibit
tive. The depth of the bay, the
surge of the tide race, the heavy
sea traffic, all presented barriers.
The War Department insisted
that any bridge across the Golden
Gate must be such that, even if
crippled or destroyed by bomb or
battleship, it would not block the
harbor, cutting off the Mare Island
naval base.
TINE Navy Department was
j. equally concerned with safety
of its anchorages, drydocks and
other facilities.
But engineering genius sur
mounted all these and a host of
other obstacles. Thousands of men
have productive jobs on the work.
The need for 100000 tons of
steel kept Eastern plants busy,
while other plants we're producing
enough wire to circle the world
six times at the equator.
Trainloads of supplies pulled in
from all over the country. The
big job has been an inspiration
throughout the depression, hope
for the future, and already shows
effects that will be felt for years
to come.
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ing sold to 1928 consumers in
Mississippi, Tennessee and few
in Alabama. This brings IVA a
million dollars a year, and saves
the consumers $230,000 a year, or
At per cent. 1t uses only a small
part of the power at Muscle
Shoals, the only dam so far pro-
ducing electricity.
IVA has three tree nurseries,
with an annual output of ~ mil
lion trees. 1t has several chemi-
cal and ceramics laboratories, to
find new uses for the Valleys
minerals.
Large stats from the state uni
versities of Tennessee, Alabama
and Kentucky work with IVA,
without pay, helping mother" the
people who need help. The CCC,
the Forest Service, the Bureau of
Fisheries, the Resettlement Ad-
ministration-there is hardly
government department that
doesn't have hand in helping
put over IVA.
IVA pay for labor is Is cents
an hour for unskilled; so cents for
handy men and helpers: 81 for
skilled. The men work six hours
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in the government-built town of
Norris, near the dam.
There is an administrative staff
of 100. This might look top
heavy, but it includes engineers,
draughtsmen. lawyers, account
ants, and all kinds of clerks. The
preparations for building mod
ern dam are so intricate that en-
gineers say a dam is half finished
when the first bucket of cement is
poured. This staff of TOO is build
ing the first half of the dams.
TVA has four dams actually I'M
IL der way. Here is what is 60
ing on at each one:
NORRIS-Near Knoxville. just
about done. Employed 5000 men.
About half of them on the dam,
half clearing the IS square miles
of reservoir behind the dam. Will
be finished in few months.
Thirty-five hundred families
moved out Of the ,000-acre res
ervoir area. Total cost of dam,
town, roads and reservoir-$36,-
100000.
WHEELER-In Alabama, Just
IS miles above Muscle Shoals.
Started November, 1888. Just
about finished. Employed 6675
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MASONIC LODGES TO
INSTALL NEW HEADS
Irvington and Ancient Landmarks
Groups Arrange Rites.

Irvington and Ancient Landmarks
Groups Arrange Rites.
officers of Irvington Lodge No.
666, F. and A. M, are to be in
stalled tomorrow night in the Irv-
ington Masonic Temple
Officers are Henry NJ King, wor-
Shipful master; Raleigh o. Burk,
senior warden; Donald F. Lafuze,
junior warden; Clinton F. Mitchell,
treasurer; Bloomfield H Moore,
secretary; Ralph E. Guthrie, senior
deacon; John c. Updegraff. junior
deacon; Lex A. Cory, senior stew
ard; Roscoe G. Leavitt, junior stew
ard; Mitchell S. Marble, chaplain,
and Sam G. Campbell, tyler.
Ancient Landmarks Lodge, F. and
A. M, is to install officers at a din
ner meeting Jan. in the lodge hall.
Officers are Arthur A. Smock,
worshipful master; Emmett w.
Green, senior warden; N. E. Nc.
Donald, junior warden; w. Vernon
Schultz, secretary; Volney M
Brown, treasurer; Louis w. Bruck,
director of the Masonic Temple AS
ISOLATION, and Walter T. White, di-
rector of the relief board.
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connect the city with the alluring
Redwood Empire region to the
north. This span will be IA
miles in length.
DUT while it bows to the Bay
IL Bridge in length and cost,
California custom insists on sup
erlatives, so this is the longest
single-span bridge in the world.
More than twice the length of any
suspension span now built, if you
please.
Each bridge presented it's own
problems and has it's own person
atty. Each has its own method
of financing. Each has daring
features never before attempted
on a bridge job.
Old as American ownership of
California is the dream of bridg-
ing the bay. When gold rush days
of 40 brought fleets of shipping to
the city, a 2000-foot pier was built
in 1850 for wharfage. There was
serious talk of continuing the pier,
on floats, clear across the bay. Blu
only talk.
In 1858, a full-stage setting of
"San Francisco in 1883" with a
suspension bridge stretching from
San Francisco's Telegraph Hill to
Mt. Diabolo, back of Oakland, was
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Two stupendous fcats of engineering
which will give the San Francisco dis
trict the greatest bridges in the world
will bring to realization dreams that
California have nurtured for more than
so years, In a series of stories, of
which this is the first. Philip J. Sinnott
tells of these two mammoth construc-
ton projects, the myriad problems in
volved, and the romance that enters
into the rearing of these gigantic struc-
lures.
BY PHILIP J. SINNOTT
GAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26.-The
~ worlds largest and coStliest
bridge game is holding the rapt
attention of the whole San Fran
cisco region. Enthusiasm, doubled
and redoubled, has won honors in
engineering skill and civic enter
prise.
An 80-year dream of bridges
across San Francisco Bay to Oak
land and across the Golden Gate
is coming true before the eyes of
millions of eager-eyed onIookers.
Across the waters reach out not
only the worlds largest bridge,
but the worlds two largest bridges,
both building simultaneously.
Place Scotland's famous Firth of
Forth bridge end-to-end with
New York's new George Washing
ton bridge. Add on the Brooklyn
and Greensboro bridges. Tack on
Detroit's Ambassador bridge, the
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BID AND PLAY PROVES BATTLING

ding that his partner does not
have a club and, while North may
feel that six hearts can be made,
five hearts is good pass, because
if he bids six hearts the opponents
will take a sacrifice of seven clubs,
as they are not vulners bic. East
can not afford to bid six clubs for
fear of pushing his opponents into
six hearts.
When the hand was played,
East opened the ace of clubs,
which I think is bad. A diamond
is the best opening on the hand,
and I think it can be reasoned
out.
South's bidding indicates no
clubs. He has bid spades and has
shown great heart support; there
fore, his side strength must be in
diamonds and it might be wise to
lead through the diamonds. A dia-
mond opening holds the hand to
five odd.
The Play
Now, getting back to the ace of
clubs opening. Many players
would fail to make six hearts be-
cause they would carelessly take
the diamond flnesse. The proper
play is to ruff the ace of clubs in
dummy with the five of hearts
and now try to establish the spade
suit.
A small spade should be won
with the ace and another spade
returned, which West wins. Vests
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in Alabama. during the war.
When war ended. Muscle Shoals
wasn't finished. 1t got into pol
iticS, and wasn't completed until
1925. Then Senator Norris started
his campaign for the government
to operate it and give the people
cheap electricity. Two Presidents
vetoed his bills, on the ground
that they meant competition with
private industry.
When President Roosevelt went
to the White House, Senator Nor
ris found man who thought
along the same line. Congress
passed a bill creating the Ten
nessee Valley Authority, and Mr.
Roosevelt signed it on May 1S,
1888. So IVA, you see, is only
two and half years old. Muscle
Shoals was taken over from the
War Department as part of it.
ID OOSEVELT appointed three
IN men to direct IVA. They
were H. A. Morgan, Arthur E.
Morgan ono relation) and David
Lilienthal.
The three met in a hotel room
in Washington for the first time
in June. 1888. They laid their
plans, set up headquarters, hired
engineers and draughtsmen, began
to assemble a staff and lay plans.
Five months later. by November,
they had 1400 men at work, and
two big dams we'll under way.
Here is what IVA, physically,
looks like today: Y has $4,000
men at work. 1t has big offices
in Knoxville and Muscle Shoals.
All the records are kept at the
Shoals. but the real heart of IVA
is at Knoxville. Chairman H. e.
Morgan lives in a beautiful home
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best defense is to return small
spade to try to give his partner
a ruff.
Declarer should trump in with
the ace Of hearts and then lead
small heart, winning in dummy
with the queen.
Cash the king of hearts, lead
another spade and ruff it. This
establishes the fifth spade upon
which the losing diamond can be
discarded.
Proper timing, rather than q
gambling finesse, produces six odd.
Copyright. 1885. NEA Service. Incl.
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Times Books

TN the year 1860, when the war between the states
just about to begin, great idea came to old
Sam Houston, Governor of Texas
This idea was nothing less than scheme for the
conquest of Mexico, to be undertaken by, Texas
Rangers and auxiliary forces under the general di
rection of Gov. Houston himself.
The result, as the Governor it, would be an
American protectorate over Mexico, sudden
of patriotism that would avert the threatened con-
flict between North and Southland eventually the
election of Sam Houston President of the United
States.
The plan fell through partly because Houston
couldn't get a promise of cooperation from the
United States military commander in Texas, who
happened to be colonel named Robert E Lee, and
partly because the Civil War came on too fast But
it almost worked and its details are fully revealed in
Walter Prescott Webb's new book, THE Texas
Rangers"
DROF. WEBB has written complete history Of
4 this famous frontier organizations century of
history and right interesting book it is.
He traces the organization back to its birth in
the period of Texan independence, follows its career
down through innumerable fights with Indians
Mexcans, and bad men generally, and tells many
exciting stories about it.
The Rangers were tough, right from the start
although until the Colt revolver invented they
had to fight on foot Their heyday was the stormy
poSt-Civi War era, when they lived through scenes
of reckless daring quite as spectacular anything
the dime novelsts ever invented.
Published by the Houghton Mifflin Co., the book
costs S.. (By Bruce Cation.