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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-21
Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

S a series of articles which
will thorough explanation foods and their
effects the human body.
"TT0ELL me what you eat and will tell you what
Il you are!' says an old proverb. OF course that
doesn't mean that those who live largely on nuts and
grains resemble squirrels donkeys. Or that per-
sons who SubSiSt largely steak resemble the lion
ors the tiger in their righteousness The foods
eat enter into the composition of tissues after
digestion and absorption deficiency of certain
sena elements in the diet reveals itself in eXtraor
binary malfOrmatiOnS in body structure and in
usual diseases.
When the Queen of France heard that the people
crying for bread she said, Let them eat cake"
That was bad advice
slice of bread costs less than a piece of cake
a the same size and offers more in the way of
nutritional elements; but bread differs from cake
In lacking appetite appeal
The queens advice to her people a good
deal like most of the advice peddled nowadays the
subject of food Every who has suffered from
indigestion considers himself authority on diet
MOST people take diet for granted. They think
1N1 back to the time of their childhood They re-
member Sunday dinner with soup, chicken, vegeta-
bes, fruits, nuts, milk. pie and top of pie
And Sunday night support Everything in the old ice
box brought forth to delight the eye and the
palate
But times have changed
Nowadays girls learn to cook with can openers
This is not to deprecate the value of canned goods
because I will show later what their usefulness in
nutrition really is.
Foods have become sophisticated Thirty-1ve
years ago the average American had choice of
three cereals for breakfast: today there are several
hundred cereals from which he may choose
Once we ate only with the idea of putting energy
into our bodies Nowadays eat for health and for
growth.
The purpose of this series of articles is to en-
foods with at least the same care that he uses in
picking motor car.
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Island Group" more than 5000
miles from San Francisco and al
most 1900 miles from Guam, the
next halting place of Col. Lind
bergh'S adventurous pencil. This
was early in 1881, four years be-
fore the bronzed invaders we met
yesterday had arrived to disturb
the solitude of centuries, and
somehow those pinpoint islets
over which Lindbergh's pencil
lowered seem to symbolic the til
tanic nature of the entire trans
oceanic anyways project.
Pan-American in 1881 was hell
bent on getting to the Far East
before the great European lines,
heavily subsidized by their gov
ernments, could get there first.
The European airways had but to
follow comparatively simple over
land routes, while almost 5000
miles of surging ocean chanted
an apparently unanswerable chal-
lenge to Yankee ingenuity.
EAR-SIGHTED American inter-
a eSts in 1929 had co-operated
with the Chinese government in
setting up air lines in China
proper, and China controls the KEY
trade routes to the entire East. 1t
was vital that the fast advancing
European lines be blocked from
the Orient while americans
daring program developed from
scratch, and in 1882 the line made
its first overt move in a world
wide game of aviation chess-a
game in which the stake was a
market worth billions of dollars.
Pan American acquired these
Chinese lines, set up a partner
ship company with the Chinese
government, and soon Pan Amer
lean pilots were flying Oriental
Always 1000 miles up the Yang
tie River from Shanghai and a
thousand miles down the coast
from Pelping to Canton. Almost
at the same time the air lines of
Alaska, potential outpost on a
northern air route to the Far
East, became a part of the Pan
American System against the day
When the progress of Soviet avia-
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Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

LOW closely man is related to the so-caIled great
L l. apes or anthropod APOSTLE gibbon. the orang-
outang the chmpanzee and the gorilla-is of the
questions upon which biologists not yet agreed
1t is sometimes said by the uniformed that evo-
lutioniSts claim that men are descended from mon
Keys. That, OF course is not the case. What the
eVolutlonlstS do claim is that belongs to more
general animal family, namely, the prmateS. In
cluoed in this family the lemurs the tarsers
the New World monkeys, the Old Work monkeys the
anthropoid apes, and man. All the members of this
family cousins, but the exact degree of rela-
tionshp is still subject for argument.
EVOLUTIONISTS represent mans inheritance
IL with the familiar device of tree. The trunk
represents the original stock sort OF tree dwelling
lnsect-eating shrew who lived some 100000 years
ago. Gradually branches developed from the trunk
The first TO develop is represented today by the
lemur, the most primitive of all primateS The le-
muir is midway between the monkeys and the ordi-
nary quadrupeds He has fairly good eyes but
dog-like muzzle.
Next came the tarsier, pop-eyed monkey-like
creature. His eyes directed forward like those of
the monkey. Then in succession came the New
World monkeys, called because they are found
IN South America today, the Old World monkeys
found in the tropical parts of Africa and Asia, the
anthropoid apes. and finally man.
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Ethiopia. On the contrary we
sympathize with Ethiopia. Never
theless, the Italo-Ethiopian sit
uation has no bearing on the
present fight
Although Madame zaghloul
speaks English she insisted on the
interview being conducted in
French, explaining, Il am boy
cotting everything British, even
the language, which is hateful to
me. We are not fighting for
women'S rights. We have not
even a parliament yet. When we
achieve that it will be time enough
to think Of enfranchising women
THE late zaghloul Pasha de-
Il voted the greater part of his
life to fighting for Egyptian indie
pendence. He was founder in
1919 of the WAFD Gndepend-
ence) Party, leaders in the pres
ent anti-British agitation.
Twice in the course Of his strug-
gle Zaghloul Pasha was sent into
political exile.
His greatest triumphs came aft
er his return. From January to
November, 1924, he was premier.
In 1919 he headed the Egyptian
delegation which went to Paris to
lay before the Versailles confer
ence Egypt's claim to complete
independence. The delegation was
not seated at the conference. The
WAFD Party takes its name from
this incident, WAFD being the
Arabic word for delegation.
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Juan Trippe

China Clippers. still without pas
sengers, will extend their services
to Macao, on the Asiatic main
land.%rA few more weeks, to iron
out any possible bugs" to make
perfectly sure, and the clippers will
be carrying passengers. The final
step, the step which will shrink
the Pacific to one-seventh of it's
present size. will involve night
flying along the island chain be-
yond Honolulu-at first the only
overnight hop will be on the San
Francisco Hawaii leg.
TINE Pan American clipper, The
Il lines tranSoceanic test plane,
made her first exploratory flight
over the Pacific to Honolulu last
April. At that time the North
Haven was anchored off Midway,
dlSgorglng part of the 1,018,879
items of air base equipment car
ried in her hold to the amazement
of the Gooney birds and the per-
turbation of those attempting to
lighter it ashore in a japanese
sampan which refused to remain
on an even keel.
The Clipper was several hours
out Of the Golden Gate cutting a
path through the twilight at 5000
feet, Below her a night blanketed
ocean; above, the brightness of the
first stars. In her big cockpit,
crowded with instruments, pilot.
co-pilot, radio operator and flight
engineer were intent upon their
work; intent, alert and matter-of-
fact with the matter of -factneSs
of ships officers on the bridge dur
ing routine run.
Captain Sullivan, first officer"
that trip, glanced up from a
jotted computation, caught the
eye of Captain Edwin C. Musick,
his commander. Captain Sullivan
grinned:
odd stuff, this" said Captain
Sullivan, with a wave of his hand
toward the glimmer outside the
cockpit windows. We've flown
this route so often in training
that I've recognized every cloud
we've seen since leaving Frisco"
Formula for success.
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Times Books

COMPANION volumes the biography of
~ Garibaldi by Paul Frischauer and the auto
biography of his soGer grandson called "A Toast to
Rebellion" The latter is a Bobbs-Merrill book and
the former is published by Kendall & Sharp.
Mr.. Frischauer has written painstaking history
of the Italian hberator. The hoerators grandson
has produced colorful story Of soldier Of fortune
who fought under more than flag, always carry
ing in the tradition of freedom created by his
ancestor.
The most exciting passages in Garibaldi's book
deal with his adventures in South America where
he fought against Castro the dictator Of Venezuela,
and was imprisoned.
Seven Garibadis grandsons of Giuseppe, fought
for France in the World War. The present Giuseppe,
the author, does not carry his story through that
period. The reader wishes he had, but evidently for
political reasons since he is in exile from Italy,
he preferred to halt at 1914 by McReady HustonJ
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Just q Sucker

NEVERTHELESS, there is small likelihood that
any one will be punished for being involved in
the Affaire Strauss, and the incident is develop
ing into historic Joke just how much the senior
laid down in the way Of inducements has not been
determined, nor has it been shown just who took adj
vantage of the unhappy senors trusting nature But
the sense of the meeting obviously that the senior
was trying to take the Spanish people for suckers
and was taken himself instead. and that he acted
With extremely bad grace in Squawking to the preSi
dent, who has heavier matters his mind
"Straperlo which Senior Strauss describes as game
of skill, has become part of the Spanish language.
"Strapero" is verb, which means to trim a sucker
and one who trims sucker is known a "Straper-
loeador" sucker is known as Strauss" and al
though it's not mortal offense to call a man a
Strauss TO his face Madrid at this time it is a
good idea to smile when doing it.
Spain is occupied with other matters than restitu-
ton of Senior Strauss inducements. The republic
has turned Alfonsos palace into public museum
with guides in uniform to show for small tips. the
humbleSt peasant small town merchant through
the bedroom formerly occupied by the king and
queen. The royal throne is national relic. Paved
roads have been constructed lure tourist trade
which seems to be the capital industry nowadays in
most European countries
Madrid is a gay and from all outward appear
ances prosperous capital and those who afford
to gamble have sufficient opportunity in private clubs
not only here but wherever wealthy members of the
community congregate in force. And, of course for
the poor who insist gambling there's always the
national lottery, which has been running 172 years
and which is so much part of the national govern
ment that it occupies building of its in Madrid
as important the department and certainly
p. no less respectable. S
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that men talked (foolishly, many
thought of a time when great
air liners would hurtle across the
uneasy breadth of ocean to do for
Flooding liners what they, in their
moment, had done for sail. A
rush of wings, a tick of the clock
and that day is here, is no
further away than tomorrow's
news.
The year 1886 still may be in it's
prime when a, passenger boarding
that same Twentieth Century
Limited at Grand Central, and
transferring at Chicago to fast
weStbound train, will scarcely
have reached that doubtful oasis
which is Los Angeles before voy-
ayers on the China Clipper have
completed a passage from San
Francisco to Portuguese Macao,
within 40 miles of Hong Kong.
A ND yet if Trippe and Priester
4 n and Lindbergh moved swift
ly, they moved also without haste.
There is a distinction. On it's
South American lines Pan-Ameri-
can operates over $4,000 miles of
routes, has never had a single
flying boat accident, maintains
schedule above SO per cent. One
reason for this record is a con-
slant effort to be sure, to leave no
opening to Misfortune, and this
policy, with which the entire per-
sonnet is indoctrinated, became
the policy of the trans-Pacific
project. The advance was gradual,
studied. 1t still is.
When the 25-ton China Clipper
rises from the water off Pan
Americas Alameda terminus on
Nov. %, and stands out between
the tall, gaunt towers of the yet
unfinished San Francisco-Oak
Bridge for Honolulu and Manila,
she will carry the United States
mails, but no passengers, and
while she will reach Manila in
one-quarter the time required by
the fastest of steamships, she will
be far from crossing her Pacific
bridge as quickly as she can.
A few weeks later and the
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ton might make possible an Arc
tic route to the China Sea.
In acquiring the Alaskan lines,
however, Pan American merely
was not overlooking any bets. In
themselves, the routes were prom
Using, but the foggy, dangerous
Alaskan Peninsula -Aleutian high
way to Asia was unattractive
for other reasons in addition to
its natural handicaps.
MOT SO the southern skyway.
L y Its westward advance is over
a series of island way stations,
pillars in a 9000-mile bridge, all
of which-by some freak of what
the jingoes might call manifest
destiny - are possessions of the
United States, although the line
cuts between Micronesian island
chains belonging to Japan.
One need not be more than
casually familiar with Americas
political and commercial stake in
the Far East to realize the i'm
portance of this first of trans
oceanic air routes, and to ponder
what it may mean to the future of
American trade, travel. habits,
and point of view-to the future
OF America, for that matter. Ger
tainly it would seem the complete
answer to the isolationists. And
yet always the greatest appeal will
lie, perhaps, in the adventure of
its building; an adventure which
will be remembered long after the
8:15 for China has become as
commonplace as the Twentieth
Century Limited.
THE Twentieth Century Linz
Il tied! The name was once
only yesterdays synonym for
speed. But the speed is in our
age, and not in the vehicle of
the moment 1t was only yester-
day, in the historical sense, that
Bleriot spanned the Channel, that
Lindbergh flew the Atlantic. Yes
terday that the steam vessels
made snails of the beautiful clip
per ships, all canvas set for swift
run to Canton River. Yesterday
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PROBLEMS IN CONTRACT BRIDGE
BY w. E. MKENNEY
Secretary American Bridge Lea que

More and more the better players
are beginning to realize that open
ing leads play an important part IN
defending hands at contract bridge.
No longer can you be content with
just opening the top of your part
nerS suit or the fourth best of your
longest and strongest suit.
Your mind has to be on the alert.
You must try to visualize the posi-
BILE holdings of declarer and dummy
This picture, of course, can be built
up in your mind with the bidding.
Todays hand is spread for five
spades. Declarer has nothing to
lose but heart and a diamond
still I will leave it up to your
friends.
Ask them what they would do if
West opened the five of hearts
against them. Isn't it natural to
play low from dummy. hoping that
West was leading away from the
queen?
Well, now can you see what hap
pens? West wins the trick with
the queen and returns the eight of
hearts, showing that his possible
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Egyptian Women Ready TO Die ghng for independence Widow
OF National Hero Tells Writer in Bitter Stand AGAINST British

recent speech at the Lord Mayors
banquet in London in which he
said England and Egypt were ir-
revocably bound together by his
tory and geography This was in
terpreted here to mean that Eng
land would not restore Egypts
suspended parliamentary regime
for an indefinite time).
Britain has never benefited us
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eyes flashing She declared that
hitherto there had been little SYM
pathy among Egyptians for Italy,
but, she added, there's no telling
what may develop with people in
their present mood.
I'VE most emphatically do not
want to exchange Britain for Italy
as our masters, +" she went on. I'VE
are not supporting Italian aims in
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mentS to open a casino or store,
as it would be called in the United
States, on the Spanish Island OF
Majorca
Senior Strauss then opened his
store in both places, dealing d
game which he called "Straperlo.
and to his surprise and disoust
was tossed into the street. as the
phrase goes in America. by order
OF the government. He then
waited a reasonable time for the
return of inducements which he
had laid on the line, and when
the Inducements were not re-
funded he wrote a letter of nro-
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Fair Zuough
BY
W'ESIBRO0K PEGLFR

MADRID Nov. 2l-On further investigation OF
A'A the celebrated "Afaire Strauss" your CORE
spondent is able to report that the SpaniardS
civilized race. people with sophisticated sense Of
hunor who will conduct themselves appropriately in
these trying circumstances. In the celebrated
"AfIaire Strauss" gambling who had had eX
perience in Mexico came to Spain to make arrange
ments, as he thought, to open the old gambling
casino at San Sebastian. He also made arrange
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Pan-American Always this month in
augurates service to Manila. Shortly
thereafter this service will extend to the
Asiatic mainland. Behind this is story
of adventure, of achievement and of dar
ing determination. This is the second
chapter of that story, drawn from rec
ords and reports of the company and
other sources.
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IrlcndS Should gather about him in a
protecting screen and say with all
the good will in the world, For
Heavens sake, Herbert, cut out the
wisecrack and be your political
age
It was at The Ohio dinner last
week that the former President of
the United States cut loose and
tried to get himself accepted as an
other Eddie Cantor. Personally I'm
afraid he'll never get by in white
face, but, unfortunately, some of
the papers humored him and printed
tWo-column boxes captioned "Epi-
grams of the Great Engineer" or
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entry card is the ace of diamonds.
West wins with the ace and re-
turns diamond. East wins and
returns another heart. This estab-
fishes a spade trick for West, and
what looked like a perfectly safe
contract has been defeated by a
tricky opening lead
lCopyright. 1895. NEA Service. Inc.l
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not the slightest-only herself"
Madame Zaghloul said with fire.
What she gave with one hand.
she took away with the other.
She suffocated us, made us mere
servants"
MADAM zAGHLOUL, white
IVA haired and nearing 10, spoke
With almost fanatic fervor, her
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-21
BY SUTHERLAND DENLINGER

BRITAIN'S Imperial Rail
ways, Germany's Luft-
hansa, Hollands Royal
Dutch Airlines, Frances
Air Orient were pushing
rapidly ward China
through Egypt, India, Per-
STA and Siam. They had a
comparatively easy over
land route to follow, and
once they had established
themselves Europe's trade
would reach the Far East in just
half the three weeks required by
the fastest steamers to bridge the
sea between our west coast and
the Asiatic mainland.
None knew better than young
ish, alert Juan Trippe, or keen,
Andre Priester how difficult it
would be for American air inter-
eStS to break into Orient were
government subsidized foreign
airWays to get there first. PAN
American had spent years over
coming the lead of heavily en-
trenched French and German
services in South America.
Trippe and Priester and gan
Cling, fair-haired Col Charles A.
Lindbergh studied a huge map of
the Pacific, covered its surface
with a weblike tracing Of possible
routes. And, eventually, they
evolved plaza plan which in
its mingling of caution and daring
was typical of all three.
HOL LINDBERGH moved the
~ sharpened point of his pencil
across a chart of the Pacific.
Priester and Trippe watched. The
pencil point moved south and west
to Honolulu, paused, continued
west and north for a distance
representing some 1880 miles to a
dot that was Midway Island, out
ermost of the group we call the
HaWalianS but which was known
to Capt. Cook and to romance as
the Sandwich Isles. AS Juan
Trlppe, president of Pan American
Anyways, and Andre Priester, his
chief engineer, looked on. Col.
Llndbergh's pencil continued
southwest over inches of blue
paper that marked tumbling
leagues of watery emptiness to a
spot of land so tiny as to be, even
on such large map, almost in
finiteSimal.
THAT which in a few weeks
u will be casual reality must
have seemed in 1881 to the ordi-
nary man the widest sort of
dream. Wake Island. for one thing
was a low-lying speck of sand
filled with the erie sound of a nv
Rad of seabirds; covered with
matted brush, scrub trees, drift
wood and coral boulders; without
shelter from blazing sun or driv-
ing rain; without water and with
out food.
In 1881 no flying boat had vet
been built which could cover the
initial leg of the course marked
out by Col Iindbergh's pencil.
that from San Francisco to Homo
lulu, with a safe fuel reserve. to
say nothing of pay load. In 1881
there were no methods of opera
tlon which would insure safe OBJ
Grafton of transocean airline.
In 1881 establishment of a Pacific
air service required not onlv the
hazardous and primitive physical
pioneering necessary to establish
chain of island bases, but scien-
tlflc pioneering in order to pro-
vide planes, navigating systems.
adequate radio equipment, educa-
tlonal pioneering to insure the
existence of a flying and ground
personnel trained to do that
which had never been done be-
fore.
The spot was the lonely mid
Pacific atnll cano-l
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test to the president of the republic.
AT the present time special prosecutors are under
instruction to examine the evidence against eight in
dvlouals who have been named in the case and two
members OF the cabinet have resigned because rela-
tives of theirs were mentioned by Senior Strauss
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Hoover" I will admit that my criticism may be less
than scrupulously fair, because I didn't hear the
speech. 1t may that the Palo Alto playboy has a
droll delivery which sells the stuff l do not even
know what costume he the makeup which
he used But the script itself is not so hot.
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II Seems hoM
BY
Haywood BR0UN

IT has been said that Charlie Chaplin nourishes
Il secret ambition to play Hamlet. and now Herbert
Hoover whose reputation is largely associated with
tragedy, reveals in public desire to be funny man
1t IS true Of course that he coined one of the most
fano Gus gags ever TO gain currency in America He
would be wise to let his reputation rest that Strive
as ne VIII it IS most unlikely that he will ever think
up anything quite 50 desplitting as "a chicken in
every pot Indeed the time has come when his