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Our
Town
By
ANTON SCHERRER

THE Marott Hotel people, ap-
l. parently pleased with the way
this department handled their
Peach Media" problem, now want
to know how to differentiate be-
tween the various forms of Crepes
Suzette. They couldn't have come
to a better place.
There are only two kinds of
Crepes Suzette-the good and the
bad-an6 the difference lies largely
in the cooks willingness to COOP
crate with the hen. After that, it
is a matter of the treatment &C
corded the frying pan.
The frying pan used for Crepes
Suzette should never be washed.
Neither should the frying pan used
for making omelets. To do so invites
failure at the very start. Ir the
end, it wrecks the cooks reputation
and insults the"hen.
THAT is why Madame Poulard
Il had the reputation she had and
why the French hens held her in
such high esteem. Madame Poulard
ran the famous William the Con-
queror Restaurant at st, Michel,
Normandy, and everything modern
cooks know about Crepes Suzette
dates back to what she found out
about them.
Madame mixed her eggs in a
wooden bowl and finished her Crepes
Suzette in long-handled pans over
an open wood fire. The pans, over
Is years old, had never been washed.
She said that the tinieSt bit of water
spoiled any egg mixture, no matter
how beautifully mixed. And so, not
to risk even trace of water that
might be absorbed into the pores of
the pans, she just wiped them clean
with cloth.
After you know about the frying
pan there is nothing hard about
Crepes Suzette. You simply make
them the way Lillian Russell liked
them which is the way George
Rector liked them which is the way
Madame Poulard made them.
A LII it takes is four eggs, two
4 n cups of flour, two cups of milk,
one and one-quarter teaspoons of
salt, some grated orange rind, some
smooth red currant jelly and, of
course, the conditioned frying pan
this department describes. What
ever you do, stay away from run
ming water.
Put the flour in wooden bowl
and add the salt, break the eggs
lovingly into the flour and mix well
with a wooden spoon. Add the milk
adagio tempo, stirring constantly
Strain the mixture and flavor with
the grated orange rind. Pour a
little-ever so little--of the batter
into small creased pan and spread
it out very thin. Brown the cakes
on both sides-some cooks are care
less about this-and spread with
currant jelly. After which, roll and
sprinkle with powdered sugar.
A FINAL word about the frying
4 n pan: Under no condition should
it exceed seven inches in diameter
Fifteen centimeters was the size
Nine. Poulard used. Anything big
ger may turn out to be German
pancake.
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Q-What is the state flower of
Ohio?
A-Scarlet carnation.
Q-When, where and from what
cause did Marcella Sembrich die?
AIT her home. Isl Central Park
West, New York City, Jan. IL, 1885,
as a result of enlphysema and heart
complications.
Q-When passing the plate for a
second helping should one retain
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DAILY THOUGHT

He that saith, know Him, and
keepeth not His commandments, is
liar, and the truth is not in him.
John Ia.
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CATAN was the first that prac-
- ticed falsehood under sanity
Show.-Miiton.
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Vagabond
from
Indiana
ERNIE PYLE
MAY 20, 1896
ERNIE PYLE

EDITORS NoTE-This rowing reporter
for The Times goes where he pleases.
when he pleaseS, in search Of odd stories
about this and that
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The Hoosier Forum

dlsapproUe Of aOhat yom say-and aviU defend
to the death your right to sag it-Vo1taire
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Gen. johnson Saws

D1TTSBURGH, March PAS this is written the
n mood at Pittsburgh has greatly subsidized There
are Stll no trains or aplaneS to where want to 60
not very much telephone service, no light except
candles, no radio to help kill time that must be
Killed, no power, and most people have sore legs
from climbing scores of flights every day Worst of
ALL there is no water in high hotel rooms and so Won
have to climb
But this town has handled itself excellently in its
catastrophe. The Red Cross got to work at once
taking care of all extreme distress The National
Guard was Immediately the street acting as spe-
cial police There several small fires that we're
handled efficiently. The whole mechanism of gov
eminent worked smoothly
thing worth remarking is the quick and cheer
ful way in which people adapt themselves to sudden
inconvenience, annoyance and even suffering We
never appreciate the variety and number of little
services that many of do for the rest of us until
some upheaval takes them all away
HERE are people carrying baggage up 10 flights,
Il bathing in toilet-water, bearing candles like
Diogenes around the streets waiting around an
airport on schedule, but on some faint hope that
chance ship may fly their way
On the rougher side, there were thousands who
had lost homes and dozens who had suffered great
damage, and few-not many-who were hungry
and cold and with no place to go. Yet with all this,
never heard more joking and laughter, except at
picnic, and heard no complaints.
The old candle and fashlight vender got his all
ment store created both CONSERVATION and merri-
ment, and much convincing than the real
thing. The main burden of this kind of thing is
telephone and telegraph operators. and they never
seem to fall down or lose their patience
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Turning an Honest Shilling

or course this sort of thing is to be expected In
- the rural districts of the United States.
where people admittedly sentimental but
1t conflicts with the traditional picture of the Eng
lshman, who considers any public display of private
emotions to be in exceedingly bad taste
1t is interesting also to read little ad in which
lady OF title, presumably short of money offers to
arrange parties for Americans or others wishing
10 meet people or extend their acquaintance Would
an English lady of quality do that do you suppose
ana is admission to the better homes for sale like
tickets to the waxworks?
The answer is that they do not raise many fool
lSh children in England and that few opportunities
10 earn an honest shilling are overlooked even
though the traditional dignity of breed be conn
promised
These are familiar matters to the English on
their own home grounds but in America the news
and interpretations of events in England is limited
to the big essentials. Consequently we never know
that they regard their London Times as the favor
tie newspaper of Englishmen who have gone to
Heaven. We never would suspect that a clergyman
was sufficiently wrought up to write letter to the
Morning Post inquiring how deep angleworms bur-
row in the earth and why.
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Times Books

ID EBECCA VESTS new novel, THE Thinking
IN Reed" Viking; $3.50, has fallen into the
spring literary pool with such stupendous splash
that it would take rash man indeed to look at it
and say, "Phooey"
Yet there is something exceedingly depressing
about this book That, probably, is simply because
Miss West has done so superlatively well what she
set to do viz: Dissect the moneyed leisure class
which perched atop European civilization during
those dizzy years between 1918 and 1929.
Reading it. you feel that you reading a study
in futility; and that feeling is apt to become so
complete that what happens to any of the people in
the book ceases to be of any Importance.
1t is a bit hard to become engrossed in the trou-
bes of the ultrawealthy when these troubles
ated by the very fact that the people are ultra
wealthy.
The only trouble is that your impotence with the
books members is apt TO slop and include the
books high-souled heroine as we'll Patient Griselda
Is hardly pitiable on 100000 year. by Bruce
Catton)
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Glass-TOpped Tables

TN many parts of the country the earth has been
j. stripped down to such poverty and weakness
that it can not hold water 1t is little as If some
body spilled a drink upon a glass-topped table
Neither the table nor the stricken field has any
power Of absorption.
These things are familiar enough. They have
been the subject of study by engineers for many
wears Flood losses which will be ever so much
higher this year, run about $35 100000 annually.
Erosion is a greater luxury That amounts to about
$500 100000 every year.
The problem of a watershed can not be handled
by local authorities. The various and diverse
factors concerned in flood control can only be met
by some sort national planning. But here, again,
most of our legal precedent and much OF our po-
litical philosophy against the rule OF reason
Mr. Justice Roberts read a very emphatic de-
cison not so many months ago IN which it was set
forth that agriculture is not national problem
It follows that erosion isn't
Any comprehensive Federal plan would be com
muniStic." 1t would destroy initiative and keep
rowboats out of the streets of our principal cities
Millions for the Red Cross but slender nickels for
prevention.
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EhZnough
BY
.ESIbROOk PEGLER

DARIS March 24-Perhaps some one at home can
enighten the Rev. p C. Matthews of Trent
College, Long Eaton Nottingham, England who has
written an appeal for information to the editor of
the London Post under the heading How Deep Do
Worms Burrow?"
Sir" he says While the boys here were digging
sand to be put on field they were leveling it was
noticed that worms had made their way through the
earth to depth of five feet Discussion then arose
as to how deep worms do go. why they go so far
down and how long the average worm lives I
wonder if any of your readers could enlighten us"
This communication to the press came few
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who carried away such stones the
first year came back recently and
showed me their first babies. Some
of them said they had been child
less as long as 13 or IA years.
WHETHER it's just coinci-
w dence, or whether some
psychological principle explains it,
or faith, or suggestion, I don't
pretend to know. Perhaps
change in food, thought, and the
leading of more normal life
while touring in the north coun-
try might have something to do
with it, Anyway, such incidents
have happened
Returning to the proposed out
door playground facilities, they
will also enable the children to
take the fullest advantage of the
sun during the short summer
months.
You see, we don't get any really
warm weather up here until after
June /, and cold, dark weather
closes down on us early in the
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
10y DREW PEARSON and ROBERT s. ALLEN

standpoint" but ascribas the
move to general persecution of
the Townsendites.
I'VE believe" Bulletin n con-
tinues, I'VE can find bonding
company which believes that
America is still the land of the
brave although it may have
dropped the freedom. The battle
is on. Some weak members
may drop from your clubs.
Stand fast. e.. The hope of
millions, young and old, is in
your hands and to the strong will
go the battle. o. K, fellow mem
bers, we can take it. Can you?"
Note-Active management of
the Townsend organization, in
Guiding its finances, is in the
hands of R. E. Clements, one-time
realtor and co-founder of the
Townsend plan. DR.. Townsend.
retired Iowa physician, is largely
a figurehead.
II
WTHEN little, red-necktie- wear
w ing Bilbo was elected to the
Senate, he promised the state of
Mississippi he would "out-Huey
Huey Long" But only last week,
after an IS months wait, did he
make his first speech.
At once the Senate chamber
nlled up. Word went around
that the famed Bilbo was speak
ing. Members of the House came
over to listen. Newsmen packed
the press gallery.
But it was flop.
Bilbo spoke for four hours. Peo-
pie yawned. drifted off. Vice Presi-
dent Garner was among the first.
He turned over the gavel to Sem
ator Moore of New Jersey.
Moore also yawned, began to
amuse himself drawing pictures.
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to the hospital that guests often
wave or shout at the children.
That is bad, as we don't want their
attention distracted at all by peo-
pie outside.
With the new arrangement, if
we are able to complete it, there
will be no chance of any such dis
fractions.
Ever since the children have
been in the present hospital, the
practice of carrying off stones
from the hospital yard as a charm
against childlessness has been
growing.
Jean Hersholt, the leading actor
in the moving picture made here,
took back to Hollywood a whole
boxful of such stones. He said he
was going to give them to child
less couples he knew in Holly
wood.
Many people have written and
asked that they be sent stones
from the hospital yard to use as
charms.
Now of course I don't put any
faith in charms myself, but the
fact remains that several couples
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We KneW They We're Coming

TT can hardly be said that very much was done
i by anybody in anticipation of the present floods
Yet they did not as any great surprise Casual
passengers on train to Chicago about three weeks
ago were swapping stories about the snow in their
home town and village and making predictions about
what would happen when the thaw came.
guess old man Noah was the first red menace.
He had a plan, and naturally, his ruggedly in
dviduaistic neighbors laughed at him. I imagine
that they also got pretty good and sore at him
Moreover, very much afraid that there is some
thing inaccurate in the report that they were all
drowned in the flood 1t seems evident that certain
of the strict constitutionasts cheated the disaster
by perching themselves on housetopS. Some may
even have ridden the rods of the Ark itself
At any rate, there has persisted a tribe OF human
beings who insist that it is not going to rain any
more and that cooperative efforts to control ram
pant waters are surs the memory of William
Mckinley and Herbert Hoover.
AS ALI NJ. Landon has so sagely said in recent
interviews the really vital problems of the country
must be solved by the genius of private industry.
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look over the candidate and the platform of the
Cleveland convention
A NUMBER of political observers here are becom-
"A ing more and more convinced that thanks
partly to Republican strategy President Roosevelt
likely to be reelected bolt by Borah probably
would drive the last nail in the Republican coffin
this year.
Furthermore the situation has even more signifi-
cant long-range possibilities Borah knows he has
it within his power to exert considerable influ-
ence upon the reaignment of the two parties which
began four years ago.
Roughly, until 1882, the Republican Party was
coalition of Eastern industrialists and Western
agrarans. In many respects, their interests cashed
which explains the continuous insurgency which
ragged within the Republican Party almost from its
beginning led in time by men like Theodore
Roosevelt and the elder La Toilette
The Democratic Party was a coalition between
the South and a group of Northern machine bosses
like PendergaSt in Missouri the late George Brennan
in Illinois, Taggart in Indiana, and several lesser
ones. all running little Tammany Halls These local
politicians, pursuing the more abundant life,
more interested in holding their municipal and
county patronage than in winning national elections
Sometimes you had what facetiously called gen.
lemens agreements, by which city machine Demo-
Gratis took the local elections and the Republicans
were given enough help to carry the national ticket
division OF territory which left everybody happy
DY the end of the 1882 campaign this picture had
~ somewhat changed, chiefly with respect to the
Republican setup. Western Republicans like Norris
Hiram Johnson the La FolletteS and Wallace and
1ckes who were subsequently rewarded with Cabinet
jobs were found in the Democratic PARTY They had
taken over thousands of Republicans putting every-
thing west of the Mississippi in the Democratic col
umn. The agrarian wing of the Republican PARTY
mad deserted almost bodily to the Democratic Party
After 1882 the question was whether it would
stay bolted, or snap back to the Republican side
Rooseyelts main political job is to hold this wan
derlng left wing of the Republican Party bolt by
Borah now would exert tremendous influence toward
permanent amalgamation, since he is one of the few
great agrarian leaders still holding out against
Roosevelt.
Roosevelt is playing for gigantic stake He sees
an opportunity to do for the Democratic PARTY now
what jackson did for it hundred yesrs ago-make
1t again the dominant party
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clubs and the dummy goes down,
he can see that it is going to be
very difficult to defeat the con-
tract, as East's optimistic bidding
places most of the high cards in
his hand.
North also can see the possibil-
ity of the contract being made.
He has only one high card and
certainly should not waste it, but
should play small club on his
partners opening lead.
Now, if South is not afraid to
take chance, he will lead a small
club, realizing that, unless North
holds the queen of clubs, the con-
tract can not be defeated.
OF course, North wins the sec
ond trick with the queen and now
shifts to diamond, as directed by
his partners play of small club
This gives South two diamond
tricks, and the contract is defeat
ed one trick.
If South had continued with the
ace of clubs, instead of playing a.
small club, the contract would
have been made, as East would
have discarded one of his losing
diamonds on the long heart.
Copyright, 1886, by NEA Service. Inc1
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see the visitors 60 away
disappointed.
Here in Ontario we like to
think of such people as
guests, deserving of a
chance to see what they
have come so far to see,
but we never exhibit" the
children for pay.
That is why We have felt it
necessary to acquire land to en-
large the hospital grounds. That
is why we are planning to sur
round the grounds with a new
type of wire screening which will
permit persons outside to see
through it, yet make it impossible
for the babies to see outside.
If this plan works out, it will be
possible to see the children as they
will not be conscious of being OBJ
served. Thus there will develop
none of the elf-consciousness
that might appear if they came 10
feel that they we're in some way
attractions.
Even during the making of the
recent moving picture, THE Coun-
try Doctor" the children were
handled in such way that they did
not know they were the center Of
attention. New lamps were de-
veloped which gave ample light
without suggestion of strain. And
the brief sequences in which the
children appeared were so ar
ranged that they never suspected
that anything unusual was going
on.
TT was all game to the babies.
IL There was no attempt to direct
them or indicate what they should
do, no special Difference to them.
They simply played, and it was
photographed Nobody is going to
get self-conscious or artificial that
way.
There has been considerable
understanding about the guar
dians' recent acquisition of land
adjoining the hospital. This land
includes between 100 or 200 feet
on either side of the hospital,
running back perhaps an eighth
mile into the bush" behind the
building.
The strip on one side was ex-
propriated from the Dionne farm,
and that on the other was bought
from the neighbor, Alex Legros.
There being no road behind the
hospital, this will give us complete
privacy for the playground space
that will soon be needed.
Further, the land includes a
Juttlng pile of rock which over
hung the hospital on one side,
and which might have been used
for some undesirable purpose.
On the ether side is a meadow.
and here it is planned to estab-
fish a well-drained playground,
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Bilbo was denouncing Judge
Holmes of Mississippi, who once
had jailed him for. contempt of
court. For every phrase of his
denunciation, Senator Moore
added stroke to his picture.
1t showed Judge Holmes behind
the bench, a little Bilbo standing
before him, pleading. Underneath
was written:
Said Holmes to Bilbo, I'll send
you to jail"
Said Bilbo to Holmes, "I'll pull
your tall"
In sentencing Bilbos, let judges
beware,
They'll come to the Senate and
get in your hair.
And Bilbo kept on ranting.
HOW tightly big, bellicose Joe
i L. Robinson holds the state Of
Arkansas in his grasp as far as
the New Deal is concerned, has
Will clAAlEAJ ANAAANA1OUl AOCO VI IdOCs
Various high officials are in
creasingly worried about the con-
dition of Arkansas tenant farm
ers, evicted from their homes,
rapidly being organized - both
white and black-into a bitter ag-
ricultural union.
These officials, including WPA
Administrator Harry Hopkins and
ReSettlement Administrator Rex
Tugwell, have decreed that the
landless tenants should receive
Federal relief.
However, they have been unable
to get their own subordinateS in
Arkansas to extend this relief.
Written orders that the share
choppers should receive aid were
sent to WPA and IRA agents in
Arkansas. No result.
Copyright. 1886. by United Feature
Syndicate, incl
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with swings and other similar ap-
paratus.
Perhaps eventually we will be
able to have an outdoor pool.
hope so, for the little girls have
shown such a liking for the water
that I have no doubt they will be
strong swimmers. In fact, a cou-
pie of them can almost swim in
the bathtubs right now, if you
hold their chins up a little. In
the winter this pool might be
turned into a skating rink.
II
NTTTHIN the Enclosure there
w will be trees to climb when
that becomes safe to try, nature
objects to meet and learn about,
shade and sun, and plenty of
grass and solid earth.
The present fences are so close