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The Washington times., 1937-02-17

46 years ago, two young men started new
kind of grocery store.
They bought good food for cash-for
everybody at once. In this way, they we're
able to sell better food cheaper Soon there
we're two stores Then ten. Now, every neigh
borhood has it's American Store.
AS years gave experience, American
Stores found they could offer you even
greater savings by making and testing many
products themselves. So today, great sunny
bakeries turn out thousands of lOaves of
bread fresh from the oven. .. Other depart
ments make jams jellies, mayOnnaise using
good old.fashioned home recipes %. Butter
is rushed from the finest dairylands, and
must pass searching tests before reaching
your table. Eggs from blue.ribbon hens
-. All in addition to scores of national
products whose names make them old friends.
The Washington times., 1937-03-02

ITO the Bering Sea. In 1927, DR..
Waugh said the unspoiled Eskimos
had the best teeth in the world,
but that they quickly Succumbed
to diet of carbohydrates. This
conclusion, I am informed, was
strengthened in 1929, when DR..
Waugh was sent by the United
States Department of Public
Health on a mission of both re-
search and dental ministrations
to the Eskimos of northern Alaska.
He took the first dentists chair
into the Far North.
In 1880, Martin Luther, descend
ant of the historic Martin Luther,
returned to Harvard University
from Labrador and northern Can
ada to report his studies of Eskimo
dentition. He made systematic
studies which led him to conclude
that they-again the ones who ate
only native food-attained 95 per
cent of perfection in teeth. Incl
dentally, he found their lung
The Washington times., 1937-03-02
SEVERAL BILLS

Representative Raymond ]. Can
non seems to be intent on taking
the primG donnaS out Of baseball.
He has announced that he will in
troduce a bill in the near future
so that baseball players should bs
allowed to unionize.
Think Of The hold out" turning
into a "sitdown" or the standardi-
zation of the hitters. If they went
in for collective bargaining you'd
know just how many hits you were
going to get a season, how many
pop flies and perhaps how many
shoe-string catches.
But the Representative should
know whereof he speaks, for he
played professional baseball at one
time in his career and a number
Of years ago he attempted to or.
ganize a union, but 1t failed.
He has also introduced bills pro-
posing a tax on Americans who
marry aliens and proposing to ban
all motion pictures unfit" for chill
dren.
The Washington times., 1937-03-02
QUESTION AND ANSWER

Representative Maury Maverick
is one legislator who isn't afraid
the Government service is going
to be stripped of all its good men
by private industry. On a recent
visit to Swarthmore College q stu
dent asked him what he would
suggest to attract good admins
traitors to Washington and keep
them from going to say molasseS
firms. (Mr. Rexford Guy Tugwell
recently quit the RA for such .
job.) Said the Texan:
"WelI, of course you didn't
use a very good example because
there is some question as to
whether he was very good ad-
ministratOr. However, you ask
a very good question, and that
is, we get q man down there,
and he is in a temporary bureau,
he is in the ResettIement or he
is in the Youth Administration
or something of that kind. He
joins the Government and finds
out that that is going to be
abolished in six months, or he
has a feeling it is. He is getting
$4,000 a year and then he is
offered $4,000. He sees that
$4,000 difference and he quits.
However, there are plenty Of
men in this country that are
willing to work for $lO,OOO q
year. I'm one Of them. And I
believe that we are not going
to have any trouble getting ad-f
ministratOrS in the Government.
"NOt many have quit, and
there are hundreds Of admins
traitors that are doing capable
work. And to make you young
people feel well toward your
faculty we have q great many
professors down there whom we
first called brain trusterS' and
we have kicked them around
and beat them around and they
are getting to be pretty intelli.
gent fellows and doing all right"
The Washington times., 1937-03-02
The Human Side of the News = By Edwin c. Hill

lpower and general condition 100
per cent.
His researches confirmed the
previous finding that the common
cold was unknown until the out
siders came in.
DR.. Birket-Smith, associate Of
the famous explorer, Knud Ras-
mussen, wrote an excellent book
called "The Eskimos," which has
greatly stimulated scientific inter
est in the Far Northern people.
There are only about 10000 of
them, most of them living south of
the Arctic Circle.
Blond EskimoS apparently are
a myth, as are the so-called white
Indians of the tropics. Scientists
believe that glandular alterations,
possibly caused by certain food and
water ingredients, cause peculiar
pigmentation-that there posi-
lively is no blond strain in their
ancestry.
Authentic scientific opinion de-
The Washington times., 1937-03-02

fascinating laboratory specimens
for science, anxious in its effort
to learn what civilization has or
hasn't done to us-not only our
bodies but our minds. Already
they have discovered many inter
esting things in both fields.
AS to dentistry, the scientists
will study, among other things,
the Eskimo practice Of boiling
and eating an old sealskin boot.
when times are hard. Either
that makes good teeth, 1r else
good teeth make such depres-
sion articles possible. It's inter-
esting, anyway you figure it.
For nearly so years, science
has accepted the supposition of
the superiority Of Eskimo teeth.
DR.. Howard Mummery, of Eng
land, made the first systematic
studies of this subject and, in
1890, wrote that the Eskimos
had the best teeth Of any living
race. Ancient skeletons are well
kept in the land of the ice king,
and mummies found up near the
ice cap confirmed DR.. Mum
mery's conclusions. And even in
those days there were news.
paper uuips exactly like those of
today-"obviouSly the EskimoS
have the best teeth because they
have no dentists"
DENTAL TROUBLE
The picture seems a bit dis
torted. Steffanson. Knud Ras-
mussen, Macmillan, Freuchen,
DR.. Birket-Smith, and other ex-
plorers and scientists have, if I
remember correctly, found that
the Eskimos have plenty of den
tai trouble. The data is meager.
and it is hard to get the straight
of it, but it appears that the
genuinely primitive Eskimo, in
his native state, has amazingly
strong and durable teeth, with
toothache q rare affliction. But
with just q nibble of the COM
plex diet Of the temperate zone,
his dentition begins to fail.
DR.. Leuman w. Waugh. of Co
lumbia University, has confirmed
this. DR.. Waugh, associate dean of
the school Of dental and oral
surgery. made many expeditions
The Washington times., 1937-03-02

NA6NO O1Js
This morning, as he was about
to take off on the Eastbound plane
from Burbank, Cal, reporters
crowded around A. S. Robinson,
handed him the newspaper account
of the tragedy, watched curiously
as he read. They were remember
ing that which he would not easily
forget.
-Four weeks ago another plane
had crashed near this same field.
Robinson had been passenger on
that plane. A busy man, his Sched-
ule adjusted to life's speeded
tempo, flying had become for him,
as for millions more, the accepted
commonplace.
DOOMED FLIGHT
That doomed flight had begun
like many another. A nasty night
but one grew accustomed to
storms. Casually he glanced out
into the churning darkness, feeling
the heave and thrust of fanged
peaks that neared and passed
looked at his watch-returned to
his paper-then went sprawling
headlong, catapulted into scream
ing, battling bedlam!
Crash wrench shrek OF
great wings ripping, hurtling :.
blackness exploding, vomiting ter
ror. Afterwards-was it hours or
days?-the dazed sense Of his own
struggle clutching, slipping.
hauling himself up from coiling
depths of agony and daze. And
clawing deeper and deeper into his
consciousness, the realization that
someone, something's MANI
was bowling, sobbing. mhuman!
Unbearable!
Somehow he found his hands
fumbled for his face E. stag.
gered uncertainty to his feet {.
started moving automatically, any.
where, nowhere. heading blindly
for help pulling himself along
The Washington times., 1937-03-02
ParlOr Car Waits

THE next time selfapponted commentator rises
to tell what's wrong with American youth he will
please include this:
The Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific Railroads
have put special stewardesses their trains to for
young children travelling from divorced parent to
the other.
The fathers are usually Eastern business men while
the mothers live in California on their almony. Gus
tody of the children has been divided.
Their chance of growing up to be happy normal men
and women has been divided, too
The Washington times., 1937-03-02
A Strong Committee

THE committee of Is men and named by
Il Commissioner Melvin G. Hazen to make study
of the District government with view to possible
organization has an opportunity to do worthwhile job
MANY agencies and individuals have recently recon-
mended changes in the local government but this is the
first time that those who live under that government
have had an opportunity to conduct anything like an
official survey of the local administration.
Usually the suggestions for changes in the government
of the District come from those who want to experiment
and who are willing to conduct the experiment at the
cost of the people upon whom they experiment.
Naturally under that system most of the recommenda-
tons have been anything but desired by those who live
in the District and who pay their taxes here
Commissioner Hazen has appointed to his survey
mittee men and women who have earned the right to
be called representative citizens"
All of them are familiar with the conduct of the local
government and with the reaction to it of the people
governs.
They bring to their present task wealth Of expert
ence in local affairs gained by years of much activity
as is allowed residents Of a voteless community.
To this committee the District Commissioners have
given free rein to conduct the inquiry the committee
desires and with promises of complete cooperation on the
part of the Commissioners and subordinate officials.
While the findings of the committee will have no bind
ing legal effect still they will have the moral effect Of
expressing the attitude of group Of thoughtful loyal
and intelligent citizens
To that extent they will deserve the serious and earnest
consideration not only of the Commissioners but of the
Congress to which eventually they will go.
There are undoubtedly many things in the pattern Of
the District government which could be improved
That is probably inevitable in any government which
is in no way responsible to the citizens it governs and
which is considered to be simply necessary evl to
many members of the Congress which controls it.
These possible improvements will doubt be found
by the new citizens committee
And after they are found we confidently hope that
they will be made
The Washington times., 1937-03-02

erives the Eskimos from the Stone
Age. In 1929, Henry B. Collins,
jr., of the Smithsonian Institution,
discovered traces of an Eskimo
golden age" in northern Alaska.
There were implements, weapons
and ceramics which offered con-
elusive evidence that they once
had attained a much higher de-
gree of culture than that of today.
But what interests the scientists
most is the fact that here is sort
of "test tube" sample of an ancient
people, unspoiled by civilization,
or what We call the social heri-
tage."
This suggests fruitful studies,
not only in the relationship Of food
and bodily metabolismS, as in the
present dentists expedition, but
such material for anthropologists
in tracing the growth Of the hu-
man mind. There is predicted a
close scientific concentration on
the ESkimos during the next few
years. The naive Eskimo mind
has been found puzzling by those
who have peered into it. They
have god, although they never
pray to him to fend off evil. An
Eskimo explained this to a mem
ber of one of Capt. Donald MacMil-
lan's expeditions.
THEOLOGY
"Our god is very kind" said
the Eskimo. IF it was he who
sent us the terrible storms, or
killed the caribou, he would not
be kind, and it would do no good
to pray to him. These bad things
happen because our god cannot
prevent them. But we pray to
the god to make us better
hunters, and he does help us"
There the anthropologistS find a
bit of simple Stone Age theology
The Eskimos also have their own
quaint idea about heaven and hell.
Hell is in the sky, where the dread
full storms come from; heaven Is
deep down in the nice, warm
earth. Another bit of Stone Age
belief and behavior which inter
ests the modern world is the Es'
kimo community ethics" If q
hunter or fisherman has hard
luck, he gets an even share OF the
collective catch, sufficient to pro-
vide for him and his family.
Possibly they are not too bright,
or they wouldn't be living up
there, and this may account for
the fact that they never get
around to providing for the fu'
ture. The nearest they come to
that is when everybody gets out
and rustles brant goose eggs. They
make an omelet of several thou
sand eggs and stuff a seal inteS
tine with it. The sausage will
carry quite a few families through
the worst of the winter. But they
never discount the future, and
their budget always balances.
This study of Eskimo teeth Is
just the beginning OF a really
close look at this strange people.
!. Copyright, 1887, by King Features
| Syndicate. 1ne.)
The Washington times., 1937-03-02

And then, incredibly, it was morn
ing. Men were talking to him :.
steadying him catching him
as he sWayed.
Not yet four weeks-time could
scarcely have Scabbed the cash Of
of such a memory. A man might
lock it out of his brain, but it
would stay in his blood, against
all willing.
And yet-with that horror still
fresh within him and the account
of another before his eyeS-here
A. S. Robinson stood, about to take
off in another plane! The ring Of
watching faces stared incredulous.
If they were in his shoes? Didn't
he - wasn't he, they blurted.
afraid?
Fear? His quiet eyes accepted.
admitted the fact-then put it to
one side. There was danger, Of
course. One had to take chances.
Life was like that. And one was
bound to feel fear. It was a
psychological handicap" - some
thing you carried within you,
whether you liked it or not. But
it needn't get you down.
AS for himSef-"it doesn't
bother me. My reason tells me
that flying is as safe as any other
method of travel. I intend to
keep right on"
DEADLIEST PERIL
He moved up the gang plank
took his seat-looked indifferently
out of the window as the earth
began to drop away.
They had asked him the oldest
question there was the question
which had, from the first, de-
ternined savagery or civilization
the question each man must de-
eide for himself before all others.
Should or shouldn't man let him
self be ruled by his own fear? And
he'd answered it in the only way
it could be answered.
For there was, of course, no
such thing as playing SAFE" You
might give up trains or planes
yet still have no peace. The more
you gave up for the sake Of eau
ton, the worse off you were, For
fear, itself, was the ghastliest Of
all fateS-it mangled you, broke
you more horribly than any plane,
FRIGHT, NOT FLIGHT-THAT
WAS MANS DEADLIEST PERIL
You were never safe, never free,
until you, could rise above your
own fear. He had risen. ANY man
could rise.
Copyright. 1887. by King Features
| Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1937-03-02
Three-Minute Journeys

lmous influx of visitors during the
early autumn. Travellers from the
Atlantic and the Pacific coasts
find the Canal Zone an especially
interesting and delightful trip, not
too far away in actual travel time,
but far away enough, indeed de.
tached and remote, from the ordi-
nary prosaic scenes that make up
the average background.
The trip through Balboa, the
suburb Of Panama City on United
States soil, Cristobal, which occu-
pies the same status at Colon, and
the canal itself should cause even
the most indifferent American cit
izen to take new pride and joy in
his great nation.
EXPECT NEW RECORDS
Preparations for late autumn
and winter travel exceeded any
period in transportation history.
High speed schedules and innova'
tions and generous fare reductions
are attracting many to take win
ter vacations over the rails.
Winter bargain rates, an
nounced recently, will take many
fasteners out to the Pacific coast
for the first time. Florida-bound
trade is due to hit new high, ac-
cording to advance reservations.
The opening of the new Pan
American motor highway is giving
Mexico an early tourist boom, and
Canada is getting its share Of the
tourist trade.
The Washington times., 1937-03-02

discussed SUD- hep' Gu"' H AayAOE
ject in the nation is the Roosevelt
spending. Of course, Mr.. RooSe-
velt couldn't spend all that money
that his opponents are shouting
about if Congress didn't say he
could.
The purse strings of the nation
are held by the members Of Con-
gress, that is until they feel like
letting them go for a while like
they have to Mr.. Roosevelt.
All this brings us to the fact the
Appropriations Committees in the
House and Senate are very accu-
rately considered pretty important
cogs in Government.
Look at the chairman Of the
Senate District Committee-Sen-
ator Carter Glass of Virginia. He
has just reached 79 years Of age.
And if anyone thinks he's too old
for tho job let him try to put a
fast one over in committee or for
that matter anywhere you happen
to come in contact with him. He
reacts to anything like that in the
gentle manner of buzz saw.
On the House side, the vacancy
just created by the death of Repre-.
sentative James Buchanan of
Texas is being filled by none other
than Representative Edward T.
Taylor Of Colorado, who is 70 years
of age. Mr.. Taylor didn't enter
Congress until he was so years of
age, and before that he served IL
years in the Colorado senate.
He was acting floor leader dur
ing a period in the past Congress,
and has acted as chairman of sew.
eral subcommittee handling Gov.
ernment funds. 1t looks like Con.
greSS just doesn't believe that
three score years and ten are
enough.
And there is the comment of
DR.. James r. Angel on the rule
which makes it necessary for him
to retire in June from the presi'
dency of Yale University. He
reaches the age Of So then. He
said:
"The retirement age at Yale
Is earlier than that of the United
States Supreme Court. There is
one comfort which I have been
able to find in my retirement
and that is, that the job Of con-
ducting Yale is moro difficult
than the vetOing of President
R0Osevelt's legislation" ~
The Washington times., 1937-03-02
WINTER VACATIONS

We are heading for new travel
records, according to the reports
from steamship, airline and rail-
road offices all over the world, but
no one seems to know Just why the
autumn trade was almost as brisk
as it is during the summer months.
Some say that people are gradu-
ally getting away from the idea
that a trip to Europe must be
made in the summer. Travellers
have learned that the giant liners
will carry them safely through the
rough autumn and winter seas.
They know that Europe is at its
gayest now, with every capital Of
fering its finest in social life, mu-
sic and the theater.
Economists maintain that recent
monetary adjustments and stabili-
zation agreements, and the deval.
uation of curTencies in France,
Switzerland and Holland. are i'm
portant factors in influencing the
traveller to journey across the At
lantic.
TOURIST RUSH
Winter resorts in the devalua-
ton zones are StreSsing the tour
ist value Of the dollar and pound
as an advantage in both travel
and living costs.
But what about the picture
nearer home? It is just as brisk,
and Just as pleasant. The shore
cruise season is multiplying in
ships and schedules, and the long
cruises report tremendous reserva-
tionS.
The Gulf coast, South America,
Havana, Puerto Rico, the West
Indies, including islands hitherto
little exploited, the cities Of the
Canal Zone are preparing for q
record rush Of tourists.
These favorite tourist resorts re-
ported a record fall season, and
based their hopes for an rlppre.
cedented winter tradA 90 the enor.
The Washington times., 1937-03-02
Crimes Best Friend d---Drugs

EOR many years the public has realized that narcotic
l. addicts doomed to life of misery, seldom
to be improved by treatment usually relieved only by
DEATH
Even yet however, the public does NOT realize that
the narcotic addict is likely to become CRIMINAL
not merely menace to himself but to society we'll.
But the facts are inescapable
ONE THIRD of the inmates Of Federal penal institu
tions are either drug fiends dealers in illicit drugs
And EIGHTY PER CENT of drug addicts are Grim
inals many of them criminals of the most dangerous
type.
Thus the control of the traffic in drugs is much
than medical problem. It is LAW AND ORDER
problem of the first Importance. Not until "dope ped
dling is stamped out the nation hope to cut down
its crime bill. And the only way dope pedding CAN
be stamped out is by putting every convicted dealer
behind the bars and KEEPING him there.
The Washington times., 1937-03-02

why the ESki-
mos, who never
had any dent
lists, have the
best teeth Of
any race in the
world. Natural
ly, that would
bother a dentist
and he would
want to know
about it. But it
isn't as simple
as that. The
E S k i'm os, a
holdover from
the Stone Age,
o~a haoopoinO
The Washington times., 1937-03-02

u1lnQeQ q d y 5.
But behind this
particular flight
lies a story
T. m writing
this on Febru-
ary 10. Roaring
in for a landing,
after a perfect
flight from Los
Angeles, a huge
luxury liner
suddenly circled
above the land
ing field, swoop
ed, nosed dived
to black obliv.
ion in San Fran
The Washington times., 1937-03-02
Greatest Show on Earth
Ru Frank Miller Smith

of the White House and an OBJ
server declared that he knew what
he would have done to make the
boys and girls move.
He would have opened the fire
hydrants and allowed the water
to trickle here and there. The sit
down" would have been a little
cold and wet, he thought.
The Washington times., 1937-03-02

~ 4oA v 90 DRAJ
he was, say 10
or Is years ago.
is a nice theory
as far as Con-
gress goes but
pra C tically, it
just doe n t
work. Or so 1t
would seem.
outside of the
Supreme Court
decisions that
h We thrown
the proverbial
monkey wrench
into the New
Deal the most
The Washington times., 1937-03-02

Dentists of Columbia University
have chartered planes to fly into
the Bering Sea region to find out |
The Washington times., 1937-03-02
QUESTION OF AGE

President Roosevelt's recent in
situations that pershaps a man at
IN isn't as spry and as useful as
The Washington times., 1937-03-02
JUST A SUGGESTION:

Recently when the police were
somewhat nonplussed by the idea
the members of the Youth Con-
gress had when they sQuatted in
the middle of the street in back
The Washington times., 1937-03-02
Wise Words

He who rests satisfied in merely
defending himself against sarcasm
and abuse is always q loser
Goethe. .
Where pleasure is lord, needs
must that all the chief virtues
shall Sink.-Cicero.
The Washington times., 1937-03-02
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
NOT FLIGHT BUT FRIGHT is

NOT FLIGHT BUT FRIGHT is THE REAL PERIL
Robinson Chicago %wth bloody thread Of that
this Nothing startling scream raveng after him