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Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

Gle that she did not manage very
well-were laughing explorations
into new country. Even Sonny, in
the basket seat on the back of his
fathers bicycle, had laughed with
singing baby laughter.
1t was a world of four set in q
beautiful background. Jessica grew
tall and lean and brown. The baby
got fat and golden. PhlPs hair had
begun to gray little at the tenn
pies and he put on weight.
Eleanor studied him seriously
one morning. She said: This life
is much too slothful, Mr.. Parrish"
Phil felt that he heard warning
bell. Eleanor had brought her type
writer, but she had never used it.
He waited.
II won't have fat husband. I'll
go back to New York and get one
of the slim lads who hang on the
fringes of our crowd unless you get
some exercise. There's a tennis
club here, Phil, and you're going
to join"
Phil sighed. He had hoped to
keep his family world as it was,
apart from other people. He said:
"Okay. "1'll ring up Joe Wells"
Eleanor's eyes widened. "Do
you know him ?"
The Wells had rather impos-
ing place in Somerset.
II wouldn't ring up stranger,
Nell, and ask him to put me up for
his club. Even a tennis club"
There was a cool expression on
her face that he had come to know.
What have I done now?" he de-
manded.
IF you know him, Phil, you must
have known that we'd have to GO
to call when we came here. Here
we've been all alone for weeks and
you know someone here"
Phil got up then and picked up
one of Sonny's toys. He said: "I
think I'll take Sonny down to the
village"
What about the Wells ?" she
pursued.
She didn't do it the way some
wives might have done it. She
wasn't really demanding and she
wasn't being insistent; her face
was eager and interested.
Phil smiled and ruffied her lair
You're just like Jessica at the
prospect of a new playmate. All
right, ducky, put on your best
sweater and We'll bike over to call
on Mr.. and Mrs. Wells. But, mind
you, woman, this is our honeymoon
and honeymoons are best spent
alone"
Eleanor put her arms around him
and laid her cheek against his for
a moment. "It's indecent for us
to talk that way. I was only
thinking Of you, darling. I imagine
you get rather tired Of my COM
pany."
when I do, you'll know" he
said. II ought to think about your
getting tired of mine. But I'm
such selfish guy!"
Eyes, you are" she jeered.
"When you're in the village, get
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

Poland, which participated with
Germany in the partition of Czecho-
Slovakia, fears she may be the
Reich's next objective. Under the
leadership of Josef Beck (pictured
above) the late Marshal Pilsudski's
protege and now foreign minister,
she has taken every precaution to
prevent repetition of the dismem-
berment which destroyed Poland in
1895. Starting with signing of
mutual protection pacts with
France and England, this policy
has eliminated in a growing friend
ship with Soviet Russia, long Po-
lands bogeyman. II
Announcement Of decentralization
of Polish-Soviet relations" was
made in Warsaw after arrival Of
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15
Periodic Examination vq!ss!s %S%

situation. Well, DR.. Fitz has found
several youngsters with bad mur-
mur, who, instead of going on to
something worse, got better, to the
extent that the murmur entirely
disappeared.
We are recommended by the an
nual periodical health doctors that
the diseases that can be most easily
forestalled from serious termina-
tion are cancer, tuberculosis, dia-
betes and hardening of the arteries.
Sudden Onset
DR.. Fitz's conclusions about can
Ger included this point: That the
impressive feature was the sudden
ness of onset without any prelimi-
nary or insidious onset. In other
words, between two annual health
examinations a cancer may develop
very suddenly. It would be missed
on the first examination. In such
cases the examination gives false
feeling of security.
About tuberculosis he feels some
what more confident, but more study
is needed.
Diabetes is disease of slow and
insidious onset. It is easily marked
by the presence of sugar in the
urine, and even if that has existed
for a year the treatment is hopeful,
even in late or far advanced cases.
Too Insidious
About hardening of the arteries,
what DR.. Fitz says confirms my own
observations exactly. He says: 81
have made conscientious effort to
pick out even one case in which /
could truthfully say that hardening
of the arteries had developed under
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

waters and the $S,O00,O0O cost
greatly reduced the number of ships
that could be built. Naval experts
have come to the conclusion that
number rather than size of craft is
of greater Importance.
The U. S. S. SGury, is typical of
the craft being built for the Amer
lean underwater navy. Only slight
ly larger than the war-days "pig
boats," it measures 299 feet in
length and has a displacement of
1,435 tons. Space is at premium,
for modern submarines, with their
batteries and complicated Diesel
motors, must allow carrying room
for seaplanes and powerboats, and
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

are valuable not so much for the fu-
ture of the patient as for the future
Of medical science.
he has found these regular re-
current examinations interesting
because he has been able to watch
chronic diseases develop and put his
nnger on the moment when the bod
ny mechanism suddenly changed
from normality to disease process.
Back to Normally
! And, on the other hand, he has
watched diseased organs slowly 90
back to normalcy. For instance
heart disease! The words "heart
murlnur" frighten people greatly
and they ask what is going to be the
outcome of this sinister ountino
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

for anti-aircraft guns, cannon, tor
pedo tubes and tons of the huge
$4,000 torpedoes which they flre'
as well as for the crew.
Although quarters still are
cramped, living conditions have
greatly improved and the name
"pig boat" is no longer so apt. ~
the SGusy. Chef John Behan COOKS
for the crew of Cd in a tiny. STAN
less-steel galley Everything IS
concentrated, the dishes are rackeo'
the containers are built into the
walls, and the stove is of the llght-
est metal obtainable for the pur-
pose. At that there isn't too mllcn
room for flying elbows.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

class the a, b, Of navigation over
the watery wastes. No problem is
too small to be given a thorough
going-over, for once the men are
speeding above the waves, one of
these small details may crop up,
and, if not attended to properly,
could spell disaster.
Godsave not only teaches the new
pilots and would-be pilots, but in
cludes in his classes men who have
thousands Of air miles to their
credit. They come to gain any new
information available, particularly
from pilots who have flown the
ocean routes. The North Atlantic
is flown by British planes, via
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15
CHApTER THIRTY-THREE

CHA = EfL HIN Il lI1RH1I
WHEN ELEANOR saw Bermu-
tla from the deck of their liner she
said: "Phil, don't ever wake me up.
Let me dream this lovely dream
forever"
He said: Its no dream. This is
real"
Jessica screamed: Daddy, it
looks like the things we put under
the Christmas tree. doesn't it?"
There's a simile for you" Phil
offered his wife.
Eleanor didn't hear him. Her
ewes were feasting on color, the in
credible blue of the sea, the velvet
moss green covered island hills,
white that dazzled her. She said:
"I think this is where we will al
ways want to stay"
Phil smiled at his daughter.
THEY knew that Eleanor would
not want to stay for always in any
place.
They took a cottage in Somerset.
A white, rambling coral house with
a carpet of flowers on one side and
lawns that rolled down to a coral
beach on another side. A hedge
breast-high of oleanders stood be-
tween them and the road. The sea
of that incredible torquoise blue
was their other endless boundary.
Eleanor was like a child with a
new toy. She made a ritual of fill
ing many bowls with the lush flow
ers that grew in their garden. She
laid the fires with fragrant cedar
bows. She wandered from room to
room in their spacious house, feel
ing herself at home as she never
had done in any Of her other homes,
Phil said, when they had been
there a fortnight: There's lots Of
gaiety in Hamilton. Shouldn't we
go over for a few days and see
what holiday-ers do? You haven't
had party night since we've been
here"
Eleanor shook her head.
"Not unless you want to CO." she
said. I'm having a grand time
doing what we're doing"
Phil settled a little deeper in his
chair and pulled long on his pipe,
feeling himself we'll content.
Kate had been right. Had he
known how close he and Eleanor
were to grow, how much they were
to enjoy the simple pleasures they
shared with the children, he would
not have had to be shown as Kate
had shown him.
They picnicked, eating hard
boiled eggs and sandwiches on
beaches, in the woods or in a fish
ing boat. They had their luncheons
on sun-splashed terrace. Some
times they cooked their suppers
over a fire on the beach. They were
up for swim before breakfast and
so drifted happy and close through
golden days and star-spangled
nights.
Everything they did was a shared
adventure. The bicycle trips
once Eleanor had got over her feel
ing that she was absurd on a bicy-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

SOUTHAMPTON, Eng.-Antici-
pating the great popularity Of trans
atlantic air travel, and determined
there shall be no scarcity of eff
cient and highly trained pilots and
navigators, British Imperial Air
ways, which operates jointly with
Pan-American Airways, has opened
a school where the men are thor
oughly instructed in all problems
relating to ocean flying. The school
is located at the port of South
ampton, British terminal of the
giant transatlantic planes.
Squadron Leader G. F. Godsave
is chief instructor and school man.
ager for Imperial, teaching his
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

Foynes, Ireland, and Newfound-
land, and the southern route by the
American planes, of which the Yam
kee Clipper was first.
The 42-ton, 74-passenger Yankee
Clipper, on its maiden flight arrived
in the Azores half an hour ahead of
schedule, averaging l65 miles an
hour on the 2,800-mile flight, as
compared with the 80 miles an hour
made by the fastest ocean liners.
:. The Imperial school is being given
every cooperation by the British
government, which is determined
there shall not be another Cavalier
disaster, which seriously affected
it's prestige
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15
By LOGAN CLENDENING. M. D.

THE GENERAL overhauling
idea, the regular health audit or an
nual physical examination, has been
advocated mostly on the grounds
that it will help to keep the indi-
vidual from developing the chronic
diseases of adult life. l never sub
scribed very much to this because
doubted whether any really exten-
sive prevention of such diseases
could be accomplished so simply.
But another angle of the situation
is developed by DR.. Reginald Fitz,
Of Boston.
DR.. Fitz, after Is years ex-
perience with regular examinations
Of the same patients, comes to the
conclusion that these examinations
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

TN. Inc United States, rushing its
Z TIearmament program, is striving to
Cring %g It's submarine fleet up to date.
Great advances have been made in
SS!gDomarlne ~ construction since World
rs " ar uays, but the trend of the twerl-
tles- to bigger and bigger under
Maeer craft has been reversed. In
tne decade after the war, the ,lavies
o1 the world built huge subs 400 feet
IN length, of more than 3,OOO-ton
displacement and capable of cruis-
ing 10000 miles without refueling.
1t.was found, however, that these
monsters were inpracticable. They
could not be used in shallow coastal
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

DR.. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

Here is closeup of Julia Return
From Scout, 74-year-old member Of
the Sioux tribe, who is the Oldest
Indian squaw at the New York
Worlds Fair. She and other In
dians arrived from the west in time
for the formal opening.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

EDITORS NOTE: DR.. Clendening has
seven pamphlets which can be obtained by
readers. Each pamphlet sells for 10 cents.
For any one pamphlet desired, send 10
cents in coin, and a self-addressed envelope
stamped with three-cent stamp, to DR..
Logan Clendening, in care of this paper.
ing Diet. Indigestion and Constipation,
Reducing and Gaining, Infant Feed
ing. Instructions for the Treatment Of
Diabetes. Feminine Hygiene" and THE
Care of .he Hair Ind Skin"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

Map shows Aldernay (arrow), off
French coast, being fortified by
British as second Gibraltar" de-
signed to trap the German fleet in
the North Sea in the event of war.
The fortified island will also control
the Bay of Biscay.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

observation. must confess that the
onset has seemed so insidious that it
has been beyond my power to recog-
nize it."
The same thing is true of high
blood pressure, and what is the diff
ference, because what is anybody
going to do to help it if it is found?
If anybody can give a good an
swer to that question I will be glad
to hear it.
I have seldom mentioned these
questions in this column, preferring
to devote myself to the diseases
which are preventable, mostly in
fectious diseases in the young, who
are more worth saving.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15

A.. L.. B.: "Will grapefruit, lem
ons and oranges cause uric acid and
rheumatism"
Answer-No.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-05-15
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
M. w.: els it harmful to take
teaspoonful of salt in warm water
before breakfast? I don't think the
salt would hurt, but I've been Won
dering if teaspoonful is too
much?"
Answer-A teaspoonful is a good
deal, about five times the daily re-
quirement.
Evening star., 1939-03-14
throughout the later phases Of the

throughout the later phases Of the
war.
The Popular Front originally
united Republicans, Socialists and
Communists behind the one ideal of
preserving for Spain a democratic
form Of government, but the exigen-
cies OF war put 1t at the mercy of
Moscow, The price of the badly
needed assistance was Communist
primacy, and under Premier Juan
Negrin the Communist grip upon the
Republican government frightened in
virtual reign of terror which de-
stroyed the semblance of a demo-
cratic cause.
The true story of Communist
Vaccinations behind the retreating
Republican front is now being told
by Americans returning from Spain.
1t is tale of plots, private prisons,
dread Cheka police, unjustiflable ex-
ecutions, ruthless suppression of op-
position and despotic domination of
the army.
All this fostered internal dissensien
and so weakened the Republican
forces that whatever unity and
morale they might have possessed to
resist General Franco and his foreign
legions crumbled.
Evening star., 1939-03-14
Political Fast

AS a politician who gets what he
wants in hurry there is no one else
who can even approach Mahatma
Gandhi. The essential parts of his
technique are simple enough. He
thinks up law, dons his legislative
costume consisting of the end towel
on the rack plus a safety pin, and
addresses Congress. If his law
doesn't pass Immediately by a rising
vote with three loud cheers, he calls
a press conference and announces his
intention OF going on rigid diet Of
prayers and warm water until either
he dies or the bill passes. AS a final
gesture of defiance, he sends his wife
to Jail. Congress then goes into a
frantic huddle, and appoints commit
tees to call on the Mahatma with
compromise bills and T-bone steaks,
but all in vain. Messengers rush in
with kilograms containing the latest
medical reports OF his condition. The
session wakes hot and furious, and a
few minutes before Gandhi would be
due to pass away, they give in. He
then smiles, munches whatever may
be the equivalent of Hindu ham,
burger, and tells Mrs. Gandhi to come
on home.
His method is not copyrighted.
Theoretically 1t could be used by any
American Senator, with the possible
exception OF the inspired part where
the wife goes to Jail. Practically, it
just can't happen here. There are
no American statesmen possessed Of
enough innate dignity to overcome
the handicap of addressing Congress
when clad in plus fours, to say moth
ing of diminutive sheets. They might
bring down the House, but they could
never sway it. Such figures are born,
not made-and they are born only in
the Orient. And while on the sub
1ect OF figures, it should be noted that
while America is rich in senatorial
figures that could do with little diet
ing, it would take so long to reduce
their corporeal surplus that the fast
would have practically no political
value. So, while there may be some
thing in the theory that it would be
a good thing for statesmen to fast
until almost dead, or even longer in
some cases, it will have to be tested
in other countries.
Evening star., 1939-03-14
Shooting Stars
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Out of the Running.
All, grim is the fate of the man who
must wait
And gaze at the passing parade.
For him there's no call when the hours
have grown small
To list to the bands serenade
But he's there with the boys, for it's
one Of his joys;
Yet he signs mid the general glee,
Il hurrah all can for some fortunate
man
But there's no one hurrahing for mel"
Some men must be meek, and let other
men speak;
Some toll that others may spend.
Were there none to stand near with
encouraging cheer,
The orators duty would end.
So with faith that Is strong he goes
plodding along
And says 'Tis my duty, you see,
To hurrah all I can for some luckier
man,
Though there's no one hurrahing for
mel"
Evening star., 1939-03-14
Edward S. Schmid

When Edward S. Schmid closed his
eyes on a troubled world, a kindly
and gentle soul entered into rest. He
was eighty-two years of age, and fate
had been good to him. Few of his
contemporaries were more widely or
favorably known in Washington. He
had been a part of the Capital scene,
achieved place in the history of the
Federal City. His legend will linger,
often be retold; and he could have
asked nothing more.
Some say that accident made him
celebrity. But it would seem that
he was endowed with a special
genius, not easily understood, for the
work he was to do. Merely boy
when he began to deal in pets, a
natural instinct to be friendly to
the friendless appears to have
prompted his choice of a profess
sion. In any case, he earned for
himself reputation for his love, his
comprehension and his skill in the
care of the animals that passed
through his hands-thousands of
them during more than half CEN
tury.
Mr.. Schmid's emporium was not
merely a shop. Rather, it was a
private ZOO to which the public
always was welcome. Visitors were
greeted not as prospective customers
Evening star., 1939-03-14

Americas list Of spa1rows is long
one, the most commen species being the
song sparrow, fox sparrow and white
throated sparrow, along with such
prime favorites as the cardinal, which
belongs to the family, and is even called
a sparrow by those who ought to know.
+*
The finch family, to which the SPAR
rows belong, includes buntings, gros-
beaks, sparroWs and f1nches.
The word sparrow means flutterer.
Some ornithologists believe that
strictly speaking, the term finch is the
best to use, since the term sparrow"
really pertains to the species Passer,
represented only in this country by the
introduced species, the English or house
sparrow, and that in this strict sense
there are no true sparrows in America! !
Such discussions tend to do nothing
but confuse the popular mind. 1t is
just as we'll to think and believe that
sparroWs are sparroWs, whether they
are called flnches or not.
Besides the many technical points
great group, there is something so ir-
resistibly the same, in the popular eye,
that most people are willing to regard
them all as members of the sparrow
family, rather than think of them as
flnches. OF course, we have our gold
finch, or wild canary, and bright little
fellow he is too.
r.
The more the amateur bird observer
studies the members of this great bird
family, the more surely he is to come
around to the belief that the English
sparrow is worthy member.
No doubt this bird eats millions of
weed seeds every year. Specialists have
tried to figure out the economic worth
of the sparrow family, in dollars and
cents, but like most such figures, they
are mostly guesswork. They probably
do no harm, but no particular reliance
can be placed in them.
What Is sure, however, is that these
birds are just as interesting to watch
as any. Most of the sparrows are not
as beautiful as the bluebirds, the chick
adees and the titnice, but after the OBJ
server gives up other peoples convic-
tions about them, and attends strictly
to his own knitting (watching), he
comes in time to see even in the English
sparrow good bird.
Some of the other sparrows seen here
abouts are the vesper sparrow, Savannah
sparrow, grasshopper sparrow, Hens
lows sparrow, Nelson's sparrow, lark
sparrow, white-throat white-crowned,
tree sparrow, chipping sparrow, field
sparrow, Bachmans sparrow, Lincoln S
sparrow "a most charming one) and
swamp sparrow. Some of these are
never seen in the city, others even
seldom in the suburbs, but have been
observed in radius of 20 miles OF
Washington, which territory is con-
sidered we'll within the local region for
bird observation.
Evening star., 1939-03-14
Initial Success

The first five days of actual en-
forcement of the new pedestrian pro-
lection regulations have proved be-
yond argument the fundamental
value of this one phase of Washing
tons safety program.
While there have been some in
stances of misunderstanding con-
corning the exact meaning of the
new rules, one such case resulting in
an arrest which will serve as a basic
test, the ten days of preliminary in
struction did much to overcome the
confusion which too frequently &C
companies the Inauguration of a new
regulation.
Motorists, for the most part, have
shown greater spirit of cooperation
than usual in respecting the rights
of pedestrians This has been noted
not only at the busy intersections in
the congested areas, but in residen-
tial neighborhoods where most of the
pedestrian injuries and deaths have
occurred in the past. An extension
OF such courtesy would be valuable.
But the first honors for acknowl-
edgment Of safety factors must go to
those who walk along Washington's
streets. For the most part, they have
quickly formed the habit of waiting
for the green light, of making sure
traffic is clear before crossing where
signals are not available, and the
crowds on the streets have caught
the spirit of regulation. This attitude
is especially commendable in view of
the inconvenience suffered by pedes-
trians as result of the inadequate
timing or placing Of signals at so
many corners, a fault that must be
corrected.
If the walking with the lights
habit becomes fixed-by continued
observance of the regulations by
pedestrians and continued super
visory enforcement by the police,
there is no doubt that lives will be
saved and Washington's traffic acci-
dent record reduced. But it is abso-
lutely essential that there be no let
down by pedestrians, by motorists,
or by police.