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Show &&(&&&&$ Lom dfkvm TIIE PAYSON -- v , , atrtinirriai y&k Jmm - PARSON. I TAI miVin.K. s A AAAAAAAAAAMiALUAMU American Spas Not Xetrs Review of Current C vents Well Enough Known DEALS WITH DICTATORS to Our Physicians Agreement and Chamberlain Planning Anglo-ltalia- n 22 but nee service WNU Chicago. Let us save for America and Americans the many millions spent each year in foreign spas. Dr. Bernard Fantus, Chicago physician, makes a plea to state governments to provide the nations doctors with information in regard to the Seme. Waters of Colorado Soon to Irrigate the Platte Valley ISy Four-Pow- Pact . . er . France in Dilemma natural remedial resources within their own states. He KON LU L. IVI.S Waters now further asks the American Medical association to interest itself in ridding American spas of quack- ery. Dr. Fantus presents his two pleas In the Journal of the American Medical Association. American doctors know a great deal more about European spas than about our own health resorts, Dr. Fantus states, "although in this country there are practically all the climatic and balneic remedies possessed by any other country in the Denver, Colo. roaring down the unvisited canyons of the upper Colorado river soon wall ripple placidly through the irrigation ditches of the Platte valley, 40 miles to the east of the river gorges and across the 14,000 - foot - high Colorado front range. Work has begun Colorado-Bi- g world. d on the Some 2,000 places in the United TransmounThompson States boast of springs of more tain Diversion project. or less medicinal value. Armed with good maps and hard rock men of the United Stales bureau of reclamation have started their drills roaring in the first bores for the 1314 mile tunnel through the backbone of the continent. Grand lake, carved long ago from the living granite by glaciers, will become an Irrigation reservoir, storing water that will later gurgle through the great tunnel, to issue near the little town of Estes Park and fall into a power penstock. After generating power, the water will flow to storage reservoirs at the edge of the great plains, and later go to the thirsty beet fields of the Platte valley. Designed to remove forever the spectre of water shortage from the farms of northeastern Colorado, and to generate cheap power for farm machines and mining equipment, this diversion project will bring no new land under cultivation. Only lands now under irrigation will receive water from the Colorado river. Fast becoming a dustbowl, with surface water entirely used for irrigation and underground water supplies mined out during the last drouth, the water needs of the Platte valley, Colorados "Sugar Bowl," have Increased yearly. Ditches already have been run miles back into the hills to catch each little stream at its source. Now, all the streams on the eastern slope are harnessed, and there is no possibility of gettmg more water from them. Colorado river water, until now largely wasted in violent spring floods caused by sudden melting of the mountain snow, and flowing through to lands unsuited cultivation, seemed the only solution to the Platte valleys problem. The Front Range, rising more than a mile above the river valley, presented only one of several obstacles. Now, with tunnel construction planned, and storage reservoir construction starting, the transmountain water diversion will soon be an accomplished fact. From the reservoirs, ditches will extend, like the arms of an octopus, to gather in the water of each little stream in the region. A lower reservoir, built in the melting basin of Monarch Valley glathe cier, with a dam in the deep-cu- t granite canyon of the Colorado river, will collect the water as it runs in. Above, at the tunnel mouth, Grand lake will be enlarged, and fitted with special spillways to keep its level constant. Power generated at the eastern end of the tunnel will be wired across the storm-swerange and used to pump water from the lower reservoir to the upper. Ice-ag- e long-extin- Love of Cattle as Money Ruins the Land in Africa London. Love of money on the hoof is the root of most of the evils that afflict native tribes in Central and South Africa. It eats the land like a cancer, it brings the folk to the doorsill of black starvation. It nil goes back to the completely senseless regard the pastoral tribes have for cattle. Sir Daniel Hall, director of the John Innos Horticultural institution, pointed out in a Royal institution lecture here. Cattle are money to the tribesmen. Sir Daniel explained. They do not eat them. They do not even milk them. They just keep them, increase their herds as much as possible, and use them only in swapping for wives and as means prestige-gaininof ostentation. They literally hoard herds. These hoards of living money exact hungry usury oft the land. They strip the grasslands bare. Their owners destroy the forests, to make new pastures. The cattle strip these also. Erosion sets in, gnawing the land into deep gullies. The people, threatened with starvation by the greedy feeding of their own luxury-cattlhave to look to the government for bread. g Alaskas Output Washington. Gold, silver, copper, coal and tin produced in Alaska last year were valued at about according to preliminary figures issued by the United States geological survey. 0. The result of the European exodus each year is not only a net loss to this country but also a financial loss to the patients who are sent abroad for a treatment they could obtain much more economically nearer home. Better Handled In Europe. In Europe, Dr. Fantus declares, the governments and the govern-mentall- y owned medical schools see to It that their doctors are well Informed as to their national health resorts. This is not only altruistic but also sound financial policy for, through taxation, governments are in virtual partnership with all the national enterprises. A sick person does not get the same benefit out of drinking mineral waters from a bottle In his own home, experience has shown. The therapeutic value of a mineral water cure' consists also of the remedial value of a vacation, the change of scene and of occupation, the change in mode of living, the subtle influence of climate and the factor of faith, the Chicago physician states. Distrust and skepticism prevail among doctors regarding American health resorts. With a few notable exceptions this distrust is well merited in the opinion of Dr. Fantus. The mendacity of many of the advertisements for mineral springs rivals that of the claims for patent medicines in their palmiest days, he writes. "Unethical practice and quackery abound in and around health resorts. Even the social features and amusements, in many of them, may be objectionable from a therapeutic as well as a moral standpoint Washington. ke-plagued started to grow Californias coast ranges earthqua- first only a short time before the Ice Age began, and re- ceived their most recent uplift only a few thousand years ago, according to data reported recently by Dr. W. P. Woodring of the United States geological survey. Rising first during the Pliocene period, age of giant mammals, just before the beginning of the ice ages, to part of their present height the coast ranges were thrown into a jumble of ridges and basins somewhat resembling their present construction. Ice age erosion, during the time of alternating glacial periods and warm spells, changed the shape of the origtnal mountains somewhat, removing material from the higher lands and depositing it in the valleys, It was stated. Evidence has been presented during the past generation to prove that the coast ranges were built any time from about 40,000,000 years ago to 20,000 years ago, but the most recent studies lead to the conclusion that the greatest uplifting and deformation took place during the Pleistocene period, time of ice ages, which probably began not more than 1,000,000 years ago. Chemical War on Ants Is Found to Re Effective V. McNUTT, rV-- ir. v v' & Chancellor Hitler delivering the sensational spceih in whiih he defied is seen the world, declaring Germany was not afraid of war. Above him Berlin. from is a radiophoto General Goering. This lLcJtafuL Western Newspaper Union. Plans SUPPORTED by a large majority of commons, British Prime Minister Neville Chamber-lai- n moved rapidly toward realization of his plan for European appeasement, the basis of which was to be a speedy truce with Italy, to be followed by a four - power pact including Britain, France, Italy and Germany. Chamberlain abandoned entirely the British foreign policy based on collective security. He got rid of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, putting in his place Lord Halifax, outspoken friend of Nazi Germany, and defied the opposition of the Labor party in parliament. The earl of Perth, British ambassador to Rome, had conversations with Italian Foreign Minister Ciano and was then called to London for further instructions. It was said Perth and Ciano agreed the following points must be discussed and, if possible, made a part of the London-Rom- e treaty: Britain must recognize the Italian conquest of Ethiopia. An Anglo-ltaliaMediterranean pact should be arranged to include Italian naval parity with Britain in the Mediterranean, reduction in Italys troops in Libya, and British assurances that the Suez canal will be safeguarded against closing or air attack. Immediate cessation of propaganda in the British territories in the Near East in return for which Italy will guarantee not to include propaganda in its Bari radio broadcasts. volunWithdrawal of foreign teers from Spain was to be demanded by Britain, and it was understood in London that Chancellor Hitler of Germany had agreed to that, and that Italy would not refuse, although Mussolini especially wishes that Franco be granted belligerent rights. anti-Italia- n anti-Britis- h France in Tight Place Jj'RANCE, it was expected, would adopt a course parallel with that of Britain, for, as Foreign Munster Delbos said, she might otherwise And herself isolated in Europe. However Premier Chautemps served notice on Chamberlain that the French r would join in the proposed pact only if protection were assured for Czechoslovakia gnd Austria. The French secret defense committee met to organize an arms expansion program involving $835,400,030 and to lay plans for defending the Czechs against German aggression. The Chamberlain plan leaves out Soviet Russia, an ally of France; and the French also seemed likely to lose another ally, for Poland, it appeared, was about to enter into an with agreement Germany Field Marshal against Russia. Goering, Hitlers right-hanman, was in Warsaw, entertained by President Moscicki. Foreign Minister Beck and Field Marshal Smigly-Ridz- , head of the Polish army. That soldier and other leading Poles believe war between Germany and Russia will break out before long. They dont like the Germans but fear that if Stalm lost the ar Hitler would proceed to grab Poland. four-powre- New Haven, Conn. Chemical warfare methods have been proved effective against carpenter ants, which have been ruining large numbers of telephone poles in Connecticut and other states. The ants do not eat wood, as termites do. but only dig out nests in it. The effect, however, is just as ruinous. Scientists at the state experiment station here have found that poles not too much hollowed out can be saved by sounding for the top of the cavity, boring a hole, and injecting a mixture of coal tar and creosote and gasoline or refined creo- Isolationists Cheered sote. A pressure gun is used tot AMERICAN isolationists saw in forcing in the liquid. European developments the eclipse of the mterna-tionahsfostered by President Sulphur for Chickens Gainesville, Ga. Dr. M. W. Em-m- Roosevelt nnd Secretary Hull, and of the Florida experiment sta- were greatly encouraged m their tion here has found that by adding determination to keep the United 5 per cent of sulphur flour to the States free from foreign entanglechickens laying mash he can rid the ments. At the same time the probirds of external parasites such as ponents of powerful national defense were elated and the administra lice and stick-tigh- t fleas. d tions big navy program received a great boost. The house naval affairs committee was about ready to report favorably the billion dollar navy construction bill, which may include provision for the establishment of more naval bases, mainly in the Pacific. Hitler Defies the World over POLITICAL turmoil spread Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler, in an address to the reichs-tag- , declared his intention to make Germany one of the most powerful nations in the world, gave warning that it and was did not fear war though it desired peace, and demand ed the return of Germanys 1 n p in Race a b (happy) for- of Kentucky for mally announced his candidacy the senate seat occupied by Alben He W. Barkley, majority leader. said he would try to confine h:s not fight to state issues, but would hesitate to take issue with the Roosevelt administration if it interfered in the primaries in behalf of Barkley. Green Hits Lewis Plan to stop John Lew'is and I. O. from gaining polit ical control of Pennsylvania, the American Federation of Labor revoked the charter of the state federation. President Green announced that action with a declaration that the votes of 400,000 "loyal federain Pennsylvania tion members "cannot be delivered by labor leaders, ambitious for political power. Lewis and his unions are planning to elect Lieut. Gov. Thomas KenHe is nedy to the governorship. of the miners secretary-treasure- r union. MOVING SUMMARIZES THE WORLDS WEEK Anglo-ltalia- n high commis-- c ut.er to the Philippines, came home o report to the President, Wash-as soon as he arrived in friends gum his enthusiastic for the pur-sUged a b.g reception ee of booming him as Democratic in 1340. i mi nee for the Presidency rieneed politicians agree Ad exf t o ,t tins is most premature, and it was in the eap.t il it was felt that Roose-ilt- , Mr. to cidcaly distasteful di who dot sn't wish to be hurried successor. in picking his possible No member of the cabinet except Secretary Roper and no important man of the administration attended the reception. McNutt said he was not a candidate for any office, but Senator Sherman Minton. Governor Townsend Innnd other leading Democrats of diana insist he should be nominated m 1940, and no one doubts that he would I, he to be so honored. Governor n California Coast Ranges Comparatively Modern HAUL Chandler long-debate- 0, McNutt Hullabaloo lost col d Coal Prices Revoked tj'ACED with growing litigation. the national bituminous coal commission announced it had taken the advice of producers and labor unions and voted unanimously to suspend its schedule of soft coal minimum prices, marketing rules and regulations. The prices had been set aside by the courts in numerous cases. WHOS NEWS ,"eres THIS WEEK... By richness see h(w popcorn Lemuel F. Parton an h JJ to 8kI mot? .jjf YYYYYYYTTYYYYY'YY,YYYYYY7Y NEW In YORK. seventy-one- , 1929, H. Prince, the Boston banker, was still playing polo. He has great faith in the durability of Time Better men, institutions Than Reform and governments, as long as they befor Business have themselves. He left for Europe to forget about business for a while and intimates that it would be a good thing if the government would be similarly neglectful. "Washington should stop trying to reform business and leave the situation to time, he says. Time has treated him nicely and he may well give it a testimonial. he is the grand At seventy-nine- , seigneur of American business. Only four years ago, he engaged in a slugfest over the control of Armour & Co. He got w'hat he was after the chairmanship of the board. He has many such trophies, having controlled 46 railroads, and, in general, one of the biggest cuts in the American dream of any man of his day. His (mainly liquid) fortune is estimated at around $250,0(0,000. But, for many years. Makes Point he says, he has made it a point to of Being in Debt Always be about ?2.0.-00- 0 in debt. That is revealing in connection with his ideas about money and success. He emphasizes the dynamics of money. It isnt money unless it is working. Stagnant money just dries up and blows away. Hence you draw cards even if you do have to drag a few chips for markers. Hes a little too heavy for polo, with a massive gray head, deep sunken, pondering eyes, and heavy, gray moustache; a bit grim, perWhen, haps, but not formidable. early in October, 1929, a small black cloud appeared on the horizon, he viewed it with a telescopic eye, saw it for what it was, and got out of the market. The cyclone never touched him. Until a few years ago, he was still riding to the hounds at Pau, in southern France, master of the hunt. He has marble palaces here and there, one of them the former mansion of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, at Newport. Remarking that he has been in business 55 years, he says this little squall will blow over in two or three months. hard-hittin- ff at the age Frederick portr; .e have be postage hat i a fiscal ent tl Chat do Apocalyi hat secr P in the Chat is trans ,? A sub pque has Alien mourning the So all ,ork? The attr is wi igton, del jdress at prese g onies. Furthermore, Hitler upheld the agFranco Regains Teruel gressive actions of and C'RANCOS insurgent forces recov- Italy Japan, 'T'HE reason isnt quite clear, but, and asserted that Germany would ered possession of Teruel, Spain, these days, the colleges compete not tolerate ultimate victory of the and continued their progress toward for tuba players as well as athletes. in faction Franover the Mediterranean coast. In the reloyalist Spain Dr. Walter Albert cos rebel forces. captured city they took more than Jessup deplores The fuehrer told with gratifica16,000 prisoners and buried 9,000 this and other tion of his success in compelling government dead. Rebel warships of the phases Chancellor Schuschnigg to give the bombarded the coastal cities of Vascramble for stuAustrian Nazis representation in lencia and Sagunto and were in turn his cabinet and to permit them to attacked by government bombing dents in the annual report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Adact as a political party. He gave planes. vancement of Teaching, of which he no assurance that the independence is president. The fight seems to be of Austria would be preserved. He Rumania Goes Fascist entirely in the field of openly threatened similar action activities. No mere scholar gets Czechoslovakia unless the O UMANIA is now a Fascist cor. against Germans in that country were porative state of guilds pat- competing bids from rival faculties. Since he became head of the Carterned after Italy. This was settled granted "political liberty. Hitlers speech might be summar- when King Carol proclaimed the negie foundation, in 1933, Dr. Jessup has been a consistent deflationist, so ized as a declaration that Germany new constitution, will ignore Great Britain, France which provides for ' far as education is concerned. He wants fewer and better students in and other western powers in carry- a parliament comthe colleges. He assails the colposed of guilds of ing out her international policies, will continue her efforts to destroy farmers, workers leges which would "teach anybody the last vestiges of the general setand intellectuals anything. He is against educational trimmings, tlements which followed the World Both the chamber excrescences and of deputies and the war; will insist that the have not gadgets, as the little Scotch ironnations must be restored to a basis senate are reduced master doubtless would be if he in size and election of equality with the have powwere looking over the current scene. ers, and is prepared to defy any of members is to be Other leading educators join him in this, but the big mill has to have combination of powers which may by trades and pro be formed against her. fessions, not by po- - " plenty of raw malitical parties. The King Carol terial, to keep on king will appoint half the senators Halifax Succeeds Eden grinding, or else and will become just a power over ail D EFUSING to go along with legislation.haveAll veto crossroad Rumanians are deplant. Prime Minister Neville Chamclared equal, with radical distinc- So they go after even the tuba playberlain in his plans to buy a friendlv settlement with Germany tions, and religious freedom is ers. At any rate, each can blow its granted with the Orthodox Ruma- own horn. hi and Italy, Capt. An- - nian church as the Dr. Jessup was president of the state religion. thony Eden. British Trials by jury are abolished and University of Iowa from 1916 to 1933. foreign secretary the death penalty reintroduced for A native of Richmond, Ind., he was who has fought the certain crimes. educated at Earlham college and ambitions of EuroThe constitution was created Columbia and gathered several by pean dictators for Rumania's powerful crown council, honorary degrees in later years. He two years, resigned a special body established by King was superintendent of schools in Infrom the cabinet. Carol to define general policies. diana and dean of the college of With him went Viseducation of Indiana university. He count Cranborn, the has won high distinction in the eduprincipal foreign un- Hungary Offers Pay cational field and is the author of a dersecretary. VisJOHN PELENYI, minister from book on arithmetic. count Halifax was Hungary, revealed that his govOne gathers that he would not appointed to suc- ernment has proposed a readjust- recommend Benny Goodman for a ceed Eden temporarily. This change ment of its war debt whereby it college faculty and that quite probwas in effect another triumph for would repay the United States the Hitler, was especially regretted by full amount ably the next Carnegie report may of its France, and threatened to precipi- without interest. original loan but find adversely on the shag, the jeep-e- r tate a serious crisis for the British and the susy-q.I- e is for low government. kicking and high thinking, as Viscount Halifax, lord president Parker Gilbert Dies against the prevailing reversal of of the council and former viceroy of C PARKER GILBERT of New this formula. Consolidated News Feature. York, who at the age of thirtv-twIndia, is a personal friend of Hitler WNU Service. won fame and an insistent advocate of immeby his brilliant work diate friendship with Germany and as agent general for war reparaAccident Taps Riches tions, died of heart disease. Italy, even at the cost of great conAfter Treasure has been brought to cessions by Britain. He was sent completing his job in Berlin he beto Berlin not long ago to talk over came a partner in J. P. light near Cairo, Egypt, by an exMorgan & Co.. dcuLng matters with the Nazi leaders. especially with matters cavators lucky accident. He stumof international bled on the burial place of middle-clas- s finance. Egyptian men and women of Insurance Crop Manager 5,000 years ago. In the graves were M GREEN of Missouri has Planes' Great I) found objects of art and entertainFlight I'- been made manager of the Army bombing S1of planes the United ment. Beautifully carved articles $100,000 000 federal crop insurance made of alabaster, schist, dolomite V I IPS SUCCPSS. the corporation, agency created unand breccia were found, three of der the new farm law to insure f them vessels of a kind previously n' from wheat growers against crop fij fki. to RutPrs Ares TheMiami, unknown. 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