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Show WASHINGTON.—Friends of Postmaster General James A. Farley have been flirting with two of the rival camps in the campaign for the Democratic nation-— al sweepstake.. According to normally reliable sources, Postmaster Jim is willing to accept the vice presidential aomination with either John Nance Garner or Sen. Burton K. Wheeler at the top of the ticket. Normally this sort of information, comJames A. ing from the sources Farley it does, would be absolutely reliable. But no report about the maneuvering of a presi- dential candidate or his managers is to be accepted at par. The very essence of any campaign for a nomination is that friendly feelings be engendered so far as possible with all the opposing groups, including even the rival candidates themselves, if possible. ; The point is that the time comes in every hard-fought convention, such as the Democrats had in Baltimore in. 1912, in San Francisco in 1920, in New York in 1924, and even in Chicago, in 1932, when certain compromises must be made. It often happens that a minority candidate, who never had an earthly hope of success, will be able to settle the final result in one of those smokefilled room conferences. In other instances the lieutenants of a candidate may decide to throw their sup- port elsewhere. Naturally, new promises are the most important factor in reaching decisions at such times, but it does happen that if certain enmities have been created during the pre-convention campaign, these are preity nearly as important. Here’s an Idea of How These Affairs Work Out For example, to use an absurd illustration, let us assume that the approaching convention . should reach a deadlock, and that, in a tense midnight session of leaders, the men supporting the candidacy of Robert H. Jackson should offer to compromise on Harold L. Ickes. Can anyone doubt that the Paul V. McNutt. leaders would threaten to bolt the convention to prevent such a choice? Now itis a tribute to Harold Ickes’ common sense in realizing he would under no circumstances have a Chinaman’s chance for the nomination, that he took it upon himself to blast McNutt publicly out of the New Deal. If Ickes had been secretly hoping for the nomination he. would never have made those cracks against the Hoosier candidate. In contrast, there are not many candidates for the Democratic nomination this time—save Roosevelt himself—that Jack Garner has not slapped on the back and wished success—intimating that of course his own candidacy is not really serious! Nobody believes Cactus Jack when he says this—or at least not after thinking it over—but the warm feeling persists just the same. Now the Farley hints to the Garner and Wheeler camps may be a little more of the same, only more subtle, but there are those in Washington who take them as 100 per cent genuine. Confident Government Will Go Back to Wild Spending Advocates of continued government spending to take care of the unemployment situation and in the hope of “pump priming’’—while temporarily being ignored by the administration—are absolutely confident ‘that the government will have to swing back to their theory. For one thing they insist that the war situation is not going to solve our domestic problems. War orders, they insist, are being grossly exaggerated. -More important, they are mostly for airplanes and muni‘tions, on the theory that Britain and France are buying all the food and other nonmilitary items they can elsewhere. The reason for this is chiefly the Johnson act, which prevents further credits to governments which have defaulted on previous loans. It so happens that most of the Dominions still owe money to Great Britain, thus being in the same financial relationship that the United ‘States was in 1914. That alone makes it easier to buy from them, aside from the natural tendency of Great Britain to ‘‘Buy British,’”’ and thus cement the ties of empire. But even more important is the fact that Britain can obtain necessary goods her manufactured the United States. British Subjects Home-Grown Want Meat Favored As a matter of fact this was true before the war. Certain British subjects, particularly in the sheep-raising sections of Scotland, have long ‘eriticized the policy of the British government of encouraging beef imports from the Argentine instead of favoring home-grown meat. Sir Charles Ross, for example, one of the big landowners in the Scotch highlands, claims that the’ British farmer has been exploited by the British government in this respect in order that British manufacturers could sell their products to South America. So on the whole the spending crowd in Washington does not think much of the war boom prosperity idea, either for war exports proper or for the United States supplanting the belligerents in the neutral markets. They admit that Germany is out for the duration of the war as a competitor, but insist that Britain is apt to take over the lion’s share of the trade that was Germany’s. BERNARD Newspaper Union.) ALESMEN and scientists are sitting up nights figuring ways to make us sleep. They’ ve invented ear plugs, eye shades, V-shaped pillows, silent radios, electric comforters whose warmth can be regulated—and even a gadget called the ‘‘lullaphone”’ whose drowsy hum has you yawning in no time. The reason is obvious: Physicians and psychologists have Men Must Sleep sent out freely. The RELAXATION, PLUS!—A fruit vendor along the Amazon in Brazil enjoys his siesta. Between loads he flops in one basket and pulls the other over him. requisite is complete relaxation the moment you jump into bed. What the world needs, says Ray Giles, noted writer on sleep, is a dictator who could make it a penal offense to boast about sleeplessness. Most people who wail at breakfast, “T didn’t sleep a wink last night,” have actually been snoring loudly doesn’t want the possibility of a C. I. O. victory for anything or anybody—politically—without A. F. of Laide The truth is that there is no clear case in political history where any labor organization swung the result, whether organized labor leaders were a unit or not. There are a number of cases about which labor leaders boast, but skeptics. can find plenty of justification for doubting -if they will examine all the facts in any campaign cited. The C. I. O. was enthusiastic in 1938 about the defeat for renomination of Gov. Martin L. Davey of Ohio. But it developed that the A. F. of L. leaders had also been against Davey. They Nominated Their Man But Couldn't Elect Him But both the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L., though it may be admitted that: they had nominated a candidate for governor of Ohio, were not able to elect him, once nominated. Actually John W. Bricker was elected governor in the ensuing election. Curiously enough the same sort of thing happened in Oregon, where the C. I. O., the A. F. of L. and Harold L. Ickes all ganged up against the Democratic governor’s renomination, and beat him. At any rate he was beaten. But in the ensuing election a Republican won. The prize case cited by labor leaders as to winning an election goes all the way back to 1922, when Democratic Sen. Atlee Pomerene of Ohio was defeated after serving 12 years. Pomerene was certainly defeated, but it so happens that the drys were bitterly against him inthe same election. As a matter of fact the Anti-Saloon league, then at the height of its power, arranged to’ have sermons preached against Pomerene in most of the Protestant churches on Sunday before election. As the state had voted, just twe years before that election, for the most obnoxious search and seizure dry enforcement act in the country —the Crabbe act—by 250,000, it might be suspected that perhaps the drys had more to do with beating Pomerene than the labor leaders. (Bell Syndicate—WNU Service.) at the very hour they claim to have been awake. But if people would brag about how well they sleep, Giles thinks, they would go to bed at night and actually rest better for having decided to do so. A good day’s work is also important. Even if you’re unemployed you can sleep well if you go to bed saying, honestly: “This was a terrible day and I got nowhere at all. But I did my best. Now for a good night’s sleep so that I can do my best tomorrow.” One of the first persons to sleep “raw’’ was old Benjamin Franklin, but in recent years it’s become so popular that in New York 40 per cent of the women and 25 per cent of the men sleep as did Adam and Eve in the garden—stark and comfortably naked. Physicians recommend it because it favors skin ventilation. signifi- cance lies in the fact that the invitation to Senator Wheeler was announced. This came right on the heels of John L. Lewis’ invitation to Senator Wheeler to address the convention of the United Mine Workers, and came after Lewis had denounced President Roosevelt, John Nance Garner and Paul V. MeNutt, three William Green of the outstanding names on the Democratic list of possible nominees. Which more or less put Lewis pretty well up on the Wheeler bandwagon. But it has been one of the favorite boasts of American Federation of Labor leaders for years that the €. I. O. had never won a primary or an election except where the A. F. of L. was also on that side. So the jokesters around Washington are saying that Green must think Senator Wheeler has a pretty good chance for the nomination, and Subconscious Mind Won’t Sleep. Experts .aren’t agreed about dreams. Some maintain there’s a morbid and unhealthy feature about them, yet no one has discovered a method is treated with broth after coming out of hibernation. This cancer victim is still wrapped in her freezing blanket after taking the new treatment in which her body temperature was lowered to 91 degrees. Chimpanzees, Poisonous Snakes ‘Pets’ of Manhatianites Among LJ EW YORK. — If, you’re looking for common everyday pets like cats and dogs, don’t come to Manhat- | tan. In this city of towers you'll find as unique‘a collection of domesticated animals as ever answered to a masJ. H. Harper, a movie pro- | ducer, has as his constant Mrs. Gertrude Lintz of Brooklyn dates her passion for chimpanzees to the day 20 years ago in Vienna, when she saw youngsters throwing stones at a frightened pair of apes in a zoo. She was so impressed with the way the male tried to shield his trembling mate that she resolved to study them. ‘IT knew then that there was something within these human-like animals that I must come to understand,’’ she recalls. 5 Today she has three female chimpanzees in her home. They live like humans, arising early for breakfast, walking through the Lintz estate and taking regular baths. Mrs. Lintz dresses them as she would children. Recently one of the apes, Peggy Ann, behaved better than the average little girl when forced to sit through a banquet. and three hours of tedious after-dinner speeches. It’s Snakes With Him. Harold J.- O’Connell, successful New York business man, has snakes as his hobby. . “Most people have an aversion to them,’’? he admits, ‘‘but this feeling is not inherent. Babies can be given a small snake and they will show no fear whatever. Fear of snakes comes solely through the frightening stories told by mothers, nurse of stilling our subconscious mind, which insists on working 25 hours a day. As a matter of fact, many a problem has been solved by people who go to bed at night weighted down with troubles and resolved to ‘‘sleep on them.’’ The poet Coleridge awoke one morning and instantly transcribed the poem “Kubla Khan’? which his subconscious mind had written during his sleep. The new ‘‘frozen sleep’’ is probably an adaptation of hibernation or of the ancient Egyptian criminal punishment. Instead of being sentenced to death, law breakers of King Tut’s day were put into a state of coma and buried. It was discovered that, although a lengthy burial would tend to shorten their lives, it also cured them of their diseases. This is because healing processes work faster than destructive germs during sleep. Russians Hibernate. Dr. Lawrence W. Smith and Dr. Temple Fay of Temple university had probably heard of human hibernation: before they began their epochal frozen sleep experiments several years ago. In the ‘Russian steppes, it is reported, large groups of villagers lie down and permit their bodies to become gradually ter’s summons. companion a huge Siberian husky which an Alaskan friend sent him two years ago. Harper was broke at the time and the animal brought him so much notoriety that he secured financial backing for a new motion picture venture. “Tad,’’ the husky, has acclimated himself perfectly to the hustling life of New York, strange though it may be to a dog of his temperament. He used to howl at the moon until Harper began keeping him under the bed. He feared stairs until he once conquered them. Then Tad spent the next hour running up and down. She Likes Apes! Service.) Cling to Horses boiled With t2ty advice in Ill Results mili- sians in the latest emergency William Green’s invitation to Sen. Burton K. Wheeler to attend the American Federation of Labor party in connection with the ‘‘President’s Birthday Cake’’ caused a _ good many smiles in Washington. There is no particular importance, of course, in an invitation to anyone to this particular party. Invitations were F. PARTON Features—WNU Europe, and their horses made beautiful targets for machine-gun bullets. The Rus- or Die. But sleep remains one of the body’s greatest mysteries. It is hard to believe that we should surrender our complete consciousness willingly for eight hours every night, yet usually we crawl into bed happily after a hard day’s work. We know this is the price we must pay for being one of the ‘‘higher’’ animals. LEMUEL EW YORK.—In war, both the Poles and the Russians seem to suffer from incurable romance. The Poles clung to their picturesque cav° alry, against Russ, Like Poles, all the hard- examined our nerve-racked civilization and decided that a few good nights’ sleep would cure most of the ‘world’s troubles. They’ve probed the mysteries of hibernation, dreams, nightmares and insomnia. Most important, they’ve invented a powerful weapon called ‘‘frozen sleep’’ which may provide the cure for neurotic and physical ailments. That is why science is concentrating on methods to induce sleep, both natural and inspired. The prime Rival Labor Camps Wooing Of Wheeler Causes Talk By (Consolidated en sell by Western aI RCI to By GEORGE (Released HERE is a new department that we know is going to: meet with tremendous popularity with our readers, for it brings the op-~ portunity of combining pleasure and profit. With jig, coping or keyhole saw, you may cut these designs from wallboard, plywood or thin lumber. Each pattern brings accurate outline of the de-. sign, and complete directions for © making and painting. ; Men, women, boys and girls are finding this a fascinating pastime, and with each order will be sent a EEL Britain goods in’ Argentina, competing di| rectly with the products of the United States, and thus pay for needed foodstuffs which could be obtained by a much shorter ship haul from WHO’S NEWS THIS. WEEK To Find New Cure for Our Troubles mm Science Probes Mysteries of Sleep For example, take the Argentine republic. Britain is eager to buy her grain and her beef. The United States is not willing to buy either, this being the primary reason why | the recently. attempted negotiations for a reciprocal trade treaty with the Argentine broke down. So it is a comparatively easy matter for PS Washington hears that Postmaster General Farley would be willing to go on the Democratic national ticket with Garner or Wheeler ... Lack of war boom made an argument for continued government spending . . . Rival labor camps’ wooing of Senator Wheeler arouses interest in W ashington. UTAH colder until they enter a state similar to hibernation. They remain that way for weeks, saving food. The Smith-Fay experiments were first publicized last year at a St. Louis convention of the American Medical association. With motion pictures, the scientists showed how cancer sufferers—obviously in pain —were put to sleep by lowering the body temperature. After a mild in- jection of avertin enema, ice was PETS NOW, BUT—Three lit- packed about the upper portion of tle lion cubs held in Claire Bal- the body much as a fish is packed son’s arms are cute now, but for shipping. The resultant cooling wait until they. grow up and of the blood stream was much like ‘| the experience of one who freezes start making faces at people! to death in a snowstorm, a process maids and friends about the supwhich is not at all painful. posed evil nature of reptiles.” Body Processes Cease. O’Connell began collecting snakes After the patients had been put many years ago, housing them in his to sleep -the room temperatures home until Mrs. O’Connell’s pawere lowered. Frozen sleep was tience finally ended. Then he rented maintained for as long as five days a store building until the neighbors but it might be prolonged indefiniteobjected. Today they’re housed in ly. Pulse beat in the arms and special quarters at the Staten island legs disappeared and only an eleczoo, and their sponsor continues his trocardiograph could detect the quitrips to the wilds in search of new et and measured strokes of the specimens. There’s still one speheart. -Kidneys and intestines cies he hasn’t captured, a viper ceased to function. three times as venomous as any The scientists do not claim their other in this hemisphere. When he treatment will cure cancer, but the catches that, he will feel his life tissue of several external tumors is complete. was destroyed by the process. PaPets Help an Author. Fannie Hurst, the writer, keeps as her pets a white cat, a terrier and a tiny marmoset. She claims they help her with her work. Asa student at the University of. Washington she was expelled for refusing to dispose of her devoted terrier. In subsequent years her friends have sent her monkeys, a cockatoo, a Siamese cat and young tigers. She liked all of them, but there are limits to what you can keep in a Manhattan apartment. tients invariably awakened to find their pain entirely disappeared.. They had no idea how long they had slept. It had been a perfect rest; something doctors are always trying to get for damaged bodies. Why, scientists now ask, cannot the fozen sleep cure be used to attack tuberculosis and other ailments which require complete relaxation? Will it be useful to replace anesthetic in complicated surgical operations, or to help the patient rest during convalescence? sent in, not a strategist in modern war, but their most romantic cavalry general, Marshal Simion M. Budenny, and reports of disaster follow swiftly. News stories chalk up another “dismal failure,’’ in the general’s latest assault on the Mannerheim line. In the late summer of 1919, when the cables brought the news that the Bolsheviks were whipped and in flight, and that the White Russian Denikin held all of southern Russia, Budenny galloped through the steppes, recruiting his army of wild horsemen. He was a Cossack, from : the Don region, gaudily appareled, and with a huge blow-torch moustache that flared magnificently in the wind. His little bands of free-boot- ers grew into a huge cavalry army. It swept back, not only Denikin, but his ally, Wrangel and stopped the Poles until the French came to their aid. The general was enshrined in legend. He became the hero of folk tales and songs throughout the land—his wife, too, who rode and fought with him. Lenin later put him in command of all the Russian cavalry. man of extraordinary “‘Proletarians, to He is a energy. horse!’? circular showing many additional novelties which may be made at home. 3 j A’ host of bright birds in your garden becomes reality when your cutout hobby is combined with pattern Z9063, 15 cents. Life-size outlines and realistic painting suggestions for eight familiar . birds are given. Can you identify them? There’s the red-headed woodpecker, scarlet tanager, indigo bunt- ud ing, towhee, oriole, bobolink and blue jay. 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And there is no available record of his having had any training or experience in mechanized warfare. He was a private in the RussoJapanese war and a petty officer in the early stages of the World war. His wife, said to have been the best Didst thou never hear that things ill got had ever bad success?—Shake- rifle shot in Russia, killed herself accidentally while cleaning a gun, in speare. 1925. He married a famous actress of the Mali theater in Moscow, and an image of himself in his sons. —Goldoni. He their joint histrionics have continued only half dies who leaves to thrill the Russians. He has maintained a horse-breeding farm and encouraged his countrymen to do the same, evidently on the theory thata good horse and a good proletarian slogan would make any Russian unconquerable. —_ A ANY years ago, this os and scratchy? Get a box of shared an apartment with the Luden’s. You’!l find Luden’s special ingredients, with late Willard Huntington Wright. 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Sold at all drug stores who has been keeping us awake nights with ‘Judas Incorporated,” “Crooked Shadows,” and the like, is none other than Dr. Kager, associate professor of philosophy at New York university. At the fair he will work as a philosopher rather than as @ detective, pulling together a lot of educational loose ends and ravelings which, it seemed, got into a somewhat untidy state last summer. your eonstipation, get the DOUBLE = ee a0 % Sree! Harry Beckett, Mgr.formerly Mgr.,Ben Lomond,Ogden His detective stories started as an anodyne for a feeling of loneliness in the groves of Academe—as_ in the case of Mr. Wright. In 1930, he had prepared his doctor’s thesis on “The Growth of F. H. Bradley’s Logic,’’ and had climbed where few or none could follow. He -was all fagged out, and any two-dollar word made him shut his eyes and duck. 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