Show THE TIlE DAILY W WASHINGTON IvI Round Merry e err rr y yG G Go 0 R Rou 0 u g n nd d Trade Mark MarkBy MarkBy MarkBy By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN V WASHINGTON On On he walls of the office of the Public Health Service hangs a graph On it are lines that look like a jagged mountain mountain moun moun- tain range Doctors call it the scarlet fever r range and point to the high peak of cases in the United States during the week of March 18 After eight years of ot experimentation public public pub pub- lic lie health doctors think they have found a avay way way- to knock the top off this peak They have discovered a which shot snot into the arms of children inoculates them against the dis disease ase Eleven hundred people have pave been inoculated then tested 83 tested 83 per cent were immune But there is one serious hitch This new is based upon a toxin discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered by two Chicago doctors George and Gladys Dick They worked out a formula which also inoculates against scarlet fever but public health officers find certain faults with it Reaction to it by the patient is somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what violent also five doses are required However Ho the Dick toxin is absolutely essential essential essen essen- as as' the b base se for for the new public health It cannot be made without it And the Dicks have patented their formula Furthermore they have declined so f far r to relinquish it to the government Dr George Dick has indicated that he might give the discovery to science but his wife Dr Gladys Dick declines And the justice department finds their patent patent pat pat- ent valid upholds their exclusive rights If Ii the public health officers use the Dick toxin for the general public they can be sued personally per personally personally per per- and intimations have been given that this might happen I Good Egg Getting out of the vice presidency seems to have done Charley Curtis a world of good His friends say he has now become the same old In Indian Indian In- In natured good-natured poker-playing poker sagacious dian he used to be before his vice presidential days Then he lie was one of the most popular and efficient members of the senate Also Charley has regained his former frank disdain for the of the G. 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P Talking Talking Talking Talk Talk- ing to a friend the other day he said The liThe millionaires ire are re going Soing to take a back backseat seat in the present campaign The Republican party dont don't need em They cause more trouble than they're worth The truth probably is that Charley took his vice presidential dinner duties too serious seriously Anyone who went out to dinner as often as ashe he did was bound to get a little New Deal Poll PoIl Below is a continuation of the cross section section section sec sec- sec sec- tion poll on the New Deal taken by selecting average citizens in typical cities of the United States Today's poll was conducted by the Des DesMoines DesMoines DesMoines Moines Register Register- and Tribune which interviewed interviewed interviewed inter inter- viewed a livestock farmer and livestock dealer Here are are the questions and answers Has the New Deal improved your economic economIC condition Livestock dealer I cant can't see that ram I am much better off because I have to pay more for everything I buy and am not getting much more for what I sell seli Livestock farmer Yes the sealing of corn com h has s been of some help and when I get m my hog corn-hog ch check ck I expect to bea little better off Sh Should uld Roosevelt swing more to the he right or the left Livestock dealer Whichever way will help farm prices We need inflation on Livestock Livestock Live Live- stock farmer I dont don't know just what hat is meant by that I want him to swing whichever way will bring up farm prices What i is the weakest spot in the New Deal Livestock dealer Weakest spot in the New Deal is the fact that we still have lots of or farm foreclosures and need cheaper interest rates Livestock farmer The weakest spot in in the New Deal is the fact that we farmers are having to pay the bills either through processing taxes or other taxes later Do you favor the A. A A. A A. A and its payments t tto to farmers for tor acreage reduction Livestock dealer ealer I suppose the A. A A A. A. A is all right as asa asa asa a temporary measure We Ve need to open up foreign foreign for for- foreign eign markets and get people back to work and then there would be a market for all we raise Livestock farmer Yes I favor continuing the A. A A. A A. A with elimination of some of the red tape and speeding up payments Farmers Farmers' should have a chance to help themselves What do you think of the brain trust Livestock Livestock Livestock Live Live- stock dealer Politicians and brain trust both give me a pain pam Livestock farmer farmei I dont don't know much about the presidents president's advisers or orthe orthe orthe the brain trust but guess it would be better if they had more real farmers fixing up some of these farm programs instead of so many economists economists economists mists and administrative rulings t I If Roosevelt was up for reelection this year would you vote to continue him in office Livestock Livestock Livestock Live Live- stock dealer Its It's too early carly to say but guess I will Avill unless there is somebody better than I have heard about so far Livestock farmer Yes Roosevelt is is' trying to todo do something for or the farmer and the common man i 13 bi Ins In |