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Show t REAVER PRESS : BEVERLY HILLS-W- ell all I know s just what 1 read in the mail. We turned out a little movie here a short time ago, and from M"m reports It seemed to be pretty good, that is for mine. And the reports were that we had fairly got into the w atmosphere of the South. We thought " Tired Feet a your shopping trip, spend be- hnthinsr your feet Kj milium L starting to prepare dinner. Make Lot bath of warm water and bak- - "., Xllfci riUDOon"' Inc. Copyright by Public Ledger. VN0 Service Add to Fire Defense tvui"' tAhollt "O.lw iunea trucK iraus, uu yciui-,j lines, . At, UV IUC fOrCSlS i... vi" of fire. with excessive drouth, 1934 number of "dry" mglit an unusual imiprstorrus in the western states, ,ir s niiihi-piik- ir trting hundreds of lightning fires the forests. Following tne storms, whipped tne glowing ing winds into flaming torches which ead the flumes far and wide. A (rs a.18 fires- broke out m the ..i of iional forests up to September 10 h year compared wiui 7,cJ0 lor same period in 1931, and an av- ige Of u,JU( lor me pusi mice irs. Fifty per cent or tnis seal's fires were - man-cause- Wtiy Liquid Irvin Cobb did a tine job, and that John Ford who directed did another tine one, and that 1 e n r y Walthall was auberb. and an actor named " was great. Well, just a3 was sorter grinning a kind of a satisfied grin, why I get this: Its from a lady who signs herself ' , daughter of a Southerner, from St. Petersburg, Flor1 t defenses were built In the million rvn. w..- In "vation corps In the last year. nave lltlon, more than iu,uw nines men employed a completed by uu A. rUIKlS. th T. se and other Jons aiso ueipeu io fire Innfl . Laxatives Ve Back in Favor ida. "When one who Is all southern goes to the theatre to see you play in a supposedly southern play, a story depicting the old South, and comes out of that theatre resolved never to see you play again, what is wrong? Judge Priest is far, very far. from being a true picture of the South of that period that it depicts (or any other period). Our feelings are hurt. That you should be so misled as to think you were interpreting a southern jourist. "If Mr. Irvin Cobb wrote that story as It was presented, then Mr. Cobb is not a true southerner. The negroes kept, and still do. their places as servants, respectful and obedient, never appearing In public except in caps and aprons (in other words uniforms); the women with clean dresses, caps and aprons, the men wearing a white coat, all the time keeping a respectful silence. The South of that day was known far its culture, and know not in history of a southern jourist manifesting so great ignorauce a3 Judge Priest manifested. "You played the part excellently, but you did not understand the South, and only southern men, and southern women should play the parts protray-inlife in the "Old South" as they only understand the South. Judge Priest's public is fast returning to the use liquid laxatives. .People nave rned that the right dose of a perlv prepared liquid laxative will nc a more natural movement with- it any discomfort at the time, or e er. dose of a liquid laxative can be suit the needs of the in- (idual. The action can thus be ulated. A child is easily given the jht dose. And mild liquid laxatives not irritate the kidneys. Doctors are generally agreed that e ied to fana is a natural laxative. It does it drain the system like the cathar--k that leave you so thirsty. Dr. uuweii s Pepsin is a liquid M-ru- talive which relies on senna for its talive action. It gently helps the crage person's constipated bowels til nature restores their regularity. You can always get Dr. Caldwell's' irup Pepsin at any drug store, ready use. The "Heavy Work" n automobile tour can be rather pant if somebody else drives. CLEAR BREATHING was also a trav- sister-in-la- esty, a woman who held the social position of the sister in law of Judge Priest was usually a gentle refined woman of understanding. Even though she were haughty, she would always be gentle. Its a pity those who do not know anything about the "Old South" should assign you to a part that i3 destined to ruin you with the southern people. "Should you live in the South among real genuine southern people you wouia agree witb me, I know. There are many in the South who will continue to enjoy you in the pictures, who will understand that you have been misled as to the South. But something should be done to redeem that false picture of the South. should suggest that the play be presented again with a cast of all southerners, then there would be a different interpretation. "We like you, Mr, Rogers, but we think you have the wrong opinion of us. Sincerely yours, , daughter of a Southerner, St. Petersburg, Fla." Now there Is lots of ways to treat that. I could start In by kidding about it But its a lovely letter, Its printed word for word, with the deletion of one of two rather flattering personal illusions to me. And the letter deserves 1 think an answer In the same spirit as meant. I myself would like to see it played by real Southerners. 1 was raised in the Indian Territory. (My father fought with the famous , Stan Walte Regiment for the and if this lady will look at her map, she will notice that Okla, which was then ind, Ter, lays south of the Mason and Dixon line. So 1 am not the daughter of a Southerner, but am the son of one, and I am like her It its to be done over again, it should be written by a man further south than Paducah. Kentucky. Now there Is only one thing In the whole letter that I think the criticism was not Justified and that was about 1 Confe-eracy)- Use MentKoIalum Jo help open the nostrils and permit freer breathing 1 Seeming Paradox hose who take their life lightly taite it too seriously. my si.Hter In low. She said that all the Southern women would always Ifour own MfA f,w .L " woney dru?i;f I. 4084 ' T UrAt OUR ara not working Bufrer backache .,., I Iiiirnlnir - USA 7)riM, 'a "wollea feet and etlff. "all tired tu , Doan'i. &,',1'ul$i9T. For sale by y are all Ihra tt'firnpll? Now here Is another way got mixed In addition to both South the with up and raised my parents being born one of there, and me too. i married and be gallant, wouldent em. Now I rcIv. praised tne . wouldent bo just, and I wouldent I dident bo a southern gentleman If com deserved a pay my wife a lovely, she I have soon her when but pllment. then and "Gentler," could have been Southern compared to some other is plum wife I have known, my women "Ge.'lle." critBut a good dose of legitimate, to want I icism does us good, and will se thank this lovely lady and sister-in-laparj In that she gels the Ions. Product Southern all the over. OAH'S PILLS 1 il 19.14. ,V( SurflK". Sacred and Lucky Numbers Washington. It has been seldom since President Roosevelt took the helm of government . Jobs, Not that Washington has Gift sof Money witnessed such an upheaval of conditions and plans as has occurred in the last few weeks. Part of the changes result naturally enough from development of plans for submission of new national policies to congress which will convene again in about six weeks. The other part comes from a sudden determination by the administration to revise its recovery methods. Possibly the most significant of the forthcoming changes In recovery plans is the determination to try, at least, to get away from direct relief. Instead of plain gifts of money, the administration is now seeking to find additional means for creating work so that individuals needing help may obtain their relief in the form of jobs for which the government will pay. Officials still are loath to discuss exact figures, but they are, nevertheless, going steadily forward with plans for converting the vast federal relief machinery Into an extensive program that will embrace such things as slum clearance, low cost housing and rural rehabilitation. Mr. Roosevelt will wait until the last moment before he fixes in his own mind how many hundreds of millions of dollars will be needed to carry out these projects. The total cost obviously will depend somewhat upon how quickly the dole can be abandoned. It may run Into billions of dollars because, according to some authorities, removal from the dole is going to be opposed by certain types of persons. And, It seems, they can hardly be blamed because once the government altered Its traditional policy and made direct gifts of money It created a new psychology and the people who benefited thereby quite naturally will be unwilling to have the source of the gifts closed for this easy manner of living. One of the plans under consideration as a part of the whole program is provision for employment by direct federal subsidy for housing. Under this plan, the government would advance part of the cost for individual homes of low price construction. Estimates said to be In the hands of the President indicate that an expenditure of $1,500,000,000 in this manner would release more than three times that amount In private capital and give work to an estimated four million persons. In keeping with the theory that the number on relief rolls will descend in direct proportion to the revival of private construction, advocates of this plan contend that the cost would be less than outright relief. They say that with the government advancing part of the funds needed, private lending agencies would feel more secure and would offer aid In the form of the remainder of the loans necessary. It has long been recognized that recovery cannot be accomplished without a tremendous n Private crease In construc-Constructio- t'on-- I'rivate con- however, struction, wM not go forward in a period of uncertainty now no more than it has In other years and the experts have decided that the government must take the lead in this direction. They have advised the President there can be no real upturn in private building operations unless a start is made by the government Whether this Is the right theory, of course, none can foretell. It may turn out to be that the government is pouring additional funds down e as it has on just another numerous other occasions In the course of recovery experiments. My conversations with men both in public and private life, men who are qualified to Judge, lead me to believe that there will be considerable construction resulting from this program. The conclusions which have been expressed to me, It must be said frankly, do not indicate that there will be any such total of new construction development under the new administration program ns the enthusiastic exponents of the program now contend. There are numerous reasons for these conclusions as thoy have been explained to me. One of these reasons, and perhaps the most important, is that no one Is going to build a house unless he feels that he can continue to pay for It With depression conditions prevailing and with hundreds of thousands of potential home owners now without reserves or resources of any kind the market for homes naturally That is to say there are is limited. hundreds of thousands of families who would like to have homes but who have no way of acquiring them. rat-hol- Another road which the administraits efTorts to cause money to flow more freely Is Easing Up nt ,ru,lnS on Dank Loans th easing restrictions on bank loans. Heretofore, banks have not been permitted to make loans of more than 10 per cent of their capital and surplus for Industrial purposes to one borrower. The treasury now has abbrogated that provision, long retraced as a sound ranking ruling, and has told the banks they may loan more tion Is now following In Superstitious Notions Connected With Almost Every One of the Digits; Six Is Held Highly Potent in Mystical Properties. m mm. National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckart 1 KIDNEYS! ,ir n!Ulont Zs, fel lame, ll being I kiJneys tjuir F'Kit and you "UCSIH. I a lovely lady, but that "Con tinually" gentle stuff among k n o w Is 00 Pi I any controversy with someone t. refund your on"rruy the toot t " Mittf:.. ST' m,CTo r Creomultion ft be "Gen tie." Now r I g h there, a much as 1 hate to enter Into ,. . IJhiiSsKyUSf than 10 per cent provided the amount loaned abov 10 per cent is guaranteed by the Reconstruction Finance corporation or the federal reserve system. Treasury officials think this will encourage banks to extend additional credit. It happened that on almost the same day that the treasury policy was announced, one of the largest banks in the United States reported privately that one of its vice presidents had returned from a six weeks' scouting trip in an effort to find places where it could loan money. This man visited important cities in 16 states. He Is a practical banker and he Is thoroughly acquainted with the means of approach to potential borrowers. But his six weeks' tour netted one loan, application. That banks' report may sound silly because there are so many people that need money. Yet, It must be remembered that a bank Is trustee for the funds placed in Its care by its depositors and it cannot hand out money with reckless abandon. It must feel reasonably sure that there will be a repayment, and this was the thing which the bank's vice president failed to find. There were plenty of Individuals and corporations that needed money but they had no security to offer and little to guarantee that they could repay the borrowed funds. Financial experts, therefore, are not unduly axclted about the latest treasury ml ing which was released with much gusto and with statements that this will free "many hundreds of millions" to business. I am told that the banks are chock-ful- l of loose cash. Reports to the treasury certainly Indicate that to be a fact But when borrowers who need money have no security and when business is at such a low ebb that only the minimum of funds is needed, I believe it can hardly be said that the bankers nre wholly to blame. The bankers have been vigorously criticized in the last four or five years and obviously a considerable spanking was due them. On the other hand, I think it is a plain statement of fact that you can no more force people to borrow than you can make a horse drink after you have led him to the trough. Very many superstitious and curious Ideas have been and are still connected with numbers. Great hopes have been founded upon certain combinations of numbers in lotteries, In horoscopes, or In predictions regarding important events. Important unfavorhave awaited dertakings able dates for their Inception, and the lives of more than one leader of men have been more or less Influenced by a regard for certain numerical combinations, supposed to have a dominating power in shaping a successful career, writes a contributor in the Birmingham (Eng.) Weekly Post. There have been superstitious notions connected with nearly every one of the nine digital numbers. The number 1 was held to be sacred because It represented the unity of the Godhead. This number Is esteemed as very lucky by the Javanese, who allot but one day to each of the several operations of husbandry, leaving that portion of the crop that could not be gathered In one day. The second digit acquired an especially evil reputation among the early Christians, because the second day hell was created, along with heaven and earth. The Caballsts said It typified union of Christ. It seems to have been a number unlucky in English dynasties. Harold II was slain in battle; William II and Edward II were murdered ; Ethelred II, Richard II and James II were forced to abdicate; and Henry II, Charles II, and George II were unfortunate In many ways. The number seems to have been an unlucky one to the sovereigns of other European countries. The Charles IPs of France, of Navarre, of Spain, of Anjou and of Savoy passed or ended their reigns unhappily. The number 3 has an abundance of superstitions connected with it. It was the perfect number of the Pythagoreans, who said It represented the beginning, middle and end. A greater Importance was given to the number because it represented the Trinity, not only in the Christian religion, but in many others. There was but little mystery attached to the numbers 4 and 5. In folk-lor- e clover is the especially lucky. The four of clubs is an unlucky card, and It is named the devil's four-pos- t bed. The Caballsts asserted that the number fi was potent In mystical properties. The world was created In six days, the Jewish servant 6erved sir years, Job endured six tribulations, and hence the figure typified labor and suffering. The rabbis asserted that the letter vau, which represented six, was stamped on the manna, to remind the Jews that it Ml on six days only. The nuniBer C was an unlucky one at Rome. Tarqulnius Sextus was a brutal tyrant and the church was divided uuder Urban the Sixth. The number 7 has been Invested with more mystery than all the other digits together, and to it were ascribed magic and mystical qualities possessed by no other numbers. Several learned treatises have been written on this number, and septenary combinations have been sought everywhere. In an old writer of two centuries ago we may read why, In his opinion, the number is peculiarly excellent First,. he says, "It Is neither begotten nor begets"; secondly, "It Is a harmonic num four-leave- Senator Gerald P. Nye, North Da- kota Progressive Republican, has started on a speaking Unusual tour that, as far as T can find -- . C Is with- T out precedent The senator is chairman of the special senate committee named to Investigate the munitions, aircraft, and shipbuilding industries, to determine whether these businesses have been active In fomenting trouble between the nations of the world. The committee has held hearings covering a period of three weeks, and the hearings will be resumed later with the prospect that they may run on for many months. Senator Nye Is making a series of six speeches In the United States and one In Canada, dealing with the question of who really starts wars. He has announced that he desires to tell the country how nations are driven Into conflict and the Inference is, of course, that he believes munition makers and others producing material for war are at the bottom of the heap. But the point Is that Mr. Nye personally Is an advocate of government ownership of all plants now engaged In the production of anything used In wars between nations. He is authentically reported to have a draft of legislation in mind which he will present to the forthcoming congress. He Is not alone in holding this belief for at least four other members of his committee entertain the same general trend of mind. There are seven members of the committee so that It Is apparent the Nye plan will have a majority of that committee supporting It If and when it Is presented to the sen-- , ate. I have examined records rather comprehensively In an effort to discover whether ever before any senator or member of the bouse had gone out to the country with an appeal for support of legislation under a circumstance such as this. The committee had three or four months more of Investigation ostensibly to ascertain all pertinent facts. Despite the fact that the senate hns voted money for the committee to make this Investigation and the money will be spent at hearings, Senator Nye has proceeded to make known his views in advance. Disclosures made by the committee thus far have been accepted generally, I think, as showing there was some Cer-taifire as the cause of the smoke. testimony given before that committee linked some of the American munitions makers with foreign Interests whose designs were of a political It was shown how some character. of the foreign agents had attempted to provoke trouble between nations of Europe and the logical assumption Is that If such activities occurred In two or three Instances, tbey must have occurred In many others. Nevertheless, there Is a considerable amount of criticism heard In Washington about Senator Nye's plan of action because, It Is contended by these critics, It Is hard to see how the senator can conduct an unbiased Investigation after having committed himself In this way. ,5 . n A. WMtara Nividuh t'uloo. d ber and contains all the harmonies" ; thirdly, "It is a theological number, consisting of perfection"; fourthly, "It Is composed of perfect numbers, and participates of their virtues." He may find better reasons for the Importance attached to this number. Much" of it Is doubtless due to Its prominence in the Bible. The seven days of creation led to a septenary division of time to all ages. Several of the Jewish feasts lasted seven days. Ellsha sent Naaman to wash in the Jordan seven times, and Ellpah sent his servant from Mount Carmel seven times to look for rain. For seven days seven priests with seven trumpets Invested Jericho, and on the seventh day they encompassed it seven times. There were seven virtues and seven mortal sins. The ancients not only noted the importance of seven as an astronomical period, but also connected with the seven planets the seven metals then known. The soul of man was anciently supposed to be controlled by this double septenary combustion. It was also an ancient belief that a change in the body of man occurs every seventh yearn year. Says an old writer: "Augustus Caesar as Gellius salth, was glad, and hoped that he was to live long, because be had passed his sixty-thre- e years. For olde men seldom passed that year, but they are in danger of their lives. Two years, the seventh, and ninth, commonly bring great changes to a man's life, and great dangers; therefore C3, that contain-et- h both these numbers multiplied gether, contalneth unknown to- Harm Done by Seeking to Standardize Child "Children are being wronged by enforced molding to the means of mass measurement," Dr. I. Newton Kugelmass says in Hygeia Magazine, in an article entitled, "The Myth of the Average Child." "Standardizing plastic youth Into average patterns is detrimental physically to growing children, troublesome psychologically to perturbed parents and false biologically to the national Ideal. Children are Individuals, not average, In their body build and In their organs and tissues even to the single cells, twenty-fiv- e trillion In number, that compose the human structure. , . . Every child is unitary and unique. Never before and never again can the exact conditions be reproduced for the evolution of the same being. "A child Is considered normal physically when he does not reveal any pathologic disturbances that Interfere with his functional integrity or with his pattern of growth develop-- " ment. It Is a negative definition expressed In terms of the abnormal because we have more knowledge of disease than of well being. "Clinically, it Is practical to classify children In two extreme groups that define a wide range of norm for any one child. . . , The one U dynamic and thin, and the other static and fat." Truly Great Man Emerson's line: "It Is easy In tho world to live after the worldr op1nion ; It Is easy In solitude to live after our own ; but the great man ip he who In the midst of the crow,d keeps with perfect sweetness the Independence of eolltude." covered that when the purple bea slightly yellow comes Vitamins and Vision materialtransparent Is split off from It This The manner In which the eye material, a hitherto unknown chemworks ; particularly how it perceives ical, was found to be closely related what one knows as color, Is a very to carotene, which, In turn, Is a close considerable mystery. The puzzle is relative of vitamin A. Doctor Wald then actually witnot very much clarified, but Is possibly made more Interesting, by the nessed the transformation of the new recent discovery that there la a close yellow substance Into vitamin A. relation between vitamin A and the Literary Digest. rhodopsln of "visual purple" In the retina. Stamp! Worth $9,000,000 It has long been known that visual Stamps valued at more than will be on display at the inpurple, which plays an Important part in the functioning of the re- ternational philatelic exhibition which tinal rods, is sensitive to light will open In Vienna, Austria, on June bleaching to a colorless material 24. One thousand prominent stamp when to Illumination. collectors will take part In the exhiexposed this phenomenon, Dr. bition. 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