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Show UTAII MAGNA TIMES, MAGNA, PAGE TWO That-Bod- Howe About: rjtEWjy ' Honesty A Firm Foundation Soldiers of Fortune Ck Ball Brodleot. WNU KJ f WCIK RY 0.0. At SlftlT lid Cornell has become the last and grandest of the legitimate troupers. She dared and won where other hesitated, winding up a tour of 31 states, one largelystands, night with bigger box office grosses than any dramatic offering on Broadway. Mlsa Cornell, regarded aa most glamorous in the stellar array, is about the only one left who love the companionship of trouplng, the sleeper jumps, drafty old dressing rooms and dinky hotels that were once so essentially a part of the theatre's routine. Her barnstorming proved the talkies have not taken all the customer id the outland. For, in the worst period of theatrical history, she came back to New York and a deserved rest with a snug fortune. more, revived a fine And, what NEW I The president of a big New York bonding company writes me: "The following la a quotation from your last Issue: T do not believe the people can be cured of tbelr natural dishonesty, but still hare hope they can be taught honesty Is the best policy, If we teach It as Industriously as we hare long been teaching some of our untrue doctrines. . . . The experience of this company In paying dishonesty losses forty years convinces me that what Is needed In this world Is the teaching of honesty rather than preaching of It. Our preaching has resulted In honesty being docregarded as a goody-goodtrine, to be eulogized by Sunday school teachers and the public schools up to the fourth reader. No real effort Is made to Impress young people with the practical benefit to be derived from honesty as an asset Anyone can acquire it and it will prove an Inexhaustible resource throughout Ufa Dishonesty starts when the Individual determines upon a course he knows Is wrong; but the Impression Is not has deep enough to h'old hlm-h- e not been sufficiently taught If children were sufficiently taught honesty from the beginning, and continuously, It would not be so easy for men and women to depart from honest ways, and get Into the trouble dishonesty always brings. I hope you will elaborate on this theme In subsequent Issues." I am regarded as a tiresome acold by a good many because I have already elaborated on the theme In many previous Issues. I believe we should teach honesty la the best policy as persistently and continuously as we teach the Christian religion. Honesty la not a "goody-goody- " or Sunday school doctrine; It Is the oundest article In the philosophy of experience. Good conduct la the surest and safest method of Insuring success and comfort In life. Good conduct pays ; and It Is easier In the long run than bsd conduct I have taught this all my life, and shall teach It hereafter. tradition. One seel amazing things In this lunatic metropolis. He was a big d Max Baer sort of fellow at the next table In a restaurant y raw-bone- selecting his order. Finger nails of the hands that held the menu were lacquered a flaming red. Then there was the dandy Bob Brlnkerhoff whom I saw on the Plaza steps In the natural spotlight of a javelin of noonday sunshine. He was a monotone of ash gray from suit, hats, spats, shirt and tie to gray walking stick. In his lapel was notched a bright red rose. Suddenly, as we gawked, he tripped down the steps and Into Ill klsa a pig If it wasn't a dove gray A most striking celebrity resemblance exists between Jules Bacbe, the banker, and E. Phillips Oppen-helm- , the novelist. They are of the same chubby rotundity, walk alike, express the same recessional note In hair, carry gold headed walking slicks and each eports a rimless detached monocle with a port hole The prototype of Opppnhelm'e bead waiter, whose suavity with crooks and royalty threads mosthls yearns. Is Theodore Szarvis, long ot the Rita, but latterly of the Waldorf's' staff of maltres d'hote). They met years ago when Oppei.helrn was a guest and Theodore a captain in a London hotel Whenever the novelist comes to New York he calls on Theodore wherever he may be. lie long ago discovered that Theodores outward mask of obeisance hid a cultured scholar, a lover of the classics and keen student of international affairs. A country or a man may progress too rapidly. It was overprogress that caused Ivar Kreuger, head of the Swedish match trust, to commit suicide, and leavq behind the record of a scoundrel It was overprogress on the part of the United Stntes that brought us to the present great difficulties. Progress Is one of the be8t prlncl-r'ebut the details, must- he attended to with the old details of caution and common sense. If the foundation Is rent tul tt on solid rock, there will be a toppling. Somewhere In the hymn book or BIhle there la a line about the sure foundation. One must have It In everything. If he hopes to get along as comfortably and safely as Is possible. DeWolf lloppcr, In his 70's, Is still- - a romantic Romeo.' He spends' s, - most of his time these days in Chicago anthwheij. he l.pa to leave Mrs. Hopper for New York engagements on the radio, he spends quite a sum on telephone call1- and telegrams. On his most recent engagement he tried to avoid what ha become to him a horror. Casey at the Rat but his sponsors wouldnt let him. It made the 3,000th tune. ' - The stories of Soldiers of For- Charles M. S.hwub's nucnlficent tune, as they appear In the newspapers and magazines exaggerated by French chateau Is the last ot Riverother soldiers of fortune, make side Drive's private mansions with good reading; In my vagrant hours landscaped terrace, ivy clr.d towers J sometimes rend them myself. and high Iron fence. Upkeep and A notable Soldier of Fortune has It's the best kept place In town is Just died, missing the average goal reputed a quarter million a year. On of three score and ten by thirty the upper East Side, the Andrew years. He was In college when the Carnegie home Is Just as it was war broke out, and made high ; when the I.alrd of PKiho passed on. grades In the football squad. Also, the last of the high fenced splendor-ou- s he sang In the glee club, and played type of homes along what was III the band, but his grades In legit- once Millionaire Row imate studies were low. Of course, he promptly enlisted, The green gabled Clarke mansion and I mstrel that a man wounded so frequently and seriously, was in the 70 s, the castle of the topper able, after the armistice, to perform magnate, now such feats of exploration as he dis- a n apartment played In climbing mountains, fol- house, was the lowing rare spec!mensj)f animals high spot of Millionaire R o w In Tibet and Afrlta, and engaging In revolutions In South America. when I came to He hoped to fly across the Atlantic tow n. I went and thus hppenr In the movies, but there as a reat thirty-eigh- t he was found dead; porter and saw whether by his own hand, or at the my first private hand of one of his fellow adven- elevator, self manipulated by turers, Is not known. buttons, StlU, I prefer the story of Thom- push as A. Edison, and humbler men, and first butler who have striven In the more use- with side wheel ful If less exciting, fields of en- whiskers and stiff waist bend. They seemed to me then, as now. the deavor. spifflest of all gadgets in grand I do not love life as ardently as some say they do, but possibly few have become more accustomed to Next you hear, 1 may be yelling It than I am at seventy-nine- . . . . at passershy from behind a crissTbe things I shall dislike to give cross of bars, Hey, Jack, gotta several-co- rn up are pairhynw till I suppose I shall finally hate were dawdling over sodas In a 42d to go. street drug store I Idled at the clock counter. And 8 alarm clocks were - I never say I have studied life; wound and sot to go off an hour enly that I have lived It I do not later.- - Next week I open the boat study anything, I experience 11 as rocking season. one of my natural necessities. h 1934, S(. 4 Symdumif, Jmc. ' j Washington. Tbe end ot Juno statements ot all the banks of the country aro now Bank Deposi fa matter of rec- Increase ord and surprisingly, nearly an of tha Individual banks have shown Increases Ini tba deposits and resources over a year ago. A couple of tbo largest banka In New York showed such astounding Increases In deposits as 1100,000,000, compared with- Jane, 1933. But Irrespective of the Increase In deposits that Is, the money actually in possession of the banka almost aooe of them disclosed any Increase In tbe total loana now outstanding. Indeed, the rule was a decline from Juno 80, 1933. Banking authorities In tha government and outside tell me these figures on deposits and resources clearly lndlcata an Improvement In the general banking situation. The Federal Reserve board In lta latest review of conditions declared the banking structure was on a much firmer foundation. Yet, the fact that the banks have not made loans Is being seized by a certain segment of politicians and alleged economists as proof that tbe banks are not doing their part. From very high quarters In the administration we hear Intermittent yelps that the and are banks are not not attempting to loan money. This condition, as they construe 11 la being used as the excuse for the existence of numerous of the government loaning agencies and for other activities under the New Deal that resulb In getting money out Into the country. The circumstances In the decline of bank loans, however. Is to my mind not such as the critics of the banks claim. It must be remembered first of all that bankers, when they make loans, are putting out money belonging to you and to other depositors. They must be reasonably sure of getting It back, even though we do have now the Fed eral Deposit Insurance corporation that Is supposed to prevent losses for the depositors. Bankers, therefore, are willing to make loans of the vast sums of Idle cash their banks hold if they can only find someone who will put up security guaranteeing a return of the bor rowed fundsi While some of the critics of the bankers have been continuing their attacks, I note statements from the Public Works administration, from the Reconstruction Finance corporation, from the Home Owners Loan corporation, and the Farm Credit administration, among others, which show very clearly that the government or Its agencies Is unwilling to make loans unless it can foresee a reasonable chance for repayment. Just tbe other day, the Public Works administration wlthdrew.au allocation of some $0,S77,(X)0 for construction of a bridge In Chicago because, according to Public Works Administrator Ickes, the political subdivision of that city having ju Tlsdlctton was unable to- provides quarantee of repayment of that loan. Every dqy local unit? gf the Home Owners Loan corporation are turning down applications by home owners who seek government money through mortgages on their property to aid them In whatever distress they find themselves. The same statement may be made respecting loans by the Reconstruction Finance corporation In Its deal lugs with Industry. Lately the various Federal Re serve banks Issued a weekly statement of their o;eratlons, and only three of the twelve reserve Institutions reported having made loans to Industry. - - I have Inquired In numerous quar for reasons why borrowers were so few. The Why Borrow- - consensus given ers Are Few me by men who should know. Is that there are two distinct reasons for the' small amount of loans being made by banks and, of course, the same reasons may apply In thr case of government loans, except ters the government has beer known to put out money In places from which It probably never wll One of the reasons be returned. mentioned was that Individuals and firms who most need money have nothing but their own signed obligations to put up as a guarantee Obviously, If an Individual or a cor poratlon has no resources, the note of that Individual or that corpora tlon Is of little value, however hon st and well Intentioned the borrow that r may be. Tbe second reason, and one that la quite Important, Is tbe lack of confidence which business men tell me exists to a large extent In comWhatever Is merce and Industry the basis for this lack of confidence is not a matter of concern In thl discussion, but Its existence seems to me to be a matter ol the gravest Importance. Whether taxpayers are afraid of the burden In levies which they can foresee, is tins reason for their hesitancy, is not bow wholly apparent. Many observer are convinced it Is an Influential factor. There Is also tha question which one heart so jiZS. JAMES W. BARTON, M. D. Its Already Smashed At Last They Got Bint Air Wisdom, and Nonsense Forest Made to Order Hational Topic Interpreted . by William Bruckart YORK-Kath- erln 1 of Yours WEEK B, Y Srvlc. By ED HOWE HAVE never occupied official position of any kind; I have always been sn bumble follower, forgotten except when leaders are an additional tax 'considering schedule, a new drive, or other foray. But If appointed chief of police I should hare fewer street parades. I seldom go downtown without finding a street roped off for another parade, and thus suffer annoyance and delay. b THIS- - y Where and how far does the New Deal intend to go in socialisation and reform? It seems to be obvious that each of these, and perhaps others, are factors standing In the way of a sound expansion of business under the recovery plan. In tbe meantime, tbe federal government la going ahead with its out of program to spend our way Item Is ont Here tha often-aske- BEVERLY The Use and Misuse of Mineral Oil PVers or what I Si? i Senator Borah denounces monop- pHOSE Individuals who have trouble A tried to do without laxatives or oly aa the cause of all our I and saya Smash tbe monopolies by eating fruit, raw vegpurgatives As It happens, happenings since 1929 etables, bran and other rough foods have smashed the monopolies fairly are to be praised because .the regu-- lar use of drugs for this purpose Is unwise. There are times, of course, when a dose of epaom salts or castor oil la the best possible treatment; In fact, the regular treatdepression. It took 15 federal agents, all ex- ment with many physicians unless to show what Is happening. 'Thla road building has resulted pert gunmen, to "get" DUllnger. there la some abdominal condition In the construction of enough miles And they got blm by aurprlse, where purgatives would be dangerthat hi ous. more than 22,000- -of new high- thanks to a womans "tip In a certain theater," a be earth. to was the encircle Some are now using mineral oil way almost to well paid Russian oil to help the system or This money was voted by congress j tip supposed to have been It was no detecUve worL get rid of Its wastes, and If this In the last session as s means of for. of the imilnger was killed as he bad killed plain oil Is taken In proper quancreating work. Proponents administration others, without a chance of escape, tities It Is certainly a simple and and appropriation, 000,- j like a trapped coyote, and n0 method. It wa formerly gaf authorities, hold that the $100, ai knows, If he knows anyth ng, oil passed through 000 earmarked for road building tbe that tb0Ugbg Profession "crime does not would provide thousands of new body nnchan8ed but Dra g. & Jobs. Bureau of public roads fig- pay." Newman and G. El Grnenfeld In ures Indicate that this has been the Journal Missouri Medical AssociaavlThe War departments special tion state that although mineral oil result, but I Cad many observers who are wondering whether the atlon committee aays the army is not affected by the action of tbe cor amount of money that has been should have 2,320 planes, with It la broken up In flying men. digestive Juices, In the same manner aa fata, atpaid to labor for highway construc- responding Increases not be . tion has been a proper proportionate It also says there should not t0 the Mme extent part of the total set aside, when one department control lng all air However, mlneral oU has proved Is which pitiful Idiocy. the purpose was solely the making forces, Itself so effective In preventing conMr. Baker must remember what of Jobs. stipation by helping tbo waste to Total figures by the public road9 happened when he was secretary of pass readily through the large Inthis office show that 6,300 miles were war and the flying machines of testine, that the dally nse of one-hacompleted and In use on July 1 of country sent to Europe were a Joke tablespoonful or more of the commen miles among nations, our flying this year and that 11,000 oil for several days at a time Is were under construction, with the pelled to borrow from France and advised. probability that they will be In use England planes that would really The oil seems to prevent tome of by the end of 1034. Contracts have fly. the liquids of the food from being been awarded, the bureau has said, into the body, and this absorbed for the construction of about 1,900 However, the big men In tbe army liquid, being still In the wastes, miles more, and work on this por- and navy are not flyers, and feel to make the wastes bulky, tion will be under way In the late that they should have their llttla helps the muscles of the Intestines giving summer. separate flying units to play with. more to grasp and push downward. Naturally, the muscles of the walls that when It used to he From somewhere In the Pacific of the lutestlne with this bulk to economic conditions were below President Roosevelt sends an orhandle are kept In much better tone ur, ninny own-Sti- der that $15,000,000 be set aside or condition than when tbe wastes Use ers of automo- now, $75,000,000 in all, spent on a are dry and scanty. fll lliU's w,,llId Their Cars made to order" forest, stretching However, Doctors Newman and pence with their across the country through the heart Gruenfelt point out that If the machines until they were bitter sit- of the drouth area from the Cana- quantity of oil used Is too large, It uated financially. Such, however, dian border to the Texas Panhandle, may accumulate In the lower part seem not to have been the case In Planned as an experiment to coun- of the large intestine, act really the last year. Automobile regis- teract the drouth by encouragtrations, while they declined In ing rainfall, the new forest will be as a sort of Irritant, which keeps the bowel overactive and may cause 1933, continued to reinaiu at an un1.000 miles long, 100 miles wide, spasm or cramps. usually high figure as compared 100,000 square miles of forest The thought then to that the nse with recent years Official statisof mineral oil In suitable dosei for tics show that 23,b72,000 motor a few days at a time may be helpvehicle were In use last year. This It will be a long time before any- ful when there la a tendency to conIs only 1 per cent below 1932. The - - . - decline from 1931 to 1932 was body knows about the plan's suc- stipation.. cess. The President and those Too much mineral oil may cause larger, but the point Is, according to officials, that the decline was around him will have disappeared, Irritation, cramps, and spasm of the very small The authorities lnsht will not see the big forest, and be- muscles of the Intestine. that the reduction In total motor fore It amounts to much men may vehicles In use as compared with have learned to produce rain when Vitamins It Is an Interesting ex1932 should be considered as hardnecessary. nre reading and hearing a periment, costing only $75,000,000, 1 ly noticeable when the whole coungreat deal about vitamtna these try and the whole number of motor mere nothing In these days. Food manufacturers, days. drug vehicles Is considered. Although 1 experts, even restaurants are tellnot official have the statistics con Henry Ford says: ing the world about the magic qualcorning the sales of new cars last Americanism, the ities of their products, because year, responsible sources Inform pioneer spirit that Isnt afraid to these products contain vltamlna me that this business was verv tackle anything, will save this Thus, the first impression one Lmpruved and they 44 !.- - - tim fFom Its economic and social might get to that a vitamin or vitaIn 1934 that the sales for the flrd afflictions." mins. are a new kind of food subsix months have been exceptionally I'erhnps Henry Ford, who lives stance, or that these manufacturhigh. Tlds would Indicate that a some distance from the fringe of ers are subputting this new food " great many Individuals have found American foolishness, gives his fel- stance IntoHhelr products. money. In some way or another, low citizens credit for too much of As a matter of fact,' the vartans which-the- y could spare for a new the old American spirit. vitamins are not in any way alike; automobile. When you read that 3,000,000 one vitninlnbejng. a different front observer lately have are deprived-o- f sehooIlrig lD another vitamin as meat to from an Increasing tendency noticed the United States, that this coun- bread. conservatives throughout try spends for luxuries" twice as among Further, the average man, womthe country, whether Democratic much as It spends on education, you or child docs not need to buy an, or ItepuhlH an, to align themselves think that possibly something has these products advertised to conunder one banner. The movement happened to that pioneer tain certain vitamins. In order to as yet Is much In the embryo, hut Hie Talmud says. "Jerusalemspirit." was get enough vitamins. Tha dally I am told by various observers who destroyed because tbe schools were diet of the average Intelligent are acquainted with political Trends neglected." middle class Individual contains all that the alignment is taking a rath tiie necessary vltamlna and In the er definite shape. Conditions In Vienna nre bad, amount necessary for the maintewith more dangerous riots expect nance and workings of the body. Anotiier factor and Influence tint ed ns Nazi terrorism continues Its Take the average diet and It will is now to be at work is ti,e bomb explosions, Nazi in Austria he found that cereal milk (pere de lure gradual that Roman Catholic some cream), toast, little tratlon of b id priests led Chancellor Dollfuss In haps bacon Hiid some tea or coffee with lntere-t- s ness on his Trend campaign against the the conservative and a Na.i spokesman Nazis," sugar and cream will make up the declares average breakfast " vile of political questions under the that Nazis have determined Lunch will consist of bread and to New Deal. Washington has kidnap the Roman Catholic priests butter, milk, tea or coffee, some lately of efforts being made which as hostages." As soon as any Nazi fruit or a salad. it would In the molding of tv rrori.sts are sentenced to death, Dinner will consist of soup, usubtiMtie-- s li lerests, or the spoke and banged, their friends will kill ally vegetable soup, meat potatoes, men there, or, into a compact orthe prie-t- s held as one or two other vegetables and hostages. ganization ns a means of combating some fruit or pastry for dessert policies of the New Deal regarded Mr and Mrs. Peters An Individual (he was eating the above by badness leaders as rad, cal in night man" In a small diet and getting out Into real e Hoboken, character. N- turn J, broom) won $25 513 In a dally not the auDahtne of the It Is too early to attempt to fore cast as to the scope of tills move, sweepstake lottery and felt that dust and smoke-lade- g atmosphere they should shovf that winning. In of nny city need never think of nevertheless. It Is quite ajiparei t a lottery. Is a vitamins We do not get the full a that concentration of this value of the ultra violet rays ln Is under way. Not only strength cities. will those men and Interests oppose However, most of us ljve Indoors, expansion of such policies as NIIA get little sunlight, and not enough and the A A K but they are orgnniz can show of one Important vitamin vitamin Ing to fight the ever Increasing which to needed to keep our burden of taxation and to oppose kr c,nt on $25,546 tllJt bones and principally our extension of government la busl Some teeth, In eei export wl!1 Prob- - Zod condition ; hence the decay of ness. .hK- - ci' It Is a matter of record, of course, ri 'iT l ,!how t0 change $25,. ,eetb In the majority of children 0000.no(-then that the tendency of government Mr. ad adults. Vitamin D and ultra violet rays In the United States since policies have the same effect the World war has been steadily upon the body. To get vitamin D, children are to the left Conservatives have been unable thus far to check tlds given more sunshine, are treated with ultra violet raya trend, largely because the conservby apeclal ative element never has stood tolamps, and also given cod liver oIL other word8 w gether. It Is Important and slgnifl out- unogerous V cant therefore, that for the first .doors, our ordinary diet would be mosquitoes. tlmm. eaxe.avbserTlng-the-4evrt.v- f, do 'iioFTIveut-- ' spread' -- malaria and yrfw't A raent of a conservative organic '".'read j allow fever. Malaria 'oora' ess and d liver oil may tlon In this country which has the Jne wors, of the two. for it Le ocessary to supply vitamin D. ' Lfe worthless. avowed punose of turning the CopyrtfhL) wnu wrviee. According c , cntl.-t- s, the jnaiarla American government back somemoouitn.i Tka Cashew 5 what to the right and. as tha lead- - . co",n2 "p from'tj,,. era describe ll back again to the rud barbarians from thenort),11" The rashew at 1 gfown only In T'opv of the tro,,IeaI America. d Constitution as it was originally It can be Inhabitant the power of on,r ,n drawn. Ttnmt onthemmost T811 Florid ancient Jn the United ,. 6 Wuttra Wewapopat Paioa. States, since It to Jvery sensitive to cold. Mm. well If anybody has a monopoly that you would like to own, you can get It at a bargain. i - lf you - h no-c- re-u- aun-shln- str-i,n- aiaria-hoarin- ' Nnt" I cvritl-Mreye- a In big caff braW belongs to the HaUeBi family friend of a, elf. Rs where I ent j J years ago and vis j nw"4 twa1' i to and an old jug headed waa riding got tangled and the calf and I cent bystander. Andtu in waa bucked off os ay count of using good knowing how to laR Al rJ tfc I a ut J hurt at all The old Ion !rt -! pul Ml around the corral with , 'jl l chored to him and to t atlot ing fire. All this time a Lon tMi scratching old cut ol (SltWt and other amputated my hair. And old dty I DO (and I never mw many i Hi aid "Well you will it, t tut h , a tan thing to write about ill, s : Well this time 1 t one night Flew an nlfl ittliie Amarillo at four odocu I a oa Ing. Its about 109 mfles (moo down at a town named I'nstor km uppose Its aa old S; in Ml' and come from the t kW th wears on his foots.) l Ml B1 Hr a taxi and Ut out 1 attic waseut much time to ii IhIcm the old boy Lets get ic .mbtrh and then bit oa out of to auct 8 a i4 know the road, but 1 iMwlf direction. mired We went by tha ret: ham and eggs, for out thing you do must get I .TIE I i first h Then when yon you get ham and eggs girl and her bean, (pe ln there too about Ing, she recognized m an evening drees, that for an evening drew Eh wanted ms to join' she said was t tup of had something la tt. was doing mighty weD I had ordered that had grounds In it But it was drinking "Coffee i , sounded awful "Coat, browsing around is A even Old Tack" set that Well anyhow it sore at me beaus 1 ner. And when I said tag as mrdrtraimi she turned her bare ba Them set muttered alike, they are aU i that what 1 get ham. He dideni too he seen one." Well as It got to get! and we passed all thoa farm houses on every ter section, (waralt world should have be61 I never saw as many f ous breeds trying to ei ahead of us. Chick oH guinea hens. This In betook looked like in trying to malm much to my delight reach any of em. If over a Country where fore as a boy 11 o helped drive a bunch that very place to and there wisent c chicken in a whole the was plains ini r prettiest country I ever saw ln my life, as flat as a contest oeauty , winners prairie and lakes scattered all over it. And mirages! Yon could - sea nyv storo-nch- thlng world- In th lust - ahead of you at out of chuck wagon, ground all that sprttf 'J I (Lotoffolka' of 88. couldent F dike, but I homo 14 away from Territory than mr "Pay Dirt" WeD f c : tore a month. years latdr driving eat at another "CMegiJ do a little ropln? j every!0 . j happened to I 6appeD' more No So J than to another. J but they are till ngs4diatitKk to the other feU No greater, , world than th with missed being 4 did I mis mstlteH j meal from the That coffee to eoff but brother Its JT'j J j e 1934 . Ara |