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i 12 DAILY DISPATCH, MOLINE ILLINOIS: THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1940. MOLINE DAILY DISPATCH SCOTT'S SCRAP BOOK By R. J. SCOTT Samuel If. THE MOLINE DISPATCH PUBLISHING CO.

L. R. BLACKMAN, Editor Diet and Health By LOGAN CLENDENING, M. Author of Tihe Human Body OTA Mill PETTENGILL "The Gentleman From Indiana" Entered at Moline, 111., as second class matter 'OLD WIVES' At the end of about the fourth or fifth decade of life, comes the sixth of the seven ages of woman. Here a reversal occurs in the chemi- na tiHpc nf tl-io he is welcomed cordially.

This doesn't mean that they are friends. It only proves that international politics makes strange bedfellows. Hitler is wooing Russia for whatever benefits he may gain, and Russia consents to be wooed for the same purpose. It may not appear to be true today, but history has shown, and we believe it will show again, that Russia and Germany are traditional and hereditary enemies because their national interests conflict. They appear to be at peace today because Hitler doesn't want to fight on two fronts at once.

Russia, lacking the spark of military and mechanical genius, doesn't want to fight at all. There is one possibility that might enable the two to become friends if not allies. One of Russia's great desires has been a seacoast open the year around. If Hitler could deliver such an ice-free port, the Reds might forgive that reference to the scum of the earth. Prom the Russian standpoint, the ideal ice-free port might be found in British India." Has Hitler been trying to trade India for the Suez canal? The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to tbe use for rt publication of the news credited to It or not otherwise credited In this pacer and also the local news published herein.

Leased wires of the Associated Press come directly into the office of the Dlsoat.cn. ductless glands, CKPf. B.OMEB. SAJLED fROM PaLMW their secretions diminish, changes in the elasticity of the LOVE MAKES HEROIC SACRIFICES And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given arteries occur, a Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor. Ephesians tendency to lac storage appears (or if it has already appeared is accelerated) and there is an atrophy of the skin.

z. Old wives' gos News Behind the News By PAUL MALLON BST BIB AMD -fuCKELR. OR -frlEJR- All KVrriAE. UPOK -THE. SA.ML XK a "THE MA.H A CrUE-FTAlU Of A PolLYdAMoUS TRIBE.

OS-frtCUPPER. AMAZOM RIVER. IX UU14 AMERICA cidentally they occur in men as well as women, and in both instances indicate a temporary upset in the nerves which control the size of the blood vessels. We know pretty thoroughly all about the chemistry of the condition now and can do much to relieve it. Temperamental Upsets.

"A common attitude towards this phase of life is that it is in some way connected with mental illness. It can be said at once that a woman who has had previously a good emotional adjustment need not fear such an eventuality at this period," writes Dr. Milton J. Miller, in Hy-geia. Temperamental upsets appear, but usually in those who were temperamentally unstable before.

My experience has been that the woman who has always been an arbiter or tyrant in her family, who has dominated or tried to dominate an only son, or a small family, will use this period to put on a show and make the whole family uncomfortable. The woman who has had to manage a large family and therefore has had to submerge her own personality shows little "temperament" during this period. But, most Important of all to remember is that for th-e majority of women perhaps 70 percent this period comes and goes with hardly any disagreeable symptoms at all almost unnoticed. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. H.

J. "Would you advise a cold shot for a child 3 years old? The last two winters our boy has been very susceptible to colds. He has been getting all the cod liver oil that he should have, but It doesn't help him resist colds." An.vwer I do not believe that cold shots are certainly helpful in preventing colds for anybody, no matter what age. In a 3-year-old it seems to me the chances are that the cause of recurrent colds infected tonsils and adenoids. World copyright, 1939, by Kins; Features Syndicate Inc.

rights reserved. Reproduction in full or la part str.ictlv prohibited. WHAT WE MAY EXPECT; Washington, Nov. 14. These are the further steps of which the prime New, Deal movers are talking, the thoughts which may be pressed, trimmed, or expanded Child Study By GARRY C.

MYERS, Ph. D. Camacho the Winner. Gen. Manuel Avila Mamacho seems to have been dinner in the election held several weeks ago in Mexico.

If he survives until December 1 he will be inaugurated in the capital city with the vice presidentelect of the United States, Henry Wallace, as a spectator. Camacho was the candidate put forth by the retiring president, Lazaro Cardenas, to oppose Gen. Juan Andreu Almazan. Cardenas seemed to have been tainted with communism, and Camacho, by association, may have the same ailment. Almazan has another ailment.

He is a conservative. Mexico's election, like many such affairs in the Latin-American countries, came off with a great dea of fireworks. The idea was not to get the voters to the polls, but to chase the voters of the opposition party the bed on election day. For some time there was an argument over which side chased the most voters of the other side into the tall timber, and it might not have been decided without further gunplay but for a hint from the United States. It seems that cur administration has recognized Camacho as the winner.

Presence of Mr. Wallace at the inauguration clambake may act as a deterrent to those who might throw bombs. dilemma of the church: One, given by Stalin wipe them out; the second, given by Hitler tax-supported churches and the ther enslavement to Caesar of the human spirit. The third is the hard old way of self-denial, a "wise and frugal government," as Jefferson urged, living within our means, and a revival of free enterprises by an united people. Otherwise the state becomes the receiver in bankruptcy of religion and charity, as in lands beyond the sea.

SAMUEL B. PETTENGILL. sip has invested dr. clendenino. this period of life with dread many women spend ten miserable years looking forward to it.

Tills attitude should be dispelled. Some day we are going to get up a good will conspiracy to agree not to talk about the climacteric with women who have not passed through it. Or at least to talk about it in helpful terms. Helpful Medicines. Modern mediclive has found many methods of alleviating the symptoms of this period methods entirely unknown fifty years ago.

Most of this improvement Is in the form of extracts of the ductless glands some form of estrogen at present is considered to give the best results. Calcium gluconate tablets combined with viosterol are valuable in combating tension. The heart and blood vessels are unstable at this time and subject to many temporary upsets. There is the symptom so annoying to most women which comes when the blood vessels of the face dilate and there is a feeling of heat and stuffiness. These crises make some women self-conscious and are very embarrassing for that reason.

In to make the dominant policies of the third term: DEBT The budget-making formula of the government will have to be revised. A double entry system will have to be effected along lines which Mr. Roosevelt first suggested in his budget message last year. Expenditures which could be considered "investments" should be kpt separate from ordinary running ex-Denses. Instead of chareine un a HOME TLAY AS AIDS IN ARITHMETIC.

To some children, even in high school, common fractions prove very difficult and confusing. Neverthe MM $50,000,000 expenditure for a road, or a ship, only the depreciable annual proportion of the cost should ho fnririprH rm thA rpri sirle of. MAN ABOUT MANHATTAN By GEORGE TUCKER. less, this section of arithmetic can be made very easy. The child who grows up in a home where from early years he is always making and creating something with his hands, will usually find fractions fascinating.

The tot of 4 or 5, drawing, cut- TURN BACK THE PAGES Of the Moline Dispatch ing a self-addressed envelope with a 3-cent stamp on it, you may receive a sheet which describes self-teaching booklets in arithmetic which Mrs. Myers and I worked out, including such- items as addition, subtraction, long fractions and percentage. In like manner you may receive the sheets of 100 addition a subtraction facts every child should know by heart by the time he is 9 or 10. THE LIQUIDATION OF CHRISTIANITY. The Christian church in America faces a dark decade.

So also their quarter of a million ministers, priests and church workers. It is probable that hundreds if not thousands of churches will close their doors in the next five or ten years. High and higher taxes and public debt will rob them of their support. Man shall not Live by bread alone, but nevertheless by bread must he live. The bread will go to the state.

This vitally concerns the members of the church, over 13 years of age. But it concerns us all. Whether we are communicants or not, we should ask ourselves what our cities, villages and countrysides would be without the church. They would be like the outlaw towns of the old west, property of little worth, life unsafe, contracts insecure, gambling joints and saloons alone prosperous. Clcse all the churches in a single city, and the value of homes and business properties would shrink by the millions over night.

People, especially the fathers and mothers of young children, would depart as if from a plaguy. The liquidation of the church will, of course, be a slow process, but it has already begun. A spendthrift government, marching toward national socialism, is stabbing a knife in the back of the Christian church, the mother of democracy. In 1933 the Protestant Episcopal church pension fund for the support of aged ministers and church workers was $29,447,000. This sum produced an income that year of $1,447,851 for these aged ministers and their wives.

By 1938, through gifts, the sum had increased to $34,192,000. That was a principal sum greater by $4,745,000. But this larger sum produced an income of only an annual loss to the aged annuitants of $501,938, or more than one-third. Where they had $100 to live on in 1933, they had $65 in 1938. A less abundant life.

And why? A spendthrift government is deliberately driving money rates down so it can borrow more and more for less and less. "Easy money!" This same process is affecting every one of the 246,667 churches in America which have endowment funds provided in other days by the gifts and testaments of 'Christian men and women. A like situation confronts all colleges, schools, hospitals, Y. M. C.

A.s, Y. W. C. A.s, and all other charitable, institutions The legacies given to them by our fathers, the savings of years of self-denial, are being washfed out. The process will continue These 246,667 churches, their parish houses and other properties are valued at $3,839,500,000.

There is a church for every 620 people, for every 150 families in Each church property, on the average, represents provided by the gifts of a Christian people. It may be said there are too many churches. But is there too little crime, gangsterism, and cor- ruption in government? Are there too many able young men dedicating themselves to the ministry? In 1926 for salaries, church maintenaance and debt reduction these churches collected and paid $817,000,000. In 1936 the expenditure was $519,000,000, or. 36 percent less.

This shrinkage operated most disastrously in our farming districts where 60 percent of the spiritual leaders of live. Taxes are now the highest in history. But they will be much higher. They will compete in every family budget with its church contributions. And taxes come first.

It Ls a solemn situation when we find, after eight years of profligate spending, that the American church as an institution is going down hill financially. Its future is becoming less and less secure. Millions of da vout people will continue to make sacrifices to maintin their churches, but the fact that there Is a limit beyond which they cannot go is clearly manifest. The shrinkage in church income is already enormous. We are rendering unto Caesar things which are not Caesar's.

We talk much of social gains and social welfare, but what gain or welfare, will offset the slow liquidation of the church? We talk also of national defense. But was it not said of old that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build it, and except the Lord the city keep, the watcher but waketh in vain. There are three answers to the COMMENT dr. myers. ting, pasting, with crayons, paper and cardboard learns, even without being taught, the meaning of Ji, and the like as he measures, whetiher by folding, estimating or using a rule.

When this child later makes paper dolls, cuts and fits doll clothes, or makes costumes for himself, measuring in inches, feet or yards, changing of measures from inches to feet or feet to inches, becomes a natural, easy, interesting experience. Learning at IMay. So also as this child adventures at baking and cooking, he soon gets acquainted with the relative simple units of weights and measures and easily and naturally translates from quarts to pints and vice versa. By following a recipe, fraction symbols and concepts grow familiar so that, without bein taught, the youngster will engage in rather difficult transfer values from one unit to another. Especially stimulating to the child in the use of different units of measures and of fractions ls working with tools in making tilings from wood.

Both my boys from about the age of 3 onward through high school, developed a work shop, saving money with which to buy more and more good tools. Long before they had any manual training at school, each had made for pleasure many things out of wood. It was always fascinating to r.ie as drew and figured out dimensions, to see and hear them counting out the fractional parts and proportions. An outstanding practice they normally had was that of ratio. Hating Ratio.

These boys have told me that constant use of thp concept of ratio so often needed in high school mathematics and physics was very easy to them whereas they obser that some classmates had serious difficulty over ratio. Physics teachers in high school and college ave informed me that the concept of ratio and its correct use more often lacking in the student than anv other arithmetic concept or skill. By writing me at 235 East Forty-fifth street, New York City, enclos- the treasury ledger. PAUL MALLON' How far Mr. Roosevelt will carry the point can not even be guessed now, but preparations for a new kind of federal budget on that basis are actually being made within some government departments.

The New Deal viewpoint is that large business firms, like General Motors, do not count capital expenditures as a total annual loss, so why should the' government? If Mr. Roosevelt chooses to limit the new budget system to what could strictly be called actual capital investments, the difference would not be great. The main effect would be to spread out the bookkeeping charges not the cash cost upon future years. But if he to apply it generally to roads, ships and buildings, as well as bridges, he can revise the debt prospects and the whole stated financial condition of the treasury to a radical extent. TAXES A complete revision of the tax structure is deemed necessary.

A committee representing all various interested groups should be selected to study methods of siphoning out savings from the private and corporate pocket and bankbook. Or, as some want it, to prevent the accumulation of savings in the future to such an extent as in the past, while leaving the past alone. On its face this seems to call for much higher income taxes a 11 along the line, the revenue to be paid out in government expenditures, and thus keep money flowing. A reduction in consumers' taxes on theaters, tobacco, is likewise favored by many New Deal economists as a means of encouraging expenditures for consumers' goods. Basis of these tax theories is that savings are accumulating, and there is little prospect that these will be used for investment or for any productive economic purposes in the near future.

Therefore, a government tax pump should be set up to keep the pipes from freezing. BUSINESS CONTROLS The New Dealers see that the vastly expanded business activity coming as a result of the rearmament program will require controls as to prices, production, labor, but the only two items they are talking about yet are priorities and prices. Stronger steps by the national defense commission to require prior consideration by industry for all needed government defense materials, will undoubtedly come soon. Price restrictions will have to be imposed as production gathers momentum months hence. Some are saying no stronger absolute price controls will be needed until the general level goes substantially higher.

STATE SOCIALISM? The New Deal thinkers (Henderson, Frank, Gilbert, et al) are agreed in saying they do not want the government to build for its own operation, any more defense factories than are absolutely necessary, and do not want these factories to be operated by the government beyond the existing crisis. If additional steel capacity, for instance, is needed, and the industry is unable or unwilling to undertake the construction, they seem to favor the government doing the job, but they insist they would dispose of the government's interest in the factories when the period of emergency is over. They talk strong for private ownership. FASCISM? The New Deal thinkers cringe at the mention of the word. The controls they, see as necessary over production, labor prices, are not the same as similar controls operated by fascistic states.

To their minds fascism is an industrially controlled state, and communism a labor controlled state. In hetween they seem to think there can be a democratically controlled state, although they do not put it just that way. Mr. Roosevelt can do as little or as much of all this as he chooses or more. "Only young men "are asked to give their time to their country." Ed.

What about the three months each year the others wouk to earn the money to pay their taxes? How Far Ahead Do They Plan? One of the curses of this world is that governments plan for the immediate future, but not for the distant future. A prime example of the truth of this theory is the present European war, and the same may be said of the World war preceding it. Neither side, in 1914, had a long-range view when they started fighting; The kaiser was out for territorial expansion, but he took the worst possible way of securing it. The allies were cut to protect themselves, which they did; but that protection was not permanent. Again, in this war.

Hitler wanted territorial and economic advantages, but he neglected to learn that Fuch advantages are of no permanent benefit without good will to accompany them. Again, In this war, others started defending themselves. In the war of 1914-18 they wanted to destroy kaiserism. This time they now represented by Britain and non-belligerent allies want to destroy Hitlerlsm. Or, take it the other way around.

Hitler means to destroy what he calls democracy. It is possible they may fight to a draw, with neither destroying the other in which case there would be a trade war quite as devastating as military activity. It Is more likely that one side or the other will win. Suppose the British, with the help of non-belligerent allies, win this war. What do they intend to do after they win? A complete victory now, with the probability of another war for the generation now in infancy, would be hollow.

Or, suppose the Germans win. What do they intend to do afterward? A complete German victory with the prospect of revolution ahead would be meaningless. It might make Hitler and the rampant nazis happier for a few years but in case of either a British or German victory, what about the common people, the little people in all lands, who suffer most from war? In the old days wars did not disturb the whole civilian population of belligerents. Today, as result of better communications and the additional drain of war, the whole of any fighting country suffers physically and economically even if it wins. War has become ao terrible that even the most confirmed democracy must, apparently, give up its liberty in order to become efficient.

To win victory for the sake of liberty, liberty must be endangered. Would it be too much to hope that after this war is ended the affected countries will discuss a way to make war most improbable for the future? Victory is a mall thing unless it guarantees security and freedom, rot for just one country, but for all; not for the sake cf ideologies, nor for spoils nor territory, but for the take of the little people who suffer. Hitler never has had this vision. If the British have it, they have been to busy to discuss it. Their prime object now is to defend themselves, quite naturally and justly.

Let us hope that if they win, with the of non-belligerent allies or with whatever help may be accorded, a calmer statesmanship may take Charge for the benefit of all ordinary people My secretary, Asia, speaks: Dear G. T. The Plaza publishing people called to say they were sending you a new crossword puzzle book. And Washington telephoned to 'say your social security number was 057-10-2784. They didn't mention your draft number, and neither did I.

Did I do right? And, oh yes. Billy Rose dropped in to ask about you and to say he was sure burlesque was dead. He said he didn't have anything against the good, and I am quoting him, hard-working people employed in what's left of burlesque any more than the engineers had personal grudges against the drivers of horse cars. But he went on to say the American people had decided that pay dirt was to be found only in clean shows, with thte result that smut and nudity practically were bankrupt in this country. Well, just after Billy left who do you think walked in? Yep, I.

Herk. He said, "if that guy Billy Rose has been in here running down burlesque," and I am quoting, "he's insane." He said all you have to do ls look at the line of customers in front of the Gaiety. The Gaiety is a burlesque house that carries on all the time, and he wants me to ask you what is the difference between burlesque strip tease and the tease in Billy's floor show at the Diamond Horseshoe? I told him I would. That was a nifty about the drunk in the elevator. That cop friend of yours in front of the building says Pat O'Brien is the darling of the police force.

He says all the cops who can get off always meet him at the station when he comes in. He says they like Cagney and Humphrey Bogart tot). Well, who doesn't? You should have seen the crowd hanging around Cagney at the Lambs the last time he was here The mayor is continuing his drive against dirty magazines on the newsstands. I'm dying to know what you think about Suzanna and the Elders. And about the Fair closing.

Oh, ye the Hartmans just called to thank you for that nice notice you wrote about their show at the Versailles. And John Buckmaster says if you think his impersonation of II. V. Kalten-born is good, wait till you see him work out on Lowell Thomas. Please tell him I told you what he said when you see him.

Frank Case called and said he was sending you a copy of his new book. Ditto Ei-nest Hemingway. Wonder what he'll do with all that money the movies are paying him? That man who sells ties was in again today but I told him you had a tie. Kay'Kyser called. He wants to know why you haven't been over to the Waldorf to see him.

I told him you'd been out of town, FREE CLINIC. "Moline will soon have a free dental clinic service for those pupils of the public schools who are in need of treatment and whose parents are in such financial condition that they can not meet the expense of having such work done," said the Moline Dispatch of Nov. 14, 1914. "In the operation of the clinic service will be furnished only to those who can not afford the ordinary way." FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. Mrs.

Lena Snyder of Moline was reelected treasurer of the supreme caldron. Daughters of Mokanna, at the supreme session held In Ann Arbor, this week. Mrs. Eva McKinley Bierce, 67. former Moline resident, last member of the McKinley family, which located in Moline in 1850 and lived for years on the Sugar Hollow road, died la-si week in the home of her son.

Dick Bierce, in San Bernardino, Cal. She was a brother of the late George II. McKinley, Moline postmasr. Mrs. Christine Esterdahl.

mother of A. V. Esterdahl, 1143 Fifth avenue, celebrated her 88th birthday anniversary yesterday and was showered with remembrances of the day. Louisville Male high eleven, contenders for the national prep football championship, defeated Moline. 10 to 0, before 3500 home fans at Browning field this afternoon.

classics are full of humor and adventure plus good writing. And never before in the history of book publishing have there been so many fine new books for children, or better edited children's magazines. The shame lies largely with the parents who don't know and don't care what their children are reading. It lies with unimaginative teachers who force stupid, dull twaddle down eager young throats, and. of course, it lies with the completely immoral publishers of the "comics" guilty of a cultural slaughter of the innocents.

But the antidote to the "comic" magazine poison can be found in any library or good bookstore. The parent who does not acquire that antidote for his child is guilty of criminal negligence. A NATIONAL DISGRACE. Sterling North in Chicago Daily News: Virtually every child in America is reading color "comic" magazines a poisonous mushroom growth of the last two years. Ten million copies of these sex-horror serials are sold every month.

One million dollars are taken from the pockets of America's children exchange for graphic insanity. Frankly we were not' perturbed when we first heard about the rise of the action "comics." We Imagined (as do most1 parents) that they were no worse than the "funnies" in the newspapers. But a careful examination of the 108 periodicals now on the stands shocked Us into activity. At least 70 percent of the total were of a nature no respectable newspaper would thing of accepting. Save for a scattering of more or less innocuous "gag" comics and some reprints of newspaper strips, we found that the bulk of these lurid publications depend for their appeal upon mayhem, murder, torture and abduction often with a Child as the victim.

Superman heroics, voluptuous females In scanty attire, blazing machine Rims, hooded "Justice" and cheap political propaganda were to be found on almost every page, The old dime novels in which an occasional redskin bit'the dust were classic literature compared to the sadistic drivel pouring from the presses today. Badly drawn, badly written and badly printed a strain on young eyes and young nervous systems the effect of these pulp-paper nightmares Is that of a violent stimulant. Their crude blacks and reds spoil the child's natural sense of color hypodermic Injection of sex and murder make the child impatient, with better, though quieter, stories. Unless we want a coming generation even more ferocious than the present one, parents and teachers throughout America must band together to break the "comic" magazine. But, of course, the children must be furnished a good substitute.

There is nothing dull about Westward Ho or Treasure Island. Sin-bad the Sailor didn't need spinach to effect his feats of strength. The but' would positively get over soon. Please do, honey. Bob Jervis called and wanted you to indorse a new brand of gin.

I nixed that in a hurry There's a cable for you under your old hat on the radiator. May be important. Be sure and look at it. In your recent essay on band leaders and comics who fly their own planes you omitted the name of Wayne King. fThe list also includes Rochester (Jack Benny's stooge), and Clarke Dennis.

That's all now. Asia. Watts: Recollect every day the things seen, heard or read which make any addition to your But if the war goes on for years, cities will be operating forty feet underground, and what will the bombers do then, poor things? IAH-THE REFU6FES ARE "vo I ir- sM-tt-t-k i r- i i-T-fc. 1 I TAKIN6 TO THEIR BOATS HCKK UDtK.Lt LI 1 NMIi 1 ,1 TCM MINIMI lvS Jp JI NO ONE KNOWS THAT AN ENENy SUBMARINE CREW 15 ABOARD THE BRITISH 15 HAP- BUT WHERE IS!) HERR HOPPER! XsU. I kr v-S PER HERO SHOULD SEE HIS HANDIWORK 'AIXK.

HAP HOPPER, Washington Correspondent ITHEy HAVEN'T SUNK HER YET AN' I WON'T LET'EM GOOPBYE, MONV-irS FOR THOSE How the Boys Have Changed! Premier Molotoff of Russia, visiting Berlin to "engage in "conversations' with German diplomats, was paid to have been greeted with great cordiality, but with less fanfare than some expected. Just the sort of welcome that might be extended to a very good friends, but not quite as enthusiastic as an active ally might have received. The fact that he was welcomed at all merely accentuates the perpetual amazement caused by the sudden about-face of both Hitler and Stalin, whoused to hate each other like poison. Once, in the dear, dead days before the present war, Adolf made a reference to the Russians, whom he had described previously as the scum of the earth, and told what he could do if he had the Ukraine. Stalin promptly called attention to Russia's vast resources of men and munitions, and said that if the Germans came into Russia, they would be cha-sed out faster than they went in.

He even implied that he would boot them clear out of Germany also. Now, when a diplomat of Russia visits Germany, Lost at Sea? ryou YjU5TONEYl teilA RTHEy SA.IPTFIREDYFI5T-CAN STATEMENT. yOU WE 1 Jsf IT WAS A ON OUR F16HT IN not I please MU4T Mk British Refugee supreme 5EEV BE COURT? THE ri mm PRESIDENT jV IASS ME CX if In- f'nlfd Fliir Hvnatr.1.. tnr. Iwl.

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