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SEPTEMBER 27, 1937. PART II.T MONDAY MORNING. i WASHINGTON MONUMENTS The LEE SIDE o'LA. BY LEE SHIPPEY GREAT PASSAGES FROM THE BIBLE Father Serra, who brought civilization Psalm Ixxi In thee, 0 Lord, do I put myv to California, also brought frescoes, and Indians were taught to paint them in fan--- trust; let me never be put to our missions. H.

Q. Driscoll, former Hollywood High School student who confusion. Deliver me in thy righteous ness, and cause me to escape studied fresco painting under Ray Boyn incline thine ear unto me, and ton at Berkeley, had the pleasant task THE TIMES-MIRROR COMPANY 0FF1CEBS HARRT CHANDLER. President NORMAN CHANDLER. General Maneter MARIAN OTIS CHANDLER.

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LOS ANGELES (Loce Ahng hail sis) MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS save me. of taking frescoes back to Spain, even Be thou my strong habitation, to the Island of Majorca, where Father whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given command Serra was born. Driscoll, who returned to Los Angeles recently, was engaged i ment to save me; for thou art mti ill I in painting frescoes in a school in Ma my rock and my fortress. 7, I jorca which, he says, compares with win iv j' Deliver me, 0 my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the Fairfax High School here, when the rebellion put an end to the work. XT 3l MM And if you wish a close-up of the war vim mm XkX 'MM i ill II 11 sTTKsiJ mm Their Sanity in Question If half the reports of the activities of Japanese air raiders in China are true, the Japanese high command ought to be examined by a commission of alienists.

Reports on two successive days told of the bombing of a Jesuit mission and of Chufu, the birthplace of Confucius and a Chinese holy place. The latter is ten miles from any railway and utterly without military importance. There have been many other bombings, utterly inexplicable except on the theory that the Japanese leadership is out to kill as many Chinese as possible in a campaign of sheer terrorism. The Japanese do not deny these bombings. If they did, the denial might be credible because they seem so utterly im sane.

It might even be supposed some of the injury was being inflicted by Chinese planes in the hope of bringing intervention. A few thousand Chinese lives would be a cheap price for Chiang Kai-shek to pay if he could get outside military pressure on Japan. A Japanese high officer is quoted as saying he is surprised Chinese civilians were killed in Nanking, because the capital had plenty of warning and should have been evacuated. Where does he expect the poor of any Chinese city to go on short notice? And how does he expect them to get transportation? The situation does not make sense. He'll Carry On The Merchants'- and Manufacturers' Association of Los Angeles lost a good leader when hard-driving Samuel M.

Haskins took thought of his health and handed In his resignation as president. It gains a worthy successor, however, in the person of Elmer H. Hewlett. An able attorney and businessman, the new M. and M.

head was born in San 2 tsfrj, in Spain, as an artist saw it, ask Driscoll. Carrying Coals to Newcastle The republican government In Spain, Driscoll says, was building many fine schools. And they were needed. Until the republican came in education was not compulsory, the schools were inferior and there were very few public schools. The new DESECRATION PRESERVATION 1 wmt tr Op irifc Nxiyf-iW'i CONSTITUTION 1 VM.ICTtTI iTinM government went into public works in K.4A4i-iV jiff i 'vVi i 1 It lfMiM a big way, and fine schools were rushed to completion.

Driscoll and his wife, who was Bertha Knisely, Los Angeles newspaperwoman, went to Spain the latter part of 1934 and he was kept busy for a year. The art which Serra had brought to America was almost a lost art in the island in which he was born, and the Spaniards welcomed a fresco painter. How Wars Start Nowadays Driscoll says Palma, the capital of Majorca, was utterly quiet and peaceful when news came that Franco had rebelled. But hundreds of young Fascists had been secretly organized. In the nieht thev sprang the surprise, arresting the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

For thou art my hope, 0 Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M.D. (Slsned letters pertaining to personal health and hyaitne. not to disease, diss-noils or treatment, will be answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped, sell-addressed en-velope Is Inclosed.

Address Dr. William Brady, ears of this newspaper.) VITAMIN PLUS INSULIN Many modern students of diabetes favor the opinion that overeating and insufficient exercise are factors of the disease. Other factors may be concerned heredity, obesity, perhaps worry and anxiety or the emotional strain of heavy business responsibilities this last factor is questioned by so good an authority as Joslln. The work from which I quote, by Prof. Elliott P.

Joslin, is accepted as authoritative. What Dr. Joslln doesn't know about diabetes in children or adults is probably not to be found in any book. But what he doesn't know about vitamins and their relation to diabetes is considerable, I think. Prof.

Joslin does mention vitamins in his monograph, devoting a whole page or more to an elementary review of and apparently he hadn't heard of away back in 1935. He appears to think diabetes patients need not bother their heads about vitamins, "because of the abundance of cream, butter, meat and green vegetables in the routine diet." Yet evidently the professor's mind was not' entirely easy about it, for he adds that "Nearly all my children are given cod-liver oil daily and many take liver once a week." Now cod-liver oil is not exactly tempting to the normal child's appetite. It seems harsh to inflict it on the child with diabetes, in view of the many other restraints and requirements such a child must en- The Political Bandwagon So the Board of Supervisors To sprinkle over the sour SO THIS IS AMERICA! A Matter of Politics BY BILL HENRY Carmine Mortorano was perched on a chair that was tilted against the wall of his Log Cabin Cafe down in Knickerbocker Village in the lower East Side of New York. Business was pretty good, as well it should be. Donas, ncy: Irish Tritk Seems like Senator O'Mahoney called someone's bluff, maybe Senator Guffey's.

Rode on the Presidential special in spite of and shooting all the mayors and other city officials in the island. The island was in rebel hands the next day, but they could not hold it. Before Driscoll and his wife got away there were twenty-seven air raids by government Since then Italy has taken possession of the island as a naval base, and that, he says, is one thing which greatly annoys England and France. The airplane lino connecting France with its Moroccan colony had a landing field on Majorca. Spanish Art Not Lost Art and arthts are reverenced in Spain, Driscoll says, and reports that the revolution Is destroying all the art of the country are exaggerated.

The government has sent most of the fine collections out of the country, where they are being exhibited as a sort of propaganda. Something About irrs i Last year Los Angeles won first place among American cities for its fire prevention program and hopes to repeat i this year. But we still are, I think, a the talk of tossing him in the ditch. How times change! Just a year ago, it was Sena Hadn't old Giuseppi, his father, started this place thirty-five years ago and kept prices reasonable and hadn't Carmine and his several brothers kept the place going as a sort of a poor man's club? The people down Knickerbocker Village way appreciated the Mortorano brothers and the eighteen customers lined up at the bar and the twenty or so more who were seated around the red and white checkered tor Wheeler of Montana and Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming who were called in consultation on the writing of speeches. And cil is going to have a regular, old-fashioned camp meeting revival on water rates, and some of the boys expect to receive the gift of tongues.

Among them, John. This put the Power Bureau boys between a fit and a fret. Lo and behold! They discover they've got a date to talk with the bankers In New York City about power revenue bonds (thus loosing kitty from the bag) and John hasta go along. The delegation left Sunday, arrives in New York City Wednesday, won't be back for a week or so. By the time John gets back, there probably will be a revision of the new water rates worked out, to the satisfaction of the rate payers of the Twelfth Councilmans District.

Clever, those power bureaucrats. City Hall Newa Let credit go where credit la due. Win Sanborn was selected to fill the Ninth District vacancy in accordance with the views of no less a person than Council dure. Presumably Prof. Joslin's purpose is to insure an adequate ration of vitamin for- the child.

After all. the few natural foods that contain any vitamin (milk, cream, butter) do not Unit Rule in the Air Airplane lines of the United States deserve prompt attention to their demand, just voiced, that Federal regulation be centralized in one body. As it is now, the harassed air' lines are pulled and hauled by no less than five supervisory agencies. This is fair neither to them nor to the public. Few businesses have struggled along under greater handicaps than has commercial aviation.

It has had to solve baffling scientific problems. It has had to spend large sums on research when money was hard to get. It has had to contend with bad weather, fogs, lack of trained personnel and the indecision caused by varying laws hastily passed. That it has made the splendid strides which have marked its rise during the last decade is little less than astounding. The least that can be done now is to relieve it of the upsetting influence of conflicting regulation.

It is proposed that the Interstate Commerce Commission be given sole jurisdiction or that a separate body be created. The decision as to which course is best is a technical one for the industry and the government to decide. Offhand, it might appear that the I.C.C. itself should be given responsibility so that problems of. correlating rail, air and other forms of transportation can be worked out more intelligently.

A division of the I.C.C. could devote itself exclusively to air problems, with general policies decided by the full commission. The main thing Is to get away from divided authority. The minute that commercial aviation knows "where it is at" more capital will be available to carry it forward. Its already' impressive record can be made finer.

Its structure can be given a more substantial basis. As it is now, aviation never knows who Is going to rock the plane next. Battle of the Fruits Amid a wild hullabaloo from every citrus grove in California, the referee has just raised the yellow glove of King Orange in the annual "Battle of the Fruits." It was a battle royal. Over here lies a grape with a black eye, there is a pear with a bruised cheek, yonder is a peach, with its skin all mussed up, draped In a corner is an apple bleeding cider at every core. v.

Thus might be summed up the recurring skirmish between Valencia growers and the producers of seasonal fruits. For California Valencla3 last month, instead of taking a count of nine during the peak season of deciduous fruits, not only held their own on the New York markets, but actually registered a gain over July, So reports the California Fruit Growers' Exchange In summing up the yearly set-to. Of course, the exchange, as a matter of good economics, does not want to harm the demand for luscious fruit like peaches and pears. But it does want to stay in the running during the time they are appealing to the taste-sense of the American public. More sales for every, body is the broad-minded slogan of the orange men.

But they cannot help but rejoice that King Orange acquitted himself so well. He has proved his right to the title. Now the exchange is going to keep him in training for next year. Maude Adorn, Teacher Maude Adams has started playing a new role. Well up in years as the famous actress is, she has Just become a dramatics instructor In little Stephens College at Columbia, Mo.

From the plaudits of a generation of theater-goers she has gone to the task of teaching 1937'a young people how to get the most out of their acting. It may be her greatest triumph, at that. When she was at the zenith of her career she had the glamour of fame and the Intoxication of exciting triumphs to carry her to new heights. Now she must depend solely upon her own enthusiasm and that of ber students for encouragement. These young people should realize, though, the opportunity that is theirs.

The art of any real old trouper is just as fresh now as it was in the days before the turn of the century. The inherent talent for dramatic expression "does not change. Some of the stage nettings and frills were old-fashioned, but not the ability of the actors and actresses themselves. There is a sureness, a deftness, fineness in the old-timers' work that modern film players rarely have been able to equal, By precept and example, Maude Adams can five much to the aspiring Thespians who crowd around, her. She represents the bet In a constant art the art of interpreting the world to itself.

That kind of thing dors not fade with the years. long way behind European cities. I was in Paris about sixteen months and never saw the fire department there turn out but once, and that time the fire was put out almost before it started. Homer Croy was with me at the time, and we mentioned the unusual occurrence to everyone we met, and no American we met had ever seen the Paris fire department -In action. Of course, wooden construction is practically unknown in European cities.

But we have plenty of fires in brick and concrete buildings. The people In other countries must Just -be more careful than we are. Unfit for Their Job Lee: You often write of children and family life. My wife and I. have no children and often think we could point out' a few thing? to people who have them.

I have just been spending a while in hospital. Across the hall from me was a 8-year-old boy sharing a room with two men. His parents were there for his operation, all right, and after he woke up his mother kissed him good night and said she would be sleeping in the next room. That was a He, of course. In the night he cried for her, and she wasn't there.

She wasn't there until 1 p.m. next day. She spent more time gossiping In the sitting-room than with the little patient, and nurses had to fetch her several times. Night after night she lied to the child about how good she would be next day, and the father, though on vacation, didn't show up for a week. And no doubt those parents will expect that youngster, later on, to wear flowers and make presents on Mother's Day and Father's Day.

R. F. Bernardino county, was educated in the public schools of Los Angeles and at the University of Southern California. He has a background of local experience, observation and understanding eminently qualifying him for his high office. He knows what made Los Angeles great in industry, business and civic progress among the cities of the United States.

He proposes to do everything within his power to help preserve the city's standing in the nation. The trust upheld by the organization that has so signally honored him he proposes to make his own. "Los Angeles," he said on taking office, "has been the one 'white spot' where Industry could establish itself unfettered by union labor dictatorship." That condition, he declared, has been the greatest factor in Its progress. The M. and M.

will continue its "vigorous adherence to a clear-cut stand in favor of the open shop principle for both employer and employee," he promised, "will continue to stand for the payment of good wages, for decent working conditions and for the right of every person to work without coercion or intimidation." It is good to hear such a forthright declaration at a time when racketeering union organizers are in verbal combat for the "control" of the West's greatest city. Rid Relief of "Moochers" "A person on direct relief is like a child," said the Most Reverend John G. Murray, archbishop of St. Paul, in a recent interview. "If a mother babies her child he may remain a baby.

So with the relief client. Many on relief seem to lose their initiative to support themselves." Quite true. And the archbishop spoke with equal verity when he declared that relief must be constantly curtailed if the recipient is to be rehabilitated. All who have closely considered the problem will understand precisely what the reverend gentleman meant when he spoke these courageous words courageous because he well knew they would bo combated by those overcharitable people who are willing there should be an indefinite continuance of the payment of doles and do not take into account the thousands of "moochers" who refuse to accept good Jobs when they are offered them. There should be periodical and careful scrutiny of the relief rolls, and all those who are able to work and will not do so when given a fair opportunity should no longer be tendered the gratuities granted them by our overtaxed population.

Wrong Locations With school In full swing again, the mistakes made in locating new school buildings on arterial highways become more and more apparent. There are insufficient crossing guards ai It Is. Yet the problems created by cramming schools alongside swarming traffic make the situation far worse. One new Junior high school, for Instance, at the old Jeffries homestead on North Figueroa street already has created an acute condition. Side street traffic into North Figueroa dead-ends at the school.

Children crossing, even when "protected" by traffic signals, have to dodge a constant stream of cars turning because of the dead end. Numerous other examples of thla kind exist all over the city. In almost every Instance a location could have been obtained probably cheaper, on a lesi trav eled street, without sacrificing convenience or accessibility. A school Is not a public building in the sense of having to have display windows on a crowded street. It should be away from noise and automobile If possible.

Yet this rarely Is taken Into consideration, i It Is time that municipal planning In-eluded expert advice on traffic trends and traffic dangers for the benefit of achool site President Burns (who will be the first to deny it.) Mr. Burns.Njt may be said, didn't want to go to the trouble of breaking in a rookie Council man, and Win was there for twelve years. Win is a solemn soul, but very steady and wastes no time tilting at windmills. Fact of the matter, present members of the Council have an aggregate of eighty-two years of service and experience. Result is the Council is losing its name of being the Cave of the Winds, or, as it sometimes has been called, the House of Horrors.

Besides that, Mr. Burns gets quite a chuckle when he ganders down from the throne and spots two former presidents working for him. Mr. Burns is quite a character. Recently Mr.

John A. Rush madt a nice little speech in which he Senators Wheeler and O'Mahoney were Invited to ride the Presidential special and help in the campaigning. And then came the court fight. Senators Wheeler and O'Mahoney were in the doghouse. Gen.

Farley and Senator Guf-ley put 'cm in there and locked the chain. The President arranged a trip to Seattle, through 'Montana and Wyoming. Were Wheeler and O'Mahoney Invited to ride on the Presidential special? They were not. But they were going to be given a ride they wouldn't forget. And now comes a sudden descent from the high horse.

O'Mahoney rides the train, and Wheeler seems to be gravitating bac toward Fort Peck. Could it be possible there are copies of the Saturday Evening Post on the Presidential special, with a pretty well-authenticated account of why the Supreme Court bill flopped? Says the SEP, it flopped because F. D. R. wouldn't take Senatorial advice.

Meanwhile, our own William Gibbs McAdoo is back In town enjoying the well-known and justly famous Southern California climate, apparently without a worry on his mind. Younger and friskier than ever. What a laugh he gets thinking of Ponce de Leon. Looks like the Senator Isn't at all bothered by the optimistic outbursts from Mr. Hamilton's national committee In Washington that he'll be a knockover in 19.18.

The Senator knows that this outpouring will cause a whole host of Republican politicians to run for the nomination next year. They'll be busy cutting each other's throats, and when it comes November, McAdoo will have no trouble beating some moth-eaten, dog-eared party plug. But the Senator may get the shock of his life. Lucky John Things" were shaping up very badly along the Water and Power Department line. As recounted here some time ago, there Is more than appears on the surface In the water rate increase.

Councilman Baumgartner used to be a member of the Water and Power Commission. The Power Bureau boys look to him to pull their chestnuts out of the fire. It may be that John Is getting tired of scratching around In the coals. What's more, John now Is representing about 100,000 water rate payers, and not the Power Bureau clique. So John looks with extreme disfavor on the water rate Increase.

Tomorrow morning the Coun- tablecloths drinking and dining in the unhurried Mediterranean fashion were just part of the group of perhaps 500 steady customers of Carmine's who ate and drank at the Log Cabin and regarded him as genial host and confidant and political adviser. Carmine Mortorano knew New York, he'd been around, he knew who was who and what was what, he was a sort of smalltime Mussolini among the longshoremen, laborers and simple workmen of the district. As a matter of fact. Carmine was thinkinK. he really was a Mussolini.

He was boss. He'd already showed that district political leader where to head in. So that guy thought he could ask favors, like the bloc of 500 Mortorano votes for instance, and then not give favors in return, did he? Well, Carmine had fixed him, all right. He had emerged from the leader's office the other day after being turned down on a simple favor, breathing defiance. So they wanted his 500 votes for their candidate, did they? Well, they'd be 500 votes for the opposition candidate Instead.

The opposition, reasoned Mortorano, would be appreciative, yes? Anyhow, he'd already got some action the district leader's emissaries had been around yesterday asking for a return to the fold, hadn't they? And didn't they look silly when Signor Mortorano had stuck out his chest and chin in a passable imitation of Mussolini and told them no? Just then the door opened and four men stepped In. Three of them pulled axes out from under their coats and the fourth had a revolver In his hand. "Get out!" he said. The crowd at the bar and at the tables and, yes, Carmine himself, obeyed: They didn't look as if they were fooling. As the customers stumbled pell-mell for the door the axes started to swing.

The big mirror back of the bar crashed In Jagged fragments, the mahogany bar was chipped like a chopping block. $200 of liquor spread In a lake across the floor around the drunkenly tilted broken tables and chairs and soggy remnants of the bright tablecloths. As a farewell gesture two bar stools crashed through windows on the Market Slip and Cherry street sides of the cafe Just before the, quartet of wreckers roared away In their car a moment before the riot squad arrived. The police surveyed the wreckage and sought information from Carmine Mortorano, who was pointed out by the customers when the cops asked for "the boss." Carmine wanted none of their help or sympathy and gave ihem no Information. He knew his business, he'd been around, hadn't he? "Never mind." he said tcj the contain enough for the needs of a growing infant or young child, and it is today universal practice to supplement every infant's diet with a daily ration of vitamin in one form or another, fish-liver oil or a concentrate made from fish-liver oil or a preparation of synthetic vitamin made by irradiating ergosterol with ultraviolet light.

Vitamin is vitamin D. unit for unit, regardless of Its source. Why can't the diabetic child, then, take his vitamin in the form of a tasteless few drops of irradiated ergosterol in neutral oil or in the form of a tablet or two of irradiated yeast? Dr. Joslin cites a case reported by a colleague, in which the patient, on restricted diet and before insulin was used, suffered with double wrist-drop, double toe-drop, edema and neuritic pain in arms and legs, "yet with control of the diabetes she made a complete recovery in two months." A typical case of beriberi, or multiple neuritis, and deficiency of vitamin is the specific cause of that. The recovery was in all probability due to increased intake of foods that happened to contain vitamin when the insulin reduced the sugar in the urine and the patient was allowed to take more of such foods.

Had that patient's restricted diet been supplemented regularly with a good ration of vitamin as in dried brewer's yeast or wheat germ, daily, she probably would not have developed the neuritis at all. There Is another reason, and a sound one, for including vitamin in one form or another, In every diabetic's dally regimen. Both experimentally In the laboratory and actually In practice it has been found that a diabetes patient who requires a certain dally dose of insulin or protamine Insulin to keep sugar-free requires less insulin after he or she has received an optimal dally ration of vitamin to supplement the regular or prescribed diet two or three weeks. I venture to prophesy that In the next edition of Prof. Joslin's book vitamin will receive a good deal more than the five and one-half lines of academic comment the present edition accords It.

OCEST10NS AND ANSWF.RS Feed Obsession I hart chronic Have aleya believed milk a nearly perfect food, but have been told lately It Is bsd for me at it Is mucus formlnt. (D. Answer Milk, cheese. es. peas, besns, ereers are all tood foods for one with ehronle.

sinusitis, because they ere rich In rslclum. Th-re is no basis far the notion that milk forma mucus. raessrlan Section M' first child was born throueh Cse-sarlsn operation, because I as In A toxic condition, will my next baby have to bs born thst way? (Mrs. O. SI Answer Not necessarily Proper pra-tutsl cart may prevent recurrence of the "copVrteht.

137, John Oltle Co. took the hide off the Supervison When he was through, everyone applauded courteously, Mr. Burns among them. Then Mr. Burns rapped hii gavel sternly and announced: "Let there be no demonstration in the Council chamber." Nice row Is brewing between Council, Board of Public Wort and City Engineer Aldrich.

Ore? W.P.A. foremen. Aldrich wants to keep experienced men on tb Job, especially since the working ranks are going to be ey eleted. Good news about the Munki pal Airport getting some douft out of the Department of Cwi. incite jflLAmi.

uivnupc l. 4 Ua V.IUhaI I Hl SENATOR SOAPER Says: means UIC vruam move out of Griffith Park. ing a swell spot for the CabUM Exposition. Yoo-hoo! Chavf Ravine! Get the marines. Big Stuff Great relief for everj'ori mind.

John Dockweiler sayi no stooge for Jefty O'Connor, trx Is running in his own right. State Highway Commja, casually busts up the new rib," on Foothill Boulevard er Sunland which was built on- -or seven years ago. To conform with the new t-f Only a matter of a few hw. thousand dollars. Mei(ifc downtown traffic gets Aw, let's forget politic -tt ball seaon's started.

In the far eastern maelstrom we have lost sight for the nonce of the Emperor of Manchukuo, the Charlie McCarthy of Asia. Slot machines are now banned In France, but a tourist with, gambling blood can itlll order at random from the menu. A G.O.P. national committeeman thinks the candidate in '40 should be one with' his head In the sky and hit feet firmly on the ground. A fallen archangel, It seems.

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