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Ww. 'T I PAGE WQUZ 1 t. THURSDAY, July 22, 1937 As It Seems by John Hix For further proof address the author, inclosing a stamped envelope for reply Re. C. S.

Pat. Offlo Hows Your Health? NEW YORK Day By Day -By- Dr. (AGO GAUDSTON IROH MPiH1 Sot Mc6lNHlTV Wctvlwt pafritfue, iowa, itm io peKKMAT iwt Mt 52... The Messenger Published Every Afternoon Except Monday The Madisonville Publishing Company Incorporated JI MADISONViLlE. IOOTUCKY uoitered as second class matter May, 1918, at Jh poutofflee, Madisonville, Kentucky, under act ox March 7, 1873.

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Song built for Ethel Merman: Johnny One Note. And how she eould hold it! Variety calls the up-state summer hotel cabarets The Bortsch Case Harriman is out front as a biographer. Keats Speed in summer flannels is a ringer for one of the figures in the D. Gibson drawings. Sail ing Baruchs name suggests skater plunging through thin ica And Burleigh Grimes a specie of Kentucky tobacco.

The American Mercury dubs them: Leftish Bards and Red Reviewers. Meaning the book I critics who are slipping over hoo- McINTYRE PocTor ofTRe. lopoflHe woRt if PR. JbMES h. URQUHfcRT ttte pRfccH ce oveR 900,000 PsReTHe IHIHe CbHbPlM ftRcIC frREb Mil Operating on The Aged In recent years much thought has been devoted to the aging of our population and its implications.

Because of our declining birth rate, and the increase in life expectation, the practice of medicine may see definite changes As one observer says, the spe- cialists in obstetrics and pediatrics will not be. as busy as they have been, clearly because of the continuous reduction in the number of births and of children. On the other band, we must expect an increasing prevalence of the degenerative diseases. It is also logical to expect that surgical operation upon the aged will rays for communism. King Georges why-diFthis- I become more eommon.

have-rto-happen-to-me expression. Add moon-faced How successfuly can surgerv Irish boys with middle hair parts: Ed Sullivan jbe performedl in old per60ns? The belief is general that advancing Voices alike: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Bea-I age blocks operative treatment, trice Lillie. Youd think James Montgomery Dr. Barney Brooks of the de- Fiagg would look fagged out once in awhile.

But partment of surgery at Vaflder- always hes as fresh as a daisy. If, gs they say, bilt University School of Medicine resemble Ned Sparks, Im going to try to ac- has tested this belief. He made a quire a smirk. Something like Bob Hope's. study of the results of operations performed during recent in High hat note: Our Boston loves fresh string I his hospital on 287 patients over beans, but only sniffs at the canned.

A breath of 70 years of age. The study re-Killarney: Kitty Kendall. Ilka Chase always looks I veals that while these patients as though she is just about to scream at a garter I suffered -a relatively high fatality snake. For newspaperdoms most perfectly groom- rate, only very few of the deaths ed exhibit, my vote goes to Edwin C. Hill.

ooo could be reasonable attributed to the, operative treatment. lnt ZZ-U1 ifle that a uep WM vmm Ths wm mx copied 1fKT CIRCLE which ibiARfcp aeRMwy IH tfOlm The seasonal villian-still-pursued-her episode to enliven Broadway concerned the handsome prize fight-tffbr Jaqk Doyles chase for the highly pub-iicizep Libby Holman. It was touched off by wireless by Doyle on an incoming steamer in which both were arriving. At the pier Miss Holman gave out a firecracker statement intimating Doyle was less than a pain in the heck. The cynical lifted eyebrows to murmur: Nice hunk of publicity for both.

And so back and forth zing some scorchers which give a relief from Tommy Manvilles love affairs for a time. Hollywood SICHTS AND SOUNDS By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, July Movie factories Ali Baba Goes to Town is Biddle Cantors first film under the Twentieth Century trademark, and the studio is going to town on production. Lavish sets, interior and exterior, have been built, each looking like Darryl Zanucks answer to Sam Gold-wyn, who has a reputation for sparing no expense. Eddie and Sam parted company with headlines and commotion before the comedian! signed with Zanuck, and Hollywood is, curious to see whether Eddie won or lost in leaving Sam. Eddie plays a movie extra who goes to sleep in one of the prop, jars used for an Ali Baba movie, and dreams himself back into old Arabia where he starts a New Deal.

oOo Er Miss Hovk'k Today's scene Has Eddie being stabbed with a prop knife by Douglas Drumbrille, an Old Dealer in whiskers, silks and turban, while courtiers, equally bedecked, look on. Eddie has brought the knife from HoUjK)Od in his dream, and DumbrilliB is astounded when it has no1 effect on. Eo-die, who merely inquires, Which way should I fall? But the prop knifes springs squeak in un-dreamy fashion, and they have to take the scene again. Gypsy Rose Lee- I mean Louise Hovick is in this picture with June Lang, Roland Young, Alan Dinehart and others. The assistant director, summoning Gypsy, calls Miss Hovick, and when Dave Butler, the director, calls her he says Miss Lee er Miss Hovick.

Even at home Zanuck is making the name change stick. COO A Playful Spider. For The Bride Wore Red Hollywood hap to the mountains and also brought the mountain to Hollywood. The Joan Crawford picture now is back in the sound stages after a location trip to the High Sierras. Stage 15 is a nice Tyrolean setting, complete with trees and foliage.

And there is excitement not in the script. Joan is emoting smoothly when suddenly she grasps her arm and says Ouch. There is concern the star has been bitten by a "Oh, its nothing, says Joan. But Dorothy Arzner, the director, insists on calling a nurse to treat the wound. They also get out the spray guns and declare war on other spiders that might be lurking in the transplanted foliage.

The spider, it develops, was playful rather than vicious, and the show goes on. Some stars take to their beds with headlines at incidents of thi3 sort. oOo 1 The cruel thing about this Frank Wallace-Mae West business is that Maes one big mystery is ripped open and the whole world knows her age is 44. Mae shielded that for professional reasons as zealously as she forgot that she was inarried Re gardless of this longest secret Under President Lazaro Garde- marriage in Hollywood, Maes Has' health program 11,925,077 picture fate still seems to depend Mexicans two-thirds of the coun- on her next picture Her nov- trys population have been vac- elty appeal is no longer sufficient cinated against smallpox in the to carry her through films that last three years. 7 hold not much else.

DR. HITLER ON ART Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler opened the Inew House of German Art in Munich with a big-speech in which he denounced modern airt as a snare and a delusion perpetrated by Jewish art critics working hand-ln-glove with 'Jewish art dealers. He cubism, futurism, Dadiaism and similar trends and advised any Germanartjst who thinkfc he has something to say to express it cl'early in his work and not in silly explanatory phrases, Probably his words will appeal strongly to all people of the I dont know anything about art but I know what I like type: He said that art which cannot be understood without a new vocabulary of phrases slogans is worthless, and that, too, will seem to them to be simply good sense. art is not the exclusive province of common-sensible of this world. If it were, and always had been, the magnificent red and black paintings by prehistoric artists in the caves of southern France would never have been made and -to jump forward a long way James McNeill Whistler would never have painted a single Nocturne, nor confounded poor Ruskin with a pot of paint flung in the face of the public.

Back in the days of the so-called English Cow School, the common-sense people objected to landscapes in which far wooded hills were depicted with a blueish haze, because, as everyone knows, trees are green in summer. They ridiculed a painter because his canvas showed a white ox with faint traces of green, and were only convinced when he took them to the spot, and showed how the white beast really looked in the vivid summer light stream inglown through feathery-green foliage. Motof the painters were afraid of the public, with the result that the English 'Cow ScWool paintings make up the most depressing exhibit in Londons Tate Gallery. Hitlers new museum may contain nothing that would puzzle the common sense people. All its Bavarian winter scenes may sljiow no trace of bluish snow, but only snpw that is indubitably white.

It may have nothing that is not clearly expressed. And it may, just polsibly, result in the dullest period that German art has ever known. ly heated; was also borrowed from the circus system. Doctor of The Arctic. So vast the territory over which Dr.

James A. Urguhart practices that much of his round of callip-is made by means of airplane, coupled with dog team and boat. It includes about Practically all the deaths were due to I the morbid condition necessitat ing surgical treatment, rather than to the surgery proper. By way of illustration, one case history is cited. In 1925 a pa- tient was seen suffering with; gall-bladder disease.

Because of i the age of the patient and "his poor I physical condition, surgery not-advised. Two years later, however, the patient returned" and at this time operation was unavoidable. However, it was too late, for his gall-bladder had ruptured and the resulting complica-! tions were fatal. In 90 cases in which the con- dition requiring surgical treat-1 ment was neither of an emergency nature nor caused by life-threatening disease (hernia, cataract and the like), operation was per-' formed successfully in 89 in-, stances. The one death result from a cardiac complication developed on the seventy 4ay after the operation.

From this study, Dr. Brooks derives no si argument against surgical operations in oldj age. Older sick people, however, do require special care during the pre- and post-operative periods, Reading And Writing -ty JoU Sfci Circus Lessons. Told of the efficiency and speed in transportation, methods displayed' by the Barnum Bailey circus in their 1901 tour of Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm sought and received permission for several German officers to accompany the show as observers. The observations of these officers resulted in the adoption by the German ajfmy of the circus system ofl train-loading.

Under the method, the army loaded its artillery and livestock from the sides of the individual cars. The much speedier more efficient circus method was to connect each car with a platform and then to move whatever was to be loaded from the end car through the train to the proper car. The change in German afmy field kitchens, wherein the old type that required the building of a fire in the open after being brought up to the troops was discarded in favor of cooking wagons with boilers previous There is more dining out in the chintzy Marie Antoinette and Petit Trianon tea rooms than most people imagine. Thousands once satisfied with nothing less than Pierres or The Colony seem content in the candle-lit glow of the side streets. There is a meadow-brook, water cressy neatness and flavor of mignonette about these places that offer serenity and charm.

Joseph Hergesheimer speaks of the honey dew motif. Over most of them preside motherly women who seem actually anxious to have you enjoy the food. I am told many home cooking places are made by specializing in soups. New York is reputedly the most avid soup-eating city in the world. Many restaurateurs say a tasty soup will put any new food dispensing venture in the chips.

There must be a subtle propaganda in the big town for soup. Before coming here my soup indulgence was confined to Monday wash day bean soup. Something to be suffered, but with passing years I find I do not enjoy a dinner that does not get off with a potage. OOO The fruit cocktail is another dinner lead-off that has become almost indispensable. And is the most profitable delicacy on the menu.

In the cheaper places tariff ranges from 20 to 30 cents, but in the tonier spots, reaching the grandeur of Grape Fruit Supreme, is often listed as high as 80 cents. And in one elegant eatery is boldly marked $1.25. Most of them can be prepared for few pennies not more than a dime outside. The oyster cocktail is attributed to a Caiifor nia miner and circumstances in 1886. The miner in -from the tfesert-- fOuiwr-W had nothing left for the day but oysters, a bottle of catsup and horse-radish.

He mixed them up, adding salt and pepper and found It the most delectable dish ever encountered. Next day he opened a cocktail bar and; made si fortune. (Copyright, BIT, HcNavght Syndicate) David B. Ballengee, 92, of Clayton, W. believes he is the nations oldest; postmaster.

The Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, begun in the 12th century, has never been completed. MODES of the MOMENT by Adtimid Kerr Primitive Intelligence and Environment, by S. D. Por-teus, D. Sc.

(Macmillan: $3). The anthropologists and psychologists of the world, together with several other groups such as the Nazis, have long been en-aged on a problem almost as fascinating as the hoary one about the relative arrival times of the hen and the egg. This anthropological problem is an important one- rather there are two. Are certain races innately less able or are circumstance ard environment responsible for differing cultural levels. And if environment has much to do with it, are backward races ineffective because they live in the worst environments, or are they in those environments because they are backward S.

D. Porteus is anxious to help with these problems. Ne is director of the psychological clinic of the University of Hawaii, and originator of the Porteus tests, which may or may not be the last word in methods of determining the relative intelligence of chosen groups of people. He has studied the Australian natives, and the bushmen of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa and by means of observation and tests has managed to compare them (and other tribes) to his own partial satisfaction. But he has not solved his problems, nor is he apparently much farther along the road toward a solution.

The central Australians are, he finds, four points below the Amaxosa, vcffio are Africans. But unfortunately, the environmental conditoins are not identical, nor are other circumstances (such as the danger from invading whites) the same at all. But the African Bushmen are to all intents vastly inferior to the Australians, and to all other African tribes. The Australians are superior in planning ability, the lowly African Bushman superior in imaginative skill, and in mastery and use of environment the two nations are, according to Dr. Porteus, on a par.

Although the problem remains unsolved (unless Dr. Porteus forthcoming volume in continuation of his study solves it) a great amount of interesting travel material is mentioned EVERY BOYS DREAM Dr. Picards latest flight into the stratosphere ended in an Iowa treetop, but dont call it inglorious. It was the kind of adventure of which many an American boy has dreamed, only to have nis dream laughed at by his unimaginative elders. What value his multiple-balloon ascension will have to seienc is problematical; the gondola burned, and the instruments it contained wqre destroyed.

However, Piccard probably knows more about the upper air than any other man alive, and if he were brought back to earth rather abruptly this time, it doesnt mean that he was day-dreaming or that he didnt learn anything of a practical nature. What charms the imagination of those who stick closer to the earth was his mode of traveling. is a downeast legend about an old Yankee sailing ship skipper who harnessed 3,000 crows to a fish net and flew from Maine to Mexico. Is that much more fanciful than hitching up ninety-five rubber balloons to a gondola and setting out for the stratosphere? Yet, surely, many a boy, after visiting the county fair, has gone home toying with the idea of harnessing balloons "for a sky ride and then making a descent by picking off the balloons one at a time with a revolver. Shucks, said the old folks, how you boys talk! Better stick to the old Model T.

Yet a sober and highly respected scientist has done it. PUNKY Trademark Applied For 11. S. Patent Office ment was adopted that 20,000 needed the tensions. Now there are 60,000 on the rolls, with 10,000 more names approved.

More than half of all the old people in Missouri have filed for old-age assistance. Money paid out for old-age assistance in coming two years will almost equal the entire amount spent for all states purposes from general revenue the last two years. The number getting this assistance is alt out of proportion to the number in some other states, the newspaper charges. The explanation that politicians have engaged in wholesale padding of rolls with undeserving people. Because of these undeserving people on the rolls, it has been possible to pay each person only $11 a month instead of the $36 contemplated in the law.

Grants to persons, it is charged, are made on the basis of political expediency. The old-age pension system is most But if it is to be perverted into a and personal racket, this fact with people will outweigh the idealism originally inspired it, and its doom not necesary, for other states have pensions that are administered justly without favor. The evils should be AN ALD-AGE PENSION RACKET REPORTED IN MISSOURI From the Neosho (Mo.) Miner The able editorial page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has been charging that the old-age assistance movement in Missouri has degenerated into nothing short of a racket. The people were tolJ whep ajaegd- corrected.

worthy. political many which is expected. It is old-age and Shorts Chit. Marla Shelton, film actress, wears white shorts and brassiere for her favorite sport, cycling. They are made of cotton crash.

With them she wears short white knitted gloves, leather sandals and deep blue socks, Keep playiti him, Punky youll tire him out pretty tom.