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PAGE FOUR THE MONROE (LA.) NEWS-STAR, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1932. Gbe flfconroe Published erery except Sunday by THC PUBLISHING COMPANY 110-114 North Second Street JOHN 0. WILSON Publisher J. Manajet SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sun. Dally Sun.

Dally and Sun Newa-Star Combination World Week 20c 35c 20c 1 Month 75c 1.25 75c Months 8.15 3.75 2.15 Months 7.00 4.00 1 Yeer 12.00 7.50 Zatered as secnnd-claaa matter at the Monroe (La.) postofflre June 1, 1900, under the Act ol March 3, 1379. JOHN tt. BRANHAM le Foreign Offices: Net? York, Chicago, Atlanta, Memphis, Louis. Kansas City San Francisco and Los Angeles. Detroit, 6 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Preas Is exclusWely entitled to the use Tor republication of all news credited to tt or not other wise credited In this paper and also the local news published therein.

Ail rights of republicatton cf special dispatches also reserved. The Monroe News-Btar is an independent newspaper. it prints the news impartially. It supports what it believes to be right, it opposes what it believes to be wTong, without regard to party politics Poisoning The country at large has been startled during the lummer by the large number of persons reported different sections of the union as being attacked by Monroe had its bit of unfavorable experience in this widespread complaint when 42 golfers were attacked after eating a concoction of chicken salad Another incident of wholesale poisoning occurred connection with a political picnic in Ohio. Still another developed during an excursion on the Potomac river.

In each case the poisoning resulted from food prepared the night before. Dr. Morris Fishbein writes intelligently and author! iatively on these cases and suggests the necessity for Emusual care during the heated term to avoid their repetition. He says: Before our modem scientific knowledge of the way in which foods may produce poisoning, such conditions were called ptomaine poisoning. It was thought that they were due to the development of certain poisons by the decomposition of food or by the mixing of certain foods.

Now it is recognized that actual ptomaine poisoning is extremely rare, if it occurs at all. In practically every instance careful study reveals the germs that have developed and brought about the symptoms. At a picnic in Boston in 1928, 150 people who had sorne chocolate cream pie developed symptoms of food poisoning. There are innumerable instances of similar poisoning resulting from potato salad, ice cream, crab meat, sausages and hash. Although there are seldom fatalities from ordinary cases of food poisoning, cases sometimes occur in which the vomiting, the intoxication and the prostration are so great in a person who is not of strong constitution that death may result.

Most physicians have come to the conclusion that the term ought to be abolished. The symptoms of food poisoning vary greatly according to the person involved, the amount of the infection received, and the amount of the poison of the germ that is taken in with food. For this reason, instances occur in which some people who partake of a meal do not show any symptoms, whereas others become seriously sick. Usually there is also thirst, headache, dizziness and a slight fever. The mild attack passes off in most instances within 24 hours, but in severe cases the symptoms may last three or four weeks.

Sometimes the prostration is so great that the patients collapse, having rapid pulse, low blood pressure, and a cold and clammy sweat. The treatment is, moreover, relatively simple. Unless the stomach has already emptied itself by nature's method of getting rid of the infection, the physician can wash out the stomach with warm water and can produce vomiting by any one of a number of methods. One of the simplest ways is to have the person drink three or four glasses of lukewarm water in which there are one or two teaspoonfuls of baking soda oi of salt. Another simple way is merely to put a finger down the throat.

This initiates the vomiting and the irritation in the stomach will keep it up as long as is necessary. Futile Efforts Mr. James Joyce is not the first to grow impatient with the English language and seek to construct a new one closer to his heart's desire. But to judge from specimens recently quoted his inventions are not likely to have a longer life than some of their predecessors. One of the most ambitious of new philologies was that drawn up by the English poet, William Barnes, whose ideal was a vocabulary of pure Anglo-Saxon origin, shorn of all foreign derivatives.

Among his choicest specimen suggestions were the substitution of for logic, for criticism, for perambulator, for omnibus, for epidemic, for botany, for generation, for telegram, for ambassador, for democracy, for electricity and for quadrangle. Perhaps the Dorset best effort was the notion that philosophers ought to be content to transform into of three One of the reasons why Americans never take schemes for simplified spelling, a universal language and an English language purged of 411 words and phrases of foreign origin or derivation seriously, is the knowledge that gradually the world is becoming English may not be the most perfect of languages but the world is finding it both profitable and convenient to know how to speak it. Uncommon Sense By John Blake The Man Who Can The world has always been in need of men to do the things that could not be done. The need is as great today as ever. When Columbus started out to sail around the globe men laughed at him and declared it could not be done.

Columbus did not succeed, but he proved that the thing could be done. When Samuel Morse started to transmit messages between distant points by means of a private wire people said it could not be done, but Morse proved differently. Fifty years later Marconi showed people how to talk through the air without even the use of wires. Edison achieved two things that moat people dared to be impossible when he used electric current to produce light and when he reproduced the sound of the voice. Motion pictures are another of the TRAILERS I have spent a good many years as a political reporter, and have known intimately many people engaged in the of politics.

It consists of motors and trailers, the motors being the men who are bosses or office holders or other important men in the business, and the trailers their henchmen. A is a very poor-spirited person. He is never his own man, but always some other man. It is his business to fetch and carry for the man who keeps him in his job, to try to get votes for him on election day, and to him generally when there is nothing else to do. If you are young, and starting out in life, try to be a motor and not a trailer.

Be your own man. Do not wear a tag attached to you by somebody else. Do not feel, when you are in trouble that you must run to this or that big wig, who is your protector, to get you out. When there is a change of administration in a gov emment, thousands of people lose their jobs simply because the man who conferred them on them has lost his power of patronage. A great deal of the corruption in politics is due to the fact that armies of men who owe their bread and butter to men higher up are forced through fear of poverty to do their bidding.

There is in this life no such thing as absolute in dependence. But dependence on a single individual, and that individual one who is dependent on the haz ards of elections, is a sorry thing. There will soon be an election in the United States Today a great many people are looking forward to jobs which will be theirs if an administration is changed such jobs are not likely to be permanent even if they are obtained. Try to pick for your life work something that will be permanent, and in which your ability, rather than your political activity will count. Do not aspire to a tag that denotes your ownership 1 am not belittling the need of public service or men trained for it.

But too many people take the view that public service merely means getting and holding jobs paid for by the public. And the public is not the source of tenure, but some politician who can, at a whim, make or break any one whom tie has appointed, save those who are protected by civil service. Seek some other means of bread winning than that. Be your own man if it is possible, and make your wray without the help and protection of somebody who will expect you to do his bidding as long as you continue in your job. I know of no more hazardous occupation than that of the average small office holder, arid none more unpleasant.

(Copyright, 1932, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Some CookBy Herblock Laughs hrom Life PARADOX LOST dear he said, as he turned on his heel, you belong to that division of the world that wears He strode grandly down the avenue of laughter. I do, I choked. mean, you When I thought it over the next morning, while I was brushing my teeth before the glass, it impressed ne somehow that I done as well as 1 might have. In fact, the more I considered it, the more 1 was convinced that my reply was a little silly. It was ineffectual, like warm, salad.

I decided to forget it. Now, it would have been better, 1 pondered, as I squeezed the strip of paste onto my brush, it would have been better perhaps if I had actively resented it; even struck him. I night have done that, I thought. I might have; and yet I should have liked to meet him with his own weapons. An epigram, perhaps; I put some more paste on my brush, the other strip having in some way got rubbed all over my shoe.

I muttered, scrubbing my teeth savagely. rather do that, my dear 1 said with all the sarcasm 1 could muster, setting down my brush on the edge of the tumbler and glaring at myself in the glass. rather wear rubbers than not know enough to come in when It It was very impressive; my eyes were like narrow slits. Of course that was descending to his own level, 1 pondered as I covered my face with lather. It seemed childish to answer him back.

I could see the group of men and women around him now. I continued oblivious of him, stropping my razor. belong to that division of the world that wears he leered. I lazily completed a magnificent "wath down the side of my cheek, and turned slowly. I glanced him up and down.

I said bowing low and getting lather on my shoulder. I could see them leading him away. said my wife, who is always worrying about little things, going to be late for breakfast, taking so long My dear I said, shaking my head, know, you belong to that division of the world that wears rubbers." -C. H. F.

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i They Call It Politics By Carter Field IF ALADDIN CAME MY WAY WITH A LAMP like to buy a certain hotel and fire all the clerks. like to get control of a few theaters and let the best seats go to the public, at printed prices. put up a walled and fortified village where little brothers and sisters of pretty girls could be sent for indefinite keeping. like a calendar that skipped working days and showed only pay days and holidays. buy the broadcasting station that prevents me from getting what 1 want.

own a string of newspapers so I could speak my mind freely. endow a huge fund for sending ten-dollar bills with each rejection slip. And I suppose make a perfect ass of myself within twenty-four hours. A. Sanaker.

(Copyright, 1532, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Statesmen of the nations have to meet in a good many conferences before they get well enough ac- cuaiated to trust each other. varying interpretations put upon President reference to prohibition in his speech of acceptance has made it practically certain that this is to be a campaign of pussyfooting on that issue by both parties. Each wants to hold or win every wet vote possible, and also to hold or win every dry vote possible. Naturally that would be true anyhow, but the actual situation is that each party is going to make a real effort to do that very thing. It is little short of amazing how many different meanings have been read into the discussion of the alcoholic beverage situation.

They range all the way from the Lincoln State Journal, very dry and strongly Republican, which said editorially that it was now clear that the president was against repeal of the eighteenth amendment, to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, which admired the flatness with which the president declared in favor of repeal! And in between was the Baltimore Sun, saying that the president now stands on prohibition precisely where A1 Smith stood four years ago! As a matter of fact this wide divergence of interpretation is flabbergast, ing to the it is quite possible that it is flabbergasting to Mr. Hoover. My own opinion is that President Hoover went precisely as far as the platform, and no further. Both propose to substitute something for the eighteenth amendment.

The substitute would permit such states as desired it to legalize the liquor traffic with the limitation that they cannot have saloons, and the substitute would retain in the federal government drastic powers to prevent the return of the saloon, and also to protect the dry states against liquor trickling in from the wet. This latter power the federal government always had, and in fact attempted to exercise before the ratification of the eighteenth amendment. It seems unlikely that any state permit the legal return of the saloon, even if the power were granted, which is the objection of strong wets to President proposal, and to the Republican platform. They assert it would retain in the federal government an unnecessary power, but a power which would certainly, furnish an excuse for maintenance of an expensive and at times annoying federal bureau. But the fact that some drys read into the remarks that he opposes repeal of the eighteenth amendment means the Republican organization will do its utmost in certain localities to gather dry support for Hoover.

The fact that other drys re gard it as a frankly wet statement makes it certain the Democratic organization will do its utmost to persuade them to vote for Roosevelt on the old dry strategy of punishing Re publican nominees who dare desert the dry cause. Meanwhile of course the Republicans will try to convince the militant wets, for example the New York Herald Tribune, that the best lope of real accomplishment of repeal lies with the Republicans. While in certain wet districts the Democrats will hold up the promises of such Southern Democrats as Pat Harrison of Mississippi to vote lor repeal and modification if Roosevelt is elected as the likely way of getting over the hurdle requiring a two-thirds vote in the senate and house for submission of a constitutional amendment. If it were not for the it were not for reporters traveling with the campaign orators, this campaign would speedily develop a different set of issues for every county. Even as it is the whole situation is rather disturbing to the voter who would like a chance to record himself on clearcut issues.

Imagine such a voter after reading the editorial excerpts nJiaUri from the Lincoln Journal. St UOW'S IALTU mg'fA IB Edited by New York Or. I ago Qaldeton Aeaderny of UmLwu PINK DISEASE Pink disease, rlso called acrodynia, which means painful extremeties. is a disease effecting children. We nave learned to diagnose this disease only recently.

This disease is more common in boys than in girls and is more prev alent during cold weather. The disease may begin suddenly, but usually it is insidious in its development. The outstanding characteristic of its development is a marked change in the disposition of the child. The child who may heretofore have been active and happy begins to frown and tends to withdraw Rom play and activity It suffers disorders of digestion, lack of appetite and manifest an abnormal thirst. Its heart beats rapidly and may show an abnormal rise in blood pressure.

The child sweats profusely and its feet and hands become swollen and pudgy; the skin appears as though the hands and feet had been immersed in water for a long time. The extremeties become over-sensitive to stimuli and the children frequently complain of pain. The disease may take as long as three months to develop and may continue for another three months without much improvement. At the end of this period recovery usually begins. The mortality rate in this disease is from 5 to 10 per cent with death due to some intercurrent infection such as.

for example, pneumonia. The true cause of the disease has not as yet been established, but it appears that the sympathetic nervous system is affected. It is suspected, but it has not been demonstrated, that faulty diet may be a responsible cause. The treatment of the disease is genera! rather than specific. Children suffering from pink disease require careful nursing including nourishing food and a sufficiency of fresh air.

Such adequate nursing care promotes the recovery of the child and usually protects ii against the development of other diseases. News From Hollywood By Robbin Coons The Associated Press) NBC-WEAF NETWORK BASIC weaf (key) vveel wtic jar wtag wcsh wfi wilt wfbr wre wgy wben wcae wtam wwj wsai; Midwest: wmaq wcfl ksd woc-who wow wdat NORTHWEST CANADIAN wtmj kstp wobc wday kfyr ckgw cfcf SOUTH wrva wptf wwnc vis wjax wfia-wsun wiod wsm wmc wsb wapi wjdx wsmb kvoo wky wfaa wbap kprc woal ktbs kths ksl kgir kghl PACIFIC COAST kgo kfi kgw komo khq kpo keca kex kjr kga ktsil ktar kgu Cent. East, Dansante Lady Next Door only A. Schmidt coast Organ Recital coast Band Lanny only Sketch Hart's Sketch 8:00 Victor Young (coast repeat at Shilkret to 0 Pipe to to Nellie Program Gasperre Lanny for west Kirbery; Rogers Or. Agnew Orchestra CBS-WABC NETWORK BASIC CHAIN East: wabc (key) wade woko wc-ao waab wnac wgr wkbw wkrc whk ckok wdro wcau wip-wfan wjas wean wfbl wspd wmal; Midwest: wbbm tvgn wfbm kmbc wcco krnox EAST AND CANADIAN Wpg wph wibw whec wibz wfea wore cfrb ckac DIXIE vrgst wfsa wbre tvbt wdod knox klra wrec tvlac wdsu wtoc krla wrr ktrh ktsa waco kfjf wqam wdbo wdae wbig whas wtar wdbj wfiw MIDWEST wbcm weah wmbd wkbh kfab kscj wibw kfh mt wnax wkbn kix koh kdyl PACIFIC COAST khj knx kgb kfrc kol kfpy kvl kern kmj kfbk kwg Cent.

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Marine Band Phil Baxter Dance to in Health sham to 9.00—10:00—Barlow to Carlile to to Band coast out; Crime coast repeat wabc only NBC-WJ2 NETWORK BASIC wjz (key) wbz- wbza wbal wham iidka wear wjr wiw; Midwest; wcky klax wenr wla kwk kwer koll wren wmaq NORTHWEST CANADIAN wtmj wi! a kstp wcOo wday kfyr ckgw cfcf SOUTH wiva wnc wis W'fia-wsun wmc wsb wapt wjtlx mb kv wky wfaa wbap kprc wcai ktbs kths ks! kgir kghl PACIFIC COAST a kf. kgw khq kpo keca kex kjr kga kfsd ktar Cent. East. 2.45— -Danes by Jingle Joe ano Violin Recital only only Mary Steele and Orch. of Yesterday 5:45 Lowefl Thomas easts Orphan repeat 6.00 Amos Andy east; Singing ropent to to soutk League to Male Quartet Tenor Boat Club Dance Can.

Country Doctor ng Jack Smith 9. Dramatic Serlee 8.45— 9 Orches. Sisters Baste; for west Concert Orchestra Band Wm. Scotti Basic; Jones 4L rot. i Scissored interest in China and an excellent of oriental-locale novels suitable foi filming make this an ideal time for the introduction to movie far of Toshia Nori, tiny Japanese doll of a girl who since her early has been working extra.

Ordinarily Hollywood has no place on its contract lists for an oriental. The scarcity of roles suitable to them has been he dominant factor in making real progress diffici lor almond- eyed actors and actresses in films. And when such rare parts arise, consideration of box-office name values usually puts American actors elaborately made up, in them. TEETH IN KELLOGG r.UT (Editorial from the Houston Pest. A spokesman for the Japanese foreipn office qu other powers approve the interpretation of the ur.

iawing war given to it by Secretary Stimson in his become necessary for Japan to repudiate her signature It ia quite apparent that the other powers do appn pretation. They not only approve, but they elcome ing the American view of the treaty. Now will Japnn to withdraw from the agreement? If the treaty does not mean wrhat the secretary might as well be abandoned by all the signatories. If the pact can take no action against an must sit helplessly by while a conflict is pushed, v. any treaty outlawing aggressive war? Apparently, the Japanese view the Briand-Kellogg less pact, entered into merely for a gesture in favoi Stimson and the foreign offices in Euro; see in it ration of sent saying that ii- -i pact for re ent speech, it may on the pact, ve the Stimson inter- dec la; at: ons touch- make good the threat links it does, then it nations adhering to threatened war, and t- use of having ti erne: as a tooth- cf peace.

Secretary nothing on the order ist a power nt Paul Pioneer Press, and Baltimore Sun! And many did, for all three were printed very widely, having been carried by the Associated Press. HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS By J. P. Alley Hayakawa A Star About a dozen years ago Sessue Hayakawa of Japan, was a film matinee idol, and his leading lady, Tsuru Aoki, now his wife, was launched as a star. They left Hollywood, she retiring to the home and he to the stage, and there were no successors.

Toshia Nori, seven years an extra, has several important conditions in her favor as she enters upon a term contract with Columbia. First, she comeJ to attention an outstanding role in "The Bitter Tea of General second, there are several oriental-background novels, notably Good soon to be filmed; third, she looks enough like an occidental to portray American roles or at least and fourth, there are often roles for orientals in the which sec.n never to decline in popularity. She Has Ability More important than any of these is the fact that she has an unusual personality, has charm, looks, ability and experience. She does not care to play occidental roles, believing there is no more excuse for that than for occidentals to portray easterners. With few exceptions, of course, the outstanding of the film; are of othdr nationalities.

Warner Oland is a Swede. So is Nils Asther, now playing his first Chinese role; Richard Barthelmess is American Boris Karloff, English, is now to do a Fu-Manchu. 15 Years Ago I A IM' LlV IM Fum Mam' To Mtftip; £epki heap Ttmes Hits SEdfl A L0M6 g-'7 IAU. JtaU bULt August 17, 1917 Mr. Abe Arent will leave tomorrow for Detroit, on an extended business visit.

Mr. G- B. Cooley left yesterday for New Orleans on a several visit. Mr. J.

T. Bryant made a business trip to Shreveport yesterday. Mr. M. C.

Redmond arived home yesterday from a business visit to Floyd. Mr. Joe Marx is in New Orleans for a brief visit. Mrs. D.

S. Kemp and son, Duncan, leaving Wednesday last, are visiting in Minden. The British Admirality announces a successful series of air raids yesterday by the Naval Air Service, many tons of bombs being dropped on military objectives in Belgium. The Germans were completely repulsed by the French last night in attacks on the new positions the French gained on the Stenbeke river. Germans gained a footing on the French advanced positions at some points on the Verdun front, but later were ejected.

TEMPERATURE AT 101 Reaching 101 degrees yesterday, the temperature in Monroe was only one degree below the maximum for this year. On two previous occasions a mark of 102 degrees has been reached, according to Miss Kate Key, government weather recorder. of a league to enforce peace through mo that appears to be an aggressor. The fact that the treaty, under the Stimson ers signatory to the treaty to consult among th that will discourage an aggressor in war, is what are of limited value if there is not some way to ried out. German violation in 1914 of the tre; munity from invasion was only one instance of 1 out of a treaty.

It has been done many tudes, Japan was moved into Manchuria. At least three treaties were scrapped she undertook that expansion move. What has been done to check Japanese action in Mancht of the announcement by the United States, followed later nouncements from other powers, that tftey would not recoj ments made through force of arms. Had it not the part of the western world. Japan by now government in Manchuria.

As it is. Japan is rcsort.i setting up a native government, which is supported onets. Tokyo is trying to pursue a the lav forced to that course by fear of western sentiment. Frank B. Kellogg, judge of the world court, co-author of the Briand- Kellogg multi-lateral pact, uttered an important truth when he declared, in giving his support to the Stimson interpretation of the treaty, that the power of opinion is greater in preventing war than are written treaties.

The Japanese complaint that Secretary Stimson decs not understand Sino- Japanese relations is not well founded. The fact is, he and the American people, understand them too well, and that is what is worrying Tokyo statesmen. Neither Americans nor Europeans can be induced to accept the deception that Japan is on the defensive in Manchuria. on, permits pow- i adopt measures Treaties they will be car- eing Belgian im- a scrap of doing it as she by Japan when uria is the result by similar an- iize any agree- bctn for that attitude on have had a Japanese rting to the subterfuge of by Japanese bay- It has been Current Witticisms One of the latest volumes by an economist on what is wrong with the world is said to be only 65 pages long, which is one of the brightest signs of recovery so far New York Sun. The cucumber is said to be 95 per cent 5 per cent Minneapolis Journal.

Admiral Byrd is giving up his antarctic plans to ho i a move for lower taxes, probably figuring it will be a cold day when they are Omaha Evening World-Herald. The foreign diplomat, who asked America to collect its thoughts, apparently thought that easier than collecting Ashland Daily Independent. Prohibition Candidate Upshaw says that if the voters use their con- icience, he will be elected president. But what if they use their The Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman. BARBS An American worker who has been in Russia for four years says wishes he was back in Chicago.

If he had been a Russian in Chicago for four years, he would probably be wishing he was back in A professor spends four hours telling steel men that they need initiative, more accurate forecasting, more backbone and more distribution of productivity. But if we were in the steel business give all these for more orders. 0 0 0 The fourth Mrs. John Gilbert dressed for her wedding in 15 minutes, which is going to make it mighty tough on the wives who take two hours to get ready for a show. Civilization goes forward by jerks.

Every progressive fine mind gives It jerk. Without the fine minds, would it move at all? What are but a game?.