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MONDAY, JANUARY 22. 1945
A Thought for Today
See, for that the l.ord hath given you the
sabbath, therefore he glveth you on the sixth
day the bread of two days; abide ye every man
In his place, let no man go out of hla place on
the seventh day.—Kxodux 17:29.
• • •
Thou arc my single day, God lends to leaven
What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.
— Robert Browning.
The Fourth Term
Once a precedent is broken nobody gets
very excited over the subscqquent break
ing of one of Its pieces. So perhaps the
least remarkable thing ubout the begin
ning of President Roosevelt’s fourth
term Itself. But this does not mean thut
his becomingly brief and simple in
auguration ls not an important mile
stone. For one thing it serves as a good
place to pause for a look at what has hap
pened since Mr. Roosevelt’s third re-elec
tion. Momentous events have taken
place in those ten weeks—the German
Offensive in Belgium, the manpower and
production crisis at home, and the out
spoken differences of Allied policy. These
events have served to quiet the high
©motions of the November election and
to bring the country back to sober and
rather dsheartening realtlty. Their very
seriousness has resolved many of our
domestic difference. They have brought
some hotheaded proposals of solution, of
course, but their general effect has been
to unify. A promise of unity has been seen
In Washington as well as elsewhere in the
country. It was evident in the Presi
dent’s concilatory message to Congress
and in his new appointments to the State
Department. It was further evident in
Senator Vandenberg’s speech on foreign
policy, which gave hope of greater co
operation between Congress and the
White House in the future.
Mr. Roosevelt’s State Department
•elections distressed some of the New
Deal press and public, but they seems
to have found favor with a bipartisan
majority of Americans. It was ap
parent that domestic politics and
policies were not uppermost in the
President’s mind when lie made them.
And in making them it was obvious that
he had eased toward the middle from his
•elfstyled course “a little left of center.”
This move of the President’s was match
ed by the inuential Republican leader,
Senator Vandenberg, whose foreign policy
program swung him very close to Mr.
Roosevelt’s. The promise of these events,
together with the good news from the
Philippines and the eastern and western
European fronts, permitted Mr. Roose
velt’s third term to end at a hopeful
moment.. That hope dd not, however,
translate itself into last summer’s na
tional mood of fatuous optimism.
Mr. Roosevelt occupies the spotlight of
public attention today not because lie is
our fourth-term President. The public
attention is directed beyond the inaugura
tion to Mr. Roosevelt’s imminent and
crlcial meeting with Mr. Churchill and
Mr. Stalin. He carries to this meeting a
more direct mandate than any he lias
taken to the previous conferences of
national leaders. It seems safe to say that
It was Mr. Roosevelt’s experience and
wisdom in former meetings which played
a large part in his re-election. But it is
also clear that, while he takes with him
agan the American people’s confidence
and Trust, he also carries their demand
for action and solution, and a candid
accounting of decslons reached.
Dubious Prediction
Who arc the cigaret smokers in these
United States? What daily ration does
each feel he needs to make and keep
life more endurable? That’s one that
the quiz kids in OPA could never answer,
Which is why we have never had govern
ment cigaret rationing. Now the Na
tional Association of Tobacco Distribu
tors proposes that the country’s neigh
borhood tobacco dealers give the an
swer and thus assure the success of
NATO's proposed voluntary rationing
plan. And while we don’t doubt the deep
though and deep sincerity behind the
Sian, we just don’t think It will work.
uppose, for instance, that John Doe
amokes 20 cigarets a day. His wife
A mokes five a day. Her lather, who lives
With them, is an abstemious old gentle
man with a touch of asthma who Jimites
himself to one cigaret after dinner. They
don’t confide their smoking habits to
the corner dealer, hut he can identify
them as fairly regular customers who
are entitled to ration cards. So they
get them.
Of course Mrs. Doe’s father might ab
stain from applying for a card, hut the
Does are subject to prevailing human
fears and frailties. As long as we can
get ’em we might as well take ’em, they
figure. So the Doe family’s daily ration
becomes 45, under the NATO 15-a day
plan, as against their daily consumption
Of 28 cigarets. Or take tiie case of the
Jk>e family, who are transferred to an
other city. They take their old ration
mmmAm fa ^e drug store nearest their
They explain to the merchant that
Li
they’re from out of town. He looks at their
cards, which bear a retailer’s name but
no address. He doesn’t know the Roes,
and tells them so. Besides, he explains,
he only has enough cigarets to supply his
regular card solders. The Roes go to
another store. Same routine, same an
swer. And so on. Or we might take the
case of the traveling man, whose ration
card gets him no farther in a strange
town than a demand for one-day laundry
service.
Government rationing has demonstrat
ed that not even penalties for violations
can make us scrupulously honest and
generous. And, more’s the pity, there is
little hope that we would be much dif
gerent under voluntary, unenforceable
rationing. But there’s always a corncob
pipe.
Congress Looks After Its Faults
A brand new Joint committee on mod
eration of Congress has been created for
the avowed purpose of “full and com
plete” study of the Legislative branch of
Government. The Committee held its
first meeting before Christmas, and one
of its first acts was to invite members of
Congress to offer suggestioas on three
moderation objectives: 1. To strengthen
Congress. 2. To simplify its operation.
3. To improve its relationships with
other branches of the Government.
Hearings will get under way in Janu
ary. Newspapermen and others are to
be invited to make suggestions. The
Washington correspondent of this news
paper makes this advance contribution,
entirely as his own:
The perpetuating of the antiquated
“seniority rule” should be thrown into
the scrapheap. It is a method that per
mits second, third and lower grade-Con
gressmen to rise to top positions as Chair
men of Committeec. A horrible example
is the head of the Senate Committee of
the District of Columbia. Senator Bilbo
became Chairman of that Committee in
the mid-summer of 1944 because he was
the senior member in length of service on
that Committee. He immediately an
nounced his support for a scheme to send
three million Negroes back to Africa. Us
ing the Mississippi Legislature as a
sounding board he made a long speech
i patterned after the ancient philosophies
of the most radical rebels in the Civil
War. In Washington he ranted about a
number of imaginary evils in the District
of Columbia. He hasn’t Improved any of
them.
A dozen other instances are harmful to
the country, and Congress could be added
to the above to prove that “seniority
rule” should be labeled: S-e-n-i-l-i-t-y
r-u-l-e. The Committee will not get away
with its plans because the political com
plications cannot be handled.
Atlantic Charter
When Winston Churchill addressed the
British Parliament reecntly he got mixed
up in “explaining” the contents of the
Atlantic Charter, and afterwards admit
ted that he had an entirely different docu
ment in mind when he made his mistake. k
Now comes President Roosevelt with an
explanation that the Atlantic Charter
was never given formal status, that it
originated at a press conference on the
Atlantic Ocean, August, 1941.
Claims that the Atlantic Charter is of
particular imjrortance in “mud in your
eye.” The United Nations never did, and
never could be expected to subscribe to
this soil of a declaration, because very
few of them have any conception of the
word Democracy, ft takes a powerful im
agination to suspect that the Britisli
Empire could back up the Atlantic
Charter, even though the United States
might get behind that document. Appar
ently, according to the most recent tsate
ment from the White House, the Atlantic
Charter was not even signed by President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill.
A Uag urowi In Brooklyn
Sidney H. A.scher, president of the So
ciety for the Proovntlon of Disparaging
Remarks About Brooklyn, states in his
annual report that the proud and fiercely
sensitive borough of Greater New York
was maligned 8,014 times by stage, screen,
radio and newspaper writers in 1944, as
compared with 3,781 times in 1943.
We are falling for a press agent’s gag in
even mentioning Mr. Aschcr and his i
SPDRAB. And we don’t for a moment 1
believe that Mr. A.scher spent a gerat deal
of precious time during the past year of
decision in counting the libels against
his home town.
But we will say that in even implying
that that was all he had to do, Mr. Ascher
lias stretched the Brooklyn gag to the
yawning point. So we hereby swear off
any further variations of the same gag
fo rthe rest of 1945. That goes for the
Dodgers and you, too, Noel Coward.
Selected Poem
JKWEL WEED AND SPIDER WEB
'George Abbe in The New York Time*)
What gnomes have hung these orange cape.
Ked-dotted, on the ends of stems?
Perhaps to air them, wush them lair.
In suds of sun. In sluice-blue air?
Proin each to each, the spiders weave
Their silver rails for sliver trams
Perhaps when night returns, the gnomes
Quick-running from their grassy homes,
Will pluck them, don them, laughing, leaving
Por flight's enchantment awlft but frail,
Loet on the treacherous air.
Daily Almanac
Sun rises at 1:15 a. m.; sets at 6:55 p m
' war time!
Vehicles must be lighted thirty muiutes
after sunset.
Are you keeping your feeding stations
and window boxes filled for the bird. Itl
also the time for tliuee that farm It to
smarten up the farm Implements and toots,
sharpen the saw, etc.
4
• NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Military Trial
For Seaman
By PETEK Ell SON
Waterbupry Demorrat-NEA Waah
Incton Correspondent
Washington, D. C., Jan. 22 — In
a fight over a poker game at Oran,
Algeria, last July, U. S. Merchant
Seaman Albert F. McLeod slabbed a
shipmate to death. Brought back to
the United States, McLeod was tried
before a military court martial at
Norfolk, Va., found guilty and sen
tenced to ten years In Federal Re
formatory at Chllllcothe, Ohio. Mc
I<eod Is now being held In the Fed
eral Northeaster Penitentiary at
Lewis burg, Pu.,
however, from
which address lie
has filed an up
p c a 1 that lie
should have been
tried tin clvl
courts.
There la no use
becoming senti
mental about tills
case or trying to
build up any great
howl of sympathy
that nn American
citizen's civil lib
erties have been
violated. Seaman
McLeod probably got no more than
he deserved. In fact, lie probably got
off pretty light If the evidence was
as presented to the military tribunal
But the McLeod case Is typical of a
small number of similar Incidents
which have arisen during the war
and It serves to [joint up the system
of administering Justice to civilians
accused of crime In theaters of war.
COURT MARTIAL AGREED ON
Decision to try McLeod before a
court mnrtlal was made after due
conusultatlon between legal lights of
the Army Judge Advocate General's
division, the Maritime Commission
and the Department of Justice
which would have had to conduct
prosecution If the case had been
turned over to a civil court. Every
case not filially disposed of in the
theater of war Is reviewed In this
same way, and there Is no Inter-dc
partmental feud In determining
what to do.
The McLeod case wns given to the
military because a court martial can
be conducted with depositions from
the witnesses, whereas trial In a civil
court requires the witnesses to tes
tify In person, If McLeod had been
tried before a civil court, It would
have been necessary to bring In
witnesses by then scattered In ships
all over the high seas and hold them
for trial. That would have broken
up ships' crews, taken a lot of time
and further complicated the war ef
fort, Trial by court martial seemed
teh simplest and quickest way to
get tile McLeod case settled, though
In other similar cases Department
of Justice has brought accused men
to trail In Federal courts.
LAW IN THE HANDS
OF SHIPMASTERS
The right of the military admin
ister Justice In such a case is well
fixed by law and precedent. Naviga
tion laws of the United States have
been written with perhaps more de
tail than any other statutes. The
authority of shipmasters to "log"
their crew members, forfeiting their
pay and administering other discip
linary punishments, is well fixed.
Shipmasters may even put men In
Irons for mutiny and the other more
serious offenses at sea.
In criminal cases In time of war,
the law gives the Army and Nuvy
Jurisdiction over all men with or ac
companying the armed forces Into
a theater of war. The term "theater
of war” hasn't been very accurate
ly defined but It has been Interpret
ed broadly us meaning any place
armed cargo or personnel are being
carried.
Army officers have asserted this
authority more than Navy officers
to keep order In supply ports and on
beachheads, where merchant ships
unload. At the beginning of the war
young merchant shipmasters tended
to dump all their disciplinary prob
lems Into the lap of the Army au
thorities, but that lias been lurgely
corrected. It Is only when they get
a tough one, like the Mcl^eod mur
der case, that the Army gets called
In. And this McLeod case may set a
precedent.
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
By KARL L. DOl'GI.ASS, D. D.
HILENCE OFTEN TEACHES
WISDOM
The notion seems to prevail that,
the way to understand life Is to
plunge Into the midst of Its turbu
lent stream to have experiences, to
see things, to talk to Interesting
people, to travel.
That these
things do Increase
knowledge there
can be no doubt
But there Is an
other side to the
picture. There are
some discoveries
which cun be
made only when
we detach our
selves from the
world. The can
not be discovered anywhere else
than in solitude. Life has certain
fine flavors which are lusted only In
quiet moments There are certain
scenes which are visible to the eye
only when we sit quietly for a long
time and peer Into tha distance. Na
ture puts color Into every landscaite,
which we see only when we take
lime to look for It.
When the prophet llabakkuk was
dismayed about world conditions, he
went Into his watchtower and < iod
spoke to him as he meditated in
silence.
Hetreat from tiie world Is usually
cowardly and unworthy. But we may
well leave Die clamor of Its multi
farious life behind for an hour or a
day or a week or a month and go In
to solitude and silence, that we may
hear something more significant
ttian the clamor of the usual. If we
stayed permanently In Dial silence,
we wv rid no doubt fall Into physical
and mental laziness and be undone.
Hut the well-calculated sojourn in
places and umld conditions which
make It possible for us to meditate
and reflect, can lead to discoveries
which cannot be made anywhere
else.
All Rights Reserved Hudson
Newspap r Syndicate
WESTERN FRONT
J& ■.jMj'MB, '■ ..*"»"'f;v-',r .. ••• r1,; ■ ■
Washington Merry-Go-Round drew pearson
Drew Pearson Says: Army Still Losing Lives With Old - Fashioned
Parachute Harness; Debate Rages Over Congressmen Who Dabble in
Army; Field Marshal Dill's Heroic Battle.
All Set
tJT1UarI,'y P T 11 has now ,3CPn mole than a year since this column
trinin L ^ thul ,thcuU' S- Army and Navy were thcn using the old-fashioned,
nHrat"miZenParaC^UM harness instead of the new, quick-release harness, by which a
pa atioopei can get rid of his parachute in ten or fifteen seconds.
W...»l
lacl, that 'du of today men are
still being dragged to death be
cause the Army has been unable
to supply a sufficient number of
new, qulck-rcleaso parachutes.
Not long ago, a group of right
paratroopers Jumped at Hensley
Field, Texas, during a war bond
exhibition. All of them wore
the old-fashioned, triple-release
’chutes. One of the men land
ed In a small body of water
and was drowned when he
could not extricate himself
from his harness quickly enough.
The War Department, upon be
ing queried regarding this tragic
Incident, stated that all para
chutes for overseas operations are
now equipped with the new, mod
ern release; but parncliutes used
In the United States for train
ing purposes utilize the old,
triple-release. The latter buckles
over the shouokler and around
the thighs, requiring from one to
live minutes to unfasten. A para
trooper is instructed to begin un
buckling while he Is still In the
air, but the hazards of Jumping
are such that It is extremely dif
ficult to begin pulling on a tightly
fastened buckle while a man Is
still falling to earth at a fairly
fast rate of speed.
Failure to supply air-borne
infantry In the United Stales
with the quick-release harness
probably Is no longer due to
lack of awareness, as was the
ease last year. At that lime
the War Department had Ig
nored requests from General
l/ongfellow In London for the
single release chute, but a large
quantity was ordered Immedi
ately after the revelations by
this column. However, it takes
time to manufacture them, and
a priority on the new harness
has been given to overseas
troops.
NOTH—Unfoi tunutely, almost
none of the paratroopers who
came down behind German lines
In Normandy on June <) hud the
quick-release ’chute, with the re
sult timt some of those who land
ed in trees were shot before they
could unbuckle their harness.
HKCKKT DFMOCItATIC CAUC US
Last week’s secret caucus of
House Democrats staged a signifi
cant debate over Congressmen
who resign temporarily to enter
the Armed Services, then conic
hack to Congress. The debate In
volved Democratic Congressmen
Albert Gore of Tennessee, Bob
Hikes nt Florida, and John Fog
arty of Rhode Island.
All thre were re-elected last
November, but resigned from
J I ngres during the last few
weeks of the session for a brief
tour In the Army, returning to
Washington for the present new
session of Congress. Thus
they lost only the short lame
duck session between November
and Christmas, yet have a few
weeks of war service chalked
up on their records.
At the closed-door Democratic
caucus, the House Ways and
Means Committee, which makes
Democratic assignments to com
mitters, recommended that Gore
of Tennessee retain ills senior
ity oil the Appropriations Com
mittee, that Fogarty of Rhode
Island retain his swilorlty on
Naval Affairs, and thut Hikes
of Florida retain his seniority on
Military Affairs. Without senior
ity they would have dropped to
the very bottom of the commit
tee.
But suddenly, quiet, dynamic
Congressman Haul Kllday of Tex
as rose and moved that all Con
gressmen wtio hud resigned irolu
Congress lose their seniority.
"Thle Is not a pleasant sub
ject for me to bring up,” said
the gentleman from Han An
tonio. ''I hope It is perfectly
understood there Is nothing
personal In my bringing It up st
this point. 1 feel, however, tlist
this recommendation of the
Ways and Means Committer Is
unfair to those members of this
House who elected to stsy in
Congreoe rather than Join the
Armed Forces even far a brief
period. The men who stayed
In Congress will not have the
advantage of Hervlre records to
point to after the war, and I
think It unfair they should lose
out on seniority slso."
However, Joe Hendricks of Flor
ida, Speaker Ham Rayburn, and
Majority Leader John McCormack j
all opposed Klldiiy’s proposal. But
Klldays stuck to Ills guns.
"In the delegation from my
state," he said, "Is Major John
I->yle. Major Lyle went Into the
Army ns u buck private three
years ago. He fought Ills way
thorufjh every major engagement
lri Italy until he came home to
take his seat In Congress. He
was on the Halerno beachhead,
and he bears a stripe for a seri
ous wound In action.
“I’ve come back only recently
from a lengthy trip lliorugli
France and Italy. I’ve seen how
those men live over there, the
hardships they have to go
through—and indefinitely. If
any of my eolleagues want to
give these thre emeu who went
Into the Servlee for very lim
ited periods there old seniority
ratings when they return, they
luive got to be willing to go to
John Lyle and say, ‘John l.yle,
you're a veteran of the Army.
Move over for a veteran’.’'
With a large part of the Demo
crats present unwilling to vote,
K lid ay’s motion was dcJeated 77
to 50.
L/1BOKITK MAHCANTONIO
Another closed-door fight cen
tered on seating Vito Mureuntonlo
of the American Labor I'urty on
the Interstate Commerce Commit
tee. The fiery Congressman
from New York Is neither flesh
nor fowl, neither Democrat nor
Republican, though Jic usually
supports Roosevelt.
Two years ago, he was recom
mended for the Judiciary commit
tee, hut his name was withdrawn
because of the hot fight put up
grcHsman of Ogluhomu, whose
by reactionary, Lyle Boren, Con
brother Is on the House payroll
despite the fact ho runs a cook
shop hi Oklahoma.
Boren recalled his fight of
two years ago, and threatened
to go to the House floor hi
bluock the .Vlanantools appoint
ment again. He argued that
Marcantonlo had been against
our War Program prior to the
entry of Russia Into the war.
Ham Rayburn, however, came to
Marcantonlo’s defense. He point*
cd out that for 20 years It lias
out that for 20 years it lias
been customary for the Majority 1
Party (now the Democrats) to
assign members of Minority Par
ties, such as the American Labor 1
Party, to committee seats.
Defending Marcantonlo per- '
usually, Rayburn said, “I can
not question the patriotism of ,
any elected member of this
House. I believe every member
of this Congress Is patriotic." '
Looking dirretly at Boren,
Kayburn challenged, "If any
member feels otherwise, let him
rise from his seat in the well
of the House and demand that
the member against whom lie
brings cliagres lie espellrd." ,
The gentleman from Oklahoma i
was silent. Rayburn called for ,
the tabling of Boren’s objection i
and won his polnl. Marcantonlo,
who was not present, will now |
be seated on the Interstate Com
merce Committee.
INDOMITABLE JOHN DILL j
When Field Marshal Sir Joint ,
Dill. British representative on the ,
Joint Chiefs of Staff, died last
full, a chapter was closed on a (
case Uiat had medical men mar
veling for months. Every time
the doctors at Walter Reed lios- (
pltal would pick up a newspa
per and read of Murshul Dill’s
being In Quebec, New York, or ,
various other distant points they
could scarcely believe It.
Fur Marshal Dill had been 1
Buffering for nearly a year with
a form of anemia for which no
remedy has yet been dlsceov
ered. He had an aplastic
anemia, which meant there was
no regeneration of Ills blood
cells. The blood cells of all
of us are constantly dying, with
new ones being formed to take
their place. Dill's body, how
ever, was unable to form new
blood cells.
The only thing which kept Jihu
going was transfusions. And for
n period over six months he hud
three or four transfusions- -or
more each week. Ill Hie mean
lime, doctors were never aide to
thul the cause ol Dill’s ulieiniu
and ho knew It wus Just a ques
tion of time before be would die.
Illll refused, however, to beg
off from any of his duties here.
Instead, hr oaine to thr hospi
tal. got Ills transfusion, and a
few hours later was apt to lie
in thr air on his way to points
many hundreds of miles distant.
Officers at Walter Heed were
amazed to read that he attended
the Quebec Conference last sum
mer.
The end came, finally, as he
lmd known for months It, would, 1
with Sir John Dill working up to 1
the lust for his country and for
Allied victory.
(Copyright, 1045, by 1
The Bull Syndicate, Inc.)
Views Of The Press
HARDS ANII SNOW SHOVELS
'New York Heruld-Trlbunej
It Is not surprising, one feels, that
poets get themselves classed us de
cidedly Impractical creatures. Cer
tainly on the subject of snow—one
of their favorite topics—poets have
convicted themselves again and
again. Who, for Instance, can read
without annoyance and ribald mut
tcrings such art Invocation as "O
perfect strength of soft, unstrenu
ous snow"? As to snow’s softness,
one can test Its resistant qualities
on any Manhattan sidewalk, where
Its alleged lack of strenuousness
might be considered to have suf
fered further weakness from an ex
istence above subways and steam
pipes. And what one finds—after
laying down a book of verse and
stepping forth with a three year
old, snub-nosed snow shovel—is un
Icy armor as difficult to overcome
as a Tiger tank confronted by a
busted bazoka.
It Is possible, of course, that there
have been poets who have actually
shoveled snow, and who, having
completed an ode referring to a
howling, flake-filled blitz as a
"mouth of beauty, whispering in the
night," have wad'd out next morn
ing and dulled a ticout a and other
domestic weapons of agression In
attempting to chip the ice Iroin a
sealed and frozen garage door. If
such poets exist we have never seen
them in action; wo have yet to tils
cover their achievements celebrated
In Bartlett or the "Oxford Book of
English Verse,” Our advice to any
poet who persists hi believing snow
to be a soft, unstrenuoijs, perfect
dejxislt of beauty Is that he this
week consult on the subject our
town's busy Commissioner of Sani
tation. He, wc believe, will lx; pre
pared to discus's, In a moment of
eloquent prose, the physical qual
ltlcs of snow.
"KKANK MKIlltl WTX1."
(Christian Science Monitor)
There wus tills to be said for the
old "nickel novel” that boys used to
read In the hayloft, the attic, and
even behind their geographies In
the classrooms of a generation ago
-they were highly inoral, red
blooded, and did nothing to encour
age a race of "sissies." That Is
why thousands of young fellows
In their fifties and sixties, as they
read of the passing of Gilbert Pat
ten ("Hurt I,. Blandish"), will smile
and think back to the days when
they thrilled to the udventures of
"Prank Merrlwell.”
The '00's and the turn of the cen
tury saw "Nick Carter,” "Old King
Brady,” "Diamond Dick," "Prank
Merrlwell" and the others displayed
In every newsstand and toy shop,
much us the so-called "comics" of
toduy. Trash they undoubtedly
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Your Health
By Dr. William Brady
Signed letters pertalr‘ng to per
sonal health and hygiene, not !•
disease, diagnosis of treatment,
will be answered by Dr. Brady If
a stamped self-addressed envelope •
Is enelosed. Letters should oe brief
and written In Ink. . o reply ran
be made to queries not conform
ing to Instructions. Address Dr.
William Brady. National News
paper Service, 320 West Madison
Strict. Chicago. Ill
SHADY INSTITUTIONS LIKE
SECRECY
My wife (writes a Sergeant in
the Marines) expects to be confined
In April, and it is her wish and
mine that I stay with her. I have
inquired about this and seem to
have run into a stone wall. I am
given to undcsland that there is
a law or a board of health ruling
forbidding the presence of a hus
band. This seems odd, in view of
the fact that in this very hospital
they admit an entire class of pu
pil nurses to see the delivery of
babies. Just what is so unsanitary
about a' husband, T’d like to know.
(- Signed).
Well, Sergeant, it is virtually es
tablished as correct Ynnkec custom
that an expectant father should
ploy the role of nincompoop by the
people who run the hospital,
The "unsanitary" dodge is just a
little Joke, Of course a bevy of
young ladles who are studying nurs
ing is Just as sanitary as a hus
band In the delivery room or In the
oiierating room. That's eyewash,
liie main reason why shady lnstlu
tlons prefer to exclude husbands Is,
of course, their fear that n hus
band might hnppcn to know enough
to resent some of the frightful
breaches of asepsis that occur in
such institutions. What the poor
boob husband does not see will
bring no grief to the hospital.
I’m sorry I cannot tell readers
which hospitals permit husbands to
remain at, the bedside, if the patient
so desires. But I can tell the world
that there is no law about this and
10 board of health regulation. It, is
wholly a scheme deslkned to pro
ject the Incompetents In shady ins
titutions from malpractice suits.
Ar,.y young man who os not really
i nlnecompoop may remain with
lis wife In any hospital that is
worthy of public confidence, Any
ihysiclan who Is worthy of respect
:ati admit the husband to the de
Ivery room if the patient so da
rtres. and wiiat's more, lie will do
lo. If tlie doctor Is a sycophant
ruckling to the "rules" imposed by
lospital, for tlie cheap prestige of
he hospital staff, the customer is
mt of luck--If the customer Is
limple enough pul up with it,
The place for a real mail Is at
lis wife’s side when their child is
icing born,
QUESTIONS anil ANSWKHH
An You hike It
1 am a—hlghschool student. If
your correspondent T. K. J. started
rolling 8 somersaults a day thirty
years ago ills or her total of 87,000
somersaults to dale would be cor
rect. Tsn't tills correct? (D. B.)
Answer—I pass. Bo far I liave re
ceived three different answers as
correct. Mir be it from me to find
fault with a few hundred somer
saults more or less. None of the
correspondents who have kindly
clarified the problem has said any
thin!? about an extra day in leap
year—there must have been several
extra days In thirty years. Not that
this would affect the answer ar
rived at by compound arithmetic,
but I shudder at the thought of a
whole 24-hours lost every few years
without a somcreault.
Exposure
You said it is not how equable
tlie climate nor how line the weath
er but how much you can expose
yourself to the sun that matters.
How many days a week, hours a day
or months in the year should a per
son be exposed to sunshine?
(J. M. 8.)
Answer—Preferably seven days a.
wek, eight hours or more a day, 12
months In the year. In the state
ment you cite I said It Is a ques
tion of how much of your skin you
can expose to sunshine, skyshine,
day light every day the year around
with reasonable comfort. In other
words, short of sunburn or freezing,
no one cun enjoy too much expos
ure. Must you have It measured out
of the spoonful.
Inalienable Yankee Right
My son Is ten months old and
sucks his thumb. I believe he does
If to get attention, and that If
others wouldn’t make remarks be
might stop it himself.
• Mrs. W. H. C.)
Answer That is so, but It Is
harder to break the average Yan
kee friend, neighbor or idle by
stander from saying his nlckle's
worth than it is to correct the
bay's thumb-sucking First step in
correction of thumb sucking is to
understand It is more or less na
tural. People who make remarks
about 1l only reveal their Ignorance,
and people who would punish an
Infant for it deserve punishment
themselves. Bend a stamped pre-ad
iressed envelope for pamphlet on
I'humb Bucking. Ask for If in writ
ing a clipping will not suffice.
(Copyright 1940, John F. Dille Co.)
were tor the most part, written In
Flamboyant style, and full of ar
tificialities and impossible situa
tions. But the villain was ulwuys
Frustrated and evil destroyed, while
lugged and sterling virtue Invari
ably triumphed. "Frank" and his
blends undoubtedly contributed
much to the building of sturdy Am
u-lean character.
Bao Paulo, Brazil, inis a motion
jicture boom, and despite admission
dices were increased 00 per cent,
lie 87 theaters had over 14,000,000
ittendunce in the last six months.
REYMOND'S
YANKEE RYI IMAP