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A New Word for Americans
Those American educators who are trying to get a
national conference called to consider recent social
changes in the United States seem to be chiefly to make I
the country wake up to the fact that the Good Old Days;
are gone forever.
A group of 220 of them has signed an appeal to
President Roosevelt in the matter, and their formal state
ment says:
"The time has now come to make the fact of inter
dependence the foundation base of American thought and
action.”
By putting in that sentence the word “interdepen
dence” instead of good old-fashioned “independence” the
educators have touched on a sweeping change whose sig
nificance has only begun to dawn on us.
Those who have spoken of rugged individualism as
a peculiarly American way of life have had plenty of
tradition to back them up. For generations the fact of
independence was the dominant fact in American life. It
colored the development of our industrial structure. It
conditioned our viewpoint on all manner of social and
economic problems.
We had a world of our own, to handle as we saw
fit. We were a long way from Europe, and our west was
a long wav from our east. As an inevitable result we de
veloped a working philosophy all our own.
But the world has managed to shrink astonishingly
in the last few years. While shrinking, it has also man
aged to grow almost infinitely more complex. We are be
ginning to discover that we live in a world in which iso
lation is quit impossible, a world in which no man can
live for himself alone. The most frugal and intelligent
farmer in Iowa can go bankrupt because of something that
happens beyond the Atlantic; because he does, the steady
Detroit industrialist, through no fault of his own. can
find red ink on his ledgers; and that, in turn, may close
a reliable bank in Atlanta.
So now- we have the new word “interdependence”
to digest. It brings with it the necessity for an entire new
social viewpoint. The quicker we make up our minds to
ft, the better.
Where the Money Goes
Current discussions of extravagance by the federal
government have a way of skidding off on rather irrele
vant side-issues. Critics have a way of talking as if the
bulk of government expenditure is due to C ongress’s blind
irresponsibility and selfishness. They overlook the perfect
ly inescapable truth that the great majority of Uncle Sam’s
expenses are due to the cost of the last war and prepara
tions for the next one.
Until those expenses can he cut, our federal budget
will remain at a high level. To he sure, many of us feel
that any very drastic cut in those fields would be, if not
downright impossible, at least very unwise. Hut we should
not let ourselves get too hot and bothered about the cost
of congressional ‘‘junkets" the expense of the Capitol
building barber shop, the high price of congressional sec
retaries and the like. Those things all lumped together
constitute, after all, only a drop in the bucket.
The
Once Over
HOW TO PKONOlNOE FAR
EAST NAMES
In response to numerous in
quiries from readers who are hav
ing difficulty (and difficulty is
rfally no name for It) pronouncing
the names or persons and places
associated with the Japanese-Chi
rese war. this column is happy to
provide the following guide.
Japan—Ja-pan, with the accent
on the pan.
China — Chev-nah, as in the
crockery department.
Jehol— Minme-a-polis. with the
accent evenly distributed.
Shanhaikwan—Chilly-cot hay.
Shinwang-too—Bridge-port, as in
Connecticut.
Chinchow—Hi-a-leah.
Peiping—Laz Ang-el-lces.
Tientsin—Rm-Tin - Tin.
Manchoukuo—Ban-gor.
Peipiao—Peets-burgn <the x Is
silent).
Chaoy ang&su—Pal - ba m.
Chengteh-f u—Wapp- in - gers Fa 1 a
Kailu—Bran-ford. Conn.
Shiumen—Wo-wan-us
Fer.gtien--Prinoe-ton <by default.) |
Heilunkiang—Krunr.-Ei-Bow.
Heikangshaikar.wonglie - chu — .
Long Beach.
Persons
General Yoshtmichi — General j
Gas McQulggan.
Marshal Chang Hsiao - liar.g—|
Marshal Willis P Fetherstone.
General Nobuyishi Muto—General
Prentice B. Bradley.
Chiang Kai-shek— Charles O
Brown. 32. white, unmarried.
Chang Hscueh - liang — Otis
(“Stiffo") Jon^s.
Admiral Mahatsu Lei-tien-huey
—Admiral Horace B Quincy.
Harold Ickes—Harold Ickes.
Ho Chu-go—Red Grange.
General Yoshtmichi Suzuki —
Lieutenant Willis Pratt.
(Note—It will facilitate matters
if all areas in which fighting oc
curs are referred to hereafter as
Utah. Rivers may be called Snutn
i.nd it might be well to pronounce
any new general who may pop up
from time to time “Add-i-son
Sims."—Ed.)
Peruses Daily
Tc The Comic Strip That Milady
I think, oh. comic strip, there is
Seme bond between us two;
She gives to me the self-same smite
Tliat she bestows on you.
I. L. Kisser..
The Japanese have cnished the
Chinese armies and taken the
stror.gholds before Jehol They whi
presumably halt while a demand
lor China to apologize is prepared.
Hard-Hearted
Mr. McAdoo wants to close the
Stcck Exchange. Nonsense! Would
he deprive the brokers of a place
to sleep?
You can buy a seat on the New
York Stock Exchange now for
SSC.noo. And have a "Do Not Dis
turb" sign, two pillows and an
extra blanket thrown in.
“FOR TIT NATE-Fell off the roof
C V K — New York Herald Tribune
• • •
Well you could have phoneo
ci uldn’t vou?
Impartiality may be an attribute
among bootleggers. but it got 60
oay sentences for the New Yortc
trio who included a federal judges
mail box for their liquor price llsv
• • •
If those scientists who discover
ed that spot 44.000 feet deep in the
Atlantic will take the time to probe
around a little, they’ll probably firm
where our stocks and bonds wents
• • •
Canny as they wire, the Scots
who chanted The Campbells are
coming. O ho. O ho" hardly fore
saw that cne of the clan would do
it at 272 miles an hour
• • #
Small boys mav falter reciting
the names of other cabinet mem
bers. but that they’ll pm plenty
of emphasis on the new secretary
o. war is dern certain.
• • •
lire future mav be full of op
portunity for youth, but just now
the 'oungsters can’t get near the
jigsaw puzzle for the grown pus
crowded around
Out Our Way.By Williams
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New York
_Letter
A Magic Night
NEW YORK.-If all the Noel
Cowards. Katharine Cornells. Dur
antes. Barrymores and their illus
trious ilk of the theater were
placed side by side on any stage,
they wouldn't draw hall the rablc
enthusiasm and absorption that a
little group of performers, part 01
them amateurs, did the other nighi. j
Nor such a curiously assorted
assemblage, either, ranging from
the Rockefellers and Stuyvesani
Fishes to the Goldblotzes and Jit
Ctrwhisks of Second Avenue.
It was the annual benefit show
of the Society of American Magi
cians Prestidigitators are like
trained seals; you either don't like
them or you're cur-r-r-azy about
them. And so it was that the house
was sold out far in advance to the
hundreds of Gotham's magic fans
These included, by the way, in ad
dition to the above-mentioned so
cialites. the Whitneys. Colgates. ;
Goelets and Mr. Roosevelt's daugh- .
ter and son-in-law, the Curtis
Dalis.
Some of these are amateur ma
gicians themselves, for the laj
membership of the society in- I
eludes scores of big business men.
well as doctors, teachers, ana
ministers. Dr. Samuel C. Hooker
termer vice-president of the Amer- !
lean Sugar Refining Company, us
an examole of amateur enthusi
asm; he remodeled part of his
l ouse into a little theater and he
.<ta:es a private show there one*
a year for his brother magicians.
0 9 0
A Master’s Aid
Another amateur. Bernard Ems*
a lawyer, wasn’t even interesteu i
:n magic until he handled some
legal cases for Harry Houdlru
thirteen years ago. The old master
showed-him a few tricks and Ernsi
went on to develop some new ones
When Houdim died in 1926 tX
a tornev succeeded him as presi
clt nt of the society.
Chief purpose of the organiza
tion is to protect the secrets of the
profession. It attempts to show
up fakers, and campaigns relent
lessly against spirit mediums
Once it even persuaded Czar Win
Hays to suppress a series of slaw
mot ion-picture exposes of how
some of the tricks are done.
• • •
A Real Card Shark
There are relatively few magical
stums not understood by most ot
the members, but they delight In
new applications of old principles
Sc they applauded when a woman
emerged safely from a box aftei
apparently having been burneu
alive, and when six steaming pan
cakes were removed from a bor
rowed derby hat that previously
had been filled with gooey batter.
One of the things they don’t un
derstand is the famous Joseffy’s
grinning skull, which raps out n.
i ode, answers to any questions
Another genuine mystery is Che
tack perfected by the aforemen
tioned Dr. Hooker He puts a deck
of cards, marked and shuffled b,
a s;>ectator, into a case hanging
from the ceiling. When the name
ot any card is called out, it ruses
from the deck
• • •
Empress and Princess
Harry Houduns brother Hardeen.
h still a practising magician and
does some of the former’s old
tricks, such as getting out ot a big
milk can filled with water and
double-padlocked inside a trun.%
The only other person who knows
how that Is done is Mrs. Harry
Houdini. who took a curtain call
a’ the benefit show She went in
to the tea room business in tha
theatrical dustrict a few years ag<.
1 * •’• >ight-of-hand dive: -
son. along with the sandwiches.
«
she's still a sort of honorary ea.
prrss of the magic world
Bearer of another famous name
Is pretty Jane Thurston. 21-yea:
eld daughter of Thurston' the
Great She made her debut at *»rc
magicians’ show, snatching biros
and such from hats, and matcrlai
ti’inz a lot people from nowhere
J«»ne us very serious about making
a profession of magic, and ha.
l«cn practising for years. Teach
ers at the exclusive Ray son School
where she graduated, were not
■ >lj grievwi when she
She had kept them all of a dither
”.th her habit of pulling rabbits
out of ner textbooks
_Quotations
What I'm mo.4 worried abou* is
what in the world am I g ing *o
do with my Cruikshanks? I can't
part with them.
William H Woodm. industrialist,
roll rtor of George Cruikshanks
sketches, upon appointment as
Sec. of the Treasury.
• • •
We don't any more have to iive
up to anybody rise's standards ..
If we really want to be independ
ent, we can. without worn! ring
what our neighbors will think.
— Mrs. Franklin D. R oospvelt.
• • •
A militant, fearless press is the
one agency in America that can
arouse and crystalize public senti
ment and is the the one power that
is irresistible when tolerance of evil
conditions is bred in the conscience
of the community,
l ed. Judge Geo. E. Q Johnson of
Chicago.
• • •
The decadence of its navy is a
sign of the decadence of a na’ion.
—Rear Admiral William A. Mottett.
chief of the navy bureau of aero
nautics.
• • •
The day of the alibi of the tired
business man seems to be in its
twilght. For generations he has
kept our national intellectual sta
tus at low average. His alibi- no
time for cultural aspects of life—
is about to be snatched from him.
- Miss Fannie Hurst, writer.
• • •
The French think we are weleh
ers, and are guilty of trickery and
fraud, through the Hoover mora
torium.
—Dr Herbert Adams Gibbons, his
torian and economist, on return
from abroad.
• • •
The French and Germans are
nractically civilized so it's not rr.ucn
fun traveling there.
—Clara Bow. film actress, on rc- I
turn from abroad.
- I
j
Gv.ll deserves special considers
t on among the specific danger*
:er patients with angina :>ectori
Drs. Fitzhugh and Hamilton be
lieve. since it appeared as a cleai
factor in eight ol 100 cases of death
fiom that disease.
To them it set-ins absurd to al
low a man faced with compieu
disability or death to continue
playing solf after he has once had
an attack of angina pectoris.
Thus they say. "We sympathize
with the golfer. We admire aim
share the spirit which says. If *
cannot live like a man. I do not
wish to live.' But we deplore the
fact that so many of our friends—
and perhaps if it came to us we
would be r.o w-iser—are so devoir:
01 ingenuity or resources that thev
cannot occupy their days witn
intellectual pursuits or artisanship
cr other hobbies that are sa>,
sufficiently to make them happy in
spite of no golf.
“Every golfer knows the fre
quent temptations to violent ex
ertion. To enumerate a few: in
t lenient wind and weather. f<
frequent short but stiff climbs,
getting out of the rough, climb
ing out of a trap, frequent hur
rying because of the d;-’.av r.f un
satisfactory shots and following
players.
“Persisting in golf alter angine
is perhaps comparable to persist
ing in eating candy after diabetes
appears.“
• • •
In 33 out of the 100 fatal cases,
long journeys had been taken
immediately before the final dis
aster. Associated with a long
journey there is always the un
usual activity in preparation foi
the journey with l^ss of sleep,
overeating during the travel, fre
quent Indulgence in alcohol, ana
emotional stress. When John
Hunter, the famous British phy
sician. had his attack of angina
pectoris, he said his life was in
the hands of any rascal who
chose to worry him.
In three mst inccs. sudden
blocking of the blood vessels ot
WHAT DO YOU DO TV A CASE LTKE THAT? <
the heart or fatal angina pectoris
followed a violent loss of tempe*
during a business argument. Two
patients had their attacks while
overexcited at football games.
Three patients had their at:ack*
directly after bad news about *
son. Two patients said that un
accustomed public speaking pro
duced their attacks.
Overeating and excess or in
dulgence In alcohol are frequent
ly mentioned by patients as being
the hrst factor resi>onsiMe for an
attack of angina. ...y
The old aphorism "ModerjMjn
in all thines.-’ is probably t>s
most Important advice that cau
be given to any patient who has
attacks of angina pectoris.
bu Laura Lou
q] Brookman
pflHkf c 1933 1Bllk
NEA SERVICE, INC
ni.i.n hi.i(i i (Mi l i
•HM:T HIM, amt ROM* CAH
I'VI.E have been rnniiitril nlmnat
a year. They have put off their
marriage herauae Janrt Inaiata
they luual have #.MH» in a aavinga
arrount tlrat. Holt enjnya apt-nil
Ing money nnd the rigid eronomy
arreaaary to aave thi* nnioiint la
dlataatrful to him. Janrt work* na
secretary to BHtCE II \ Mil.TON.
■ dvertlalng manager of Kvery
Home Mngarlnr. and Rolf la em
ployed at an advertiaing agency.
Janrt. deeply In love, is not
auapirloua when Rolf begin* to
niukr riruara for not coining to
•ee her. One night he break* an
engagement with her. MOl.I.IK
I.4MIIKRT, who llvea aeroaa the
hull, trlla Janrt ahe kua aren Rolf
entering a theater with another
girl. Janet mreta Holf next day
after work and trlla him what
Mollie baa said. H olf heroine*
angry, any* their engagement la
nirunlnglraa nnd that If Janrt
really wanted to marry him ahe
would have done an long ago.
They quarrel and Rolf leave*.
Janet la about to board a afreet
car when aomronr call* her name,
wow go n\ with the story
. CHAPTER VIII
'T’HE voice was a man’s but Janet
A knew before 8he turned that tt
was not Rolf's. She looked back
and saw Howard Cressy hurrying
toward her. Cressy. promotion di
rector at the Every Home office,
wad as usual smiling too broadly.
Janet would have avoided him any
where. The man seemed absolutely
snub-proof. A dozen times she had
refused his invitations and still he
persisted in offering them. To
night. when she wanted more than
anything to be alone, inciting How
ard Cressy was too much!
"Hello, Janet." he cried. "Going
home? If you'll walk a block to the
garage where I keep my car I’ll
drive yo- o
The street car had halted. Its
doors slid i>ack and the men and
women watting pushed forward
Janet told herself she had to board
that street car
Cressy was beside her now. “I—
I'm sorry," the girl began, "but I'm
afraid I can’t wait. Some other
lime—"
She mounted the car step. Over
one shoulder she looked back and
called, "Thanks Just the .same.”
The young man stood on the curb
and watched the car disappear
Janet did not see him She found
a seat, sank into it. and turned her
face to the window pine. It was
as much as she could do to shut
out rhe sight of the other passen
gers. to protect herself from star
ing. curious gl ances.
The street car Jolted on its way
It passed the business district. Now
it was moving along a street where
the only buildings were low. dark,
deserted looking—that least desira
ble section of Lancaster, known as
"the flats."
Janet pressed nearer to the win
(low. The blackness outside was
no more dismal than her ow n heart,
no more hopeless than the future
that seemed to stretch ahead.
Everything she bad counted on
was gone. All the happiness she
had planned—all her dreams. She
and Kolf were not going to be mar
rled. They were not engaged any
more. Rolf didn't love her. He had
as much as said so. Oh, how could
It all have happened? How could
such things be true?
The whole day bad been misera
ble but she had never imagined
anything so terrible as this. She
remembered how Insistent 6he had
been on seeing Rolf. All day long
she had assured herself that as
soon as she saw him and talked
with him everything would be right
again. Why had she telephoned?
Why had she urged him to meet
her? If she hadn’t done that this
terrible thing couldn’t have hap
pened.
The car Jogged along, stopping
starting. The 40-minute ride had
never seemed so long but at last It
came lo an end. Janet hurried up
the walk, let herself quietly Into (
^ # 'I \ \
“C.rl a load of this, h<ill \:ou?" Mollie aslfcd. "Do some girls
have all the Itself f"
the rooming house She was glad
she did not meet anyone in the
hall. Without stopping to see if
there were more letters or a nios
sage she ran up the single flight
of stairs.
Then at last—the blessed sanctu
ary of her own room! Janet en
tered, closed the door behind her
and turned the key. Without turn
ing on the light she flung herself
face down on the bed and let the
tears come.
• • •
rPHERE were times during the
days that followed when Janet
was able, by means of frequently
rehearsed reassurances, to convince
herself that it was only a matter
of time until she would hear front
Rolf. He would telephone, she told
herself. He would a6k in an apolo
getic voice when he could come to
see her. Each time she answered
the ringing telephone her heart
quickened hopefully. Once when
she said, “Mr. Hamilton’s office" in
the pleasant, low-pitched tone that
had become mechanical her pulse
pounded a sharp tattoo as the voice
at the other end of the wire re
plied. ‘This is the Acme Advertis
lng Agency." But it was only Jim
McPbail. one of Rolf's employers,
who wanted to talk to Mr. Hamil
ton about an advertising contract.
Then there were times when her
mood shifted sharply. She would
be as sure that Rolf had taken her
at her word, that he would never
come back, as she had been before
that he would call. Utterly despair
ing. she saw the days stretching i
ahead, each more gloomy than the I
one before. Flic was so unhappy
she could think of nothing else.
Work became a routine that was
somehow lived through.
Over and over site reviewed that
brief meeting, repeating to herself ,
all that liolf had said, all that she 1
had said. There were so many
things she wanted to know. Who
was the girl he had taken to the
theater? How long had he known
her? Was he really in love with
her? He might have explained if
she had given him a chance but
she had not.
Recalling the hot-t< mpered words
she had used Janet felt an impulse
to telephone to tell R>*lf she hadn't
meant those things. She couid not
quite bring herself to do that.
She was listless, preoccupied,
and when she went to meals she
scarcely ate. Evenings she spent
at home. When one of the girls
at the office Invited her to a birth
day party she pleaded an aching
bead. She said the same thing
when Mrs. Snyder asked her to
come down stairs and play bridge
The excuse wasn't entirely untruth
ful. f’art of the time Janet's head
did ache. It came from sleepless
nights, from failure to eat prop
eriy.
• • •
UESDAY morning — six days
since she had seen Rolf—Janet,
sitting at her desk, stopped typing
for a few moments and put one
hand to her forehead. It was ach 1
tng fearfully. She closed her eyes
and opeued them almost imme
diately.
She saw that Bruce Hamilton,
was watching her. “Aren't yon
feeling well, Miss Hill?’* he asked.
“It's nothing. Just a headache."
"Then you’d better do something
about it. Take the rest of the day
off.”
“Oh, no, Mr. Hamilton. That’*
not necessary.”
“Take the rest of the day off," he
repeated. "Better see a doctor. Al
len's a good one. Over in the
Phoenix building." His manner was
that of an executive giving instruc
tions he expected to be obeyed.
“But—”
“You’re to see Dr. Allen,” he
told her crisply. “You had a
headache the other day, too,
didn't you? That's bad business.
Don’t come back tomorrow unless
Allen says you should. An office
is no place for sick people. Can’t
do their work—make mistakes.
It isn't efficient and it isn’t busi
nesslike."
Janet did as she was told. Fhe
put on her coat and hat and
walked to the Phoenix Building.
There the young woman in Dr.
Allen’s office told her the doctor
could see her in half an hour. \x
It was longer than that but
Janet didn't mind. The session
with Dr. Allen concluded with the
statement that there was nothing
wrong organically. Tbe doctor
outlined a nourishing diet. He
advised plenty of sleep, plenty ol
fresh air and exercise. He said
Janet had a tendency toward an
ailment common among young
women who spent their days in of
fices— nervous exhaustion. Rest
was the best remedy. Rest a
exercise out of doors.
• • •
JA.NfcT paid for the examination
•' and took the street car home
More than what the doctor had
said Mr. Hamilton’s words had
alarmed her. Sho would have to
stop the headaches or she might
find herself without a Job. Mr.
Hamilton had said an office was
no place for sick people.
She lay down for a nap and
was surprised to find when she
awoke that it was almost five
o’clock. Janet arose, bathed and
dressed more carefully than she
had for days. She walked a doren
blocks in the February dusk be
fore she entered a restaurant and
ordered dinner. The brisk walk
had made her hungry and she had
to admit to herself that the food
made her feel better.
one was at work next morning
10 minutes before Hamilton ar
rived and greeted him. smiling.
Yes, she told him, the headache
was gone. She was following the
doctor's instructions and felt im
proved all ready.
But all her resolves could not
kill the quickening of her heart
when the telephone rang, the chill
of disappointment when the voice
over the wire was not Rolf’s.
She went to lunch with Pauline
Hayden from the business office
and that evening, instead of stay
ing in her room alone, she
knocked on Mollle Lambert’s door
and asked if Mollle would like to
see a movie.
The other girl was in pajamas
reading a newspaper. “Sure I
would.” she said. "Be ready In
two minutes. Get a load of this,
will you? Do some girls have all
the luck!”
She sighed heavily and held up
the newspaper, pointing to head
lines that proclaimed the discov
ery of a new “baby star” in the
movies. The future screen celeb
rity had Just signed a contract
for $500 a week.
Janet took the newspaper and
sank into a chair to read it. All
at once a picture on the opposite
page caught her eye. She stared
at it as though hypnotized.
(To lie Continued)