health /*. 'TUor. ty, IC] 3 l (- ~ 7u~r*_jLt^ They say that the appointment of Miss Josephine Roche of Colorado fcxx as the new Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, may bring about the resignation of Dr, Hugh S, Cumming, Surgeon General of the United States, iiii^s Loche^s job will deal with the public health worh of the Treasury Department. This puts her in a supervising position above the Surgeon General, The catch in the situation is the fact that there is quite a widespread difference of opinion concerning-public health administra­ tion. On one side is the medical profession. On the other side are the social and welfare workers. The feeling among the doctors is that the social and welfare workers are having too much to say about public health, that they are encroaching upon a,field that belongs properly to the Miss Roche, the new Health Director-for the Treasury Department, is a social and welfare worker and represents that side of tne argument^ while Dr. Gumming, the Surgeon General, is known to be strongly on the side of the medical profession*ln tire argument There is another angle - the fact that Dr. Gumming was Surgeon | I I General under five Republican administrations, which leads plenty of ^ Democrats to mutter that a Democratic doctor ought to get the job. ’ —i ____ ____ __ ___ _ _______ .fra v HEALTH Wise fingers are pointing at Dr. Thomas Parran, Health Commissioner of Hew York State. Dr. Parran was close to the President, v/hen the latter was Governor of New Y0rk. They say he is likely to be the next Surgeon General LAW Several monLno ag,o tiie American Bar Association announced a plan I to maAe a study or the laws of the land and try to imorove them and bring them in harmony with each other. The Initial step concerned the various state bar associations, which have a diversity of aims and ideals. It will be necessary in the first place to harmonize the plans IBS of the various bar associations. It all takes money and time,±BDcdiaxilaR and today the Carnegiejhind I presented the Bar Association with fifty thousand dollars to carry on / ^ ^ the work. That will provide sinews of war with which the^-i«r isssss±K±ii AangiTbiPgSutt can v/ork • i-t* five point program, which calls for better A * criminal lav/ enforcement, high standards of T&ar admission, the protection of the public against unqualified lawyers, and the fight against shysterA^Tr^ySTOw v still - mountain of corn have shown A * * Next month we*11 be celebrating the First Anniversary of the Repeal of the Eignteenth Amendment* Todciy we hear of one of the biggest bootlegging moonshine exposures on record. The word comes from the little town of Harrisonburg in the rocky^mountainr*country of southwestern Virginia, but it is no mere matter of local mountaineer­ ing moonshine. That, in fact ,, is the reason why so much is told about it. Because - for once themselves willing to talk. Ordinarily ’’raum'1 is the mountaineering word, so mum that ttMKt the government agents can hardly pry an answer out of the grim and silent folk of the hills. That is^when they are out for themselves. This time they were working for a huge countrywide bootleg ring. So they told about their masters. Yes, masters is the right word. It would appear that the Virginia moonshiners down that way were just the hired men. They belonged to an organization of liquor racketeers, who lined them up, kept them obedient to orders, and had them working their mountain stills just as part of a highly efficient outfit that distributed immense quantities of illicit liquor far and wide. The report declares that the racketeers made virtual slaves of V still - S 1 KM those gun- to ting, feud fighting moonshiners in the southern mountains. The story is t©» by Julius Frandsen, in a copyrighted article 1 1 ’ i to the United Prvess. He tells how Federal Agents raided the mountain stills, and to their astonishment were able to persude the mountaineers to talk, and now are on the trail of the big shots. ....^ FOOTBALL RKSUMK The question of the hour in the football world , Who Ife* battle the pigskin hostS of heland Stanford in the Bose Bowlfgame next Mow Hoards Kho '-wtll scalp the Stanford Redskins? Saturday was a disastrous day for tfe* eastern teams. There doesnft seem*to be a single undefeated one left. The collapse of Princeton before an inspired Xale team was the major Sports writers are commenting on the fact that the Sale aggregation did an almost unheard-qf thing. Only eleven men played for the Bull Dog. Their fighting spirit and the way they smashed up the high-strung Princeton machine was the most thrilling thing I ever saw on a gridiron, And what a drubbing Havy took from Pittsburgh. Undefeated Syracuse also v/ent down before the so-called Colgate Magicians. But Yale has been beaten in earlier season games. So has Pittsburgh. So has Colgate. So the California Rose Bowl real estate and sunshine promotors will have to loo£ either to the FOOTBALL RESUME - 2 South or the Middle West for their opposition. We»d all like to see the unbeaten Minnesota Juggernaut play in that game, but Big Ten rules don’t allow it. Maybe the honor once more will go to Alabama, the team that is iscxi leading in the South. JAPAN. One of the most prominent members of the government in .. okyo is -tfuroio Goto* Minister of Home Affairs, And he seem­ ed likely to cause an acute government crisic. As a political strong man, he has plenty of enemies in the Japanese Parliament, so a storm of attack against him was expected if he didn’t step out of office. But that storm seems to have blown over. It was all because of that imperial traffic mix-up in which the Mikado’s car went the wrong way. Tonight a Tokyo police sergeant lies in a hospital after trying to kill himself with a knife. He felt he was to blame - sufficient cause for hari-kari - when the Mikado's car got off the track. His police superiors feel themselves responsible, and are prepared to resign. And the sense of responsibility extended all the way up to the Cabinet, to that same Minister of Home Aft'airs, whose political future was al­ most cut short in the last few hours. Let’s review tlie incident that led to all the excite­ ment, a rather comic incident in our eyes, but a thing of tremendous import in the flowery kingdom* The Son of Heaven JAPAN - 2 was on his way to inspect the silk industry in Tokyo. Every­ thing was carefully laid out, the route the procession of imperial (automobiles would take, the schedule for arriving at various places. But Police Sergeant Honda made a mistake. Driving the first car in the parade, he turned off at a wrong street corner, led the way over a wrong route, and was twenty minutes ahead of schedule when he landed the Emperor at the Nishi Technical College, where the Minister of Education was to receive the Son of Heaven in full and formal state. So the Minister of Education was entirely unprepared. Instead of being there to receive the Mikado, he was taking a nap. Instead of wearing full court regalia, he was sound asleep in an ordinary house kimona. So the Son of Heaven had to cool his heels for twenty minutes at the Nishi Technical Institute, while the panic-stricken Minister of Education got into his elablorate court regalia to receive him. In addition, there was the more serious fact, that the route over which the Emperor should have traveled was heavily policed, while the way the Sergeant took was not policed at all. JAPAN - 3 Several police officials concerned were put under guard to keep them from committing hari-kari. Sergeant Honda was one of them. But he contrived to slash himself with his sword. And it nearly cost one of the most powerful politicians in the ministry his political life. CHACO Once again we have word from the Gran Chaco, about that war between Paraguay and Bolivia^ the tidings concern the army the Ar^entine^ Five thousand crack Argentine troops have orders to mobilize on the frontier of the Gran Chaco, .This Is merely a reflection of the fact that the fight between the Paragi^ans and Bolivians has shifted toward the border of Argentir^. The troops of the Argentine are massed to rest and disarm any units of the A hostile armies that may stray across the border line. There was bitter fighting over the weekend, and this has brought a stern warning from the League of Nations, addressed to both battling countries, because the weekend fighting has tangled < 3 . up thafr plan for peace that was being worked out. Both Paraguay A and Bolivia had agreed to let six nations form an arbitratiwi committee. One of the six nations was the United States. The committee was to go to South America and .work out terms of a compromise. These terms were to be laid before the Court of International Disputes at The Hague for ratification. UP'CU* ratifcicnti-im -bo-tfo-'oeuifyfry-iesr wene—to- aecee-t— t I u ; berms*. Meanwhile, th^^we^e^to*stop fighting. They pledged themselves to-^^-hostilities until the commission could get to work* But the pledge has been broken. Fighting broke out again, with aW^sls^battle raging over the •>ee»lrpnrl . wmgHMwmmmmm- gALAPAGOS The mystery of the ocean paradise, instead of becoming clearer, simply deepens. Let's piece together the bits of information that have come from the remote spaces of the Pacific, real mystery problem. The Galapagos Islands are a cluster of volcanic bits of land, right on the Equ&tor, about six hundred miles off the coast of South America. Of recent times they have been in considerable renown as a region for deep sea fishing and as a ---- -- — tropical solitude, v/here a few romantic souls have gone to live the A primeval life - away from civilization. Some of the islands are green and rich. On these v«-j»4oue groupo exiles from the-wopia- A A found their tropical paradise. Others are bare and desolate volcanic land, without food or water. A prime example of these It was here, on a ehalk- SixA fh* latter is Marchena Island, ~hn A A white beach, beneath towering cliffs of lava rock, that a passing vessel found the bodies of a man and woman. They had been dead for weeks - from starvation and thirst. A«y .lo^g lapoo-of time io noO astoni'Shing "17T LUlj" story j -for tho GalapagoOT arc far-away from fter-J nni m r-nTra"~<Tg1,dom visited by sh-j-oe, The story of what had happened was visibly told by a broken lb nflLAPAGOS - 2 boatj 3- skiff • The couple Quite apparently were sailing from one island to another e-f- Uie_, 5 i!*e«fi when a storm drove them ashore and smashed thetas boat on the barren rocks of Marchena. The bodies were too far gone for any recognition, but in the man*s pocket was the German passport of one Alfred Rudof Lorenz. This Lorens was known to be a member of a paradise colony on Charles Island, one of the Galapagos group. He was also known to have left . the Galapagos on a Danish sailing ship, bound for Europe. Moreover, the clothing of a small child was found nean^^cirbodiaa.. They searched, but could not find child* s body. Of the various paradise seekers of the Galapagos, only two had a child that Mould laer fit wfcth thfca clothing, a mera Mr. and Mrs. Wittraer, Germans, who likewise had been living on Charles Island. They also had a fourteen year old son. Ana the^ too were missing from Charles Island. The most probable surmise was that the two bodies were those of the Wittmer couple, but what were they doing with the Lorenz passport, and where were the two children? Now comes the strangest feature of all. Two other people are missing from among the of the paradise on Charles Island, flALAPAGOS - 3 Yes, the Empress of Eden has vanished, and one of her 1 subjects. In the tropical Paciiic^ was an Empress. In Europe she was a baroness, the Baroness Eloisa Bosquet de Wagner Wehrborn of Vienna. This imperial personage brings us to the strange tale of that Pacific paradise. The first comer was a krijbcixjijbciiiaEdKax Berlin doctor and his Utf trwjrx wife. When they saw Charles Island they said — here w&c thoi» Garden \ A of Eden, here ttiwint. home. They settled down for a hermit life amid the tropical splendors, the eternal green, theof flowers and brilliant birds - the lush fruits and crystal springs of water. They made only one mistake. They wrote home about it and told their friends, and soon parties of friends arrived to join the colony - much to the displeasure of Adam and Eve in their Garden of Eden. The Berlin doctor and his wife contrived to get the newcomers to leave, persuaded them not to stay - that is, until the arrival of the Empress. A smill boat put in at the island; aboard were the Baroness from Vienna and three men. One of these, the man named Lorenz. The Baroness came ashore, clad in pink underclothing and brandishing a revolver. She had the only pistol in paradise, and there was no way if H p i flATjAPAGOS - 4 . to get her to leave, Stro 'emr She proclaimed herself Empress of Eden. Her three-men companions were the royal bodyguard. The Berlin doctor and his wife were her unwilling subjects. And the Empress of Eden Mimai reigned in the high state of her pink underclothing with a pointed pistol. Shortly afterward some more emigrants to paradise arrived, the Wittmer couple, with their half grown boy and tvs P~ajn**-JL£*JZ t a small baby. That made three parties on Charles Island,^ They lived apart in separate groups, hostile groups. They dicTliit speak to each other. Recently, the Empress of Eden, pink underclothing and pistol, threatened to drive the other people out of paradise, chase the other Adams and Eves out of the Garden of Eden. And now follows the strange turn of events: Lorenz , one of the QueenTs men, takes ship for Europe. The Wittmers and the two children have gone. And the Empress of Eden and one of her^companions have gone. And ttimUthe two bodies^ found on a neighboring desolate islaatt, and with them the passport of Lorenz* and the clothing of a small child. Probably the unhappy two who met the dreadful .fate of hunger and thirst were DasjHXsndxwifs the man and wife who, with their children, sought paradise. But there is a possibility that they the Empress of Eden and the subject with whom she disappeared! •■■J-eelng from Eden. __ WA-g WEST It will be a great sight to see Mae West In a race, I don't mean a foot race on the cinder tracks with Mae in running trunks, although that would be something* I mean in a trotting race. not Mae trottinghorse trotting* Anyway, the lady of the curves has got herself a stable — a stable of trotting horses, and she's going to race them at the tracks all over the country* Yes, Mae is getting to be quite racy, although she always was* She's going into the sulky game, although she, herself, is never sulky, just horsey^ And if the horses are as fast as Diamond Lil, they sure would winl Yeap, Mae West's trotting horses would win at a gallop. They'd win with flying colors. What colors? I suppose Mae's racing colors will be scarlet and gold with}'a ~touoh of green#— But as I was saying, it will be great to see Mae west in a race. She ought to drive the sulk^y herself, curves and all. It might slow up the horse a bit, but it would be a whale of a sight to see. Yes, Mae West ought to make quite a connoisseur of horse-flesh. And taidng about flesh, we have no fowl, but here s a fish -- the Kingfish ill ill I! It’s boom, boom tonight — a big boom, a Presidential boom, a Long Boom* Yes, Huey Long has been booming along for a long time now# His campaign for the Presidency has been expected momentarily and now it*s launched# And with it comes the birth of a new party---the Youth Party. Huey is known for his political sagacity. Apparently he doesn’t think the Democrats will nominate him. And he’s probably right there# He doesn’t believe that the Republicans will nominate him. And that sure is sagacity. So, he’s going to run on the Youth ticket. I suppose he figures the^Tolks aren’t old enough to know better. "I don’t care nothing about no old foggies and mossbacks,” he announces. ’’Times have changed. This new and young crop of voters If U want a government for the plain people." Yes, Huey's ideas are exceedingly young, juvenile, or even ■ Si infantile. 1 ji| His Youth Party platform is simple and comprehensive. "I’m just the kind of President this country needs,” proclaims 1 I] I 1 Huey in a solemn declaration of political principles Fishes ar& supposed to be silent and soundless, but not a kingfish. Huey says he can’t be stopped, but I can, and SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW,