FRENCH ARGUE OVER RABELAIS Parir. — (UP) — The whiskered immortals of the French acad emy and the directors of the Na tional library are at swords points over the nationality of Ragelais. This is a celebrated quarrel, but it comes to present attention be cause the library, second largest in the world, now is celebrating the fourth centenary of publica tion of “Pantagruel” and “Gar gantua.” The Academicians assert that the humorist was an Ialian, the humorist wras an Italian, Alps, in 1483. Directors of the National library are presenting In their commemorative exhibi tion a hundred-odd documents to show Rabelais was a citizen of France. The majority or encyclopedists have agreed for 300 years that the author of “The Inestimabe Taes and Chronicles of the Giant Gar gantua,” etc., was a Frechman. The National library is of the same opinion. To the contrary, the Academi cians assert, some practical joker in the 16th Century transported Rabelais’s tombstone from Lanzo to Chinon, a distance of nearly 200 miles. He supposedly died here, but his tombstone at Chi ron if any, has long since disap peared. Literary Parisians are annoyed over the academy's edict, because, if demonstrable, it means another ostensible Frenchman is with drawn from the history of French letters. But the National library is certain that its document* prove Rabelais was French. -- Women Should Study tor Vocation, Dean Aver# Los Angeles — — Although four out of five women in the United States marry, every young woman should assume she may be the statistical "fifth" and study for a vocation according to Dean Helen Mathewson Laughlin of the University of California at Los Angeles. “Marriage, however. by no means precludes the necessity of working.” Dean Laughlin declared. She said one out of every 12 mar ried women in the United States is employed. “In the present-day world,” the educator said, “with its quick, un foreseen changes every young wo man should be prepared to take a place in the business field should the need arise. The college woman lias every opportunity to fit her self for preferred employment. Then if the need arises, she is prepared. Even if the need for employment never comes, she is still in possession of knowledge and ability which makes her in valuable to her family, her club or her social group.” ♦- -- Hero Is Asked for Rescued Man’s Gla res Boston — (UP) — When lire Started in a West End tenement house. Fireman John O'Granihan rescued a man from a flaming bed and carried him through smoky corridors to safety. So badly was he affected by smoke that the fireman spent 11 ■days in a hospital. After he re turned to duty a stranger visited him and asked: “Are you the fireman who saved so-and-so in that fire on Leverett street?” “Well,” said the stranger, "where the. h— are his glasses?” State Departments Placed on a Diet Harrisburg, Pa. — (UP) — De mands for governmental econo mies placed the departments of Pennsylvania's state government on a diet which Governor Gifford Pinchot said was “the most limit ed diet possible.” “Not an unnecessary penny is to be spent,” Pinchot said in an nouncing savings of $161,948 through economies within a single month. The payrole afforded the great est economies in the Pinchot re port with $90,000 of the total con tributed by cutting personnel or reducing salaries and wages, Savings of $11,000 were made in printing and stationery cost. Mills Established New Safety Record Harrisburg, Pa. — (UP)— Mills and industrial establishments of the state made a safety record to be envied by all other states, according to Dr. A. M. Northrup, secretary of Labor and Industry “A few years ago,” He said in his report, “it was considered re markable if an industrial plant operated two or three months without an accident. “But now we have hundreds of plants and establishments within the commonwealth which have operated months and years with out the loss of a single day or accidents.” • - - Original Manuscripts Assembled in Museum Harrisburg, Pa. — (UP) — Orig inal manuscripts of a number of well-known Pennsylvanians who have contributed to American let ters have been assembled in the State Museum. Among the writers represented are Henry Van Dyke. Owen Wis ter Ida Tarbell, Lloypd Mifflin, Margaret Widdemer. Elsie Sing master, Mark Sullivan, Christo pher Morley, Joseph Hergesheim •*r, and Helen R. Martin. 6,500,000 “Tin” Cans Shipped to Japan Long Beach, Cal. —(UP)— Some day they will form the backbones for skyscrapers in Tokio, silent monuments to the corned beef, minced clams and green peas they once contained. A shipload — more than 6 500. 000 — “tin” cans left this harbor recently for Japan. An inquiry elicited some little-known infor mation : “Tin” can is a misnomer. Most of them are only fractionally tin; the rest, thin sheet steel. A Jap anese factory sends them through crucibles that remove the tin and solder, and the result is steel. It is recast into cannon, girders, ball bearings, knives, armorplate and ice skates. ----- Men and Women Are Separated in Library Salt Lake City, —(UP)— Possi ble source of hundreds of mar riages has been traceable to the University of Utah library. But. hereafter — at least as long as a new proclamation stands — “spooning” couples will have to find other places to “study.” Dr. George Thomas, president of the university, ruled that men occupy one side of the room and women the other. His order was inspired by the failure of students | to study when girls and boys were allowed to sit together in the I library. All Kinds of Workers Offered by Club Waterloo, la. —(UP)— The Un employed club here offers men for any type of work, ranging from dehorning cattle to furnish ing rythm for dances. Numcrouse herds of cattle on farms In the community have been dehorned by the club’s mem bers and the orchestra recruited from the membership has achieved considerable popularity with dance crowds. In return for services, the mem bers are given produce, clothing, groceries — and sometimes cash. — ♦♦— . Danes Construct New Apartment Center Washington — (UP) — Den mark’s latest apartment quarter, comprising 17 buildings and 336 apartments., s now under con struction in Copenhagen. The apartments consist of two rooms, two rooms and an alcove and three rooms, according to re yports here by the Department of Commerce. All modern improve ments, including a central heating unit will be installed In the pro ject which will take about three years to complete at an estimated cost of 3,000,000 kroner. Father and Son Reunited After Hike Salt Lake City, Ntah. — (UP! — A 300-mile hitch-hiking trip com pleted, William Alman, 14, was united again today with his lather, W. M. Alman. Setting out with little more than enough money for four meals, William tarted for Salt Lake City from Tampa, Fla., af ter he learned his father had ob tained employment here. Catch ing rides on trains, trucks and automobiles, the lad made his wayp to New Mexico, without mishap. While asleep there, however, hs extra clothing was stolen. William continued through the snow-covered mountains, scantily clad in sub-zero weather. He earned an overcoat chopping wood in Colorado and then started the last lap of his long journey. Ar riving here, the boy appealed to police to locate his father. The elder Williams was located em ployed as a code tr« a Sait late City restaurant. Vanity Unchanging Seventy-five years make little difference in milady’s fashions, as you will note by comparing the two styles shown here. At left Miss Constance Brown shows what Miss 19ijd is wearing, and Miss Fva A. Geneen (right) has the “latest" dress in the 1868 fashion book. Photo was made •t a recent show in New York. _ Hospital Insurance Is rield ot New KacKet "BE SURE TO READ THE FINE T YPE IN THIS KIND OF POLICY,” DR. FISHBEIN ADVISES: LIMITATIONS MAY MAKE IT ALMOST VALUELESS BY DR. MORRIS FISKBEIN Editor. Journal of the American Medical Association, and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine In times of sickness and epidem ics chalatans flourish. They know that a desperate public will grasp at any scheme that seems to offer something for nothing, or more for less than it costs. The report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care has j served to focus the attention of the public on this problem. Many “financiers” who have found it difficult to operate in other fields at this time have Invaded the field of medical care. We have In this country ap proximately 7,000 hospitals with a million beds, many of them de voted to the care of the tubercu lous and psychiatric cases. The country would not seem to be over-hospitalized. Nevertheless, the hosypitals of the country are approximately 33 per cent unoc cupied. Among possible causes for this condition is the government’s hospitalization of vast numbers of veterans suffering from non service connected disabilties and well able to pay for hospital care. 1 However, it seems certain that because of the economic strin gency conditions which would otherwise bring people to hospi tals are being cared for at home : or perhaps postponed until the > moment when postponement is no longer necessary. Even Henry j Ford seems to have postponed his i operation for hernia until tha I hernia strangulated ana mciuaeu the appendix. The publicity promoted by the Committee on the Costs of Medi cal Care established in the pub lic consciousness the idea that hospital care is likely to be an exceedingly costly matter, and that the only hope of meeting hospital costs is some scheme ol Insurance whereby the costs will be distributed over vast numbers of people. During the past two years the public has been deluged with new schemes of insurance against medical costs, but particularly against the cost of hospital care. The best piece of advice that could possibly be given to any one who is approached by an agent who Is selling such a policy is to ask the agent to bring the policy back with all of the fine print reprinted three times as large as the largest print in the policy as offerede. It is in the fine print that the limitations will be found which make such policies, in many In stances, undesirable. Here are the clauses limiting the number of conditions cov ered by the policy; here are the clauses limiting the term of stay in the hospital under the policy: here are the clauses which make it possible for the insurance com pany. when it finds itself pressed by economic stringency due to wrong calculations, poor mathe matics and unfavorable health conditions, to wiggle out from under all responsibility. 1 For Family Fond of Fruit Dainties Fruits hare become mure and more necessary to the well-balanced meal In recent years. Even when the fresh varieties are out of season many de IlcJotts Inexpensive desserts can br made with canned or dried peaches pears and apricots. Here are Inter estiug new recipes which are par tlenlnrly appetising. Golden fruit tartlets, mr.de with a simple cracker crust and tilled with peaches tipped with a meringue, can easily he prepared from tho follow Jug recipe: pears oi.csa *t cup pear liquor H cup sugar 6 Bartlett pears, canned Vs cup thinly sliced oranges l cup cream 1 tsp. sugar l tbsp. sherry flavoring 1 cup sugar cookies Make a sirup of pear liquor and (ugnr and simmer pears in It for five minutes. Remove pears to a serving dish. Cook orange slices In sirup for five minutes. Four sirup and orange slices over pears, (’hill Whip cream and add sugar and flavoring and heap on chilled fruit Sprinkle crumbled sugar cookies over cream. ti portions. GOI.III'.X FRUIT TARTLETS CRUST—1 cup grahmn crackers >i cup butter 1 tbsp. sugar FILLING — I cup canned peaches drained >4 enp sugar 1 egg yolk MERINGUE —1 egg while, beaten stiff 2 tbsps. sugar 1 tsp. vanilla Mix with softened butter 1 cup Crackers and i tablespoon sugar Line buttered tart pans with ibis mixture, pressing firmly with fingers against sides and bottom of pan. Fress drained peaches through sieve into bowl, add Vi cup sugar and beaten yolk. Mix and till tart shells. Bake in a hot oven (42WF) 10 minutes. Make meringue of slimy heaten egg white,-2 tablespoons sugar and vanilla. Top each tart, when cooked with meringue. Return to a slow oven (325°F) lo set and brown, nbout 10 minutes. G portions. CliSTARR PIF.. APIIICOT MERINGUE CRUST—1 cup soda crackers •* cup butter 1 tbsp. sugar Filling—s cups custard fining % cup strained apricot pulp 8 tbsps. sugar tsp. leruon Juice 2 egg whites, stiffly beaten &1lx cracker crumbs with softened buffer nm1 sugar and press In an even layer against bottom and sides of a buttered pte plate. Hake for Hi minutes in a hot oven (42fi°F). Font custard Into pie shell. To apricot pulp add sugar and lemon Juice Combine with stiffly beaten egg whites and spread on top of custard. Set In a slow oven (850°F) for I.V2U minutes or until the meringue is browned. Tills will i»e found nn am ple quantity for the making of one eight-inch pie. Dentructive Crows In a report from one observed area In tlie* northern part of Iowa comes information that the crow Is one of tin* worst enemies of the pheasant. Vceordiug to the observations made, seven .nil of twelve pheasants nests were destroyed hy crows. It was also found that ih.> number of crows has doubled in the observed area In the past three years. During the same -'V three years die pheasant population tins decreased from approximately 2f> birds to only twelve, according to the report. "Splitlinq Headaches | /_ j.'l she learned why she was always Until miserable—and found out about NR Tablets (Nature's Remedy). Now the gels along line with everybody. This safe, depend able. all vegetable laxative brought quick relief and quiet nerves because it cleared her system of poisonoua wastes—made bowel action easy and regular. Thousands take NR daily. It's such a sure, pleasant corrective. Mild, non-habit - form in*. No bad after- >T|Y7jw^|TjnTA effect* At your fl . *ff.ilj'ilWawifl)J*.^P druggist's—2. k\