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.
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Women Should Study
tor Vocation, Dean Aver#
Los Angeles — <UP> — 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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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in*. No bad after- >T|Y7jw^|TjnTA
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