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BEAUTI IVI ERA Roqurbrunc and Monte Carlo. Beautiful Scenery, Gaiety, Sports And Quiet Life on the Famed Riviera Prepared by National Orographic Society, Washington, D. C.-WNU Service. ACATION cruises to the Mediterranean bringnu merous visitors to the Italian Riviera, continuation of the French Riviera section which has become Europe’s synonym for vacationland. The Riviera stretches toward the sunrise and the sunset. Genoa is the dividing point. To the east is the Riviera di Levante—"the coast of the rising sun.” To the west and on across the French border ex* tends the Riviera di Ponente—“the coast of the setting sun.” Two distinct designs for living are traced along the beautiful coast of the Italian Riviera. One is splashed with gaiety and sport; the other is as normal as life in any of the other provinces of Italy. Whoever neglects to penetrate the vicissitudes, hopes, and trials of the life of the native for the sake of that more obvious life of the casinos and luxury places misses the true soul of the region. To find this life of the people, one must flee hotels and villas and nest in a tiny house clinging to the cliffs, not too far from the sea to run down for an early morning splash. There is a problem that one is never able to settle: whether the Mediterranean is more beautiful when it is viewed from the height of a villa or when it is explored along the shore. Gazing down at the points of rock and at the sea that slips in between them to make blue bays with an edge of waves in Huffy ruffles, one may prefer the heights. Portoflno is an unbelievable sort of place. It gives no intimation of its existence until it lies before you, below you. It is reached by leaving Santa Margherita and the sea and wandering over a road in the hills. Portoflno a Lovely Picture. All of a sudden, as the high road turns, a picture lies before you. It is something of the imagination, un real, but with such charm as thrills a child after the visit of Santa Claus. You want to thrust out a sudden hand and topple over the row of colored houses set in the water in an outward sweep, for the fun of standing them up again. And where does the water come from? All around are wooded hills; no sight nor sound of sea. But lor the little yachts at anchor, it might be thought an inland lake. But not even that nor anything else, gives reason for the curving line of high houses which seem to have been transferred en bloc from some crowded town. Take a climbing footpath up the opposite hill. As you mount, you pass gardens of an occasional fine villa. They seem not to belong at all, but must be tolerated because it is the way of some rich Genoese to build such misfits. Up at the top of the path is a little church on a terrace. Walk forward beyond the obstruction of verdure, and the sparkling Medi terranean lies spread at your feet. One good Jump, a stiff fall of 500 feet, and you would be in its frill of waves under the cliff. Contrast it with the hill-locked harbor of Porto flno just behind you. You laugh with delight at the beauties of inconsis tencies. A gate beside the public terrace opens Into a path along the top of the cliff and reaches ultimately a well-known villa. It has been used as a setting for novels, as a retreat for distinguished individuals, as a home of reasonable revelry for or derly intellectuals, but the casuals of the road may not penetrate. It is the Castello San Giorgio, a private property, and one stops, longing like the peri outside the gate of para dise. Rapallo Now Is a Resort. Rapallo has become rather much of a resort. Nature gave it a har bor curving in from the peninsula of Portoflno, but a shallow harbor, Just nice for fishermen, not yachts. A promenade follows its pebbly beach, where children played with out danger and where groups of maidens walked on Sundays and threw important glances over the shoulder at groups of young men who did the same. All these things go on still, but under the eye of the people of a casino and big new hotels. Where a mountain stream ran down to join the waters, women are washing. A common sight, but if you think on the details it is a sad dening one. The woman who washes gossips with these near her; sometimes a % young one breaks into a gay song. These ameliorations are but trifles against the discomforts. She who washes must do her work kneeling and bending well over the water, which is lower than she herself. What aches and weariness must be hers! And the water itself is as cold as mountain heights can make it. Mountain cliffs coming down into the bay have split into occasional chasms. In one such chasm the early Italians chose to build a vil lage and called it ZoaglL It is a mere crack in the rock. The rail way to La Spezia is fastened on miraculously high above. Was Zoagll originally a smug glers’ nest or a refuge from Sara cens? Its appeal is strong; Its beau ties are unique; even its occupation al life deserves both these adjec tives. As it has no width, life there is lived on the perpendicular, a sort of Jacob’s-laddcr life. No Privacy at Zoagll. The beach is a place of entry and departure. It is like a gate in a walled city, for movement and for gossip. No one can go or come without the cognizance of all the village. Can life hold back any se crets when lived on a series of lad ders? A few donkeys do the heavy car rying up steep ways, exclusive don keys that by sharing the isolated life seem to take their place with the people. Their life may be ar duous, but they have the honor of sharing the house ns well ns the labor of the humans—communistic donkeys, in a word. You can see them all alone, digging their toes into the upward path or turning suddenly into a doorway of this vil lage without wheels. rhe innkeeper tells you proudly that the best velvets of Italy have always been made in Zoagli. That was its specialty. Hand-made vel vets, "certo." You can see the hand looms and the weavers at work up above now—yes. Just as it had al ways been. Patiently you climb, although skeptical of a trap to catch a tourist But it Is true. The hand looms are there. The women weavers are at work. Piles of narrow ruby velvet lie about, catching the light like gems, in small, clumsy rooms that smack of the Thirteenth ctntury. Coast of the getting Sun. Leaving the Riviera di Levante, you may experience the Joys of mo toring to places on the Riviera di Ponente, and in that glad territory that now belongs under the French flag but keeps the Italian soul in the breast of its oldest peoplo. Everywhere you drive your car you run into the Saracens—their towers, their history, and their evil reputation. They belong to that marvelous Mohammedan civiliza tion that in the Middle ages sur passed in certain things the culture of Europe, much of which was then undeveloped. They began the habit of leaping across the Mediterranean from North Africa when the first de tachment of these able pioneers touched Gibraltar and proceeded to possess Spain. And what did they there? They built at Cordoba a mosque, now a cathedral, which is still the glory of the city; they built at Granada a palace which still makes poets and artists of all who have the happiness to linger in its recesses; but they were routed by the people already living in Europe, and ever since have been branded as criminals and savages. The people who drove them out were even less mannerly than they. Chls you learn at the marvelous village of Eze near that point of the Moycnne Corniche (as the middle foad from Nice to Menton is called) where the rock rises like a monu ment above it and seems to dom inate sea and penetrate sky. All the w^rld is on wheels now adays: but no wheels of any size enter Eze—only those of hand cart, perhaps, and the feet of men and donkeys. Toiling up the slope with delight at every step, you pass through an archway. It is the city gate. No city opens before you; only a paved path, narrow and steep. There is not a yard of level walk in the entire maze of ways. Of reel streets there are none. Extended arms touch both side walls at once. One might be in a crypt, so frequent are the arched spaces through which one gropes Yet from tiny windows above are bright eyes peeping and taking in every movement of the strangers HEARD around the NATIONAL CAPITAL ' py Carter Field ^ WASHINGTON.—The army engi neers have certainly made it tough for David E. Lilienthal, in that task he has been at for five years now of allocating the cost of TVA as be tween navigation, flood control, and power. It wouldn’t be so bad If the army engineers didn’t have so much strength on Capitol Hill, but they Just demonstrated that again this session. When President Roose velt’s reorganization bill, giving him pretty nedrly carte blanche to combine agencies and distribute governmental functions, was being considered, the senate committee wrote a special proviso into it stat ing that there must be no monkey ing with the functions and powers of the army engineers! And even Tommy Corcoran didn’t try to lobby that out He knew it couldn’t be done. In the case of TVA the army engineers figured that navigation of the Tennessee river could be pro duced for a cost of $74,709,000. Then they went into the flood dam age at length, and figured out that the average annual damage in the valley from floods was $1,784,061. Daniel W. Mead, former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, has figured that only $36,000,000 of the TVA’s proposed expenditures could reasonably be allocated to flood control. Mead does make n' concession in the di rection of Senator George W. Nor ris. He admits that the high dams built by TVA, and to be built, would aid navigation more than the plan proposed by the army engineers. He calculates that perhaps as much as $90,000,000 should be allocated to navigation. Waving aside the point that it has been proved many times that even the $74,709,000 figure is an economic absurdity, and conceding the higher figure, this would make the total that should be allocated for navigation and flood control in the TVA development $126,000,000. Cost Half Billion But it is common knowledge nt Knoxville that the total cost of TVA, all its work completed, will exceed $500,000,000! The lowest estimate recently made is $479,000,000. It is true that part of this money has and will be spent for development of the valley—free fertilizer, soil erosion, etc. Official figures are not available, but Harcourt A. Morgan mentioned in his testimony that 25,000 tons of fertilizer had been "distributed.” "On the unwarranted basis of the TVA estimates,” Mr. Mead con tends, "it is apparent that it esti mates the cost of power at about 2.11 mills per kilowatt hour. On a more reasonable basis of cost of the plants and of the power that can be sold, the probable cost will be from 5 to 7 mills per kilowatt hour. Steam power can certainly be generated in the Tennessee val ley for not to exceed 4 mills per kilowatt hour.” Actually, right in Washington, the local electric company, using low grade coal, produces current at the switchboard for 3 mills! And this company pays not only bond interest but good dividends, which spells a heavy tax bill paid to the federal government, both direct and in the personal income returns of its security holders. All of which tends to answer a question which even Senator Norris has begun to worry about: Why the delay, since 1933, in making allo cations of TV A costs as between power, navigation and flood control? Ambitious Lewis David J. Lewis, now representa tive from the Sixth Maryland dis trict, and the New Deal’s choice to succeed Senator Millard E. Tydings, who bucked the administration on the Supreme court enlargement pro gram as well as in most of the other issues on which President Roosevelt has faced opposition, will gratify an ambition of a lifetime if the White House is strong enough to put him over. A liberal with a lot of conserva tive friends, Lewis had a strong hold on his district, which takes in all of western Maryland, up until 1916. In that year he had his first chance at the senate due to one of the most peculiar setups in Mary land's rather extraordinary political history. At that time the Democratic boss of the state was Senator John Walter Smith. His rival for leader ship was his colleague. Senator Blair Lee. Blair Lee had won a record for progressivism in the Maryland legislature. He had want ed to be governor. In the primary he had been beaten by young Arthur Pue Gorman, son of Maryland's senator who had been chairman of the Democratic National commit tee, and had led the filibuster that talked the "force bill” to death. John Walter Smith had backed young Gorman in that successful primary, but there was general re sentment. So much so that thou sands of Maryland Democrats, when election day rolled around, voted for the Republican nominee for governor, Phillips Lee Golds borough. Goldsborough was elect ed, the second Republican governor since the Civil war, Lloyd Loundes having been the first. Smith Gets Nervous After that Blair Lee came to the senate, but he still hankered for the governorship. So he tried again, and John Walter Smith had to strain himself a little to keep Lee down. This began to get on Smith’s nerves. So when Lee came up for re election as senator, in 1916, John Walter looked round for somebody to beat him. At the time. Smith was generally regarded as the most conservative Democrat in the state, and Representative Lewis as the most radical. So Smith backed Lewis against Lee. Lewis won the nomination, thus retiring Lee to private life, but the Lee Democrats were mad, and the Smith Democrats lost interest after they had disposed of Lee. The Re publicans had nominated Dr. Joseph I. France, at that time in toe state senate. He was comparatively un known. In fact it has often been said that thousands of men voted for him without knowing who he was, or caring. They were voting agpinst Lewis. France came to the senate, for one term, but long enough to plague Woodrow Wilson on the League of Nations—he promptly joined the irreconcilables when that battalion of death organized to fight the Versailles treaty. Also long enough to acquire high ambitions. He has been a constant candidate for President ever since, though never able to get any delegates from his own state. Bar Berry’s Path A city boss who can deliver a majority of 60,000 in a Democratic primary for any candidate he chooses—even if he delays his deci sion until the day before election— and a United States senator who has been doing favors for voters up and down his state for 26 years, stand in the way of the continuance of Senator George L. Berry of Ten nessee in the upper house.. The city boss is Ed Crump of Memphis. The senator is Kenneth McKellar. They have decided that Tom Steward shall be the ‘‘other senator” from Tennessee. There are other candidates besides Berry and Stewart. One is Ridley Mitch ell of Cookeville, who, some think, will get more votes than Berry. An other is E. W. Carmack of Mur freesboro, son of the famous sena tor. There are also Dr. John R. Neal of Knoxville and C. L. Powell of Sumner county. But Crump and McKellar seldom lose a fight when they are together. Actually the most important phase, to them, is the governorship and not the senatorship. Two years ago they backed the present governor, Gordon Browning, and won handily. McKellar was for another candidate at first, but yielded to Crump. What disturbed McKellar is that he al ways looks a long ways ahead. He knew that if Browning should serve two terms as governor, and make a lot of friends, he might be a strong opponent in 1940, when Mc Kellar comes up for re-election. Tennessee has the same sort of unwritten law about its senators which North Carolina, Vermont and many other states have. One must be from the western part of the state, the other from the eastern. So McKellar doesn’t like the idea of senatorial aspirants from his own, the western, section of Ten nessee. It’s Politics Governor Browning, although sup ported two years ago by Crump, apparently did not trust him. At any rate he proposed a “county unit” system of nominations and forced it through the legislature. This would have crippled Crump’s power in state-wide primaries, for it would have reduced Shelby coun ty (Memphis) to a few votes of the electoral variety, somewhat similar to the Georgia plan. To make Crump all the madder, the bill which Browning forced through would have placed a maximum on the number of votes in each county. This would have strengthened the smaller counties, cut down the power not only of Memphis, but of Nashville, Chattanooga and Knox ville. unlortunately tor Browning, this proposed law was knocked out of the courts, which held that the law disfranchised voters, so that Crump’s ire was aroused without his claws being cut. Browning had appointed Berry to the senate after the death of Nathan Bachman, though Crump was for another man. The under standing in Washington is that Browning did this at the urgent solicitation of President Roosevelt, who wanted a sure New Deal vote in the upper house. In Tennessee they say Charles West convinced Browning of this and that Roosevelt had no part in it. In fact, in Tennessee the story is told that this is really what happened to West —Roosevelt stood by and let Har old L. Ickes kick him around. At any rate Browning is now sup porting Berry, and Crump and Me Kellar have marked both for the slaughter. Which makes it most | inopportune, politically, for David E. Lilienthal to join Dr. Arthur E. | Morgan in the public branding of Berry as a would-be profiteer on submerged marble lands. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. Gall Bladder Troubles By DR. JAMES W. BARTON © Bel] Syndicate.—WNU Service. HEN a patient com plains of indigestion, with or without vomiting, gas attacks, pain in upper right side of abdomen, it is likely a physician, by stating that the symptoms are due to the gall bladder, would be right three times in four. Pain in stomach with gas at tacks is more often due to the gall bladder than to any trouble in the stomach itself. Most of us think of gall bladder disturbances as “always” causing jaundice but special ists in stomach, in testine and the en tire digestive appa ratus, tell us that there can be consid erable disturbance in the gall bladder without the appear ance of jaundice. Dr. T. Grier Mil ler, Philadelphia, in the Delaware State Dr. Barton Medical Journal, states: “In our stomach and intestine clinic, leav ing out those whose symptoms are not due to any organic defect, 38 per cent of those with indigestion have inflammation of the gall blad der (cholecystitis). Vague symp toms of indigestion, not easily ex plained by any findings and that do not respond to treatment for stom ach and intestinal conditions should arouse suspicions of gall bladder disease.” May Not Be Due to Stones. Another point emphasized by Dr. Miller is that the fact that stones are present in the gall bladder should not be considered definite proof that the stones are causing the symptoms of indigestion. “Since 15 to 30 per cent of all adults are be lieved eventually to have gall stones, and many of them go through life without symptoms, it seems hardly justifiable to condemn to (operation every individual in whom stones are accidentally dis covered. If, however, there are no other causes for the symptoms pres ent, everything else being equal, the stones should be removed.” When no stones are present, Dr. Miller advises that the patient be given medical treatment for a few weeks or months and if results are not satisfactory, operation on the gall bladder be performed. • • • Diet for Healthy Child. Dr. Julian D. Boyd in Journal of Pediatrics says: “As a guide in designing the diet of a healthy child of school age, the following have been specified as a desirable basic or foundation daily intake, to which other foods may be added: 1 quart milk; 1 or 2 eggs; 1 ounce butter; 1 teaspoonful cod liver oil; 1 orange or tomato or ap ple; 1 additional serving of fruit; 2 servings of vegetables, one of fibrous nature (cabbage, cauliflow er, celery, whole grains, spinach); 1 serving of meat, fowl, fish or liver. “Milk is the basic or foundation food as it is not only the best source of calcium (lime) but is also a valu able source of protein—the body building food, and of the vitamins B. and G. Vitamin B is especially valuable for children as it promotes growth and appetite, and is greatly needed by nerve tissue. Vitamin G also promotes growth in the young and vigor in the adult.” This foundation or basic diet as advised by Dr. Boyd oilers parents a simple diet to follow to maintain the health and strength of the healthy school-age child. Mountain of Silver In some parts of the world nat ural wealth is heaped upon the in habitants lavishly by nature. Trin idad has her vast lake of pitch from which millions of tons have been shipped to all parts of the world. Lake Magadi in East Africa has in exhaustible stores of pure soda. But it is queer to find a mountain of valuable mineral, all ready to be carted away, says London Tit-Bits Magazine. "Der Erzberg,” the Iron mountain of Styria, Austria, is 50 per cent pure iron, estimated by metallurigsts to contain about 300,000,000 tons of ore. Sweden, too, owns an iron mountain—Kiirunava ara—which contains the largest quantity of high grade iron ore in the world. It is about 70 per cent pure iron. But Bolivia beats both these so far as sheer wealth is con cerned: the 5,000-foot high Cerro de Potosi has yielded more than £3,150,000,000,000 worth of silver to the world. Edith Cavell’s Burial Edith Cavell, the nurse who was executed as a spy in the World war is buried just outside St. Luke's chapel, under the wall of Norwich cathedral, England. It is the old burying ground of the monks, a little eastward-facing grass plot called Life’s Green. Her grave is marked by a white marble cross; it is plant, ed with evergreen herbs for the winter time, lilies for summer, and for the early spring a cluster of daffodils. WHAT TO EAT and WHY ★ ★ (2. ‘fjou^ton CjoudlM ftilcuAAeA CALCIUM The Captain of the Minerals Nationally Known Food Authority Explains How to Include This Vital Food Element in il e Daily Diet By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS 6 East 39th Street, New York City. A FEW years ago there was an earthquake in the Far West. When the tremors were over, the frightened peo ple looked in dismay upon the damage that had been done. In some places they were saddened by the loss of a great number of their buildings, and in one community, mingled with their sorrow — almost crowding it out of their emo tions—was indignant ANGER. For they observed that their schools had suffered greater damage than any other group of buildings in the city. On every side, the cry of indig nation arose. It was all too plain that poor materials had gone into the construction of those schools which were supposed to house children in security. The most vehe ment cries went up from the mothers, not only in that community, but all over the country. That is natural, for all mothers believe they have the children’s welfare at heart. Un wittingly, however, they may be doing them irreparable harm by failing to feed them the foods that will construct sound bodies, able to withstand the stress and strain of life. —★— Calcium Starvation The mineral calcium is to the human body what steel and stone are to a building. It is necessany to construct the bony framework. The mother who fails to consume adequate calcium before her baby is born, or fails to give the child adequate calcium throughout the growing years, is as guilty as the contractor who constructs a school building of poor materials. Without sufficient calcium, the bones become soft and porous. They break easily and knit slowly after they are broken. They may bend and twist during growth, so that the child who is a victim of calcium deficiency may become bow-legged and deformed, with a malformed chest or enlarged fore head. Rickets—that horrible de ficiency disease which causes stunted mis-shapen bodies—may develop. And so may tetany—an other scourge of childhood. —★— Crooked Defective Teeth The teeth, too, depend upon cal cium for the soundness of their structure. When this precious mineral is inadequately provided, the baby teeth may soon decay; the permanent teeth may come in crowded and unsightly—and quickly develop cavities. There are also many other ways that calcium deficiency may han dicap your children. For this min eral is intimately concerned with all the body processes. It in creases the strength and pulsa tions of the heart; helps the b!< od to coagulate in case of injr.'y* thus effectively aiding in prevent ing hemorrhage. It strengthens the resistance of the body in fe. er and other diseases. It tones up the nervous system, lessen ng nervous tension. Adults Require Calcium Adults have a vital need for cal cium. A lack of this mineral not I only results in defective teeth, but may also be responsible for nerv ! ousness, quivering and twitching , of the muscles and defective heart | action. To be normal, the full-grown hu man body must contain more cal cium than any other mineral ele ment. Yet, every individual is, of necessity, born calcium-poor. For if the bones were as rigid as they I_ _ Send for This Free Chart Showing Iodine Content of Various Foods You are invited to write C. Houston Goudiss for a chart showing the foods rich in iodine and those which are poor in this substance. It will serve as a valuable guide in preparing balanced menus. Just ask for the Iodine Chart, addressing C. Houston Goudiss at 6 East 39th Street, New York City. A post card is sufficient to carry your request. You Need This Free List of FOODS RICH IN CALCIUM Write to C. Houston Goudiss, 6 East 39th Street, New York City, for his list of calcium-rich foods. Use it daily as a guide in planning family menus. must eventually become, the or deal of birth would be too difficult for both mother and child. —★— Easily Lost From Body The homemaker’s task of pro viding adequate calcium is com plicated by the fact that the body loses large amounts of calcium every day, and this loss is greater during sickness, especially in fe ver or when one is worried, over worked or has taken too strenu ous exercise. Outstanding nutritionists unani-j mously agree that the American diet is more deficient in calcium than in any other element. And it is squarely up to the mothers and homemakers to correct this tragic state of affairs, which is undermining their own efficiency and threatening the present health and future happiness of their chil dren. _A_ How to Obtain Calcium Milk is an outstanding source of calcium. That is why it should form the cornerstone of every bal anced diet. Cheese, which is milk in concentrated form, is likewise notable in this respect, and one and one-fourth ounces of Ameri can Cheddar cheese are the ap proximate equivalent of an eight ounce glass of milk. Leaf and stem vegetables are richer in cal cium than other vegetables or fruits, but while their calcium has been found to be well-absorbed by adults, it is not so readily avail able to children. Among the vegetables, however, there is a wide variation, turnip tops and dandelion greens provid ing unusually large amounts. —★— / List of Calcium-Rich Foods I have prepared a list of foods rich in calcium which I shall gladly send to homemakers upon request. I urge every woman tq write for this list and use it in planning the daily diet of herself, her husband and children. You really need such a list in order to avoid the grave conse quences of calcium deficiency, for so many of our common foods are calcium poor that it is possible for a diet to be abundant and varied, and still be inadequate in respect to calcium. The list of calcium-containing foods will help you do a perfect job of building strong, fine bodies for your children. There is no joy like the joy of creating perfect, healthy children. The architect and the sculptor stand in awe before the realiza tion of their dreams. But you, the mothers of children, the builders of their bodies, you are the might iest of all. A diet adequate in cal cium, for you and your children, will help you build beautifully, wisely and well. Your reward will be tiie joy, the pride, the heart warming satisfaction of having ac complished a worthwhile purpose. Questions Answered Mrs. F. R. T.—There is no such i thing as a specific brain food, but J nutritionists are convinced that the quality and efficiency of the | functioning of the mind depends | partially on the character of the food consumed. Mental efficiency appears to be influenced by the quantity and quality of the pro tein in the diet, and it has been demonstrated that the vegetable proteins, including cheese, milk and eggs are superior in biologi cal value. C. J. K.—It is a fallacy to as sume that garlic is a blood puri fier. Garlic improves the taste of food for those who like it, but it cannot be considered to possess special health properties. © WNU—C. Houstoa Goudjss— 1938—17