WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
(Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
NEW YORK —In bis book, "Man
the Unknown,” published in
1835, Dr. Alexis Carrel revealed
profound misgivings as to whether
_ _ any existing
Dr. Carrel Chart$ patterns of
Human Behavior political or
Amid Nazi Misery «>nization
* ever could I
meet the requirements of a stable
and humane civilization. He urged
collective and concentrated scientif
ic inquiry into the nature of the
“whole man,” and possibly of the
organic quality of human society.
The particularized knowledge of
physiology and medicine he found
inadequate to supply this under
standing.
When he went to France recently
he found a clinic and laboratory for
his continued studies with the
“whole man” caught in totalitarian
misery, and In a wide context of
spiritual and emotional stress—a
zone of social pathology no doubt
revealing to Dr, Carrel’s deeply
searching and penetrating eye.
Just why the Nazi overlords
of France should want to keep
him there, as reported In dis
patches, Is a mystery. There Is
no evidence that the Nazis ad
mire him. He has been no apol
ogist for their flagrantly unsci
entific and inhumane doings, and
If they expect to commandeer
his profound knowledge of nutri
tion, medicine and surgery, it is
difficult to understand how they
may expect co-operation.
Dr. Carrel, a keen, compact,
round-headed little Frenchman, will
be 68 years old next month. The
world knows of his 34 years with
the Rockefeller Institute for Med
ical Research, the marvels he has
wrought, Including his 29-year-old
living chicken heart, his distin
guished contributions to medical
science during the World war, and
his fashioning of the mechanical
heart, with the co-operation of
Charles A. Lindbergh.
In the last few years he has been
preoccupied with the range of hu
man behavior lying outside and be
yond medical knowledge. He
visions some kind of government by
• scientific elite. On August 14,
1939, Just before the guns blazed, he
said that civilized men must "pool
their brains,” or come to ultimate
failure and then added: "Our Amer
ica, with its democratic ideal, is
based on ideologies of the Eight
eenth century. If we used scientific
concepts instead of ideologies, we
might discover a new way of life.”
HARRY WINSTON started sub
dividing real estate, but now
sub-divides diamonds and finds it
more profitable. He and his expert
assistants
Slicing Up Gems nick a $30,
Pay» Better Than 000 chiP ofl
n i • j•_ r ■ the famous
Subdividing Land Vargas dia.
mond of Brazil, and when they get
rid of roughage like this they expect
to shape up a $2,000,000 central core
in the stone.
It is one of the most jittery
jobs of diamond manicuring ever
attempted, but so far is going
nicely. It took them a month
and seven days to make this
small, but lucrative beginning,
working on the third largest
diamond in the world. It will
take 15 months to finish the cut
ting, with a phosphorous-bronze
blade .0035 of an inch in thick
ness.
Reared in Los Angeles, Mr.
Winston learned the jewelry busi
ness with his father. Returning ta
New York, after a stretch in the
AEF in the World war, he decided
the war and its aftermath would
imperil all values except those of
durable old Mother Earth her
self.
Land—that was the thing, in days
of threatened inflation and social
maladjustment So he went into the
real estate business in New York.
The more he worked at it, the more
safe, sound and conservative seemed
the glitter of a diamond—even if
traditionally baleful. He opened a
wholesale jewelry business in New
York and soon was gathering in
some of the biggest and showiest
diamonds in the world. He paid
$900,000 for the Jonkers diamond of
425 carats and $700,000 for the
Vargas stone.
Dr. toyohiko kagawa,
Japan’s frail little Mahatma
Gandhi, evangelist of world brother
hood and leader of the Christians in
Japan, is in New York, in further
ance of the newly organized Church
of Japan, which he helped to estab
lish. He expresses surprise at
talk of war with Japan and sees
ahead a world church union which
will end all wars. A tubercular little
man. Dr. Kagawa has suffered jail,
persecution, poverty and illness. He
preaches a merger of Christianity
and capitalistic economics.
Making Our ‘Flying Fortress’
One of the large cogs in the U. S. defense machinery is the
Glenn L. Martin aircraft factory in Baltimore, Md., where the B-26,
Uncle Sam's super “flying fortress,” is being turned out in quantity
lots. This is one of the most powerful airplanes in the world. These
photos take you inside the workshops of Vulran.
Wearing heavy metal shoes, a
fireproof suit and a helmet that
looks like a diver’s, a worker
pours molten metal.
This worker is using n hand
saw to trim a compound contour
formed on a Martin drop ham
mer. This will go on a bomber.
There are two miles of wiring in the B-26. At the left we see a
cross section of the tail section with equipment and gadgets being
installed: Right: Like a modern Jonah emerging from a flying
whale, this workman is coming from the tail of the B-26.
Mass produc
tion! A line of
noses moves to
ward final stage
of assemblage.
The first step after one of the giant B-26"s leaves the assembly
line is to give it a thorough ground test. This flying fortress, des
tined for the U. S. army, is pictured undergoing such a test.
Below: Glenn L. Martin, with
models of two famous Martin
bombers of other days. On the
table is the Martin bomber of
the first World war.
Above: If ings for the Martin
167. Most of these 167s go to
England, where British fliers call
them “MarylandsThe wings
make a special pttckage.
A new type mid-wing monoplane Martin bomber. Construction
it all-metal monocoque. Landing gear is a retrt able tricycle type.
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Rcvitwed by
CARTER FIELD
Advisability of a nego
tiated peace now is ques
tionable . . . Defense
industry strikes form one
of W ashington s biggest
problems.
(Bell Syndicate—WNL' Service.)
WASHINGTON.—It is interesting
to examine the logic that is govern
I ing the isolationists in the senate,
; whether one agrees with it or not.
For instance, take Sen. Burton K.
Wheeler, of Montana. He was kid
ded by some friends the other day
| as to his present motives.
"Listen,” said Wheeler, indignant
ly, "I am doing what I am doing
because my conscience will not let
me do anything else.
"We ought to have peace right
now, and there is no reason why
we should not have it. There has
never been a time when Germany
was not willing to make peace with
out disturbing the integrity of the
British empire—if one excepts the
African colonies.”
There are two flies in this oint
ment, as his friends hastened to
point out. One is that a peace now
would leave Australia and New Zea
land at the mercy of another Axis
partner, Japan. The Australians are
very frank about this. They think
they sink or swim with the British
empire. If Britain goes down, the
Anzacs think that it would be only
a question of time before they would
be overrun by the Japanese.
HITLER’S PROMISES WORTHLES
The other fly is that unfortunately
for the prospects for any negotiated
peace, no one in high position in
any country is willing to trust Hit
ler. He makes no bones about his
plans to break any promise when
ever it should be to the interest of
Germany, as he sees it, to do so.
It has been pointed out frequently
that if Hitler had kept his word
pledged at Munich, he could have
taken the Polish corridor without
plunging Europe into the second
World war. In fact there is reason
able certainty that he could have
gotten back the African colonies that
belonged to Germany up to 1914.
But instead of keeping his word
pledged at Munich, Hitler seized the
rest of Czechoslovakia shortly there
after. Hence when it came to the
Polish corridor the British and
French could not believe him.
So that promising to leave Britain
intact now would not carry any real
assurance to the Baitish people.
They would rather fight it out now
than live in fear through an armi
stice.
• • •
Congressmen Discuss
Defense Industry Strikes
Just how long the patience of |
Franklin D. Roosevelt is going to
last about this business of strikes in
the national defense industries is
the biggest question mark in Wash
ington today.
The President knows that his fig
ures about the small percentage of
workers involved in national de
fense strikes are misleading. He
knows that the difference between
1,000 planes and 1,500 planes pro
duced in a month, may mean the dif
ference between victory and defeat
—between winning the war and los
ing it. In fact, it is entirely possi
ble that the difference between the
production of 1,000 planes and 1,002
planes would be decisive.
Military experts have often ar
gued that if the Confederates had
possessed a dozen breech loading
cannon at Gettysburg, instead of only
two, they would have won that bat
tle and the war. They could have
shelled the Union forces off that
ridge instead of letting Pickett lead
his men to slaughter and repulse.
HITLER BREAKS PROMISES
Feeling in Congress is getting hot
ter and hotter about the situation.
“An editorial in the Detroit
Times,” Rep. George A. Dondero of
; Michigan, said on the floor of the
house, ‘truthfully said that strikes
in our defense production plants con
' stituted the bottleneck out of which
i ‘we may try to pull our head when
it is too late, as was the case in
France, which lost her the war with
Germany, mainly because she would
not inaugurate compulsory arbitra
tion in her defense industries.’
“That paragraph,” Mr. Dondero
continued, "ought to be pasted above
the desk of every member of con
gress. It ought to be read every
night in every home in this broad,
free land of ours. There is no guar
antee that it may not become a
prophecy unless we face this prob
' lem honestly, frankly and wisely.”
Mr. Dondero quoted further from
this same editorial: “We either have
not the power—or will not use the
power—to order peace in our de
fense industries, to order compul
sory arbitration of all differences
by the employer and employee in
those matters that aim straight at
our vitals—strikes which are so evi
dently fomented by Communists.”
“We are actually now.” Mr. Don
dero continued, “in the process of
| demanding from the youth of our
land the supreme sacrifice if neces
sary. yet we continue to temporize
with a situation which constitutes a
greater danger to the defense and
security of this nation than if whole
divisions of those brave young boys
were stricken by plague.”
Three Signs
Which Point
To Flat Feet
By DR. JAMES W. BARTON
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
YOU read so much about
weak flat feet that when
you have the slightest pain in
the feet you may wonder if
you need arch
supports and
perhaps you
straightaway
purchase a pair.
Now, arch sup
TODAY'S
HEALTH
COLUMH
ports are of great help when
they are needed as they make
it possible for these individu
als to earn a living and get
about for business and pleas
ure.
However, the wearing of arch sup
ports should be left until it is defl
Dr. Barton
nitely known that
they are really
needed and when
measures to correct
the arches have
failed.
We should realize
that the foot is an
organ of the body
just as is the stom
ach or heart and
the cause of any
ache or discomfort
should be investi
gated. Infected ton
siis or teeth can cause pain in the
joints and tendons of the foot just
as in other Joints—wrist, knee or
shoulder. Infection can cause pain
in a flat foot; treatment of the foot
itself may give little or no relief.
What are the signs of a flat foot?
There are three outstanding signs
that the patient can see for himself:
1. He stands on a large sheet of
white paper and outlines his feet
with a pencil. If left foot is flat,
the inner side is down on the floor
and bulges to right. If the right
foot is flat, inner side bulges to left.
In the normal foot the arch of the
foet is entirely off the floor, the left
curving to left and the right curving
to right.
2. If right foot is flat, outer edge
curves inward to the left, instead of
outward to right; if left foot is flat
outer edge curves inward to right
instead of outward to left.
3. In a normal foot, the large ten
don which raises the heel bone up
ward off floor runs straight down
ward to heel bone. If left foot is
flat, this tendon turns outward to
left; if right foot is flat, this tendon
turns outward to right.
• • •
How Much Water
Should We Drink?
TV/TANY professional heavyweight
wrestlers who wrestle three or
four times a week, may take off
as much as 10 pounds each time
they wrestle and have the 10 pounds
back when they wrestle again the
following night. It can be readily
seen that the 10 pounds lost was not
fat, it was water.
The reason the weight goes back
on so readily is that fat tissue ab
sorbs or holds water just as does
a sponge, whereas more active tis
sue such as muscle or nerve, will
only take in or absorb the amount
of water needed to maintain the
structure of this tissue.
We are advised by health spe
cialists to drink more water; they
state that most of us do not drink
enough water, which is a cause of
constipation and acidosis.
How much water should the aver
age office worker, housewife, or
clerk drink in the 24 hours?
Physiologists tell us that for every
calorie of food eaten we need 1 c.c.
(15 drops) of water, so that if we
ate 2,000 calories we should need
2,000 times 15 drops, that is nearly
three pints or six glasses. However,
as meats contain over 50 per cent
of water and green vegetables over
90 per cent, it is estimated that we
get at least half of our six glasses
in the food, so that we need to drink
only three glasses of water daily.
If we drink tea, coffee, milk or other
fluid at each meal, it explains why
many individuals remain in good
health who do not drink any liquids
between meals.
As a matter of fact, most of us
eat nearer 3,000 calories per day
than 2,000, so that about two quarts,
eight glasses of water, is supplied
by the food eaten.
Generally speaking, keeping in
| mind that we sometimes do con
j siderable walking or take other ex
ercise daily and often perspire free
ly, most of us would do well if we
drank one or two glasses of water
daily between meals. Water cannot
harm us. It will, of course, increase
weight in fat individuals.
* * •
QUESTION BOX
Q.—What causes pernicious ane
mia and how could it be prevented?
A.—Generally speaking, ordinary
anemia is a decrease in the iron in
the red cells of the blood. Pernicious
anemia is a decrease in the iron
and also in the number of cells.
Q.—Do you know of any cure for
lateral amythrophic sclerosis?
A.—There is no known cure for
lateral amythoplc sclerosis, hard
ening of certain parts of the spinal
cord.
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From Exhausted Clerk?
Frock after frock had been dis
played to the lady with the super
cilious air, until the salesperson
in the exclusive dress shop was
on the point of nervous exhaus
tion.
The customer would inspect
each dress and then make biting
remarks about most of them. At
last she looked around the deva
stated place with an overbearing
glance and complained:
“All your frocks are so skimpy.
I believe I would look better in
something flowing.”
The tired clerk was quick to
seize the opening.
“Madam might try the river,”
she said coldly.
CRISP
TO THE
| LAST i
.SPOONFUL
Knowledge Elevates
Knowledge is, indeed, that
which, next to virtue, truly and
essentially raises one man above
another.—Addison.
Point of Honor
As “unkindness has no remedy
at law,” let its avoidance be with
you a point of honor.—Hosea
Ballou.
THE ARMY MAN’S FAVORITE
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ARE PRACTICALLY |
REGULATION WITH J
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COT THE FLAVOR*/
AND
CAMELS ARE
SO MUCH MILDER
WITH LESS
NICOTINE IN
| THE SMOKE i
THE SMOKE OF SLOWER-BURNING CAMELS GIVES YOU
28% LESS NICOTINE
than the average of the 4 other largest-selling ciga
rettes tested—less than any of them—according to
independent scientific tests of the smoVe itself.
• Today—and for more than 20 years—reports
from Army Post Exchanges show that Camels
are the favorite cigarette. i