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WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Vaaturaa?WNU Service.) NEW YORK.?Back In the daya of Sockless Jerry Simpson and the Populists and the rock-and-sock battle between Wall Street and the /f Come, fo Pose- Belt. Bankeri Pick a prairie heal _ . er and ?van Farmer to Load gelist named Slater who scolded the farmers for their intemperate talk about the New York bankers, and said that when the millennium came they would be brothers again. The evangelist might have been locked up had he predicted that within four or five decades the board of directors of the New York Stock exchange would hire an Illinois farmer, with no experience in se curities dealing, to be president of the exchange. These things came to pass, in the Rev. Mr. Slater's scriptural par lance. By unanimous vote of the board of governors, the $48,000-a year exchange job is offered to Emil Schram, operator of the Hartwell Farms at Hill view, 111., and head of the Reconstruction Finance cor poration since July, 1939. As this is written there is word from Washing ton that Mr. Schram will accept the post. The tall, baldish, urbane, deep voiced Mr. Schram has been es teemed in Washington for his bi lingual accomplishments. It has been noted that he can talk to New Dealers and business men in their own language. Under the tntelage of Jesse Janes, who brought him into the RFC, and whom he sncceeded as its head, he has served not only as a liaison between business and government, bat between agri cultural and industrial interests. Shrewd onlookers in Wall Street are interpreting his call to the big board as a protective meas ure by the governors. The Idea is that he might be a shock ab sorber as war tension brings more governmental regulation. Of the third generation of German immigrants, Emil Schram finished high school in Peru, Ind., and took a job as a roustabout and handy man in J. O. Cole's lumber and coal yard. By the time he was twenty-one, he was the bookkeeper tor the business. Several years later, his employer took over 5,000 acres of swamp land on the Illinois river. He assigned his young bookkeeper the Job of draining and developing the large tract of land- - Within a few years, the yield from the land was run up from 0,000 Schram Prove. of corn per Expert in Work year, to 140, Of Reclamation J increases in proportion. Young Mr. Schram acquired a substantial inter est in the project, which became the Hartwell Land trust. Twenty tenant farmers have been on the reclaimed land for more than 25 years. Mr. Sehram's frst contacts with the federal government cams la later years as ho be came active In community drainage and reclamation proj ects, requiring federal ee epera tha. As chairman of the heard at directors of the National Drainage association, he had dealings with the Hoover ad ministration, when the Illinois river was messing np farm lands In this vicinity, and leans far deed control and reclama tion were needed. The estate Jesse Jones made him chairman af the drainage, levee and Ir rigation division at the RFC. He later was a swing man in va rious government activities, includ ing the presidency of the Home and Farm authority, a TV A subsidiary. He made it pay. Recently Edward R. Stettinius "drafted" him as as sistant priorities administrator, to allocdte raw materials for defense purposes. Mr. Schram is 45 years old, the grandsoo of a woodworker. He is a Democrat, but be has never been active in politics, and has never been a candidate for office. William M. Martin Jr., the "boy president" at the Stock exchange, whom Mr. Schram will succeed, quit his lucrative Job for $11 a month as a private In the army. His term of office had been a good Invest ment, but not solely because of the $4t,000-e-year salary. To take the exchange presidency, he had to sell his seat, tor several hundred thou sand dollars. Today's sales of ex change seats at $10,000, the lowest sines 1888, reveal young Mr. Martin as having played In hick, regard leas of salary. Much of the same to Mr. Schram. Machine Gun Is Need of Army Seek Arm to Revolutionize Warfare; Competitive Test* in Fall. WASHINGTON. ? Some bicycle mechanic in Weepaw may ahare hie lory's page with Ericsson, Gat ling and Maxim if he can built a light air-cooled machine gun tor the army. It cannot be just another model or type or design. It must revolu tionize warfare. Military tacticians do not expect wizardry suddenly to turn the tide of battle with a fabulous instru ment. More likely, they say, some obscure citizen may hit upbn what ever "new weapon" wins this war and it may be a simple evolution of rapid-flre armament now well known. Hold Tests in Fall. Maj. Gen. C. M. Wesson, chief of ordnance, will supervise competi tive tests by inventors and designers at the Aberdeen proving grounds in October. Specifications call for a "superior type of light machine gun" capable of firing "290 rounds of belt-fed cartridges without heat ing" and embracing "all the desir able characteristics" of the lfi-pound 1 automatic clip rifle. No nation now possesses such con centrated and mobile fire-power for individual combat. If the army gets it, this deadliest of all small arms will be standardized for infantry and cavalry. General Wesson may accept some thing less ambitious if it is good. However, the gun in mind would have almost the range and accuracy of the shoulder rifle and fire 290 bullets in a single burst. Without equal counter-fire or defense an enemy would be almost helpless. Inventors Are Bnsy. Although the new National Inven tors' council receives almost 300 "war inventions" daily and the ord nance department and commercial arms manufacturers constantly have worked on improvements since the last World war, the department says no one has succeeded in light ening the water-cooled machine gun or designing an air-cooled weapon that would not overheat, jam and misfire. The 40-pound water-cooled "inno vation" was General Pershing's pride in the Meuse-Argonne. Now it is antiquated by the 22-pound air cooled gun, which in turn is out moded by the British "Bren" and German guns. The American air-cooled gun is not very effective beyond 100 yards, compared with 600 for the shoulder rifle; it burns out soon unless ex pertly fired, in short bursts, and pri marily is a defense rather than an attack weapon. Make* New Approach to Safety in War Lighting MIDDLETOWN, CONN.-An Aus trian refugee, Gerald J. Holton, now a senior at Wesleyan university, has constructed a street-lighting device for air-raid "blackouts" that he be lieves is superior to those now in use in England. Holten said the present lights in Britain give a visibility comparable to starlight, which he contended was not sufficient for safety. He cited the fact that 1,000 pedestrians a month were being killed in Eng land by automobiles. Holder of an engineering certifi cate from Oxford, Holton explained his blackout device makes streets appear dark from above while hav ing enough light to guide street traffic and permit rapid Ailing of air-raid shelters. Holton was born in Berlin of Vien nese parents and reared in Vienna. He went to England in 103* and ,went through Oxford in two years. He left for America the day Italy entered the war. It Will Be No Circus if Glenn Gets Into the Army DENVER.?If the guns don't roar for Glenn B. Robbins. the Uona will. His parents in Portage, Wis., wrote him that his draft number was about to be called. He decided to enlist. "What should happen," he relates, "but the next day I get a letter from some attorney out in California saying my grandmother (Mrs. Hat tie Bobbins) had died and left me the sole heir to the Robbins three ring circus. "There's a good man in charge at the circus in California now and he will continue to run things until I finish my three-year enlistment." Robbins, XI years old, departed for Moffet Field, Calif., to become an air corps soldier. Black WiUow of Utah Goes Into Wooden Leg ! SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.?Utah has never had much reputation as a lumbering state, but it produces one type tree which is now much in demand. That is the black willow?and it virtually supports the wooden leg industry. According to experts, the Utah variety at black willow is prized for the manufacture of artificial limbs because at low pitch content. Washington First Scientific Farmei Pioneered the Way in Man3 Practices Now in Use. CHICAGO.?How George Wash ington won tot himself the right fa be called "America's first scientific farmer" is told in a bulletin issued here by the research division of the Middle West Soil Improvement com' mittee. Listing modern farming practice! in which the Father of his Country pioneered the way, in his 40-yeai farming career beginning In 1759, the bulletin says: "Washington practiced crop rota tion before anyone else in the col onies tried it. He was one of the first to carry on experiments with clover as a soil-building crop. He introduced timothy hay to the Unit ed States and was one of the first Americans to grow alfalfa. "Three-quarters of a century be fore soil chemistry was discovered he carried on experiments with fertilizers to restore exhausted, fields. These experiments paved the way for modern soil improve ment practices. Washington was America's first conservationist. His efforts to put back into the soil plant foods removed by growing crops are reminiscent of what intelligent farmers accomplish today. "Washington pioneered in the use of farm machinery. In 1797 he built a hand-operated threshing machine which threshed 25 bushels of grain a day. Earlier he invented a device for distributing seed evenly at plant ing time. He made extensive ex periments in livestock breeding and improvement of blood strains. He imported new varieties of wheat from Siberia and South Africa to Improve the native species." Washington made farming pay, according to the bulletin. "His success with the soil made him the richest man in the United States," it concludes. "At his death his will disposed of more than 49,000 acres of farm land including his be loved Mount Vernon as well as far flung domains in Ohio and else where. His land estate was valued at $530,000, while he had additional buildings, livestock and other in vestments worth $220,000. His slaves were not included for he freed them all in his will." Spellers Stumble Over 'Leisure' in 8th Grade PHOENIX, ARIZ ?II you spell "leisure" "leesure" or spell "ac quaintance" with an "ence" ending you've got a lot of company among Arizona eighth-grade students. More than a third of them couldn't spell "acquaintance," "leisure" or "consequence"?but they probably found solace in the fact their par ents couldn't spell them either. Other results of the department of education's annual "spelling bee" found eighth-graders getting mixed up on "immense," "sufficient" and "decision." Fifth-graders really had a tough one, too. Fifty-nine per cent could not spell "separate." Fourth-grade pupils did almost as well as their older brothers and sisters on "sep arate"?only 60 per cent missed the word in the fourth grade. More than 30 per cent of seventh grade students stumbled over these words: Bureau, mortgage, appear ance, organization and entertain. Sixth-graders managed to spell "coarse" every way but the right way and also had a hard time with "satisfy," "description" and "ex amine." Idaho Foremost in Use Of State's Power Plants MOSCOW, IDAHO ?Although only a tenth of the state's power re sources have been developed, Idaho uses 2 to times as much elec tricity per person as the rest of the United States. A University of Idaho professor, J. Hugo Johnson, says 64 per cent of occupied Idaho farms have electric service, compared with a national average of less than 28 per cent. Reason for the heavy use of elec tricity in the state, says Johnson, is a power rate of 2 cents per kilowatt hour, half the national average of 4 cents. Revolver Can Dazzle, But Too Coetly to Shoot OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA John Burnett, special agent lor the Rock Island railroad, has a revolver he is almost afraid to ahoot?because the diamonds might (all out. Besides being diamond-studded, the revolver is gold and silver plat ed and is engraved with Burnett's fingerprints and signature; his pic ture and a picture of his horse. Eight California $1 gold pieces, dated 1M, also are embedded in it, along with lodge and railroad emblems. To top it off it has a ruby eyed, bullhead pearl handle. Britisher Bombed 6 Timet, 5 at Home LONDON.?The honor of being the moat bombed man in England belongs to H. A. Yapp of the St Helier branch of the British legion. He has been bombed out of his home five times. After the fifth occasion he took an apartment. That was bombed ? too. He then moved to Nottingham. . Exercise That Is of Benefit To Weak Heart By DR. JAMES W. BARTON V/'EARS ago what was known I as the Nauheim Bath and Schott System of Exercise was the treatment for a weak mus cular heart. The I??? patient raised his WHY'S arm, leg, hand or ?rilTR foot against the BBRH B resistance of the COLIMI hand or hands of . the physician or nurse who could thus regulate the amount of work or exercise the patient was allowed to do. During the last (ew years there has been a tendency among phy sicians, including heart specialists, to give these patients with a weak muscu lar heart, no exer cise whatever, be lieving that as men and vfomen grow older it is rest the heart ncpds, not more work. That the heart needs rest after Dr. Barton illness of any kind and needs four to six weeks absolute bed rest after a heart attack is admitted. That a weak heart should not be given any exercise is considered unwise by many physicians who point out that certain kinds of exercise can "aid" the heart without causing too much heart activity. ft might be well, therefore, to recall the suggestions of Dr. Josef B. Nylin, Philadelphia, in Medical Record, who points out the exercises that aid the heart. 1. Massage, which presses the blood out of the veins and causes the little blood vessels carrying blood from veins to arteries to open more widely and let more blood move to and from the part being massaged. 2. Passive movements (where the nurse moves the arms and legs and thus exercises the muscles), which cause the heart to send more blood to the parts. This "sucks" the blood from the part exercised and sends it back to the heart. 3. Breathing exercises which in crease the flow of used blood on the right side of heart to the left side, from whence it goes to lungs to be purified and to all parts of the body. Now there is a great difference between the amount of work the heart must do when the patient takes exercise such as walking or games, and the amount done when the muscles are massaged or given "passive" movements, and the sim ple breathing exercises. But the heart does get exercise by these methods. ? * ? How Allergy Affects Stuttering I WAS a member of a group of stu 1 dents whose object was.the ac quiring of scholarships and medals in competition with groups from oth er schools. We remained for an hour every afternoon after school. When the results were announced a member of our group stood first in the entire city yet she had never answered a question in class nor had she ever been asked to read. This was because she stammered. We were all proud of her and yet felt sorry because we thought that she had something wrong with her tongue or her throat and would nev 1 er be able to teach. It is now known that stammering is not due to any defect of the tongue I or throat but is due to nervousness j or self consciousness. Drs. A. U. Kennedy and O. A. Williams, Cardiff, Wales, state that this tendency to nervousness and self-consciousness appears to be a factor in allergy also. These phy sicians investigated 100 stuttering children. In all cases except one, positive evidence at allergy was found in the personal or family his tory, 52 had a personal history and 48 of these also had a family history. Forty-eight had no personal history of allergy, but all but one gave a family history. In a group of 1,000 school children who did not stutter, only about 2 per cent had a personal history of stuttering and a family history of only ? per cent. The thought is that In some Indi viduals a portion of the nervous sys tem can be so influenced that the blood vessel oralis can be distended and allow swelling containing water I to form and cause allergic symp toms?hives, head colds, hay fever. The blood vessel system, because It is under the control of the nervous system, may be influenced by fear, anxiety, anger and other emotions. ? ? ? QUESTION BOX Q? Is sinus trouble curable? Could this ailment cause pains in chest and tired feeling? A?Some easas of sinus troable an eared by aaedieal treatment, oft en by sargteal treatment, often by Hvinf la a dry climate. Then an seme eases Oat ds not respond to any form of treatment Q.?What causes excessive saliva flow? A.?If no month condition is pres ent, K any be a reflex symptom (rem the stomach. Kathleen Norris Says: The Meanest Mother-in-Law <B?11 Sjrsdlcat??WNU Imlet.) Lille Brown hod a stenographer'? Job in Kane Smith's office. That her son would scaste even a passing glance upon this commoner was unthinkable to Mrs. Smith. Lilla used her power, her youth and beauty and his passionate love, to alienate Kane from his mother. By KATHLEEN NORRIS WHEN Kane Smith mar ried Lilla Brown his mother didn't like it. Mrs. Smith was a proud woman, prominent in club and social circles, her late husband had been mayor for three terms, she lived in a big house with her adored son for companion, and she suspected every girl in the world of trying to trap Kane. Lilla Brown was a pretty, am bitious girl who had a stenog rapher's position in Kane Smith's office. Lilla's father was?and is?a cooper, operat ing in a small open-fronted shed down among the machine shops and factories. Her mother, who had raised five children, all mar ried but Lilla, ran a flourishing boarding-house. Lilla's three sisters and her brother were all leading far from aristocratic lives; getting jobs, losing jobs, having babies and motor acci dents, running in and out of each other's houses, laughing, cry ing, gossiping, and kissing ma. That her son would waste even a passing glance upon this commoner was unthinkable to Mrs. Smith; the (act that Kane was serious about it, bringing bold, defiant Lilla to the house, announcing publicly that they were going to be married, made his mother actually ill. Lilla dressed conspicuously, she chewed gum, she took a saucy proprietary attitude toward Kane. Worst of all she seemed to feel that her family was just as good as his. Ltlla'i Power* Prevail. So his mother did what so many mothers do and LI lla did what so many girls do. Mrs. Smith snubbed Lilla, reproached Kane, let the whole world know that she had for bidden the match. And Lilla used her power, her youth and beauty and his passionate love, to alienate Kane from his mother. "I know Just what a little brute I was," writes Lilla. "My own mother told me I was making a mis take, but I was so mad that my one idea was revenge. For two years Kane went to see his mother for an hour once a week and I never sent her a message even. When our lit tle girl was born she sent me Kane's christening dress and his silver mug but I never acknowledged them. She hsd said terrible things about my folks, and although Pop and Ma never resented them, I did. "That was three year* ago; now Jo-Anne is three and our little boy a year old. On Kane's birthday last month we moved into our new house and had a real house-warming for my family, who all adore Kane be cause he manages everything for all of them, and I asked him if he was perfectly happy, and he said yes, he would be, if only his mother and I didn't hate each other. So I made up my mind then that I would make friends. Efforts to Make ap Snnbbed. "When I went to see her and said that it seemed very silly to keep up the old fight, I really felt sorry for her. She has had to give up the big bouse now and has only two rooms. She must be very lonely but she was very cool and said that she certainly thought that the fault had not been all on ber side. I came away feeling very much snubbed and Kane said when I told him that I had done all I could do, that the next move must come from her. "But I don't like to leave it that way and am writing to ask you what ] to do. God has been very good to 1 Kan* and me, w* have our lovely , home and our beautiful children, | and everything goes well with him j at the cOce. My sisters' husbands i MOTHER-IN-LAW TROUBLES? Are you and your mother-in-law on speaking terms? Or it there a feud bo tureen the two of you Ihat resembles the Martin and the Coy episodes? If the latter is true, you're not alone in your trials. Lilla and Jo thought they had the meanest mother-in-laws of alL Eventually they changed their minds. Read Kathleen N orris' stirring lesson on forgiveness, kindness and humility. are doing well, too, Kane has been generous in helping them to better jobs. Lately we have all started go ing to chuTch again, and it does seem very hypocritical to pray when my own children's grandmother never sees them because of the old bitterness. Time May Heal Sift. "What more can 1 do? There seems to be no use in going to see her Just to be snubbed again. Yet for Kane's sake and for the chil dren's too I would be glad to make peace." In answer to Lilla I am going to quote again what was printed here some years ago; the true story of a fine woman in our town. In her case the mother-in-law was positively hostile; she had picked out another girl for her son, she would not even speak to the girl he married. For two years Don and Jo had to live in another city; when they re turned to our town Jo called on her mother-in-law, who refused to see her. Breakfast With Grandma Werka. After that Don asked his wife somewhat uncertainly if she would mind his going to see his mother. Jo said of course not, and to take the baby. So Don took Phyllis to call on the old tyrant, who suggested that they come to breakfast on Sun day. For two years Don and Phyllis, and after awhile baby Arthur, went to have breakfast with Grandma and Grandpa. Grandpa, by the way, was a gentle, brow-beaten old fellow who saw something of Jo on the sly, but never dared face down his wife. Jo surrendered husband and chil dren every Sunday for two years and more, and then one day the old lady came to see Jo and burst into tears and asked forgiveness. Now they all have Sunday breakfast and many another meal together. Smart, or just plain old fashioned good, in all that time Jo has never said a cruel, critical, resentful word. She solved the problem in her own way, and it was the way that never fails. Keep Calling. So my advice to Lilla is to call again, and again after that To aak Kane's mother to come in tor a family supper. To ignore the past, letting the actions of the present speak louder than any memory of foolish hot words in a day long dead. For in her heart the older woman is dying to be friends. Tears of pride and hate may have built bar riers across and around that heart; they are not easily lowered. But she loves her son, and so she loves be yond all other loves the children of her son, and she thanks God in that stubborn soul of hers that Kane has found a wife who has given him a real home and lovely children. Lilla cSn afford to be humble, to be patient, to be loving to Kane's mother. Someday she may want some other young woman, strong in youth and beauty and love, to be all that to her. Family unity is a thing of incalculable value in all our lives; it enriches and beautifies everyday drudgery; it puts into the souls and characters of children something that nothing else can replace. Love is the irresistible weapon. Love's manifestations in patience, humility, forgiveness, kindness are an arsenal no human heart can re sist. To make a friend of an enemy is one of the privileges of all human Gives Blood to Dad, Dim in Operation TOLEDO, OHIO.?Daniel Bie lawski, 27, died suddenly in St. Vincent's hospital while he was living a blood transfusion to bis father, Frank Bielawski, SO, fol lowing an emergency operation Coroner Frank G. Kreft said that emotion may have caused a sudden dilation of large arteries, causing his death. Sacrifice Limbs For Few Dollars Insurance Companies Hit Hard by Claim Racket ST. LOUIS.?What price an arm? Or a leg? Or weeks of pain? Postal inspectors who break up fake accident rings by bringing the operators to trial for using the mails to defraud insurance companies of hundreds of thousands of dollars an nually say the deliberate sacrifice of a limb almost never pays the ring members more than $1,000. According to William L. Noah, chief inspector in charge of the St. Louis office, by far the greater num ber of faked accidents results in small claims of a few hundred dol lars being paid. He recalled the notorious "serum case." In 192S, a widespread ring of fake accident victims was un covered in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri. The ringleaders had discovered that heavy injec tions of turpentine with a hypoder mic needle would result in swift and lasting breakdown of the surround ing tissues. The resultant blotch on the flesh had all the appearance and char acteristics of a. deep-seated bruise. Infection and sloughing often fol lowed. For years the ring succeed ed in collecting small claim after claim. Inspector A. F. Burt said that fake accident victims who are able suc cessfully to simulate paralysis fol lowing supposed injuries were non existent. Reflex action and response to the stimuli of pin pricks or Slec trical shocks are impossible to fake, he pointed out. However, Burt said, many per sons have been able to collect lia bility or accident insurance claims by simulating injuries to the back and muscles. Aged Trio Spurns Relief And Dies of Starvation LINDSAY, ONT.?Choosing death in preference to charity, a 75-year old woman and her two brothers died of starvation here. Charlotte Shouldice and her broth ers, Isaac, 70, and Thomas, M, lived a secluded life on their 50-acre farm in Mariposa township. The farm, ordinarily, provided for their needs, but last year, failing health pre vented them from working it Recently a neighbor, visiting the lonely farmhouse, found all three occupants in a state of exhaustion from hunger. He notified the town ship relief officer, who walked more than a mile through deep snowdrifts, to bring the trio an offer of food. They rejected it, insisting "We don't want charity." The relief officer called health au thorities, who ordered all three re moved to a hospital here. The sis ter and her younger brother died within an hour of each other and were given a double funeral. Five hours after their burial the other brother had joined them in death. British Woman Suffers A Triple War Tragedy PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND. ? Mrs. Gladys Faulkner learned last Sun day that her son was missing at sea. A big bomb shattered her home shortly afterward during a German air raid. While she was standing amid the wreckage a boy handed her a tele gram. It said her husband had been killed at sea "by enemy actioo." Holes in Pants May Keep Policemen in Their Cars DENVER.?To avoid embarrass ment Colorado highway patrolmen soon may have to "call politely out the window to traffic violators," Su pervisor Joseph Marsh said. Continual getting in and out of their automobiles has worn thin the seats of their pants. The 18,000 needed for repairs or new ones isn't available. Drives Taxi cab 25 Years With Only One Accident CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.?Frank Smrcheck, veteran taxi driver here, has rounded out his twenty-fifth year of driving with a record of one acci dent in 800,000 miles. Smr check said the accident was not his fault. It occurred four years ago when another car skidded into his taxi on an icy street. Blindness for 15 Years Fails to Halt a Gardener BUTTE, MONT.?Robert J. Brim son, blind for 15 years, has one of the neatest gardens in Butte. With the aid of a notched board (or planting and ropes along die pathways between sections of his garden to guide him, Brimsbn has produced results that are die envy of his neighbors.
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