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WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F, PARTON
ISJ EW YORK.—If 'death is taking
only a brief holiday on the west
wall, the opposition is making the
most of it. The life brigades press
forward in
Science, Unlike
Death, Pauses
Not for Holiday
medicine, re
search * sci
ence, philan
thropy, social
inquiries and studies, and all that
has to do with the two healing vir
tues of compassion and understand
ing.
Even the sedate American Philo
sophical association feels a touch of
the new elan vital and is moved
thereby to a spirited teleological
free-for-all as it tries to understand
John Dewey. The occasion was a
special meeting to honor Professor
Dewey on having become 80 years
old last October. Never before has
this courier seen a year wind up
with less arthritis and more punch,
in the field of science.'
Young blood is helping a lot.
Dr. Albert B. Sabin, of the Uni
versity of Cincinnati college of
medicine, who scores against in
fantile paralysis and viruses at
tacking the nervous system, is .
33 years old. His paper, read
before the annual meeting of the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science at Ohio
university, reveals unsuspected
tissue defenses against the en
trance of the viruses into the
nervous system. It is regarded
as an epochal advance toward
understanding of the disease and
later conquest.
Dr. Sabin was born in Poland, and
acquired his academic and medical
education at New York university,
from 1933 to 1931, later studying at
Lister institute, London. In 1932, he
oecame associate research scientist
at Rockefeller institute, New York
city. During his tenure with this
institution he discovered a new dis
ease, caused by an agent which he
calls the B virus.
His new discovery of the anti
virus goalkeepers in human tissue
was announced in connection with
''is receipt of the Theobald Smith
award in medical sciences.
r>R. ALEXANDER LESSER of
Brooklyn college finds there
isn’t any such thing as social evo
lution—at least not in the old sense.
- _ “In the form
Sees Our Hope
In Understanding
Human Behavior
a door-nail,’
given it by
the ’classical
evolutionists,’
it is dead as.
says Dr. Lesser. But,
tossing aside “subjective judgment,’
he finds ample hope of new under
standing as he assails the old ration
alization of haunch, paunch and jowl
darwinism, as rationalizations of
force.
Dr. Wesley C. Mitchell, as
above, sees our ultimate hope
in ’’understanding human beha
vior,” and urges the scientists to
keep on swinging. Dr.'Mitchell,
it will be recalled, is the widely
known Columbia university econ
omist who headed President
Hoover’s research committee on
social trends.
M atthew w. Stirling, an
thropologist of the Smithsonian
institution, who delves into exciting
origins and inducements of what is
j n • - loosely called
Found Primitive civilization, is
Man Possessed off for the
Yen tor D. 7\* Maya country
of Mexico,
leading an expedition which will
hunt new clues to early Indian cul
tures. It is a renewal of Mr. Stir
ling’s explorations of last January,
in which he found a stone bearing
the earliest recorded date of the
Americas—equivalent to November
4, 291 B. C.
A Princeton scientist traced
the honey highball back 5,000
years and thereby gained knowl
edge of great historic Indo-Eu
ropean shifts in population. Mr.
Stirling also has found man’s
early day elbow-bending a light
source. He discovered that the
drinking of primitive man was
premeditated and indulged in to
induce visions. At Ostia, Mr.
Stirling found a bar, several
thousands of years old, lacking
only the brass rail and the free
lunch to match ours.
In British Guiana, in 1927, he
found pygmies who, for full dress,
wore artificial tails; whose babies
in arms smoked big cigars and
whose dogs were barkless. In Flor
ida, he found the lost Calooshas, the
earliest Americans. In the Jivaro,
he was clubby with head-hunters
and learned much, not only of their
recipe for shrinking heads, but of
their visions, legends and customs.
He was reared in the Salinas cow
country of California and attended
the University of California. His
explorations have been in North,
Central and South America, Europe
and the East Indies. He is 43 years
old, and, as usual, having the time
of his life.
V (Consolidated Features—WNU Service.)
Helping Hand Extended to Devil’s Island Fugitives
Eight men who are fleeing from the dread French penal colony at Devil’s island are shown lined up at
the beach at Ensenada Playa, Puerto Rico, as they listened to instructions read by an immigration inspec
tor before setting sail in their small boat, in which they hope to reach Mexico. The fugitives first sailed
to Venezuela, to Trinidad, then to Puerto Rico, securing help at each port. They hope to obtain a pardon,
and if successful will join the French army.
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Australian Farmers Strive to Maintain Production
“This is our land—and to keep it so we must maintain our primary industries.” That’s the rallying
cry of young Australia during war time. The picture is symbolic of the commonwealth’s part in prepara
tion. A farmer continues harvesting his crop as an armored car section holds maneuvers on a nearby road.
Following their initial maneuvers, many of the armored car regiment members returned to their fields to com
plete harvesting.
Like Father, Like Son? Definitely Not!
Freckle Proof
George Young, ace marathon swimmer of years ago, waited 12 years
to get the $25,000 cash prize he earned by winning the 36-mile Catalina
island swim in 1926. He was a lad of 17 at the time, and was given the
money when he reached 30. George and his wife, residents of Canada, turn
“thumbs down” on a swimming career for George Jr., who practices bis
strokes on the piano stool. The $25,000 is all he and his wife have left from
swimming careers which won them $125,000.
Latest wrinkle in beach fashion
notes from Miami, Fla., this winter
is a “freckle proof” sun mask, com
plete with dark glasses and “breath
er.” The new style note prevents
sunburn of delicate faces. Its popu
larity depends on beach beauties,
who may not care to remain hidden.
Brother of Soviet Chief Hits Red Tactics
Would Deny Vote
While his brother, Gen. G. M. Stern, leads Soviet army forces against
Finland, Morris Stern, above, waits on customers in -his modest Los
Angeles grocery store. Morris Stern’s sympathies are with Finland.
A naturalized citizen, he stated: “I don’t like it, why don’t they let
them alone.”
Aged persons, “in their second
childhood,” should be denied the
right to vote, according to Dr. Ray
mond Pearl of Johns Hopkins uni
versity. His reason: Too many votes
for old age pension plans.
Star Dust
★ *The Bat Again
★ Jane Has Preference
it To the Bitter End
By Virginia Vale
T HE President’s son plans
to give us a mystery pic
ture—made from one of the best
mystery plays ever written
—as the first release of his
Globe Productions. It’s “The
Bat,’’ by Mary Roberts Rine
hart and Avery Hopwood,
and has everything that a
thriller should have. It was filmed
by Mary Pickford’s company in
1926, and done again, as “The Bat
Whispers,” in 1931. Norman Foster
will direct the new version.
HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS
-
To prevent gowns slipping from
wooden coathangers, cover the
hangers with velvet.
* • *
■Tips of canned asparagus may
be removed whole if the bottom in
stead of the top of can is opened.
* * * ......
Give house plants an occasional
feeding of a teaspoonful of bone
meal dug into the earth in flower
pots.
* • •
Give your cacti plants all the
light possible during the winter.
Keep in a cool place and in a dry
atmosphere.
* * •
As chocolate burns easily, it is
safest to melt it over hot water.
7 * '
Hard on the heels of her • scrap
with Warner Brothers over her re
fusal to appear in “Married, Pretty
and Poor,” Jane Bryan showed the
studio that she preferred to be mar
ried, pretty and rich—she announced
her engagement to Justin W. Dart,
who is general manager of a drug
firm.
Mickey Rooney may rank first at
the box offices of motion picture
theaters in this country, but in Great
Britain and Ireland he comes sec
ond, with Deanna Durbin pushing
him out of first place. She was not
among the first ten in this country.
*
If you are devoted to the story,
“The Light That Failed,” you’ll like
the picture version, which sticks to
the original, even to the unhappy
ending. If it’s Ronald Colman, rath
er than the story, who’s- responsi-
RONALD COLMAN
fcle for your interest in the picture,
you’ll enjoy it hugely, for he gives
an excellent performance.
*
So do Walter Huston, Dudley
Digges, and Ida Lupino. Miss Lu-
pino has had a hard time of it in
Hollywood; she was put into ingenue
parts and kept there; now that, at
last, she had been given a chance
to show what she could do with a
real role, she had made the most
of it.
Hers is rather like the one in “Of
Human Bondage” that established
Bette Davis as a dramatic actress.
Miss Lupino’s performance is good
enough to do as much for her. No
longer can she be thought of as
just one of those pretty blondes who
are so numerous in the picture-mak
ing metropolis.
*
If you’re interested in the present
activities of former radio favorites,
here’s news of some of them. Jim
my Melton is now known as James
Melton, and is a concert singer.
Morton Downey wound up his sum
mer engagement at the World’s fair
and followed it with an equally suc
cessful one in a Hollywood night
club. Singin’ Sam is making money
by making recordings.
Jessica Dragonnette makes occa
sional appearances on the air—and
when you see “Gulliver’s Travels”
you’ll hear her voice. Vera Van,
Leah Ray and Annette Henshaw
have retired.
—X
Gene Autry, the singing screen
star who is Public CowbQy No. 1,
heads a new western series from
“The Double M Ranch” over the
Columbia network each Sunday. In
cidentally, did you know that Gene
was discovered by the beloved Will
Rogers? Rogers stopped at a small
town in Oklahoma to forward his
syndicated column; Gene, the tele
graph operator, was singing a west
ern ballad. Rogers advised him to
capitalize on his talents—and a little
more than a year later Gene Autry
was a popular radio and recording
artist.
—&—
Del Courtney, who features Can
did Camera music over NBC, has
borrowed an idea from the movies
in his presentation of “previews” of
his forthcoming programs. Before
concluding his broadcasts, he plays
a few bars of some of the new tunes
to be featured on the next program.
It’s a novel idea, and will probably
be widely copied by bandleaders who
don’t hesitate to imitate their more
successful brethren.
*
ODDS AND ENDS—The New York
Film Critics picked "Wulhering Heights”
as 1939’s best picture . .. it’s a little more
than twenty-six years since Cecil B. De
Mille, Samuel Goldwyn and Jesse Lasky
began filming “The Squaw Man,” the first
motion picture made in Hollywood.
(Released by Westena Newspaper UnlonJ
When straining the pulp from
liquid such as orange juice, if .a
piece of cheesecloth is placed in
side a strainer none of the pulp
can go through.
* * • . ..
Grape Juice With Grapefruit.—
Two tablespoons of grape juice
added to a grapefruit after it
has been cut gives a delicious fla
vor and a pretty color.
• * *
To remove feathers from ducks,
first pick them dry. This leaves a
down all over the skin. To re
move the down, wring out a large
cloth in boiling water and wrap
it around the duck for five min
utes. Remove the cloth and the
down can be wiped off easily with
a drjr cloth.
• • •
Creamy Fudge.—For a smooth
er and creamier fudge, add a tea
spoon of cornstarch to each cup of
sugar used in making it.
• • *
Crusty french rolls, cut diag
onally into slices a fourth of an
inch thick, buttered and toasted,
make a good salad accompani
ment.
Gorgeous b\ ooms in
wealthy profusion. Your
yard aglow all summer.
Buy the convenient way
l ’ from ybur dealer’s display.
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