The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 292, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 16, 1938 Page: 2 of 4
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HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
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was the matter.
first month, three pounds the combined forces erf England. Ger-
the holy blood which stained*
Sen. William E. Berah of Idaho is
the dean of trust-busters. Now, with
Senator O’Mahoney of Texas, he
•"The doctor came along,** says Dan, “and began asking him ques-
tions. I thought it wgs strange that he didn’t come near the sick man.
in the utter overthrow of Napoleon
and the restoration of the Bourbon
kings to the French throne. That
battlefield was in Belgium, about
with no change in amount or kind
of food eaten or no change in
amount of exercise; in fact no
change in his daily habits whatever
except that the big meal was taken
are different.
“Trust!’’ was the cry almost ex-
Poppy. according to mythology, is
a blossom of evil omen. They were
offered to the dead since they sig-1
nifled sleep. Glaucua, the son od
Neptune, once caught a fish. It at*
some herbage and jumped into the
sea. The Yellow Poppy or Papj
over Glauciere Jaune originated
from that myth. The cross of tM
seen. The record for the first era
of trust-busting (up to a time short-
ly before the war)
Robert H. Jackson (center) is the
busy director of the government’s
trust-busting forces. Be carries the
double burden of prosecuting the
government’s anti-trust suits in
New York federal courts and of
campaigning for the governorship
of the same state. He is shown
here with Rep. William P. Connery,
Jr., (left) and Supreme Court Jus-
tice Hugo L. Black, before Black
was named to the high bench.
By
DR. JAMES W. BARTON
• Ball Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Take Big Meal at Noon.
A factory superintendent consult-
ed his physician regarding his
weight, which was from 15 to 20
pounds above the usual ideal weight
for height, age and body build.
His physician, knowing that the
patient disliked the idea of dieting,
the counting of the calories, the daily
exercise when he believed ho was
getting enough exercise at his work,
made this suggestion:
“You are on your feet most of
the day with three floors of em-
ployees under your supervision; you
are thus getting plenty of exercise.
However, you eat a fair-sized break-
fast, a light lunch, and a big dinner
at night. As far as the day’s need
of food is concerned you are getting
the right amount and the right kinds
of food. Now, instead of eating a
light lunch at noon, go out at noon
and eat the big meal—exactly the
same foods and amounts as you eat
in the evening. If you were doing
hard mental work this big meal
at noon would not perhaps be wise,
but by eating the big meal at noon,
your work of covering three floors
—walking about the floors and
climbing the stairs—will not only
use up the big meal eaten at nocm,
but this work Will also use up some
of the fat now present on your body.
Then eating the small meal at night
—enough to supply the body's heeds
during a quiet evening and a rest-
ful flight’s sleep—no more weight
can go on the body. When you eat
a big meal at night, sit around and
read the paper, or go out for an eve-
ning of bridge with a lunch follow-
ing the game, there is no possible
chance for this large amount of food
The Unseen Foe
By FLOYD GIBBONS
stomach) is noticed when food Is
swallowed, whereas stomach dis-
ease—ulcer—is about two hours aft-
er eating, ulcer of duodenum three
or four hours after eating, and gall
bladder, liver and pancreas dis-
ease, from four to five hours after
eating.
Cancer of the stomach usually
causes a constant ppin or uneasi-
ness and is often thought to be
Just chronic indigestion..
These points about pain in the
stomach and when they occur,
should bring relief to many who
have pains in the stomach.
They Were Dying of Cholera. |
-There were several other men in the hospital, all of them complain-
ing of pains in their stomachs. But that didn’t mean anything to Dan 1
at the moment. When he got back to his company they were ordered I
off to a spot six hundred yards away, where a flag was flying. They 1
were issued beer and rum that evening, and given a supply of
green goggles to keep the sun out'of their eyes. All the rest of that day
they lay in camp, doing nothing, and wondering why they weren't on
the march.
When Dan awoke the next morning there was a great commotion 4
outside his tent. “I lifted the tent wall," he says, “and asked the sentry 1
what was the matter. ‘Oh, Lord. Donoghue,* he cried, ‘we’re all dying.
There, are dozens dead, and. by tonight it’ll have taken all of us!* **
Dan sat straight up on his cot. “What’ll take aU of us?’*
he wanted to know. And the sentry screamed one ominous
word. “CHOLERA!**
Dan will never forget the things he saw during the terrible days
that followed. “You can get away from an enemy,** he says. “You
can fight and bluff your way out of tight comers in a battle. But you
can’t fight or bluff or run away when the cholera germ gets into your
system. You suffer terrible cramps in your abdomen, and you get so
weak that you can’t stand up. During that epidemic it was a common
sight to see the fellows visiting one another, crawling along on their
hands and knees.
Buried the Dead in Quicklime.
, “The boys died off like flies, and those who died were buried imme-
diately-buried all together in a long trench, with six inches of quick-
lime in the bottom. It was not at all common to hear a fellow say, ‘Come
on over and see who is getting buried.’ And on one such occasion I 1
saw the strangest sight of my whole life.
“A new trench had been dug and about fifty were getting buried In I
it. The bodies were brought oyer and laid in the ditch side by side. I
Some were naked,. and others were fully clothed, even to the boots I
and puttees. As soon as each corpse was put in a blanket was thrown |
over it and another layer of quicklime was placed on top of that Father I
Looman, the Catholic chaplain, was standing at the end of the long grave I
reciting the burial prayers. It was an awful and solemn moment.
“I was there to see a friend buried. Everyone else there hajl com* I
for the same reason. There wasn't a dry eye in the crowd. I was i
standing at the edge of the trench, looking down, when suddenly 11
jumped. Directly below me was a body covered with a blanket, and ft |
seemed to me I had seen that blanket move/*
«^ir. , i.» Hansing ear- carrying food from the throat to the
porations as a curb on monopoly.
t.
permission to sue the Aluminum
company, already operating under
the consent decree of a Pennsyl-
vania federal court, in New York,
where he is slated to run for gover-
nor this year.
An idea of the variety and scope
of other federal anti-trust cases
pending in the courts may be
gleaned from a brief summary of a
handful of them:
Jackson swears that the Party
Dress Guild, Inc., is restraining in-
terstate trade in women’s and
misses’ party dresses. Monopolies
are apparently making it something
of a task for odd-size ladies to get
out at all, even to parties, for he
also charges the Half-Size Dress
Guild, Inc., with restraining inter-
state trade in women’s and misses'
half-size dresses.
The Protective Fur Dressers’ cor-
poration, he says, is skinning the
public as well as the more sprightly
world of rabbits, by restraining and
monopolizing trade in rabbit skins.
Local No. 202 of the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauf-
feurs, Stablemen and Helpers of
America is charged with restrain-
ing the fruit trade; the United Sea
Food Workers with tying up the
salt water fish business, and the
Dairymen’s Association, Ltd., with
fixing the price of milk in Honolulu
OU Defendants.
Several oil company officials, re-
cently convicted at Madison, Wis.,
on charges of conspiring to restrain
gasoline trade, are making plans to
appeal the verdict.
The anti-trust division may have
to fight an appeal from the Inter-
state Circuit, Inc., on a decision
which agreed that the organiza-
tion was setting minimum admis
sion charges for second-run moving
pictures and prohibiting the use oi
them on double-feature programs.
Federal investigations are being
made of suspected monopolies ir
the rubber, cement, milk and win-
dow products industries. A fed-
eral grand jury in Milwaukee. Wis.,
was investigating monopoly charges
against automobile finance com-
panies linked with Ford, Chrysler
and General Motors, but the court
dismissed the grand jury without
hearing its report, much to the
chagrin of the Department of
Justice. More will probably bo
heard on this score. .
Which of these suits will be won
by the government, which may be
particular case fat gets stored in
and on your body.”
The patient followed this advice
faithfully. He lost five pounds the
I______~ “ - ,1 —
second, two the third, and One more
each month for three months; elev-
Battle of Waterloo
The battle of Waterloo was fought
June 13, 1815, between the French
under Napoleon Bonaparte andjthe
many and the Netherlands under
WHEN pain Occurs in the
stomach—stomach-ache—
it is only natural to think that
there is something wrong with
the stomach itself—inflamma-
tion of the lining of the stom-
ach, ulcer of the stomach, and
cancer of the stomach. All
three do cause pain in the stom-
ach and this should never be
forgotten, but the liver and
gall bladder are inore often to
blame.
However, there are a number of
causes for pain in the stomach, and
the time the pain
occurs after eating
often tells just what
is likely to be the
cause of the trouble.
Dr. F. W. Sher-'
man, Owensboro, in
the Kentucky Med-
ical Journal, says:
“The painful dis-
eases in the upper
part of the abdo-
men—the region otr
- th® Stomach—belong
Dr. Barton to three main
groups—inflammations, ulcers, and
cancer. Stomach pain is nearly
always in the pit of the stomach,
but occasionally it may be
left or right.
"In inflamed conditions
stomach the pain is likely
pear soon after eating.
“Ulcer of the stomach gives pain
within one or two hours after eat-
ing, while duodenal ulcer (ulcer of
the duodenum or first part of the
small intestine) is somewhat later
(three or four hours).
May Be Gall Bladder.
“One of the commonest causes of
pain in the stomach is gall bladder
disease. It is responsible for more
stomach disturbance, so-called indi-
gestibn and flatulence (gas) than
anything else.
“Disease of the pancreas may
resemble gall bladder disease in its
persistence but the pain is more
often at the back than at the front
“Disease of the spleen may cause
pain in the stomach region but
the pain is usually to the left side
and lower down.”
Thus there'are many disorders
causing pain in the stomach, be-
sides »those above mentioned, that
are not due to stomach disease.
Disease of the oesophagus (tube
clusively in the old days; now we
hear “monopolies,” “big business,”
“combines,” “princes of privilege,”
and "sixty American families” men-
tioned in the same breath.
A generation ago the anti-trust
campaigns were fought in the
courts, at comparatively small po-
litical meetings and in the press.
Today they are fought in large meas-
ure over the radio, with some of the
government’s ablest fire-eaters stir-
ring up millions of people in a long
parade of “special” broadcasts.
In addition, the current attack
advances at one time in a vast
number of directions that would
have amazed and confounded the
old-timers, but which are charac-
teristic of the tremendously in-
creased scale of operation which
the nation has come to accept from
its government in recent years.
Monopolies were originally sched-
uled to have been dealt with by
the special session of congress which
closed just before Christmas. But
when it became evident that pro-
tracted wrangling was to keep even
the wages-and-hours bill, the execu-
tive reorganization bill, or any other
of the “must” legislation for which
the special session was called, from
being enacted, the anti-monopoly
drive was switched post-haste from
the legislative chambers to the
broadcasting studios. Assistant At-
torney General 'Robert HoughwOut
((pronounced Houghwout) Jackson
and Secretary of the Interior Harold
L. Ickes were the Nos. 1 and 2 cheer
leaders. (At this writing Jackson is
rumored about to become United
States solicitor general.)
What these two and the President
have said has been so wide-
ly heard and read that even the
remotest hamlet is already familiar
with IL- But what is the govern-
ment actually doing—not saying—in
this renewal of the old familiar
war against trusts?
Government Opens New Anti-Monopoly Campaign Headed
by Trust-Buster Robert H. Jackson; Revives
Favorite American Political Custom
the Hall patents until they ran out
in 1909.
Monopoly charges against the
Ethyl Gasoline corporation, Earl C.
Webb and John Coard Taylor, also
grow out of the manner in which
the government protects patents on
vital inventions.
New York Headquarters.
Jackson, as head of the anti-
trust division, has 20 new assistants,
costing $150,000 to help him wield
the war club, and has opened of-
fices in the New York Federal Courts
building for the big drive. Western
Union and Postal Telegraph sys-
tems are due to be tried there. And
he recently succeeded in obtaining
The administration is again de-
manding that congress pass laws,
such as that requiring the federal li-
censing of corporations, which will
“strengthen” the campaign against
“big business” and monopoly.
President Roosevelt is seeking the
co-operation of heads of large cor-
porations toward a planned econ-
omy which may or may not re-
move some of the alleged evils.
And the anti-trust division of the
Department of Justice has 29 anti-
trust cases pending determination
by the federal courts. These are
the evidence “on the record” of
what the government is actually do-
ing. Their scope defies history to
produce a precedent.
1 Four Acts in Effect.
The Sherman anti-trust law of
1890 remains still the most impor-
tant of the rules under which the
battle is being fought, but there are
three others: The Clayton anti-trust
act of 1914; the Federal Trade Com-
mission act of 1914, and the Robin-
son-Patman law of 1936 to protect
small business men from chain
He Screamed One Ominous Word, “Cholera.”
He stood well away, and asked me to take the poor devil to the hos-
pital I carried him there on my shoulders.**
“And as we led him away,” says Dan, “he crept crying, ’Say, what’s
the idea? What’s all this crowd around here for?’ Hy didn’t even]
know how narrowly he had escaped a terrible death.”
It, was the quicklime that had saved him—that and the fact that he
had been buried naked. Says Dan: “If he’d been buried with his clothes
on he wouldn’t have felt the bum of that biting stuff until it was too late.
As it was, the sting of the stuff brought him to his senses, and he lived
to get wounded twice during the World war.**
Copyright—WWU Sonde*.
By JOSEPH W. La BINE s
The Big Stick is being waved once more in Washington, this
time to an accompaniment of sound and fury that makes the
“trust-busters” in the lusty days of 1900 and 1910 seem like so
many baa-ing sheep by comparison.
Today’s cracking-down is pretty much the same old game;
only the terminology, the amplification and the size of the field
competition. Now the administra-
tion seeks more.
As Robert H. Jackson, himself,
has said, “The anti-trust law is an
American invention.” It has served
two noble American purposes: It,
has kept the mushroom growth of
American Industry from killing it-
self and severely injuring the peo-
ple in the period of its growing
pains, and it has provided excel-
lent campaign material for ambi-
tious politicians.
Trust-busting as the national po-
litical sport died at the opening of
the World war. From the time
the Sherman act was passed until
the close of the first Wilson adminis-
tration there were a little over 100
suits instituted by the government:
Seven under Benjamin Harrison,
eight under Grover Cleveland, three
under William McKinley, forty-four
under Theodor* Roosevelt (both ad-
ministrations), 37 under William
Howard Taft and 18 under Woodrow
Wilson. Then the thunder died down
tor a decade and a half.
Inconsistent Polley.
Now, since President Roosevelt
first took office in 1933, there have
been 47 suits, and more than half
of them are still pending. The in-
terim between the two eras of trust-
basting brought out certain incon-
sistencies in the federal attitude
which the administration is deter-
mined to clear up. Jackson, speak-
ing.before the Georgia Bar associa-
tion last May 28, pointed out what
he termed one of "the most obvious
conflicts in our policy” when he de-
clared:
“While the nation has forbidden
monopoly by one set of laws it has
been creating them by another.
Patent laws, valuable as they may
be in some respects, often father
monopoly. Unless we are prepared
to reconsider the conditions upon
which we will extend patent pro-
tection we can have no consistent
. anti-monopoly policy.”
Most conspicuous example of this
line of reasoning is the Aluminum
Company of America against which
the government had filed suit a
month before this Jackson speech,
and which had so frequently been
sued by the government without any
conviction having been obtained,
that it has come to be known as
“Public Whipping Boy No, 1” for
the trust-busters.
The company actually does manu-
facture all of the virgin aluminum
ingot in the country today, but ex-
plains the only reason there is no
other firm producing virgin alum-
inum is the enormous capital in-
vestment required to make it on a
large scale.
The electrolytic process invented
in 1886 by Charles. Martin Hall
made it possible for the company
to reduce the price of aluminum
from $8 a pound to 20 cents despite
continually rising production costs,
but it is an expensive process. The
company now has such a head start
that no group of investors has been
willing to risk the capital necessary
to set up a competing business.
Paradoxically the same govern-
ment now prosecuting it protected
Hello, everybody:
It’s Dan O’Donoghue of New York, late sergeant of the
Royal Munster Fusileers, who tells today’s tale of mystery and
terror. Like one of Kipling’s “Soldiers Three,” Dan has fought
all over India. He has seen the things that Kipling saw, and he’s
bringing us such a tale as Kipling might have written—-the story
of a strange and terrifying experience on the Northwest frontier,
up near Khyber Pass. »
Word had come that th* tribes were plundering and raiding up
Khyber way, and the Munster Fusileers was one of the outfits ordered
out against them. They left their barracks in Rawalpindi, Punjab, in
the summer of 1908, entrained for Peshawar, marched through the pass,
and fought their way into Lundi Kotal, the fort on the other side of the
Afghan border.
They chased the marauding tribes back into the hills, but that,
as Kipling would say, is another story. The one we’re con-
cerned with happened on th* way back.
No Beer, So They Drank Water.
Th* regiment passed through Peshawar again and marched on
to Shabkhadar, twenty miles away. There, for the first time during the
expedition the native canteen manager, Hari Chand Khapur, ran out of
beer. “No-one who hasn’t been in India,” says Dan, “has any idea how
necessary beer is to the fighting forces. Most of the water in India is
ebntaminated and unfit to drink. But that day we had nothing else,
so we drank it and liked it. We pitched camp that night, went to bed 1
early, as orders had been issued for an early morning start the next (
day. But daylight came, and we still hadn’t received orders to fall in.”
No one in the regimept could understand it. Other regiments were
on the move. Two native regiments—the Twenty-second Punjabis and
the Fortieth Pathans—marched past the Fusileers’ camp, their drums
beating and the men singing. While they were passing, the Fusileers
got an order that only mystified them the more. They were told
fall in WITHOUT their rifles.
The whole regiment was marched off to a corner of the eamp.
Been a doctor appeared and began distributing medicine. While
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