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Latin America Blazes the Trail We are wont to regard our Latin-American neighbors to the south as amiable but backward people. We are their big brothers, commissioned by God to offer them protection and bring them enlightenment. If Latin-Amcrlca is somewhat behind us in the mechanical aspects of civilization, some of her states certainly are as far ahead of us in their approach to the matter of crime and the handling of criminals. We go on complacently, if ineffectively, with the eighteenth century notions of free-will, making the punishment fit the crime, savage prisons and capital punishment. Some leading Latin-Amcrican countries have adopted or are adopting criminal codes which square thoroughly with scientific criminology and penology. The new criminal codes of Mexico and Chile are good examples of this "catching up with science." In Mexico the jury trial is modified seriously, to get rid of its characteristic American abases. The jury will be made up of technically qualified men. Once a man is convicted, the work and power of the court is ended. The sentence is indeterminate, depending on the progress of the criminal toward reformation. There is no attempt to punish a crime. All effort is concentrated on the attempt to treat a criminal in the light of his personality and case history, both of which are studied carefully by an expert staff. This treatment of the criminal is in the hands of a scientifically trained supreme council of social defense and prevention. The criminal is not released until he has given evidence of reformation. Upon release he is helped in the difficult problems of readjustment to normal life. Capital punishment is abolished. Equally rational and modern is the new' criminal code of Chile. The code of Chile adopts essentially the same principles and procedure as that of Mexico. Special stress is placed on the broad training of judges in the criminal courts. "Magistrates of civil tribunals must know the law; magistrates of criminal courts in addition must know psychology and sociology. They must be able to deal wisely and justly with men, taking as a criterion the individual himself rather than the statutes. They must not work by formula.

"To prove guilt, classify it, find in their code the pre-established penalty for such crime, and then fix the sentence, is not their task. They must analyze the appearance of the criminal, his habits, his experience, his physical state, his pathological condition. The medicine must fit the disease." Sentences are indeterminate and the criminals are “treated in a system of well-differentiated prisons, each designed to meet the needs of a particular type of criminal. Capital punishment is abolished. A novel and commendable procedure is the permission to pay fines by installment. In case of non-payment, the person is not jailed. He is compelled to go to work for the state and his fines are deducted from his wages. Both of these codes square completely with the tenets of modern criminal science. We may hope that Mr. Wickersham and his committee are not going to be victims of the usual arrogance toward Latin-Amer-ican ‘“backwardness." They well may direct their glances southward to Mexico and Chile. If they were to do no mere than recommend the adoption of one of these codes, it would be well worth all the expense and labors of the committee. Pensions and Politics One of President Hoover's recommendations accepted by congress was the consolidation of all governmental agencies dealing with veterans’ relief under one administrative head. General Frank T. Hines, director of the veterans’ bureau, has been named administrator of veterans' affairs, and will have under his direction the veterans’ bureau, the bureau of pensions and the national home for disabled volunteer soldiers. President Hoover expects through this amalgamation to save several millions annually in administrative costs and at the same time to afford veterans and their dependents more efficient service. This, however, should not be the only beneficent effect of the consolidation. Combining all veterans' agencies undei one head should be the first step of a determined effort to take pensions out of politics. Since the pension system was established years ago. legislators and even Presidents have used pensions as a means of getting votes. Increases almost invariably have been granted just before elections. Take the session of congress just ended, for instance. The Spanish war bill was enacted over the President’s veto, increases were granted to Civil war veterans and widows and for the first time pensions were granted to veterans of the World war. There is an election in November. It is no secret that World war veterans already are looking toward an increase just before the 1932 elections, if not sooner. Congress could eliminate the trading of pensions for votes by devising a scientific and permanent policy, to apply to all veterans, regardless of the x wars in which they served. Few, if any, veterans who actually were disabled in sendee have failed to receive aid from the government. The number denied compensation or pensions for any reason is small. That brings up the question of what is to be done for veterans who have become disabled since leaving the sendee. The country’s pension policy always has been based on disability and age, but the rates for the veterans of different wars have varied greatly, largely due to political log-rolling and the pressure the groups have been able to put on congress. The sensible thing to do is to work out a system based on age and disability under which the rates for all veterans will be uniform, and stick to it. Until this is done, we can expect to see political wrangling over pensions every time congress meets. Pessimism Needs Study Theodore Dreiser, having completed an extensive tour of the United States, finds his famous pessimism more firmly entrenched than ever. He tells an Interviewer that constitutional government has abdicated, that Americans no longer can express themselves as individuals, that the average citizen has lost his power to think, and that literature is practically dead. “Conditions here are in many ways similar to those in Russia before the revolution." he asserts. “’I am more convinced than ever that the country is headed for great social changes that will frustrate the life of the ordinary’ indivtduad unless they can be checked by a really important stand on the part of the intellectuals." Dreisler never has been one to look on the bright side of things. His novels breathe a bitter doubt—or. rather, a firm conviction that humanity is fighting a hopeless fight against the powers of darkness. To have him bring back anything but a pessimistic report on the state of the naiton would be a tremendous surprise. Nevertheless, his attitude emphasises a curious

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thing: The prevalence, among cultured and thoughtful minds, of a great discouragement and disappointment over our current civilization. Why should this be? In a great many ways we have made very genuine progress in the last two or three decades. Living conditions are easier for millions of human beings. An enormous amount of soul-killing drudgery has been outlawed forever. Scientists have pushed the boundaries of human knowledge back almost 1 to infinity. In the creative arts the land Is more active than ever before. Why should so many thinkers be downcast? The answer, it may be, lies in our increasing tendency to rely on machinery and science. We have, in this way, set ourselves free from some old evils, but there is not, so far, any clear indication where we are going. Our machines have developed faster than we have. If we are going to be able to control them intelligently, then we can enter into an era in history splendid beyond belief; but if we are not, an appalling sort of disaster is bound to befall us. It will not help simply to shout the pessimists down. We need to study the new dispensation more closely than we ever have studied anything; to find out just what its possibilities are, and to set ourselves the task of realizing them. If we do this, we can confound the critics; if not, their gloomy preictions will be justified. We Have Good Idols The American nation seems to be under the necessity of finding an idol every so often and putting him up on a high pedestal. The idol is generally a young man, and the nation—which usually admires him as much for his modesty as for anything—does its level best to destroy his modesty and give him a very badly swollen head. As it happens, we’ve been extremely fortunate iff our choice of idols lately. First there was Lindbergh, who stood up under the ordeal as well as any young man possibly could have. Now it seems to be Bobby Jones; and he, too, seems to be just the sort of stuff that the nation needs in a popular figure. Really, we owe these two young men a good deal. They have given us, and especially our youngsters, very worthy targets for hero worship. They have, too, set a pretty high standard for future national idols to live up to.

An Exchange of Visitors American motorists are expected to spend around $300,000,000 in Canada this summer. The great dominion north of the border has unrivaled attractions as a vacation land—and we’re not speaking of its liquor laws now, either. Citizens of the United States are discovering the iact in increasing numbers every year. However, Canadians do a good deal of touring, too. and a lot of them cross the border to do it. In 1929, according to dominion government figures. Canadian tourists spent more than $111,000,000 in the United States, and more than 619,000 Canadian automobiles went south over the boundry. The figures probably will be higher this year. Here is reciprecity of the finest sort. That famous unfortified frontier is in no danger as long as the two nations exchange friendly visits on such a scale. Premier Tardieu of France was elected to the Academy of Gastronomes, an exclusive society of good eaters, on passing the wine-tasting test. Some of that good red Italian wine, no doubt. A West Virginia "Hill Billy,” fined for operating a still, declared he never heard of the prohibition law before. He’s not to be blamed as much as his fellow-countrymen who won t hear of it. Chicago paper says week-end picnickers left thirty tons of scrap paper in Lincoln park, to prove they had been there. Just as if you couldn't see that many people. The Turkish government reports it is closing in on the insurgent Kurds. That’s the whey to treat ’em! In the old days people used to drop in for a visit; now they visit for a drop. If you get sunburned on the bathing beach, it surfs you right.

REASON B y FR LANDIS^

OUR national birth rate fell last year, there being a decline in all but four of the forty-three states from which figures were gathered. We do not know that deliberate thought had anything to do with it, but we do know that fathers and mothers are worrying more about the future of their children than ever before. a a a With more and greater mergers all the time, with more and greater labor-saving machinery and with the chain system likely to capture every human activity, it’s little wonder parents wonder what their children will be up against. ana BUT if the white race continues to hand posterity a rain check, as it is doing in the United States and in every European country, except Russia, the day will dawn when the pale face will surrender world control, unless the Chinese, Japanese and the Hindoos can be induced to abandon mass production. a a a This recent international convention of Rotary at Chicago was the most distinguished gathering cf leaders from the ends of earth since the conference of religions of the world's fair of *93. These men were not diplomats, trying to put something over on one another, but members of a common organization, just being good fellows. a a a If peace ever comes to earth it will come as a result of the faith nations slowly shall discover in one another as a result of informal contacts; it never will come as a result of world conferences. Diplomats have no more relationship to international faith than horse traders have to com'munity faith. a a a THE inroads which the screen has made on the speaking stage is shown by the SIOO,OOO mortgage ust placed on the property of the Lambs Club, acors home in New York City. a a a Many of the players, however, have nobody but themselves to blame for their financial troubles, since they have made big money, but have blown it. Here and there a thrifty person saves his. but the majority let it trickle through the lavish hand. a a a General Emelyan Yaroslavsky, head of the Russian atheists, summoned his unwashed cohorts to a new war upon God. a a a The general does not give out any details, so we do not know whether he plans to capture the Creator by a grand charge all along the front of the universe, or by a prolonged siege, but it’s going to be terrific

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SCIENCE —BY DAVID DIETZ

University of Chicago Accorded Large Place in History of Modem Science. ANEW distinction in the field of scientific pioneering is claimed for the University of Chicago by Dr. R. A. Millikan, world-famous physicist and discoverer of the cosmic rays. Dr. Millikan states that speculations upon the subjects of "atom building," that is, upon the probability of processes going on somewhere in the universe by which matter is brought itito existence from radiation and lighter atoms built into heavier ones, first were advanced at that university. He gives the credit for them to Professor W. D. MacMillan, famous astronomer of the University of Chicago. Any history of modern science will have to accord a large place to the University of Chicago. The Nobel prize in physics has gone to three Americans. Two of them, Dr. Albert A. Michelson and Dr. Arthur H. Compton, are still members of the university faculty. The third is Dr. Millikan, now of Pasadena, Cal. But Dr. Millikan formerly was at the university and received the prize for his work in isolating and measuring the charge of the electron, a piece of research which he did while at the university. Dr. Michelson has measured the speed of light with greater accuracy than any scientist in history. In addition, he devised the interferometer, a device which has found countless uses in scientific research. Einstein’s theory of relativity is based upon an experiment performed with the interferometer by Michelson and the late Dr. E. W. Morley. nun Moulton 1 OTHER pioneers at the University of Chicago include Professor F R. Moulton and the late Professor T. C. Chamberlin. Moulton and Chamberlin formulated the planetsimal hypothesis for the origin of the earth and other planets. The basic feature of this theory was that the solar system originated in material pulled out of the sun by the gravitational attraction of a star which passed near the sun.

Although subsequent workers in this field have been inclined to modify certain details of the theory, the basic idea remains the most important one in the field. Another pioneer at Chicago has been Professor William D. Harkins, who has done valuable work in the field of isostopes. He also made an important contribution to present-day thinking about the nature and origin of the universe by his study on the prevalence of the various chemical elements. Dr. R. A. Millikan now reveals that speculations about “atom building" also started at the University of Chicago. Dr. Millikan feels that his demonstration of the existence of the cosmic rays are proof that such atom building goes on in the universe. He believes that these rays are by-products of the building up of atoms of matter, and disagrees completely with certain British scientists who hold that the rays are the result of a disintegrating process only. This British view is that the universe is like a clock which was wound up at some distant date and which now is in the process of running down. Dr. Millikan sets forth his views —perhaps to insure foreign attention—in the “Physikalische Zeitschrift.” A translation just has appeared in Science, official publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. nan History “TN previous articles I never have A sought to assign the origin or history of the speculative ideas about atom building in cosmic processes—a very ticklish thing to do, since during the last twenty years this question has aroused general interest,” Dr. Millikah writes. . "But if the historian of this domain can find anything useful in it, I will be glad to contribute my own knowledge of the history of the subject. “In the year 1904, when I was engaged in the study of certain rare ores for their uranium content by the action of radioactivity, Professor F. R. Moulton of the University of Chicago came to me with the statement that even if the sun were originally of pure uranium it could not have given up as much energy as he would regard as necessary for a minimum of the life of the sun, and that, therefore, it was necessary to postulate a store of cosmic energy from previously unknown sources for the stellar energies.” Dr. Millikan then goes on to say that though it was not generally appreciated at the time, such a source already had been found in the interchangeability of matter and radiation, first suggested by Kaufmann in 1901 and developed more thoroughly by Einstein in 1905.

ORANGE DAY July 12 ON July 12, Irish Protestants celebrated the anniversary of the Battle of Boyne, fought in 1690, because it commemorates the victory of the Protestant William 111, Prince of Orange, ever the Catholic James 11. On account of their support of the prince of Orange, the Catholics of Ireland named Protestants of the countrymen Orangemen. The Catholics, who were oppressed by the English on account* of their Jacobite leanings, began to form semi-revo-lutionary societies in protest. In opposition, the Irish Protestants formed a society called the Loyal Oranage Institution, the object of which was to maintain the union of England and Ireland and the Protestant succession to the crown. William’s victory assured the ascendancy of Protestantism in England. The Orange Society had a complex organization. In Ireland the society has for a long time had no influence, but there are numerous lodges still existing in the United £*-*—.

DAILY HEALTH SERVICE ' Study Health Conditions at Camp

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hrgeia, the Health Magazine. THE summer camp has become a fixture in modern life. The moment school is ended, parents begin to cast about with a view to finding places in the out-of-doors where boys and girls of adolescent years may spend one or two months or even one or two weeks in recreation, accompanied by instruction. The discipline and the social contacts of camp life and, on the other hand, the advantages to parents of being temporarily separated from the problems of the growing child are factors that have been responsible for the popularity of the summer camp. Already thousands of such camps have been established in various parts of the country. They exploit their particular advantages in various mediums of publication, by lectures, by circulars and especially by testimonials and recommendations. In the selection of a summer camp the parent should ascertain whether the camp supplies sanitary conditions, food, medical attention and social conditions at least as good as those that the child has at home. The health hazards that have been observed in some camps include improper disposal of sewage; failure to provide safe milk, fresh

IT SEEMS TO ME, “?™T

IT will not be necessary for the Thanatopisis Inside Straight and Pleasure Club to stake a poker game on Boston commons. In a recent column there was discussion of the Massachusetts blue law under which any one who wins more than $5 at cards may be penalized three times the amount of his profit. It happens that New York has a law of the same sort and even more drastic. For here the winner can be fined five times the total of his haul, though it is true that our legislators have raised the ante and made $25 the point above which gambling becomes a sin and a crime. H. Henry Shemin, -president ol Counsel to Column Conductors,” calls my attention to Section 990 of the penal laws, w’hich states: ‘‘A person who wins or losses at play or by betting, at any time, the sum or value of $25 or upward, within the space of twenty-four hours,, is punishable by a fins not less than five times the value or sum so lost or won, to be recovered in a civil action, by the persons charged with the support of the poor in the place where the offense was committed for the benefit of the poor.” (McKinley's Consolidated Laws, Page 365.) Not only does New York see the Massachusetts provision for a triple penalty, but it includes the loser as well as the winner in the scope of punishment. In Boston it is not a crime to gamble unsuccessfully, while New York adds insult to injury by slapping a fine even on the poor fellow who has lost his all. a a a Had I Known THERE'S still more to the law of New York. H. H. Nordlinger calls my attention to Section 955, which provides: "Every person who shall, by playing at any game, or by betting on the sides or hands of such as do play, lose at any time on sitting, the sum or value of $25 or upward, and shall pay or deliver the same or any part thereof, may, within three calendar months after such payment or delivery, sue for and recover the money or value of the things so lost and paid or delivered, from the winner thereof.” It is a pity that we laymen know so little of the law. If only Section 995 could have been called to my attention during the dark days last year when it seemed as if I never could fill a flush except, of course, when some friend and companion held a full house! Had I been in touch with sound legal adviqe I might have gone to court and &ken back my hope of a comfortable old age which was dissipated across the gaming table. / v-t X f—- is C' ,f C V l

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fruits and vegetables; uncontrolled dust; crowding; possibility of fire through the use of oil lamps attached to wooden shacks; lack of mosquito netting, and perhaps multiplication of activities to the point at which the children become fatigued and even exhausted. From this brief and quite incomplete consideration of the possible dangers of camp life, it is obvious that parents should inform themselves fully concerning the curriculum of the camp, the amount of work expected of the child, and the problem of sanitation that has been mentioned. In a few states, health officials have included the camps in their purview. By means of regular inspection, they assure themselves that the laws of the state are having full compliance. In the vast majority of stateS, however, there are no laws regulating the camps, and appropriations are not made for necessary inspectors even if the laws give the health officials full authority. The camps are, moreover, at considerable distance from the city and are likely w> be overlooked, unless some official study is made a matter of routine. Os the thousands of camps already established, a minimum percentage proviae an . infirmary for children who fall ill and a still smaller percentage have available a registered nurse or a physician.

Suppose I had sued Mr. K. and recovered some staggering sum which I repaid with borrowed money. Alter all, it would be necessary for me to establish beyond dispute that I had lost more than $25. And it was more than $25. But with that fact spread upon the record, there would be nothing to prevent some overseer of the poor from immediately suing me in turn for five times the amount which I recovered. It was just a passing mirage. There is no balm for the big loser and there never will be. All he can do is curse, slam the cards down on the table and swear that he never will play again. And I might add, that an apt simile might read: “As light as a loser’s oath of renunciation.” tt tt a Capitalism SPEAKING of profit and loss, Theodore Dreiser, upon his return from a jaunt across the country, reports that the American masses are rebellious against the rule of big business in the United States. The fact Is that most Presidents and most congressmen have represented not large business, but small

Questions and Answers

How old is Tim McCoy? Is he married and what is his address? He will be 39 in April; is married to Agnes Heron Miller, and they reside at the Garden Court apartments, Hollywood, Cal. How old is Ann Pennington? 31 years. What is the meaning of the name Beranth? It is a Teutonic name and means “son of the strong.” On what days of the week did Jan. 13, 1898, and Aug. 20, 1897, fall? Jan. 13, 1898. was on Thursday, and Aug. 20, 1897, Friday. And the king answered them roughly; and King Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men. —II Chronicles 10:13. The best receipt—best to work and best to take—is the admonition of a friend.—Bacon. Where is Minot lighthouse located? In Boston bay, Massachusetts. Where are leopards and tigers native? Leopards occur ill India, Ceylon, Burma, Persia, Palestine, Syria, Arabia and Africa. Tigers are widely dHWWfd tbro”rhout Al, and

Reports from camps show that children have had broken arms and legs, appendicitis, meningitis or infectious diseases and have not had proper attention promptly. Delays often have proved serious or even fatal. Here is a question with which parents should concern themselves before selecting a camp for their child. It is typical of American life that we constantly develop new inventions, new games and new methods of living, and that we try them out before we ascertain their actual value or their detriment to human health and life. The development of the summer camp has been perhaps another demonstration of this nature. Accurate statistics da not seem to be available to prove the advantages of all camps for health-building or for any other purpose. The experiment has been a mass experiment, from which the general im-. pression is good. If the records of hundreds of camps, wtih various types of conditions, could be assembled it might be possible to determine how much good or how much harm they have wrought. In the meantime, the caution would seem to be well worth emphasizing again that parents investigate and rate the camp according to the many factors that are fundamental in protecting the child against preventable disease.

Ideals and opinions expressed in this column are those of one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

capitalism. As things are, we have been led by sergeants and corporals of industry. Mr. Hoover, for instance, is a small manufacturer’s idea of an efficiency man and a business genius. Andrew Mellon is one of the richest of Americans, and it is just to identify him as the representative of large-scale enterprise. But it is by no means true that Mr. Mellon is the government. On matters he has been overruled. Inferentially, Mr. Mellon gave sanction to the tariff. Both Mr. Sloan of General Motors and Henry Ford denounced it roundly. Personally, I would like to see a national administration run by some President who was truly an industrial leader. After a Harding, a Coolidge and a Hoover, would like to see what a Morrow or an Owen Young or a Gerard Swope could do. Capitalism is a necessary stage in the long march from the past days of handcraft to the future days of Utopia. And since we still live in the capitalistic phase of development, I would much rather trust the judgment and wisdom and honor, too, of the actual leaders rather than be ruled by pale and ineffectual surrogates. (Copyright. 1930. by The Times)

are abundant in India, but absent from Ceylon and the plateau of Tibet.

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.JULY 12, 1930

M. E. Tracy — SAYS:

U. S. Laivless? That’s a Libel! Look at All the People We Throw Into Jail, Even if They Are Not Guilty. Forty-three murders and twenty-four attempts at murder, committed over a period of twenty-one years in Sicily, bring 214 people to trial. Forty-seven murders, committed over a period of one year in Chicago, still find the police wondering who killed Lingle. But cheer up! We have made 68,000 arrests for bootlegging in this country during the last twelve months, which is something to show for the money, even if it didn't do so much to stop the traffic. If that is not enough to satisfy our pride, let it be recorded that we probably made ten times as many arrests for left turns and parking in the wTong place. What Os It? W HAT'S a litUe thing like murder, when we are driving three out of every four automobiles in the world, and killing 30,000 people every year to prove it ? What’s a little thing like gang rule, when we have so many skyscrapers to build, so many combines to finance, and so much unemployment to talk about? What's a little thing like plain thuggery, when the senate is engaged in a life-and-death struggle to find out which European statesman Dawes called a “bird” or how many times he said “hell ’n’ Maria" in connection with the naval treaty? Suppose racketeers are running away with the nation's second biggest town and threatening to do so with half a dozen more? Who should worry about it, with stocks still down and Sears Roebuck cutting prices? tt a a We're Great People WHY not look or. the bright side of the picture—the Empire State building, the tallest structure yet under taken by man; the latest statement of the Chase National bank, revealing it to be the largest financial institution on earth; the aggregate gifts of John D. Rockefeller, showing how we train rich men to be philanthropic; the great drive we have made against tuberculosis, and the great drive we are planning to make against cancer; the census returns which cause New York to blow as hard as any other hick town that can claim an increase? What if ten or a dozen old ladies do get run over each day by drivers who lack the courage or decency to stop and see whether they are dead? What if you can’t open a chicken market, peddle milk, or press pants, without paying tribute to some gang? What if men like Mooney and Billings are kept in prison, while thousands of well-known yeggs walk the streeits? What if we are running judges off the berch for 'corrupt practices so fast that even newspaper men can’t keep track of the parade? What if prohibition wouldn't last a week if some of its staunchest supporters could not get all they wanted to drink? We are a great people, jus£ the same, and we have the dough to prove it. n n e Look at Our Money MONEY, money, money—who's got the money? We have. And who’s going to keep it? We are. See Smoot-Hawley bill. Who furnishes the biggest radio audience? We do. Who does most for the movies and baseball? Ditto. Lawless? That’s a libel. Look at the number of people we throw into jail, even if they aren’t guilty. Look at our prisons; they are all overcrowded, and must be made bigger, if not better. Let Mussolini break the Mafia, if that is his idea of glory. We Americans have bigger things on hand. Only to mention one, we still are. demonstrating that ten nights in a speakeasy are equal to one in a barroom. n tt tt It’s a Laugh A FEW old mossbacks continue to wail that we ought to give more consideration to what they call the crime problem. “Is it not to laugh?” as a Frenchman would say. Don’t they know that the old morality is dead. That nothing is wrong unless you get caught at It. That nothing is right unless it succeeds, and that no one outside the Bible belt believes in God, home cooking or personal responsibility? Hurrah for mergers and two-room apartments, for time clocks and liberty, for the goose-step and selfexpression! DAILY THOUGHT He that giveth unto the poo shall not lack; but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse. —Proverbs 28:27. My poor are my best patients. God pays for them—Boerhaave. What is meant by muscle bound? It is a form of muscular hypertrophy characterized by loss of elasticity in the muscles, and is due to excessive exercise. It frequently occurs to athletes.