Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 226, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1934 — Page 11
Second Section
It Seems to Me By Hey wood Broun I HAVE found few people to deny that the NRA hotel and restaurant code is an unsatisfactory document. Even official Washington has had recourse to the private explanation that a bad code is better than none at all. And it will be added by some spokesmen in confidence that NRA would hate to be taken into court on a test of its power in regulating intra-state business. And yet even after all that has been put on the record I think it is an unworthy thing that the government of the United States should officially indorse an agreement under which so many of the workers are forced to depend for life itself upon the tips they get. The term " the panhandle code” is not without justification.
Nor can I see any merit in the assertion of the hotel men that the Amalgamated Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union is a left wing organization. That scores against the owners and not against the workers. Radical unions are produced by radical injustices. a a a “ Don't Tread on Us” BUS boys, waiters, actors and newspaper men are by nature conservative. And at such times as they find that they can gain reasonable concessions through sweet reasonableness
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they arc likely to be as mild as milk. But you can make any man see red by stepping on his toes long enough and hard enough. Steamships and hotels seem to me the very laboratories in which class consciousness is created. I have never been a bus boy or a stoker yet. I was, by accident alone, the fellow who was screaming about the minute steak or sitting on the deck with a gin rickey. On boats particularly I get a sense of the impermanence of the thing which we call the economic structure and treat as if it had been handed down from Mount Sinai on a rock-hewn tablet. “Garcon.” I say in the imperious voice of a man who got a cut-rate cabin by writing an article for a travel magazine, “the same all around. And this time be quick about it.” And several decks below a very pallid man is feeding the engines with coal or oil or whatever food ihey are designed to require. Smash! Crash! Bang! there comes the iceberg, the hurricane or the collision in the fog, and suddenly the garcon, the fat passenger and the stoker are as equal as they should have been the day they were born. You can't tell c hurricane that you have money in the bank or buy yourself a lifeboat with an offer of gilt-edge bonds. Up by the heels you go to judgment seat, and, though your piety may be of use. your wit and proud possessions have become academic before the rush of clean salt water. a a a Done With Dispatch IMUST admit that I had a little of the same sort of feeling when I read of the strike of chefs and waiters at the Waldorf. It is good to have people reminded of their dependence upon the toil which brings sustenance and satiety within elbow reach. The impression gets about too widely that a roll of bills is some sort of Aladdin's lamp. You rub a ten or twenty and the slave of the lamp takes form out of the ether to say: Master, how can I serve you? What do you desire?” You see. a minute steak isn’t really a sixty-sec-ond proposition at all. Consider the steer (if I have the right animal in mind) from which it came and you may get some notion of the complicated and arduous process by which it was set down underneath your double chin. I have confessed to being neither a bus boy nor a stoker, but if I were I think I'd hate myself. I think Id say. “You never did anything useful enough or important enough to justify yourself in bawling out, ‘When do I get that steak I ordered half an hour ago?’ If the answer was, ’Never.’ what good argument could you put up against it?” And. as a matter of fact, I never was one to holler and complain. In my own case I call even belated spinach so much velvet. a a a Passing the Profits Around BUT this started out to be a column about the strike of hotel employes. lam aware that only a little while ago many a large hostelry in town was practically a leper colony. But the tide has turned. The dining rooms which were once great open spaces are now thronged with customers. Hotel proprietors are saying to themselves. ‘‘This is too good to be true.” A thrill runs along the keel of bond issues long considered defunct. People are looking frantically through waste paper baskets for mortgages they threw away. As an assiduous patron of places I do not grudge them the return of prosperity. But if a hotel is an institution or a great big family, as I have heard it said. why. in heaven's name, shouldn’t new prosperity mean new wages and anew deal all along the line from roof ’way down to cellar? • Copyright. 1934. by The Times)
Today's Science i BY DAVID DIETZ - ■ IF any portion of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains develops a spell of unusually warm weather before the end of the winter, the chances are 100 to 1 that somebody will blame it on the Gulf Stream. If the weathger becomes unusual at any time next summer, the Gulf Stream will again get the blame. Periodically, someone advances the notion that Florida will turn into a desert or New England into an ioe field because the Gulf Stream is shifting its direction. Schemes even have been advanced for diverting the Gulf Stream in order to bring about improvements in the weather of the United States. In view of these perennial claims, it is of interest to note w hat meteorologists and oceanographers have to say about the importance of the Gulf Stream. They be ieve that there are minor fluctuations in the Gulf Stream, but that these fluctuations have an almost negligible effect upon the weather conditions in the United States. This viewpoint does not minimize the importance of the Gulf Stream in the general scheme of worldwide wind and water circulation, the factors which in all probability determine climate and general weather conditions of any given region. But it does absolve the Gulf Stream from any blame for unusual weather in the United States. • m m METEOROLOGISTS and oceanographers have discovered that there is an inter-acting system of winds and ocean currents. Both, undoubtedly, owe their origin to the unequal wanning of the air in different latitudes by the sun, and the rotation of the earth. The Gulf Stream, biggest of all the ocean currents. has been described by one scientist as “the grandest and most mighty terrestrial phenomenon.” The Gulf Stream can be thought of as a “river in the sea.” but in this connection it must be remembered that in the nature of things it can not have such sharp and distinct boundaries as distinguish a river on land. The stream comes out of the Gulf of Mexico and flows through the Straits of Florida. At this point, according to Dr. H. A. Marmer of the United States coast and geodetic survey, it is forty miles wide and •2,000 feet deep. TTns means that each hour the Gulf Stream sends through the Straights of Florida into the sea about 100,000,000.000 tons of water. This is about 1,000 times more water than is poured into the Gulf of Mexico each hour by the Mississippi river. The water of the Gulf Stream has a beautiful, trar . wirent blue color. Leaving the Straits of Florida, the stream flows due north for about 2,000 miles. •
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Today's artfcle, eonrerninr Walker Stone, Washington correspondent, is the eighteenth of The Indianapolis Times’ popular series on the members of its editorial staff. a a a • BY NORMAN E. ISAACS Times News Editor WHENEVER Walker Stone, Washington correspondent for The Indianapolis Times, takes a vacation from his labors in the capital, and journeys to Indianapolis to see the boys, he saunters into the office with a warning gleam in his eyes. ‘ Don't you dare,” he threatens, ‘‘let me get near a politician. I'm on a vacation.” Walker Stone admits very frnakly that has little regard for politicians. But you must remember that Walker Stone has been in Washington for quite a few years and he has seen politics, not only at its best, but at its worst. Walker is an Oklahoman and when he became the Washington correspondent for The Times, there was some doubt expressed as to whether one who had no true Indiana background should cover Washington news for the Hoosier state. But as Walker himself pointed out very aptly, he was by no means unfamiliar with the tricks and “whimsies” of Indiana politics.
unfamiliar with the tricks ana wr ‘My newspaper work in Oklahoma,” he said at the time, “stretched over the impeachment of two Governors—both natives of Indiana. Jack Walton was removed on charges of graft and Henry Johnston on charges of general incompeteney. So you see I already know something of the types of politicians that come from Indiana.” Walker got the job. a a a BUT Washington has improved somewhat since the last election. Walker concedes. "But,” he adds, "Indiana’s delegation to the halls of congress is still below par—and par in congress is none too high.” Walker Stone, however, shouldn’t be taken too seriously. A tall, broad-shouldered redhead, he is an able and conscientious workman. He knows the ins and outs of Washington with the best of them, and he is continually unearthing stories of interest to Indiana. He talks with a slow drawl and looks like one of the world's ten laziest men. But, to the contrary, he is one of the hardest working of Washington's correspondents and The Times oftentimes has its troubles in making room for everything that Walker writes. a a a WALKER was born thirty years ago in a small Oklahoma town —then Indian territory. He says he went through grade school and high school only because his parents and the truant officer would not permit him to do otherwise. “I Went to state college to get away from the home town and to keep from going to work,” he drawls. He. spent the summers of his ’teens in the hayfields and herding his father’s cattle. At the mellow and ripe old age
The Theatrical World Capacity Audience Wilt Greet Gershwin Here BY WALTER D. HICKMAN
people what they want \JT and they will go through snow, fire and high water to see it.” Years ago, the late Eddie Foy told me that in his dressing room at B. F. Keith’s when he had the seven little Foys with him. That thought came to me again when Mrs. Nancy Martens told me that the extreme cold weather has not affected the seat sale for the George Gershwin, James Melton, and the Reisman Symphonic orchestra at English's Thursday night. People did not rely upon any means of communication but themselves to get their tickets during the current winter spell. Many out of town people braved the weather to personally get their tickets. Interest, of course, centers upon the playing of "Rhapsody in Blue,” by Mr. Gershwin. Yet the voice of James Melton, tenor, is so well known over the air that many people came to ask for tickets to the Melton concert. A capacity audience will greet Mr. Gershwin and the others, but there are good seats left at this writing. That fact is an answer to many questions. Mr. Gershwin will open the program by playing his "Concerto in F.” , This concerto is of thirty minutes duration and was published in 1925. It has been played by Walter Damrosch. the Boston Symphony, the Philharmonic orchestra under Mengelberg and Van Hoogstraton, the Minneapolis Symphony under Verbrugghen and by the Cincinnati orchestra. The second division of the program wall be devoted to the orchestra under the direction of Charles Previn playing Gershwin numbers "Swanee,” “Do It Again.” "Lady Be Good.” "Mine” and "Strike Up the Band.” After that Mr. Melton will appear, singing “Hills of Rome,” Home on the Range” and "Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie.” Then follows the big event of the program. Mr. Gershwin playing his own masterpiece, “Rhapsody in Blue.” Years ago at the Murat, Mr. Gershwin played this composition with Paul Whiteman. After intermission, the orchestra will play Gershwins “An American in Paris.” Deems Taylor wrote the following analysis of this composition: "By its composer's own confession, ‘An American in Paris' is an attempted reconciliation between two opposing schools of musical thought. It is program-music in that it engages to tell an emotional narrative; to convey, in terms of sound, the successive emotional reactions experienced by a Yankee tourist adrift in the City of Light. "It is absolute music as well, in that its structure is determined by considerations musical rather than literary or dramatic. The piece, while not in strict sonata form, resembles an extended symphonic movement in that it announces. develops, combines and recapitulates definite themes.
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‘WE MAKE YOUR NEWSPAPER’ Walker Stone —He Glowers at All Hoosier Politicians
of 13, Walker Stone decided to take a hand in public reform during a six-month period the Stone family was living in New Mexico. A state-wide referendum was being held on prohibition. At the behest of his Methodist preach-er-scoutmaster, Walker, garbed in his Boy Scout uniform, went about the streets on the morning of the election pinning white ribbons on the coat lapels of men who promised to vote dry. The head of the Stone family learned about Walker’s doings at noontime. Walker confessed. Walker’s father, who liked his white ribboners at a safe distance, saw to it that young Mr. Stone spent the afternoon hoeing weeds out of the garden. a u a BUT the drys won and Walker was crushed when the realization of what he had done came to him. “It was perhaps due to a natural desire to undo that forenoon’s disservice to society,” he confesses, “that I have been unable in my recent writing years to restrain occasional whoops and jabs as I chronicled the defeats and misdeeds of the egrim legions of Bishop Cannon.” Walker, by the way, is no mean politician. He claims that he became the editor of his college paper by playing intensely at the game of campus politics. Be that as it may, the fact remains that Walker converted it from a weekly into the best college daily in the southwest. Redheaded Mr. Stone thought, in those days, that the responsibility for maintaining the freedom of the press rested wholl yon his shoulders. Asa result, every one of the four college presidents who ran
Only, whereas the ordinary symphonic movement is based upon two principal themes, ‘An American in Paris’ manipulates five.” The remainder of the program is as follows: "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” arr, by Frank Black ‘‘G'wine to Hebb'n” Jacques Wolfe "Shortnin’ Bread” Jacques Wolfe Mr. Melton. I Got Rhythm Variations (new) .Cershwin Mr. Gershwin. ''Winterßreen for President” (from "Os Thee I Sing”) Gershwin "Fascinating Rhythm” “Man I Love” "Liza” "I Got Rhythm” Gershwin Mr. Gershwin. tt a tt In City Theaters Other theaters today offer: Ted Lewis on the stage and “Sons of the Desert" on the screen at the Palace; "Varieties” on the stage and “Beloved” on the screen at and “Beloved,” on the screen at the Lyric; “She Done Him Wrong,” at the Apollo; "Four Frightened People,” at the Circle; "Long Lost Father,” at the Indiana; "Little Women,” at the Fountain Square, and burlesque at the Mutual and Colonial. Tonight at 8:15 at the Murat the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra will appear in concert.
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Walker Stone (right), red-headed Washington correspondent for The Times, holds a conference with Senator Frederick Van Nuys.
the school during Walker’s four years there, had the pleasant duty of meeting and conversing with Mr. Stone. Walker’s must have been a potent quill, for he admits he wore spots in the green carpet. a a a A FTER a few years of newspaper work in Oklahoma, Walker headed for Washington with the avowed purpose of becoming a lawyer. But, as is usually the case, the newspaper magnet was too strong and Walker soon found himself working for the Washington News, ScrippsHoward paper in the capital. In his five years on the News he covered every beat in Washington, from, as he himself puts its, “police headquarters and the house of representatives up to the White House.” He became city editor and later was recording the antics of the “dignified” senate when he was taken off the News staff and placed on the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance and soon after named Washington correspondent for The Times. This is his fourth year as correspondent for The Times and now he knows the “inside” of Indiana’s politics as he does a well-
DEFENDS STATE BEERTAX PLAN Large Collection at Small Cost Is Praised by Excise Official. Defense of the Indiana plan of beer and liquor tax collections was voiced today in a statement from Sam H. Lesh, deputy excise director and department auditor, showing large collections at little cost. Mr. Lesh pointed out that total collections by the excise department from April 1 to Dec. 31, 1933, amounted to $1,865,856,95, with collection costs amounting co but 2.95 per cent. “Under the system by which collections are made directly from importers, brewers and wholesalers, a personnel of only twenty-two was used in the division,” Mr. Lesh said. “Thirteen of the twenty-two were investigators and nine the office force. “Operating expenses for the nine months were $54,705.62, of which $3,136.55 was a nonrecurring expense for office equipment and $1,040.58 for building repairs. "Salaries accounted for $31,245.80 of the total and other operating expense, such as traveling expenses for investigators, was $18,696.39.”
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read book. But you should hear Walker describe it himself. a a a are faults a-plenty,” IVJ. he admits. “I confess, for example, a warm regard for exSenator Jim Watson. I like him better as an ex-senator than I did as a senator. “I’d do almost anything for him except vote for him. Jim never could see the need to play politics any different than after the fashion of Mark Hanna and Boies Penrose. “And so,” says Walker, “when it becomes my job to report Jim’s efforts to get re-elected, I seldom wrote a story without some misigivings as to the cruelty of the truth. “When Arthur Robinson starts down the re-election home stretch,” he adds, “it will be my duty again to write a lot more truthful and cruel stories—but I won’t feel as I did when I reported Jim’s efforts to carry water on one shoulder and whisky on the other, and make ‘20,000 votes’ out of his home loan bank bill.” “I confess, also,” says Walker, “some sadistic traits. How else could I have probed so often the mental tortures that afflicted Congressman Louis Ludlow in
——Capital Capers International Problem Is Pisco National Drink of Peru or Chile? U. S. Delegates Get Gallon to Decide. BY GEORGE ABELL Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—The trip of Secretary of State Cordell Hull to the Pan-American conference at Montevideo has left him deeply impressed with the hospitality and genuine friendliness of the Latin American nations. Everywhere the visitors met with real demonstrations of affection. In many instances people put themselves to inconvenience in order to be kind. In the little port of Buenaventura, Colombia, the Santa Barbara docked during a downpour of rain.
Secretary Hull and his party disembarked. They stepped off the gangplank and— stepped aboard a private train. The train carried them exactly four blocks to the porte cochere of their hotel. The same train-taxi waited outside and carried Hull back to his boat after a banquet. There were seventy guests at the dinner. Silver, linen, chefs, j waiters, wines all had been brought to Buenaventura from Bogota, the Colombian capital. tt a tt EN ROUTE back, traveling from Colon to Key West aboard the cruiser Richmond, the ship’s orchestra played gala tunes during dinner. Suddenly the orchestral harmony trailed into a wail. Two sailor musicians had felt the effects of the Richmond’s speed as she breasted the Qarribean swells. > Secretary Hull—a seasoned traveler—continued placidly to eat creamed spinach. He never gets seasick. Crossing the equator, a colorful ceremony was enacted on the decks of the S. S. Santa Barbara. Secretary Hull viewed the fun from a royal box, as the guest of King Neptune. nun AT the Chilean frontier who should greet Mr. Hull’s party but dapper, handsome Federico Agacio, former counselor of the Chilean embassy here, now Chief of the political division of the Foreign Office. With Mr. Federico was his wife, the blond, charming Senora Consuelo Agacio. Consuelo —it appears—is as witty as ever and whiled away the time with amusing anecdotes. The Governor (intendente) of Antofogasta Province, Chile, entertained in his palace for the visitors. His lovely daughter tripped downstairs and spoke English to Hugh Cumming, private secretary to Mr. Hull, while her father discussed high diplomacy with his chief. “My sister lives in Washington,” she informed the surprised Hugh. "Who is she?” asked Hugh. “Mme. de Walravens, wife of an attache at the Belgian embassy.” Who, incidentally, is one of the j handsomest younger women in the diplomatic set. * • IS PISCO, that white, highly alcoholic beverage which resembles kirsch, the national drink of Peru or of Chile? Hull's party had a chance to learn the answer to this international queston and solved it diplo-
those, to him at least, distressing days when Indianapolis was changing from a dry to a wet town. “Louis,” he declares, “now is busy trying to find out whether the folk back hbme have forgiven him for his prohibition record. He wants to take Arthur Robinson's seat in the senate.” a a a “T OBBIES of the Capitol and A-/ the hotels of Washington,” Walker says, “always seem to be overflowing with Indiana politicians. They want jobs or contracts—anything to get their fists into the federal treasury. “They talk politics—never anything except politics—and it is the politics of personalities, not the politics of principles and issues. “For a long time I have been trying to find out the real difference between the Democratic party in Indiana and the Republican party in Indiana. At last I believe I have found the answer: They are never in office at the same time.” That’s Walker Stone. Level - headed young man, what? Next—The cartoonist.
matically, to the satisfaction of • both countries. Federico Agacio, the Chilean diplomat, informed Hugh Cumming that pisco is the national drink of Chile. < Federico, Chileans admit, is mistaken. Chicha is the national drink.) In Peru, Mr. Cummings mentioned to a Peruvian staff officer that pisco was the national drink of Chile. “Not at all,” said the officer. “It is the natonal drink of Peru. It is named after a town called Pisco.” Nothing more was said but that evening, before the banquet given by the President of Peru, a note was presented to Secretary of State Hull by a Peruvian offcial: “At the directon of his excellency, the president of Peru, I have the honor to present to his excellency, the Secretary of State of the United States of America, and to the members of his party a real sample of the Peruvian national drink, pisco.” a tt tt IT was not until after dinner however, that the sample was forthcoming. Between files of soldiers in glittering helmets and red plumes who raised their sabers in salute, Secretary Hull and members of his suite started to walk down the marble steps of the palace. Just then an excited aid-de-camp dashed qyer and thrust a parcel wrapped in newspapers into the hands of one of the American visitors. “I forgot to give you this,” he whispered. As the triumphal cortege started downstairs, the newspapers unrolled and fell to the ground, disclosing a one-gallon keg of pisco —national drink of Peru. APPOINT COMMITTEE OF 7 FOR HORSE SHOW Announcement Follows Meeting of Association Officers. The Indiana Saddle Horse Association today announced appointment of a horse show committee, following a meeting of officers last night in the office of President Maurice L. Mendenhall. The committee includes Wallace O. Lee, chairman; R. E. Phelps, Martinsville; Alex Metzger, Mrs. Fred Hoke and Charles W. Jewett, all of Indianapolis; Fred Whitehouse, Columbus, and D**P. O. Bonham, Mooresville.
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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler THE operation of the child labor amendment to the United States Constitution, which was ratified in 1940, has resulted in severe casualties in the first year. Reports of the child labor enfortement bureau in Washington list 1.280 children who were caught in the act of shoveling snow, mowing lawns, beating rugs for their mothers, or washing dishes, and shot dead when they tried to escape. The most recent incident of the kind, in which an entire family of six children, ranging in ages
from 5 to 13, were mowed down by machine-gun fire as tney attempted to fill up the wood bin in their widowed mother's kitchen, under cover of darkness, in a little town in North Dakota, is regarded by the enforcement arm as a grim warning that the sanctity of the Constitution must be respected. The agents who wiped out this band of law-breakers have been called to Washington and it is understood that they will be publicly recommended by the chief of the bureau. There were ten agents in the party. They rushed the house after the gunfire had ceased and overpowered the mother of the children who
lay ill with pneumonia. Blackjacks and pistol butts were used. She was charged with violating the child labor amendment and also with six violations, one as to each child, of the Smith five and ten law passed by congress to supplement the constitutional ban on the employment of children. Under the Smith five and ten act it will be possible for the court to send her to prison for a maximum of sixty years and to fine her $30,000 in addition to any penalties which may be assessed under the Constitution and the state enforcement act. The United Slates district attorney will enter the federal court tomorrow and ask for a padlock for the widow’s cottage. a a a Public Opinion Favorable 'T'hERE has been some reaction against the seA verity with which the amendment has been enforced in some quarters of the country, but, on the whole, public opinion seems to agree that if this law is not enforced, then the respect for all law will be undermined. “The only way to enforce a law is to enforce it,” said Senator Smith, the author of the Smith five-and-ten law. “These children not only floated the law. but when the enforcement agents, hiding behind the wood pile and the dog house, called on them to surrender, they tried to escape. I am told also that one of the little girls was a notorious little work-moll who had been known to work early and late, not only for her mother but for neighbors. Our agents report that when they called on this gang to surrender, this little girl made a motion toward her hip as if reaching for a gun. I am net going to ask our brave boys to expose their lives to unnecessary risks. It is true that this little girl, when searched after the fight, did not have any gun, but she should not have made a false move toward her hip.” The agents, all of whom had long experience in prohibition enforcement, were taken under the protection of the United States district court at once just by way of forestalling any possible legal action which might be taken against them in the state courts. In the federal court, if any accusation should be made against them, they will be defended by the United States district attorney pnd a special assistant to the attorney-general who* will be sent out from Washington. a a a Children Turn to Petit Larceny A DVOCATES of the child labor amendment have been outspoken in their satisfaction over the showing thus far made in the enforcement of the law. While it is undoubtedly true that many children do continue to work secretly, washing windows under cover of darkness, it is also apparent that many children have given up their nefarious occupations and turned to such pursuits as craps, shop-lifting and the theft of removable parts from parked automobiles. There is a feeling among the amendment forces that after another year or two of ruthless enforcement there will come along a generation of children who have never known the taste or desire for work, who will grow up without any inclination to work in after life. “Everything takes time, you know,” said Senator Five-and-Ten Smith with a genial twinkle in his eye, “and the difficulties of enforcing the amendment the first year should not be exaggerated. I predict that in five or six years our children will grow up with a great loathing for work and will shun it ail their lives. The evils of the old system are too apparent to need pointing out again Our children heard nothing but work, work, work, jobs, jobs, jobs, and grew up to manhood and womanhood with a craze for work. What was the result? There came a time when all the work was done. There were no jobs left and depression, panic, poverty ensued. We must never let this happen again.” (Copyright. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. ,nc.)
Your Health -====== BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN :i WHEN you get a pain in the abdomen, you need not associate it immediately with indigestion or an attack of appendicitis. Os course, the pain may be due to either of these causes, and then again it may be due to any of a large number of other troubles. You should remember that your abdominal cavity contains not only your stomach and intestines, but also the liver, the spleen, the kidneys, the pancreas, the adrenal glands, the gallbladder, the urinary bladder and. in the case of the female, the organs of sex. Inflammations or infections of any of these organs may produce severe abdominal pain. Whatever you do about such a pain, don’t guess, because some of these causes may be exceedingly serious. The pains may vary from dull, vague discomforts to serious and incapacitating pains of the type that double a patient up. The pain may be in one place or it may radiate. It may get better with food or worse. It may be associated with dozens of other symptoms such as nausea, distension, belching or weakness and loss of weight, or it may be independent of any other symptom. nun ACTUALLY, pain in the abdomen may be a result of disturbance in the lungs or in the heart. Any sort of disturbance of the large intestines may bring about pain, and there are innumerable such disturbances, varying from chronic constipation and colitis, with irritability of the bowels, to such serious conditions as cancer or amebic dysentery. It is known that, in conditions like locomotor ataxia, severe pains may occur in the abdomen and that sometimes inflammations of the bones of the spine may bring about pains related to the abdominal cavity. Even chemical poisons may be associated writh pains in the abdomen. This occurs particularly In the case of poisoning by lead. Lead colic frequently is seen among workers in industries in which lead is much used and in which there is no proper attention to safety. Finally, any of the common diseases that affect the body generally may be reflected in secondary changes taking place in the abdominal cavity. You may see, therefore, that here Is a case In which knowledge is better than guesswork and that your only safety lies in getting an accurate diagnosis.
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