Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1934 — Page 9

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It Seems to Me By Hey wood Broun WEDNESDAY, Feb. 28.—(Somewhere on a Train).—This column is supposed to be written on a train. In a mild way that's a lie. I wrote it before I got on the train. The motion always distracts me, and the drinks have a habit of falling over on top of the typewriter. So if you don’t mind we ll just pretend that we are on a train speeding along in the general direction of Miami. I will not at this time attempt to describe Miami,

as I never have seen it. That w ould not inevitably stop me, but some of my scouts say that there is nothing much to see when you do get there. On second thought, please consider that line explunged. I have no hotel reservation in Miami, and I read in some paper that they were charging as much as $25 for a cot placed boldly in the middle of a hotel corridor. I do not want to sleep in a hotel corridor for even twice that amount. So let's get a pleasant little line in right about here concerning America's most famous winter resort. I understand Miami's ver>' lovely. Would you take maybe sl6 for that cot and put

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a screen around it, mister? nun The Mystery of Miami MY going to Miami is all pretty mysterious. I know that my head aches, and I think quite possibly I have been shanghaied. The last thing I ran remember is sitting in a restaurant with Joe Williams talking about my health. At least, I was talking about my health; he may have been describing his. But I distinctly remember saying: “Joe, I'm almost 40 years old. In fact. I'll be 46 my next birthday. I can't go on the way I'm going. There is important work for me to do in the world, and I need a complete rest for a couple of weeks. 1 don t want to go to Miami." He said Miami was just like New York and that you met all the overflow' from the Ha-Ha Club. “You're quits right,” I said. “That would be no rest at all. Playing the races all afternoon. Maybe lasing money at roulette after dinner and then watching the dogs chase a mechanical rabbit.” “Joe” I said with great earnestness, “do you know who I am?” His guess was “Midget Wolgast,” for he had not yet caught the utter intensity of my mood. “Joe,” I told him, “I'm that mechanical rabbit. I mean just in one sense, of course. The life has got me. Did you ever stop to think that newspaper work is like a race track?" Mr. Williams replied that he never had slopped to think. “It is like a race track,” I continued, “and the greyhounds are after us. Each day the public screams. 'Faster! Faster!’ You and I are well into the stretch and have only a little distance to go—tt tt tt Joe Williams Interrupts MR. WILLIAMS interrupted to say that, while it was probably true that I had only a couple of jumps left, he himself was not yet 30 and there was no particular reason why we should be coupled in the betting. “I speak,” I explained, “in metaphors. Even at your age you must have felt the strain of the everlasting grind. We have not yet won the five-day thirty-hour week. Like the mechanical rabbit, we are bound to the wheel. I want to get away from it all. I don't want to go to Miami. The same old excesses, the same old faces, the same late hours. But, of course, they still have prohibition.” "I had to digress for a few minutes to point out that in speaking of the “same old faces" I meant nothing uncomplimentary to Mr. Williams. “There is a way out of all this hurly-burly," I continued when peace had been restored. "A frfcpnd of mine is going to a little place where the Pllillies train. It is called Winter Haven. He says tHRt it is quiet. He has asked me to accompany Wm.” OHM The Ideal Resting Spot YOUR friend is eminently correct," answered Colonel Williams. "Winter Haven is quiet. From dawm to dusk no sound is heard save when an orange drops from a tree or one of the Philadelphia infielders muffs a pop fly. There you will find peace and contentment." "Peace and contentment and the Phillies,” I murmured. “What more could anybody ask for whom the pace-of modern life has been too punishing and exacting? My decision is made. There will I loiter under the Florida sun and watch the grass grow and the fast ball of the current Philadelphia pitcher come up to the plate. It is the ideal selection '"’t of all the world.” I as I said before. I'm afraid I have been shat aied. A mistake has been made somewhere. I ji _ looked at my railroad ticket. It still reads “Miami.” CCopyright. 1934, by The Times)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

WITH the announcement that it is “dedicated to the women of America." the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company ha.i just opened for public inspection its "Home of Tomorrow" at Mansfield. O. It looks like a brick house built along rather modernistic lines. But actually, it is more than that. It is a laboratory in which new household appliances can be tested under home conditions. Twenty engineer g divisions of the Westmghouse company have j-operated to make it a laboratory of household research. iere the Westmghouse engineers expect to carry or researches and develop appliances, many of which may not find their way to the market until five or even ten years have elapsed. That is why they have named it the "Home of Tomorrow.” Among the present features of the house is a microphone which enables callers at the front door to carry cn a conversation with persons inside the house, a complete weather-conditioning unit, and nineteen built-in electric motors to lighten the duties of the housewife in various ways. Anew deal for housewives, whereby' they. too. can be assured a forty-hour week, is the ideal ot the Westinghouse engineers, so they say. a a a A “WEATHER ROOM" is located in the basement of the house. It is here that the air for the house is cleaned, humidified or dehumidified according to its needs, warmed or cooled, depending upon the season, and then distributed to the rest of the house through a system of ducts. A system of switches makes it possible to control the ••weather” from any part of the house. The engineers gave considerable thought to the illumination of the house. For this purpose 320 light bulbs have been used. The average home today, they say, uses twenty-eight. Most of the lighting fixtures are either set flush in the ceilings or wall or recessed in the ceilings. Closets, cupboards and the refrigerator are equipped with lights which go on automatically when the doors are opened. In the dining room, a large recessed fixture has been placed in the ceiling behind a frosted glass panel. A bank of colored lights enables the hostess to choose any intensity of illumination or any color effect which she desires for her dinner party. m a a A FEATURE of the house are mirrors in the bathroom, bedrooms and front entry hall. These have lighting fixtures built into their tops and side* which throw the light upon the face of the person using the mirror. They achieve an unusual effect of brilliance and eliminate the shadows. 'Hie breakfast nook nas considerable electric equipment including a built-in electric percolator with a connection to the water systexh and a drain.

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BY DAVID DIETZ Sripps-Howard Science Editor AFTER the next world war—what then? After the airmen have dropped high explosive shells and poison gas shells and vials of disease germs upon the cities, after the rival airmen have sent each other to flaming deaths with their machine gun fire, after the tanks have ravaged the countryside and the towns, after the siege guns have pounded the subterranean forts to pieces, after the stalemate of a year or more of trench warfare, where will western civilization be? There are students of history who forsee the collapse of the modern world in the next war. Picture the havoc of the next war; the cities destroyed by shell and gas, the wreckage of railways, the destruction and disease. Listen for a moment to Guglielmo Ferrero, celebrated Italian historian, recognized by many students as the greatest living authority on history. He says: “Tlie next war will kill three times as many and cripple twenty times as many and will plunge Europe into a chaos from which it will never extricate itself.

“The next w r ar is the death knell of Europe, the destruction of our western civilization.” Let us look for a moment at w'hat the last w'orld war did to the nations. Dr. Liebmann Hersch of Switzerland, professor of statistics at the University of Geneva, has assembled some significant figures upon the subject. a tt tt AS he points out, the deaths and injuries upon the battlefield are only a part of the story. The last world war took its toll of lives in the neutral countries as well as among the belligerents. It upset the life of the w r hole world. “Modern warfare brings about the complete ruin of the economic and social life of the stricken countries,” says Professor Hersch. “Afterwards, it exercises a considerable influence upon the number of the population, upon its composition and its movements.” Professor Hersch is a student of demography, as the statistical study of populations is called. “From the demographic point of view',” he continues, “victors and vanquished are on the same plane. The differences between them—if such differences really exist — are in any case of secondary importance. “Thus, for instance, France, though emerging victorious from the great war, but already having an almost stationary population long before the World war, saw r the number of its European subjects fall, despite the reannexation of Alsace-Lorraine, to a figure lower than that shown by any previous census since 1866. As regards numbers, the French in France were thrown back sixty years. “Serbia, however, which finally came out victorious in the great w'ar, w T as the country most decimated by the war in respect to the numbers of its population.

The Theatrical World 35,000 Letters a Week Are Sent Kate Smith BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

A STAR'S popularity often is gauged by the amount of fan mail he or she receives, and executives of movie and radio studios study carefully the amount of fan mail received by each star. Kate Smith receives an average of 35.000 letters a week, according to Miss Hilda Cole, press representative, who is paving the way for Miss Smith's appearances on the Indiana stage, starting next Friday. “Out of these letters,” Miss Cole states, “the radio, stage and screen star has uncovered some humorous and pathetic stories which would have given O. Henry food for thought. “By a curious twist of fate, a mother and daughter were reunited when Kate sang 'Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight’ at the request of a parent in search of a prodigal son. “The mother wrote Kate that her son had left home suddenly and had not notified her of his whereabouts. And because he was an ardent Kate Smith fan. the mother hoped that the singer would broadcast the song and mention his initials.

SUPPORT NEW DEAL IS PLEA OF PETERS Recovery Program Praised by Senate Candidate. The federal government will spend less than one-third the amount of money in its program of recovery, preserving life, than it did in its World war program, destroying life, R. Earl Peters, United States senatorial candidate, declared in a speech yesterday. Speaking before the members of the Indiana Petroleum Association, Mr. Peters urged the oil men to support President Roosevelt’s "new' deal" program and asked that the federal government not be criticised for helping "keep life in needy citizens." The tworday meetinng of the oil men opened yesterday at the Severin. A luncheon was held at noon. L. J. Scheldt of Columbus, president of the association, has charge of the meetings which will continue through today. Indianapolis Tomorrow Advertising Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Engineering Society, luncheon, Board of Trade. Real Estate Board, luncheon. Washington. Illini Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. American Business Club, luncheon. Columbia Club. Shrine Caravan Club, luncheon, Scottish Rite cathedral. Acacia, luncheon, Harrison. Home Complete Exhibitors, luncheon, Columbia Club. Sigma Nu, luncheon. Washington. Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade. \ k <

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HORRORS OF THE NEXT WAR

Nothing But Conflict Ahead, Say Eminent Historians

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1934

“Germany, subjected to a pitiless blockade and vanquished, had to register an enormous increase in the mortality of its civilian population; this increase, showing three-quarters of a million deaths in excess of the normal mortality, was however less severe than that observed in Italy (over a million) which was a country on the side of the victors.” tt tt tt DEATH on the battlefield, during a war. is accompanied by death from disease behind the lines. Dr. Hersch speaks of the battle front and the “sanitary front.” The sanitary front broke down in the last war. “It gave way first, in the winter of 1914-15, as was natural, in the more backward countries in Serbia, in Russia, in Poland, and partly also in Austria-Hungary, where typhus entered upon its old right or war. “Later the sanitary front broke also in the other belligerent countries; it broke in the form of an epidemic which, like the war itself, invaded an area and made a number of victims like no epidemic which had preceded it in history, sparing neither belligerents nor neutrals, military men nor civilians, men nor women, adults nor children; this was influenza.” We shall never know the exact numbers of victims of the influenza epidemic. But Professor Hersch tells us we may estimate it at approximately 10.000,000 deaths in Asia, 2,500,000 in Europe, and 1,500,000 in America, and at least 1,000,000 more in the rest of the world. That is a total of 15,000,000 deaths. But influenza does not tell the whole story. There were other epidemics. Russia, for example, was ravaged by typhus, typhoid fever, recurrent fever, cholera, smallpox, dysentery, malaria and scarlatina. Typhoid fever and ty-

“Kate did as requested and in a few days she received a letter from another worried mother, stating that her daughter had left home and on hearing Kate sing her plea for wandering boys to go home, had returned to her mother. “This mother concluded her letter by stating, ‘God bless you, Kate Smith, and every night I pray that the little mother about whom you sang will be as fortunate as I am’.” Miss Smith will arive in Indianapolis tomorrow from Hot Springs, Ark., where she has been resting a few days. She will bring her own company to the Indiana Friday, giving four complete shows daily. tt tt In City Theaters INDIANAPOLIS theaters today offer: “Words and Music,” on the stage and “Advice to the Lovelorn” on the screen at the Lyric. “Palooka,” at the Apollo; “Bolero.” at the Circle; “Moulin Rouge," at Loews Palace; “No More Women ’ and “Search for Beauty," at the Indiana; “I was a Spy,” at the Alamo, and burlesque at the' Mutual.

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phus swept over Serbia, Poland and into Austro-Hungary. There also was an increase, Professor Hersch points out, in the deaths from ordinary diseases in Europe during 1918 and 1919. In other words, the population’s resistance to disease had been lowered. tt tt tt THUS, for example, the death rate from tuberculosis began to rise in both belligerent and neutral countries after 1917. “The increase of mortality from tuberculosis was the direct outcome of underfeeding and overstrain, especially the overstrain of women, who were obliged to take the place of men both in the fields and in the factories, especially in the munition factories,” Professor Hersch says. Professor Hersch gives us a “balance sheet” of deaths caused directly in military service and indirectly among civilians during the World war. The general total of military deaths is 13,055.000. Os civilian deaths, it is a larger figure, namely, 20.379,000. The combined total makes 41,435,000 deaths the price of the World war. Forty-one million dead in a war “to end wars” and “to make

NORGE REFRIGERATOR SALES DRIVE OPENED New Line Introduced Here; Record Year Predicted. Survey among 23,322 consumers in 399 cities revealed that 32.2 per cent of families questioned intend to buy electric refrigerators this year, it was announced at a meeting of 200 dealers of the Gibson Company, Norge distributors, yesterday at the Antlers. “There are many local evidences that conditions here are paralleling progress of national recovery,” said John H. Knapp, Norge Corporation vice-president. Mr. Knapp said the company in launching a great spring sales drive will expand greatly its use of newspaper advertising, as the one indispensable medium of public education. The new line of Norge refrigerators was introduced at the meeting. G. 0. P. CLUB TO DANCE Program Is Sponsored by Young Republicans of County. Young Republicans of Marion county will hold a “primary dance” at the Athenaeum Thursday, March 8. Floor show’s, directed by Harry Bason, will be given at 10 o'clock and at midnight. Jack Tilson's orchestra will provide the music. Mrs. Fern Norris is general chairman of the dance.

By George Clark

The question: Can civilization survive this?

the world safe for democracy.” Fighting has gone on somewhere in the world many times since the signing of the Versailles treaty, and it is only necessary to call the roll of revolutions and the ascension of dictators to see how safe the world was made for democracy. Today, sixteen years after the end of the war to end wars, the world trembles on the brink of another war. Listen for another moment to the voice of the historian, Ferrero: “Wars never settle anything. Every war is the cause of the next war. Wars follow war.’” There is another lesson to be learned from the last World war. Revolutions came in the wake of the last war. There was the revolution in Russia and in Germany. There was the rise of dictatorships in Italy, Hungary and elsewhere. u tt n WILL the governments who take part in another world war be able to survive it? It seems reasonable to guess from thejast war that all of them will not.

‘Big Business ’ Toiling to Stop Leftward Trend BY S. H. BURROW Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—What is popularly known as big business is organizing furiously to stop the leftw'ard trend of President Roose-

velt and the brain trust. The usual target of left-wingers, the United States Chamber of Commerce, is keeping fairly quiet. It helped to put over NRA, and it’s leaders, many of them, are inside the Roosevelt administration and bound thereby to keep quiet on the basis of loyalty. Two other right wing outfits are pretty quiet, too. They are the bankers, who still smart under the opprobrium and funny stories carried over from last March, and the Wall Street stock exchangers. The latter are on the defensive now. But among the active conservatives are some real moguls. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau seems to be No. 1. Commerce Secretary Daniel Roper (Dangerous Dan) now seems to be No. 2. Gerard Swope is high on the list. The committee for the nation, now that the dollar is devalued, is getting busy to whittle down the stock exchange bill. Roper’s unofficial “business advisory and planning council for the department of commerce” is getting in some licks. The National Association of Manufacturers, ancient enemy of organized labor and defender of rugged individualism, is active in lobbies at congress'and elsewhere, including among its activities NRA’s Weirton case. a tt a INSIDE the new deck there is plenty of conflict between left and right in addition to the famous Peek-Tugwell split. Public works, civil works, the labor department, agriculture and railroad co-ordination are packed full of left-wingers. But in treasury, commerce and a large part of NRA the tale is different. Mr. Morgenthau is actively but quiety for modification of the stock exchange bill. Hugh Johnson's 100 or so administrators are so nearly all business men, and rocking the boat is the last thing they would do. Hugh himself is a little more imaginative, and probably would not be afraid of boat rocking if he thought it would work. But he would have to be pushed if he u r ent left. His advisory boards have plenty of left-wingers, but he doesn’t always listen to them. tt tt tt SECRETARY ROPER'S public utterances are extremely interesting—his latest speeches in florida, for instance. In one he quoted John Stuart Mill and expressed regret to a Robbins college audience that the public has been led to place “over-emphasis on the Brain Trust and college professors” in the administration. “I can think of no single legislative enactment up to this time which has been dominated by the views of any single professor or group of professors,” he said. He spoke glowingly of all the “practical business men” who are aiding in emergency and reform legislation. But the next day at Babson park he again quoted, Mill. **

Professor Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin, chairman of the division of sociology at Harvard university, sees nothing ahead of mankid but wars and more wars. He tabulated an index of the amount of wars in history and found that with each century there was more and more war in the world. “Hopes that wars will disappear in the near future are based on nothing more than wishes and a belief in miracles,” he says. Oswald Spengler, author of “The Decline of the West,” says much the same thing. “Human history is war history,” he says. Like Sorokin Spengler sees other wars ahead. “The World war was but the first flash and crash from the fateful thundercloud which is passing over this century” he says. Spengler, it would appear, giories in the thoughts of more war. “Man is a beast of prey,” he says. “I shall say it again and again.” Is Spengler right? Is man a beast of prey? Is Sorokin right? Is there nothing but wars ahead? And if so, is the destruction of civilization ahead of us? These are the questions that cry out for answer. THE END

saying “When society requires to be rebuilt, there is no use to rebuild it on the old plan.” He also gave a general approval to unemployment insurance and annuities. Mr. Roper’s “business advisory and planning council” consists of half a hundred of the big guns of business—Swope, Pierre, Dupont, Walter Teagle, Myron Taylor, Gerald Swope, and so forth. This is not the long-range planning outfit authorized by the recovery act, but Roper hopes it will do the planning anyhow. Just what kind of planning it will do may be indicated by the statement which Chairman Swope issued on authority of the whole council, following its most recent meeting here last November. It said, after pledging support of Roosevelt, his program, NRA and the American standard of living, “To maintain this standard of living, business should remain free of governmental interference and control and must be permitted to continue to exercise the initiative and the aggressiveness that have characterized its remarkable development in the past.” Now Mr. Roper has summoned his moguls into session again. They will meet here March 8 at the conclusion of the NRA code conference just one year after the day when an era of “initiative and aggressiveness” ended with all the banks closed.

ILLNESS FATAL TO FRED B. ALEXANDER Lintoype Company Owner Succumbs at 37. Fred Butler Alexander, 37, died early this morning at the home of his father-in-law, O. E. Zander, 1011 Dawson street, where he had been ill for eight months. He was owner of the Alexander Linotype Company in the Liberty building. Funeral services will be held from Mr. Zander’s residence at 2 Friday afternoon. Mr. Alexander was a member of St. Marks’ Lutheran church. The pastor of the church, .the Rev, R. H. Benting, will have charge of the funeral service. Mr. Alexander was a member of Prospect lodge, F. & A. M., and of Typographical Union No. 1. He is survived by his father, Charles Alexander; his foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Asinger; a brother, j. Alexander: the widow, Mrs. - Julia Alexander, and four sons, Robert, Arthur, Jack and Dwight. Dice Player Shot in Throat Dice brought ill luck to Charles Brown, 32, Negro, 1423 Barrow' avenue, last night. He was shot in the throat following an argument over a dice game and is in the city hospital in a critical -condition.

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Fair Enough By / Westbrook Pegler WE seem to be up to one of our old weaknesses again in our business. John McGraw has died and you would think, from reading about him just now, that he never was a mortal man at all. but a beautiful ideal, whereas any one who knew him at all knew that he was as onery as he was generous and as tough as he was kind. It is a nice custom that we have of sending flowers on such occasions, but eulogy and biography are not the same and if you want to know what kind of

man McGraw was you will confuse yourself by reading only of how his hand was always in his pocket to stake a broken-down ball player or some old-time horse gambler or jockey. If he had been made of virtues only he never would have been the character that he was in the sport business but another A. A. Stagg, and in that case he never would have come to know some of the citizens of the middlew'orld and the underworld of sport who enjoyed his charity and praised his name. Not for nothing was he known as Muggsy in his earlier days. It was no unfailing sweetness and courtesy in him which blew

up all the storms that crashed around him in his time. He had his hours of civility and the hand that always was reaching into his pocket gave away much of his earnings. But civility in him was the more appreciated because it was almost startling in contrast to his other moods, and the hand that gave away charity also was mixed up in some very questionable promotions outside baseball. McGraw made restitution to a number of investors who had bought lots in a Florida subdivision which was promoted to spectacular failure along toward the end of the real estate boom down there and came out of the venture almost broke if not in debt. it tt tt McGraw, the Pursued UNFORTUNATELY, in appealing to the public for customers he had made himself personally li .ble by a careless wording of the advertisements. He had to make good to the extent of his resources and he spent a very uneasy* springtime in Florida one year after the crash of the real estate market, hopping from town to town ahead of his Giants and running his team by remote control as the constables pursued him with legal papers on behalf of the outraged investors. It alto is misleading to be told that his word was strictly reliable in all cases because the most serious row of his whole career arose from the fact that in a moment of temper over some ball-yard incident, w'hich occurred in Pittsburgh, he denounced the national commission of baseball and later denied that he had done so. It was a serious thing to denounce the national baseball commission in those days and McGraw might have been punished severly. But when he was challenged to affirm or deny that he had said these disrespectful things, he said it wasn't so. The baseball reporters were very cross about this repudiation, but that was merely a matter of anger and they soon got over it. But they didn't get over the shock and they never had the same respect for him again. McGraw knew this and it changed his attitude toward the baseball writers for a long time. He drew away from them on the road and the old personal ballyhoo which had been so important in the fame of the Giants waned off. After that incident, McGraw deceived the journalists on several other occasions and the relations between the management and the Fourth Estate never were completely cordial again until the last few years of his service with the club. By that time he was less temperish and anew crew of baseball writers, young ones, who took him strictly as they found him, discovered a McGraw who gave occasional parties, full of reminiscent talk which was good for writing, and answered questions, dumb or otherwise, with patient politeness. tt tt a He Was All New York I AM afraid the truth about a famous person who had just gone by might have the sound of smearing, but if people do not want to know what a sort of man the great man was they shouldn't ask. And when a Rickard or a McGraw lias died they do ask. McGraw was a country boy who became the most New Yorkese New Yorker in town. Tire New Yorkishness of George M. Cohan is genuine, but Cohan made an act of it, and anyway he represented Broadway and Broadway only to the national public, whereas McGraw stood for al) New York. His ball club w’as not the Broadway Giants but the New York Giants, and the arrogant character which McGraw deliberately created for his team when the Giants were on the road probably was responsible for the hostility of people elsewhere toward New York, which persists to this day. Sometimes still a New York citizen, coming into a hotel in a small city, is able to detect in the glance of the hotel clerk as he scans the line “John Smith, New York," a lock which says, “New York, eh? Well, what of it?” McGraw’s career was the struggle through life of a poor mortal who was big in his strength and big in his faults and did the best he could with what he had. (CoDvrieht. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

WHAT happens when the baby goes to sleep? First of all, the family feels rested! But, seriously, this question has been engaging the interest of invest.gators intensively for the last few years. Does the baby sleep quietly or does it move and roll? A study was made recently with twenty-eight children in a sleep laboratory located miles away from a railroad or public thoroughfare. All the children slept on identical ued-springs, mattresses, pillows, and bed clothing. The temperature and the barometric pressure in the room were recorded continually. It was found that, if a person is in the habit of going to sleep at 10 and getting up at 7, he moves a great deal more in his sleep between 10 and 11 at night, and between 6 and 7 in the morning than at any other time during the night. Aside from this fact, there is nothing else that is routine. Everybody has his own sleep pattern, and there is not even any similarity between males and females. it a a IN general, however, boys move around a little more than do girls. In fact, girls sleep more soundly than boys do and also get to sleep more quickly. For a long time it was thought that the taking of a warm drink before going to bed, or even of certain kinds of warm drinks, would make children sleep more soundly. To prove this point, the children were given cold water, warm water, warm milk and other beverages, before their bed-time. These tests showed that warm milk taken just before going to sleep has a definite effect in lessening the amount of movement during sleep in normal children. Children who drank cold water apparently moved about more than those who took orangeade or any other drinks. a a a ANOTHER study was to determine the effects of a heavy meal before going to bed. It was found that there was a definite increase in restlessness, especially noticeable in the first hour after going to sleep, if a heavy meal was taken at night. Notwithstanding the fact that a warm bath, before going to bed, is supposed to be relaxing, tW* did lot .prove to be general

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