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It Pernio Me HEVWOOD BROUN New haven. May 16. —This Is an interesting New England industrial city, which also contains a moderately well-known institution of learning. Fortunately, in this dispatch it will be impossible for me to take up in any detail the current educational or economic situation here. Upon registering Sunday at the Hotel Taft, I decided to write to my managing editor and the head of the syndicate, informing them of my present progress and future plans.

“Two 3-cent stamps,” I said to the clerk. He handed over a couple of lavender quadrilaterals embossed with a strange design. They looked like the things which in youth ' r e moistened in order to leave upon the arm a temporary tattoo effect. It was my notion that they would merely serve to spell out across my biceps, “Yale —the mother of men.” And so I said impatiently, “No. no; I want stamps to carry important letters to New York! a Everything in Order

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“'T'HESE are stamps," said the young man mildi\ 1 enough. ‘ They will carry whatever you want through snow or ram and something or other on their swift flight. I'm sorry I can not give you the exact quotation.” „ . _ I looked at the design again in some bewilderment. seeking to find the countenance of l Waj ihington or Jefferson or Warren Gamaliel Harding. But it was most distinctly an old lady. , ‘ Molly Pitcher?” I inquired, "or Betsy tvoss. ‘ Mr. Whistler's mother,” replied the polite young desk clerk at the Taft. , I was still all at sea. and I suppose my Pyzzlement was reflected upon my face, for without any furtner questioning the young man continued, •'The portrait originally was known as Study l Black and Gray.' ” “She was?” I asked. ‘ Oh. yes, sir, most distinctly gray, and by now the picture is popularly known as Mr. Whistlers Mother.' Indeed, if I may presume, it has come to be a symbol of mothers all the world over. It breathes, if I may be so bold, a spirit of serenity and peace and to hell with the younger generation. I assume that is why Postmaster-General Jim Farley chase it for the present memorial issue.” I looked more clasely at the stamp and read. • in memory and honor of the mothers of America Have you written your mother today, sir? asked the clerk. I shook my head shamefacedly. a tt tt Sentiments for All WE have numbered telegraph blanks here carrying appropriate sentiments which will be delivered promptly m suitably inscribed envelopes. ‘All I am I owe to you,’ ‘May your declining years be as happy as could be expected,’ or something more witty, such as ‘Don’t take any wooden nutmegs.' That is, of course, a local joke and suitable onlv if vour mother is acquainted with Connecticut traditions. We are sometimes called ‘the Nutmeg State,’ you know. Nutmeg. I believe, is manufactured here. It is used on apple pie. I looked at the picture again, and even the Portrait did not seem particularly suitable. Mr. Whistlers mother is shown with her hands folded in her lap ido not remember ever having seen my own mother assume this position except at such times as she was dummy. Possibly Mr. Farley left something out of Mr. Whistler's conception. It could very well stand a card table and three other players. tt 8 Reaching a Vital Decision TEARS welled up in my eyes as I passed the stamps, the pen, the ink. the blotter and the register to the clerk. "I will not want a room and bath tonight or any telegraph blanks/’ asked •We have displeased you in some way. he askta 311 "Not at all.” I answered. “By a happy chance \ou have reminded me that this is Mothers day. 1 happen to be a New York newspaper man. I have a duty to my paper. I have a duty to my syndicate, but there is still a greater duty.’ -Front'” cried the clerk, catching the drift of my remarks upon the instant. "Put this gentlemans bags back into his limousine. He is returning to the city to see his mother.” _ . As I climbed into the car I offered the boy a quarter, but he thrust it aswe. “I may be only a Yale man,” he said, “but I. too. have a mother. (Copyright, 1934, by The Times) •

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ"

franklin Institute of Philadelphia will aw aid A Franklin medals to Dr. Henry Norris Russell and Dr. Irving Langmuir. The medals are among the most coveted awards in the world of science. The two scientists, chosen to receive this years awards, are among the most famous in the world. Dr Russell sometimes called the dean of American astronomer’s, is director of the Princeton university observatory. He has been honored many times by his colleagues and has served as president of the American Association of the Advancement of Scienc<*. Dr. Langmuir, director of the research laboiatories of the General Electric Company, has been the recipient of the Nobel prize in chemistrj. Dr. Russell has spent his life studying the distant stars. He has been chiefly interested in such subjects as the composition and structure of stars, their life histories and methods of evolution. Dr. Langmuir has spent most of his time in recent years in an industrial laboratory, working upon incandescent lamps and radio tubes. an n IT might seem at first glance that there was a great gap between the work of Dr. Russell and Dr. Langmuir. But actually, their fields of endeavor are much closer together than the aterage reader might suspect. For the foundation in both cases is a knowledge of the atom. Both men have had to depend greatly in their studies upon the use of the spectroscope. Dr. Russell attaches his spectroscope to the end of a telescope and uses it to discover what atoms are doing in a star one hundred light years away. Dr. Langmuir focuses his spectroscope upon some glowing gas inside of a vacuum tube within arm's reach. Dr. Langmuir was one of the pioneers in atomic study. A number of years ago. he and Dr. G. N. Lewis suggested the so-called Langmuir-Lewis theory of the atom. According to this theory, the outer electrons of an atom were scattered about in zones or shells. Although this picture of the atom has been modified by the work of Bohr. Schrodinger. Dirac, and others, it is still regarded as fundamentally correct. 3 * n ONE of the big problems which physicists are attacking today is the release of atomic energy. Astronomers have reason to believe that such release of energy accounts for the radiation of the stars. Accordingly, any knowledge which can be acquired about the composition, structure, or behavior of a star, may have direct application to terrestrial affairs some day. The whole problem of stellar evolution is in a state of flux today because of difficulties with the time scale of the universe. If the theory of an expanding universe is correct, the universe must be much younger than previously thought. A tentative suggestion made by Dr. Russell is that there must be two sources of supoly for the energy of a star. For want of more exact knowledge at the time, he refers to these two supplies as ‘ giant stuff** and “dwarf stuff.” because the one supply is most characteristic of very large stars and the other of very small ones. As an example of the way in which a discovery in astronomy may later find terrestrial use. there is the familiar story of the discovery of helium. The existence of helium was first detected in the sun by Sir Norman Lockyear as a result of spectroscopic study. /

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Outlaws Live Briefly in Glory; Find Trail Has One End —Doom

Thin is the third of six absorbing stories on notorious outlaws of the nation, how their crimson careers were halted by bullet, rope, or prison cell, and of pres-ent-day “most wanted" criminals, their records and detailed descriptions. tt tt tt BY WILLIS THORNTON N'EA Service Staff Correspondent TEMPORARY success of the Dillingers, Floyds, and Barrows of banditry in defying the law can not obscure the fact that an unheard-of-number of big-time bandits came face to face with the last roundup during the last year. At least five “big shot” bandits went down under police gunfire, two were killed by their own kind, and at least four more went behind the bars to stay. There were thirteen bullets in the dying body of Wilbur Underhill when armed guards carried him through the gates of Oklahoma state prison. Underhill had cut a desperate trail through three states—Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. He was one of four brothers who were all criminals. He killed one man during a Christmas night drug store holdup at Okmulgee, Okla.; murdered a deputy sheriff and a policeman who sought to capture him. / He was one of eleven convicts who broke from the Kansas state penitentiary, kidnaping the warden. Half a dozen bank robberies were blamed on Underhill shortly after the Kansas escape, and he is believed also to have taken part in the machine-gun attack on a prison convoy at Kansas City's Union Station Plaza, in which five men were massacred.

So the law clung to his trail relentlessly. 11l and half-clad, he barely escaped a raid on a farmhouse near Shawnee, Okla. One of his confederates, Gene Johnston, was shot to death by police at Springtown, Ark. The law closed in on a house in the heart of Shawnee. Visited at midnight, it showed no signs of occupancy. But the law returned at 2:30 and found lights. Through a lighted window the law challenged: “Stick ’em up!” Underhill whirled, grabbed a gun from a table, and fired through the window. A fusillade of lead tore through the house, killing a wpman who was with Underhill. Underhill ran from the house in a spray of bullets, fell, rose, and ran on. a tt tt IXTEEN blocks he carried those bullets, and was found hiding in a bed in the rear of a furniture store. He died shortly afterward. Similar was the end of Bob (Big Boy) Brady, outlaw and prison breaker, who had been a companion of Underhill in the Kansas break, Brady’s third prison escape. Ortly a few weeks after Underhill’s death, Brady was run to earth by a sheriff’s posse near Paola, Kan., with three other escapers who had been making their way across country on foot, walking by night, hiding by day. A farmer spotted them, turned in a report, and quickly a posse gathered. Brady tried to fight. He leveled a sawed-off shotgun, but the sheriff's men were quicker, and he went down full of the charges of two shotguns. The other three were easily captured. a tt "TTANDSOME JACK" KLUTAS JLA could think of nothing better to do with a college education than to start a kidnaping ring. The former University of Illinois student pulled off a half dozen kidnapings said to have netted him nearly a half million dollars. Klutas got away with it for several years, making elaborate efforts to evade the law by operations to alter his facial appearance and his fingerprints. He lived in apparent “espectability. His accomplice, Russell Hughes, did the same, sporting a

TODAY and TOMORROW tt tt tt tt tt tt By Walter Lippmann

WALTER LIPPMANN. speaking yesterday in the first of a series lectures under the title of “The Method of Freedom”. on the Edwin Lawrence Godkin Foundation at Harvard university, said that the modern state must assume and is assuming responsibility for the national economy as a whole because it is compelled to assure a continuity of the people’s standard of life.

He said, in part: “I do not believe that liberty is, as we have been told on high authority, a corpse. But neither do I believe it can live only or live forever in the body it inhabited during the nineteenth century. And it is in the conviction that freedom is finding anew incarnation in anew body of principles that these lectures have been written. "It Ls in the English-speaking countries chiefly that these new' principles are being wrought out. They are being applied experimentally, not without confusion, hesitation and contradictions. Nevertheless, in the maze of measures taken in the British commonwealth and in the United States, and also in the Scandinavian countries, there is now' discernible the pattern of anew social policy. “It has been the fashion to try to see what is the future of capitalism by studying countries where capitalism is primitive and the future of political institutions where liberty has no traditions. Yet one might as well go to Massachusetts to study the habits of the palm tree as go to Russia to learn about the prospects of modern capitalism or to Central Europe to learn about the evolution of representative government. u a o “TT would seem reasonable to reA member that in the Englishspeaking countries there are the oldest and most powerful of governments: therefore, presumably, an aptitude among the people for the art of governing; that in these same countries wealth is more abundant than in any others, and that therefore it Ls not likely that they are wholly lacking in the knowledge of how to conduct an economy." There is. he said, a mood of revolutionary change in the world which is not the product of propaganda and of agitation of conscious revolutionists, but fundamentally a result of the breakdown of the post-war reconstruction. “We can see," he said, “why the post-war reconstruction was almost certain to fail. The old economy was a world-wide system of transactions that no ooe had

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“Killer” Burke, above, in chains, goes to a lucky life sentence; while Wilbur Underhill, below, awaits the bullet-ridden death he meted out to others.

false mustache, and changing the style of his hair and clothes. But that did not prevent a sharp-eyed policeman from recognizing Hughes as he stood loafing at the door of a Peoria, 111., barber shop. The police cruiser stopped, and Hughes backed into the store, firing with two guns. Two policemen, though wounded (one died later), went in after him, firing as they w ? ent.

deliberately contrived. It had grown to be what it was by the initiative, the compliance, the foresight and the miscalculation of multitudes of men in the course of many generations. It was not a consciously constructed organization, and it was, therefore, by its very nature, unsuited to conscious control. It was particularly intractable to the only kind of control which men were organized to exert, that is to say, the control by separate sovereign, popular government.” outt THE Great Society of the prewar world "had been cut into parts, and among the parts some had shrunk and some had swelled, some had lost and some had been replaced from new designs. The mere removal of the war controls did not cause the fragments to come together again; they no longer fitted one another. “Though many people hoped and believed that the world would relapse into normalcy, the wiser statesmen and their financial advisers saw almost at once that the pre-war economy could not be restored merely by disestablishing the war socialism. "The restoration had deliberately to be undertaken as a matter of conscious policy. It was undertaken. Between 1922 and 1928 the central banks and the international financiers co-operated in the reconstruction of what they believed to be the old cosmopolitan capitalism. They worked under enormous, in fact under insuperable handicaps. For although they had control over money and credit, they had almost none over commercial policy." Mr. Lippmann pointed out as evidence of the acceptance of the new Dew of the state’s duty the fact that Mr. Hoover, though professing a faith in individualism, did not follow the precedence of Cleveland or Grant in allowing the depression to run its course but did use collective measures to overcome it. 33 3 “AT the end, when he was -t"Y fighting for re-election and seeking to warn the country against the collectivist spirit of the new deal, Mr. Hoover’s de-

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1934

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“Handsome Jack” Klutas, left, the “collegiate killer,” arrives at the end of the trail he chose, shot down in front of his hideaway . . . while “Machine Gun” Kelly, right, chained like a vicious dog, starts for Ft. Leavenworth, where he will spend the rest of his life within the walls.

HUGHES, crouched behind a barber chair, died with seven bullets in his body. It w r as an ill omen for Klutas. He was living in apparent respectability in a neat brick house at lice arrived for the last roundup, Klutas chose to shoot it out. His body was neatly clothed in striped suit, pearl-gray spats, and a derby hat as it lay before his doorstep when the police guns stopped spitting. Kenneth Conn was just beginning to build himself quite a reputation as a bank robber wlien he tried it on the W'rong bank. At Altamont, Kan., the cashier of the Labette County State bank resisted when Conn and a companion stuck up the bank. Isaac McCarty, the cashier, shot the accomplice with a shotgun. Conn grabbed McCarty’s wife and held her in front of him as a shield. But McCarty dropped the shotgun and picked up a rifle, with w'hich he neatly killed Conn with two well-placed shots w'hich never touched Mrs. McCarty. tt tt tt budding which were cut short by a resolute sheriff were those of Sam Scola and Gus Fasone. They had just shot down a gang enemy from an auto in Kansas City. Mo., when Sheriff Thomas B. Bash happened by in his own car. Bash sw’ung his machine in front of the bandit car, and with a riot gun snuffed out Scola and Fasone before they could raise their weapons. Two of the slimiest of such

sense of his own administration consisted in reciting the long list of things he had done to stop deflation and liquidation and to restore the working balance of the economy. It w'as an impressive list. “He had spent billions in protecting banks, insurance companies and railroads against bankruptcy. He had spent great sums to maintain the prices of wheat and cotton. He had spent great sums on public works. He had striven to maintain wage rates. He had attempted to inflate credit. In pointing to his record, he did not say that he was an individualist who had let individuals make their own readjustments. He pointed with pride to the collective measures which he had taken to save individuals from making individual readjustments.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“I know how to get even. Let’s organize a girls' club and leave her out.’*

criminals w'ere removed without danger or trouble to the law w r hen Verne Miller and Gus Winkler were blotted out by their own kind. Miller, an expert machine gunner with a long string of crimes on his record, was found dead in a ditch near Detroit. He had been the machine gunner in the Kansas City massacre, but he was not even allowed to die by the gun—he had been beaten to death. Winkler, w r ho had acted as gobetween for several kidnaping rings, was found shot to death on a Chicago sidewalk. tt tt tt T)UT these men who died with the violence with which they lived were not the only ones whose scores settled by the law. Four especially fine birds now' roost in prisons. ’ Fred Burke, “Machine Gun” Kelly, Albert Bates and Harvey Bailey will do no more murdering or kidnaping. The last three named were neatly caught and convicted of complicity in the kidnaping of Charles Urschel, Oklahoma City oil man. Bailey and Bates were the first to get life sentences under the new- “Lindbergh kidnaping law T .” All three are in isolated cells in Ft. Leavemvorth prison, and are not likely ever to step outside its high walls. When Fred Burke heard the judge sentence him to hard labor for life in Michigan’s Marquette prison, he muttered a low “thanks!” He had reason to be thankful for Michigan’s lack of a death penalty. The list of Burke's crimes was so long and so bloody that he would have richly earned the gal-

The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, May 16.—A1l during this session of congress it has been as plain as the Washington monument that Roosevelt’s chief trouble was with his own party on Capitol Hill. Time after time it has been the old-line Democrats who united with Tory Republicans to knife administration measures. Now they are extremely happy. They think they have Roosevelt and his brain trust on the run. It has leaked out that dour Senator Stephens was the stumbling block. Stephens comes from Mississippi, faces a hard re-election fight, is considered a moss-back in the senate and got the commerce committee chairmanship through the pure luck of seniority. Stephens claimed that Willard Thorp, commerce bureau director, was a Republican, had registered as such in a local election.

Because of this heinous offense, Stephens, the senator from Mississippi. resorted to every possible

low r s in any state which had the death penalty. Beginning in 1927. Burke went through a series of crimes that ranged from machine gunner in Chicago’s disgraceful St. Valentine’s day massacre down through forgery and larceny to the coldblooded murder of a youthful patrolman, Charles Skelley, w'ho jumped on the running board of Burke’s car to arrest him for a petty traffic offense at St. Joseph, Mich. Several states sought Burke W'hen he was finally captured, but his luck held, and Michigan won the doubtful honor. tt a a r T'HE Burke capture is a typical example of the amateur succeeding when the professional is stymied. Burke was living at a farmhouse near Milan, Mo., and w r as seen only on infrequent visits co town. There a young farm lad who aspired to detective work noted his suspicious manner and his resemblance to the wanted man. The lad w'atched closely for weeks the comings and goings of Burke* his mannerisms and speech. Then he w T rote a letter to St. Joseph, Mo., police. And they came out and nabbed Burke without firing a shot, catching him in bed with his heavy armament of guns just out of reach. Next—The slate is not yet clean —a number of desperate outlaws still remain to settle their scores with society; Two of the mostwanted are Pretty Boy Floyd and Clyde Barrow. Read their detailed descriptions and stories next.

strategy to block the appointment. When other committee members proposed a sub-commit-tee to investigate, he appointed himself chairman of the sub-com-mittee. When Republican members of the sub-committee championed Thorp, Stephens rushed to the White House to urge withdrawal of his name. Instead, the President sent the committee a letter urging approval of the appointment. a a a BY this time, it had become a definite party issue; all the Democrats on the committee lining up against Thorp, all the Republicans for him. Again Stephens went to the White House. Again he urged Thorp's withdrawal, this time on the basis of overwhelming Democratic opposition in committee. If the name ever had reached the senate floor, the opposition would have evaporated. But despite this, Roosevelt got cold feet. He withdrew Thorp's name. Many foes and some friends of the President think his surrender has an important triple significance. 1. If Roosevelt will back down on a man who has served nine months and served brilliantly, he will yield on other things. 2. Future appointees will be out-and-out Democrats; no more Ickes, Woodins and Wallaces. 3. The brain trust, once sacrosanct, will be sacrificed to political expediency when and if necessary. Whether or not these deductions are correct will be tested soon. Somewhat the same case is that of Professor Rex Tugwell, whose appointment as under secretary of agriculture has been stalled in the agricultural committee by Senator ‘'Cotton Ed” Smith of South Carolina. ‘'Cotton Ed” is determined to run Tugwell out of Washington. Other old-line Democrats feel the same way.

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Entered a* Seeond-Claaa Matter at Postoffice. Indianapolis. Ind.

Fdir Enough mnfom MEMPHIS, Tenn.. May 16 —They had told ma that the principal point of interest in Memphis would be Beale street, the Negroes’ Broadway, for which W. C. Handy, the Irving Berlin of the Negro race, named his famous lament, the Beale Street Blues. This seems to have been not so much an original theme as one man’s arbitrary version of a racial moan which has been heard through the south with variations ever since the first black man was brought

in from Africa. The melancholy Negro sang blues long before W. C. Handy was born, but he sang free-style, rolling his own words to express his sadness and varying the tune of his dirge according to the depth of his individual woe. W. C. Handy nowadays has his life among the aristocracy of Lenox avenue, in Harlem. N. Y.. but he is honored in his own home town, for Memphis named a little patch of grass Handy park in recognition of his distinction. The detecti/e-sergeant had walked Beale street in uniform for years and therefore was as much at home in the district as

a cat in a feed store and as highly respected. He w-as glad it was Saturday night because Beale street is at its nest which is to say its worst, when the field hands from the surrounding country come in to shop, eat, drink, gamble and, possibly, fight somewhat. tt a Sin and Sidewalks WE turned into Beale street about 10 p. m. and headed down between a dingy, evil double row of old buildings, crowded to the' curbs with city Negroes and country types, men and women, swaggering sophisticates with padded shoulders and tight hips and shambling black rubes in overalls. Sin patrolled the sidewalks, with cheekbones and lips painted as red as anew trestle and music and the reek of burning grease drifted out through the open doors of such restaurants as the Gray Mule, the Half-Minute, the Minute and the Sweet Mama. “Gimme a snoot sandwich,” a country boy ordered at the Half-Minute. “What did he say?” “He wants a pig-snoot sandwich,” the detective-sergeant-said. “Very delicious eating, they say. A slice of pig-snoot fried in grease for a nickel. Or an order of pig tails, three on a plate, for a nickel or a dime. Or a fried hog’s ear for a nickel. I never did go for it myself, I eat at home. “That is Jim Mulcahy’s place,” said the detectivesergeant. Mulcahy’s Place on a corner location, w r as crowded to the doors with Negro night life and the music of a guitar and mouth organ came from somewhere. ‘Mulcahy’s place? A black Mulcahy?” “No,” the sergeant said, “White. Comes of a good family, too. I always heard, although I don’t know much about that. They claim he was educated in college, and he talks like it might be so, but I never did know the exact straight about that. He has been down here more years than I know, funning a pool hall and soft drinks, peddles a little corn, too, I suppose. The place is full of speakeasies.” a tt No Craps Game? RAPS game, too?” Not if we know it. Craps games cause too much trouble. They go along peaceably for awhile till some bum loser gets sore and then you’ve got another cutting or murder to bother with. They cut and murder enough as it is.” Beale street was Broadway in burnt cork with the lights turned low, the black man imitating the white man at his worst. The movies were discharging their crow-ds into the jam along the sidewalks. The wild hilarity of the Negro out spo’tin’ around on a Saturday night and the flattering laugh of the enchantress, appreciating his wit, mingled w’ith the sounds and smells. “Let’s go meet Mulcahy. Mulcahy is an interesting character.” Mulcahy w f as standing on the corner, a man of 50, with a pale, fat face, a soft voice and soft, small hands. “Everything’s quiet, sergeant,” said Mulcahy. “Negioes haven’t got any money. Would you let me buy you a drink?” “No, I’m on the w r agon.” ‘That's good.” Mulcahy said. ‘Yet, everything's very quiet. No fights, no excitement. I wish these Negroes could get hold of a little money, so they could spend a little. No better spender in the world than a country Negro with a $lO bill. He will work all week for a $lO bill and shoot it in one pass in a craps game and turn to you with a smile and say, ‘White folks, gimme a cigaret, please, suh?’” “Well, good night, Mulcahy.” “Good night sergeant. Sorry I can’t buy you a little drink.” (Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

THE spring type of hay fever appears to be prevalent about this time of the year, and although only about 5 per cent of the population of the United States seem to suffer from it, if you happen to be among the group, let me advise you to prepare carefully for the more serious summer type. The reason for this warning is that summer hay fever may occur among those suffering from the earlier form. Furthermore, because of its longer duration, the summer hay fever requires more precaution and medical attention than the shorter spring form. Spring hay fever begins around April 15 and continues to the end of May. It is apparently due to a special sensitivity to pollen of maple, pine, oak, poplar, and elm trees. n a u THE later hay fever follows from the end of May to about July 20. It comes from sensitivity to pollens of the grasses, particularly of the orchard, the blue, and the timothy varieties. If you are a victim of summer hay fever ycq can attempt desensitization by injection with small doses qf extracts of the pollens, beginning well in advance of the onset of the pollenation of the grasses. In case of a severe attack, you might find the injection of certain drugs, such as adrenalin and ephedrine, of considerable value toward maintaining your comfort. It has now been rather well established that you can lessen the severity of an attack of hay fever by avoiding the pollens as much as possible and even cutting down the total dosage of pollen. For this purpose, filters have been developed for installation in your sleeping room. These will filter out the pollens and the dusts, and so frequently enable you to pass a more restful night. n u g DURING the height of the season, when the trees and the grasses are pollenating, you should remain indoors as much as possible and you should certainly avoid trips in the country. if you have to go out for an auto ride, see that all windows of your car are closed, or the pollens will be thrown forcibly into your eyes and nose and set up a severe attack. The itching, watering of the eyes, sneezing and difficult breathing associated with severe forms of this condition, while not exceedingly serious from the point of view of being a menace to life, can nevertheless bring about such discomfort as to make living exceedingly unpleasant. Therefore, as a victim of hay fever, you should try to discover the kind of pollens to which you are sensitive. Then you may not only attempt desensitization, but also observe the precautions I have mentioned. i

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