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It Seem ioMe HEYtW® BMUN THE Indianapolis 500-mile automobile Speedway race is the second great disappointment in the life of every sports reporter. That was the lead I had designed for my current column. And if anybody asked, “What is the first?” it was my intention to answer, “Niagara Falls,” or possibly “The YaleHarvard boat race.” But I am not one to distort the truth in order to make a feeble joke. For almost two hours I was thinking in terms of concepts wiiich I found it necessary to discard. Man is more than the machine. That sounds well enough. I would rather watch two indifferent selling platers going down the stretch neck and neck than see some perfect product of an engineer’s imagination sweep to a hollow triumph

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in. That is nothing to me. When this verdict is rendered I expect to be far. far away. All I know is the simple fact that for forty-five minutes I was standing on top of my toes shouting. “Come on Bill.” I don’t even know Bill, whose full, name is “Wild William” Cummings, “the Indianapolis flash.” Neither Mr. Cummings nor for that matter Indianapolis. means very much to me. But by a necessary and theatrical miracle the gadgets of oil and gas and streamline took on personality. tt a b Local Boy Makes Good. I HAVE not the slightest notion what type of motor was being exploited by Wild William. I only knew' that a “local boy” was about to make good in the last half-hour with his machine, the brilliant white number seven. Between him and factory stood number nine, a coal black car, driven by someone unidentified by me. I was with the “come on Bill” crowd which made other names superfluous. Down the straightaway the cars of yellow and black would roar at something like 150 miles an hour. And they were almost neck and neck. * Naturally there was some slight diminishment in speed around the turns and I think that Wild Bills final victory margin of just twenty-seven seconds could probably be traced to a thin edge of greater skill and daring in handling the dangerous corners. If he possessed an advantage, it hardly could have been any more than the thickness of a fingernail, for when two cars have raced 500 miles and finish within the span of your saying. “I have known him to write better columns.” that is a race. And since I felt that the race would be won or lost upon the steep-banked battlements which mark the alternate ends of the track, I personally visited the northernmost exposure, which is known as “Coroner's Curl.” In the last few months it must be that I have eaten meat or benefited by some change of tides in my ductless glands. I am less timorous than was my wont. In fact I stood some six or seven inches away from Deadman’s Curve and w'atched the cars go by w'ith fascinated interest. One all but blew my hat. off and another left me with a wind-swept and exophthalmic look from which I may never recover. But the net result was that I moved a little closer to the small wall of fatality and cried, “Corrfe on Bill.” n n a Bill Understands WITH a margin of nothing more than seconds, Bill was cutting the corners pretty fine. He would hit the high end of the track and bear down directly upon my position until he twitched the wheel and missed the masonry by inches. So loud was the roar of his motor that nothing which I shouted could have been heard, but I think he read my horrified expression when he came tearing down upon me at 110 miles an hour. With the most vivid pantomime which I could muster I was saying, “Don’t be a besotted chump, Bill. Do you want to throw away the prize, break your arm. maybe your mud guards and incidentally squash out of existence a promising young columnist?” He was so intent upon the race that he never passed me a single nod but evidently he must have understood because at the last minute he always gave the wheel enough to keep the $20,000 within his grasp and preserve the future of American literature. Os course, I was not wholly safe, even when Bill got by. Upon his heels came roaring within a trice the sable threat of number nine. And I was not rooting for them. They, too, cut the margins fine and took ten years from my life span. I didn't mind. I suppose my final report must be that Indianapolis provided a great spectacle. That must be so because I’m no sucker, the nays seem to have it by a whisker, and I’m the boy* who pressed my nose most of the afternoon against the margin of Deadman s Curve and shouted, “Come on Bill.” (Copyright. 1934. by The Tirr.esl

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

AS June draws near with its announcements of college and high school commencements, one is reminded of a certain sort of address for such oc--casions which sought to answer th£ questions of “Where are we?” and “Whither are we drifting?” The astronomer does not have to wait until com--1 . mencement time to ask those questions. They are m bothering him all the time. Let us have a look tokj day at. what answers he is prepared to give to those V questions. First of all, he tells us that our earth is one of jVmine planets revolving around the sun. He used to vtell us that it was one of eight until he discovered sOthe planet Pluto. And he reserves the right to v change his mind again. He thinks that some day he * might find one or more planets more distant from ys, the sun .nan Pluto. a a a epHE astronomer has lately been changing his A mind about other details of this stellar home of ours. While he has put more stars and star-stuff into it, he has cut dow T n its size. He is now convinced that it is only about half as large in diameter than he formerly thought. The diameter of our galaxy is about 100,000 light years, possibly 120,000. A light year, it will be recalled, is the distance light travels in one year. It is equal to six trillion miles. The shape of the galaxy is by no means a settled matter. It seems probable that the great majority of the stars are scattered in a disk having a diameter of 100,000 light years and a thickness of about 20.000 light years. Lately, however, the work at the Harvard observatory would indicate that there are enough stars scattered above and below this disk to give the galaxy as a whole a fairly spherical shape. Our own sun is located within a cloud of stars which astronomers call the local cloud. Within this cloud, stars are grouped into aggregations, technically called clusters which are distinguished by possessing a common motion. Our sun is in the midst of such a cluster, but it is not a member of the cluster.- The cluster which contains Sirius; the dogstar, and five of the seven stars in the Big Dipper, as well as more than a hundred others, is knowm as the Ursa Major cluster. a it it THE Local Cloud within which our sun and its attendant planets are situated, is not near the center of the galaxy. It is about midway between the center and one edge. Otir galaxy is itself a member af a larger system. This super-galaxy, as the astronomer calls it, has five members. They are, our own galaxy, the Large Cloud, the Small Magellanic Cloud, the Andromeda , Nebula, and the spiral nebula known as M 33. #

at a hundred plus miles an hour. Many an automobile can go faster than Bonthron of Princeton and yet I would rather see him jump his field upon the inspiration of the final gun than watch a Pierce-Arrow pull away from a Chevrolet. But my well-considered theories came crashing down upon my head because the auto race suddenly took on drama and personality in its final stages. At the moment of writing I understand that a protest has been lodged and that the laurel wreath can not be awarded until the technicians and the blueprint makers have been called

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GERMANY ARMS HERSELF AGAIN

Vast ■ Increase in Military Strength Is Adolf Hitler's Goal

This is the second of four stories on the situation in Germany. The series deals with the three-part problem of armaments, economics, and politics that besets the nation under Hitler. This series is written by William Thilip Simms on his tour of the world for The Times, it it it BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor (Copyright, 1934 by NEA Service. Inc.l BERLIN, June l.—Germany is rearming—feverishly. I have confirmed this in American, British, and even German quarters. There can no longer be any doubt. Just as Japan seized Manchuria, then asked the rest of the world what it intended to do about it, Germany is preparing to present a frightened Europe with a fait accompli by arming herself and trusting to the upset state of the world to get by with it. Such is the situation the fifty nations comprising the general commission of the disarmament conference confront at Geneva. France, Britain, Italy, and Germany’s other neighbors will now have to make the fateful decision whether German rearmament shall be regulated or unregulated. The question of whether she shall arm o- remain unarmed is no longer the issue. She is already strengthening her military machine and is grimly determined to go ahead with it, with or without her neighbors’ consent, come what may. “We know that Germany is re-arming,” a British observer told me, “but what is giving Europe the jitters is that nobody knows how far

she intends to go.” Which is true. Hitler is using a rubber yardstick which never ceases to stretch. Less than a year ago. at Geneva, Germany was offered an army twice the size of the present reichswehr, plus $18,000.000 worth of new armaments along with' it. What she then demanded, in addition, was: 200 observation planes $ 8,000,000 100 pursuit planes 5,500,000 200 6-inch howitzers 10.000,000 100 fi-inch guns 6,500,000 300 various sized tanks 4,200,000 522 3-inch guns 9,500,000 2,400 machine guns, heavy and light ... 1,300,000 Ammunition for the above... 14,000,000 Total .. 859,000,000 Today the yardstick is much longer. For the fiscal year which began April 1, 1934. Germany’s federal budget calls for increases for the national defense amounting to 821,000,000 marks, or $328,000.000 at the curren*. rate of exchange. tt tt a OF this increase, 223,000.000 ($90,000,000) goes to swell the budget of the army and navy; 210,000.000 to the air ministry; and 250,000.000 marks (exactly $100,000,000) for an item hitherto unknown to a German budget—the Nazi Storm Troops. Somewhere, somehow, therefore, Adolph Hitler plans to spend on the German war machine, this year alone, and above normal, more than five times what it would have cost less than twelve months ago fully to meet Germany’s armament demands. Chancellor Hitler has let it be known that he is ready to accept a convention which would “freeze” armaments within certain limits and provided for international supervision. Under this convention. Hitler would agree to ‘‘disarmament” of his own Storm Troops, now 3,000.000 strong. They would not possess arms, receive military instruction, be officered by regular army men,

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

WASHINGTON, June I.—Leaders on Capitol Hill whose business it is to know what’s what are putting a red circle around June 9 as the day congress will close. This means racing in high gear for the next nine days if all the measures the President wants passed are to be put through. But there is a potent reason for picking this particular day for <*;>pping the legislative wheels. June 9 is a Saturday. If the session should go over to the following Monday, the 11th, sponsors of two measures which the administration is extremely anxious to side-step would be able to force consideration of their bills in the house. These projects are the Connery thirty-hour work week bill and the Lemke bill to refinance billions of dollars of farm mortgages by a greenback issue. Because this is a congressional election year, and because scores of congressmen are jittery about re-election, passage of both measures is practically certain ,f they ever- came to a vote.

This would not, ol‘ course, mean their enactment, since the senate would have to concur. But in order to avoid a protracted and complicated legislative battle, Roosevelt wants to stop both bills in their tracks by sending congress home before action can be forced. tt tt tt ALTHOUGH a rookie on Capitol Hill, red-faced Pat McCarran of Nevada has been almost continually in the senatorial spotlight. Newcomers are supposed to be seen and not heard. But McCarran led the fight for pay restorations in which veto was overridden. Then, with the administration intent upon its own BlackMcKeller air mail bill, McCarran introduced his own measure and attempted to steal the show. This was not surprising. At the early age of 12 McCarran stole his first show. He used a live, wild skunk to his own advantage without getting contaminated. In politics, that is a valuable ability. It was spring and Pat McCarran, with his schoolboy cronies had spring fever. They wanted a holiday. , Ambling home about dusk, they saw a full-grown skunk which ran into a culvert. Pat was struck immediately with the potent possibilities of the situation. They got a sack, held it open at one end of the culvert, then poked sticks in the other end, shooing the skunk into the bag. So delicately was this done that the skunk took no offense and gave none, even when they gently tied up the bag and carried him to the school house, where they put the skunk in the bottom of the organ. Next morning all went well. The teacher opened schoql as usual by announcing music. One of the girls sat at the organ and began playing, her feet pumping vigorously on the pedals. To the skunk, fun was fun, but getting walloped on the back by pounding pedals was something else again. There was a sudden scuttling inside the organ, then came an overwhelming, terrific pungency. School was dismissed. A man in rubber boots was called by the school trustees to remove the

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take part in field maneuvers ,or be concentrated in strategically placed military camps. The regular Germany army, or reichswehr, would be increased from 100,000 professional soldiers under twelve-year enlistments, to a short-term service 300,000 strong. it tt tt HITLER wants short-range military planes, but is willing to exclude bombers. He would accept 50 per cent of the military aircraft possessed by France, or 30 per cent of the combined strength of her neighbors, whichever proved the smaller. At the end of ten years he demands equality with his principal neighbors. Germans believe PYance faces a bad situation at home, economically and politically, and a division among her friends and allies abroad. They do not think she would dare risk another German occupation at this time. And, given another year or so, many would be too strong. Certain British officials are openly critical of the French position. Belgian Premier Count de Broqueville has publicly stated that “the lesson of history and reality” is that no great nation can be indefinitely disarmed. tt it tt BERLIN has become the mecca of American aviation experts and salesmen. A single United States concern placed an order here for equipment for 2,000 planes. And it was a rush order, cash on delivery. I was sitting at a table having supper in the Adlon bar, A group of half a dozen Germans and an American entered. “Champagne cocktails all round, j Fred,” the American said to the j bartender. “We want to celebrate. This is no ordinary occasion and ! your best is none too good.” The American had just signed ! an important airplane contract

skunk. But for some days the holiday continued. McCarran gets what he wants. WHATEVER else he may be as boss of the NRA, General Hugh S. Johnson can claim credit as a good prophet in at least one respect. Addressing the closing session of the NRA code conference, on the night of March 7, he warned assembled business men that unless they voluntarily increased W'ages, reduced hours and recognized labor’s right to independent organization under Section 7A, the workers would take the offensive to force them to do so. “We know something,” he told his disapproving audience, “about what is coming in this country this spring—the worst epidemic of strikes in our history.” Leaders among the executives pooh-poohed the forecast, characterized it as “scare talk” to get them to accept the President’s proposal for a general 10 per cent wage increase and 10 per cent hour reduction. That Johnson was not painting rhetorical scarecrows is being proven on the front pages of every newspaper. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande union labor is militantly on the march. More, the steel workers have sent W'ord to their employers that unless wages, hours and recognition demands are met, they will take the picket lines on June 16. These men have a bitter and bloody strike tradition behind them. THE cat-and-dog war of words between the NRA moguls and the Darrow board has an important fact concerning the latter’s provocative report. When the document was received by the President he announced that he had turned it over to the department of justice and the federal trade commission, as well as the NRA for study and comment. The NRA’s sulphurous rejoinder is now history. But from the other two agencies not a word has been heard. • The reason for this silence is a

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Afar in the sky, Germany’s aviation minister, Herman Goering, seems to vision his dream come true —a giant armada upholding the supremacy of his nation in the air, a mammoth fleet of the type of the Junkers G-38, floating in the background. Germany’s rivals fear that these ships, ostensibly built for commercial use only, can be converted quickly into bombers, forming a powerful air force.

with the Nazi government or its agents. Germany may not be able to meet interest payments on SBOO,000,000 worth of obligations held in the United States, but she can find the necessary foreign exchange to pay for something she wants. tt tt tt OUTSIDE Berlin I saw a civilian flying field. Dozens of planes circled overhead. Others were landing. Some were poised for the takeoff. “Student pilots,’' a German, companion explained. Scores of youngsters were awaiting their turn for a practice flight. Many officers have quit the army to take up “commercial” or “sport” flying. There are airfields all over the country devoted to civilian avia‘;on. all strictly under General Goering, now national aviation czar. Even the schoolboy’s glider is under his orders. Forbidden military planes by the Treaty of Versailles, Germany is now definitely out to make herself as nearly supreme in the air as she can. Only she will call it by another name.

mystery. They have had plenty of time—a total of three weeks—to prepare an expression of opinion. The long wait has caused anti-NRA shaipshooters on Capitol Hill to sharpen their tomahawks. They interpret the silence as meaning tacit assent to the Darrow thesis that the little business man has not been getting the proper break from the blue eagle as compared with big business. Una Sumner Welles is busy building himself an eternal monument in Latin America. . . . It is ihe Central American Highway, talked about for more than twenty years, but only a dream until he got behind it. . . . Working with Honest Harold Ickes, Welles secured $5,000,000 of PWA money to finance the production and export of American roadbuilding machinery, cement and other materials. . . . General Billy Mitchell, of army air corps fame, will be chairman of the new federal aviation commission to draft a national policy for aeronautics if the White House can persuade him to accept the job. . . . Henry Ashurst, Arizona's star senator, is facing a tough battle in the home state to hold ’ his seat (Copyright, 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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FRIGHTENED by what Germany is doing, France, Britain, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Poland, Russia and other European powers are speeding up their own production and buying from abroad. A race for supremacy has begun, and the United States is profiting by this not altogether reassuring windfall. Its 180 and 190 miles an hour commercial planes are everywhere in demand. I asked an American airman here if these fast ships, capable of carrying from ten to twelve passengers at nearly 200 miles an hour, weren’t potential bombers. “Oh, heavens, no!” he exclaimed. But slowly he turned his head in my direction and solemnly closed one eye. The nightmare which every nation of Europe has been having for the last decade—a sky black with planes bearing death and de- < struction in the shape of lethal gases and high explosives—now seems about to come true. B B tt INFORMED persons in Germany no longer deny that, with the reichswehr and its reserves, the Nazi Brown Shirts, Steel Helmets, and other organizations of a mili-

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

THERE are as yet no signs that the Republican party has found an issue on which it can unite. In fact, there are many signs which indicate the schism which rent it in 1912, was healed in 1920 and broke out again in 1932, is deeper than ever.

In Pennsylvania, which was one of the six states carried by the Republicans against Roosevelt, a Republican, Governor Pinchot, running as a supporter of Roosevelt, polled about 45 per cent of the votes in the Republican primary. In New York, the Republican state chairman openly is opposed to attacking the national administration. The western Republicans are, of course*as insurgent as ever, and what seems to have happened is that their insurgency has pervaded the east. Franklin Roosevelt seems to have produced about the same sort of division in the Republican party as did Theodore Roosevelt. That the Republican party should find itself divided without an issue and with no leaders w'hom the whole party trusts, is

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tary order, Germany now possesses an army which needs only arms to make it the equal of any in Europe. And the arms are on the way. Within six weeks of mobilization, I am reliably informed, Germany could put 1,250,000 efficient troops in the field. And 4,000,000 modern rifles are ready for distribution inside German frontiers or in safe hands not far outside. Similarly, thousands of machine guns, heavy and light, are said to exist in a knocked-down state, better to conceal them. “Germany,” an old-timer told me, “is tenser than I have known her to be in years. She seems in a fever of apprehension lest something happen before she gets ready. She seems to be working against a sort of deadline.” I repeated this remark, later on, to a German. “That,” he replied, “is exactly the situation. Germany fears for what may happen within and for what may happen without. She is trying to set her house in order while yet there is time.” Next—Hitler perched precariously on powder keg.

not astonishing. It is in precisely the position of the Democratic party after the disastrous defeat of 1920. /"\Ur natonal parties are really loose federations of sectional parties and they achieve unity while they are victorious. When they are defeated they fall apa-t and quarrel, and they come together again only when the prospect of national victory is great enough to overcome the necessities , of local politics. Thus Franklin Roosevelt united the warring Democrats in 1932. Neither he nor any one else was able to do it in 1924 or 1928. The Republicans today are in the position the Democrats were in when they had to face the popularity of Calvin Coolidge. They do not know' where to attack so, like the Democrats at Madison Square Garden, they attack each other. The attack on the Roosevelt administration W'hich is being formulated by men like Mr. Mills, Colonel Roosevelt and Senator Reed undoubtedly tends to crystallize conservative Republican sentiment, particularly in the east, and to serve as a rallying point for some discontent. But it seems to me to have one incurable defect if it is designed to attract the more or less independent voters who shift about and really decide elections. It attempts to prove too much. It is opposed to every major policy of the administration. It is opposed to the policies of regimentation and it is also opposed to the monetary and expansionist policy. tt tt tt MY owm guess is that the thing . which prevents the Republicans from getting into an effective position is that their best leaders do not really disapprove of certain of the Roosevelt policies and do not dare to approve them. This, for example, they feel bound to take the position publicly that it was wrong to leave the gold standard and WTong to revalue the dollar. They feel they must be loyal to the tradition of 1896. But at the same time they are stumped when they are asked to explain why a measure which is now perfectly respectable in England, Canada, Australia, Scandinavia, and accepted by conservative opinion as necessary to recovery in all these countries, was bad here. (Copyright, 1934)

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Fdir Enough IEHMII WASHINGTON. June I.—ln a moment of comparative calm. United States Senator Huey Long of Louisiana remarked recently that he did not like the United States senate or Washington, either, and did not believe he would run for reelection. That decision, however, if it is a decision, will not necessarily mean the end of

goofiness in the most exclusive gentlemen’s club in the world as the statesmen of the old school take pride in calling their little group. For the Honorable Francis J. Shoemaker, member of congress Minnesota, is now 7 campaigning his state for election to the upper house and, of course might be elected. Anybody might be elected from Minnesota in the present disturbed social and mental condition of the state. Statesman Shoemaker is distinguished for many unconventional experiences and remarks but he expressed himself best

one afternoon when he obtained permission to address his colleagues on his opinion of them. Congressman Shoemaker then arose and said the bi°rd Se ° f rcpresentatives reminded him'of the dodo bird, he hollered, "always flies backward because it doesn’t care where it is going but only wants to find out where, the hell it hasbeen at.” Sort of a Fugitive r T"'HE congressman is a sort of fugitive at the pres--1 ent time - having left town to campaign for the senate without troubling to appear in the local police court where he was due to go on trial on a charge of beating up a taxicab driver. The judge issued a writ for him and if Statesman Shoemaker should return as a member of the senate he might be sent to the local jail house for as long as three months. Judges here no not like to be casually ignored by defendants, even if they be members of congress. Or perhaps it were more correct to say especially if they be members of congress, because there are more than 400 members and, as a group, they manage to make a serious nuisance of themselves, claiming many petty prerogatives for themselves and their families in traffic and in general chucking their official weight at the expense of people who live Here. Should the judge decide to send Statesman Shoemaker to jail for three months, that experience will be no novelty to the gentleman from Minnesota. He spent nine months in Leavenworth prison once for sending a letter to a banker on the envelope of which he wrote for all who handled it to see, “robber of widows and orphans.” At his trial he said he wrote this designation merely as identification. He wanted to be sure that the letter would be delivered to the right man. The judge paroled Mr. Shoemaker for a year and he went back home and began to tear the hide off the honorable court in a labor publication of which he W'as the editor. tt tt tt Nine Months in Prison C° the court revoked the parole and Mr. ShoeO maker went to Leavenworth where he served nine months and established relations with a former employe of-a bank who was doing five years. They both were graduated about the same time and when Congressman Shoemaker came to Washington he brought his old classmate with him as his office assistant. During his time in Washington he devoted much of his energy to a single-handed campaign to induce the department of justice to adopt a high test type of insect powder to relieve the personal discomfort of the undergraduates of his old school at Leavenworth. One of Statesman Shoemaker’s peculiarities is a habit of bunting automobiles from behind with the fore end of his own car when he is stalled in traffic. He was doing that the night of the disagreement with the taxi driver and another time s policeman on duty at the new house office building saw him bunt a citizen’s automobile all the way down a block as the driver clung to his hand brake and hollered for assistance. He did it again recently in Minnesota and bunted one car into the car ahead which, in turn, slammed into the stern of the car next in line. He was arrested for that and fined SSO and when he came out of court someone had attached his own automobile for debt. tt it tt He's Always Broke i JE neve * has been able to lay up any money, XX being a rough and tumble labor agitator with a line of experience dating back to the Panama canal job and on down through the packing house and railroad strikes just after the war. Incidentally, his motor license plates, at his own insistence, bear the same numbers that he wore on his uniform at Leavenworth. He professes some pride in this prison record but, rather curiously, although he reports many other honors, services and distinctions in his biography in the congressional directory, he makes no mention of his alma mater there. One night in Minnesota. Statesman Shoemaker was annoyed by the sound of a crew drilling concrete when he wanted to sleep and smashed all the lanterns on the job. Then, being taken to the police station, he charged the two patrolmen who had him in charge with neglect of duty in failing to suppress the noise. And a colleague in the house of representatives w as interested strangely a few days ago to observe in a picture of the labor riot in Minneapolis a likeness of Congressman Shoemaker in a characteristic action shot, swinging a ball bat in the thick of the melee. It would be cruel and unusual for any state to send such a statesman as Mr. Shoemaker to the most exclusive gentleman’s club in the world, but the citizens of Minnesota seem very sore about many grievances. They might do it just for orneriness. (Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health —B* DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

WHEN your head starts drooping about 3 in the afternoon, when you begin complaining of the heat, and when yotir wwk loses much of its usual interest, you are about ready for your vacation. You may think you are doing better to stay home and work. Scientific studies show, however, that a vacation is an asset from the financial point of view, because you do more productive work afterward than you did before. Vacation cost of an average family in the United States, with an income of from $2,400 to $3,000 a year, varies from $5.75, spent by a worker who stays at home and goes to the ball game every afternoon, to SIBO a year, spent by families which take motor trips. a a a SOMETIMES the cheapest vacation is the best, and the most expensive vacation may be a total loss from the point of view of producing rest and health. An old-time doctor was asked by a young assistant how to run his office successfully. The doctor gave him two suggestions for routine treatment. “First,” he said, “ask your patients what they eat and order something else; second, find out where they are going on their vacations and send them some place else.”

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