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If Jirmt to Me HEVWOOD BROUN ST. PAUL, Minn.. June B. — At the next table in the grill of the Hotel Lowry two ladies of St. Paul were engaged in earnest conversation. I didn’t particularly try to eavesdrop, but one of the talkers possessed a voice of singular clarity and carrying power. She spoke with great emotion concerning a friend of hers named Helen. The last name was never mentioned. Helen. I gathered, had been the most beautiful, intelligent and attractive girl in the city of St. Paul. Since she was always referred to in the past

tense, I gathered that she had passed on. It seemed tragic since the biography as expounded by the lady at the next table contained the fact that scores of rich and personable citizens of St. Paul desired her hand in matrimony. With her brilliance and prospects, Helen might have gone any where. There came a break in the story. Almost I caught a sob in the narrator’s voice. “And then,” said Helen’s friend, “do you know what she did?” The lady listening shook her head to indicate ignorance of the sad fate of Helen. Before

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giving out the scandalous and horrid end of a fair young woman, the lady of St. Paul glanced all about the room lest any one be listening. I raised my glass to my lips and played dumb, but even so the expositor lowered her voice to a whisper and now the sob was all too evident as she cupped hands and said, "but then Helen married a man from Minneapolis.” Her companion recoiled from the shock almost as if a bomb had been exploded in that decorous bar. “Not really!” she exclaimed. “What is the fellow's name?” “Does it matter?” rejoined her friend, and proceeded immediately to shift the subject to less tragic subjects. .Even before I came to Minnesota I had heard that between Minneapolis and St. Paul there was a certain rivalry, but I had assumed that it ran no deeper than the jokes which New York,ers sometimes make about Brooklyn in spite of the fact that the town in question is actually the second home of every resident of Manhattan Island. The relationship between the twin cities of the north is no joke. The chasm of feeling keeps them apart socially, politically and in a business way. And this is very strange, since there exists no natural boundary. The Mississippi in part markes the line but at various points the river shifts wholly into the territory of one town or the other. n n tt Mississippi Just a Creek ONE sees an adolescent river here which falls far short of-its eventual majesty and decision. To be blunt, the Father of Waters is little more than a creek in this neighborhood and indecisive to boot. I am told that it rises in a swamp a few score miles from here and in its earliest phases flows due north, then east, then west before it catches the call of the gulf and hurries south to keep its appointment with the sea. Small though the stream may be, it brought the first pioneers to this section. They founded a trading post and named it after the man who saw light on the road to Damascus. No one can well deny that St. Paul is the older city. There is one of the rubs. Minneapolis, though much younger than its twin, is considerably larger. Larry Hodgson, four tinves mayor of St. Paul, informs me that some thirty years ago the population figures ran neck and neck. In the taking of a census, St. Paul included the dead, the departed and the missing. Even travelers on through trains were invited to lend their names as citizens of St. Paul. These frantic efforts availed and Minneapolis lost, by a nose. Immediately it asked for federal warrants charging census takers with fraud and perjury. Counter charges were made by St. Paul and presently the jails were full of gentlemen who had done nothing more than honor the towns of their, ancestors. , tt tt tt Listen for Boundary THE incidents in question must be long forgotten but the malice lingers on. To some extent, according to my informants, th# issue is one of national jealousies. The names of the leading citizens of St. Paul are for the most part Irish with a generous. admixture of Germans. But Minneapolis is almost wholly Scandinavian. At one time it was the largest Swedish city in the world but some of the Olafs do not live there any more. Even so, enough of the Viking strain remains to keep the population of the fair city of Minneapolis almost wholly blonde. A little Swede goes a long way. Although no barbed wire marks the boundaries even the casual visitor should be able to tell when he has crossed the jagged line which separates the two towns. He has only to listen. As long as he hears, “I tank I go home now,” he is still in Minneapolis. But if, “Hans, throw the horse over'the fence some hay,” or “Begorra,” greets his ears he has crossed over into St. Paul. - As yet I have not been to Minneapolis since I have been much too busy to obtain a visa. Yet since I am politically as well as reportorially minded. I have no hesitation in saying that this city of St. Paul is one of the fairest flowers in the diadem of America. Everything said against Minneapolis is undoubtedly true and I am going to stick to that opinion until I am safely over the line and have the broad Mississippi at my back. I am much too far from home to pick any fights with the Irish. (Copyright, 1934, by The Times)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

TEMPERATURES in the midwest are soaring past the 100 mark. Farms are baking under the hot sun. Great cracks are appearing in the parched ground, testifying to the super-abundance of heat and the lack of rain. College commencements, June weddings, the golf links and the tennis courts, all testify that the summer season is here. But officially, summer has not yet arrived. Summer begins, officially, at 9:48 p. m. on June 21. At this instant, the sun in its apparent journey around the heavens will have reached the imaginary point known as the summer solstice. An imaginary point in an apparent path! By such a device do astronomers mark the beginnings of the season. But this is no whim of the star-gazer. Behind it lies reality enough. The earth is moving in a great flattened circle around the sun. Beyond, in all directions, lie the stars. The earth’s real motion around the sun makes it look to us as though the sun were moving against the background of stars. The ancients mistook this appearance for reality and until the time of Copernicus and Kepler and Galileo, most men believed that the sun really was moving around the earth. n n n THE two points where the ecliptic cuts the celestial equator are known as the equinoxes. They are the vernal and the autumnal equinox and mark the beginnings of spring and fall. Midway between them are the solstices. These mark the beginning of summer and winter. The first day of summer is usually the longest day of the year but it frequently happens that one or two days before or one or two days after are equally long. That is what happens this year when the days from June 17 to June 23 are all of the same length—ls hours and 12 minutes. Immediately after the sun has reached the summer solstice, it begins its journey back toward the south, back toward the autumnal equinox where the ecliptic and the celestial equator again meet. Soon the days begin to grow shorter, at first, only by a minute or two. man IF you are in the habit of getting up before 5 a. m. —or of getting home around that hour—you will notico that the sun rises these mornings in the northeast. At noon, it climbs very high in the sky, and then descends, setting in the northwest. If you watch the sun each day, you will notice that its path is northward. Each day, it rises a little farther to the northeast, climbs a little higher into the sky at noon, and sets a little farther to the northwest.

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Depression Leaves Its Mark on the Army Air Corps

BY GEORGE DAWS Times Special Writer THE United States naval air force, while three years behind its schedule and deficient in equipment and personnel, is generally rated as the best in the world. It has somehow managed to obtain maximum return for the dollars available, to operate with a minimum of internal friction and to gain the friendly ear of congress for its needs and plans. The Scripps-Howard investigation of the nation’s aviation problem disclosed that the army air corps is about five years behind schedule, that it is sharply deficient in fighting planes .nd personnel and that it is questionable whether it could offer adequate defense of the nation in the event of an emergency. Congress in 1926 authorized a five-year plan by which in 1931 the army would have had 1.800 planes and the navy 1,000. The army has never attained its goal, but the navy has. Further and proper growth of the navy air force was prevented because of two factors. First, there was the shortage of money since 1931, and, second, it was authorized to have a maximum of only 1,000 planes. That limitation, however, recently was removed by enactment of the Vinson-Trammel bill, which authorized 2,184 navy planes—the number estimated as required for fighting vessels and carriers if the navy is built to treaty strength. While the bill provided only authorization and not the actual funds for construction of the planes, it opened the door for later appropriations. The navy bureau of Aeronautics was forced to resort to constant transfer of equipment during recent years to provide planes for new vessels. There had been added to the navy fifteen new cruisers, one dirigible and one aircraft carrier, but no authorization for the 212 planes needed for these vessels. tt tt tt IN addition the President had authorized construction of two new carriers and four additional cruisers; and two additional cruisers had been appropriated for by congress. These vessels, to be completed during 1936, would have required 273 more planes. Every time anew vessel took the water the navy shifted planes from other ships or from bases. Partial relief came this spring in the form of a grant of $7,500,000 from the public works ad-ministration.-enabling the navy to order twenty-one patrol ~Tlanes, seventeen bombers, right utility amphibians and two transports, including engines, propellers, radio equipment and instruments. There also was a balance left for improvement of arresting and handling gears and catapults. Here is a breakdown of the

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

The nerve center of the agricultural United States during the last twelve months has been a cream brick building near the Washington Monument which houses that mushroom organization, the agricultural adjustment administ, vtion. From it have been mailed millions of checks to farmers all over the country. Within its walls are checked the contracts by which the major crops of the country are curtailed. How efficient has this nerve center been? To what extent overrun by Democratic carpetJj jiggers? In order to answer this question, a Merry-Go-Round reporter went through the routine of obtaining a job in the AAA, Here is the result of his findings, tt . tt tt a tt tt WASHINGTON, June B.—Cut a cross-section through the mass of humanity which goes to make these United States and in it you will find a duplicate of the line which forms every day before the personnel office of the AAA—seeking jobs. Despite the fact that the new deal is now more than one year old. this line still is long and dreary. In it are cocksure college boys just off the campus convinced the government owes them a living, thinly pathetic and aging spinsters w r ho have heard the word "No” so often they have lost every atom of self-confidence, peanut politicians from every part of the country who boast of their personal friendship .with Jim Farley—all of them sitting, waiting, pleading, bull-dozing, being rejected, coming back, sitting, waiting. Potentate of it all is a bland, bald little man, Julien N. Fnant. Rather a nice little man, but as cold as Jim Farley's handshake after the first thousand. Friant is Jim’s Man Friday for the department of agriculture, the czar of patronage for the biggest job pool outside the NRA, This business of patronage is a science and Julien Friant is a scientist.

He keeps a chart on which are marked columns representing every state in the union. These columns in turn represent jobs, and each time a senator sends a job-hunter to the AAA, his column is lengthened by one space. Each time also a senator protests that his candidate can not get a job, Friant takes from his desk and shows the senatorial protestant that his quota—his column—is full. nan THE secret of landing on the AAA pay roll is this chart, plus the word of your representative. You can sit in the dreary line which waits at the feet of Julian Friant for days and weeks, and no matter how much you may plead, threaten, cajole, you will get nowhere. It is the word from the congressman on the hill that does it. And he in turn usually is in touch with the Democratic committee in the state or county. For those who don’t know this the wait is long. For those who know, the path is greased and easy. Such was the experience of a young man from Nebraska. He had just been appointed an auditor at $2,000 a year. He knew. In fact so much that he had come back to protest against the great injustice of working on the night shift. He was returning to Nebraska shortly anyway, he said, to help in the primary. Said he: “I make about; $1,500 during each political campaign. Mostly social entertaining. I take the hick political bosses out when they come to town and give them a taste of night life—wine, women and song—the best Omaha can give ’em.” ”How do things look for the Democrats?” ‘‘Fine. Those poor devils of

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The broad expanse of the deck of the airplane carrier Lexington, with one plane alighting in the foreground and two formations in the distance. It is upon airplane carriers that the navy has done some ol its most advanced work.

navy’s present strength of 1,000 planes: Dive bombers 125 Horizontal bombers or torpedo planes 32 Fighters 179 Carrier scouts and dive bombers.... 173 Patrol-bombers 147 Observation-scouts 208 Utility 42 Transports 19 Training planes 75 Total ".1,000 The combatant group includes the first six classes, which totals 864. Some of the carrier scouts and the fighters have high speeds well over 200 miles an hour and service ceilings better than 20,000 feet. tt tt ON the other hand, some of the heavy dive hombers go only 145 miles an hour and the carrier horizontal bombers and torpedo planes less than 130 miles an hour. The navy realizes this weakness and future, purchases of aircraft are to be concentrated as much as possible in these classes to bring a better balance to the force. Navy strength will sharply increase within a year or two because it will have $14,631,000 available for new planes. The 1935 fiscal year appropriation for navy air is $18,643,320, of which $6,131,000 is for new construction. In addition congress authorized the navy to contract for $8,500,000 of new planes to be made up out of the 1936 fiscal year appropriations. • The latter authority was granted because congress realized the navy needed more planes quickly to equip vessels now being built, and because a minimum of

farmers don’t know what money looks like. They have plenty of potatoes in their cellars, plenty of hay in their barns, and plenty of com and wheat in their bins. So when they get these acreage allowance checks from the government, they’re fixed. It don’t make no difference where it came from or who has to pay it back, they want these checks, and any Republican who opposes these checks would get mobbed. “Besides George Norris is the best Democrat we have in Nebraska.” n n n FINALLY, after weary trips to the Capitol and proper endorsements from the proper senator, the girl in the outer office beckoned. “I can’t give this to you here,” she said in a stage whisper. “Come into Mr. Jones’ office, where all the job seekers can’t see you.” Then she produced a letter to H. J. Alexander, one of Friant’s assistants, which meant that the job was won. The next step was to sign eight separate application blanks chiefly for the civil service commission and for the purpose of “blanketing” the employe into civil service after he has been on the government pay roll for three months. This is a scheme evolved by Democratic patronage grabbers for getting aorund the civil service rules of half a century. Appointees to the AAA are exempted by law from civil service; but later they receive automatic civil service status in order to make their jobs more permanent. Work began that night at 11:50 p. m.—the night shift. n n n SECRETARY WALLACE has been, hailed as one of the two cabinet members (with Secretary Ickes) who have put their depart-

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two years is required to design, engineer, test and produce entirely new types of fighting aircraft. Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, chief of the bureau of aeronautics, recently submitted to congress a table showing how United States planes compare with those of foreign nations. He did not reveal the source of his information concerning the foreign planes, but he added a note that they were “estimates from the best data available.” u tt tt'. TJECAUSE exact performance on his new aircraft is a military secret Admiral King worked out his chart in percentages, setting the United States performance at 100 per cent in each case. The table is published in an adjoining column. Study of it shows that Japan’s planes operate at much higher altitudes than those of the United States, and that her fighters, observation and torpedo planes have a greater range. However, the United States leads Japan in top speed in every class. Different nations require different forms of fighting planes, according to Admiral King, because each has a defense problem entirely its own. European nations, bordering potential enemies, require hard-hitting, high-flying planes that can operate at maximum speed for relatively short periods of time. The United States, on the other hand, requires

ments on night work. Large gobs of publicity have flowed from the department’s press bureaus on the efficiency with which the crop checks were sent to the farmer. But for one actually at work compiling and sending these checks the efficiency was nowhere apparent. The new AAA appointee was put to work beside a young chap in the subreview section of the machines unit who was supposed to give necessary instruction. He announced glumly that he was from Maryland, had once worked in the census bureau, and like most workers from Maryland, Virginia or the District of Columbia, expected to be dismissed any day. Western and southern senators have launched a campaign to oust the workers living adjacent to Washington, who under Republican administrations packed the government. Our job was to check the contracts for the curtailment of cotton, wheat, etc., and make sure that the punch card machines which ticked out the figures made no mistakes. On the basis of this, the farmer received his check. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

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planes with more stamina and endurance. “War missions of the army and the navy are the same, but the planes must be different.” Admiral King said in explaining why the two services do not purchase duplicate equipment and obtain lowered costs. “A heavy navy plane does not have a mile-long runway on which to alight nor a roomy hangar for storage. It must operate from the deck of a carrier and be small enough to be stowed away inside a vessel. “Navy planes must be stronger so they can withstand the shock of being quickly halted when they land on the carriers. Planes for battleships and cruisers must be built so they can be catapulted off their ships and landed in the open sea. Others must be adaptable to conversion from landplane to seaplane.” T TNITED STATES navy technical experts have whipped the difficult problem of getting the fast landing planes down swiftly and safely onto the pitching heaving decks of carriers, but they’re not telling the world how they do it. The landing deck of the carriers is much smaller than airports and some of the planes sit down at sixty to sixty-five miles an hour. If thirty or forty of them are in the air, and the carrier is being tossed by rough seas, it requires skill, precision and me-

TODAY AND TOMORROW a By Walter Lippmann

With the passage of the stock exchange bill and the amendment of the securities act, it may be said that congress has carried out the legislative reforms of the capital market to which the new deal was pledged. This does not mean that in the years to come there will not be further reforms of our financial system. It does not mean that the new laws will not be amended from time to time as experience shows the

need. , But it does mean that the basic principles of the new deal in finance, to which this administration was committed by its platform and by the President’s speeches, have been established. In respect to his pledges of financial reform, Mr. Roosevelt stands today about where Woodrow Wilson stood when he signed the federal reserve act. From now on the problem is to make the new order in finance work by wise administration, and, wnere necessary, by detailed amendment. In all its essentials the country now knows the scope and the principal characteristics of the new order.

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chanical aid to get them down swiftly and safely. Carriers all have the retarding gears, and anew system, considerably more efficient, now is being tested at Hampton Roads naval air base at Norfolk, Va. For obvious reasons neither an exact description of the system nor a definite statement of how quickly it halts planes can now be published. But, as far as is known, it is far superior to the gear of any other nation. Representatives of foreign powers are interested in such devices. One recently asked point-blank about the gear at Hampton Roads, which is closely guarded on a far corner of the vast field forbidden to civilians. Diplomatic courtesy would not permit a blunt refusal of information to the foreign representative, but the navy had no intention of revealing the secret development of which it was so proud. “It happened that we just were not working the day he called to inspect the base,” a navy officer explained, a smile lifting the corners of his mouth. a tt Another bit of unofficial history concerns the moving picture, “Hell Divers,” which showed navy planes alighting on the deck of a carrier. A screen hid actual operations of the retarding device but it was apparent there was some efficient method of halting them. “Military men in England scoffed when the picture was first shown there,” a navy officer' related. “Some of them were puzzled, though, and I guess they saw it ten or fifteen times. Then they were convinced. We’d previously seen news reel shots of the British carriers and they had no arresting gears. Then suddenly they began to use them. Figure it out for yourself.” An indication of recent improvement in navy efficiency is found in a comparison of the aircraft carriers. The old Langley, a remodelled vessel, is slow and virtually worthless today. The Saratoga and Lexington are each 32,500 tons and each carries ninety planes. i The new Ranger, just launched, is much faster, carries seventyseven planes and uses only 15,000 tons, less than half of the weight of the older carriers. The commanding officers of the army and navy, through the joint board, have an understanding of the responsibilities of each service in the event of sudden emergency. But certain persons, including men in military service, insist they are not concentrating sufficiently on air defense and are not preparing adequately to resist possible air attacks. A discussion of this problem of how aviation may bes| be used in defense of the nati(h will be published tomorrow.

It is not possible by searching the words of the statutes to arrive at a prophecy as to how these reforms'wili work. We live under a government of laws. But the laws are administered by men, and men are moved by their ideas and by events which can not be foreseen. * f npHE authors of the federal reserve system did not and could not foresee the actual operation of the system in all of its many impacts upon the finance of the world. It would be naive, therefore, to suppose that we can foresee how the new laws regulating the capital market will work. In matters of this sort, what men have to rely upon finally is the purpose which the reforms seek to express. • For if they have agreed on the purpose, they can by administration and amendment achieve as much of it as circumstances will permit. Broadly speaking, it may be said that for the first twelve months while this new legislation was in the making there was the profoundest uncertainty as to what the purpose of the reforms really was. The first securities act, the first stock exchange bill, the bankers’ investigation reflected the mood of the great panic of 1932-1933. They were angry proceedings. In Washington men were moved by righteous indignation; in the financial communities men were terrorized and sullen. In the last three months this mood has given way to a realization in Washington that reforms must work, and in Wall Street that reforms are necessary. Until recently many men in Washington were half-persuaded that a privately conducted capital market could never be reformed effectively; and in the financial centers many were persuaded that the real purpose of the reforms was to destroy the private capital market. The time has come to settle down to work under the new deal in finance. The reforms have been instituted. Their boundaries and their purposes have been established. They are not going to be repealed and for a reasonable time to come they are not going to be enlarged substantially. Washington has carried out its pledges and Wall Street knows the new rules. Copyright, 1934

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Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice. Indianapolis, Ind.

Fair Enough, ] nliw WASHINGTON, June B—The new postoffice palace, begun during Mr. Hoover’s administration. is now finished and, as the sweepers remove the last debris of the construction job, the postoffice department is moving in. This building is another unit of the beautiful plan to build an American Rome, not in a day to be sure, but to order and to schedule. It is part of the great Washington scheme which includes the new house office building, the commerce

building, and buildings for the department of labor, internal revenue, interstate commerce, and archives. The commerce building has great bronze gates and decorative bronze lamps and an aquarium of fish, turtles and carviar. It is now being used by the NRA, and, although it is one of the great monuments to the boom and seemed too big at one time, the NRa is beginning to spill over into other buildings. The archives building will be used to house a great volume of old receipts, bills, canceled checks, and more sentimental papers which accumu-

late in the life of a government. These documents are now stored in cellars and attics all over town and it will be nice, though expensive, to have them all neatly tied with ribbon and sprinkled with lavendar in a building of their own. The interesting collection of notes from European governments repudiating the big debt will fill up the archives building and after a long time their I. O. U.’s probably will be stored there, too. However, these tabs are still technically regarded as assets and belong in the new, armor-plated vault in the treasury, along with the deficit. Only when the U. S. A. finally gives up hope will they be officially classified as heirlooms and sent over to the archives. Those Smug Democrats IT is a question whether Mr. Hoover would have trimmed sail by canceling, curtailing or postponing the construction of the American Rome if he had known what the future had in store for the United States. But the boom was still echoing and he thought prosperity was just around the corner and anyway the government was committed to the plan by ihat time. L: is not permitted to cancel a bet after the horses have left the post and some of the contracts had been awarded when the crash came. After that, although it seemed a great extravagance to proceed with the American Rome, the statesmen began to say that well, anyway, the work would provide jobs for unemployed workmen not only in Washington but in the quarries, mines, factories and steel mills. The Democrats in the new postoffice building are rather smug as they examine the magnificence of their quarters, not failing to point out that the enormous paneled lobby temple, surely one of the most luxurious government rooms in the world, was not their doing. This is the room in which deserving Democrats, and, perhaps, sometime again, deserving Republicans, will sit and wait to see the incumbent post-master-general about opportunities to serve their country on a cash basis. It is about three stories high and the size of a hockey rink and the woodwork of the walls continues on into the ceiling. There is a fectious suggestion that Mr. Walter Brown, Mr. Hoover’s postmaster-general, must feel very low in his mind just now as he thinks of the grand ceremonial dedication of his new postoffice building. But the postmaster-generalship is not much of a job and Mr. Brown probably did not have any idea in building the new postoffice that he was creating a beautiful office for himself. The offles has a shower bath and a private elevator, it is true, but he undoubtedly has a shower bath of his own and after the first few rides on a private elevator a man gets lonesome. a a u It’s a New Country A ND, anyway, the money which has been spent, ■CX- and under existing commitments, must yet be spent to finish the American Rome, seems quite petty nowadays. There was considerable indignation in the land in the year of Mr. Hoover’s reign over the splendor of the new buildings and, as spending went in the old unimaginative days when a billion dollars was a sum to stop and admire, this was an extravagant building program. It seemed as though the United States' suddenly had become very snobbish and determined to build a capita.’ which would not cause the blush of embarrassment to mantle the cheek of ihe American statesman when the European ambassador came down the block. The old buildings were shabby and grimy and so badly scattered that it took a long time to get anything done between one department and another. Still, they had sufficed through the war and they might have been made to do while an American Rome was developed gradually. And now the new buildings are so big that people find themselves as far apart as ever. But standards have changed since Mr. Roosevelt came*to town. You could buy all the new buildings which constitute the new American Rome for a hundred million dollars and Mr. Roosevelt has reckoned that at his rate of spending the total debt two years from now will be almost thirty-two billions. The total cost of Mr. Hoover’s building program, even including the magnificent paneled cathedral where the Democrats sit today telling Mr. James Farley how deserving they are, seems hardly worth mentioning. Mr. Hoover just didn’t have imagination. He built anew national capital but it took Mr. Roosevelt to build anew country. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Your Health “BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN —

THE aftermath of summer vacations frequently is earache. Earache means infection, in most instances. When you go bathing, and especially when you dive or swim under water, the water and the bacteria may get into your middle ear through the nose, because a tube passes from the nose into the ear. You may wear a rubber cap over your head and even put a rubber stopper in the outside ear, but that will not keep the water from getting into the nose and the Eustachean tube. When you get out of the water, if you blow your nose and hold both nostrils shut at the time, you are quite certain to force the water, and anything that may happen to be in the water, into your internal ear. When you get an earache, it is not safe to consider the condition lightly. Any infection in the ear may be serious, because it may proceed to an infection of the mastoid region and from that even Cb an infection of the brain. nan OF course, the most foolish of all is the person who has an infection, with material discharging from the eardrum, who goes swimming while in this condition. He stands the chance of introducing the infection from both inside and out. Nothing could be more dangerous to health and life than a performance of this character. When you have an earache, do not try to treat it by putting all sorts of things into the ear. Your doctor will tell you that the only thing worth while and safe for the average person to put into his ear is a little warmed glycerin. This is dropped in gently with a medicine dropper and the ear is plugged lightly with cotton to hold the warm glycerin in place. While this will not cure the infection, it will help alleviate the pain and give your body a chance to promote healing. However, the safest precedure is to have a competent doctor look at the eardrum as soon as possible.

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