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H Seems to Me hewooF BMJN VTEW YORK. Julv 25 —When this column appears I probablv will be in Boston. Mass., and in a pood deal of danger. The risk is not so much ph vsical as mental. Cambridge is only eight minutes away and it may be that the lure of the old life will get me. To be specific, I am thinking ra'her seriously of going back to college. Thus is not in the vair. hope of winning the class election c the best-dressed or the most likely to succeed, but merely to fill In some loopholes in my education.

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flunked social ethics and a course in comparative literature. Undoubtedly. I deserved the F which I received in the latter course. I must have flunked it very badlv because I have not the slightest recollection what we were comparing. If the slate is to be wiped clean. Harvard will have to open its hooks and let, loose an expert accountant to see just where I slipped Bv my own figuring I am onlv one and a half or two and a half courses shy of being eligible to consort with educated men. My nose is pressed against the window pane like an urchin in a Christmas magazine cover. There is no point in pretending that I do not care. One of my keenest, ambitions is to Ret through Harvard before I die. The reason is most definite. The next time Putzv comes to Cambridge I do not. want to give anybody a chance to say. “What right has Broun to criticise; he wasn't even graduated?" mam A Bit of ( ramming Seeded A BRIGHT young man ought to be able to get . awav with two and a half courses in six months bv the simple process of taking five subjects all at once. An entire semester, or whatever the word is. would be too much. Since this is a candid column I might as well confess that I have not funds to stay away from work six months. I might also add that, this goes for six days. From the fringe of the crowd comes a voice. Where has it gone? ’ Evidently we have with us one of those naive fellows who believes the wild rumors which go about regarding columnar salaries Still when I start working my way through college i will look back on past rewards as more than adequate. I will regret the monies which were spent in Miami and in other very numerous spots where I was reckless and self-indulgent. I have too much character ever to accumulate a competence. If I start to play number 11 at the beginning of an evening I stick to it. Yet clouds have silver linings and when 1 start to mourn over what I might have banked or invested in gilt-edged mortgages I breathe a sigh of relief over the fact that improvidence has saved me from acquiring a capitalist psychology. In working your way through college the familiar jobs are tending the furnace, waiting on table, selling insurance, or playing left tackle. The condition of my arches and my faulty memory are against occupations one and two. I mean I might remember about the furnace, but I could never carry more than one breakfast in my mind at a time. The football team is out because I became a professional athlete a good many years ago on account of coaching a basketball team, which promised me a silver cigaret case if they won their big game. They won and forge:. I sold my mess of pottage for a broken birthright. m m m Has Other Ideas, Too ACCORDINGLY I have been playing around with another idea of sustaining myself while acquiring an education. This scheme sounds good because it should enable me to earn while I learn and a scientific training is what I crave. According to a recent newspaper story, a chemist or biologist has discovered that it is possible to tell whether or not a horse has been doped by using white mice. A little of the horse's saliva is injected into the mouse and if his tail curls up the mouse's, 1 mean) that horse has been doped. Obviously the scientist is a little impractical. We of the general public want to know whether the noble animal has been doped to win or doped to lose. I am going to major on that. At the end of six months of Harvard training I hope to have a mouse which any bettor will be glad to put in his pocket just before going to the track. Proceeding to the paddock he shows the mouse the horse on which he intends to Det. If the mouse curls up and dies the shrewd investor will get himself a no'her mouse and another horse. If I can supply tnese mice in quantity I see no reason why I should not be able to work my way through college and through life itself. There is still one catch in the scheme. I haven't found out whether Harvard wants me back. • Orn-rixht 19*4. br The Times*

Today s Science — R\ DAVID DIET/.

DR RAYMOND L. DITMARS of the New York 700 is wearing anew wrist watch. It was presented to nim in celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of his joining the staff of the zoo. Today. Dr. Ditmars is one of the world's best known naturalists and chief authority on snakes. The story of h.s career makes fascinating reading. His first job was in the insect department of the American Museum of Natural History and consisted chiefly of putting labels on specimens. One day—he was then 20—he arranged to trade an assortment of rattlesnakes, copperheads and othej American varieties with a naturalist in Trinidad In due time, a trunk arrived from Trinidad. It contained: One bushmaster, an extremely poisonous viper about eight feet lone, startling in color, bars of salmon alternating with bars of black. Two fer-rie-lance. sage-green serpents, smaller than the bushmaster but equally poisonous. Two boa constrictors, one six feet long and one ten feet long. mam ATOUNG DITMARS unpacked thus mink in the X attic of his home. In some way he had persuaded his parents to let him turn the attic into a “reptile house '• He had obtained some wooden boxes from the corner grocer and equipped them with glass fronts. The snakes were unpacked with the aid of mop handles to the ends of which wire loops were attached. There were some exciting moments, as for example, when the bushmaster. instead of going into his cage, turned and came toward young Ditmars. He solved the problem by seizing a broom and pushing it into the reptile s face. There was another exciting moment when one of the boa constrictors, not carmg for his cage, evidenced his protest bv wrapping his tail around the bannister at the head of the attic stairs. But eventually all the snakee were gotten into their cages. m m m DR DITMARS has been at the zoo ever since. But he has last none of his skill as a reporter. This ,uitemnt can be proved by any reader who gets hold of a copy of Thrills of a Naturalists Quest.” Dr Ditmars autobiography. His book is packed full of exciting adventures and interesting comments upon the reptiles of the world. Some of the information 1s as bizarre as the creatures ne writes about. For example: “A curious thing was noted in an endeavor to group several species in some of the larger rages to conserve space. iDr. Ditmars is discussing the New York zoo i Some kinds of snakes would throw the others • to a slate of panic without making any oteerva * demonstration to harm them.'*

I can not honestly say that I am filled with regret because I never passed elementary French That fact has served me well as the foundation of very many columns. Indeed, I have used the theme so frequently that I doubt if I could do much in a columnar way about passing French. Moreover, there is the distinct possibility that I might flunk it all over again which certainly would not be news. Now it can be told that a condition in modern languages is not the only barrier which stands between me and a bachelors degree. I also

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ANNA DALL—THINKS FOR HERSELF

President’s Frankly Spoken Daughter Wins Capital’s Favor

Into the White Home —and the public m,—breeie* indfpendent-thinking, tepirally American Anna Roosevelt Dali. The rerent month* of her vnun* life are derribed below in the la*t of three articles written for The Times. BV MARY MARGARET M BRIDE SEA Service Staff Writer. WHEN the Roosevelts went to live at the White House, Anna Roosevelt Dali and her two children became an important part cf the household. Mrs. Roosevelt fitted up the nursery on the third floor for Sistie and Buzzle and when she showed early visitors over the place, pointed out a room across the hall from her own as Anna's. Curtis Dali attended the inauguration with his family but alter that was seldom seen at the White House. He did go to Washington for his daughter's first birthday party there and occasionally a note about "the President's son-in-law" appeared in the newspapers. But friends accepted the fact that a separation had taken place and any doubt on the subject was completely dissolved when the most recent issug of the social register gave Anna's address as Washington and her husband's as Tarry town. m m m \ NNA soon settled into hpr old /V routine as daughter of the house and her ■'Pop's" confidant and fun-maker. They always laugh a good deal together, those two—one amusing little habit of hers retained from childhood is to whisper secrets to him to mak.e him smile. Anna resumed her friendly companionship. too, with her mother. The two often rode together in Rock Creek park in the early morning, and the daughter substituted for her parent at teas and even on more formal occasions. Anna is excellent at making parties go, even staid state affairs. She has a gleeful delight in gold braid and uniforms that she seems able to communicate to those around her, making even officials less stiff. Another of her self-appointed family duties was helping with her mother’s enormous correspondence. Many of the letters in Mrs. Roosevelt's files bear Mrs. Dali's initials, indicating that she has read and answered them. Nor did the only Roosevelt

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Alien

WASHINGTON, July 25. —0n the walls of the office of the public health service hangs a graph. On it are lines that look like a jagged mountain range. Doctors call it the scarlet fever range, and point to the high peak of seven thousand cases in the United States during the week of March 18. After eight years of experimentation, public health doctors think they have found a way to knock the top off this peak.

They have discovered a toxoid, which shot into the arms of children. innoculates them from the disease. Eleven hundred people have been innoculated, then tested. Eighty-three per cent were immune. But there is one serious hitch. This new toxoid is based upon a toxin discovered by two Chicago doctors, George and Gladys Dick. They worked out a formula which also innoculates against scarlet fever, but public health officers find certain faults with it. Reaction to it bv the patient is somewhat violent; also five doses are required. However, the Dick toxin is absolutely essential as the base for the new public health toxoid. It can not be made without it. And the Dicks have patented their formula. Furthermore, they have declined so far, to relinquish it to the government. Dr. George Dick has indicated that he might give the discovery to science, but his wife. Dr. Gladys Dick, declines. And the justice department finds their patent valid, upholds their exclusive rights. If the public health officers use the Dick toxin for the general public, they can be sued personally, and intimations have been given that this might happen. Meanwhile public health doctors watch the scarlet fever range with a peak 7.000 cases high and hope for a friendly adjustment which will level it to nothing. * a a GETTING out of the vicepresidency seems to have done Charley Curtis a world of good. His friends say he now has become the same good-natured, poker-playing, sagacious old Indian he used to be before his vice-presidential days. Then he was one of the most popular and efficient members of the senate. Also Charley has regained his former frank disdain for the omnipotents of the G. O. P. Talking to a friend the other day, he said: "The millionaires are going to take a back seat in the present campaign. The Republican party don t need 'em. They cause more trduble than they're worth.” The truth probably is that Charley took his vice-presidential dinner duties too seriously. Any one who went out to dinner as often as he did was bound to get a little crochetv. man DELAWARE'S corpulent Senator Townsend, ardent sportsman is a fisherman before a patriot. . . . Despite the fact that his own state has a half dozen renowned resorts which have been trying to buildin up reputations as fishermen's paradises, he passes them up for Maryland's Ocean City. The angling in Maryland is better, despite the Delaware ballyhoo. •Cop* right I*3* &* United P>*ture Syndicate. Inc.i

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In the last year she has written I ■ alounc * a formal department in one maga- 1 ~~ T.l .... ■ ■ ~... . --^ flgll '' i JJenty o?chaffs. She™ as'unself-

daughter lack work of her own. In the last year she has written two books' for children and numerous magazine articles. For a while she even conducted an informal department in one magazine, discussing everything from ch-ild-training to politics. Her articles speak with great frankness of life in the White House and she has told intimate details about her father and mother. She also has talked over the radio for commercial concerns. man VTONE of these things had ever before been done by a President's daughter and some citizens were a little shocked at first. But most of them have come to like Anna and her ways. For she's as exciting and amusing as the other Roosevelt daughter, Princess Alice. More so, maybe. Alice, of course, put on an excellent show and the American public enjoyed her. But it could not hope to copy her, except perhaps in the color and cut of her dress. Pretty "Princess Anna.” on the other hand, acts much as any other young American woman would like to act, given her opportunities.

PRISON DOORS CLOSE ON ANN SANDSTROM Woman Slayer Transferred to Reformatory. By United Presx CHARLESTON. 111., July 25. Mrs. Ann Sandstrom. 38. Indianapolis. was taken to Dwight women's reformatory today to begin a sentence of from one to fourteen years for the slaying of Carl V. Thompson, Indianapolis, her alleged clandestine lover. Mrs. Sandstrom was transferred from the Coles county jail to the reformatory by Sheriff Mac Cochran, accompanied by Mrs. Cochran. A Coles county circuit court jury found Mrs. Sandstrom guilty of manslaughter last week. A nervous collapse delayed her transfer. American Artist Honored PARIS. July 25.—Louis Aston, well-known American painter, was promoted from chevalier to commander of the Legion of Honor today.

SIDE GLANCES

“Bill's a card, isn't he ? He certainly put life ir>to this party.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25,1934

Left to right: Curtis, ‘‘Sistie,’’ “Buzzie” and Anna Roosevelt Dali . . . . shown in recent informal photographs.

She is a good mother and absolutely sincere in her avowed wish to keep the children from getting the idea that they are important. She even had hoped that they need never realize that their adored pops was President of the United States. Not so long ago, she had Sistie and Buzzie out in her battered automobile—left to her own devices. she drives a second-hand flivver at as high speed as the law allows. The party drew up before a shop and a curious crowd gathered to stare. Sistie said. “Mother, they’re all looking at us. Why are they?” Mrs. Dali gave some off-hand answer and they drove on home. Sistie waited until her mother went into the house, then asked her friend the White House doorman, “Why do people look at us?”

ENGINEER ACQUITTED IN MURDER OF GIRL Millard Hickman Set Free by Jury’s Verdict. By United Pres* SAN FRANCISCO, July 25. Acquittal of Millard Hickman, 45-year-old shipping engineer, on charges of murder threw back into the laps of San Francisco police today the task of determining who killed beautiful Louise Jeppesen of Ogden, Utah, in Golden Gate park. A jury of eight men and four women quickly answered the state’s demand for a “hanging verdict or nothing” last night by finding the semi-bald engineer not guilty of the slaying charges. The jury deliberated only two hours after receiving the case. Two ballots were taken. POLAND"AGAIN FLOODED BY TORRENTIAL RAINS Thousands Endangered as Waters Inundate Low Areas. By United Press WARSAW, July 25.—New torrential rains flooded the great rivers of southern and middle Poland again today. Territory already devastated was reflooded, endangering thousands. The Vistula was again ovei its banks for fifty miles between Cracow and Warsaw, forming a lake four and one-half miles wide. The Dunajec also was over its banks and reflooded a wide area. At Sandomir anew lake was formed. Fifty-two hamlets were inundated and 37,000 acres of land flooded.

By George Clark

THE doorman told her that it was because her grandfather is President of the United States. Sistie ran to find her mother, screaming in great satisfaction: “I know now why people look at us. It's ’cause pops is President of the United States.” “Well,” said her mother in a casual tone that made little of the whole business, “he w r on't be President in a few years, and then you'll be standing on the sidewalk watching somebody else go into the White House!” Mrs. Dali recognizes that it is wise for her children, since they are so much in the public eye, to be well guarded, but she has kept them from thinking that the guards are there as any special attention to them. They regard state troopers and secret service men as just nice

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

SINCE Chancellor Hitler’s pilgrimage to Venice the position in Europe has become somewhat clearer. At that time, about a month ago, M. Barthou already had succeeded in strengthening the Little Entente and in reaching a political understanding with Russia. His purpose was the fundamental French purpose, which is to unite the nations interested in maintaining the existing frontiers in an alliance against those who might by aggression from without, or by revolution from within, upset the present constitution of Europe.

The British, for the present, have suspended their traditional policy, which is to maintain peace on the continent by a balance of power, and have adopted the fundamental French thesis of peace maintained by the united and overwhelming power of the nations satisfied with the status quo. The outward sign of this change was the decision in London to advise Germany to sign M. Barthou's so-called Eastern Locarno pact. The signature of this pact by Germany would be tantamount to a public renunciation of the whole Nazi foreign policy. It would be equivalent to Hitler’s indorsing, with his own signature, the territorial clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. nan THE causes of this change of British policy are evident enough. Some months ago, when the Nazis decided to build up a great air force, they did exactly what the kaiser had done in the years before the great war; they touched the most sensitive nerve of British policy. As long as Germany was talking only about tanks and machine guns it was easy for the British government to sympathize with the abstract justice of Germany’s claim to armaments and to feel detached and critical about French resistance. Tanks and artillery can not swim or fly the English channel. But an air force is for Britain a wholly different matter, and once Goering went to work to create an air force, support of Germany in the higher circles of the British government disappeared. Immediately the British government indorsed M. Barthou's pacts and announced that it wouid double its own air force. Since both decisions were applauded m France, there can be no doubt that Britain's air policy is concerned with Germany. ana THE British action had a profound effect in Italy. For in the long run it is an axiom of European politics that Italy must take her stand on the same side with the British. When Britain was pursuing a balance of power policy, Italy could pursue it. But not when Britain abandons it. Italy is for all practical purposes an island and its ultimate security depends upon not running counter to British sea power. Italy, however, had a vital reason of her own for coming to the same decision as the British; namely, that peace would not be promoted by encouraging the arming of the Nazis or their ambition for revision. That reason is Austria. Mussolini is an Italian patriot, and no Italian. Fascist, or otherwise. would willingly permit Germany to extend her power to the Brenner and to press down to Trieste and the Adriatic. He has, therefore, made the independence of Austria his first concern. There he has collided with Hitler. At Venice he may or may not

jolly friends who happen to be around a lot. tt tt tt MRS. DALL is the sort of young woman who chooses a table to sit on even when there are plenty of chairs. She is as unselfconscious as she is informal. When she thinks about it, though, she actually tries to make herself inconspicuous in order not to attract attention. Only her methods are usually so spectacular that people only look at her the more. There was the classic time, for instance, that, needing to speak to her mother on a matter of importance, she appeared on her hands and knees from round a screen at Mrs. Roosevelt's side during a conference the latter was holding with a group of women in the upper hall of the White House. The conferees first were amazed and then amused, but Anna never even thought that she was being unconventional. It is this unstudied quality which makes her movements so interesting to watch. It is one reason why Washington will be waiting eagerly in the months to come to see what Anna Roosevelt Dali does next.

have obtained a promise from Hitler to let Austria alone. Hitler may or may not be able to control the Nazis who are terrorizing Austria. He may or may not wish to control them. In any event, the fact is that an aggressive revolutionary movement "which has its base in Germany continues to attack Austria. So Mussolini is compelled to take his stand with the powers which have encircled Germany and propose to hold the Nazis within the frontiers of Versailles. The crisis itself will continue until constitutional government is re-established in Germany. When that is achieved the old rivalries among the powers will reassert themselves; Germany again will find partners, and her isolation will come to an end. • CoDvriftht. 1934 t VANDENBURG REJOICES IN DEATH OF DILLINGER Slaying Marks New Era of Law and Order, Senator Says. By United Pres* GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., July 25. —A new era of law and order will result from the killing of John Dillinger, Senator Arthur R. Vandenberg (Rep., Mich.) told the North Central Business and Professional Women's Conference. “Uncle Sam must w’alk a police beat to maintain law and order, inasmuch as crime has become mobile and no longer can be dealt with locally,” Senator Vandenberg asserted. EDITOR ASSAILS REDS Blames Labor Unrest on Communists at Rotary Meeting. Most major labor troubles of recent months are directly traceable to Communistic activities, Charles Milton Newcomb, Delaware (O.), newspaper editor, told Rotary Club members at their weekly luncheon in the Claypool yesterday. He cited the general strike in San Francisco as evidence of the increasing menace of Communistic activities in the United States. HEADS PHI DELTA KAPPA Gary Man Is Elected President at National Parley. By f h *tf ft Pr?** LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 25 With G. Maxwell Shields. Gary, as their newly elected president, delegates to the national convention of Phi Delta Kappa fraternity enjoyed an outing at Wildcat creek today. NOTED EXPLORER DIES Himalayan Mountain Expedition Reports Chief* Death. By United Preen BERLIN, July 25.—Willi Merkl, leader of the Himalayan expedition to climb Mr. Nanga,, 26620 feet high, is dead far us on the slopes of the mountain, a cable from the expedition announced today.

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Entered a serend-CluM Matter • t PostolTire, Indianapolis. Ind.

Fair Enough MNtfflEt NEW YORK, July 25.—1 t was noble of the committee on criminal courts of the New York County Lawyers’ Association to recommend that the newspapers be censored by the courts as a means of abating crime, considering that the profession of the law derives much of its income from the proceeds of the criminal’s activity. Any suggestion from this quarter tending to diminish the dividends must be regarded as a generous sacrifice. If crime is wiped out, the livelihood of the criminal lawyer will be

wiped out, too. It takes a big soul in a profession to denounce something which it regards as an important aid to the customers from which it receives its income. It is possible, however, that even if this recommendation were pursued rigorously by the courts and the newspapers were forbidden to publish anything at all about crime, the business would continue to thrive. In that case, the criminal lawyers would have their honor and their dividends, too, which would be a pleasant state of affairs for the crim-

inal lawyers. It is quite true, as the committee remarked, ihat some of the papers print lurid and sensational stories which tend to create an atmosphere of prejudice. But an examination of these stories might show that the prejudice favors the prosecution and tends to give the law an even break against the criminal and his partner, the lawyer. The law needs any little assistance which it can get. It is weak at best, having been written by lawyers in the interest of their profession which is allied closely to the criminal professions. mam Then kike ’Em Lurid IF a newspaper creates a prejudice against a defendant that prejudice may be only a partial offset against the prejudice which his attorney may create in his favor through tricks of the courtroom or the law which have nothing to do with the evidence. The phrase “lurid and sensational” is an easy and familiar one, often used against the newspapers. But crime is lurid and sensational and the truth is that most successful criminal lawyers love their luridness and sensationalism. The best criminal lawyers are actors as well as attorneys and they cultivate the acquaintance of newspaper people around the courthouse and promote lurid and sensational stories about their clients. It is unfortunate that the government, among its other generosities, does not establish some fund to pay the lawyers for the defense in all criminal cases. Under this condition, the counsel for the defense would not be in the position of a partner in the proceeds of his client’s crime. But as matters stand now. if a racketeer or banker goes to trial the attorney's pay comes out of the money which the client extorted or stole. And the fee is not based on the value of his time and services but on the client's ability to pay. When the attorney goes into court to defend a racketeer, for example, the relation between them requires that the racketeer tell his counsel the whole truth about his activities. Otherwise, the attorney might be caught by surprise and defeated. The truth, then, must convince any one but an attorney that the client's money was dishonestly come by, and consists, in blunt language, of loot. Any one who knowing! v receives stolen property is regarded as a low character, but a criminal lawyer, by a great effort on the imagination, decides that his client earned the money for his fee by pumping the organ in the choir. tt tt U These Suite Attorneys SOPHISTICATED as they are, attorneys also are amazingly naive about some things. They do not consider that the fee raised by a client with no other occupation but crime could have been derived from criminal activities. Scott Stewart of Chicago, an attorney whose clients have included many distinguished offenders, prefers to believe that counsel fees are raised by voluntary subscription among the loving neighbors and friends of the accused. The accused, Mr. Stewart explained, seldom put by any fall money and when they are released on bail, thanks to the intervention of the criminal lawyer, they do not dare engage in crime for the purpose of raising counsel fees. “When they are out on bail they know they are hot,” Mr. Stewart explained. “When a man who is accused falsely of a crime is bailed out to await trial he behaves himself with extreme care. Otherwise he may be accused falsely again. “But,” Mr. Stewart said, “his friends may get together and canvass the neighborhood for a defense fund. Storekeepers and business men find their sympathies aroused when the boys call on them for contributions and put their names down for various sums. Then the boys give the lawyer half of the dough and steal the other half. Some defendants have very unscrupulous friends.” Storekeepers and business men who.se sympathies do not arouse easily sometimes find themselves subject to acts of vandalism or personal violence, but that would be another phase of the crime problem. iCopvrieht. 1934. bv United Feature Svndieate. Inc.)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

THE variety of objects that persons swallow' or inhale, with subsequent damage to their throats, breathing passages and the tubes down which food is carried, is legion. Surgeons group them under the headings of hardware, jewelry, safety pins, pins and needles, seeds, nuts and shells, bones, meat, food generally, buttons, dental and surgical objects, ammunition, toys, coins and other disks. When a foreign body gets into the tissues, it at once sets up a considerable disturbance. If it is in the lung, it interferes with breathing. Infection accumulates around the foreign body, abscesses occur, and life is seriously threatened. If the object gets into the esophagus, it checks the passage of food and causes serious interference with nutrition. ana IT is obviously undesirable to perform surgical operations on such cases because of the difficulty of invading the chest cavity and possible permanent damage to the tissues. One of the most common types of disturbance is the swallowing or inhaling of bones. The development of hash, meatballs, meatpies and similar methods for disguising chopped meat is largely associated with the occurrence of this type of injury. In one of the largest clinics in the country, out of 2.500 cases in which foreign substances got into the lungs or the digestive tract bones were responsible for the trouble in 15 per cent. In 90 per cent of these cases, however, the bones were in the food passages, obviously an indication of the fact that the accident occurs most often during eating. ana RECORDS indicate that cnether frequent source of danger is sudden slapping on the back of someone who is chewing food or smoking a cigar. In one instance a man who was smoking a cigar was suddenly slapped on the back by a friend. He inhaled the cigar into his windpipe and died of strangulation before it could be removed. When such an accident occurs it is desirable, first of all, to get the foreign body out if it can be reached at all. It would not do to pound the person on the back, hang him up by his feet, or do any of the usual things that are tneo to relieve this condition.

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