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ft Seems io Me HEYM® BMIN NrFAV YORK A._ 21 E.t.- this morning I ran • j.. > <: ' vho !'• a close frtrnd of mine and v ••• b*-.?h •’ -ro complaining that Wh-r of u had ar. idea for the next day's column. •Would von submi* to an interview?" I asked. • What do you mean lbmit '?" he replied. "When did I ever run avc- - from a chance to get into print.? ' But after a few seconds consideration he added I thii.itf ’ou had better not use my name or me mj w*j bees tse I hare a vastue f#d* mst that I am valkmg alone a road on ■which banana peel, are oemg spread in my honor.' • Are you a labor asntator?' I a^ked. “I ho;** o he ar. we red •At any rate I mean to be

How can you square that hat 3ou are rep .rd to have received a hich salary for a number of years?" I have $125.70 in the bank right now an-wered my fat friend gloomily. “Please do not evade the i ue ” I insisted. "You could have saved our money. You've probably wasted it in gambling and riotous living ’ "Sure." he said. "I could have aved it up to buy Pcruv; <n bonds Or mavbe I could hive aved up enough to be in u.-t the right state of mind to do column about the cussed - ness of workers who demand

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their r.irhf and fo:to he polite to the bass.” -But you're quibbling.” I persisted. •Rumor has it acam that you've Mcnd a contract for a number of rear so that no matter what happens, you. at least, have security.” The young man answered obscenely and for at lra -t a minute r seemed quite useless to take notes. Afer a final splmter he continued. Once upon a time I worked m a large metropolis on a morning paper. If was a liberal paper. Up in Massachusetts two ninoeeni men were being railroaded to the chair. As I remember one was a shoemaker and the other a peddler. 1 got mad. I got so mad that the editor told me nos to write on that subject any more. I got madder and went on a one-man strike for six nr seven months. Then like a fool I went back and in another couple of month I got fired. And during all that time I had a contract and what you call security.” a a a Don't Hold That Dose! man annoyed me and I broke in sharply. -* “Don t try am of those martyr airs on me.” I told him. "You i.e\er went cold and heaven knows its palpable you ne\er went hungry a day in your life.” This time he gunned at me with that charm for which lie is noted. But I will. Hevwood. I will." he an vr:ed In fa t I'm beginning to feel that I must. But mostly th ar not decisions that you make arbitrarily. They are forced on you. If you are willing to wait until next play before the money is put up 1 11 lay you SIOO to Sio that I will die in abject poverty and spend my declining years in want.” You needn't hold the pose on my account." I assured him. ' I vr road the same amount of Freud as you have. I think we both recognize the Messiah complex which crops nut in columnists at bars along about tour in the morning. Quit weeping into your gin rirkey.” I thought for a minute tiiat he was going to punch me and as we are both of a size it might have been a good bout though a short one. a a a Xot a Lark Any Mine “I OOK here. Broun.” he said, growing more I formal. *'there's a point where all kidding rca-rs. You and I have both known newspaper men better than eifher of us who were tossed on the scrap-heap with charm for a coivt and a 'so sorry old fellow in lieu of an old age pension.” I tried to mollify him. Yes. I'd heard that you were one of a crowd that was working to try and improve conditions for editorial workers.” But then I couldn't res: t mi traditional skepticism and suspicion of sham Still, they tell me.” I added, "that in a our case it 's a lark and that you go around making speeches and attending meets iust to show off. In.-tead of getting angry, he answered quite mildly. “Anybody who says that is a liar." And he quickly added. ' That isn't fair: I ought to say he's mistaken. 1 had the same suspicion myself because I am an old show off. But I put myself on probation. A year has gone by and so I know it isn't a lark. It's a job and the me * thrilling enterprise to which a man ran commit himself. In the labor movement I know which side I'm on l*m for the workers. I hope aou'll believe me." And. as a matter of fact. I did. • Copyright. 1934. bv The Times*

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

r T''HF great meteorite which .'truck Canyon Diablo, A Ariz. and brought into existence the so-called Meteor Crater, consisted chiefly of stone and was shivered to fine dust by the impact. Tins is the conclusion of Professor Herman L. Fairchild who has made a careful study of the ecology of the region. His view runs counter to the earlier view that the meteorite was a great mass of iron which was supposed to lie buried beneath the walls of the crater. The crater is 4 000 feet in diameter and has walls rising ISO fee* above the desert. The theory that the meteorite was iron arose from the faet that hundreds of lumps of iron ranging up to one weighing 1 400 pounds have been found on the desert in the neighborhood of the crater. However, numerous shafts which have been sunk in the crater in recent years have revealed no trace of iron a a a PROFESSOR FAIRCHILDS theory is that the meteorite which came plunging into the earth's atmosphere from out of space consisted of a great mass of s'on' which included many nodules of iron. He boliev.'s that the force of the impact was so c-eat that the meteorite was crushed to fine dust. Th* nodules of iron, however, escaped when the ston" matrix which held them was crumbled Tire explosive force of the impact scattered those nodules of iron along with the dust over the surrounding desert. he believes. The s e of the crater docs not directh* indicate the size of the meteorite. Professor Fairchild says. Two factors were responsible for the formation of the crater. One was the mass of the meteorite The o’her was its velocity. The temperature of the meteorite is also an important factor in settling its fate he says. To the degree that its internal temperature was lew the mass was correspondingly brittle, whether iron or mostly sfccne." he says. a a a ”TF the boe> had suddenly arrived from extra-solar X space. a casual visitor to our planetary system. it probably had verv high velocity and was mtensel.v cold And even if it had been aimlessly wandering with some relation to the sun it probably had aerv low temperature and a velocity no: less than that of the observed meteors. The violent impact which produced so great effect on the earth must have >hattered the bolide, whatever its velocity, temperature and substance. If it was largelv stony material. .s all the facts appear to indicate, the stone was shivered to dust and swept as jr In a cloud of vapor In which case only the included nodular masses of iron-alloy are the existing remnants. "There is no doubt that the thousands of nickehferous irons found over the desert were associated with the huge bohde. The question is—how did they acquire such dispersion? Were the% detached companions of the main body, or are they projected fragments of the disrupted mass?" •Dr. Fairchild is inclined to believe that there were a few free associated bits of iron, but that most of the iron existed as nodules in the mass of the main neteome or bolide.

WHOOPING COUGH PERILS DIONNES

Whole Family May Be Ousted for Protection of Quintuplets

BY FORREST DAVIS TiifiM Speeial Writer /CALLANDER. Ont.. Aug 11 V> Mme. Elzire Dionne, mother of eleven at 24, went about her domestic tasks today wuth the abstracted manner of a woman who is not mistress of her own household. Half the downstairs in the Dionne homestead and five of her offspring, the famous quintuplets, lie outside her province. And tomorrow she may be dispossessed. with her husband, Oliva, the other six youngsters, the hired hands and the hired girl, from what remains of her .sovereignty. The Dionne family, saVe the quintuplets, face eviction at the hands of medical science. For whooping cough is epidemic in the Nipissmg district. In nearby Bonfield, whole families of chilren arc afflicted. As Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, physician to the five little Dionne sisters, discussed that new danger to their precarious hold on life, a sgiall child appeared at the doorway of his house in Callander. “My sister and brother have the whooping cough," she reported. • Mother says what shall she do?" a a a THE older, singly born Dionne young ones are being watched. Two of them coughed last night. The sound created a minor emergency in the circle around the quintuplets. At the first whoop, out will go the older children and. indeed, the whole family. The Dionnes, in strict fact, occupy their own house on sufferance. Dr. Dafoe opposed the return of the children: he grumbles daily about the possibility of infection in the crowded quarters of the story-and-a-half cottage. As fast as he could, he had the other offspring whisked away after birth of the first surviving quintuplets in history. Today, the guard was intensified about the nursery. Instructions were issued that no children must be allowed to visit the Dionnes. A virtual quarantine was placed on the household. Dr. Dafoe and the other guardians prepared to ask Crown authorities to station a plainclothes officer on twenty-four-hour duty at the Dionne farm. So Mme. Dionne may have

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

—By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—When the President got back to his desk yesterday, he found an administration which was marking time during his absence. More than any other one thing. Roosevelt's vacation cruise has proved that he is the dynamo, mainspring, and centrifugal point around which the entire New Deal turns. Without him. it is a set of empty platitudes. The main impetus vanishes.

empty o. -• The minute Roosevelt left town, there began an exodus of his subordinates. With his return they are streaming back, anxious to be around the leader. No one in high place will admit it, but the interim w r as a patchw'ork quilt affair—a matter of drift, in which the trend was away from the standards orginally set by the President. Beginning today, therefore, he faces the task of whipping his program back to top speed and efficiency. a a a SEVERAL major problems confront him One is the fact that summer business has not been as good as expected. Despite billions spent on public works, despite the devaluation of the dollar, despite millions of acreage reduction checks mailed to farmers, the number on federal relief rolls is almost the same as it was on March 4. 1933 —the day Mr. Roosevelt took office. The big hope for the future now is pinned on the housing program. The plan is to get enough houses under construction or under repair to bring an important business spurt during the winter. Without this something like CWA will have to be brought back to fill the emergency. The housing adminstration. however, is in the hands of Jimmy Moffett, most efficient at getting beautiful leather furniture and Venetian blinds on his office windows, but a limper when it comes to speeding home construction. a a a \NOTHER big problem confronting Roosevelt is the NR A. From the day the President set sail it has been foundering hopelessly. At that time it was announced a major operation confronted the Blue Eagle. General Johnson was absent. Donald Richberg was busy with other things. The NRA has drifted from bad to worse. The work of salvage will be difficult. But if anything of value is to be saved anew and definite course must be charted immediately. The most devastating problem facing the President, of course, is the drought. He has returned fully aware of its grave import, the realization that a vast part of the Mississippi valley will be crippled economically for a year or more to come. Fortunately, the drought already is receiving the fullest attention of the administration. There is little more Mr. Roosevelt can do. The President also will find the labor situation improving. The new national labor board weathered its most serious crisis while Mr. Roosevelt was away. Present problems, in comparison, seem reasonably plain sailing. The consensus is the board is doing a good job. a a a THE new securities commission is marking time. It does not take over active regulation of the stock markets until Sept. 1. In preparation, its members are working intensively. They are expected to do a good job. One question Mr. Roosevelt's advisers will put to him soon after his return is that of vigilantes the groups of Minute Men, selfappointed police officers, which have been springing up in the Imperial valley, in the San Fran-

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The proudest parents in the world, and the reasons for (heir pride . . . Oliva Dionne, the father, left, no longer thinks they ought to put him in jail.” Mrs. Dionne, now almost completely recovered from her ordeal, smiles broadly . , . while Oliver Dionne, the grandfather, right, ran scarcely restrain the proud smile that struggles to break out on his seamed face. . . . Even the family must wear sterilized surgical smocks when inspecting the famed quintuplets.

speculated on the strange course of events which leaves a mother unmolested with her six. but brings about outside control over her five. a a tt cpHE envy of devout FrenchCanadian goodwives throughout the bush. Mme. Dionne has the sympathy of her neighbors. God. it is felt, set a signal seal of His approval on the young mother. Such fertility has a hidden meaning. Pious women cross them-

cisco waterfront walkout, in the Bridgeton (N. J.) trucking strike. New' Deal advisers view' this as an outcropping of Naziism. will urge Roosevelt to appoint a commission to suppress it. '.Copyright. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) 500 DUE AT G. 0. P. EDITORIAL PICNIC Arthur Robinson Among Banquet Speakers. Republicans will turn out en masse for the summer outingof the Indiana Republican Editorial Association next Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Spink-Wawasee hotel at Lake Wawasee. This prediction was made yesterday at a meeting of the association's executive committee at the Claypool. Arthur Buckly, Spink-Wawa-see manager, who attended the meeting, was informed that approximately 500 persons will attend the two banquets Friday and Saturday nights. Frederick Landis. Logansport, Second district nominee for congress, is scheduled to speak Friday night, and Senator Arthur R. Robinson is expected to speak the following night, it was learned. FIRE SWEEPS MISSOURI TOWN; $150,000 IS TOLL Eleven Buildings Are Destroyed in Liberty'; Five Damaged. B\j Utiitr'l Piets LIBERTY'. Mo.. Aug. 11.—Liberty was cleaning up and rebuilding today after a Sl5O 000 fire late yesterday narrowly missed sweeping the entire business district. Tinder-dry buildings caught fire from some unexplained source. No one was hurt, although several persons had to be carrier down fire ladders to safety. Last check revealed eleven buildings destroyed and five damaged by the flames. SIMPLE RITES PLANNED FOR EXECUTED MOTHER Brother Refuses to Say Where Burial Will Be Held. By L nilcil Press SCHENECTADY. N. Y.. Aug. 11.— The body of Mrs. .Anna Antonio, young Albany mother executed in Sine Sing prison's electric chair Thursday night lor the insurance slaying of her husband, lay in an undertaker's morgue here today while her brother. Pasquale Cappello, Schenectady mechanic, planned a simple funeral. He refused to say whether she would be buried in the same plot with her husband. Salvatore, whose life she was accused of taking for a $5,000 insurance premium. CARILLON CONCERT SET Three Hymns on Program of Scottish Rite Music. David Neafus will present a concert of eight selections on the Scottish Rite carillon at 7 tomorrownight. Included in the program are three requested hymns, 1

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selves as they pass the yellow farm cottage. But for all that. Mme. Dionne has been distinguished by God. She is powerless in her own home. She sees the infants when and as the nurses say. She can not introduce aunts, uncles and cousins into the nursery for a glance at the newest babes. The priest himself—the parish priest walks with an authority unknown in the great world to the south—has no rights where the quintuplets are concerned.

LATE SOMMER TRIPS LISTED Union Trust Bureau Is Offering Varied Choice for Traveler. The travel department of the Union Trust Company, 120 East Market street, is featuring late summer cruises. The length of the cruises varies from two and one-half days to two w'eeks. To the north, ports of Newfoundland are visited, and on the southern boats Bermuda and South America are included in the itinerary. For those desiring a six weeks' cruise, special Mediterranean cruises are offered, with shore excursions at no extra expense, or the regular Mediterranean cruise may be had with a visit to eight different ports. Round-the-w'orld cruises lasting seven and one-half months have from thirty to thirty-two ports on their call list, and are offered to the traveler who desires to see the w'orld first-hand. At a minimum of expense Alaska cruises last up to thirty-five days, and the fares vary to the length of the cruise and stateroom accommodations. Or for those who prefer a “land cruise,” a variety of tours to the scenic west is available to fit every vacation requiprement and purse. Full details of any of these tours may be had by inquiring at the travel department of the Union Trust Company, 120 East Market street. Marvel's to Hold Family Reunion The thirteenth annual Narvel family reunion will be held tomorrow', Aug. 19. at the home of Fred Hough, one mile north of Claremont on the county line, Mrs. Anna Crough. reunion president, announced today.

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“It’s the same thing every summer. We’re the only people .stuck here in the city*!’

It is easier for Oliva. Oliva is master in the cow barn and the hay field. But he falls far short of mastery in his own home. It is impossible to determine, unless one understands the peasant phyhcologv of the people, what Mme. Dionne thinks of this whole finicky panoply. That is not the way French-Canadian babies are nursed ordinarily. Mme. Dionne is shy. Young French-Canadian farm wives

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THE novels of Gene Stratton Porter are more in demand than ever because of the church drive for better pictures. Monogram Pictures will speed up production in order to get its present program into the theater while other companies are rearranging their schedules to conform to the better pictures campaign, according to W. Ray Johnston, president.

Mr. Johnston said that his concern was fortunate in having a complete schedule of an approved type of picture set far in advance of the current church drive, and that it is his intention to speed up production in order to gnt the pictures into the theaters as soon as possible. Some of the Monogram productions which Mr. Johnston believes will meet with unqualified approval include “The Keeper of the Bees,” by Gene Stratton Porter; “The Healer,” by Robert Herrick; “The Nut Farm,” by John C. Brow'nell; “The Hoosier Schoolmaster.” by Edward Eggleston; “Murder in the Stratosphere,” by Tristram Tupper; “Flirting w'ith Danger,” by George Bertholon, and “Girl of My Dreams,” by George Waggner—all scheduled for early production. The company recently completed “A Girl of the Limberlost,” by Gene Stratton Porter; “Tomorrow's Youth,” Wilkie Collins’ famous mystery story, “The Moonstone”; “A Successful Failure" and “King Kelly of the U. S. A." all of which are expected to meet with approval. “In the three years that Monogram Pictures has been in operation, we have hever had a picture turned down by the censors,” Mr. Johnston said. “Never at any time in the past have we put a questionable subject on our programs and will not in the future.” a a a THAT Gaumont British pictures are to become an important factor in the American motion picture field is the assurance of Jeffrey Bernerd, general

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have little enough to say before strangers. They must win their laurels by giving life to a half dozen at least before they earn a place in the councils. Just now her only concern is that the immature little ones live and grow into hearty girls. In a primitive country where woman's place is in the home, there is no thought that infant girls will be trained for anyhing but wifehood, motherhood, and good works.

manager of the Gaumont British Picture Distributors Corporation, Ltd., who is in New York for the avowed purpose of establishing a nation-wide chain of exchanges for the distribution here of his company's productions. “Various news commentators have described our projected activities as an ‘invasion’ of America.’’ Mr. Bernerd remarks. “I hardly think that this is the word. In England w r e do not regard the widespread distribution of American pictures as an ‘invasion.’ “On the contrary they are heartily welcomed and w'ell patronized. After all, we have been releasing Gaumont British pictures in a small way in America for several years, but we have not, up to this time, made any determined effort to achieve the recognition to which the high entertainment value of our pictures certainly entitles us. “That this failure on our part to attain wider circulation for our product is mainly our own fault, we freely admit, and it is to correct this situation that we are opening our own exchanges and conducting a concentrated drive to make the American public Gau-mont-British conscious. We have an exceptionally fine line-up of pictures either completed, in production, or in preparation, and we know that they will compare most favorably with the best which arc being produced in America. “Among others scheduled for early release here are ’Power,’ ( which we are presenting in England under the title ‘Jew Suss’); ’Chu Chin Chow.’ ‘Evergreen,’ ‘Man of Aran,’ a Robert J. Flaherty production; Little Friend,’ ’My Song for Y’ou.’ which stars Jan Kiepura, who was such a sensation in ’Be Mine Tonight,’ and Princess Charming.’ starring Evelyn Laye: And these are only a few of our current releases. “We recently signed George Arliss to star in ‘The Iron Duke,’ and we have since secured this great artist for two more pictures. Conrad Veidt, who has given a marvelous performance in ’Power,’ will be starred in ‘King of the Damned,’ a drama of Devil’s Island. Altogether tve anticipate making available better than thirty pictures during the coming year. “There is one feature in connection with Gaumont British pictures.” Mr. Bernerd asserts, “that is of the utmost importance to both the theater managers and the picture - patronizing public in America, and that is the fact that they are, without exception, entirely ‘clean’ in theme and dialogue. By this Ido not mean that they are in any sense lacking in absorbing story values or entertainment qualities, but we have found it w’holly possible to produce pictures which possess the highest audience appeal without the sacrifice of decency, and to attain convincing realism without resort to suggestive action or offcolor situations.” Included in both the current and advance production plans of Gaumont-British is the employment of many of the best known American stars and directors, Mr. Bernerd states, and his company is prepared to make productions in America should the occasion arise.

Fdir Enough iraMM N r E\V YORK Aug 11.—With the death of Uncle Wilber Robinson, the old manager of the Brooklyn Daffmess Boys, the lineup in one of the finest feuds in the sport industry has been reduced to two survivors. One of them is old Jedce Steve McKeever. one of the principal owners of the baseball club which raised earnest goofmess to a divine art. The other is Colonel Til Huston, a former partner in the ownership of the New York Yankees. Fine old haters, both, it is a happy circumstance that the survivors are on op-

posing sides of the quarrel, for thus it is assured that the high traditions of the most beautiful natred which the graying generation of baseball customers were privileged to observe, will be maintained to the end. May the feudist with the best set or arteries win. but the last man on the field will be lonesome there with nobody left in the world really worthy of his animus. Charlie Ebbets was the first to go. He was the pioneer magnate of the Brooklyn Daffiness Boys. He was neither an athlete nor a sportsman, but

a frugal business man in the sport industry whose character suggested peanuts rather than home runs. The next man down was Sheriff Bill McGeehan. the sport writer. Not long ago. Joe Vila, for many years the sport editor of the New York E-ening Sun. died suddenly, hating Uncle Wilbert Robinson to his last conscious moment. a a tt Disrupted by a Dime THE sheriff seems to have started it about ten years back with an essay in the old New York Herald describing the August ceremonies on the opening day of the baseball season in Brooklyn. Charlie Ebbets. the magnate, and a distinguished company of Brooklyn statesmen, marched to the flag pole m center field wearing plug hats. Mr. McGeehan. describing the scene in the paper next morning, said that Mr. Ebbets suddenly disrupted the imposing formation of plug hats by droping to his knees behind second base to search in the grass for a dime which he had dropped. Mr. Harry : Stevens, the hotdog magnate, now also gone, kindly fell out of the procession and offered to help him search for the dime. But Mr. Ebbets waved him away in alarm, saying, "No. I do not want you to help me; you might find it.” Mr. Ebbets angrily denied that any such incident had marred the majestic dignity of the opening ceremonies. He demanded a retraction. Mr. McGeehan thereupon wrote another article confessing that he had been mistaken in reporting that Charlie Ebbets dropped a dime. It was even worse than that, he said. Mr. Ebbets had dropped 15 cents. The sheriff thus started a feud with the old magnate. which grew in beauty until Mr. Ebbets died. In the meantime, because of the friendship between McGeehan and Wilbert Robinson. Mr. Ebbets began to suspect Uncle Wilbert in a mild way. He did not wish to discharge him berause Wilbert had a strange knack for picking up old, discarded ball players in the baseball bone yards and winning ball games with them. He won two pennants with mixed lots of relics and nobodies. And even when he was not winning pennants he was drawing pay loads of customers and creating dividends for Charlie Ebbets. His master-minding was not of the mysterious, impressive kind. He master-minded strictly by ear and frequently forgot his own batting order. a a tt Tun of a Kind THE sheriff and Wilbert were two alike in their social tastes and sentiments. Wilbert was an old Oriole, which meant that he was all man. He liked to hunt in the fall and dramming was one of his pleasures, too. Colonel Til Huston, a rich man put in with them because McGeehan and Wilbert were his kind. After the death of Charlie Ebbets, old Jedge McKeever became a power in the business office of the Daffiness Boys and wished to fire Uncle Wilbert. He claimed that even though Wilbert did deliver dividends he was not a good manager. He tried persistently to amass enough votes in the board room to force him out. Then, one day, for some reason so trivial that all hands soon forgot it in the fury of their hatred Uncle Wilbert had a squabble with Joe Vila. At that, though they had been friends for thirty years. Mr. Vila turned his journalistic wrath on him. He started a newspaper campaign to have him fired. Uncle Wilbert, in turn, tried to have Mr. Vila fired and Sheriff McGeehan began to write in defense of Wilbert. For three years Mr. Vila would not permit Mr. Robinson's name to appear in his sport pages. Mr. McGeehan drowned out the thunder of this silence with loyal praise. At last, Jedge McKeever did manage to swing enough votes to fire Uncle Wilbert. But there was no truce in the hating. Mr. Vila exulted and Sheriff McGeehan raged. Robinson, McGeehan and Huston frequently gathered in their Georgia camp to hunt, relax and hate the Jedge and Vila and the memory of Charlie Ebbets. Colonel Huston even bought the Atlanta Crackers and turned the team over to Wilbert, just so that he would have a ball club to occupy his interest in the summer. Greater love than that of McGeehan, Wilbert and Colonel Huston no man ever had—nor greater hatred either. The breed of haters is softening up. Only recently Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney were caught in the act of drinking one another's health and talking about babies. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

IN the lower animals the sense of smell is so important that it dominates most of their activities, By the sense of smell animals find their food and determine its qualities and recognize their friends or enemies. In human being;, the sense of sight dominates by far the sense of smell, so that even when the sense of smell is lost, life is not greatly affected, yet it makes a great deal of difference to our appetites and pleasures. The sense of smell is closely linked to all other senses of the body. It is furthermore strongly ingrained in our memories. Once a person has smelled a rose or corned beef and cabbage, the odor thereafter means something very definite in his life. It is now well established that in some people the sense of smell is greatly deficient. There are people who lack the ability to smell certain odors although they can smell others. This is much the same as the type of deafness in which people can hear sounds only within a certain range. a a a IT is also well established that it is possible for the sense to become so fatigued by repeatedly smelling strong oders that it is impossible to smell them further. For example, if you smell a certain kind of perfume over and over for a sufficiently long time, you will get to the point where you can not smell it at all, but a different odor will be smelled immediately. It is for this very reason that women beginning with small amounts of perfume ultimately reach an excess of the same perfume because their nostrils have become so accustomed to it that they fail to appreciate small amounts of it. B B B FOR example nozzles may be put into each of the nostrils and a different odor blown into the nose from each nozzle. Sometimes one is smelled after the other, sometimes one only is smelled and sometimes neither. It has been found that the odor of rubber and benzoin are neutralizing, also iodoform and balsam of Peru, and cedarwood and rubber. Strangely, it has been found that certain odors antagonize each other so that when both are present at once neither is smelled. They seem to neutralize each 9*-her in some way.

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