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Zt-Jeemr io Me HEVMWMJN I TRUST that I am violating no confidence In Raying that the average columnist ix always eager to get a response from his audience. I do not mean that he purposely sets down in malice some outrageous doctrine for no other purpose than to foment a freshet of letters, hostile or otherwise. After a few years in the craft the newspaper commentator hardly ran fail to learn one significant thing. And that is that public reaction is almost unpredictable. In the preparation of a daily stint one comes to realize very fast that the good days and the bad days are dependent largely upon luck. There are nights in which the fingers of the pro-

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surprised. The column which was supposed by its originator to be hot stufT flows under the bridge and attracts not a flicker of interest. Two days later the same columntst in a desperate hurry to make a deadline rattles off some passing impressions and finds out within forty-eight hours that the air is filled with dead cats and live orchids. a a a You Should He Ashamed, You Cur ALMOST without exception the column on which you take the greatest licking is the very same one for which you get the greatest praise. Though not. I suppose from the same people. Twice during the last ten days I did columns about Herbert Hoover- The subject was chosen reluctantly and as a last resort. I simply couldn't think of anything else. From the standpoint of news value anything about Mr. Hoover seemed to be a mistake. There appeared to be no contentious issue involved. Criticising Herbert Clark Hoover was a little like attacking the man-eating shark. You rouldn t get up an argument with anybody but Will Beebe. So with an unselfishness rare to me I twice sat down and wrote about Herbert Clark Hoover, comforting myself I went along with the reflection, “well even if nobody pays any attention, you still have a right to set down your honest convictions. Maybe next week you'll be able to hit upon somebody who actually is of news interest and news value. Right now be true to yourself.” I cast my bread upon the water and it came back to me in the form of molten biscuits. The first letter I opened the next day said: ‘‘Mr. Hoover himself is beyond the reach of your curdled spite and your cheap sarcasm but you. Mr. Broun, you are a low thing, so slink out of sight into sopie dark hole and there be ashamed.” “Not bad for a begiqping.” I thought. “With a little more work some of these readers really can be worked up into an irritation, if not indignation.” n u m Just an Old W rist-Slapper ri next began, “I certainly can not stoop so low 1 as to spend money for a paper that pays you a salary to write such stuff.” The third was not addressed personally to me but to the editor, who is always kind enough to send on copies of the letters in which lam mentioned. This one said simply, A good whip liberally employed might help to make htm forget the foul thoughts of his befuddled mind and lead him bark to real and sane life. I read with disgust ” began the next. "Just acknowledge these in the usual way,” I said to my secretary and tossed over to her the stamp we have which prints out a single word and facsimilie of my signature. Here's one you haven’t seen.” she said. "Nothing trivial?” I inquired, fearful lest there be a letdown in the pace. "You ought to be ashamed of your Hoover column.” said this letter. "If you are going to start pulling your punches and go in for wrist slapping make room for someone who is still tough HE MAN.” An so I apologize to those critics who received from me a short and printed answer. To send the one rAird "thanks' to a letter writer is less than polite even though the missive may have been severe. I shculd have said. "Please write again." That might spur me on. I still hate Herbert Hoover and He Man" is correct in saying that as yet I have been too much concerned with courtesy and good taste to do an honest job of self-expression. iCopyright. 1934. by The Times!

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

MOTHER NATURE has made plans this year to welcome the arrival of autumn with an astronomical event of impressive and rare beauty. Autumn arrived officially on Sept. 23 at 12:45 p m. On Sept. 29. at 8 am., there will be a conjunction or close approach of Mercury and Jupiter. It will not be possible to see the two planets at their closest because at that time the sun will be above the horizon. However, a spectacle of amazing loveliness will greet the eve in the western sky on both the nights of Sept. 28 and Sept. 29 Because Spica. a brilliant white first magnitude star, is near the place where tne conjunction takes place, it will form part of the pic lure. The three objects. Mercury. Jupiter and Spica. will form a triangle, low in the western sky. shortly after sunset. Closest to the horizon and forming the lower right corner of the triangle will be Spica. To the left of Spica and a little higher will be Mercury. Above Mercury will be Jupiter. mum \ u. tnree are white in color Spica. though a first magnitude star, will be the least brilliant of the three. Mercury is two and one-half times as bright as Spica. Jupiter is three times as bright as Mercury. Because Mercury only appears occasionally in the sky. and then only for a brief hour before sunrise or after sunset, many persons go through life without ever seeing the planet. FSen those who hunt for it frequently miss it because it is not easy to find in the twilight haze. This time, however, there should be no difficulty in finding it. because of its nearness to brilliant Jupiter. Jupiter. Mercury and Spica all disappear below the horizon about an hour after sunset, so be sure to look for the spectacle soon after sunset and choose a vantage point from which the western horizon can be seen. While the three objects will appear close together, actually, of course, they are very far apart. Mercury and Jupiter are planets within our own solar system Spica is a star, trillions of miles beyond our solar system. a a a THE next few weeks afford the last opportumty of the year to view the constellations of summer. Scorpio, the dominating constellation of the summer skies, is already so low in the southwest that it is almost ready to dip below the horizon at sunset. ' By 8 p. m. part of the constellation is below the honzon. and Antares. the brilliant red star which is the chief glory qt the constellation, is almost touching the horizon. Lyra and Cygnus are still almost overhead. Lyra Is marked by the brilliant white star, Vega Cy gnus or the swan, sometimes called the northern cross, because Us brightest stars form a cross, marks the path of the Milky Way across the bowl of the sky. Onon. chief constellation of the winter sky. is not yet visible. But next month, as Scorpio disappears. Orion will climb over the eastern horiaon The B;g Dipper, it will be noted at about 8 or 9 p m. is very low m the sky. the two pointers pointing back up into the sky to mark the location of the north star. Ca pella. also is low in the north, only a littie way above the horaion.

fessional egotist fairly fly across the keyboard and when the final sentence has been completed the columnist leans back, mops his brow and says to himself. Well, this time I certainly was steaming. That column ought to fetch at least four letters of warm praise and an even dozen suggesting a lynching bee with the commentator as the central figure.” • If more were known about popular psychology, the life of a newspaper galley slave would be as easy as rolling a log. Unfortunately, even the veterans of the craft constantly are

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THE REAL KINGFISH OF LOUISIANA

Master Showman Is Huey Long; Finds Delight in Role of Clown

ThU it lhr •*<-ond of thr* rcmling stories on Hoes Long. Th* series It written be Sew Orleant newspaper man thoroughly familiar with tong’a spertarotsr rareer from Ita beginning. mam BY JAMES E. C ROWN City Editor, Sew Orleana State*. (Written for NEA Service) ORLEANS. Sept. 11.—How does Senator Huey P. Long Louisiana get that way? Politically speaking, he has "it.” He buys his clothes from the south's most expensive tailor, twenty-five suits at a time; he has one of the finest houses in the "silk stocking" part of New Orleans; and he sports a huge stable of automobiles. Besides, Huey habitually carries a roll of bills that would choke the well-known ox; he is one of the most lavish, flashy livers the state ever has known; and he preaches share-the-wealth because, he says, the few have too much and the many have too little. The man who boasts that he keeps no bank account, and pulls SSOO and SI,OOO bills out of his pocket faster than a magician does rabbits out of a hat, had to borrow $125 for his filing fees when he ran for public service commissioner in the dawn of his political career. When he was elected Governor, he was in debt and his home in Shreveport was mortgaged. ana WEISS, assistant manager of the barber shop in a leading New Orleans hotel, whom Huey Long made his dock board president, had abundant opportunity to observe what the w elldressed gentleman wears. The gaudiness wlvch Long affected during the early weeks of his governship gave Weiss the shivers. He took Long's sartorial soul in hand. "You've got to dress like a gentleman,” he said. So off came the diamond pin, as large as a hefty man’s thumb. Off came the loud clothes. It rained striped silk shirts for forty days and forty nights on the help at the Roosevelt hotel, where Long maintained and still maintains a suite of rooms. Long's clothes now are conservative in cut and style, but of the finest material, and he recently pitted the inspiration of Seymour Weiss against J. Hamilton Lewis, and almost vanquished the man who for years has been acclaimed the best dressed man in the United States state.

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON. Sept. 11.—Already the board of strategy of the American Liberty League is reported angling for ex-Budget Director Lew Douglas for its list of star recruits. And, judging by private factors behind Lew s sudden exit from the New Deal, he will join up. His rift with the President goes back many months—back to a secret and carefully-guarded incident during the closing days of the last session. Without consulting Douglas,

Roosevelt sent to congress a bill calling for an additional $1,500,000.000 for PWA and unemployment relief. A die-hard "budget balancer,” Douglas took it upon himself to go over the President's head. In personal letters to Senator Carter Glass and Representative James P. Buchanan, chairmen of the senate and house appropriation committees, he vigorously challenged these additional expenditures. In effect he urged that the measure be rejected. This was exactly the way Glass felt. And he was all set to publist the letter when Senator Jimmy Byrnes, Roosevelt's congressional liaison man, got wind of what was up. ana BYRNES realized that if Douglas’ letter saw the light of day it would create a tremendous furor. Working fast and desperately he persuaded Glass to allow him to lay the matter before the President. And Roosevelt, when appraised of Douglas’ letter, was furious. He was for dismissing his budget director immediately. But Byrnes, with his eye on the political situation, advised against precipitate action. He persuaded the President to call in Douglas, and get him to withdraw the letter. Douglas bowed to White House pressure. But from then on he was all washed up” with the President. a a a HARVARD soon will have as many Roosevelts as it has scions of New England's famous families—the Cabots, the Lowells and the Ladges. This fall there will be five. The two additions are John Roosevelt, youngest son of the President, and Kermit Roosevelt Jr., grandson of Theodore Roosevelt. With them in upper classes at Harvard are: Franklind D. Roosevelt Jr, another son of the President. a sophomore; Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt, son of Young Teddy, also a sophomore: Theodore Roosevelt 3rd, another son of Young Teddy, a junior. The President's two youngest sons are different types. John, the youngest, is not particularly athletic. inclined to be something of a society man. is at home on the floor committees of school proms. Franklin D. Jr. has certain noticeable characteristics of his father. is athletic and the typical school leader type. He is of smaller stature than his father. Both boys are intelligent and hard workers. *a a a SIR BASIL ZAHAROFF. supersalesman of munitions, whose name figures so prominently in the sale of United States patented submarines to foreign countries, is not called Europe * “Mystery Man" for nothing. Everything about him has been subject lor

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HE'S fond of music, too, is Huey P. Long, and his fondness seeks expression in a superb showmanship. Through the streets of New Orleans, Baton Rouge and other cities, he has led the 100-piece Louisiana State university band —strutting with all the pomp of a drum major. He leads the band upon the football fields. Not long ago, after leading the band through New Orleans, he went from boy to boy and peeled off bills, from his immense wad, as a token of his enthusiasm for music in general and their playing in particular. Long never moves without at least two bodyguards. Sometimes, when he fares abroad, they are as thick as a cloud about him. All are paid with tax money of the people. About the broad lawn of his famous house in New Orleans, there is always a large force of watchmen and guards. These, too. are paid by the state. The showmanship which finds such enthusiastic expression in his fondness for music and in his ordinary goings and comings also

decades to conjecture, and he never gives an interview. He is supposed to be an Anatolian Greek, who as a boy fled Constantinople, charged with larceny by a well-to-do uncle, but on his arrest in London proved he was a partner in the firm and was freed. He drifted over Europe, was a failure at 27 when he got a job as salesman in central and eastern Europj for Nordenfeldt, a munitions maker with a small plant in England. On a train journey he met a Spanish duchess. 17, unhappily married. They fell in love. More than twenty years later they were married. Meanwhile, she was said to have helped him get Spanish war orders, lay the foundation for a fortune which at the end of the war was said to be one of the largest in the world. He has been accused of fomenting war scares to get munitions orders, to have forced Maxim, inventor of the machine gun, to go into partnership with him and Nordenfeldt. The huge earnings from the sales of thus weapon helped him become the controlling owner of five great munitions companies. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.t TWO CONVICTS SLAIN IN EFFORT TO ESCAPE Prisoner, Guard Wounded; Governor Praises Illinois Warden. Ry United Pret* JOLIET. 111., Sept. 11.—Governor Henry Horner announced today that officials of the state penitentiary, where two convicts were killed in an attempted delivery yesterday, are equipped to cope with "any sort of trouble.” Fred Bellinger and Fred Barry, Chicago bandits, were killed and a convict and guard wounded when four prisoners attempted to commander a supply train and smash their way through one of the gates yesterday. MASS MEETING SET FOR CHURCH GROUPS Gathering to Precede Evangelistic Program on West Side. Second Friends church, Belmont Avenue U. B. church and West Morris Street Christian church will hold a mass meeting in connection with the West Indianapolis evangelistic program Friday night at Second Friends church, Lee and Lambert streets. # The program will open with a meeting Oct. 14 in a portable tabernacle being constructed by the Christian Laymen's League. The Rev. Virgil P. Brock, league evangelist, will direct the campaign. Chief speaker at Friday night’s rally will be the Rev. Ernest N. Evans, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Church Federation.

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rules his political movements. For instance the Louisiana legislature, at his order a few years ago, passed the drop-a-crop bill, conditional upon other southern states following suit, to relieve the cotton surplus. ana WHEN the bill was sent to Governor Long for his signature late that night, he refused to take pen in hand until he had rigged himself out in an old-fashioned cotton night shirt. Then he sent for photographers, and had the signing of the bill immortalized in the proper setting. His green pajamas already had become famous because, in this raiment, he had received the officers of a visiting German warship, paying their respects to the Governor of the host-state. This episode rocked the nation with joy, and also rocked diplomatic chancelleries, but not with joy. When Long came upon the scene, the sound truck was an obscure irritant in the advertising world. Long took it and made It a political engine. He bought an outfit and cam-

THEFT SUSPECT OFFERS MISSING GIRL CLEW Oaklandon Miss Is in Artemas, Ky, Youth Tells Police. The arrest of Green Woods, 19, described by police as a fugitive from a Kentucky reform school, Greendale, Ky, may lead to the whereabouts of Miss Wanda Jordan, 18, Oaklandon, missing from home since Aug. 31, police announced today. Woods, arrested yesterday, is alleged to have confessed to fourteen specific petty robberies and forty or fifty homebreakings here at addresses he could not remember. All of these thefts are said to have been since June, when Woods escaped from the prison. Miss Jordan, according to Woods, accompanied him to Cincinnati, O, and now is in Artemas, Ky. Woods is being held on vagrancy charges under $5,000 bond. FLOWER SALES GAINING Delegate Back From Florists’ Parley With Optimistic Reports. The u r ell dressed w oman will wear more flowers than ever this year, according to Clarence F. Green, local florist, who attended the recent convention of the International Florists’ Telegraph Delivery Association last week in Denver. Telegraph orders for flowers increased 12 per cent during the last fiscal year over the previous twelve months, Mr. Greene said.

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"Now remember, it's costing us a lot of money to send you to a school with such social advantages, so you must not just bury yourself in books.’*

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paigned from it. The novelty appealed. and the machine enabled him to speak to the most distant backwash of the crowd. He bent radio to his ends. Practically every newspaper in the state was against him. Long tossed his voice into every house in the state. Naturally, he was against every newspaper, and this was his principal campaign issue. Huey has a pleasant voice, a plausible delivery, and a man-to-man style that makes friends and convinces even those who know better. He’s not well educated (formally speaking), and he’s naturally uncouth; but he makes himself sound more ungrammatical and crude than he really is. He gives the impression that he is a poor boy struggling up, one of the people, and the double-nega-tives and ain’t-gots are of course in the majority. a a a HE’S willing to clown it at any stage of the game. Many of his anecdotes are pointed at himself —he’s the ridiculous one, in the story. In the next sentence, he tears in.to some opponent, and makes him appear to be worse.

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP ana a a a By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—One-fourth the country’s voters go to the polls this week. Twelve states hold elections. Three more primaries the following Tuesday bring to a virtual close the first half of the fall campaign. Maine’s early election yesterday opened the second chapter even before the first has been disposed of. In spite of its wide acclaim as an indicator of political sentiment, records show that the state, predominantly Republican throughout its history, has forecast national sentiment only in years of Republican success.

Primaries taking place in seven states today will determine some of the most colorful contests of this year. Louisiana is at the polls to choose between candidates backed by Huey Long and Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans. Armies have been mustered by both sides during the campaign. Candidates for the house of representatives and for local offices are being chosen. Next in interest is Colorado’s primary where Miss Josephine Roche, literal operator of the second largest coal mine in the state, is trying to take the Democratic nomination for Governor from the incumbent, Edwin C. Johnson. Both candidates say they support the New r Deal but Miss Roche has the backing of Senator Edward P. Costigan. She charges that her opponent has failed to co-operate with Roosevelt agencies and that the state ' has suffered as a result.

By George Clark

Chronic tenor . . .

He is a vigorous orator. His red-tinged hair, long in front, becomes a flailing mop. He pants wdth his effort, he swims in perspiration—he gives everything in him to the crowd. Don’t forget that Huey P. Long is smart. His brain is like a photograph lens, his mind is like an X-ray; he is brutal and always believes that the meaas justify what he considers the end; but the end always entrenches him more strongly in power. Long's energy is amazing. He seems to never tire. There is not a single department or a single job in the political makeup of Louisiana that he doesn’t know thoroughly. One night some years ago. Long wished to make a demonstration of his power and his forces before the legislature. He called four or five leaders in each parish in the state by telephone. “I want you to bring 100 men to Baton Rouge by tomorrow,” he told them. The army was there the next day. Next—The amazing political career of the Kingfish.

Union labor is giving her strong support. ana IN Arizona, also, the Democratic primary is the center of attention. Senator Henry F. Ashurst, w'hose service in Washington is as long as Arizona’s statehood, is facing four contestants for his place. He is an administration supporter. In the state of Washington Senator Homer T. Bone and retiring Senator C. C. Dill are backing different candidates for the Democratic nomination and three additional aspirants have made the fight still hotter. Bone supports Lewis B. Schwellenbach, Seattle attorney, and Dill wants Charles H. Leavy of Spokane to succeed him. Five candidates also are entered in the Republican senatorial primary. Michigan, New Hampshire and Vermont are holding primaries today. In the first state, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, active opponent of Roosevelt policies, is assured of Republican renomination and Democrats are trying to decide which of four candidates will have the best chance of defeating him in November. a a , * TkyI'ARYLAND'S Republican and -*-*•*- Democratic primaries tomorrow are almost equally interesting. Former Senator Joseph I. France, who tried to take the Republican nomination for president from Herbert Hoover in 1932, is seeking nomination as senator, opposed by former representative John Philip Hall and another tandidate. George L. Radcliffe, friend of President Roosevelt, is leading other contestants for the Democratic nomination. Georgia chooses tomorrow between Governor Talmadge, who seeks renomination, and Judge Claude Pittman and Alderman Ed Gilliam of Atlanta, who are trying to replace him. South Carolina holds a rim-off primary tomorrow to select a Democratic candidate for Governor. Nomination is equivalent to election. Former Senator Cole Blease and Olin D. Johnson, liberal young millworker, are the contestants. New York’s primary Thursday is the last of the w’eek. Candidates for congress will be selected as well as a nuidber of city and state officials and delegates to party conventions where further .nominations will be made. Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Mississippi vote on the 18th. the last contest a run-off deciding whether Senator Hubert D. Stephens or former Governor Bilbo shall receive the Democratic nomination lor senator.

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Entered a* Second-Ohm Matter at Postofflee, Indianapolis). Ind.

Fdir Enough raw mi YOUR correspondent, has been invited to join th White House mush-ball or bean bag team which has been playing a desperate series of contests with Mr. Lowell Thomas's Bloomer Boys, of Pawling. N. Y. He has turned down the opportunity. Your correspondent is at the cross-roads of life and has nad to decioe whether to get on with his career or fritter away the years in the role of a bean-bag bum. Tire temptation to become a bunt is strong because the life of the pampered beanbag player, on the White

House squad, is one of ease and false glamour. He rides to the contests in a fine automobile, he is plied with dill pickles and cream-cheese and pimento sandwiches and he has the President of the United States for his audience. But the future does not look so good. A ‘sudden political turnover, a new administration and your glamorous bean-bag hero of today becomes the brokendown and forgotten derelict of tomorrow. The White House bean-bag squad at this writing is composed of members of the corps of journalists at-

tached to the White House road show which is playing a summer season at Hyde Park, N. Y. Their rivals in the competition which might be called the world series of bean bag are nominally a group of gentlemen farmers with capitalistic tendencies who reside in the Harlem Valley about twenty miles across the ridges from Hyde Park. They have been playing for some years on Mr. Thomas’s pasture near Pawling, which has come to be known as the Meadow Brook of bean bag. Their team captain and star Qutfielder is Mr. Casey Hogate. the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, who evolved several improvements in the game at a time when bean bag was on the point of being outlawed for brutality. a a a He Plays a Dashing Game MR. HOGATE is widely known as the savior of bean bag on account of his humane inriovations which include the substitution of the phlegmatic navy bean for the vicious lively bean or jumping bean, imported from Mexico. He also was the first man to show up in the outfield of a bean bag contest wearing a catcher’s mask and tin hat. He plays a dashing game himself, often taking desperate chances on serious injury or even death, when line drives are socked in his direction with all all the force of a rose petal blown by a moderate southerly breeze. Mr. Hogate modestly minimizes his own daring, however. He often has told interviewers from the sport pages that with his mask and tin hat he is amply protected from harm. The only other known member of the Pawling Bloomer boys is Mr. Prosper Buranelli, father of the cross-word puzzle, who invented the position of outfielder's backstop. He has concentrated on the subtle specialty throughout his bean-bag career. J The outfielders’ backstop picks up bean-bags which I get away from the outfielder and hands them to him ' to be thrown back. The risks of this position are less dangerous than those to which the outfielder, himself, constantly is exposed. Therefore the backstop wears nothing but a pair of shin guards and a catcher’s mitt. a a a And They Call it Haseball! THE Bloomer Boys used a total of thirty-two athletes in their contest last Sunday with the White House Spokesmen, which was played on the White House grounds at Hyde Park. Naturally there is much curiosity as to the identity of the other players. Ugly rumors have been in circulation ever since. There is a persistent report that some of the star bean-bag players on the Bloomer Boys' side in n ality were bloomer girls recruited from the varsity teams of Wellesley, where the game originated, and Vassar, cradle of intercollegiate pillow-fighting. Neither Mr. Thomas nor Mr. Hogate would comment on this sinister innuendo and a member of the White House Spokesmen tried to trick one of the suspected players with an offer of a chew of tobacco. The chew was promptly accepted, but that might not prove anything nowadays. There is little umbrage in White House beanbag circles the last few days following your correspondent's fearless expose of the true character of contest played a week ago. The White House Spokesmen not only played in the struggle but wrote the stories and gave themselves a newspaper decision. They reported the score as 26 to 25 in their favor and won by suspending the two-thirds rule. And, finally, they all reported that the game was baseball and not mush-ball or bean-bag. They challenged your correspondent to play on their team in the final contest of the world series and were plotting to bean him with the bean-bag. But your correspondent has got to go away again, And, anyway, he does not want to become a bean.- ' bag bum. (Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health by: dr. morris fishbein

THE most contagious time in whooping cough is before the whoop. Even before the peculiarly wheezing type of coughing develops, the organisms which cause whooping cough are being spread about to those in contact with the infected person. These organisms get into the linings of the breathing tract. Persons who are infected are seldom sufficiently sick to be isolated during the early stage of their infection. During this stage they cough and the droplets of sputum containing the germs infect others. If it were possible to isolate every one who had been in contact with the patient having whooping cough for a long time to know whether the one exposed w-as going to get the disease, whooping cough might be brought under complete control. a a a ONE of the most debated subjects among specialists today is the value of different types of vaccines in preventing and treating whooping cough. Most doctors believe that giving the vaccine early in the infection will shorten its duration. Most of them also believe that the vaccines do little, if any, good when they are given to those who are already whooping. The Danish investigator, Madsden, was able to study an epidemic of whooping cough in the Faroe islands. He found that the results of whooping cough were much more serious in those who did not get any vaccine than in those who did get vaccine, and aiso that in those who were injected with vaccine the disease was much milder and did not last as long. a a a FOLLOWING injection of the vaccine, there are occasional cases in which there is a slight rise in temperature and sometimes a little swelling at the spot where the vaccine was injected. Beyond this there does not seem to be any reaction to these vaccines. Most authorities advise, however, that they should not he injected into children under 1 month of age. Whooping cough generally is regarded as a mild disease, whereas actually it can be one of the most menacing that attacks human beings. From time to time all sorts of remedies have been suggested for use in controlling the condition. Actually, nothing that is rubbed on the skin, no vapor that can be inhaled, has been found to be of much value. Belts have been developed which help to support the abdomen and chest of the child who is coughing. These seem to give a certain amount of relief. As with other infectious diseases, the complications are far more serious in causing death than in the disease itself.

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