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ft Seems to Me HEYfOOD BROUN DO you realize.” said a friend of mine whose name might be Lltzenberg. "that there is auch a thing as psychological suttee?" Mr. L. has the habit of putting forth a challenging statement or a question and then waiting for the listener tb respond. I try not to humor him but simply let him flow along In his own way. This time he turned to me again and asked. "Do you know what ‘suttee’ is?" "In a vague way.” I answered. 'I think it used to be a custom in India for the high caste Hindu

widow to throw herself on the funeral pyre of her husband.” That a near enough.” said Mr. Lltzenberg, “and I suppose I can’t get up any argument by saying it'a a silly custom and frowned upon by the civilized world. In fact the English government abolished it by law in India. Yet. as I suggested before, the western world has not entirely abandoned the fundamental conception which motivated suttee. Ten or twelve years ago my father died. He was a man I loved and deeply respected. His death was sudden and unexpected. I was deeply shocked and I think I be-

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haved like a civilized human being. On the night after his death I went out and drank all the liquor I could get. We lived in a small middle western town and my behavior became a community scandal. The neighbors said that I had no feelings, that I couldn t possibly have loved my father because so soon after his death I had been seen in a restaurant taking Scotch highballs. After all. these people of Columbus did not differ very much from the Hindus in their fy>int of view. They felt that in addition to my normal and natural grief I should endeavor to punish myself in some palpable way. Mourners, as you probably remember, in the holy land put on sackclotlfr and ashes and tore their hair and beat themselves with clenched fists. I assume that this is based on some theory that a counter irritant might ease the agony of the mind. To cut yourself with a sharp knife can take aw-ay the edge of mental anguish.” a a a Performed to Satisfy the Living m \ nd most of the prevalent customs in regard to death," Mr. L. continued, “and the desultory details which follow are rooted in this same obligation of self-punishment. Just this afternoon I was reading in a newspaper about a funeral at which the wife of the dead man fainted five times and finally had to be earned out of the church. I do not question at all the sincerity of her emotion, but it was backed up unconsciously by her desire to have ail the fnends of the family know that she was showing proper grief. I have a strong feeling that funerals are seldom designed to meet the probable wishes of the person who is dead. They are performed to satisfy the living and more than that the fringe folk, who really were not deeply involved in the catastrophe. "Lets take the case of the woman I speak of. Quite obviously the ceremony was not designed to give her any aid or comfort in her distress. Widows' weeds and arm bands and such like are the vestigial remnants of savage custom under which the living literally followed their dead into the next world. "O* course. I have heard the rational explanation that the wearer of mourning is protected against the casual acquaintance who may come up. slap him on the back and say Well, old’kid, you're looking fine. I suppose everything is rosy.’ But on the other hand the wearer of mourning is put in a position in which he is exposed to overextended condolence. It is almost as if he were asked to go out into the world with a sign on either shoulder saying, ‘You're invited to weep here.’ ~ . * a a a For Frankness and Honesty my father died ten years ago in ColumVV bus.” he said pensively. "I appreciated enormously all messages which I received from friends who expressed sympathy. I was heartened when I ran into somebody who gave me a pat on the back and said, Tm so sorry.’ But there were those who wanted to sit down and wag their heads and go into long mournful reminiscences. I felt that, psychologically, theirs was not a design to comfort me but, whether they realized it or not. a disposition to make the situation an episode in which they themselves could acquire merit for sincerity and sensitivity. “We can not legislate death out of existence, but I think that if we were a little more frank and honest we could get nd of some of the punishing trappings and a vast amount of the detail with which we burden ourselves. “It has nothing to do with faith or lack of faith. After all one of the strangest failings of Christianity in practice is its inability to live up to its own theories concerning the immortality of the soul. It is written ‘Oh death, where Is thy sting’ and if this means anything it is a challenge, almost a joyous slogan that the true Christian can look mortality in the face and defy it. but I have heard preachers mouthing and mumbling over this same fine slogan in such a way that every accent and modulation warred against the sentiment which they were uttering. In spite of the words, the whole effect was that death has a very’ definite and devastating sting. It is illogical to rejoice in the advent of anew soul in Paradise and compromise that announced belief with the trappings and appurtenances of dark cloth and somber looks. “And so, as I said at the beginning, there is such a thing as psychological suttee and it ought to be abolished along with the discarded custom from which it originated.” tCcprrleht. 1934. by The Times*

Today s Science . BY UAYID DIETZ

F)R the first time in history* the eye of man has gazed upon the carriers of heredity. The gene, component part of the chromosome 1 in the living cell, has been made visible under the microscope of Dr. Calvin B. Bridge at the Cold Springs Harbor laboratory of the Carnegie institution. Washington. Dr. Bridge's work may prove to be as important in biology as the discovery of the electron was to physic* and electricity. To appreciate its full importance, we must review briefly some basic facts of biology. The simplest organisms are the one-celled animals and plants. These reproduce by splitting in two. the one organism thus becoming two. All other plants and animals begin life as fertilized egg-cells. The body of any such organism grows by a process of cell division similar to that by which the one-celled organisms reproduce. The only difference here is that after the cell has divided or split in two. the two halves do not separate. The process by which a living cell divides is known technically as mitosis. When a cell is full grown and ready to divide, changes take place within its nucleus, the darker and more concentrated region within the ceil. m m m THE nucleus, which is more or less round, changes into a spindle-shaped structure. Up to this time, there has been scattered through the nucleus a network of a protein substance known as chromatin'. This network now changes into a number of thread-like structures called chromosomes. The shapes, sizes and forms of these chromosomes always are a definite characteristic of the type of cell involved. The cell of the pine tree has twenty-four, the fruit-fly has eight. a>certain species of crawfish has 200, man has forty-eight, and so on. The chromosomes then arrange themselves in a sort of a girdle around the middle of the spindle. Each chromosome then splits in two. lengthwise. Next, half of each chromosome travels toward one end of the spindle while the other half travels toward the other end. A membrane now begins to form through the middle of the cell, dividing it into two. At the same time, a nucleus takes shape in each new cell. Biologists early suspected that the chromosomes were the earners of heredity. Experiments bore this fact out and revealed further that each chromosome controlled a variety of details of heredity. Finally it was demonstrated that the controllers or earners of each item of heredity was located in a specific point in the chromosome.

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PITTSBORO READY FOR CENTENNIAL Founding of Town to Be Celebrated by Citizens Sept. 28 and 29

THE 500 residents of Pittsboro, a village of friendly homes In the midst of some of the finest Hoosier farm land, approximately fifteen miles out Crawfordsville way on Road 34, are in a state of decided excitement. For. Friday and Saturday. Sept. 28 and 29, they will celebrate in gala manner the centennial of the founding of their home town with a pageant Friday and Saturday nights, a parade Saturday morning and a home-coming assemblage. A banner with the message, “Centennial, Sept. 28, 29, ' in red letters has hung over the well-paved Main street for some time.

Almost every home in the village has been ransacked for relics, old documents and other heirlooms. A business building has been set aside for this display and entire rooms will be reproduced as they were 100 years ago. A quilt exhibit will be included, with Mrs. Leona Terrell in charge. The pageant will depict the village's history from the time when roving Delaware Indians roamed through the woods which stood on the present site of Pittsboro. Mrs. Frances Weaver Fisher, pageant author and director, is the greatgranddaughter of Thomas J. Weaver, first settler to enter land from the government in Middle township, back in 1827. * * a _ After the opening Indiana pageantry, there will be scenes depicting the days of the first school, the early churches, the stage coaches, the first railroad transportation and the first “horseless carriages.” Pittsboros former industries will be shown, too, including Molly Hale's hat shop. Charley Olsons buggy factory and Dan # Feeley’s stove facjtory. Harold M. Knetzer, Middle township trustee, heads the committee arranging the parade. An ox team and a stage coach of ancient vintage will supply the requisite color. Business and civic organizations will have floats and other towns in Hendricks county have been asked to participate. The principal speaker at Saturday afternoon’s home-coming will be the Rev. Aubrey H. Moore, pastor of Indianapolis’ Seventh Christian church, who was born in Pittsboro and lived there until he was a young man. A history of Pittsboro, written by Chester Parker and published in souvenir booklet form, will be sold during the celebration.

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

WASHINGTON. Sept. 21.—Recent National Guard activities have war department activities worried in private. They fear that such personal vendettas as that of Kingfish Huey Long, together with National Guard embroilment in industrial disputes, may have serious repercussions on the regular army. Particularly they fear hostile public reaction against the regular army which may hit congressional appropriations.

The question recently has been the subject of several secret conferences within the high command. The war department, through the agency of the national guard bureau, has supervisory authority over the militia. It supplies uniforms and equipment, has charge of training enlisted personnel and schooling of the officers For this purpose the last congress allotted $35,000,000. But beyond this scope the department has no control over state troops. 0 m a THE forty-eight Governors practically have unlimited power over them. They can call them into service as Huey has done to combat a political foe: or, as Georgia's Governor, Gene Talmadge, did last year, to oust defiant state officials he wanted to get rid of. Or, as has been done in more than a score of states recently, they can be called out in industrial struggles. War Secretary Dern makes no secret of the fact that in many cases he thinks state troops are called out needlessly. The army would like nothing better than to get greater measure of control over the national guard. But the problem is how to do so. Such a proposal would be certain to stir up a hornet’s nest of fierce opposition from state officials. 000 WITH every other government department getting a PWA grant for anew home, the Navy department decided it ought to have one, and while grizzled old Secretary Swanson was vacationing in Virginia the admirals fixed the whole thing up. When Swanson returned, the plan was laid before him with eloquent ceremonies. Members of the park and planning commission. which supervises all public building design, were present. There were admirals, captains, chief clerks, all crowding into Swanson’s glum offices in the temporary war-time Navy build • ing. They showed him the magnificent new walnut paneled offices that were to be his; the Immense open fireplace; the little anteroom, where he could lie down for a brief snooze if Morpheus became insistent; the private elevator. It would be the finest suite to be occupied by any cabinet officer, they explained. What did he think about it? Swanson listened without a word, chewed on his black, pencillike stogie, and inquired: "The PWA will give us the money?” ’’Oh. yes.” they assured in unison. That's all arranged.” “That’s fine.” he decreed. "We’ll take all the monay they'll give us. But ” “But what?” “But were not going to build anew Navy building with it. I can run the Navy from an attic. What I want is ships.” 000 THE boys are still marching. A new veterans' organization. “Volunteers of ’17.” incorporated under the laws of Texas and with headquarters in Houston, has just

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Interesting as this history has been, time gradually has made slower the pace of life in Pittsboro in its more recent years. The public service commission recently handed down the order which allowed the closing of its last railroad station. The BenHur interurban line ceased operations several years ago because of the competition by trucks, busses and privately owned automobiles. ana However, Pittsboro owns its electric light distributing system and recently obtained a $12,000 loan from the public works administration to complete a water works plant. Some residents are planning for the day when the village will be able to obtain gas from a natural gas line which passes one-quarter of a mile from their homes. Pittsboro children attend the the consolidated township schools, of which Jewel Vaughan is principal. Many have come to Indianapolis to work and make their homes here after graduation. The schools’ principal sport is basketball and Pittsboro teams have won sectional championships on three occasions. There are three churches. Many of Pittsboro’s residents drive daily to Indianapolis to offices, stores.and factories here. Others are employed in Pittsboro's six grocery stores, two restaurants, three garages, seven gasoline filling stations, two hardware stores, three barber shops, furniture store, grain elevator, lumber yard and hotel. All 500 of them—and others who once called Pittsboro home—will gather here for the centennial, remembering their own early days in the small village and celebrating its earliest days.

been launched. Membership is confined to enlistments from April 6. 1917, to Dec. 15, 1917. The prospectus says nothing about the bonus, but considerable about trying to get jobs and “group hospitalization” for ex-service men and their families . . . Missouri's blunt-speaking Senator Bennett Clark is proving to be the best cross-examiner of the senate munitions investigation. When Clark takes hold of a witness the pace of the proceedings quickens. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) FREDERICK CARTER WILL PLACED ON FILE Letters of Administration Are Issued by Court. Will of Frederick L. Carter, Car-ter-Lee Lumber Company treasurer, was on file today in probate court and letters of administration issued to the Fletcher Trust Company and the widow, Mrs. Nellie Carter, 3561 North Pennsylvania street* Personal property of $200,000 and real estate of SIO,OOO was left by the lumberman who died Sept. 11. The widow, two sons, Frederick L. and Wilbur M. Carter, and a daughter, Elizabeth Virginia, are heirs under the will. TECH SPANISH CLUB STUDIES MEXICAN LIFE Independence Week Is Observed at First Meeting. Mexican Independence week was observed at the first meeting of the Technical high school Spanish Club, held the ninth and tenth periods yesterday at the school. Elizabeth Rugh spoke of the beginning of Mexican independence, Alice Heine told how the Mexican capital and coat-of-arms were chosen and Joan Lay described Mexican life today. Max Beier explained the antics of a Mexican jumping bean. fl. 0. T. C. CAPTAIN NAMED AT WASHINGTON Elbert Terhune to Command Cadets at High School. Elbert Terhune has been appointed captain of the Washington high school R. O. T. C. unit, it was announced today. Other pupil officers ar~ Forrest McKinney, first lieutenant; Norman Houser, second lieutenant; Robert Wheeler, Raymond Borski, Dudley Clark and William Ford, sergeants, and Howard Bloom, David Chapman. Melvin Bush, Edgar Cox, Irmal McClelland and Elbert White, corporals. ACTING TcTbiTtAUGHT Indiana Extension Offers Course Starting Monday. Virgil A. Smith, successor to Robert W. Masters as speech instructor and technician of the Indiana university extension theater, will offer a course in elementary acting beginning Monday. Mr. Smith .is Indiana Association of Speech Teachers president and has been associated- with the Marion. Ind., senior high school the last nine years.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1934

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Nearby Pittsboro will celebrate its centennial Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28 and 29. The view of shady Maple street, shown in the upper photograph, is typical of Pittsboro’s attractive residential districts. Below, at the left, is the consolidated schools building. Mrs. Frances Weaver Fisher, lower right, is author and director of the pageant w’hich the village is presenting as part of the centennial celebration.

M’GINNIS ADMITS GUILT; GETS ONE YEAR TO LIFE Former Dillinger Pal Suspected of Card Party Holdup Here. Arthur McGinnis, former Dillinger mobster, former stool pigeon and suspected as a bridge party bandit here, yesterday afternoon pleaded guilty to having perpetrated a bridge party holdup in Chicago and was sentenced to serve from one year to life in the Illinois penitentiary. Here, McGinnis is suspected of having participated in holdups of bridge parties at Indian lake and in a north side residence, in both of which jewelry of great value was seized.

‘IT’S LOVE IN BLOOM’ AS PRISONERS’ SONG IS CROONERS’ DOOM

By T'nited Press JOLIET, 111., Sept. 21.—Guard Captain James Carpenter, passing the fibre shop of the old state prison, heard two husky voices raised in song. Inside convicts R. King and Dan Mozinski were crooning “Love in Bloom.” After each chorus they adjourned to a nearby storeroom. Carpenter sniffed. Could it be the trees that filled the breeze with rare and magic perfume? “No. it isn’t the trees; it’s love in bloom,” warbled the convicts. Carpenter sniffed again and followed the scent. In the storeroom he found a home-made still and a gallon of moonshine. The convicts l§y unconscious on the floor. Revived with a stomach pump, they were placed in solitary confinement for 30 days. Pastor’s Wife Under Knife Mrs. William F. Rothenburger, wife of the pastor of the Third Christian church, underwent a major operation at the Methodist hospital Wednesday. The hospital reported her condition as fairly good today.

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THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP * a a ana By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Relief problems will stare President Roosevelt in the face when he returns to Washington next week. Half a dozen important questions, involving other aspects of his recovery program, wait answers which he alone can give. Next year’s budget is being prepared and a decision must be made about meeting the cost of relief. The alternatives seem to be new taxes or an unbalanced budget. Neither is attractive to business and the administration is anxious, above all things, to cheer business into a fall revival.

Several months ago the administration thought it had found a third way of handling the situation. Now it is not so sure, though it has-not abandoned the idea by any means. For some time the relief administration has been purchasing agricultural surpluses and distributing them to the needy, instead of cash. This policy attacks both farms and relief problems at the same time. It redistributes excess food supplies to the benefit of those who grow them and those who receive them. AAA funds, obtained from processing tixes rather than from income or corporation taxes have covered a large part of the cost. Recently, however, retailers have begun to protest. They say that when 13 per cent of the population —that is the number now on re-lief-stops buying the necessities of life through them, their business suffers noticeably. 000 MEAT, butter, cheese and rice have been bought in large quantities this summer and will be given to the needy unless the administration heeds the retailers’ complaints and alters its relief program. Hides from cattle purchased as a drought emergency measure are being made into shoes in private plants which bid for the work and which are allowed a profit on it, but shoe retailers lost the business they might obtain if needy families were given cash or if relief agencies made large purchases for them. In addition state relief agencies have had their unemployed at

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work canning their own food and making mattresses for their own beds. Industry is divided, apparently, as to which it dislikes most, this method of relief or the cash dole. Protests of retailers are counterbalanced by objections of manufacturing firms whose taxes are heavier if cash is given. Henry I. Harriman, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, demanded recently that a decision be made as to how much cash relief shall be given, how much use shall be made of local public works, and “whether, and to what extent, the unemployed shall be given work in raising and preparing the food or making the needed articles and rendering the needed services which the unemployed themselves require, thus reducing the burden upon the taxpayer.” CONSERVATIVES* in congress already are hinting that relief rolls should be cut down this winter. Republicans will back this move because they blame the “Santa Claus vote” for the big majorities Democrats have been polling. A fight is being organized against anew tax bill. Recently federal bonds have been ? weaker on the market, a condi- ’ tion which Washington suspects has been brought about purposely to discourage spending. It is unlikely, however, in the light of the Roosevelt record, that relief will be denied as long as work is not available for large numbers of the population.

DROUGHT AREA CATTLE ALLOTTED IN STATE 9,523 Head Put to Pasture Here, Commission Reports. A total of 9,523 cattle from drought-stricken areas of the west were allotted to Indiana farmers for the week ending Sept. 13, the Governor’s unemployment relief commission reported today. Quotas for the counties were arranged by t£e commission’s commodity department. Lawrence county received the greatest number, 675 cattle being awarded to farmers in the vicinity of Bedford, bringing the total of drought-stricken cattle shipped to this county up to 1,446. A total of 2.570 has been sent to Gibson county since the federal government began allotting them to various localities for pasture. SCOUTS AND PARENTS WILL ENJOY SUPPER Court of Award to Follow “Buddy Night” Observance. Picnic supper will be served boys and their parents attending the “bring a buddy” night of Boy Scout Troop 14 tomorrow in the recreation hall of the Woodruff Place Baptist church. Following* the supper a court of award will be held, recognizing scout achievements during the summer. Awards also will be given to scouts who raised funds for a hike to Turkey Run state park. Arrangements are in charge of Mrs. Joseph Martz and Mrs. Joseph Aspen. Editor to Address Scientech Club Talcott W. Powell, editor of The Indianapolis Times, will address the Scientech club on the freedom of the press at luncheon Monday in .the Library room. Board of Trade building.

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Entered aa Serond-Claa* Matter at PoatofTlee. Indianapolis. Ind.

Fair Enough WEffIMK FUR THE most definite thing about the proposed municipal lottery in New York to raise money for relief Is that such a lottery would dunk up most of the pleasure money and much of the essential money from other communities and compel them to conduct lotteries of their own in self-defense. In the course of a short time. New Jersey and Connecticut would be forced to establish counter-attractions to keep their money at home and contiguous states would find it necessary to do likewise in rapid progres-

sion. If New York should get away with the lottery in the guise of a charitable association the lottery business presently would become the principal business of the United States. And even so, unless various combinations of states and cities should gang lip against New York and pool their lotteries for defensive purposes, the drainage of outside money into r>fc?w York still would be too great to continue long. The damage to business elsewhere hardly would be worth the benefit to New York. Under the present, tentative plan, the New York drawing offers a very demure list of

prizes. The capital prize would be $25,000 and the total distribution to winners would amount to only $550,000 on two drawings a year. But these are mere figures and may be revised sharply upward as the receipts roll in. The statesmen who devised the scheme seem to have underestimated the sporting spirit of their fellow-citizens in all respects. In the first place, the lottery customer, even though he is spending his last dollar on a ticket, will think of $25,000 as a minor prize in a big lottery. He has read in recent years of many awards of $75,000 in the British gambles conducted in connection with the big horse races on the other side and if hts memory goes back ten years he recalls even mbre fabulous winnings which were handed over to bar-maids and coal miners in the great days of the Calcutta and Stock Exchange sweeps. Even though broke, he would be likely to regard $25,000 as a mere consolation prize. The authors of the New York plan can not claim to have made a very careful examination of the possibilities. ana There's Lots of Competition THEN, too, the city fathers have been almost insulting to their potential customers in estimating the probable gross receipts at only $27,000,000 a year. Four dog tracks which operated contrary to law in New Jersey for a thirty-day season this year have confessed to a gross traffic through their pari-mutuels of $9,000,000 in that brief time and that with a limited and not at all prosperous clientele. Os this amount, the dog-track operators confess to having retained $1,200,000. Considering that dog-racing, like burglary, is practiced exclusively under cover of darkness and that dog tracks were subject to the supervision of political appointees only, it is reasonable to wonder how much money actually did stick to the gears of the mutuel machines over and above the admitted sum of $1,200,000. It is natural to sssume, of course, that a fair proportion of the amount detained as the money was ground through the machines was diverted to worthy members of the local political organization. This is an old tradition in the dogracing racket. That, however, is another subject. And. finally, the City of New York, on entering the lottery racket in competition with such a swift operator as Dutch Schultz, must consider the fact that the customers like rapid action and will lose interest in a gamble which keeps the ball spinning on the rim for six months at a stretch. The Dutch Schultz lottery or number-game affords a complete spin of the wheel every twenty-four hours. The number racket has been the most popular and prosperous type of grind in the country since the stock exchange got such a bad name with the citizens. a a a Keeping Up the Relief Lottery MR. SCHULTZ’S racket and all the other number rackets, which are lotteries of a sort, pay only about 1 per cent to their customers, the exact proportion being unknown. It is suggested that the New York lottery, offering only 44 per cent back to the patients, would be unpopular for that reason, but anybody who has made a study of sucker psychology will realize that this need not be so. The suot machines have thrived in all sections of the country, including thrifty New England, on a much less generous basis of return. The important point in conducting a great popular gamble is merely to establish a fascinating maximum figure and roll the bones fast. This figure need bear no reasonable relation to the total receipts. A capital prize of $150,000 in a lottery of $150,000,000 would be only 10 per cent of the gross, but it would catch the customers’ imagination. New York, being the first in the field and still the richest community of all, is in a position to top any offer which could be made by any other individual city or any state j n a defensive effort to keep Its own money at home. Possibly when the rest of the country has swung into competitive action there will be so much lottery money for relief that the people on relief will be able to pour their doles back into the gamble and support the relief lotteries out of relief funds. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN—

\ FAMOUS British specialist in diseases of the tl- eye found that 240 out of 1,000 persons who came to him for examination of the eyes complained of headaches. Os course, the first job that the specialist has under these circumstances is to find out whether there is any real relationship between the sight and the headaches. Usually headache due to sight is just behind the eyes. In rare cases it is in the back of the head—seldom is it on the side of the head or at the top. Such a headache usually comes on late in the afternoon or at the end of the day’s work, although in some cases it appears early In the morning, due to overwork on the previous day. There are early morning headaches that are due to last night’s dissipation, but the victim always knows the cause of this kind of a headache. a a a THE onset of the headache is sometimes delayed because human beings can ignore slight pain. However, when-you are tired or when your control is weakened by sleep, you become conscious of th? pain. Sometimes you will feel such headache at the end of the week, when there is a sudden let-down from the drive of work. A rather recent form of headache is known as motion picture headache, although this was more frequent in the early days of the movies than at present. The abolition of flicker on the screen, the reduction in the size of the screen and the modern type of illumination of motion picture houses have been helpful to sight. In the early days there was a sudden transition from light to complete darkness. There was also the possibility of sudden changes in illumination from looking at the screen to looking into complete darkness. mam PERSONS who have defects of vision not satisfactorily corrected by glasses, find that the use of the eyes tires them greatly. They get relief by stopping their work and looking off into the distance for some time, after which they find themselves able to focus their eyes on the work again. Sometimes they find they get relief by keeping the eyes closer to the reading material or to the work. These cases indicate the necessity for the proper fitting of glasses. Some persons get the habit of screwing their eyelids together, bringing tension on the muscles of the face and a pull on the muscles at the back of the head. This brings about pain in the back of the head.

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