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It Seem s to Me HEM HKOIIN “'T'HE outside alien aintator mu.it go ” This declaration or something like it is extremely popular at the present time. Even those newspapers and magazines which pretend to liberal views agree that we want no truck with Interfering foreigners. The point is made that back In the very days of Washington French agents brought about a situation highly dangerous to the life of our republic. I can't seem to get the slant. I don't know whether government Is properly described as a science or an art, but In either case it seems to me that outside criticism ought to be highly beneficial. Certainly any American medical association would be delighted to hear the frank and punishing comment of doctors from other lands. Novelists, painters, sculptors are

avid to ascertain what foreign critics think of their work. Indeed a certain phase of journalism is predicated on the postulate that the reading public is interested in the point of view of the visitor to our shores. "What do you think of American women?" or “How do you like our New York sky line?” have become trite interrogations flur.g at the Shaws and Wellses of our day. Wouldn't it be just as pertinent and rather more interesting to invite the gentleman or woman on the promenade deck to express some opinion about our form of government or the man-

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ner In which it is functioning now. I am aware that such questions are asked of visiting financiers and economists, but I would have a much larger group included. Quite often the visitor himself will hesitate and explain that he thinks it would be bad taste for himself as a foreigner to say anything about Upton Sinclair or Franklin D. Roosevelt. bum Ten Days—the World Is Hers course the agitator who appears in the politleal cartoons almost invariably is a Russian. The artist sees him as a man with prominent whiskers and a sizzling bomb. But I think that we are peculiarly illogical if we deny to the Russian visitor or the Russian sympathizer a right to full and free criticism. Heaven knows even the Amer ican who has spent no more than two or three days in Moscow is ready to talk for publication on what is wrong with the Soviet government. Some of the individuals labeled here as outside alien agitators are decidedly more familiar with American problems than certain of our native au thors who have rushed into print concerning the problems of Communism. Within the month I was on a steamer bearing back to these shores a wellknown popular novelist. Well, there's no point in preserving secrecy about it. The lady in question was Mary Roberts Rinehart Mrs. Rinehart has written lively detective stories and contributed to the gaiety of the theater As far as I know she would not herself pretend to any vast acquaintance with economics and social problems. And yet she had not the slightest hesitation in telling a large group of ship news reporters that the Russian experiment was a failure and that it could not succeed because of the innate heartlessness and indifference of the average Russian. All this she learned within a ten-day trip. BUB Recount? Attaboy, Hey wood! XTOiV, Mrs. Rinehart or any other casual visitor has a right to an opinion, but she was speaking for publication. Her words went out on the wires of the press associations to millions of readers. Possibly on the very same day she came home our government was deporting some alien on the ground that he has been agitating and criticising our form of government. Os course. I will be called to task by those who say that it isn't criticism to which our government objects but only the advocacy of violent revolution. I don't see the distinction. If a man says you ought to have a revolution I call that a form of criticism. There's no use in kidding ourselves about human nature. When an individual says. “I welcome the fullest and the franker kind of criticism,” he really means that he hopes to get a pat on the back. There is a point where frankness seems a punch in the nose. Nations share the psychology of individuals. A fanatic generally is very good humored in regard to attacks made upon his cherished belief. It is only when the blow falls upon some chink in the armor that a squeal of protest arises. The 100 per cent patriot, if the figures are correct, should be the last person in the world to get hot and bothered about outside agitators. He ought to be to take the attitude. "Let ’em rave.” However. I am gravely suspicious that many 100 per centers are in need of a recount. (Copvriuht. 1934. bv The Times!

Today s Science by DAVID DIETZ

r a •‘WEL.VE expeditions, ranging from the Arctic to Bolivia, and from Tibet to Africa, have been sent into the field by the Academy of Natural Silences of Philadelphia. The program of exploration is one of the most extensive in the history of the academy which was established 122 years ago. One of the expeditions, headed by George Vanderbilt of New York, has left Nairobi, British East Africa, for a five-month journey through central Africa to Timbuctoo. From their, it will go across the Sahara desert to Algiers with the aid of tractortrucks. This expedition is seeking the bongo, a large antelope with spectacular markings, the okapi, a short-er-necked relative of the giraffe, of which no museum has a mounted group, the giant eland, an antelope now practically extinct, the addax. a large lightcolored antelope, the scimitar-horned oryx, and the dwarf buffalo. Another expedition, headed by Brooke Dolan II of Philadelphia, is setting out for the wilds of western China and the Tibetan oorderland where a year will be spent in collecting birds, mammals, fishes and plant*. Mr. Dolan is now at Chungking, 1.200 miles up the river from Shanghai. a a a PERMISSION obtained from the Chinese government for Mr. Dolan's expedition to visit regions which have never been explored by white men. A third expedition is headed by M. A. Carriker Jr. of the academy's etepartm t of vertebrate zoology. After four years intent tudvof the distribution of birds in Peru, he is . .extending his studies to Bolma. During the next six months he will be in northern Bolivia, studying birds from the snow line of the Andes to the level of the Rio Beni. Wyoming is the scene of a fourth expedition which is hunting two American mammals which were once very common, but are now almost extinct. They are the wapiti or American elk and the pronghorn antelope. a a a THE wapiti, which once was to be found upon the American continent from Connecticut to California. is the largest member of the deer family. The bulls sometimes stand more than five feet at the shoulder. The pronghorn antelopes once ranged throughout the territory west of the Mississippi. The academy has a permanent field staff in Siam with headquarters at Bankok. The head of the staff at Rodolphe M. de Schauensee. To date the staff has collected 4.500 birds. 6.000 fishes. 300 reptiles. 400 butterflies. 500 insects and 1000 mammals. Among the other expeditions is one to the west coast of Greenland and Ellesmere Land. The expedition has set sail in Captain Bob Bartlett's schooner Morrissey, and is headed by William K. de Pont Carpenter. The expedition expects to obtain specimens of birds and animals and to collect fishes and other sea animals. ft

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Girl Quits Job to Explore the Unknown World of Transients

This is the storr not just of a lone cirl hitch-hiker, but a word-picture too of America's Tast, scattered army of wanderin* job-seekers. In relating her own experiences while hitch-hiking through six states. Miss Leslie Shaw gives also a rich, human account of her fellow drillers .... The first of six articles which she has written for The limes and M.A Service appears below. BUB BY MISS LESLIE SHAW Written for NEA Service IKNOW the hardships, the perils, the sorrows of the wanderer's trail, for I have followed it —from choice—for six months. I know now of many things which the sheltered worker in a secure job never will know about this aimlessly migrating clan with whom “it’s always tomorrow.” And it is a tragic story, this tale of the drifting horde, born to the depression, buoyed at the start by a hope that slowly fades until even tomorrow holds no promise. . Six months ago. I made a right about face from my desk as executive in an emergency relief program for unemployed transients, and voluntarily joined the ranks of uprooted wanderers who roam from city to city and back again, hunting for a job and a change of luck. For the last two years, before organization of federal shelters for the homeless, I had interviewed hundreds of men and some women who had lost home, job, everything in the economic upheaval.

I felt that there was a wall between us. I tried to understand their problems, their experiences, and their attitude to the future. But I was living in a reasonably secure world and they faced daily insecurity. So, to learn their side of it, I threw the job overboard, and started out as a wanderer and hitch-hiker. I covered six states in as many months—Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Virginia and Pennsylvania—besides the District of Columbia. BUB SMALL towns and large cities. Some with sound and fury that looked like prosperiy once more, some like dried-up ponds. In Alabama, sawmill towns where the mills no longer hummed—turpentine regions where the trees were dead or cut down. In Virginia, mining towns where the mines were inactive and the people half starved. In Florida, fruit and farm districts where farmers couldn’t stake themselves to fertilizer and other necessities for a crop. In Tennessee and Alabama again, dit-o. On the other hand, in some textile and lumber and steel centers, the wheels of industry seemed to be going on as they did in 1929. In big towns and little towns and in the country I talked to every one I met. Housewives, businessmen, farmers, policemen, newsboys, ministers and merchants. BBS WHAT I found out was, first, that people seem to be living in 1934 in two worlds. The first, composed largely of those who still have jobs and whose businesses have not been swept away, seem to believe that this country is out of the red. that with a little time and patience we will

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

WASHINGTON. Sept. 24.—Behind te government’s decision to sue Uncle Andy Mellon for some $3,400,000 of back income taxes is a unique and untold story. The truth is .that Homer Cummings, lanky attorney-general, would have done anything not to bring the first tax action against Mellon ... He knew he would be accused of playing politics. He knew he would be accused of personal prejudice against Mellon, because Cummings once sued Mellon’s Aluminum Trust. He knew also that rich men's “wash” sales, to reduce income taxes were

glaring. So finally Cummings de cidod he could not crack down on thousands of little fellows for “wash” sales as long as he was letting the i biggest ones go scot free . . . This was the reason Cummings first moved to indict Mellon before a grand jury. He figured he could not begin cracking down on the little tailor in Newark—as did General Johnson . . . Mellon came within one vote of being indicted. The grand jury vote was 10 to 11 for whitewashing Mellon ... In a civil suit it may be easier to get a jury to agree that he should pay the government s claim. Instead of paying up arrears as did others cited at the same time Mellon paid nothing. So the only alternative of Homer Cummings was to bring suit. a a a Mrs. anna roosevelt DALL has branched out into the field of business. She is now manufacturing a bunny doll, for which she recently obtained a trade-mark. A clothing manufacturer who conceived the neat idea of using the pet names of her two children for commercial purposes was stopped short by the patent bureau. He proposed making a child's garment bearing the trade-mark “Sistie and Buzzie.” but the patent office turned cold thumbs on the plan. . . . Much congresisonal complaining is reaching the White House over the failure of the RFC to loosen up its purse strings on the $300.COO.OOO appropriated last session for loans to industry. Although more than three months have elapsed since the act was enacted, and although Chairman Jesse Jones has repeatedly assailed bankers for not being more free with their funds, he himself has made only 134 loans to industry for a total of aboift $5,000,000. .a a Depending upon the outcome of a secret survey nowbeing conducted by the postoffice department direct airmail connections between the United States and Soviet Russia, via Siberia. may be established soon. Harllee Branch, assistant PMG in charge of airmail, recently flew over a proposed route, including a 150-mile hop from Alaska to Siberia across the Bering sea. Branch also is negotiating with Canadian authorities for direct airmail communications between the American mainland and Alaska. a a a DURING the munitions investigation, three of the du Ponts presented a pretty picture of family harmony. They sucked on pipes almost in unison . . . Upton Sinclair is cherishing a telegram from Father Coughlin pledging his support when the campaign for the governorship of California gets under way. Cough-

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again have the boom times of 1928. Os this group, some are not interested in the economic program except as personal comfort and security is affected; others sense a coming change in governmental administration, an entirely new program for communities and individuals, which they are willing to aid even at some personal sacrifice. In the other world, there is no longer the question, "Do you think we’ll have a revolution?” They have already had a revolution. Scrapped, many of them, by a mechanized industry, they have no place in their old world. I have tried to tell some of my friends of the world that considers itself secure about this roaming army of disinherited wanderers. But I was up against, for the most part, a stone wall of indifference, meeting lifted eyebrows when I said that among the ten millions of unemployed, there are million? of employables, eager to work, but with no place for them. BUB, ONE Louisiana woman to whom I applied for a position as governess was indignant because I would not accept an altered agreement to do all the upstairs work and prepare the Thursday dinner. She complained bitterly about her reduced income and the fact that they had no new car that year. When I told her why I wouldn’t do the extra chores she demanded, she was indignant. “No wonder you people can’t get jobs. You want everything your own way. That is the trouble with the whole labor situation.” “One trouble is,” I told her, “that people like you still want all your luxuries for half what they used to cost. You want me to do two jobs at half the salary you

lin’s voice should help to win votes . . . Hard-working Attorney-Gen-eral Cummings lives near the zoo, but tells visitors to his house: “Don't turn in there we don’t live there yet.” ... In Puerto Rico, the saying is that Bob Gore, exGovernor “talked himself out of a job,” and that Blanton Winship present Governor may lose the job because he keeps his mouth shut. . . . Few men in the New Deal are more squeamish about the press than Emil Hurja, ManFriday to Jim Farley. When Ray Tucker, astute correspondent of Collier’s, was preparing pictures on the New Deal he put a photographer outside Hurja’s office. Hurja dodged like a prima donna. To a friend he complained: “Can’t you call this man Tucker off? He’s going to crucify me. A few more unfavorable articles and I am ruined.” • Copyright. 1934, bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

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used to pay for one, so you may have that new car you spoke of, and a few other things.” And I walked out. B B B WHILE hundreds of women are like her, there are also many who are awake to what is going on around them, eager to help wherever they can. After earning a few dollars on a house-to-house demonstration tour, I stopped to rest in a lovely

PUPILS PREPARE FOR RILEY OBSERVANCE Traditional Ceremony to Be Held on Oct. 7. Plans for the traditional observance of James Whitcomb Riley’s birthday, Oct. 7, by pupils of Clemens Vonnegut school, Vermont and Davidson streets, and of School 2, Delaw-are and North streets, were announced today. Music will be furnished by the Technical high school glee club, which will present adaptations of several of Mr. Riley’s poems. Pupils from the upper grades of School 2 and of Clemens Vonnegut school will march to the Riley home on Lockerbie street at 10 Monday, Oct. 8, since Mr. Riley’s birth anniversary fall on Sunday. Pupils of School 2 are dramatizing several Riley poems. Clemens Vonnegut school pupils w r ill present a play. The principal observance of Riley day will be at the Riley hospital Sunday, Oct. 7, where the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association will stage a combined program observing the birth anniversary and the tenth anniversary of the dedication of the hospital. SB7 in Change Is Stolen Robert Williams, 359 West Thirtysecond street, reported to police today that someone had stolen SB7 in change fro ma closet in his home during the week-end.

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Girl Adrift

old tourist home in a busy Florida city. The lady who owngd the home was kind, motherly, and interested in me and in the outside world as I represented it to her. When I prepared to leave she refused the bills I offered. “I want you to keep it, for you need it, and at the moment I do not. One of these days I may be needing a little hospitality myself,” she said. For a month at least I paid my

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP u n n nan By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. —The American public favors, overwhelmingly, action to stop practices disclosed by the senate munitions committee. Letters the committee has received in the last few weeks make this evident. In a ratio of a thousand to one they express alarm at what has been found and urge that steps be taken to prevent its recurrence. Asa result, legislation has an excellent chance of passage in the coming session of congress. The committee has not yet decided

whether it will recommend government manufacture of all armament, close government regulation, or other methods of control. Evidence spread on the committee records in the last two weeks is among the most sensational ever disclosed by a senatorial inquiry. It supports charges, made for years, that munitions makers disregard national boundaries, national policies and national safety in carrying on their business. These are some of the things it shows: The Electric Boat Company, an American concern, shares its American submarine patents with Vickers, Ltd., a British company partly controlled by the British government. Before the war it shared them with Whitehead Cos., Ltd., of Fiume, for use of Austria, Hungary, Greece and Rumania. Asa result Germany secured them and constructed the U-boats which preyed on American and allied ships during the w-ar. ana Electric boat company pays Sir Basil Zaharoff, whose nationality and citizenship are shrouded in mystery, a commission for finding it business in Europe. When Sir Basil wanted to keep German munitions makers from securing Spain’s submarine business he wrote Lawrence Y. Spear, of the Electric Boat Company, urging him to arrange with the United States state department that it instruct its ambassador in Spain—Mr. Alexander P. Moore that “the United States government works very harmoniously with the Electric Boat Company, with whom they exchange ideas.” The instructions were carried out. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Cos. and Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. of London, exchange patents, use mutual agencies in foreign countries and divide the world for mutual trade purposes. The Du Pont Company, with consent of the state department, made an arrangement with the Mitsui Company, Japan, permitting Japanese use of important Du Pont processes. I. C. I. and Du Pont together blocked Argentina’s plans for constructing a powder factory of its own. The United States war department agreed to give to the Driggs Ordnance and Engineering Company designs of its latest anti-aircraft material for sale to European countries. a a a AN American naval mission helped Peru plan “war games” and the Electric Boat Company worked hard to convince both the mission and the Peruvian government that submarines were needed more than other fighting

own way except for transportation. In covering my first thousand miles, I spent just $5 on train or bus fares. The rest of the way I hitch-hiked. Os course to the woman hitchhiker, there is always the question of men. Generalizing, I might say that I encounted more chivalry in the south than in the north, and more sharp traders in small towns than in cities. BBS ANOTHER generalization is that your professional gambler or racing man or "tough” man is my choice any day, next to a minister, for a helping hand. In any event, it is always possible to deal with a man on the basis of your own integrity. Os course, at times you have to use weapons, and none is so potent as ridicule or a show of intellectuality. One man in New Orleans who told me he was regional auditor for an insurance concern, took me to dinner, and plied me with questions. After an hour, he put his large damp hand affectionately on mine. "What are*you thinking of?” he asked, fatuously. “You know what?” I gazed at him earnestly. “Can you answer something I’ve been wanting to know for months?” “Os course, honey,” he smiled. B B B “W TELL, tell me where all this VV public relief money is coming from. As an auditor, you understand things like that. The national deficit this year was more than seven billion dollars. And they keep pouring it out. Now what I want to know is, where does all the money come from?” His ardor wilted like a flower in a hailstorm. One more generalization is that the person w-ho asks you the fewest questions usually does the most for you. Your really big man or “woman is a person of quick and accurate judgment and quick action. Are these experiences demoralizing? Well, your initiative suffers, but not your character if you had any to start. It is true you are compelled to drift, for usually today turns out to be a signboard pointing to tomorrow. The job you hope for, the news you are waiting for, is always around the corner. There is little satisfaction in today. Somehow, to those who wait and wander, it’s always tomorrow. Next—Experiences in a federal transient shelter for women.

craft. The navy department then sent one of its officers to Colombia to teach it how to defend itself against Peruvian attack. The Driggs Company fixed up a river gunboat for Colombia. While this was going on Henry Stimson, secretary of state, was warning Peru about its treaty obligations to Colombia. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation helped arm the Sao Paulo revolt of 1932 in Brazil, and secretly solicited Paraguay’s trade while supplying planes to Bolivia. Munitions companies kept lobbyists at Washington, and at all peace conference to try to prevent passage of legislation adverse to their interests, treaties or other arrangements for ending or preventing war, and embargoes on arms. American firms transferred arms orders to their European allies when the Roosevelt embargo prevented them from doing the business themselves. 150,000 CATTLE TO BE SLAUGHTERED IN STATE Six Months’ Program Announced by FERA Chief. By Time* Special WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Indiana's state drought cattle program calls for disposition of 150,000 head in six months, it was announced today by Harry L. Hopkins, FERA director. Cattle ordered number 31,247; receipts, 2,801; slaughtered, 412, and on pasture, 2,444, Mr. Hopkins reported. The September schedule is for daily slaughter of 800 head in federal inspected plants, and 150 under state inspection. All the meat is to be canned. BORAH RAPS MONOPOLY Welcomes Liberty League, Flays Its Economic Stand. By United Press GENESE, Ida., Sept. 24.—Continuing his campaign against monopoly, Senator William E. Borah (Rep., Ida.) today welcome the advent of the newly formed Liberty League and then criticised it for ignoring “economic freedom” in its crusade in behalf of individual liberty. Snow Covers Pacific Peaks By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24.—The season’s first snow lay today on the higher ranges of the mountains of the Pacific slope, blanketing them with a layer that ranged from twelve inches in Lassen national park to three at Truckee.

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Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEfilf R SEMMES WALMSLEY. who is mayor of New Orleans pending the decision of Huey Long to throw him out, is visiting New York at a moment when the clergy are deeply aroused over the lottery questions. In New York, the municipal assembly has approved a public lottery to raise money for the relief and the ministers have been hooting the idea as a compromise with sin. In Baton Rouge, on the other hand, Senator Huey Long's state legislature passed a law to put down lotteries which have been

in action in New Orleans for a long time and the only voice raised against the verboten was that of a statesman on the senate finance committeq who described himself as a church-going craps-shooter. Although a member of Huey’s majority, the honorable senator denounced the bill as a bad and cruel one and pleaded with Der Kingfish to withdraw it for the sake of the churches. To a stranger in a very strange part of the country this was a curious proposition, but inquiry among the citizens of New Orleans revealed that the churches, al-

though not the only operators of lotteries, are important dealers in this business and resent Huey's interference with an old established source of church revenue. The resentment is heightened by the fact that Huey was doing this thing for no moral purpose, but only to discomfit the prosperous lay lotteries and, consequently Mr. Walmsley’s political organization which, naturally, was in receipt of considerable graft therefrom. It will be understood, of course, that a layman can not operate a lottery for private gain even in New Orleans without making the usual arrangements at headquarters. These arrangements were a great help to the statesmen of Mr. Walmsley’s faction and Der Kingfish naturally wished to hamper his opponents in this important respect. B B B Oh, It's a Great Slate THE churches, which conduct keno, or lotto games in addition to their lotteries, were not exempted from the provisions of the law, although the churchgoing craps-shooter of the senate finance committee pleaded for their exception with tears in his voice. It would have been to Huey’s great make this exception but that would have ruined his law altogether so he either had to go down the line with it, risking the enmity of the church people, or give it up entirely. On the next Sunday after the special session of Huey’s legislature, a New Orlans clergyman preached on the subject of church lotteries and made tho point that gambling, of itself, was not immoral. He also insisted that the church was using this lottery money to perform works of relief and charity which properly were the duty of a negligent state government. He did not go on to explain that the public funds which should be used for this purpose were being used instead to pay big salaries for normal or strictly imaginary services to thousands of imbecile, never-do-wcll, jail-birds and otherwise useless and burdening relatives of Der Kingfish's faction in the legislature. But that was too well understood to need mentioning. The upshot of it all in New Orleans probably will be that law or no law the churches will go right ahead with their drawings and keno parties and continue to provide for the poor relief. This would, seem to be poor politics because if they should quit cold and let the people starve, the poor might then get fighting mad and start ripping and tearing. If a really hungry population ever should discover that the public poor-money was being used to pay big wages to ail the relatives of all Huey’s legislators and commissioners of this and that there might be some interesting hell-to-pay in Louisiana. I have one special case in mind of a newspaper reporter who draws S3OO a month out of the public treasury merely because Huey likes him and the reporter’s family responsibilities are bigger than his newspaper salary. b B a Do Your Oun Thinking IN Louisiana they got used to the idea long ago that gambling revenue is good, practical money for relief purposes, whereas New York, which is widely believed to be a very wicked city, really is quite backward in its v ! ces. It has been only a few years since Sunday baseball was authorized in New York and theatrical shows on Sunday still are forbidden. New Orleans is, as Mayor Walmsley explained, a liberal city. There is no prejudice against a man because of his business or professional interest, whatever they may be. One evening in Baton Rouge a distinguished member of Huey Long’s moral reform wing was pointed out as one of the most substantial citizens in Huey’s faction. He had made his fortune selling furniture for the cribs and the more elaborate brothels over a period of years. He had a closed monopoly in the trade and was constantly repossessing furniture when the buyers defaulted their installments, and selling it over again as new. The conflicting attitude of the clergy on the morality of lotteries compels a citizen to do his own thinking on the subject. In New York the lottery is immoral and in New York it performs God's work. (Copyright. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

Your Health UY UR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

ONE of the most common injuries in daily life, and even more so in such games as football, basketball and soccer, is a bruise or muscle tear. Such injury occurs anywhere on the body, but is most commonly seen on the thighs, which are likely to be injured in blocking. When a severe bump of the muscles of the thigh takes place, there may be tearing of the muscle, with a large amount of hemorrhage into the tissues. The first thing to do under such circumstances is to put some pressure to control the bleeding and to apply cold. After the skin is shaved, an elastic bandage may be applied, or an adhesive bandage, as a circular dressing. This will continue the pressure and also help to sustain weight. a a a A FIRM bandage gives support and may be left in place for several weeks, if it is sufficiently waterproof to withstand bathing. After the first effects of the injury have subsided, heat may be applied to aid absorption of the blood and to promote healing. Another type of injury’- that is very common Is the pulling and tearing of ligaments around the joints. The most important step in treatment of such injuries is complete rest, obtained by immobilizing the joint—sometimes by use of a plaster cast, sometimes by strapping with adhesive tape. a a a THE knee joint is the one most likely to be injured in the majority of games, particularly in football. In most cases the blow on the knee takes place on the outer side. In this position the lower leg acts as a lever, which serves to tear the cartilages around the knee joint. In injuries of the knee joint, also, fixation of the joint in the correct position is of greatest importance. Sprains of the ankle joint are also exceedingly common. It is not advisable to wait until all swelling goes down before applying a firm bandage or dressing. It is usually believed best to apply a tight strapping before the swelling comes up. A sprain of the ankle may be bandaged with the foot in the proper position, using adhesive straps. This type of strapping should never be done except by one who understands thoroughly the mechanic* of the Joint and the nature of the injury to the tiSSIU* *

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