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It Seems to Me HLVpI) BROUN EVERY one U gratified at the fact that a solution of the Lindbergh rase now seem* probable But I. for one. want to make my protest here and now against the anti-foreign drive which seems to be a consequence of the Lindbergh findings I saw just the other dav anew reel which was made up of a brief shot of the accused carpenter, of the house in Hopewell, and of the Lindbergh child at play. With this rather harrowing pictorial combination there went an attendant voice which said, “and remember

that Hauptmann is an alien who entered this country illegally. We hould all learn from the present lesson that it is necessary’ to ferret out these aliens in our midst and have them deported before damage is done.” I am not arguing for stowaways and others who have slipped across the lines, although even in such cases I think *ny generalization about depravity would be far fetched. I am contending that this newsreel voice, the editorials of the same sort, and other devices are whipping up a state of mind which regards every person with an accent as a poten-

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tial villain. It is a grave pity that a campaign of “hate your foreign neighbor ’ began during the great war. The efforts which were made then to blacken everything German have had far-reaching consequences. Today it isn't just the German, although there will be renewed impetus in the Hauptmann case, it is a foreigner in general who is under suspicion. Whether our present immigration laws are utterly sound is a matter of debate. But I see no reason to justify the drive against the foreigner. If anybody says. Oh, lin only speaking of illegal entrants,” you have a right to reply. “It will not be possible to limit your drive to this compass. Already in many sections of the country the badge of suspicion falls on e\cry one who is not native born." a a a Point Incapable of Proof AT times I have been called a sap because of my feeling that hate is an emotion too common In the world today. I will grant reluctantly that there may be such a thing as justified hate, but it is a weapon which I would put only in the hands of those capable ot calling their shots. And I am wondering whether it isn't the proper time here and now to begin a plea and an appeal for the validity of a fine and ancient phrase which was once popular in this land and I mean, of course, the brotherhood of man. If we are all to take up the sword of suspicion there will be no end of bickering and warfare. Out of a chaos of hate there can be no victory. This was to be once upon a time a haven for all peoples. That still is a fine idea. In urging an ideal it is well to point out that it has roots in enlightened selfishness. Things which are right are generally sensible. Economic changes bring about new moral concepts. The debt which this country owes to the foreigner ought to be too obvious to need restatement. From the very’ beginning of our history as a nation we derived vital support from abroad. The few may argue that if immigration restrictions had been made more severe a century ago the result might have been beneficial. This is a point incapable of proof. n a m End Hitter Petty Nationalism MY own feeling is that those things in our life which are valuable have been very largely the result of the melting pot. The most backward sections of America are the sections in which the socalled native stock is purest. And. of course, it must be remembered that “pure'’ is merely a comparative term. The backwoodsman of our pioneer days was a romantic hero. The backwoodsman in the Tennessee mountains today for the most part is an illiterate. Leadership does not come from such sources. In a material way. the wealth of which we boast was created largely by foreign hands. It was the alien immigrant who laid the railroad tracks across the western plains. He dug our coal and mined our copper. His hands reared towers to the skies. We needed him desperately in the days of our mushroom growth. Often he was practically a conscript. The fiercest sort of a recruiting campaign was carried on by the steamship companies. Orators in every political campaign paid their tribute to the bold, free spirit who left the distant shores and came here to throw in his lot with America. It is then an ungrateful, a thoughtless, really an insane, thing to swing about and condemn all aliens. At the moment it is quite obvious that we do not stand in need of an influx of labor. But we still belong to the family ot nations. Nobody knows what tomorrow mav bring and I can think of no contineency in world history in which we have strengthened our portion by going in for a recrudescence of know-nothmg-ism and bitter petty nationalism. (CoDvrtcht. 1934. br The Times!

Today s Science

BY DAVID DIETZ

SCIENCE has moved faster in the last three years —despite the fact that they were years of depression—than at any time since those magic years between 1895 and 1900. which saw the discovery of X-rays, radio-activity, radium and the electron. Some authorities believe that history may even judge the years 1931-34 to have moved at a swifter tempo. Recently I had occasion to take stock of the changes which have come about in the last three years and the reader may be interested in the results of my study. My book. The Story of Science.” which surveys moaem scientific knowledge in the four important fields of astronomy, geology, atomic physics and biology, was published in 1931. For the third edition, which came off the presses this month, Dodd. Mead A- Cos. the publishers, asked me to revise the manuscript and bring it up to date. This meant adding the salient advances which have been made in those few years. The result was that I found it necessary to make changes upon fortv of the book's 387 pages. Chief among the recent developments in the world of science have been the theory of the expanding universe, the discovery of the neutron, the demon and the positron, the newer and still conflicting evidence of the nature of cosmic rays, the Dirac wave theory of the atom, the revision of the size of the galaxy and the newer studies of the atmospheres of the planets. mam THE theory of the expanding universe, developed by the Abbe Lemaitre upon the basis of the Einstein theory and verified by the observations of the Mt Wilson astronomers, makes one of the most fundamental changes in man's view of the universe since the dawn of history. According to this view, the entire universe is expanding like a gigantic soap bubble. This necessitates new points of view and concepts in scores of fields. When I published The Story of Science in 1931.” the accepted cosmogony followed the lines laid down by Sir James Jeans It was generally agreed that the stars were at least fifteen trillion years old and Sir James figure of 200 trillion years for a possible maximum age of the universe did not seem unreasonable. The theory of the expanding universe has made it necessary to abandon this time scale completely. A maximum age for the universe today is five billion years, two and a half times the accepted age of the earth. m m m OF equal importance, are the new discoveries in the field of atomic physics—the neutron, the deuton. and the positron. The discovery of these particles, coupled with such theoretical advances as the Dirac theory, are making it necessary to revise our concepts of the structure of the atom. The discovery of the neutron was announced by Dr J. C Chadwick and his associates at the University of Cambridge toward the end of 1931. The announcement came just a few moments after I had published the first edition of ’'The Story of Science." Professor Harold C. Urey of Columbia university announced the discovery of the deuton at about the same time. The deuton is the nucleus of the atom of heavy hydrogen, or deuterium as it is now called

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WITH AMERICA’S DRIFTING HORDE

Girl Nomads From Many Walks Find Common Bond in Misfortune

Over the hi*hws*s of the ntion they trudje—member* of the Drifting Horde. Whit are the* like. thee job-seeking nomad*? A girt who formerly was a relief agenry executive turned hitch-hiker herself to And the answer to this question and her atory becomes their story . . . The second of six revealing articles which she has written for this newspaper appears below. a a a BY MISS LESLIE SHAW Written for NEA Serxice My nrst experience without any money at all on this cross-country jaunt as a homeless wanderer occurred in a smart Florida resort town. It was the hardest possible place to get along without cash, for everything in town war pay-as-vou-enter. For the first night the Y. W. C. A. sheltered me and gave me meals the following day, during which I applied for ten different jobs, having first asked the state director for an emergency relief position. I soon was made to realize that to other relief workers I was pretty much of a deserter in having given up a good job at a hard post. Nothing for me. Also as governess, as advertising copy-writer, as newspaper reporter, which once I had been. I tried for a job as waitress. Experience? No Sorry, no opening. At the end of twenty-four hours I realized that the secretary of the "Y" was giving me good advice when she urged me to go back wherever I came from. That wasn’t in my program, however, so I w r ent to the federal transient bureau. Giving my right name only to the director, I was soon enrolled under an assumed name as client and a protege of Uncle Sam. I was taken to the women’s shelter, the former home, now in some disrepair, of a millionaire, situated among giant cocoanut palms by the

edge of a famous bay. “Mv eye! Why does anybody ever want to leave here?” “They don’t,” my caseworker told me, and she was right. The house was spotlessly clean and the first meal was a revelation. The food was extremely good, although simple and all prepared by one cook, the only paid worker. The clients, as they are called by officials, did all the other work in shifts of four hours each, xr a a THIS was in exchange for our board, and in return for an additional five hours a week we received 9 cents. It interested me that few of the girls and women passing questioned that they had actually earned the 90 cents. It didn’t occur to them that in doing work involved purely in the care and feeding -of the group, they were creating no surplus, no commodities that had cash value. The majority of them didn’t think much about the whole proceeding. They were there because they were stranded. When the case worker made arangements for them to go back home to relatives, job, or the local “welfare,” they went. As I looked about me in the dining room, I tried to analyze them. At my table were three young girls, Estelle, Marie and Feuline. Estelle was a former dance hall hostess who was no longer pretty and was separated from her hus band; she was apathetic, relying on hpr case worker to take care of her plans. Pauline was a child’s nurse down for a job from New York; pretty, aggressive, anc. sure of herself even if broke. Marie had

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP m a a a a a By Ruth Finney

AItASHINGTON. Sept. 25—The "toughest” man who ever blazed * * across the sky of national affairs is on his way to retirement because he didn’t know how to be tough at the right time and place. General Hugh S. Johnson's sun seems to have set so far as the Roosevelt administration is concerned. Whether his resignation from NRA is announced tomorrow or three months from now, whether it comes in the iorm of a “promotion,” as a release accompanied with

polite regrets, or In a way that confirms rumors of a break between the President and his No. 1 administrator. Washington is convinced that Johnson’s spectacular rule over American industry is at an end. The stirring, quick-stepping crusade he organized last year to march against the citadels of depression is now a lost, bedraggled, wavering column, uncertain where it is going or why. If last year's estimate of the general still stood, he probably would be the foremost figure in the country today. a a a Fourteen months ago he flashed on to the Washington scene, anew and impelling figure. The directness and decisiveness for which the American people had been looking in vain seemed to be his. He had words to set the spirit of the people on fire. He seemed fearless. Overnight, almost, the capital and the country were galvanized into attention by his whirlwind activity, the sincere ring of his words, the dramatic quality of the man. He was the kind of hero the public wanted—no radical, a man supposed to have the confidence of big business and to know its tricks, yet ready to thunder at business that it must mend its ways; a man strong enough, intense enough, to drive night and day toward the goal that had retreated so long through the mists of indifference and incompetence in public office. But the recovery plan the general made seem so attractive never has really been tried. Before it could get under way industry discovered he didn't mean to back up his fighting words. The record is clear as to what the general started out to do. a a a HE believed the downward cycle of depression could be stopped and business started toward recovery if mass purchasing power were increased. He believed industry could and would boost pay rolls if it could act as a unit and be sure of protection from chiseling. He believed, and said again and again, that the plan would work only if prices stayed down within reason. He was convinced that there must be "some" government control over prices. But the general also had a conviction that his plan must necessarily move forward on a voluntary basis; that industry must be allowed self-government; that it was trustworthy: and that enforcement of such a far-reaching project against the wishes of a hostile industry was impossible.

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been a fruit-packer in Clearwater, had been married twice and was separated from her second husband. She had no clothes except those she wore, no money, and no plan save one. a a a “T GUESS I’ll have to telegram my father-in-law,” she said wistfully. “He always said he’d come git me and marry me if I was to go broke.” “Marry you?” You’re already married!” “Yes, but me and my husband has been separated for a year. That makes us divorced, don’t hit!” “Divorced like fun, girl. You try marrying again and see w’hat that makes you.” Marie was sweet, pretty, docile, and had the intelligence of a 6-year-old child. Among the other girls were three waitresses, four stenographers. and three trained nurses looking for jobs in this town of rich tourists. They all had no luck and were eventually sent back home. There was a shy and pretty bride of 19, who, with her husband, became stranded when a small-time circus went brokenearby. ana A BLOND woman of about 30 called Dodo had also been in the show business in a vaudeville act that couldn’t get local booking. She w T as well dressed, but broke like all the rest. Leonie was a stunning brunet from New Orleans, who came to seek her fortune, which meant a man, and Marion also was from

The general’s first move was a brilliant one. He conceived and organized the Blue Eagle, or blanket code campaign. It took the country by storm. It was during these first two months that the generals NRA career reached its zenith. Inch by inch, since then, it has been slipping down the horizon It soon became evident that there was chiseling behind the stem back of the Blue Eagle. General Johnson said “you can’t fool with that bird ... it will be a sentence of economic death.” But it wasn't. a a a IT is too soon to estimate accurately all the causes of Johnson's failure. Both his friends and enemies will keep on trying to guess how much was due to poor judgment of men, how much to inability to grasp the fundamentals of labor's problems; how much to indecisiveness or failure to think through the industrial problem. One day he saw clearly that prices and profits must be curbed or monopoly would shatter what he was trying to do and it would all turn out "to be a ghastly failure. just another shattered hope.” The next day he felt that industry must be trusted to work out its own salvation. It is interesting to guess what would have happened if Johnson had tried, with single-minded determination. to enforce the recovery act just as it was first presented to the country. It is just as interesting to speculate what can be made of NRA without the general whose personality has. so far. colored its whole saga. GASOLINE TAX RETURN DOWN. SAYS FOREMAN Receipts Off Despite Levy Boost, States Truck Group Head. Continual increases in state gasoline taxes and automotive license fees are not producing more revenue and. instead, receipts have diminished in the last few years, according to a statement today by Charles E Foreman, Indiana Motor Truck Association director. "The peak of gasoline tax receipts was reached in 1931. when the total for all states amounted to $536.397.458.” Mr. Foreman said. "That total dropped nearly $20,000,000 in 1933 when $518,195,712 was collected from motor vehicle users throughout the country.”

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1934

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the Crescent City. It was with Marion that I finally slipped away and hitch-hiked north. And the others? Two girls of about 15 who wore identical blue dresses and had all the earmarks of being runaways from a correctional school. But they wouldn’t talk. Unforgettable among them was Regina. That wasn't her real name, for that she never let us known; she insisted on being called Mrs. Adams. With her was her pretty 3-year-old daughter, and in the same town was her husband, whose job had washed up six months ago. In confidence she told me that she had come to this resort because, two years ago in this town, she had been hostess and manager for one of the smartest restaurants, with a good income and her own car and plenty of clothes.

KNIGHTS TEMPLARS TO HOLD BUSY SEASON Unusual Attention to Be Paid to Activities in State. Knights Templar activities throughout the state will have unusual attention in the coming season. William H. Swintz, grand recorder, said today. The schedule, prepared by Roy D. Smiley, Washington, state grand commander, includes a series of group meetings which will be preliminary to the annual state-wide inspection of local commanderies, starting in November. First of the meetings will be held in South Bend Saturday. Others scheduled for October will be held isl Frankfort, Kokomo, Greencastle and Gary. 3,000 GREET NOVA RR 0 Film Star Visits Native Mexico; Womon Kiss Him. By Vnitctl Pres* MEXICO CITY. Sept. 25.—Three thousand, mostly young women, jammed the railway station today to see Ramon Novarro, Mexican movie star, on his first visit here since he achieved film fame. Three girls fainted in the crush. Many of the women brought flowers to throw and tried to kiss Novarro —some of them succeeding,

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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That was all gone now, and no chance of getting her old job back. There was no place for her in this or in other towns. a a a ANOTHER woman with a child barged in merrily one evening. She had on overalls, as did tire baby, for they were just off a freight train. Her husband was at the men’s bureau. They had come from California, and weregoing back. “What for?” we asked, thinking of the baby. “Oh, well, if you can’t work, you might as well travel,” she replied airily. Her baby didn’t seem to matter. By all odds the most hopeless group was that of older women who had come to town with the forlorn hope of being housekeepers in motherless homes or companions to nice, rich old ladies. The years of hardship had told on

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

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Some of the young economists of the New Deal are not taking seriously Donald R. Richberg’s series of glowing reports listing the administration’s recovery accomplishment. As window dressing and campaign thunder, they observe privately, the acting national emergency council chairman did a clever job. But as realistically objective analyses of current economic and business conditions, Richberg’s effusions, they say, are full of great

and gaping holes. It is not charged that Richberg deliberately distorted facts and conditions—as far as he went. He merely did some canny hand-picking. For example: Richberg declared that approximately 4,000,000 more persons were employed in June of this year than, had work in March, 1933; that total pay rolls in the manufacturing industries were 37 1 2 per cent higher than in June. 1933, as against an increase of 9.6 per cent in the cost of living; and finally that the index of corporation profits had risen from a deficit of 6.9 in the first quarter of 1933 to a profit of 32.2 in the second quarter of 1934. These figures are correct. But—it is considered significant that Richberg should have taken

them, and with defeat written in line of their faces, the chance for a job was ml. You would think that in such a group there would be little in common, and yet we felt closely drawn together by similar experiences and the fact that this was for the time our only home and that we were an adopted family. In reality we had more in common than we should had with those of our former friends and family who were bade in their homes in a conventional life. The experiences you have undergone are so deep that you want to talk to those who have had the same experiences. a a a Tj'Oß many ot these women, the conventional life they once knew is gone, for it involves a broken home, a lost job, or lost youth that might bring another home or opportunity. To these the friends they make on the road and in temporary shelters are their only real friends, and for such as these there should be some permanent provision that will include comradeship with their own kind. One group wasn’t so dismal as this sounds, by any means. We played the piano and sang after our work was done, we hunted the coeoanuts that obligingly fell almost at our feet from tall pa’m trees. We picked oranges and grape fruit, we went swimming; we watched the ever-ehanging waters of the tropical bay just at our door, and the moonlight on the water and on the palm trees. Tomorrow might be good or bad, it might bring a job or defeat, it might bring certainty or more insecurity. But in the meantime, we were in one of the most beautiful spots known to man. and we were making the most of it. Down through Florida I went, applying for all kinds of jobs, getting a few for short periods. In a country newspaper office; “Are you a good typesetter?” I was asked. “Perfect,” I answered, and promptly spilled a stick full of type. However, I kept the job long enough to finish a rush job of handbills and to earn $3.00. In a fruit-packing plant at Clearwater: “How many crates can you pack an hour?” I named some wild number. “'Let me see your hands.” The foreman just laughed at me. In a city department store: “Can you demonstrate cosmetics?” Another wonderful yarn about how good I was. ,1 lasted one day. NEXT—Girls of the road . . . and men.

June as the basis for his comparison instead of July. If he had used July a far less favorable showing would have resulted. a a a /AF all New Deal cabinet ladies, probably vivacious Mrs. Homer Cummings is the least spoiled by sudden elevation to social fame. Her sense of humor is too contagious. "If we are dining at home, Homer gets in at 7:45 for an 8 o'clock dinner,” she told friends the other day. “If we are dining out, he makes a special concession and arrives at 7:40. "Yes, I feel like Ed Wynn’s fire chief horse. I jump into the harness and it falls into place.” a a a THE mail bag: S. M. 8., Atlantic City, N. J.—The three shrewdest politicians in the senate, in the opinion of The Mer-ry-Go-Round authors, are: Senator Charles McNary, South Carolina, the President’s liaison man, and—for reasons which may be misunderstood —Senator Huey P. Long. . . . H. T. Clinton, lowa —According to the war department there were 73.373 students enrolled in the senior R. O. T. C. and 39,942 in the junior R. O. T. C. during 1933-34. Institutions with senior units numbered 217, with junior 103. . . . J. G. Jamestown, N. Y.—When asked if he has gubernatorial ambitions, Jim Farley always smiles blandly and says nothing. But it is a safe bet that if. two or four years hence, he is offered the Democratic nomination in New York he will not turn it down. iCODvrizht 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) SCOUTS WILL PARADE AT I. U. GRID OPENER Bovs in Uniform to Be Admitted to Contest Free. Indianapolis Boy Scout band will join in a parade Saturday with scouts from all over the state at Bloomington, preceding the Indi-ana-Ohio university football game. Uniformed scouts will be admitted free. Scouts will attend the Scout day celebration being sponsored by Indiana university and Alpha Phi Omega, scouting fraternity. Promotions in the Indianapolis Boy Scout band have been announced by Raymond G. Outer, band leader. Edward Schock, drum major, has been made assistant director. He is an Eagle scout, and student director of the Technical high school band. His place as drum major will be filled by Elbert Terhune.

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Entered ax Second -Clap* Matter at Postoffie*. Indianapolis. Ind.

Fair Enough VHM H THERE has been a strike of clerical help at the Macaulay Company, book publishers, and a picket line of about seventy-five bookwriters has been parading the street and threatening to boycott the firm. The merits of the case are as they may be, but that parade of the authors is a reminder of the strange self-importance which comes over a man or woman once that individual has written a book or established a paying line of he-and-she fiction in the magazines. They become celebrities, thanks in large

part to the main-strength plugging of the exploitation departments of the publishing houses which throw premeditated souse-parties in ,their honor, charging the cost to overhead, and they dust off long-for-gotten middle names whereby Joe Smith becomes Joseph Tewksbury Smith, or Emmy Brown. Emmatrice Maudlin-Brown. They take up causes, they yearn, they grieve, they roll their eyes, and not a few logs, and. in many cases, develop soul-troubles which did not occur when they .were standing an eighthour trick on the rewrite battery and doing much better work and

more of it. The papers have not published a complete list of the seventy-five authors who threaten to boycott the Macaulay Company, but a confidential report from the business office probably would show that anything in the nature of a boycott would be something in'the nature of a break for the publishers as to mast of them. Certainly thase who are mentioned include some of the most widely unknown authors in the writing industry, and the cast of printing and plugging a book for an unknown author is a great business hazard to a publisher. Statistics I nave none on the gross tonnage of dead book stock which the printers must eat each year, but it comes to a mighty total and it is a very shrewd publisher indeed who conies to the end of a season without a painful wish that he had done something offensive enough to cause some of his authors to bovcott him ere he took the long chance. a a a Those Aesthetic Hook Drives A PARADE of seventy-five authors is actually of Cx. no more social or artistic importance than a paiade of an equal number of newspaper reporters. But the newspapers, for some queer reason, accept the authors’ own estimate of themselves and exaggerate the significance of all they say and do. On the other hand, newspapers rarely attribute any importance to the opinions of newspaper people, while they remain newspaper people, or to their actions unless they manage to get into serious trouble. It is only when the newspaper writer has appeared between the board covers of a book or dropped a few living human documents into the slick-paper magazines that he becomes an author and therefore entitled to a position next to pure reading matter for his opinions and eccentricities. The majority of authors are former newspaper hands, but an accurate canvass, if one were possible, would show that they were forced into the author business because they weren’t very good in daily journalism. For that matter, the majority of authors are not very good authors either. The U. S. A., for a long time, was the book-buyingest country in the world and all it took to become an author was from 60.000 to 85,000 little words, put down, one after another, double-spaced and with a neat margin at the left-hand side of the page. There was an enormous growth of authorship during, the time when the wholesale contractors were toeing suburban subdivisions together, complete with Book-shelves and the citizens felt that thing3 wouldn't look aesthetic without books to fill them. a a a Some Newspaper Men Can Write IT never has been plain to me why some publicityloving female is considered to have important opinions on war, marriage, or the care and feeding of the poor merely because, in Ihe security of a good income and a comfortable living, she has written some fiction plots about a boy and girl who were swept away on a tide of passion. Yet, one of the mast resourceful lens-oglers in the authorship business is a specimen whose achievements in literature are strictly Grand Rapids and who never has been heard to utter an original, or even an interesting, idea in all the interviews which she has blabbed for publication. Our subject constantly is sailing to or returning from Europe nowadays in order to encounter the ship-news crowd, but there was a period of several years in which she was always able to score in the papers, often with photographers, on the subject of her marriage. It was an odd marriage of seme kind. They didn’t speak to each other on Wednesdays or maybe they occupied separate towns, which would have been a break for the party of the second part, at that. What is an author, anyway? He is a man or woman with a trade and not necessarily a good hand at the trade, either. And more often than not the newspaper writer who puts him so solemnly in the paper is the better writer of the two. each considered in his own metier. (Copvrißht. 1934, bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health —By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

is a small organ, lying beneath the front A end of the bladder, that means little if anything to man, but that can give him considerable trouble. This is the prostate gland. It tends to enlarge in many men after the age of 50 and disturbs the functions of the bladder. About 35 per cent of men past 60 have enlargement of this gland and at least half of these are troubled by it. Chief difficulty is that the enlargement interferes with excretion of fluid from the bladder. As a result of the delay in excretion, there are many symptoms which are irritating and some which may be dangerous to life. One symptom is an increased frequency of excretion of fluid, especially during the night and toward morning. ana NEGLECT of this condition may result in absorption of poisonous substances into the body, so that there is a breakdown in general health. The doctor makes his diagnosis by direct examination of the tissues, as well as by the symptoms. He can pass a tube into the bladder and in that way not only relieve the accumulation of fluid, but also aid his diagnosis by examination of the fluid itself. There are many hygienic measures which will help those who are afflicted to overcome the condition and to avoid serious symptoms. Congestion and swelling of the gland may be lessened by avoiding exposure to cold and wet. by avoiding physical overexertion and, above all, by being moderate in all things. a a it SINCE the accumulation of fluid and the difficulty of getting rid of it is one of the mo6t serious symptoms, the amount of fluids taken into the body must be controlled. The desire to get rid of fluid should always be heeded promptly. The man who has this condition is frequently a prey to all sorts of quack treatments. He tries heat, manipulations, electrical methods, and similar procedures which sometimes art far more harmful than letting the condition alone. Only a direct examination will reveal the actual extent of the swelling. Only scientific, clean handling will mean safety from infection. Once the condition is diagnosed, there are numerous safe medical methods for relief. Moreover, modern surgical and electro-surgical methods hav# been developed which are safe in the majority of cases, if the patient is seen early and if he is not too old at the time when treatment is undertaken.

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