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It Seems to Me HEYWOD BROUN A FTER CTrr an many years a columnist should be able to take it. I've had my share of violent letter* and on numerous occasions I have been rebuked in the editorial columns of newspapers including the one which hires me. Concerning all this I see no reason for Just complaint. But the world in which we live grows strange and still more curious. It is only withm the last few months that I have found myself in the unfortunate position of the light brigade. There have been cannons to the right of me and cannons to the left of me and they have volleyed and thundered. If a number of readers write in to say that I am a dirty Red. that does not matter very much. I can turn, ponderously perhaps, to meet or even greet the accusation.

But here is my holler: As I wheel about to guard myself from the javelins of the right wing I am suddenly prodded in the small of the back by a spearsman of the left, who calls me "a sentimental burRfois faker” In a single day in Toledo last summer I was assailed as a dangerous radical agitator and as a capitalist mercenary who had come on to break the strike. It may be my own fault. People who live on the fence gather a great many rocks. Yet to myself I seem consistent. I am not conscious of dining each day upon the words I set down in the previous twenty-

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four hours. In fact I am prepared to deny bitterly that on important issues I have played the part of a neutral. Naturally. I don’t wish to put my full weight on every single phrase which I've let fly in the course of twenty-five years. I will admit the motes and stand solidly on the beams. m m • The Whole World's Cockeyed npHE world is cockeyed and I am only slightly -R astigmatic. Take, for instance, the case of Germany and Adolf Hitler. Days without end I labored to express my utter opposition to the Nazis and all their works. Even my best friends said that I grew intolerant in denouncing the visit of Putzy Hanfstaengl. I don't think I did. but that's another story. Germans, German Americans, Gentile Americans denounced me in no uncertain terms. Later, with full consideration and due deliberation. I wrote to condemn the campaign of hate against all things German which grew out of the fact that the accused man in the Lindbergh case happens to be named Hauptmann. Back swung the tide. Now. according to many correspondents. I was an anti-Semite and a concealed (clansman. And yet there is no inconsistency in hating Hitler and at the same time insisting that Germans are not a people set apart from all others in some special sort of bad inheritance. Recording to an article by John L. Spivak in the current issue of the New Masses a secret meeting of the "Order of '76'' was held recently at which the chairman said: "A columnist on one of our papers has now come out as a Communist. He was formerly a left wing Socialist. I refer to Heywood Broun. You may have noticed the doctrine he is preaching, how he begins to talk about apples and pears and before he is through, he is talking about good old Communism.” u * u Give Me a Hreak, He Pleads I SHOULD add that the tag line ran. "The owners of that paper are more than friendly to Soviet Russia." There is a certain comfort in that. It may be a little less lonely on the barricades if Roy Howard and I are to stand there together. Tiie accusation of Communist leanings does not bother me because I have Communist leanings. As yet the departure from the perpendicular has been so slight that the Communists can't seem to observe it. From their ranks I have seen no fluttering of handkerchiefs o* heard any cries of "come on over.” Within the month The Daily Worker defended me stoutly by saying. "Os course Heywood Broun is not a Communist” and a little earlier in the year the New Masses pilloried me as one who wept for the national guard and held in scorn all strikers. And I'm ready to debate that. I see no reason why people should not lambaste me. Probably I'd pine away under sunny skies. But I have a favor to ask. Couldn't it be fixed that on the odd days the swats came in from those who think I am too Red and that the even dates be reserved for critics who find me ultra Tory? After all, for good or ill, I am a columnist, not a whirling dervish. (Copyright. 1934. bv The Ttme*

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

BE prepared to add some new names to your scientific vocabulary. The recent march of science has made it necessary. Perhaps, you have already run across deuterium. You will need that, and in addition protium and tritium. Protium. deuterium and tritium constitute what Professor Hugh S. Taylor of Princeton university calls the hydrogen trio. Scientists have not corned these r>- just to make life more complex for the layman out because they need these terms in order to be able to express themselves with clearness and conciseness. As long as scientists had to deal with only one kind cf hydrogen they needed no name for th(? substance except hydrogen. But now that hydrogen has turned out to be triplets the situation is decidedly different. A* many readers now know. Professor Harold C. Urey of Columbia university discovered double-weight hydrogen in 1931. That made it necessary to distinguish between ordinary water whose molecules contained atoms of lightweight hydrogen and heavy water whose molecules contained atoms of doubleweight hydrogen. a a a SINCE the new hydrogen was double the weight of she old hydrogen. Professor Urey suggested the name of deuterium for it. This made it possible to speak of compounds which contained doubleweight hydrogen as deuterium compounds. Thus hydrogen chloride containing doubleweight hydrogen became deuterium chloride. Under this system the scientific name for heavy water became deuterium oxide. Then early in the present year Lord Rutherford, famous physicist of the University of Cambridge, announced the discovery of tnple-weight hydrogen. This meant the possibility of another senes of hydrogen compounds. At Princeton university one pound of heavy water—or deuterium oxide—has been extracted from fifty tons of ordinary- water. This heavy water cost about Jl5O an ounce to prepare. Tests indicated that about one out of every 200,000 molecules of this heavy water contained tripleweight hydrogen. From this Dr. Taylor concluded that it would cost $1,000,000 to prepare an ounce of water containing only triple-weight hydrogen. It has been suggested that triple-weight hydrogen be called tritium. The $1,000.000-an-ounce water would then be called tritium oxide. a a a IT will be recalled that the nucleus of the lightweight hydrogen atom is a single positive panicle, the proton. Shortly after the discovery of deutenum physicists on the Pacific coast began nuclei of deutenum atoms as projectiles for various atom-smash-ing experiment*. Since they were twice as heavy as protons, they were twice as effective in most cases. Soon, however, they felt the need of a name for these nuclei and so they called them deutons. Fee!mg that a name might also be useful for lightweight hydrogen—one is almost tempted to speak of it m old fashioned hydrogen—Professor Urey suggested that it be called protium. Prior to the discovery of triple-weight hydrogen. Profeasor Urey had suspected the possibility of itsexistence and suggested that if found it be known as tritium. If a name is needed for it* nucleus one suppam that triton probably will be adopted.

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‘BABY GENIUS,’ 9, AMAZES PARENTS And His Father Happens to Bea Professor of Pure Mathematics

BX E A Srrrict AUSTIN. Tex.. Sept. 3.—Nearing their ninth birthdays, mo6t schoolboys are having their dads help them out with their problems. But Martin Grossman Ettlinger, nearing 9. has shown his father a few things And his father's a college professor! Martin's only in his third year of school, but it happens to be high school, and if he keeps on progressing the way he has, he’ll be entering college in short pants. This remarkable lad who could recite the alphabet when other tots his age were saying "Da Da,” who can speak and write and at the age of 7 was named president of the astronomy chib of his junior high school, has been proclaimed one of America’s true prodigies. Son of Dr. H. J. Ettlinger, professor of pure mathematics at the University of Texas, Martin stirred comment long before he reached the age of 4. At 1 year and 9 months he could repeat the English alphabet. At 2 he was reading simple sentences. By the time he was 3 he could bound every state In the Union. His parents were amazed, for neither of them had taught him this feat. They found he had instructed himself with the help of a large world globe in his father’s study.

Martin took piano lessons for a few years, but music had no great appeal for him except in theory. The music which he did like was of a classical nature. Quite often he plays recorded selections from the Nutcracker Suite, or music of similar character. * * n STILL 4, Martin discovered an ardent fascination in the study of astronomy and geography. He acquired, through his own endeavors, an excellent knowledge of the heavenly bodies, and at the age of 7 was unanimously chosen president of the astronomy club of his junior high school. Martin’s thirst for knowledge was not limited to any particular activity. At 7, he had worked through one of his father’s freshman mathematics texts used m the university and had read his mother's textbook, high school physiology’. Today his mathematics teacher compares Martin’s recitation in class with a talented performance. The lad speaks so clearly and works so rapidly and accurately when at the board that the class wants to applaud his work. 000 "W E have never Pushed or enVV couraged him in the least,” comment Dr. and Mrs. Ettlinger. "Martin is practically self-taught. His knowledge, his mental development, have come from the stimulus of his own desire and interest. We wanted his growth to be as natural as that of any other boy.” However, Martin’s mental growth has been far indeed from

The DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—George E. Allen, Washington’s dapper district commissioner, is bald. While his hair is falling out he was much disturbed, resorted to innumerable remedies. But to no avail. Recently a friend asked him if he was still fretting about his baldness. “Nope.” replied Allen. “I gave up. I tried everything. But when my hair still continued to disappear, I decided the best thing was to co-operate and get it over with. So I pitched in and began pulling it out.” a a a ana THREE of the biggest producers in the auto industry are waging a hammer and tongs war behind the scenes.

The controversy—not directly connected with the motor vehicle business—is a continuation of a long-standing commercial feud. There is big money involved. The dispute revolves about RFC Chairman Jesse Jones’ plan for a partial payoff to depositors of the First National bank of Detroit, the largest closed bank in the world. Under Jones’ scheme the RFC would advance $83,000,000 to finance a 20 per cent “dividend'* to all depositors, but only if a majority of the big depositors agreed in advance to turn back 10 per cent of their share so that all depositors with accounts of S3OO or less could be paid in full. Three of the biggest depositors are Henry Ford. General Motors and Chrysler Motor Company. Ford, with $25,000,000 frozen in the bank, is willing to accept the Jones proposal. But General Motors and Chrysler—his bitter competitors—are .vet to agree. Jones made a hurried trip to the auto city last week in an effort to effect a compromise. What luck he had he is not telling—yet. a a a HPHE real story of the Russian -*■ debt stalemate is in the attitude of the career boys who opposed Russian recognition in the first place. After Roosevelt had ironed out the main features of Soviet recognition last October, he turned the rest of the details over to state department functionaries. Chief among these are Robert F. Kelley, the man who supplied anti-Soviet ammunition to Secretaries Kellog and Hughes. With him has worked Assistant Secretary Walton P. Moore, a charming Virginia gentleman but a novice at foreign affairs. Roosevelt intended through recognition to boost American sales to the vast market of the Soviet, but. so far. Russia still is buying from Europe. a a a JOHN WINANT, New Hampshire Governor who chairmaned Roosevelt's textile board, is considered a certain bet for the senate when the term of unexciting Senator Henry Keyes expires in 1936. W’inant, a close friend of the President and once headmaster of St. Paul's school, is gaunt and gangling, has a bashful. Abe Lincoln manner of delivering speeches. A New England aristocrat, he has Leftist ideas of the Roosevelt brand. In the New Hampshire senate he was asked by the bosses who helped him to introduce certain reactionary bills. To most newcomers this was considered a great honor. Winant, however, went through the unusual procedure of reading the bills. He refused to introduce them.

natural. When 5, he entered a private school in Austin for the first three grades. There he finished in two years with all A marks. He was permitted to skip the grammar grades and try his hand in junior high school. Another year and Martin had completed the two-year course. Always the grades were A’s, or A-pluses. Now, nearing his ninth birthday—it comes this Friday—he is enrolled m Austin senior high school, taking plane geometry, English, German and Latin. 000 ASIDE from Martin’s scholastic excellence, what kind of boy is he? Sissy? Not a bit. He romps like any normal boy. He had a half dozen fights at a camp one summer to convince the boys he w’as not a sissy. He had been called that because he was always reading wjien not busy with camp routine. Athletic? Very. Horseback riding and swimming are tw r oof his favorite sports. Martin has the appearance of a boy of 12. He is 4 feet 7 inches and weighs ninety pounds. That’s a huskier build than his dad had at the same age—and Ettlinger senior is 6 feet 3 inches, weighing 240 pounds. Martin’s principal hobbies are reading and organic chemistry. The lad has acquired, through constant reading, a marvelous vocabulary, and his diction might be the envy of college students. Playing w r ith his toy boat 'one

THE army has been making some secret but highly satisfactory experiments with the autogyro as anew method of observation for artilllery fire. It looks as if this weird sort of airplane would make an important contribution to modern warfare. Flying four or five miles behind the lines, it can remain almost in one place, obtain perfect observation of the enemy. The ordinary airplane is too fast for observation; the balloon too vulnerable. The United States army probably will use a lot of autogyros in the future. (Coevridht, 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) Indianapolis Tomorrow Advertising Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Northwestern branch, Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church, convention, Roberts Park M. E. church. American Business Club, luncheon, Indianapolis Athletic Club. Engineering Society, luncheon, Board of Trade. Real Estate Board, luncheon, Washington. Firemen’s auxiliary, 8 p. m., Washington. Home Builders, dinner, Washington. Alliance Francaise, 8 p. m., Washington. Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade. Sigma Nu. luncheon, Washington. Acacia, luncheon, Board of Trade. con\TentTon is opened BY MUNICIPAL LEAGUE City Officials Organize for Threedav Parley at Ft Wayne. By United Prrtt FT. WAYNE. Ind., Oct. 3.—Registration of delegates, officers' reports and appointment of committees today opened the annual three-day convention of the Municipal League of Indiana here. After a welcoming address by Mayor William J. Hosey, Ft. Wayne, and response by Mayor John W. McCarthy, Washington, reports were read by Silk Spurgeon, Kokomo, secretary, and Mayor Karl Volland, Columbus. treasurer. BREEDERS’ SALE IS SET Ninety Guernseys to Be Auctioned at Fairground Starting Tuesday. The Indiana and Illinois Guernsey Breeders’ Association will hold its third annual state consignment sale of registered Guernsey cattle a’ the Indiana state fairground, begimnng at 10 Tuesday morning. Included in the sale will be ninety registered Guernseys, about thirty more than usual at the annual sales. All cattle have been tested, it was announced.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1934

Eight-year-old Martin Ettlinger of Austin, Tex., is a remarkable mental prodigy to the world at large, but to his r/oif, Fewlon Socrates, shown here with jjNj|y him. Marlin s just a swell palAnd that ... Ajf *1 football shows that Martin s interests aren't all academic. injKiglg, IP ! ' * Hu 'w agggtfMp fj r "N * Nnik sHEmU, .

day, he shouted, “Oh, look, it almost capsized.” tOOO THEN there w’as the time when one of his teachers gave problems for a two-w’eek period. Martin misunderstood the lesson to be a daily one. After class he approaohed the teacher and asked, "Don’t you think you gave us an extraordinary assignment?” With the use of a scientific eye measuring machine at his high school, Martin’s reading rate was recorded as an average speed of 1600 words a minute —a fraction over 26 words a second! In a burst of speed, Martin once rated 2100 words a minute. “The Talisman,” a book requiring the average high school student two weeks to read, was read by Martin in a little more than three hours. And, as always, the book report was perfect. The eye-measuring machine re-

NEW MISSIONARIES NAMED BY SOCIETY Physician and Wife Sent to Belgian Congo. The United Christian Missionary Society, missions group of the Disciples of Christ, who have their national headquarters here, today announced the dispatch of two new missionaries to the foreign field and the return to their posts in other lands of twenty missionaries now on furlough. The new missionaries are Dr. Joseph A. Fowler, physician, and his wife, both southerners. Reduced budgets have curtailed missionary work during recent years and no new foreign missionaries had been appointed in the last twenty months. The Fowlers will be sent to the Belgian Congo. Three of the twenty on furlough have been living in Indianapolis during the last year. The three, all of whom will sail from New York for India, in mid December, are Mr. and Mrs. Virgil E. Havens and Mrs. W. B. Alexander. Mr. Havens attended local schools and was graduate from Butler university. STUNT FLIER INJURED Plane Noses Over and Crashes During Takeoff. By United Prens SANTA MONICA. Cal., Oct. 3. James E. Granger, well-known stunt flier, was reported in serious condition today from injuries suffered when his low-wing monoplane nosed over and crashed during an attempted takeoff.

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veals a very interesting fact about Martin’s reading. The machine shows that when Martin finishes one line, his eyes, returning to the left, take in the second line, though reading backwards, and he is then ready for the third line! As an out-of-school enjoyment, Martin reads the tales of the Old Testament in Hebrew. He also writes and speaks Hebrew. • 000 MARTIN follows closely all progress in aviation because his present ambition demands that he become an aviator. Another outside academic interest is chemistry. Dr. Ettlinger was greatly surprised to hear his young son ask him whether he knew the contact process for the production of sulphuric acid. Dr. Ettlinger did not know. Then Martin wrote down the

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP 000 000 By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—A new Roosevelt plan for putting jobless men and women to work is being formulated, it W’as indicated here today, though no details have been divulged. Such action was foreshadowed in the President’s Sunday night address when he declared that he “will not accept as a necessary condition of our future a permanent army of unemployed.” The President gave no hint as to what he has In mind. If any members of his official family know they are not telling. Relief Administrator Hopkins denies that plans are under way for reviving CWA.

But the belief grew today that when the President said “we will arrange our national economy to end our present unemployment as soon as w r e can” he had in mind action by the government as well as possible new demands upon industry. A survey of the problem made several months ago by Isador Lubin, United States commissioner of labor statistics, was being studied with new interest today as a result of the Sunday night speech. Some of the suggestions he made then have already been followed out. a a a LUBIN calculated that factories making consumers goods—clothing, food products, shoes and tobacco—now employ only 400,000 less persons than they did in 1929. Durable goods industries—those producing materials that are used in the making of other things—are employing a million and a half less than they did in 1929. Mining, railroads and all service industries are two millions below the 1929 level. Therefore, if these groups should employ as many people as they did in 1929 they would take care of only 4,000,000 altogether. Most of the remaining unem-

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entire procedure, all in equations. Curious, Dr. Ettlinger checked with a chemistry text and found the boy's work correct in every way. Every phenomenon has its explanation and Martin’s record is no exception. Mrs. Ettlinger led her high school class at Ft. Worth. Tex., entered the University of Texas at the age of 16, and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with forty-five free As and sixteen Bs. Dr. Ettlinger is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington university in St. Louis. Later he won his master’s and PhD. degrees from Harvard. Austin school officials suggested that the child prodigy be slowed up in his swift education flight. For at the present rate, Martin will be ready for college entrance examinations at 10. Others predict that he will be a Ph.D. before he’s wearing long pants!

ployed, Lubin reported, formerly worked in building construction, on the farms and in professional and domestic service. He suggested that “a definite stimulus to construction from the federal government” and “a marked expansion in the export of our farm products” might help, and the administration is attempting to follow his first suggestion through the Federal Housing Administration, and his second one through making reciprocal trade agreements. a a a T ÜBIN concluded: “Assuming that American industry as a whole will revive to the point where it .employs as large a number as in 1929 —and I see no reason to believe that industry can not do that—provision will still have to be made in the field of social services for the employment of more than 2.000,000 additional workers. A beginning has been made in this direction through the civilian conservation corps. “If we modernize our educational system to meet the needs of our new society; if we create recreational facilities adequate to our requirements, and if we foster a public health system which will maintain the American people in a condition in keeping with modem scientific knowledge, we shall be able to find a way to reabsorb those who, during this generation, can not find employment in private industry.” STATE ROAD BOARD MAY BAN BILLBOARDS Commission Has Authority to Bar Signs, Lutz Rules. The state highway commission has the authority to prevent placing of outdoor advertising signs on state road rights of way, declares an opinion given James D. Adams, highway commission chairman, by Philip Lutz Jr., attorney-general. Mr. Adams informed Mr. Lutz that an Elizabeth (N. J.) company is erecting outdoor advertising signs over the commission’s objection. The attorney-general ruled the commission not only may order the signs removed, but may have the removal done at the advertising company’s expense, if the request is not complied with within a reasonable time. DIONNE QUINTUPLETS • SHOW GAINS IN WEIGHT Yvonne Is Heaviest at Nine Pounds and Four Ounces. By United Pre CALLANDER, Ont., Oct. 3. Weights of the Dionne quintuplets, all gains, today were as follows: Yvonne —Nine pounds, four ounces. Annette—Eight pounds, thirteen and three-quarter ounces. Cecile—Eight pounds, two ounces. Emilie—Six pounds, eight ounces. Marie—Six pounds, six ounces.

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Fair Enough WESIBROOK PEGLER

DETROIT, Oct. 3 Mickey Cochrane, a collegetaught young man from New England, is a hero in Detroit at this writing. Hero is a word which is often used without real justification, but in the present case it is appropriate. Cochrane has won the American League baseball pennant and brought the world series back to Detroit after twenty-five years. This has had a very good effect on the morale of the city and on several lines of business. It may be hard to believe that such an event as the

winning of the pennant could lift the spirits of a big. sophisticated city which has suffered a severe beating for several years, but this effect is quite plain to any one on the ground. Pennants and world series shows are routine in New York, Washington, St. Louis and Chicago and many times in recent years the people have neglected to buy up all the seats. But in Detroit just now it is as if the city, itself, had achieved some glorious success. • Os course, the newspapers are crowded with world series copy, including the traditional, fakerv com-

mitted under the names of various illiterates, and the merchants, catching the spirit of the thing, have wrought the world series into their ads. That always happens except in New York the business man buying space in the papers usually remembers that baseball is a business, too, and gets enough free advertising without any contribution from him. Detroit is different from any other world series city of recent years in the respect that some very sensible people actually feel the thrill which ordinarily is only so much confetti and noise. 000 It Pays to Win a Pennant THE members of the Detroit ball club, none of whom live in Detroit, have been treated as though they had brought back prosperity. Although Detroit's retail merchants have gone through very bad times what with the great bank failures and the stagnation of the automobile industry, many of them went into their stock to give individual presents of considerable value to each member of the team. The ball players received "wrist watches, rings and suits for all hands ’round and I believe they were given, hats, also, and scattered issues of socks, shirts and all such. Mickey Cochrane got an electric refrigerator as big as a two-car garage and an expensive radio, and Schoolboy Rowe, the star pitcher, who is aiming to get married after the series, will count among his loot a standard three-room outfit of furniture donated by an emotional storekeeper. Mr. Cochrane Monday night was invited to a dinner in his honor at the Detroit Athletic Club. During the evening they made him an honorary member, which was tapping him for bones in Detroit. He was called on to make a speech and it became apparent that he has taken the responsibilities of his position very seriously. The college athlete and professional ballplayer whose previous orations had been nothing more than the familiar, stammering, "Well, fellas, I certainly hope you are certainly going to turn out and cheer the team to victory,” had been taking lessons. 0 0 0 It's All Swell Bjjjt the Fakery MICKEY was well able to represent the Detroit baseball firm among the leading business executives of the city and toss off a neat line of remarks with dignity and humor. After Mr. Cochrane sat down, Roy Chapin, the head of Hudson Motors, who was a member of Mr. Hoover’s government, and Edsel Ford, who also sells an occasional automobile, both said the people and the city had suddenly forgotten woe and come up with a great, joyous lift. The Chapins and the Edsel Fords w’ere among the members who came to honor Mickey, Even old Henry Ford, himself, always more or less aloof from the frivolities of the people, has recognized the world series. He paid SIOO,OOO into the players’ pool for the radio rights to the ball games, the first man ever to buy them. The only false note in a strong paean has been the trash which some of the newspapers have been printing under the names of notorious ignoramuses. Freedom of the press implies no obligation of honesty in the press at w’orld series time. The fakery never was quite as raw and degrading as it has been this year. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health-

■BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

IT is hard to get sympathy for painful feet, but there is no form of pain more disturbing. Every one now knows the story of the man who wore tight shoes because his feet felt so good when he took the • shoes off. ( A pain in the foot may incapacitate you not only i for work, but for play. Napoleon said that an army marches on its stomach. We realize, however, that it marches also on its feet and that an army with womout feet, no matter how well fed, can not proceed farther. Sometimes a pain in the foot is due to an actual change in the tissues, that can be found by the X-ray. For example, spurs of bone will grow and irritate soft tissues with which they are in contact. Sometimes there are inflammations or infection* under the membrane which covers the bone. These, when detected, may be controlled and the serious pain relieved. a a a nnHE type of infection called osteomyelitis may affect not only the long bones of the body, but also the small bones of the feet. When it occurs in such places it may go undetected for some time, and cause great damage before being properly treated. After the cause of a pain in the foot Is discovered, there are many common methods of treatment which are useful. Support may be provided by strapping with adhesive tape or with the new types of bandages. Alternate bathing in hot and cold water is stimulating. Application of heat helps to relax the tissues and to bring enough blood supply to them to take care of their nutrition and of removal of infection. Once the physician has discovered the mechanism that produces the pain and has controlled the factors that are controllable, a suitable amount of rest and the wearing of shoes which support the foot at its weak points will, in most instances, relieve the patient of further difficulty. a a a THE care of painful feet involves, however, not only the minor understanding by the physician to medical complaints, but also the understanding of the mechanics of the foot, both at rest and in motion. In certain cases, however, it may be necessary by surgical means to remove spurs of bone to relieve collections of pus or infectious material between the bones and the soft tissues, or to open up and clean out areas of destruction within the bones. * Whenever there is strain on any ligaments at the points of attachment to the bone, swelling occurs. With this swelling there is tenderness and pain. In certain forms of flatfoot this pain is typical. Some Cises may be relieved by such measures as rest, bathing the feet in hot water and massage, but in the majority of cases it will also be necessary to provide supports to relieve the affected area. I Questions and Answers Q —Are all bank deporits taxable under the federal Income tax laws? A—Only the income from money in banks is taxaable.

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