Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 127, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1934 — Page 7

OCT. 6, 1934-

It Seems to Me Hf.VfOOil BROUN 'T'HIS Is the best of all world series because it has set the sea! of greatness and authenticity upon the name and fame of Ring Lardner. When the Tigers and the Cardinals met in the first game, or to be more precise "clashed in the initial encounter,*’ I had a somewhat personal sorrow. “What a pity," I thought to myself, "that Ring is dead. Just think of the wonders he could work with Dizzy Dean and Daffy Dean and Schoolboy Rowe and Ducky Wucky Medw'ick.” And I expressed to Edward Angley my feeling that destiny had blundered badly in not arranging to have Ring in the press box as the Deans moved into the box score. “But don't you see.’’ explained Angley. "that Lardner invented Dizzy Dean. Here is Elmer the Great come to life.

Could any author ask for more?” No author could ask for more. It is the supreme triumph to build out of your own head some clearly defined character and then to find the man not only walking the earth but bestriding the headlines. In college I was told that that after Goethe wTote "The Sorrows of Wert her” suicide became popular in Germany and young men milled about killing themselves all over the place. Naturally, Goethe must have felt very' much complimented. These young men had read his book and taken it to heart. But imitation is not the sincerest form

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of flattery'. I am not thinking of a mere slavish copying of accepted models. After all, millions of girls in America once aped the curls of Mary Pickford and Miss Pickford, while a decidedly adequate actress, never has been quite a genius. The tribute now being paid to Ring Lardner I would rate as greater than that accorded to either Mary or Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. nun Reserved for the Truly Creative X ARDNER never saw Dizzy Dean and the ace righthander of the Cardinals in all probability never read a line of the American author. Ring took a phrase here and there from ball players with whom he was associated, gave a little closer study to big Ed Walsh, the spitball king of the White Sox, and then mixed his notes with that prophetic thing called inspiration. And then he set upon the printed page a man called Elmer. I have talked endlessly with baseball writers, who ought to know about the works of Ring. Naturally they all were admirers. But there were certain reservations. "It's swell stuff." was the general verdict, "but of course it's a little exaggerated. Modem baseball isn't like that. There actually couldn’t be such a mug as Elmer.” These reports were accurate enough. When Lardner limned his famous character no such person existed. The dust was there and the moisture for the making. But there was need for the breath of life. It has been given to man to make images in the same manner in which he himself was fashioned. Os course, this is not within the power of every man. The miracle is reserved only for the truly creative artist. And that is a phrase which ought to be used sparingly. nun Ring Knew Him Way Rack H hen IT is a good trick when a writer can go out and set down with accuracy some living being whom he has observed with fidelity. He holds the mirror up to nature. But that is not the furthest reach of literature. There are a few' who venture forth and say with divine arrogance. "I see it this way. Let nature catch up with my conception." And it is undeniable that life is a copycat and can be bullied into following the master artist who bids it come to heel. Nor do I think that this extraordinary feat is wholly reserved for the writers of fiction. Pie in the sky w-ell may become tomorrow's earthly manna. I think specifically of Edward Bellamy, long labelled in the American mind as a mere Utopian. And yet some part of lvis dream has been made good and more will follow. But I have no desire to get into the deeper w r aters. The scope of Lardner’s work probably was too limited to make him a likely candidate for enduring fame. Still, posterity has cashed in on longer shots. However, for the moment I will confine myself to the fact that he has scored a startling triumph this side of the days which are without end. Before' there was a Dizzy Dean, Ring knew him from head to pitching cleat. And when the lank right-hander pulls the string and lets a fast one go I seem to hear applause from high Olympus. And as the strikes chug by there is one who leans down from the golden bar of heaven and exclaims by every right in the universe, “’Ata workin’, Dizzy!" (Copyright. 1934. bv The Times)

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

NORBIDE or synthetic carbon boride, the new abrasive which is exceeded in hardness only by the diamond, is expected to find immediate use for the nozzles of sandblasting machinery. Sand blasting or pressure blasting consists of blowing a stream of sand or other abrasive material under pressure against stone or metallic surfaces. It is used for cleaning of public buildings, the preparation of metal surfaces of automobiles before painting, the engraving of marble monuments and other important processes. One difficulty, however, has been that the metal nozzles through which the abrasive is blown, is itself worn down by the blast. When very hard abrasives are used, the metal nozzle is sometimes worn out in less than thirty minutes. The Norris Company, Worcester, Mass., who announced the discovery of norbide a few days ago, now announces that it is able to mold norbide into any desired shape and that molded nozzles can be made from it. These nozzles, they say, will last the life of a sand-blast machine. It is also announced that norbide will find many uses where to date only diamonds could be used. a a a THE development of norbide puts the abrasive manufacturers ahead for the present in the race between steel makers, cutting toolmakers, and abrasive makers. It resembles the race that goes on between armaent makers and munitions makers. The armament makers undertake to create an armor plate which no existing shell can pierce. Then the munitions makers proceed to develop a projectile which will go through it. This requires the making of a better armor plate which in its turn calls for a more powerful projectile. And so it goes. In the industrial world, the demand for harder and harder steel alloys has created a demand for still harder materials which will act as cutters, drills, and the like. A hard steel can not be used in dudustry unless there are tools which will shape and fashion It for use. But even the production of these tools is not enough. For tools get dull with use. The problem of sharpening these tougher and harder tools demands harder grinding wheels and sharpening stones. In recent years, industry' has made increasing use of cutting tools made from cemented tungsten carbides. To date, it has been difficult to find an abrasive which will work these tools effectively. Norbide is said to cut them with ease. a a a IT is interesting to note that these very hard substances. silicon carbide, tungsten carbide and boron carbide, are all compounds of carbon. The diamond, hardest of all known substances, Is pure carbon. And yet carbon can take on many other forms. Graphite, used as a lubricant is another form of carbon. Carbon enters into thousands of compounds, many of which are gases. One series of carbon compounds, the so-called carbohydrates, include the sugars and starches Norbide takes the form of jet black crystals. It is manufactured in the electric furnace at the Niagara Palis plant of the Norris Company. Boron in the form of boric acid brought from Searle* lake, California, and carbon in the form of coke, are used.

“AMERICAN TRAGEDIES” NOT NEW

Dreiser’s Novel Based on 111-Fated Love Stoiy of 1906

WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Oct. 6. —The gripping drama that is swiftly being written here, chapter by chapter, in the murder trial of Robert Edwards, is not the first real-life "American Tragedy.” Because of its many parallels to the soul-searching story by Theodore Dreiser, it constantly is being identified with the novel. However, that novel was based on an actual case which occurred nearly three decades ago, and through w'hich ran even more threads of sinister similarity to the desperate dilemma of dapper young Edwards. And prior to that, by more than half a century, an almost identical mystery inspired the pen of Edgar Allan Poe! Robert Edwards is accused of the slaying of Freda McKechnie, a cast-off sweetheart who was expecting his child. The prosecution has said that he had tired of Freda and wanted to marry a college girl, Margaret Crain. But Freda did not know of this, and was happy because she had been promised marriage. She and Robert made a rendezvous at Harvey's lake and went swimming in the rain. But Robert, it is charged, went into the water with a blackjack concealed in his hand, and struck the girl and held her under until she was dead. nun Twenty-eight years ago, such a scene w r as being enacted. From the front pages of newspapers throughout the nation, attention w r as centered on the murder trial of Chester Gillette. Like Robert Edwards, he was young and handsome. Gillette had been employed as a foreman in the collar factory of a wealthy relative in Cortland, N. Y. He had glanced more than, once at a pretty girl in his department, Grace Brown, whom w’hom everybody called “Billy.” One day he found and returned to her a little opal ring she had worn. So they talked and became friends, then lovers. After a time he discovered that the name of Gillette was sesame to the better homes of the town of Cortland. He began to meet quite a different class of girls. He became ashamed of his infatuation for "Billy" Brown, the factory mand, especially since he had won, or thought he had won, the love of a cultured girl whose parents were well-to-do. n n n THEN “Billy" came to him in shame and said she was to be a mother. That was very incon-

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

WASHINGTON, Oct, 6.—Although barely three months in operation, the pulmotor already is being rushed to the succor of dapper Jim Moffett’s federal housing administration. That is the real explanation of what is behind the mortgagepriming plan just announced by RFC Chairman Jesse Jones. Under this program, the RFC offers to invest in trust companies engaged in the mortgage loan business by buying their preferred stock and capital

ABANDONMENT OF BUS ROUTE ASKED Civic Club Advocates End of South Side Line. Abandonment of the Union and Minnesota streets routes for buses of the Indianapolis Street Railways is advocated in petitions which will be circuated by the South Meridian Civic Club, it was deeded last night at a meeting at 1317 South Meridian street. Chief objection to the bus routes was the noise created. Members who will have charge of circulating the petitions are James Hagerty, Philip Seyfred. Guy R. Dearth. Philip Kraft. John Winters and Raymond Messersmith. The club also went on record as opposed to the use of funds derived from the gasoline tax to deepen Fal creek channel. A resolution opposing consolidation of railroad freight depots here will be sent to Indiana members of congress. It states that such consolidation would eliminate terminals of the Monon. Baltimore X Ohio, Illinois Central and Nickel Plate railroads in Indianapois, throw’ many railroad empoyes out of work and cause serious losses in tax revenue.

SCIENCE REJOICES AS TINY GOLD NUGGET IS RECLAIMED FROM SEA

By l nitrd Press NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—Science at last has tapped the $3,000,000,000.000.000 (three quadrillion) treasure in pure gold, not to mention untold wealth in silver, radium platinum and other precious metals known to exist in the waters of the seven seas. Announcement that a nugget, part gold and part silver, no bigger than the head of a pin, had been extracted from seawater was made before the local section of the American Chemical Society by Willard H. Dow of the Ethyl-Dow Chemical Company. Mr. Dow pointed out that the cost of extracting the treasure still was too prohibitive to be be feasible commercially. He said it cost about ten times the present market price of gold. PRISONER ASKS EXTRA DAY ADDED TO TERM Convict Prefers Federal Penitentiary to County Jail By United Press SUNBURY, Pa.. Oct. 6.—Rudolf Buhier, inmate at Northeastern penitentiary, will spend an extra day in prison at his own request. Buhler s original sentence was for one year in a county jail. He asked for the extra day in order that his sentence would commit him to the federal penitentiary instead.

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The dramatic story of Robert Edwards’ courtship of Freda McKechnie and the discovery that he loved another girl was told at his trial on a murder charge in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., by Freda’s mother, Mrs. George McKechnie, shown above conferring with Assistant District Attorney J. H. Flannery.

venient for Chester Gillette, but finally he promised her marriage and a trip in the Adirondack mountains. "Billy” write ecstatically that she might die with joy on seeing him again, she said, too, that she had made a wedding dress—a blue one. They met and began a trip which took them to South Bay on Big Moose lake. They went out in a boat that afternoon. He put in a tennis racquet and some of his clothes in a suitcase. Next day they found the boat overturned and the girl’s body in the lake, and two days later Gillette was arrested at another resort. At his trial for murder it was contended that he must have struck her with the tennis racquet, thrown her into the water, and struck her with an oar when she came to the surface. He said

notes—provided they will lend the money to finance new building construction. Jesse was careful to explain that the plau is merely to “complement” the activities of the FHA. “Rescue” is the proper word. The plain fact of the matter is that the FHA’s efforts to stimulate construction are encountering extremely rough going, and the administration, worried about the paucity of results, is trying to grease the ways. This fact is not known, even by most people within the administration. And the reason for their ignorance lies in the flood of propaganda which has poured out upon the public by a galaxy of “experts” In this the housing administrator is unexcelled. “We have some really hot-shot publicity men,” explained one of his assistant supervisors. “They have good newspaper contacts and get our stuff into print without it appearing that we 1 are behind it. And we have some good real estate men who know their business.” a a a THE stampede of real estate men, architects, engineers, lawyers, college professors, clerks and typists began deluging the the FHA to the tune of a total of 30,000 from the first day of its birth. Os these 20.000 cleared through Emil Hurja and the Democratic national committee—w’hich may be one reason why Jimmy Moffett has had such difficult sledding. No outfit of the entire New Deal has been more chaotic in handling its personnel. Appointments are made for thirty to sixty-day periods. There is constant hiring and firing. Those who do get in have to put on full political pressure—a congressman, a senator or at least a national committeeman. Moffett, himself, is known in Democratic circles as a “thoroughly good egg.” He lives on a yacht in the Potomac, has one of the best cooks in the capital, is always at home to friends, is a charming, likeable host. Even' one loves Jimmy. Unfortunately, however, this does not make him a good housing administrator. Asa high-up executive of Standard Oil. Jimmy came to the capitaal with a reputation as a big business man. But his critics assert that Jimmy's chief claim to that reputation lay in the fact that he had inherited his father’s large block of Standard Oil stock. (CoDvrieht. 1934. bv TTnited Feature Svndicate. Inc < 'GEM SALESMAN’ HELD Self-Styled Bolshevik Nabbed in , St. Louis. By United Press ST. LOUIS. Oct. 6 —Morris Glener. 34. stands charged with representing himself as a Bolshevik escaped from Russia, selling cut glass to a woman here after declaring they were a part of the “crown jewel collectionGlener described himself as a “salesman.”

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(just as Robert Edwards is alleged to have said to police) that the girl fell overboard and hurt her head on the side of the boat. A jury required five hours to find him guilty. It is said that Charles Evans Hughes, then New York’s Governor, considered a commutation of sentence because most of the evidence was circumstantial. But Chester Gillette went to the electric chair, and later unofficial word came from his spiritual advisers in Auburn prison that "no legal mistake was made.” nun NEARLY twenty years after the closing of that case, Theodore Dreiser wrote his famed "American Tragedy.” Actually, though, it seems that the first sordid pattern for his novel was partly traced in the unsolved

KISER TRIAL TO STARTOCT. 15 Second Official of Defunct Bank to Answer Charge of Embezzlement. The second trial of embezzlement charges growing out of the failure of the Meyer-Kiser bank, that of Julian J. Kiser, has been set for Oct. 15, it was announced today by, Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker. Mr. Kiser was vice-president of the bank. Two other officers, Sol S. Meyer ants Ferdinand S. Meyer also are awaiting trial. Late yesterday, Melville-S. Cohn, convicted vice-president of the defunct bank, was released on $5,000 bond to await determination of his appeal. He had been sentenced earlier in the day to serve two to fourteen years in Indiana state prison, had been fined SI,OOO and disfranchised for two years. HUMAN HAND IN BAY PROVES RUBBER GLOVE Frightened Boatman Brings Police on Wild Goose Chase. By United Press QUINCY, Mass., Oct. 6.—John McGrath was rowing peacefully on Quincy bay when he saw what he thought was a human hand protruding from the water. Frightened, he hurried ashore and telephoned police headquarters. Seven policemen responded and circled the bay as a crowd gathered. They finally pulled in the human hand. It was a white rubber glove.

SIDE GLANCES

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Flesh-and-blood characters in “An American Tragedy” of 1906 were Grace Brown (upper left), the factory girl whose murder in the calm waters of Big Moose lake (below) was fastened on Chester Gillette (upper right), father of her unborn child.

mystery of the murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers, in 1842. She was a New York girl, and a beauty, and she sold cigars in a downtown shop. Tongues wagged about her friendly manner with gentlemen of the town. Two women said they believed she was in trouble. Anyway, Mary Rogers left one Sunday morning, saying she’d spend the day with an aunt over on the Jersey shore. Her body was found in the river three days later, the face suffused with blood, the throat marked by strong hands. A middle-aged, welathy admirer named Crommelin incurred suspicion, but was cleared. A man named Payne, her acknowledged fiance, diverted at-

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP 00 000 By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—The new NRA's first major reform its proposal that workers shall be guaranteed minimum wages on an annual rather than an hourly or weekly basis—met with approval from employers as well as workers today. But apparently the two groups favor the plan for different reasons. Labor sees in it what NRA sees—an increase in the total annual income of most workers and therefore an increase in total purchasing power. Employers, if their views are reflected accurately in business journals, see an opportunity to reduce hourly wage rates, thus reducing the

cost of each day’s production. They argue that lower costs and lower prices will mean greater volume of production and presumably greater profits. President Roosevelt gave the first hint that wage adjustments on an annual basis were being considered in his Sunday night speech to the country. He followed this by pointing out at his press confeernce that a man earning $lO a day sometimes earns as little as $650 in a year, because of enforced idleness. a a a 'TpHE same day the new Indus- -*■ trial Recovery Board disclosed that it will ask all industries to write into their codes provisions guaranteeing a minimum annual income to lowest paid workers. Average yearly earnings in 1933 were as low as SSOO in some industries, according to figures compiled by the census bureau in its biennial census of manufactures. The bureau lumps all workers in an industry together and gives the total number and the total amount earned. Averages secured from these figures do not differentiate between skilled and unskilled w'orkem, between youths and adults, or between men and women. In each industry the aver-

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tention for a while by committing suicide over her grave. There was a welter of conflicting evidence and opinion. Some of her clothing was found on shore. There were some who had seen a man and a girl in a boat. There was talk of an affair with a naval officer, who didn’t want to marry her. The case was never cleared, but Edgar Allan Poe, who himself had bought cigars from Mary, made a story of it. In a masterly reconstruction in w'hich all the evidence was fitted together, he titled his tale "The Mystery of Marie Roget.” Had it occurred to him. he might have called it "Early American Tragedy.”

age arrived at is higher than the annual income of the poorest paid workers. Makers of men’s shirts and work clothing averaged SSOO a year in 1933. Makers of clay products averaged $600; of pottery $760; of cigarets, $622. Automobile workers averaged $1,060, and makers of automobile bodies and parts, $1,020. Men making engines, machine tools, tires and inner tubes and tin ware, where most of the work is skilled, averaged around SI,OOO. Brookings Institution estimated in a recent study that even in 1929 one family in every five had less than SI,OOO a year to live on; that two in five had less than sl,500, and that nearly threefourths of all the families in the country had less than $2,500 a year. a a a THE American Federation of Labor charges in its annual report to the San Francisio convention that minimum wages fixed by NRA codes are “not high enough to make possible an improved standard of living or to create consumer demand for the products of industry.” Higher paid workers have actually suffered wage decreases as a result of NRA codes, the federation charges, and cites the electrical industry where in one plant average weekly wages of $32 and $35 were reduced to S2O and $22 by adoption of a code. While the President discussed annual wage guarantees only for lowest paid workers, officials of the new NRA are equally interested in the plight of skilled workers. George F. Brady, assistant administrative officer, estimates that skilled workers should receive from three to five times whatever minima are fixed in each industry. GRAMMATICAL ERRORS NOW POLITE MISTAKES Common Usage Brings Change, University Says. Bv United Prett ST. LOUIS, Oct. 6. —Grammatical errors, according to an adult education bulletin published by Washington university, have come into such common usage that they even can be termed “polite mistakes.” The bulletin listed common errors as “The reason is because,” “It is me,” “Who did you say?” “Thoa? kind” and “Due largely to.” BUMPS HERALD FLOOD Floating Tubs Inform Couple Town Is Washed Oat. Bv United Press HINSDALE. Mass., Oct. 6.—Mr. and Mrs. William O’Donnell heard a mysterious knocking on the kitchen floor. They discovered later that the bumping noise was the washtuhs floating in the cellar. The town was washed out and the cellar was lull of water. *" : / N

Fair Enough wnooH ST. LOUIS. Oct. 6—l hope I am not exaggerating a little harmless and familiar foolishness into an issue, but it seems to me that the cheap swindle which a considerable number of the newspapers perpetrate on the citizens every year at world series time is just as low and dishonest in principle as any other fraud. This refers to the practice of bribing a lot of notorious illiterates who could not spell cat without using a “k” to permit the use of their names over signed articles which they can not even read.

much less write. Admittedly, anybody who is stupid enough to believe that such journalistic vermin could write sufficiently well to express themselves in professional company deserves no consideration. I am not thinking of the newspaper profession or business or whatever they decided to call it last winter when the code was up. This kind of thing is bad for the profession or business because it is, in round numbers, a crooked way of doing. Any calling ■which decides that it can be crooked in some things is bound to have a hard time drawing the line. Anybody or any call-

ing claiming the right to be crooked in certain selected matters is paraphrasing the song in which the husband wrote to his absent wife, "I have been, to all intents and purposes, true to you. my dear, in a manner of speaking.” I have done some ghosting, too. For two years I was the ghost of Babe Ruth, and. another time, on a special occasion. I was the ghost of a hell-fire preacher from Ft. Worth, who came to New York to clean up Broadway. He was a worse faker than the Babe when you consider that he was putting himself away, as the saying goes, for a vicar of God on earth and a critic of the morals of other people. But my own experience was nothing. nan It’s Deliberate Lying FRANK MENKE testified in the United States district court in New York one afternoon when Jack Kearns was suing Jack Dempsey that he had, at one time, been ghost for nineteen celebrities simultaneously. Dempsey, himself, testified that he often did not even bother to read, much less write or provide the material for the essays by Menke which were attributed to him. This kind of thing is no secret in the newspaper business nor any secret to the intelligent minority of the public. But I make the point that it has persisted in spite of ridicule, scolding and every other kind of opposition witH the single exception of compulsion. It is jovially regarded as a little sin even by publishers who would not permit such matter to dirty up the professional quality of their columns. Force means censorship but I much doubt that the freedom of the press is intended to be a license to carry on a defiant and leering fraud. If it is all right to fake in this respect then nobody has any authority to say at which point fakery ceases to be harmless fun and becomes a serious matter. If it is not all right, it ought to be censored out. The simple test is whether the alleged author in question actually did write the piece which he purports to have written for the paper. If he didn’t write it, then the by-line which says that he did is a deliberate lie and the paper which carries the story is guilty of a misrepresentation no less dirty than that of a swindler who circulates a false prospectus to sell stock. It might be more serious because if the papers claim the privilege of a free press for the purpose of promoting such fakes the time may come when a Huey Long can go before the people to denounce a deliberately lying press and carry his point. He would have no trouble at all as to many newspapers in world series time. n n n Blame It on the Publisher NEWSPAPER people despise this vice, even though they work at it. The ball players and other extraneous, vicarious journalists who litter the columns at various times of the year, have contempt for the papers which hire them. They get from SIOO to SSOO for an occasion. It is easy money and the disgrace is not on them or their business. The ghost writer is an eight-hour man. He tends his typewriter as a mill hand tends his loom. The mjll hand can’t refuse to weave a certain pattern and his job. The blame belongs to the publisher who buys such material and prints it. knowing it to be fraudulent and false with the object of out-selling the rival publisher in circulation and out-drawing him in the advertising department. Some times the honest rival is compelled to buy and print these fakes in self-defense though they violate his principles. Is this too solemn for the subject matter? If so, maybe I might excuse it on the ground that I have never seen such degrading and humiliating fakery in any newspaper as that which has appeared in Detroit on the occasion of this world series. This is the occasion of anew low. (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Ino.)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN”

ALTHOUGH the specific cause of the type of rheumatism that attacks children is not known, physicians have long been convinced that infected tonsils have much to do with it. The basis for this belief is such discovery as the fact that the death rate in children suffering from rheumatism is nearly 50 per cent less where the tonsils have been removed at the time of the first attack. Furthermore, 59 per cent-of the rheumatic children had suffered from tonsilitis or sore throat previous to their first attacks of the rheumatic condition. Recurrent attacks, however, were not less frequent in those children who had had their tonsils removed. a a a SOME of the most common signs of rheumatism in children are extreme pallor, susceptibility to fatigue, loss of appetite, nose bleed and vague pains throughout the body. This does not mean that every child who has one of these symptoms is rheumatic, but it does mean that these symptoms are suspicious and should bring about a study of the child to determine their cause. The onset of rheumatic disease is insidious. It begins with the minor symptoms that have been mentioned, but comes eventually to the serious inflammation of the joints and of the heart, that sometimes results fatally. The worst result of rheumatic inflammation in a child is a complete involvement of the heart, described by doctors as pancarditis, because it affect* the whole heart. a a a RHEUMATISM in a child is usually accompanied also by fever and by painful joints. Some of the cases have the type of twitching known as St. Vitus’ dance, or chorea. The pains that used to be called growing paim frequently represent an inflammation of the muscles, so that a better name for the condition is muscular rheumatism. Rheumatic fever rarely occurs in very young children, but is fairly frequent in the period between 5 and 15 years of age. The most common ages are 7 for boys and 10 for girls. As an example of the fatal character of this condition, one specialist reports the records of 564 children who were watched over a period of ten years. The first three years after the initial attack is th period of greatest hazard for rheumatic children. In this period 49 per cent of the children had one or more of the symptoms, and by the end of ten years 8.2 per cent had died.

Questions‘and Answers

Q— What organization is represented by the initials L O. O. F.? A—lndependent Order of Odd Fellows. Q—What does camouflage mean? A—lt la a French word aad means disguising of

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