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It Seems to Me HEM BROUN JOSEF V. STALIN and H. G. Wells recently engaged in the great American indoor pastime of discussing the present and the future of the Roosevelt administration. It hardly can ’ e startling news that the secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union does not believe that the New Deal is workable. But to me it was a little surprising to find the revolutionary leader speaking with such cool detachment and Judicial calm concerning the American experiment. 3talin's method of approach and his general manner in dealing with the subject suggested the sort of article which Walter Lippmann will write on the afternoon he decides to go completely proletarian. The Russian leader managed to express the

sharpest difference of opinion without the slighte.trace of rancor "Opinion” is, perhaps, too slight a word. Josef Stalin was not arguing with H. G. Wells—he was telling him. I .enture to say that not since Mr. Wells worked for Herbert Bayard Swope under the gold dome of the old world has he met any man who brushed aside his views as unceremoniously as did Secretary SttUin. And yet the Russian was graceful and courteous through it all. In one text I find him quoted as speaking of President Roosfivelt’s

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“initiative, courage and decisiveness.” In the longer report carried by the Daily Worker, the compliment concerns only "energy and ability." But in any case. Josef Stalin discussed the policies of the President of the United States without once employing any of the harsh phrases which are used habitually by Wall Street brokers and Union Square orators in dealing with the same subject. a a a He Takes Middle View IT is the contention of many of our business men and some of our publishers that Franklin D. Roosevelt is a revolutionary who is trying to sneak socialism over on an unwary democracy. Stalin does not agree. But again he seems to give small credence to the assertion of American radicals that Mr. Roosevelt is the favorite son of big business whose intention it Is to drive the workers deeper into the mire and increase the profits of the rich. Josef Stalin, the leader of the Communist party, takes a middle view'. According to the text in The Worker, Stalin replied to the suggestion of the possibility of "step by step” socialism by saying: “But what will this socialism mean? At best some restraint for the most unrestrained individual representatives of capitalist profit, some increase in the regulating principle in national economy. All this is good. But as soon as Mr. Roosevelt or some other captain in the modern bourgeois world wants to undertake anything serious against the foundations of capitalism he inevitably will meet with complete failure. For Mr. Roosevelt doesn’t own the banks, industry, the big enterprises, the big farms. All this is private property. Railroads and shipping are all in the hands of private owners. And finally the army of skilled labor, engineers, technicians, also are not with Mr. Roosevelt but with private employers and working for them.” Stalm did not commit himself to a belief that President Rooseve't is trying to bring about any radical modification of the present economic system. However, he admitted the possibility. What he said precisely was, "I fear that despite all the energy and ability of Mr. Roosevelt he will not achieve the aim which you mention even if he has this aim.” a tx a SI alia Reads About It I THINK Mr. Wells might nave challenged Stalin on hts statement that engineers and technicians are the natural allies of the existing order. Possibly in far off Moscow Stalin may have gained the impression that the great engineer of Palo Alto was a universal American type. After all, Steinmetz, who worked for the General Electric Company for years, was a great engineer and a Socialist. One concession Josef Stalin made to his visitor. In the middle of the argument, he said: "However, you know the situation in America better than I, because I never was in the United States, and follow American affairs principally through literature. But I have some slight experiences in the field of struggle for socialism and this experience tells me that if Mr. Roosevelt really tries to satisfy the interests of the proletarian class at the expense of the capitalist class the latter will replace him by another President.” In other words, the secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union believes that steel and textiles and motors have more authority than the President of the United States. It is only fair to say that many Americans who are not Communists at all agree with him entirely in this. Certainly Mr. Ford, Mr. Sloan and Mr. Taylor already have given every indication of being ready to say "amen” to Mr. Stalin. A lone columnist would be a fool to back his own judgment in a case where Marxian wisdom and capitalistic shrewdness are agreed upon an opinion. Nevertheless, this fool columnist will bet Josef Stalin two roubles to one rouble that before 1936 Mr. Roosevelt will go much farther left and will not be “replaced.” (Copvrieht. 1934. bv The Times)

Today s Science B\ DAVID DIETZ

THE possibility of a connection between the functioning of the adrenal glands and the parathyroid glands is indicated by a long series of experiments earned out by Dr. J. M. RogofT, Cleveland. For almost a decade now. medical men have been suspecting such interconnections between the functioning of various ductless glands. Their definite establishment is certain to lead to anew understanding of the human body and to improved methods of combatting many serious diseases. The ductless glands, as years of research have revealed, are little chemical factories manufacturing powerful chemical substances known as hormones. As their name indicates, these glands have no ducts or openings through which to discharge these hormones. The blocd stream, as it passes through these glands, picks up the hormones and carries them to the rest of the body. It is possible for an organ of the body to fill the role of a ductless gland in addition to serving some other function. Thus, for example, the pancreas, which manufactures the pancreatic juices which are discharged through a duct into the intestine, also manufactures a hormone, insulin, which is picked up by thj blood stream. a a a HORMONES are produced in small amounts by ductless glands. Y<*t their power is so great, that those amounts are mdispensible. For example, failure of the ihyroio gland to secrete its hormone, known as thyroxin, slows down the heart, makes bodily reactgpns sluggish, and in extreme cases, produces a type of ldocy known as cretinism. In the normal person, there is present usually about one-fifth of a grain of thyroxin. A grain is a little less than a four-hundredth of an ounce. By giving ,he cretin this tiny amount of thyroxin regulary he can be brought back to normal and kept so as long as he gets his thyroxin. Degeneration of those portions of the pancreas glands which secrete insuhn results in the disease known as diabetes. Diabetics, who a decade ago faced a certain death, are now kept alive by injections of insuhn obtained from the pancreas glands of animals. a a a IN experiments performed in more recent years by Dr. Rogofl and the late Dr. G. N. Stewart, it was shown that removal of the adrenal glands in animals led to a disturbance of the calcium metabolism. Muscular twitching and other symptoms developed and an analysis of the blood stream revealed an increase 'n the amount of calcium present. Certain other significant changes were also observed in the entire gastro-intestinal tract. Earlier this year, experiments led to the discovery of changes in the enamel of the teeth of rats which had been given an excess of parathyroid hormnnf.T

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GODFATHER OF THE NEW DEAL Justice Brandeis Liberal, But Not !Hidden Brain Trust ’ of NRA

Tbli 1 the fir*t of two utories that tell of the powerful Influence of Supreme Court Juntice Louii D. Brandon on the New Deal, through the Impact of hit philosophy and the presence of many of hia ‘‘disciples’’ in high places in the rero\eiV areneies, and the part played by Professor Frankfurter, chief apostle of Brandeis. in New Deal activities. a a a BY RODNEY DLTCHER KEA Service Staff Writer (Copyright 1934, NEA Service. Inc.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis is both a spiritual godfather and a living influence in the New Deal. Ridiculous as is the teapot tempest raised by General Hugh S. Johnson's strange effort to picture Justice Brandeis as NRA’s hidden “brain trust,” the incident may serve to explode the erroneous popular theory that supreme court members are cloistered gents who don’t discuss public questions even with their wives. Many New Dealers—including President Roosevelt—have discussed their problems with the 78-year-old Justice Brandeis. No one need be shocked. Insiders here fail to recall any supreme court Justice who held himself so sacrosanct that he wouldn't discuss social and economic questions W’ith at least a selected few. The justices insist on their right—and duty—to inform themselves as to vital issues from every possible source. They reserve the right to comment freely among their friends.

BRANDEIS, eften regarded as the greatest American liberal, has a host of disciples and admirers in New Deal ranks. Several of his former secretaries hold key posts in the administration’s legal battalions, which are crowded with graduates of Harvard law school, who include many former pupils of Professor Felix Frankfurter—close friend and chief apostle of Justice Brandeis, as well as an important White House adviser. a a a Brandeis, along with the other • eight justices, is intensely interested in the New Deal. This administration comes far nearer than any previous ones to adherence to his dominant devotion to “the rights of the many as opposed to the privileges of the few.” Sometimes he can’t stomach some of the things emergency agencies do. He opposes monopolies, believes in preservation of small units, and feels no human mind is fitted to direct vast concentrations of wealth or power. From the beginning, he was strongly opposed to the NRA. "Brain trusters” and others sit at his feet in free discussion. Often they disagree with him. But no man’s words are more eagerly sought. All of which doesn’t mean that Justice Brandeis, who must soon pass on New Deal cases before the supreme court, discusses legal phrases or constitutionality with anybody. Any one w’ho brought up such a question would be promptly squelched. And those W’ho visit him know' better. The Brandeis social-economic philosophy is the same he had when he ascended to the supreme bench nearly twenty years ago.

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

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—A strenuous inter-government battle has t>een raging behind the scenes over the question of whether or not Allen W. Dulles shall go to London as disarmament adviser to Ambassador Norman Davis. The state department is for him, and the navy department against. Dulles has been under heavy fire lor some time. He was criticised lor advising on war debts while he was—and still is—partner in Sulli-

van &. Cromwell, prominent Wall Street firm. And he was also attacked for lobbying on oil concessions with his former colleagues at the state department. However, Dulles’ grandfather, John W. Foster, and his uncle, the late Robert Lansing, both were secretaries of state. So the state department has stuck with him. But the navy department has not. It has voiced vigorous opposition to his advising on naval affairs at London. ana General lucius roy HOLBROOK is disarmingly frank about his achievements in battle. One day, according to his own story, he was shopping in a Paris department store. He had been typically American in his purchases, so much so that he merited the attention of the assistant manager. And, as a favor to his American customer, the manager took him over to another aisle and introduced him to a distinguished visitor. It was King Peter of Montenegro His majesty liked General Holbrook. invited him to call at his apartment. Almost immediately after his arrival next day King Peter reached into a trunk, fished around, pulled out a decoration, fastened it on his guest. Then as an afterthought, he asked: “What did you say your rank was?" ‘ Brigadier-general.' “Here, give me that back again. That isn't good enough for you.” So his majesty went back to his trunk, pulled out another decoration. It was the "Silver, Medal for Bravery and Cross of Prince Danilo.” General Holbrook has worn ft proudly ever since. xr ai a HOW an Atlantic seaboard shipping strike was headed off by the secret efforts of a single man is one of the most interesting reports recently passing across the White House desk. The man in question is Lloyd Garrison, retiring chairman of the national labor relations board. Several weeks ago the International Seamen's Union, an A. F. of L. affiliate, voted to walk out on Oct. 9 unless ship owners operating from eastern and gulf ports met their demands. Chief of these demands —and the real cause of the uprising—was union recognition. The situation looked bad. The steamship companies had resisted all attempts at unionization. The I. S. U. has a large and militant membership, and a tie-up of Atlantic ports seemed certain. Into this unpromising crisis - V

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You’ll find it in his "Other People’s Money” and “Business A Profession.” Today he expounds it privately as he once talked it publicly. But he is extremely meticulous about anything which might tend to compromise his judicial position. Perhaps more so than any other justice. Mr. and Mrs. Brandeis never permit anyone to entertain them. Their guests, including those at the locally famous Sunday afternoon “Brandeis teas,” where current affairs are discussed openly, are admitted only on the justice’s own terms of propriety. n u tt Nevertheless, many friends of Brandeis are irritated or embarrassed by General Johnson’s public assertion that "during the whole intense experience, I have been in constant touch with that old counselor, Judge Louis Brandeis.” Tnat even goes for Franklin D. Roosevelt, w’ho quickly decided Johnson hadn’t better go around making any more such speeches as a presumptive spokesman for the administration. General Johnson himself regretted the "break” as soon as he realized what he had done. Agitation among New Dealers is based on three factors of the incident: 1. General Johnson gave the Tories what they consider ammunition to use against Justice Brandeis in a concerted effort to embarrass him to the point where he might disqualify himself to sit on New Deal cases. 2. Absurdity of the idea that Justice Brandeis in any way sponsored the NRA policies of General Johnson. The policies w r hich big business forced on the general are anathema to Justice Brandeis’ followers.

Roosevelt quietly thrust Lloyd Garrison. He disappeared from his office. A week later, just as unobtrusively, he returned, announced briefly there would be no strike. The real story of brilliant achievement Garrison left untold. What he had done was this: With the NRLB lacking jurisdiction—because the shipping industry is not under a code —Garrison went to the employers and seamen as a “private citizen.” He offered his services as mediator and they accepted. After a week of secret negotiations under his “unofficial” guidance. an agreement w ! as reached giving the seamen a signal victory. Forty-eight steamship companies, operating 450 vessels, agreed to union recognition and collective bargaining. (Coovrieht 1934. hv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) HAT SHOP EXPLOSION IS PROBED BY POLICE Retribution by Competitor, Is Theory in Blast. Police today were investigating an explosion which last night wrecked the rear of the J. R. Hat Shop, 27 West Ohio street, in the belief that the shop's low prices may have caused some competitor to instigate the bombing in retribution. A Mr. Rosenbush. Louisville, Ky.. was said to be the responsible head of the shop, one of a chain, and. in his absence, police could not get an estimate of the damage. They ' laid the explosion to dynamite, although they admitted that no fuses or other evidence had been found. BELL TELEPHONE POST TO INSTALL OFFICERS State Commander to Officiate at Ceremony Tonight. V. M. Armstrong, state commander, will officiate tonight at installation services for Bell Telephone Post 134, American Legion. V. G. Gullion, new post commander, will be installed. Other new officers include John R. Ferree. first vice-commander; C. G. Shriver, second vice-com-mander; E. E. Hale, adjutant: Paul S. Imlay. finance officer; W. C. Baker, sergeant-at-arms; Rogers George, chaplain, and Vedder Gard, historian. Playlet Given at Tech “The First Day of School,” a playlet, was given by members of the Stratford Literary Club of Technical high school at their second meeting yesterday.

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3. Implication that Justice Brandeis, in that "constant contact” which never existed, had improperly intruded himself in the executive branch of government and given counsel as to administrative acts whose legality was to come before him. Any belief that the Brandeis philosophy influenced General Johnson’s administration can be held by people who don’t read. General Johnson contacted with Justice Brandeis three or four times, but in each instance it was General Johnson who went to Justice Brandeis, seeking advice, and on each occasion the Brandeis comment could be summed up in one word: "Terrible!”

MANUAL TO STAGE CHRISTMAS DRIVE Junior Red Cross Club to Open Campaign. Plans for a campaign sponsored by the Manual high school Junior Red Cross Club to obtain money for Christmas boxes which will be sent to various foreign countries have been completed. Offices elected by the X section of the club are Charlotte ’Vyallace, president; Frances Brazeal, vicepresident; Frances Jean Weber, recording secretary; Elvera Kirschner, attendance secretary, and Mary Aldea, treasure. Elected by the Y section are Helen Wheeler, president; Betty Cubel, vice-president; Mary Ella Beauregard, recording secretary; Helen Hogan, attendance secretary, and Charlotte Pieper, treasurer. Miss Anna J. Schaefer is a Y section sponsor and Mrs. Coral Taflinger Black is X section sponsor. Both are faculty members. Three Given Scholarships Saturday scholarships to the John Herron Art Institute have been awarded to three, Manual high school pupils. They are Richard Hill, Georgianna Amt and James Miller. The three also are prominent in other activities of the school.

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TJRANDEIS didn’t like the NRA -■-* at all, and any one who knew him could tell that the subsequent surrender of the codes to the desires of industry gave him a serious pain, not in the judicial neck, in the neck of Justice Brandeis as a citizen and a liberal. Common assumption now is that the decentralization of power in NRA and the tendency away from monopoly, price-fixing and other violations of the spirit of anti-trust laws are much more pleasing to Justice Brandeis than developments in the earlier stages. Propaganda aimed at the disqualification of Justice Brandeis is likely to subside, despite the fears of certain important New Deal-

11-Year-Old King Is Real Orphan of Storm Youngster Being Tossed Headlong Into Trouble Center of Europe.

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—The most pitiful figure in the world today, and the most tragic, is 11-year-old King Peter 11, real orphan of the international storm. The chances are better than even that he never will rule.As the week started he was a ruddy-faced pupil chasing a football around the campus of an English school, his eyes flashing as his buddies yelled to “Pete” to get after it. Today, his hands in that of his grandmother and his mother, he is on his way back to Belgrade and his royal father’s funeral, the dazed

look still on his face as he wonders what it is all about. A decade must elapse before he can mount his father’s throne. In that decade many things can happen, and likely will, in his turbulent land. Meantime a regency of three will rule an arrangement made to order for those plotting the destruction of the state. If King Alexander could not hold his virile, warlike and clashing subjects in check after making himself dictator, there seems little prospect _that a regency, with far less authority and prestige, can manage them any better.

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ers. No supreme court justice has ever disqualified himself from a case because somebody complained of alleged impropriety following his appointment to the court. Some have disqualified themselves from given cases because previous associations m law practice might be considered to have prejudiced them. Justice Brandeis did so, for instance, in the minimum wage law test—and as he did in the SaccoVanzetti appeal, on the ground that a member of his family had been interested in the defense of those two Italian anarchists. A supreme court justice is not considered in a position to defend himself from personal attacks, but the other eight would be good and sour if one were to take public notice of a charge of impropriety. It isn’t unlikely that Justice Brandeis will call attention of his colleagues to such criticisms as may develop from hostile sources, whereupon all hands are fairly certain to join in a hearty laugh and tell him to forget it. a a a A LTHOUGH the “Tories” now taking cautious pot-shots at Justice Brandeis proceed on the theory that he is a menace because of his well-known partiality toward human rights as against property rights and assume that he will automatically support the New Deal measures, many Brandeis adherents who still talk wjth him have worried constantly lest he turn thumbs down on some emergency legislation as a result of his strong belief in free competition, decentralization of financial and industrial control, and the dangers of anti-trust law suspension. Some "brain trusters” who drew their first inspiration from Justice Brandeis are now much more radical than he is. For it must be remembered that the radicalism consists chiefly of being an old-fashioned Democrat seeking to apply ancient American principles to contemporary industrial civilization. He has been best described in a book about him by Alpheus Thomas Mason: "Brandeis is rather an individ- , ualist Democrat of the Jeffersonian type. He believes so strongly in private property that he wants to see it more equitably diffused among the masses of men. “He values private capital so highly that he would make it available to the independent entrepreneur, rather than have it monopolized by a money trust.” NEXT Brandeis, Frankfurer and “Frankfurter’s Hot Dogs.”

REPORTS of a military dictatorship succeeding the regency have reached Washington. Such a coup would cause no surprise. But no one for a moment believes that Boy-King Peter’s crown can be saved that way. On the contrary Dr. Vladimir Matchek, known as chief of the “Croatian nation,” recently warned that “unless some amicable understanding is reached soon, the state must perish. “We do not demand separation from Yugoslavia,” he said. “But we do want to be masters of our own life-blood and our wealth. We want freedom within our own territory. “There can be no other solution. Without it Yugoslavia will collapse.” Neutrals agree with Dr. Matchek almost 100 per cent. Yukoslavia’s best friends—in France, England and the United States—have uttered similar warnings. Her proud, dignified people can not be dragooned into unity. They can only be led. nan only the Croats, but the ! Slovenes, Macedonians, Albanians, Montenegrins and others claim they have less liberty today than under the Turks and other former rulers. Some, like the Montenegrins, deeply resent being incorporated in the Yugoslavian state. In Paris, in 1919, King Nicholas, aged king of Montenegro and King Alexander's grandfather, told me almost with tears of his grief over annexation. “I could not have been treated worse.” he said, ‘had I fought on the side of the enemy.” Today, straight into this maelstrom of hatred, intrigue and perhaps bloodshed, the innocent Peter is headed without any idea of what he is getting into. Destiny simply is picking him up and tossing him bodily into the direct trouble center of Europe. And there is nothing he can do about it.

I. U. CLASSES ELECT Juniors Selected Keck; Ewing Named by Sophomores. I By I nitfd Prttt BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 12. Robert Keck, Evansville, varsity football player, was elected head of the Indiana university junior class today. Richard Ewing, Shelbyville, was chosen president of the sophojnore classj

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Fair Enough WEnWEfiLDt C CHICAGO, Oct. 12.—He and his family used to x have money. They had. between them, $75.000.000 or $100,000,000. The amount fluctuated, but it was up around $75,000,000 and $100,000,000. He says so himself. At this time he is putting in his days in a courtroom in the old federal building bn trial for using the mails to defraud. In the recesses, if you ask old man Insull about it. he will tell you that he hasn’t a dollar in the world. Not a dollar in the world.

except that his son, out of his salary, supports him in a rather modest hotel. He hasn’t any pocket money though, and he rides the 10-cent omnibus to and from the trial. He wears his poverty out loud. It is a strange experience to sit down in a hard chair in a dingy corridor alongside a man who used to have $75,000,000 or $100,000,000 and ruled like a king and ask how it feels to be broke. Old Man Insull would have had your job before you could get back to the office if you had come up to him a few years ago and asked

him how he was fixed for money. But in those days he wasn’t easy to come up to. He had his secretaries and they had their ecretaries, and though they are not on record as having thrown any reporters out in the physical sense, they turned them around all right and moved them out before they could come up to the old man. You could put in day after day trying to see the old man and never catch a squint of him back there when he had the $75,000,000 or $100,000,000. He wore them down with waiting and etood them off until he became the most poisonous assignment on the city-book. a a a Always a Pal MR. INSULL is much changed now and there is considerable puzzled speculation as to just who is the genius who made a sweet, accessible old man of him. Someone undoubtedly took him aside and told him he was in wrong ai.d ordered him, for his own good, to show' a little civility where it would be plainest seen Tmd most appreciated. Nowadays in the old federal building in Chicago you may come upon the amazing sight of old man Insull standing around the pressroom chinning with the reporters who are covering his trial. He even discovers that if he hadn’t become a magnate and promoter he would have been a newspaper man, himself. Why, he was always the reporter’s pal. at heart. Every one who has been accused of making a sweet old man of old Sam has denied it, but that is understandable. The only effective way is to let it appear that he always was just naturally pleasant and kind, but too busy to show it. He w'orked, he says, from 7 a. m. to midnight, year after year, amassing the fortune, and, in the last years of his reign in the middle west, trying to defend it. The homely little practice of riding to and from the trial .in the 10-cent bus is the most effective bit of folksey business in „he old man’s act today. It shows his innate democracy. Your correspondent asked Mr. Insull how it was that a man so poor that he hadn't even pocket money could charter a ship for himself as he did in Greece last year when he tried to escape extradition. "Oh,” he said, “I had my friends. Thank God, I still have my friends.” He still has his friends, thank God, who would charter an ocean steamship for him but who somehow haven’t been able to come up with a dollar a day for cab fare. So he is forced to ride where the people may recognize him and note his wholesome humility of .soul in the common financial disaster which destroyed his fortune with their savings. a a He's Mot Licked ‘rjEING broke isn’t so bad,” the old man said, and -D it was hard to believe that the old king was saying the words. He had been so powerful. He could buy a legislature like a pack of stogies. Governors were flunkeys. He even put a man in the United States senate though the senate did turn around and kick him out. "Being broke isn’t so bad. A big fortune is just as much worry as no money at all. It's being dependent that I don’t like.” “Well, you don’t look as though you are a licked man. Do you feel licked?" “Licked?” There was less sweetness and more of the old fire in his eyes now. “No, I am not licked. My health is better than it has been for a long time. I’m not licked.” “What about afterward? Do you think you can come back?” Mr. Insull shrugged and hitched his head in a gesture toward t.ne jury room where the twelve good men and true, and two spares, were getting their hats after adjournment. “That depends,” he said. “It depends on those men in there.” He seems to have no idea that he ever did the slightest wrong and the notion that no good can come of sending a man of 75 to prison for doing what he did, is gaining popularity in Chicago. The money is gone forever, and Insull, himself, did not get away with any, or, anyway not much. His propaganda bus rides, his patience to photographers and his strange affection for reporters are having some effect on public opinion. The prosecution, on the other hand, has no such weapons. The United States district attorney hardly can permit himself to kick up a counter-propaganda in the press and he could put in all his days riding on the 10-cent busses without any effect. Perhaps he does ride them. Nobody even bothers to ask. (Copyright. 1934, bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

A LTHOUGH doctors still are in the dark about the cause of cancer, you have less need to dread this condition than ever before. The reason is that the medical profession has made great strides in the control of cancer by application of radium and X-ray. Part of this advance Is due to improvements in the manner in w T hich both radium and X-ray are used. Long ago it was found that the tissues which make up a cancer are more sensitive to radium and the X-ray than are ordinary tissues. The tissues that make up a cancer are like those of a growing infant after birth. These are very much more sensitive to radiation than are the tissues of grown persons. a a a RADIUM may now be applied in cancer not only directly to growths on the surface of the body, but also to growths within the body. This is accomplished by the use of gold and platinum seeds in which the emanation of radium is put diractly into the growth. X-ray apparatus has been improved so that it is now possible to give, in a short time, enormously high dosages of the rays. During the last twenty-five years, extensive study has been made of the use of both these methods. Cases have been recorded and have been reported before medical societies, and in that way the science of medicine has been advanced. a a a WTTH development of the new devices, methods of treatment of cancer in various portions of the body have been modified. Particularly has radium been found to be of value in cancer of the internal generative organs of women. These methods are a great advance over previous methods of treatment. Cancer of the breast in women used to be treated with irradiation methods only when considered inoperable. irradiation Is used sometimes in connection with th/jmperauen, and in many instances after (^ration.

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