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It Seems to Me HEYMD BROUN ¥T seem to me that journalism is In its infancy, or possibly its second childhood, if the Hauptmann hearing really ra’es ten times the space accorded to the suicide strike of the twelve hundred Hungarian miners. I know all the catchwords of the craft. When I was a stripling reporter the veterans told me that a gangster murdered in Times Square was a better story than the assassination of any Balkan ruler. To be sure this was before Sarajevo had come home to roost. Not even now am I so distant from the rim of the night desk that I do not know the lure of the Lindbergh case. It is I will admit, the biggest crime story during my twenty-five or twenty-six years as a reporter or trained seal. But may I point out that the man ac-

cused of complicity in the crime is not at the moment on trial for his life. This is merely a habeas corpus hearing to determine whether or not he Is to be extradited. Again I point to the fact that practically all the evidence presented by both the defense and prosecution was accurately outlined in advance. No surprises of any moment have been sprung and I will wager that an infinitesimal percentage of newspaper readers wade through anything like the seventeen columns of cross-examination presented by one of the morning papers. I see I

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must revi e my opening figures. The proportion .of Hauptmann to Hungary is 20 to 1 in volume. It is possible that I am wrong and that great armies of readers consume even the twice told tales of the Lindbergh rase. But if I were an editor I would not humor them. a a a A Shout From Beloir IT may be that an effective editor gives his readers some portion of what he believes they want. But I; think an even greater editor would look at the news through his own eyes and trust that his own opinion was not so purely personal as to be fantastic. And I fail utterly to see how any newspaper man possibly could evaluate the Lindbergh hearing as more important and engrossing than the story of the immolated twelve hundred. This is not the first of kidnaping cases, but within my memory there has been no situation which duplicates the heroic struggle of the miners of Pecs. Os course, I know that Hungary is a long way off, but there must be a close and common denominator between these men who shout from deep below the crust of the earth and all the workers of the world. It may be that censorship or other local difficulties make reporting from the pit mouth a complicated task. The stones which I have read are all inadequate. There is lark of color and background and any reasonable recital of the events which led up to the decision of the men to die rather than continue under the existing scale. It seems to me that here ts perhaps the finest news story of a generation and it is being bobbled badly all around. In one report I read. "The mining company, in which Austrians and Britishers have heavy investments, asserted that general economic and market conditions did not allow it to employ miners more than two days a week or pay more than $2. Fearing international complications or further strikes, the government hesitated to force it to meet the miners’ demands.’’ tt a a Story of Contrasts WhA i on earth has become of good old-fash-ioned newspaper enterprise which Austrians and Britishers are the chief shareholders? Wouldn’t there be a story, perhaps, in sending a reporter around from a London bureau to internew’ whatever gentleman happens to hold the majority interest? I think it would be a good story if the American correspondent asked no more than two questions. They might be. "May I ask. sir. if you slept well last night? And would you pardon a further query as to what you had for breakfast and how you enjoyed it?” You see the answers could be printed in parallel columns with the description given by one visitor who went down into the mine and returned to report of the miners, "Utterly exhausted, they are huddled down there in the heat, lying on the dirty, water-soaked bed of the mine with huge chunks of coal for pillows. Some are unconscious. Nearly five days without water to drink has parched their throats. And they could not eat if they had food. Some of them utter sounds like tortured animals.” Mr. or Mrs. Market Conditions, whoever you are, what did you have for lunch and have you made a date for dinner? I trust it will not cost you more than the $2 which is a week's wage for a miner in the town of Pecs. And, incidentally, I assume, that these shares are quoted on the board of some bourse. It. would be interesting to know whether the suicide strike of the 1.200 is a bull or bearish factor. I may be told that these men are foreigners and that their woes are alien to the American reader. It is quite true that as yet we are very far from the establishment of international fraternity. But I think the editors overestimate the chasm. When a wage scale m any land gets down to $2 a week I have a strong feeling that all men are brothers. iCoDvrieht. 1934. bv The Tinv'Si

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

PALESTINE, central link in the chain that binds together the three continents of the old world, promises to become as important in the field of prehistoric research as it long has been in the field of history. The plain of Jezroel. in the northern part of Judea, lay on the highway between Egypt and Syria. It was the road that connected continents and as a result the battling armies of the ancient nations met there. Judea became known as "the cockpit of Asia." Nation after nation invaded the land and in the end the Jews were dispersed to the four corners of the world. Scholars have long been engaged in unraveling the history of Palestine. Much of the work in the region has been carried on by the American School of Prehistoric Research of which Dr. George Grant MacCurdy of Yale university is director. This work is now revealing that the records of many town sites and fprtress sites can be carried back without break to the dawn of the old stone age. a a a THE American School of Prehistoric Research was founded in 1921 with Palestine as one of its prospective fields of operation. "Our first opportunity to do some reconnaissanee in Palestine came on the occasion of the international congress of archeology held in Jerusalem and Beirut in April. 1926." Dr. MacCurdy says. "Prospecting at a number of prehistoric sites and examination of museum collections confirmed us in our previous estimate of the prehistoric possibilities of Palestine." The first discovery of importance came in 1928 when two rare prehistoric carvings in bone were found near the foot of Mt. Cramel. Asa result of this discovery, exploration of a group of caves in the vicinity was begun. Three of these proved fertile and the seventh season of work in them is now in progress. The three are known as the Mugharet el-\Vad or Cave of the Valley, the Mugharet es-Skhul or Cave of the Kids, and the Mugharet et-Tabun or Cave of the Oven. man PERHAPS the layman will welcome explanation of some of these terms. Aurignacian is used to describe the culture of the Cro-Magnon man. the first true man found in Europe. Mousterian is the name given to the culture which immediately preceded it. that of Neanderthal man. Dr. MacCurdy says that in the two Natuflan lavers of the cave the archeologists have found many human skeletons. Associated with these were beads of dentalia shells and perforated animal teeth. Carved bone hastings set with highly polished flint blades were also found. These were obviously used as sickle blades in the harvesting of grain, Dr. MacCurdy says.

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PEACE HINGES ON SAAR VOTE

France and Germany Are Foes in Greatest of World Campaigns

LONDON, Oct. 17.—-Probably not since the American presidential election of 1860 will there have been a vote of the people as important to the cause of peace or war as the plebiscite to be taken next Jan. 13 to determine whether Saar territory shall be returned to Germany, remain under the League of Nations as at present or become part of France. Like the American election, this one, too, is surcharged with dynamite. The American poll decided the election of Abraham Lincoln and precipitated the gigantic catastrophe of the Civil war. The Saar plebiscite well may precipitate a conflict between Germany and France which would set all Europe aflame. The Saar question is one of the evil legacies of the treaty of Versailles. With all their coal mines in northern France wrecked during the German army's occupation, the French at Versailles demanded the annexation of the Saar as compensation. A piece of German territory, 737

miles square, with about 800.000 inhabitants, it is located north of Lorraine, west of the Bavarian Palatinate and south of the Rhineland section of Prussia. President Wilson and Premier Lloyd-George stood firm against French demands. A compromise finally was reached whereby the Saar should be under the League of Nations until a plebiscite would be held in 1935. As compensation, the French were given the rich coal mines ol the Saar and proceeded to knit the product of these mines up with the iron mines of Lorraine. This gave the Saar economic prosperity. BUT all attempts to Frenchify the Saar were vain. Before the advent of Adolf Hitler and his Nazis to power in Germany, the probabilities ivere that in a plebiscite the Saarlanders would have voted about 90 per cent for return to Germany. Today the chances are still that the majority will vote that way, but nothing is sure. The Jews, the trades unionists and the So-

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

Oct. 17— Regardless of administration attitude, legislation for a thirty-hour work week will be pressed at the coming session of congress. Representative William P. Connery Jr., Massachusetts, chairman of the house labor committee and a strong supporter of the A. F. of L. definitely plans to introduce such a bill and will attempt a record vote in both branches of congress. The ranks of women executives in the New Deal have just had another addition. Miss Fanny Neyman. Butte, Mont., lawyer and protege of Senator Burton K. Wheeler, has been appointed to the legal staff of the

CATHOLIC CLUBS SET FOR DANCE Cathedral High School to Benefit by Social Tomorrow. Final arrangements were being made today for the dance to be held tomorrow’ night under sponsorship of Cathedral high school alumni in the Indiana ballroom for the benefit of the Cathedral high school bazar. Alumnae of St. Agnes. St. Mary's and St. John's academies are aiding the Cathedral group. Co-operating with John M. Connor, general chairman, and Frank J. McCarthy. Cathedral alumni president, are the Young People’s Club of St. Philip Neri parish, James Kirby, chairman: the Newunan Club of Butler university, and nine other young people's organizations from various Catholic parishes. HOOSIER FARMER HELD ON AAA FRAUD CHARGE Filed False Reports on Contracts, Is Accusation; Free on Bail. By l niteii Prow SOUTH BEND. Ind., Oct, 17. Louis WykofT, 35, Porter county farmer, was free under SI,OOO bond today under an indictment charging him with attempting to defraud the government in connection with Agricultural Adjustment Administration crop reduction benefit payments. The indictment charges him with violations involving wheat control and com-hog reduction programs. He is accused of falsifying reports and forging names in applying for contracts. WykofT was chairman of the Porter county committee in charge of checking up on farmer applications for AAA benefit payments. AGED MAN VOLUNTEERS FOR DEATH EXPERIMENT Scientist Who Revived Dead Dogs Rejects Offer. By Cuffed Press BERKELEY. Cal., Oct. 17—Daniel iOld Dan' Wooley, 72-year-old retired policeman who says he "can take it," offered himself today for the "death and resurrection" experiment of Dr. Robert Cornish, inventor of a resuscitation process, but Dr. Cornish and the law both said no. Learning that Dr. Cornish was seeking permission to try his process on the bodies of executed criminals. Mr. Wooley wrote the young Berkeley scientist offering himself for the test. "I'd like to experiment on you, but I can't," the scientist wrote "You see. it's against the law to kill people, even though you intend to bring them back to life." BANK HEARING DELAYED Shareholders Reorganization to Wait on Audit of Books. A hearing on the reorganization of the Shareholders' Investment Corporation before John Rabb Emison. federal referee in bankruptcy, was postponed yesterday until Dec. 3. to await the completion of the audit o’n the corporation's books. Henry Bliss, a stockholder, asked that the hearing be held Nov. 19.

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cialists all are bitterly against being incorporated in a Nazified Germany. Many Catholics, seeing what has happened to their brethren in Germany, also are veering around. The population of the Saar is overwhelmingly an industrial one and overwhelmingly Catholic. Therefore, the Catholic miners and mill-hands present the great "If.” ts a a ADOLF HITLER is all out to achieve a smashing victory next January in the Saar. He needs it. He has encountered nothing but failures so far in his external policies. He has been thwarted in his efforts to Nazify his native Austria. He has lost the friendship of Mussolini and Italy. So now he has turned to the Saar. A mere victory will not suit his book. Unless it is overwhelming, it will be counted almost a defeat. All the tricks the Nazis know so well how to employ have been used. Hitler held a gigantic meeting

j federal communications commis- ! sion with a salary of $5,600 a year. She is one of the highest paid women in the government service. Privately, national Democratic political strategists have their doubts about winning the senatorial contests in Kansas, Michigan, Indiana and Pennsylvania. In the first state they see no hope, but in the other three they believe the Democratic candidates have fighting chances. a a a INTIMATES of Huey Long whisper that the Kingfish is fed up with the senate, seriously considers running for Governor of Louisiana. . . . They admit that Huey may change his mind by the time the primary rolls around. . . According to commerce department figures, a production record of 11.8 billion cigarets was rolled up in August, topping the previous high by 620 millions. . . . President Roosevelt is not only personally consulted in all new stamp issues, but on some of them assists in the drawing of the design. ... He sketched the outline of the design on the new 16cent airmail-special delivery stamp. The rotJgh drawing, on a piece of scratch paper, is a prized possession of Postmaster-General Jim Farley. a a a ONE outstanding figure of interest during the world conference of the Federation Aeronaut'que Internationale is Paul Tissandier, Frenchman, w’ho set a world's speed record in 1909. . . . Tissandier, who w’as an early air student of Orville Wright, set an astonishing record. . . . Over a measured course he flew his machine at the breath-taking speed of 34.5 miles an hour. Present planes won’t take off at less than sixty-five miles per hour. . . . a a a JAMES M. MEAD, six-term congressman from Buffalo, first became acquainted with the capital in a less exalted role. He served as a member of the capitol police force. • . . Favorite pastime of visitors is to count the steps in the Washington monument. Only one in a thousand gets it right. The number is 898. . . . When the chairman of the national power policy committee meets in conference with the treasurer of the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, and the oil administrator, and the chairman of the national resources board, and the chair-. man of the federal oil conservation board, and the president of the Emergency Housing Corporation. and the administrator of public works, and the secretary of the interior—there is only one man present. He is Harold L. Ickes, who works in his shirt sleeves. iCopvrißht 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) ROOSEVELT TO VISIT TVA DAM PROJECTS President Seeks Check on Progress of Pet Experiments. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—President Roosevelt is going into the Tennessee Valley next month to check up on the progress of one of his pet experiments—economic improvement of the south. He will visit Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi in a survey of dam construction and other work by the Tennessee Valley Authority, NewDeal agency designed to better conditions among distressed valley families. Mr. Roosevelt will go over the scene of operations en route to Warm Springs. Ca.. for his annual Thanksgiving holiday.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1934

at Ehrenbreitstein to which over a hundred thousand Saarlanders were transported. Every night the radio from Germany broadcasts propaganda. The Saar is flooded with German papers filled with propaganda. Nazi-minded Germans in the Saar have been united in a powerful organization called the "Deutsche Front.” In a gesture to France, Hitler has said that when the Saar is returned to Germany, there will be no more outstanding questions with France and the joy-bells and peace-bells can ring. a a a MAX BRAUN, redoubtable Socialist leader and editor of a leading Saar newspaper, has taken command of the anti-Nazis. At the time Hitler was addressing his followers at Ehrenbreitstein, Braun organized a meeting of 60.000 Saarlanders. He has joined hands with the Communists in fighting return to Germany. Making propaganda for itself, the French government has sent a note to tie league, saying that if all or part of the Saar is given to France, all its inhabitants will be equal before the law, will have full protection of life and liberty without distinction of language, race or religion. The Versailles treaty prescribes that if the Saar is returned to Germany, the latter shall buy back the coal mines from France. The French government has asked the league to decide how this is to be done, before and not after the plebiscite. Thus affairs have come to a fevered boil already—and the polling booths do not open for four months.

GASOLINE PRICE REDUCED HERE Three Major Firms Announce Reduction of 1 Cent a Gallon. A reduction of 1 cent a gallon on the regular grades of gasoline became effective today as three of the major refining companies announced a cut in prices. The new price is 16.9 cents a gallon, which includes the federal tax of 1 cent a gallon and the state 4-cent levy. The announcements were made by E. P. Gaibreath, district manager of the Standard Oil company (Indiana) for Red Crown gasoline; Herbert H. Johnson, of the Lubrite Oil corporation, for Mobilgas, and by C. W. Manville, of the Shell Petroleum corporation, for SuperShell. Ethyl gasoline and the third grade lines remain unchanged in price. The Standard and Shell reductions are effective in Indianapolis only, w-hile the Lubrite cut is for all Marion county. Mr. Gaibreath announced that the cut w-as made to meet competitive prices, and stated that other companies soon would follow in the reduction. 10,834,000 JOBLESS, A. F. OF L. CLAIMS Practical Plan for Patting Men Back to Work Urged. By United press WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—The American Federation of Labor w-arned today that important gains •in employment are unlikely before next spring, and that a "practical, workable plan" for putting men back to work in industry is imperative in view of the rising government debt. The monthly federation survey of business estimated 10,834,000 industrial unemployed at the end of August, of which number 5,658,000 were dependent for support on "relatives, private charity or savings,” 2,000.000 on government emergency work and 3,167,000 on direct relief.

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THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP a tt tt a tt tt By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—President Roosevelt evens his score with the scholastic world when he adds Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago to his administration. Universities and colleges have made heavy raids on the personnel of his recovery boards as fall terms got under way. In a return raid he has secured the brilliant young president of one of the six most important universities in the country.

At the same time he has served notice that he still believes in using brains in government. Since Mr. Hutchins’ arrival in Washington all kinds of guesses have been made as to the post he w-ould take. All agree on one point—that it will be an imporant one. Probably a new-created one. The variety of fields in w-hich he has excelled in his short but intense career indicate his fitenss for almost any sort of assignment. The Italian Croce Di Guerra, awarded him for bravery under fire, promises an abiguity to stand up before any barrage of dead cats congress may hurl this w-inter. Mr. Hutchins is a lawyer, a professor, an executive, an orator. Democratic party leaders in Connecticut started urging, eight years ago, that he run for the United States senate. At first he was too young. Lately he has been too busy. Now his friends are beginning to think he is presidential timber. Mr. Hutchins started holding scholastic office the year after his graduation from Yale. He was only 23 when he w r as appointed secretary of Yale, to act as the university’s official spokesman and to look after its finances. a a a AT this he was exceedingly successful. In four years’ time he made hundreds of speeches to almni associations, chambers of commerce, bar associations, and other groups. A golden stream such as Yale had never seen, started flowing into its coffers. Mr. Hutchins studied law while he was carrying on this work, and after two years began lecturing. At the age of 28 he was made acting dean of the law school, before he had passed his own bar examinations. To be admitted to the Connecticut bar he had to sign his own credentials from the law school. He at once set about rearranging the law curriculum and break-

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ing stodgy scholastic precedents. He added economists, psychologists and sociologists to the law faculty to broaden the outlook of his students and to help them relate about a question of law is its effect on the contestants and the community rather than what judges have said about it in the past. His bitterest hates are reserved for useless tradition and sham. Perusing still farther the idea of correlating knowledge, Hutchins founded, with Dr. Milton C. Winternitz, dean of the Yale medical school, the institute of human relations. With a $7,500,000 endowment fund raised by Mr. Hutchins, the institute is making scientific studies of man's behavior from the mental and physical, individual and social viewpoints, for the greater enlightment of doctors, lawyers, teachers, psychiatrists and others. a a a TN 1929, when he was just 30, he was made president of the university of Chicago. He has served also as chairman of the commission of inquiry on national policy in international economic relations, and chairman of the national advisory council of the United States Employment Service. Mr. Hutchins is six feet two, and probably will edge out Dhdersecretary Rex Tugwell as handsomest man in the administration. He has black hair and flashing black eyes. He is poised, self-assured, and radiates energy. His friends say they never saw him betray nervousness except the day he was calle don, as newly installed president of Chicago university, to bestow a law degree on his father, president of Berea college, Kentucky. His first school years were spent at Oberlin, and even there he was a debater. Yale conferred its highest oratorical honors upon him. He did not care for sports, in school or later, but he is fond of the theater and opera. He worked as waiter, tutor and lumber jack to support himself in college. He has a dry caustic wit. and brusque mannerisms, which did not prove assets during the time he served as chairman of the Chicago regional labor board. He has been more successful as executive than as mediator. He is descended from New England ancestors who excelled in medicine, the ministry and teaching. He drove an ambulance in the United States army during the war, and his service with the Italian army followed the armistice.

LIBRARY ASSISTANTS NAMED AT SHORTRIDGE Girls Also Selected for Health Senice Department. Mrs. Nell Sharp, Shortridge high school librarian, today announced the girl library assistants at Shortridge for this year. They are Barbara French, Marjorie Scarborough. Jane Plock, Kathryn Neat, Marianne Cummings. Olive Edwards, Mary Snow, Florence Izor. Dons Brown, Betty Wichman. Helen Duckwall and Betty Noonan. Miss Ina M. Gaskiil, head of the Shortridge health sendee department. has announced the assistants for that department. They are Bethel White, Mary Adams, Dorothy Bray, Donne Suiter. Mildred Lane, Louise Goldsmith, Elizabeth Wilson, Francis Hillsmeyer, Evelyn Pyle, Elsie Jordan, Beverly Schreider, Margaret Siph and Maxine Brosart.

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Entered a* Secopd-Clasa Matter at Poatoffiee. Indianapolis. Ind.

Fair Enough wnOORPEGLER THE professional experience of your correspondent has not yet included a day in court at the trial of the Whitney-Vanderbilt suit over the custody of Mrs. Vanderbiit’s little girl.iGloria. However, some of the evidence against Mrs. Vanderbilt has been disclosed in the papers and the implications are mildly alarming. It is reported, for instance, that a servant of Mrs. Vanderbilt took the witness stand to say that she kept a scandalous book in her residence. Presumably this fact, if it is a fact, was men-

tioned by way of indicating that Mrs. Vanderbilt is unfit to mother her own child. If the possession of a dirty book can be said to bear upon the right of a parent to supervise the training of a child, there are thousands of mothers and fathers in this country just now whose possession of their own progeny remains undisturbed only for lack of formal accusation and prooof. Your correspondent knows parents who have been reading a recent book called "Appointment in Samara.” and would have no trou-

ble at all scaring up a plurality in an average gathering in favor of his opinion that this is a wantonly and unnecessarily filthy book. To keep the judging on a plane of fairness, he would agree to bar from the jury all members of the clergy, but would have to insist that the defense agree to exclude all degenerates. Tlie one group would be sure to condemn it and the other to hail it, each according to its own predilections. tt a u The Old Man Gets Popped OF all the persons with whom your correspondent has discussed appointment in Samara, not one has failed to marvel at the audacity of the writer and the publishers in putting on paper for general circulation such writing as John O'Hara wrote and Harcourt-Brace brought out. Nevertheless, "Appointment in Samara" is a best seller of the moment and every household which is host to a copy is subject to the same accusation that_ was brought against Mrs. Vanderbilt. ' * This is not to argue that every’ one who does read the current dirty book, w'hether it be “Appointment in Samara” or “Finley Wrenn,” an earlier and. if possible, nastier novel of the present year, is a low character and unfit for the moral responsibilities of parenthood. The literary taste of the public is distinctly adventurous and people seem able to read smut without loss of character. They would be pretty weak if they couldn’t. Good parents wade through such w'orks and remain about as they were before and the kids get about the same sort of raising that they would have received if Dickens had been their favorite author. Good parents also get drunk and have been doing so for (he last fifteen years and the children in sophisticated families have learned to tolerate such conduct and pursue their own way with dignity. The soused father formerly was the exclusive childhood experience of the tenement youngster, but social customs changed when prohibition came and the well-kept children of the stylish suburbs presently learned to identify the old man’s foolish skylarking and their mother's high-pitched babble with the cocktail shaker and the orange rinds on the drainboard of the kitchen sink. a a a Just a Family Custom TO seize all the children from all the parents who have been plastered conspicuously in the home in the last fifteen years would be to double the capacity of all the orphan asylums in the country. For Mrs. Vanderbilt’s own sake your correspondent hopes that it can not be proved that she attended the current edition of the Ziegfeld Follies which was running last week in Chicago, and confessed to enjoyment of the same. A dirty book somehow is less offensive than a filthy stage show, although it would run into considerable wordage to explain just why. The Ziegfeld Follies, with particular reference to two of Miss Fannie Brice’s scenes, is the dirtiest show your correspondent ever has seen outside the Streets of Paris concession at the Century of Progress. Yet in Chicago, the original home of the League for Decency which is harassing the moving pictur? business with boycotts and priggishness, the Ziegfeld Follies was playing to a packed house and enthusiastic acclaim. The filth grew riper as the show progressed, but Miss Brice never was appreciated more than in her astonishingly raw exaggeration of the dirtiest scene of "Sailor Beware,” which was the dirtiest show in New' York last year. The courts had better take it easy until things take a turn. To read a filthy book, to get tight or laugh at a filthy show is no evidence of moral turpitude these days. It is a custom of the country. (Copyright. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate, Inc. I

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

'T'HERE'S a rare possibility that you might be endangered by the condition called coronary thrombosis, which is a blocking of any of the small blood vessels which supply the heart with its blood. But here is a situation that is helpful to understand, so that proper measures may be taken for recovery. Whenever anything in the nature of a disease disturbs the coronary arteries, the effects are soon felt by the heart. These vessels are constantly In motion, because the heart itself is always in motion. The coronary arteries are end vessels. Any solid substance coming loose into the circulation may get into one of them and block it. When this blocking occurs, the condition is called coronary thrombosis, because a blood clot will form promptly where the blocking takes place. Just as soon as the blood supply to the heart is stopped, the tissues begin to die because of lack of nutrition. If the patient lives, scarring takes place. Associated with this there is intense pain and not infrequently fever. a a a SOMETIMES the blocking may be merely in the form of a spasm of the blood vessel, which means a great deal for the possibility of recovery, although at the time when the spasm occurs, the patient feels much the same as he would were there a complete blocking. If the patient lives following blocking of the blood vessels of the heart, other small blood vessels gradually may take over the problem of supplying the blood to the heart. In many instances blocking occurs in association with hardening of the arteries and high blood pressure. Some doctors, however, feel that hardening of the arteries is not an immediate cause of the condition. Quite frequently there is severe pain in the chest and difficulty with breathing in cases of this type. It has also been suggested that occasionally the blood itself may be responsible, because blood is thicker in some persons than in others and also flows more slowly in some than in others. a a a HTHE various suggestions that have been made indicate how carefully the medical profession is studying this serious condition, which is now responsible for the large number of deaths from heart disease. More than half the persons who develop this condition die. The rest recover, but must, of course, govern their lives accordingly thereafter. The length of time they live after having an attack depends largely on the way in which they control their lives. They must do only partial work and must give the heart every possible opportunity to make a complete recovery. Fortunately for the encouragement of those who have an occasional attack of this condition, there are records of men who have lived ten and twenty years after having a first attack of this disease.

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