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It Seems to Me HEYIWOD BROUN ?F I had a pulpit I would preach a sermon taken fom the tenth chapter of the Second Book of the Chronicles There in the thirteenth verse it is ' written: “And the kins? answered them roughly; and Kng R'-hoboam forsook the counsel of the old men, and answered after the advice of the young men. saving: ‘My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto; my father chastised you with whips but I will chastise you with scorpions.’ ” Rehoboam was speaking to his people and an-

swering their complaint that their lot was burdensome and their woes mar,V. It was his notion that he might bring peace to a rebellious land by promising them still harsher measures than any they had known. It seems a curious and a crackbrained attitude, but today in America many Rehoboams roam the land and for the mast part they are called “practical men ' or hard-headed business executives.” There have been many strikes in the land berause labor organizations have felt that in certain instances the rights guaranteed un-

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der Section 7A have noon withheld from them. The rules of our land seem to have hit upon a remedy to solve all that. Many corporations now are embarking on the theory that if you promise labor nothing it will immediately become peaceful and contented. And again there has been the problem of public relief. Here again the Rehoboams of 1034 are ready to speak up. 'Their remedy to quell the unrest of the unemployed is to suggest that relief be cut or abolished and that the whole matter be left to private charity. a a a No Brief for Sinclair "VJ ATURALLY I am thinking in part of the JLN strange situation in California. Max Stern, a Scripps-Howard correspondent, states in a dispatch that in Los Angeles county alone, “Dw’cll in varying degrees of misery, some 400.000 people on relief, nucleus of the Sinclair rebel army.” In the same story Mr. Stern estimates that "The owning classes” have set out to raise $1,200,000 to defeat the plan which Sinclair says will end poverty in California. In other words Frank Merriam has been set up to defeat a scheme for the relief of unemployment. I hold no brief for the EPIC plan. I don't know whether it will work. But at least it represents a try. If Upton Sinclair is defeated there will be bitterness among the homeless in California this winter. Frank Merriam is pledged to protect the property holder from the higher taxes which any readjustment program would entail. But when the business men of the community insist in the months to come that they can do nothing more to relieve the hungry, some starving men will hit upon strange ideas. In the market place a ragged individual will rise and point an accusing finger at the tall towers of commerce and finance. And he will ask a question. He will want to know’, ‘ Why is it that there w r ere ample funds to buy an election for Frank Merriam, but now there is nothing for those who suffer?” And many will take up the cry of, ‘‘Millions for Merriam and not 1 cent, for relief.” Such a slogan would be a gross exaggeration. Starving men are prone to exaggerate. a b a Not a Fantastic Dream IHAVE heard many call Sinclair impractical and dangerously visionary, but I am blessed if I can understand the so-called common-sense of those men of property who seek to end unrest by spreading a gold carpet in front of one of California's most palpable stuffed shirts. The erv has been raised that Upton Sinclair is a Communist. Os course he Isn't. Neither am I. If I were the new’s from California would fill me with unholy joy. I would urge all my friends and fellows to vote for Merriam. This is not fantastic. I know’ a number of extreme radicals who were disappointed in Mr .Hoover's defeat in 1932. They said quite frankly, ‘ Four more years like that and what on earth could stop a revolution.” I am not predicting that red rebellion will follow immediately upon the heels of Merriam if he is elected. In his time and in mine nothing even resembling that may happen. But I do assert that the surest way to promote unrest and strengthen the argument of those who believe in the violent overturn of government is to put harsh dunderheads in office through the excessive and corrupt use of money. If I were a millionaire and I wanted to remain a millionaire I would do my very best to keep Merriam out of office. Men with money generally want privilege from the government which they support. But this is not a day and age in which the wise conservative will ask for second helpings after every course. The intelligent malefactor of great wealth would be much smarter if he said to Frank Merriam, “Pretend you don’t know me.” I think anything over a million is rating Merriam a little beyond his worth to his own crowd. There can be victories bought at too dear a price. After all, once upon a time, there was a king named Pyrrhus. (Cotnrieht. 193*. bv The Tim,-si

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

r | 'HiC most talked of star in the universe this A month, according to Dr. Harlow Shapley, diirotor of the Harvard College Observatory, is Zeta Aurigae. More telescopes are being trained on this star than have ever been trained on one star at the same time in the history of astronomy. Zeta Aurigae is not a very bright star. In a casual glance at the sky. you would never notice it particulars or stop to ask its name. However, you can easily find this star which is now getting so much attention from the astronomical world. Start with the Big Dipper in the northern sky. Its pointers lead the way to the North star. Then look to the northeast of the North star. You will see a group of fairlv bright stars which form a letter •\V ” The “W” is pulled slightly out of shape and tipped over on its side. This is the constellation of Cassiopeia. East of Cassiopeia, about a distance equal to that separating Cassiopeia from the North star, you will find a very bright star. You can not miss it because it is one of the brightest and most beautiful stars in the autumn sky. This bright star is Capella. brightest star of the constellation of Aurigae. “Capella" means the “shegoat." Just below Capella you will find a triangle of three faint stars. s a a EPSILON is nearest Capella of the three "kids.” Zeta. the star in which astronomers are now interested, is the farthest from Capella. Now that you have located Zeta Aurigae and seen it for yourself, you will be more curious than ever to know why astronomers should be so interested in it. You need a spectroscope to discover the reason. Even in the telescope Zeta Aurigae looks like an ordinary star. But the spectroscope revals that it is not a single star but two stars revolving around each other. There are many double stars in the heavens but this is a special type of particular interest. It is what is known as an eclipsing binary. The orbit of the two stars Is so oriented with respect to the earth, that as the two stars go around each other, one passes in front of the other. Consequently, when the dimmer of the two gets in front of the brighter one. there is an eclipse. a a a AS a result, the astronomers of more than a dozen observatories have had Zeta Aurigae under observation for the last three months. At the Harvard Observatory more than 3 000 photographs have been marie to record the changes in light intensity as the eclip’** took place. which reveal the fact that the star is a binary. When the eclipse takes place, however, the spectrum of the brighter star will disappear entirely. Ther* will be left only the spectrum of the dimmer star. In addition, there are interesting effects to be gotten only at the instant * i eclipse begins or ends. Prom these studies it t sped that new and interesting information can tamed. Because of the motions \\e stars there will be chances in the mixed specu —it u these changes

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WALL STREET and the DEPRESSION

Security Commission Outgrowth of Senate’s Investigation

The nate investigation of deflated Wall Street cost J 250.000. Just two weeks a*o. the fall fruit of that investment was born when the securities exchange commission took over supervision of the nation's securities markets. Other benefits also are revealed in the following article, the fifth of a series of six written for this newspaper hv John T. Flvnn famed economist and journalist. In preceding articles Flynn has looked backward at the stock market crash and its causes, the depression years and the events leading up to and set in motion by the senate inquiry.

BY JOHN T. FLYNN ‘Copyright. 1934. NEA Service. Inc.)

NEW YORK. Oct. 26—We will now look at the grand results, if any, of all the fierce energy put into the senate's Wall Street investigation. You can find lobbyists, Wall Street lawyers, smug reactionary souls who are fond of saying that investigations never accomplish anything. That is the most stupid, truthless statement ever uttered. There

are abuses in society which nothing can reach save exposure. There are germs for which there is no prophylactic save the spotlight. Frequently a little investigation can uncover a multitude of sins; can take the secrecy out of racketeering; can make powerful pious manufacturers take off their masks. This investigation was the greatest episode of unmasking in our history. Thdt must be put down as number one among its fruits. It cost the government $250,000. That was the best investment I have ever heard of. The government has recovered at least a million dollars in income taxes brought to light. It will save scores of millions through tax leaks plugged up because of the investigation. Even private persons have collected. The Chase National bank alone saves SIOO,OOO a year through the cancellation of the outrageous life pension which had been voted to Wiggin of the Chase bank. Suits against various faithless executives have been started by swindled stockholders based on the committee’s revelations.

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The chief results thus far, however, are three important law’s already enacted. They are the Glass-Steagal banking get, the securities act of 1933 and the national securities and exchange act. These are really the most far-reaching pieces of legislation passed under the New Deal. a a a a a a

UNDER the Glass-Steagal Act changes long demanded in the banking system w’ere adopted. Most important are: 1. The federal reserve board is empowered to check too great a flow of credit into security loans by cutting off reserve credit to banks which exceed proper limits. 2. Investment bankers can no longer act as commercial bankers. Under this the great firm of J. P. Morgan & Cos. have been forced out of the security business which they ruled with an iron hand for so long. 3. Investment bankers can no longer serve on the directorates of commercial banks. 4. National banks and banks enjoying reserve privileges are compelled to cut off their stock affiliates. For instance, the National City bank is a corporation. The National City Company w’as an entirely separate corporation. Their ownership w r as evidenced on the same stock certificate and both belonged to the same set of stockholders. It was as if the bank were split into tw r o corporations. One was called a bank. One was called the National City Company. In the latter the bankers were enabled to do all the things which the law forbade the banks doing. It was an outrageous subterfuge invented by clever lawyers. It worked untold losses on the American people. That has been stopped. 5. An attempt has been made to bring holding company banking under some sort of control by forcing holding companies which own banks to submit to examination. There are a good many other

THE NATIONAL ROUNDUP s 0 0 a b a By Ruth Finney

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Industrial bootlegging is cne of the first problems NRA’s new compliance division will find staring it in the face. The practice of evading code wages and hours by letting men and women do hand work at home is increasing rapidly, reports from different states indicate. Eighty-five codes prohibit home work. Nevertheless whole families, including children, continue to w’ork day and night for 2 and 3 cents an hour.

Mrs. Elinore M. Herrick, director of the New York regional labor board, reports that home work is "the most pressing industrial issue” of the coming winter. It is battering down wage and work standards, she says, until Japanese working conditions “seem quite attractive.” The Connecticut department of labor reports that whole families are making lace in their homes and earning only 53.38 and 54.20 a week, and that more than a fourth of these families have to be carried on the relief rolls. In Texas women making infants’ dresses with fine tucks, drawnwork and embroidery are having to compete with Mexican and Puerto Rican workers and are earning as little as $2 a week. 'These conditions are destroying industrial firms which operate in factories and comply with code provisions, officials believe. sea THEY are keeping purchasing power down to a low level. anck they are forcing the government to help support the workers of employers who thus avoid paying living wages. When NR A first began studying the homework problem, Labor Secretary Frances Perkins said in a letter to General Johnson: “No method has yet been evolved to prevent exploitation of women and child wage tamers and serious undercutting of wage standards when the home is turned into a work shop ... It has been suggested repeatedly that the only way of dealing effectively with home work is to abolish it.” After a year's experience with code prohibitions Mrs. Herrick believes that “to prohibit home work altogether fosters bootlegging.” and suggests that "uniform standards for control of home work should be established under the NRA” so that wage rates will be the same for home work as for factory work. If NR As new compliance machinery is not able to end unfair competition by either of these methods, a drive will be made this winter for enactment of iegistlation on the subject. a a a ONLY fourteen states have laws covering home work. In thirteen states and in the territories and island possessions such

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statutory provisions in that act. The act was no sponsored by the administration for some strange reason. It was, I think, because the treasury department w’as under the dominion of Wall Street. But following Mr. Pecora’s revelations of the National City bank and the Morgans, it W’as no longer possible to stop the passage of the act. a a a MORE important, however, are the two acts relating to securities. They must not be confused. One is called the securities act of 1933 and governs Ure issuance of new securities. The other is the national securities and exchange act and creates a commission to control the stock exchanges of the country. In the twenties the biggest racket of all was the security racket. The gangsters we fumed so much about probably got away with a hundred million or so. The stock racket cost the American investors billions. I do not refer to the blue sky racket run by blackleg stock salesmen. I speak of the very respectable security racket which w r as operated by some of our most respectable citizens. For every dollar taken by the George Graham Rices, the Ponzis, the Wolves of Wall Street by illegal schemes, ten w r ere taken bjl the Insulls, the Krugers, the Wiggins, the Mitchells, the Detroit bankers, the Cleveland bankers, by perfectly lawful means; by issuing stock in established corporations, well filled wdth water, and then blowing them up with wind on the stock exchange and passing

code observance as NRA can bring about will be the only check upon employers attempting to smuggle bundles of home work to needy families. The problem is a difficult one since the employer operating without a factory shifts his base of operations frequently. The workers are unable to help bring about compliance since they are unorganized, do not see each other and have no way of checking on what wages others are receiving, and are constantly afraid of losing the meager income they receive if they complain. In New York state there are 150.000 home workers, it is estimated, New York's law on the subject only applies to cities of more than 200.000 poplation, and as a result, bundles of home work are being mailed to families in rural districts. Artificial flowers, lamp shades, shade pulls, veils, powder puffs, lead pencils, artificial eyelashes, dress trimmings, curtains, bedspreads and gloves are some of the articles made at home, in addition to lace and embroidery. Altogether a hundred industries are making use of home work to a greater or less extent. $245 CLOTHING TAKEN FROM PARKED AUTO Chicago Auditor’s Car Looted; Others Also Broken Into. Police today are seeking thieves who last night stole clothing and personal belongings valued at $245 from the car of Jack Sharp. Chicago traveling auditor, while it was parked in front of 13 West Maryland street. Others whose parked autos were robbed last night included Louis Baundwell, Harrison hotel. SSO worth of. clothing; Orville Gleieh, 2002 East Tenth street, clothing valued at S3O; Carl Bechtel, 191 North Perkins street, $25 worth of clothing; Marjorie Arnold. Greenfield, 525 coat, and Alice Heck, Greenfield, $lO jacket. Democrats Meet Tonight There will be a Democratic meeting at 8 tonight at the home of Mrs. Charlene Ray, 1347 Edgemont avenue, to which all Democratic state, county and city candidates have been invited. All persons interested are invited to attend.

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them on to the gullible public through a combination of ballyhoo and other people’s money. This was made possible because the promoters could operate in secrecy and escape the legal responsibility of their conduct. Under this act new issues publicly offered must be registered with the securities exchange commission. complete information about them must be disclosed. That information is open to anyone. And the promoter, banker or corporation executive w’ho wilfully misrepresents the facts can be held liable for the losses sustained by his victims. How Wall Street has howled about that act! It had one terrible fault. The Wall Street lawyers could find no way to get around it. But they have succeeded through the aid of allies in the treasury in getting it amended and, I am sorry to say, weakened. B B B THERE are many things the act does not attempt to do. It does not put the government in the business of advising you about bonds and stocks. The commission will not tell you w’hat to buy,

LUTHERANS CONCLUDE CONFERENCE IN CITY Dignified Newspaper Publicity Lauded by Ohio Pastor. A three-day session of southern Indiana Lutheran pastors’ conference closed here today following a general business session attended by 120 delegates. Dignified newspaper publicity was described by the Rev. W. C. Clausen, Cincinnati, 0., as a definite asset in missionary w’ork. Speakers at yesterday’s sessions included the Rev. H. M. Zorn, St. Paul Lutheran church; the Rev. O. C. Rupprecht, Evansville; the Rev. W. Krug, Waymansville, and the Rev. Charles Stephen, Bloomington. At the conference service last night the Rev. Paul Dannenfeldt, Ft. Wayne, central district vicepresident, delivered the sermon.

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when to buy it or w’hen to sell. It w’ill not give you any advice as to your conduct. It will send to any citizens for a small fee complete information about any new issue. But you still have to use your noodle. t For the first time in our history Wall street has been annexed to the United States. The federal government has asserted its right to govern the stock exchanges. Plenty of teeth were taken out of this act before it was passed, but large powers w’ere delegated to the commission, which can be as drastic as it chooses. The chief features of this law’ are as follow’s: No exchange may operate as such after Oct. 1, 1934, unless it is admitted to registry by the commission. And before it is admitted to registry it must comply with the requirements of the commission, furnish elaborate information about itself, satisfy the commission that it can enforce its authority and agree to abide by the rules of the commission. Trading on exchanges is not permitted in unlisted securities and before securities can be listed, application must be made to the commission. In that case elaborate information about the corporation

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

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—A pay roll tax to carry the burden of next year's federal outlays for the unemployed has been proposed by FERA experts. They have been making a study of possible revenue sources to finance the undiminishing cost of public relief. The suggestion, submitted to the President, has been sent by him to Secretary Morgenthau, for consideration along with other tax proposals. The efficacy of a pay roll tax as an income producer is predicated on the following calculations:

The current annual pay roll volume of the country is estimated at $50,000,000,000. Assessing this at the rate of 15 per cent would produce a return of $2,500,000,000. This income would amply cover the expected relief load for next year. Sponsors of the plan concede

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must be supplied. The commission may then make rules governing reports by corporations. This is a powerful weapon. a a a MARGINS may be fixed by the federal reserve board. The act offers as a guide the proposal that brokers shall not lend more than (1) 55 per cent of the market value of a security or (2) 100 per cent of the lowest market value within the preceding thirtysix months, but not more than 75 per cent of the current market value—whichever is the higher. In effect this means that speculaors may buy on margins ranging from 25 to 45 per cent. But the reserve board may make them even lower than that. This is the most indefensible portion of the act. The board has since adopted this minimum requirement and Wall Street has expressed itself exuberantly about the board's leniency. Asa matter of fact these margins are lower than those now fixed by most brokerage houses. This ridiculous provision w’as forced into the act by the President’s treasury advisers. There are numerous provisions in the act which seem like very drastic rules. But read closely they are not rules but a grant of power to the commission to make rules. The commission can, however, make rules effecting every part of the exchanges’ lives. The most important, at the moment, have to do with the functions of brokers. The popular notion that the exchange is made up of brokers who represent their customers is a pure fiction. The brokers do the bulk of the trading. Mr. Pecora proved that in July, 1933, out of 120,000,000 shares traded in, the brokers or their firms or partners w’ere on one side or the other of the market for their ow’n accounts in the case of 63,000,000 shares, which is over 50 per cent. a a a THE commission is at present studying this subject and is considering the adoption of a rule (a) to prohibit specialists from speculating for their own account; (b) to prohibit floor brokers from using the facilities of the floor. In other words this rule, if adopted, will compel all brokers to act as brokers and nothing else, and to refrain from gambling for their ow T n account. The act has a number of excellent provisions to put an end to pools. It adopts two methods, (a) It makes members liable for losses sustained by customers because of pool activities of the member, (b) It gives the commission pow’er to take from the members the implements used in pool manipulations. These are options, publicity, credit, making-a-market operations (that is, fictitious activity to stimulate business), short selling. Here it will be of Interest to add that the commission is establishing a bureau of economic information to which investors and financial institutions may apply for information about its work. TOMORROW—The Future of Wall Street.

that it has several serious political and economic drawbacks; that it would put a premium on keeping own pay rolls, thereby boost production costs. They argue, however, that it meets many of the objections to a sales tax, which the President opposes, and which is being used already in many states to raise relief funds. sea MASSACHUSETTS’ recent hot Democratic senatorial primary has had a unique aftermath. General Charles H. Cole, the unsuccessful candidate, is suing James M. Curley, former Boston mayor and the victor. Cole’s action is based on these allegations: That in the course of the contest he wrote a speech and sent out advance copies to the press; that Curley obtained one of these copies, and the day before Cole was to speak, delivered the address as his own. So Cole is seeking damages on the ground of plagiarism. nan CORDELL HULL is an oldfashioned Jeffersonian who believes in free speech, freedom of religious worship and at times even enjoys a good free-for-all fight. But some of his satellites in the state department fail to follow the teachings of the master. When Hull delivered an address before the Associated Press it contained some interesting statements regarding freedom of the press and dictatorships. A summary of the speech, cabled to ail American embassies abroad, contained the following: “Congratulating our country and declaring its services were of incalculable value to our people, the secretary observed that ‘freedom of the press is accepted almost universally . . . The most serious threats against peace today are in those countries where the press is controlled by government officials having power to declare or force war.” This summary was received by the American embassy in Berlin.

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Fair Enough M PEGIER SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Oct. 26 Your correspondent has just reeled away from an interview with Upton Sinclair and some members of his brain-storm trust. The world is going around and around. There are wheels spinning in space, an old windmill, bolts and nuts and, everywhere in the confusion, there is an enormous Dane named Hjalmar Utzebeck. a writer, who is a composite of Jack London's Wolf Larsen. George Fitch’s Ole Skjarsen and the mighty Popeye, the sailor, of the moving pictures. Mr. Sinclair lay on one of the twin beds in his room with a sporty topcoat pulled over his thin shanks. Mr. Utzebeck stood immense beside the bed, turning now’ and again to scribble on a sheet of hotel stationery, remarking that he just had to finish this

letter which he is writing. Mr. Sinclair is so frail and Mr. Utzebeck so huge that the mighty man seemed to regard himself as protector of the Mahatma. Mr. Sinclair, on the other hand, regafded him as a pet giant. Mr. Utzebeck. at a word from Mahatma, might jump off a high roof or lick a roomful of policemen. But, at another word, he would retire to his corner and be still. There was great devotion between them. Also present was a lawyer named John Packard, who comes out of Chicago, but lives in Los Angeles. There were a couple of

other members of Mr, Sinclair's brain-storm trust, but they refused to spell out their names w’hen it came down to that. They only were humble toilers in the pecan grove who desired no personal publicity, but only wished to serve Mahatma Sinclair. B B B His Houses Collapsed ONE was a fallen-away capitalist who said he had seen his business go down and down until he now was converted thoroughly to the EPIC plan of economy. He had been a manufacturer of comeapart houses in the days of the Los Angeles land boom. He also had acquired a bank. He had, furthermore, ow’ned a moving picture company in Hollywood. He seemed strangely exultant as he told of the terrible decline of his come-apart house factory under capitalism. He mentioned the crash of the bank with a pride which confused your correspondent's confusion. And he positively was boastful when he came to the failure of the moving picture plant. The come-apart man said Mr. Sinclair had one fine trait in common with President Roosevelt. Mr. Sinclair was willing to consult expert intelligence on technical matters. The triple-crash man was there as an economic expert, qualified by failures in manufacturing, finance and art. He was there as a patriot, too. willing to sell to the state of California his burdensome and almost inoperative factory for the manufacture of canned bungalows. There was no mistaking his strange delight in failure. ‘‘And do you want to know something else?” he exclaimed brightly. “President Roosevelt has been running in the red in his personal finances, too. What do you think of that?” The fourth member had little to say for himself. He, too, was an outlander who came to California twenty years ago, but found San Francisco inhospitable. He conveyed a suggestion that San Francisco had given him the bum’s rush. He therefore continued on to Las Angeles where he found the local temperament congenial and w’ent native. He still w’as miffed somewhat to recall that the native Californians of San Francisco had treated him coolly. The mills of the gods grind slowly, but now, after twenty years he was sitting in at a mighty conference of the outlanders w r ho are bent on changing California's government to a socialistic what-not. a b a Smoke and Sinclair TYJ'R. SINCLAIR is as elusive as smoke. Your •*-*-*■ correspondent asked him to name a few projects among the many w’hich he has undertaken in his time which had been carried through successfully. Well, he replied in a frail voice, there w’as Helicon hall, but that burned down. Then there w’as his publishing business, but he had been compelled to appeal to the public for money to support that one. Still, he insisted brightly, he finally had paid off all the borrowed money. Yes, but after all the years in the publishing business, he was still a poor man. The venture was a commercial one and it had not paid. He drifted on like a faint odor in a light breeze. Now you smelled the merest whiff of a definite answ’er in his conversation. The next instant it was gone and the discourse was only words. He was still a believer in his old principles, but he wasn’t a Socialist any more. He hoped to see his barter plan extinguish the profit system in California. That would communize the state, but he wasn’t trying to change the form of government. At this point the large Mr. Utzebeck broke in. He would explain it in simple terms. Mr. Utzebeck took the middle of the floor and began to wave his enormous arms in circles, explaining the EPIC plan in terms of great wheels spinning in space and windmills, bolts and nuts. Nuts seems to be an appropriate note on which to conclude today's installment. (To Be Continued) (Copyright. 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

SOMETIMES the ligaments which hold up the organs in the abdominal cavity relax or stretch so that the organs drop from their usual positions. Organs naturally function best when they are located properly and when the blood vess’ls, nerves, and other structures associated with them are not under any unusual strain. A good many persons know about the possibility of dropping of the intestines in the abdomen, but few have realized that the kidneys, the spleen, or other organs may also drop. Movable kidney is mast common in women. Out of 667 cases seen in one hospital 584 were in women and only eighty-three in men. Most often it is the right kidney that drops down rather than the left. a a a IN many cases considerable reductions in weight by women who have been fat causes the fat to drop away from around the kidney and thus to let the structures down. In a few instances in man the dropping of the kidney seems to be associated with the lifting of heavy weights. The doctor can find out whether the kidney is in its proper position by examining the patient with his hands, since, if the patient is thin enough, the kidney can accurately be felt through the wall of the abdomen. It is also possible, through use of the X-ray, to take pictures of the kidney after the giving of drugs'* which localize in it and then to determine where the kidney lies in relationship to other structures. a a a 'T'HERE are some cases in which the kidney will A twist so as to pull on the blood vessels or other structures associated with it. A sudden exertion or standing for a long time may bring on an attack. When this occurs, the patient has a severe pain, nausea, and sometimes vomiting and sometimes collapse. Frequently there is a chill. In many cases also the flow of fluid from the kidney is interfered with by the twisting or strain. In most cases a person who has a movable kidney can get relief by wearing an abdominal support. When there is severe pain, nausea, or vomiting at frequent intervals, it may become necessary to operate on these patients to fix the kidney into position. 'r

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