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It Seetns to Me HEYWOD BROUN asam d:d I **xp**rt to f-*‘e th** nam* 1 of Dr. Willie Wirt upon the front page of the papers. But there it i* and quite deservedly. ‘ Wirt derides Butler charge ” To be sure, this is a brand-new role for the Indiana educator whose avocation has been viewing with alarm. He Is what you might call an amateur, or gentleman, derider. Easy with that whip. Doc. and be careful in posing for cigarets. " Far-fetched and utterly fantastic'” These are strange words to be coming from Dr Wirt, and par-

ticularly in reference to a “plot.” "Any one of normal intelligence.” the doctor is quoted as saying, “would find it impossible to believe that such a menacing scheme was put on foot by our veterans. Such a sum as 13 000 000 would be a mere bagatelle. Where could you raise any kind of army at $6 a man?” Come. come, doctor, aren't you being a lihle captious as well as ungrammatical? Are your pupils under the Gary system actually encouraged to employ the locution “kind of a." and have you forgotten that you raised the score of an entire and complete revolution on the

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strength of a one-cocktail dinner on a little farm m Virginia’ And. what's more, acordlng to the testimony, you didn't even have a cocktail. II hose * Pint ’ h This? Iw THINK you're being a little unfair to General Sm**dley Busier I can't remember that he cracked down on your red herring, and so why should you be severe about his Fascist bogev’ Live and let live, gentlemen. After all. you ooh belong to the noble army of headline hunters And theres the rub, I fear. Dr. William A. V-irt. the small-town pedagogue, grudges General Butler his place in the limelight. It is a severe case of professional jealousy. The click of the cameras, the eight-column streamers. Kleig lights and interviews, grease paint and the smell of the notices! Yes, Doc, I understand, and I sympathize. For a little while William A. Wirt lived in that vast and palatial suite known as the front page. It was tough to be compelled to return to cloisters and teach the voung idea to shoot. ‘ Now, Johnny, listen carefully. If I got 1.923 columns of space out of raising a red scare how many columns will General Smedley D. Butler have if he gets two and a half times as much space by raising a Fascist scare? You don't know. Johnny? I’m ashamed of jou. But the voice of the veteran teacher betravs the fact that Johnny is not really the object of his rancor Dr. Wirt doesn't want to hear the answer. He knows it already. The red army of Tugwells which the Indiana educator conjured up overnight is being wiped our by Butlers boys in buckram. It is too much to expect William A. Wirt to accept this in good taste and silence. m m m Sounds O. K. to Broun I N matching the phantom legions 1 must admit that I find far more substance in the Smedley Butler scare than ever existed in the farmhouse rebellion After all. Dr. Wirt only had one dinner on which to build, while the general gets about a little more widely Butler, like Wirt, is strictly teetotal, but he has been around conclaves where both conversation and talk flowed very’ freely. In mv own experience I can report truthfully that I have heard far more wild and loose talk'from conservatives than in any radical gathering. No soapbox orator at his warmest achieves as many harsh names for President Roosevelt as some portly gentleman manages to think up over a seotch and soda. Tnere are retreats in Manhattan where the brass rail seems to be charged with electricity. And down the corridors of the clubs there rings the inspiring slogan. "Not one more motorboat for tribute!' f haven’t the sliehtest doubt that Smedley Butler heard many captains, or at least second lieutenants, of finance talk in terms of millions of dollars and half-million armies to save America from Tugwell and taxes. As an old devotee of free speech let me admit that even the owners of finance and industry have a right to shoot off their faces. But I would like to borrow and slichtlv amend a popular slogan. Gen-, tie men. if you don’t like this country’ why don’t you give it back where it came from?" .Copvriahf 1*34. bv The Ttmesi •

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

SCIENCE advances swiftly upon many fronts. Astronomers peer through their telescopes at distant nebulae. Physicists build huge vacuum tubes u-.th which to smash atoms. Chemists create new substances never before found in nature. Biologists bend over their microscopes seeking the secrets of growing cells in plants and animals. In Washington. D. C.. is Science Service, an organization founded by the late E. W. Scripps to keep tab on the march of science. Members of this organization have collaborated under the editorship of its director. Watson Davis, to produce "The Advance of Science.” The book deals with the progress of science in many fields. Chapters on biological topics were written bv Dr Frank Thone. those on medical topics by Miss Jane Stafford. Miss Emily Davis discusses archeological subjects and Miss Marjorie Van De Water, psychological ones. J. W. Young contributes a chapter on transportation The remainder of the book, one assumes, is the work of its editor. Mr. Davis. A big book of 400 pages, it is attractively gotten up in a modem format with modernistic type faces and mar.v interesting and excellent illustrations arranged in the modernistic fashion. U U • THE book begins with a chapter titled. “Unpuzzlme the Universe.” Here some of the latest discoveries of astronomy are discussed, the distribution of the exterior galaxies, the formation of supergalaxies. Lemaitre s theory of an expanding universe and other interesting topics. The mKI i> titled. Within the Sims Familv ” Sunspots and radio, variations in the sun s heat, eclipses, life on other pianets and meteoric showers are discussed. The third chapter, dealing with cosmic ra>s. emphasizes the fact that there is as yet no accepted theory about these mysterious rays_ Dr. R A. Millikan has one theory of their nature. Dr. A. H. Compton, another. U • * f v similar fashion, the book discusses other fields I with chapters on the atom, nuclear chemistry, heaw hi.irogcn. giand*. race betterment and so on. The tone of the book is journalistic. Subjectaare not discussed m the systematic order of a text book FTequcr.ilv. there is an abrupt jump from one topic to another The book is scientific reporting and quite obviouslv the daily newspaper reports of Science Service w**re drawn upon in its preparation. The book serves its avowed purpc*e admirablv . lt tell, what is new in the world of science Students will find its pages a storehouse of valuable mfoirnauon and all readers should find it interesting "The Advance of Science.” should help vou sol e at least one Christmas shopping problem. It is Polished by Doubleday-Doran at $3 50.

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q on which Anger should the engagement and wedding rings be worn? A—The third finger of the left hand q—Do hair and nails grow after death? A—So. Q-Why .ire radicals called “left wing and conservatives Vight wing" ui political parlance? A—The terms originated from the seating arrangement* In European parl'amentary bodies, where the conservative parties ire seated on the right of the chamber and those of liberal or radical view* on the left side. Q— When it l 12 o'clock noon, central standard time in Chicago, what time is it in Shanghai. China? A—Twelve o'clock midnight.

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THE NEW DEAL AND THE JONESES

Family Hails Slum Clearance Project as Big Forward Step

Th* Dal in all It* phan'i increasingly clear to the Joneaes as th analaie It oeer their upp*r table and in the livinc room in the evenings. The mtere departs from the recoeery program aa they talk It over in plain, simple language, aa In thia article, fifth of the aeriea. * * BY WILLIS THORNTON CHAPTER FIVE. I HAD to go down through Liberty street tonight on my way home, to see Jim Watson." announced Pa Jones as the family sat down to dinner. "And I mean to say I never realized before what a rotten row of sharks there are down there. "Why. it’s no better than the big-city slums you read about in the papers. There are whole rows of those houses that ought to be torn down—they're a menace to health, and a good fire, if it started there, would sweep half the town.” John looked up from the napkin he was unfolding. “Didn't I hear you say something the other night about how the government slumelimination and housing plans were getting too far into the backyard of private business?” he asked. • Seems to me that private owmers and builders have had plenty of rhance to wreck the shacks on Liberty street and build decent homes. But they haven’t—and you know that 80 per cent of men in the building trades have been out of work for years. “Don't you think it was about time the government or somebody stepped m and at least put on a demonstration of what ought to be done?” “I guess John's got you there. Pa." smiled Ma Jones. “Now you carve the roast, afid don't get snarled up in another of those arguments.”

'.Just the same.” went on John Jr., "every one of those slum projects and model apartment developments is going to help rhange streets in some citv that has streets just like Liberty. Every city’s got just such neighborhoods." HUM EVERY one knows in general that this i* true. Yet it took a survey by civil works administration employes to find out exactly how poorly housed America really is. The CWA . orkers looked over 57.000 buildings in sixty-three cities. They found that 35.000 badly needed repair. 2,000 weren't fit to live in. 8.000 had no running water. 10.000 had no gas or electric lights, and 23.500 didn't even have bathtubs. There aren't even too many houses, as some think. A "ecent survey by the National Association of Real Estate Boards showed that there are few more vacant houses than there are families "doubling up.”

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

WASHINGTON. Nov. 23.—1 t now has been nearly a year since George Peek setup his Import-Export bank. Its creation was welcomed with hurrahs. Press conferences were held to explain in elaborate detail how the bank would function. Detailed studies of foreign trade were issued showing how the ImportExport bank might restore American exports abroad. It was proposed that the bank should grant credits to American

STEALS COP'S GUN, GETS 40-DAY TERM Negro Violates Hospitality of Cincinnati Police. The general idea expressed in municipal court yesterday was that a policeman's revolver, ladies silk hose and a man's coat and grip belong to the owners. Edward Fuller, Negro, accepted a night's lodging at the Cincinnati police station and then walked away with an officer's revolver and holster. Picked up in ’he railroad yards here, he will serve forty days at the Indiana State prison for possessing concealed weapons. Lou Richardson. Negro, took twenty pairs of lady's silk hose from a downtown department store and was fined S2OO and costs and sentenced to 180 days at the state farm. Paul Cook. Ft. Wayne, asked a bellboy in a downtown hotel for another man's coat and bag, and the bell boy. absent-mindedly gave l them to him. Later Cook was ari rested in a taxi, fined $lO and costs | and sentenced to serve ninety days ; on the prison farm.

POLICE AID ASKED IN HUNT FOR SCHOOLBOY Two Youths Disappear on Way to Classes Monday. His parents today asked The In- ! dianapolis Times to aid in the search for Robert Bruce, 13. of 833 Madison avenue, who has not been seen since he left for school last Monday. Robert is described as blond, with blue eyes, about 5 feet tall, and weighs 100 pounds. When last seen he was wearing a white shirt, red slip-over sweater, blue lumber jacket. grey pants, grey cap and brown shbes. Hp left for school with Howard Land. 14. of 834 South Delaware street, who also is missing. The Land boy is blond and a bit shorter and heavier than the Bruce boy He was wearing a black suit, black shoes, blue shirt and gray cap. EMMET CLUB HONORS THREE IRISH MARTYRS William H. Foley Addresses Group at Dinner. The Emmet Club Wednesday night honored the memory of three Irish martrvs. assassinated Nov. 23, 1867. William H Foley recounted the story of the trial of William P. Allen. Michael Larkin and Michael O'Brien who'attempted to free prisoners being sent to prison by the British government. Among the diners were: Tne Rev. Thomas Finneran J. J Liddv. P. J. Hannon. T J. McCarthy. Dennis Sullivan. Frank Quinn. John Connelly. David O'Connor. Clarence I. Wheatley, R. J. Boyle. Dr. T. J. Walsh. T. J. Faran. Harry McMahan. John M. Sullivan, Mr. Foley and Walter W. Watson, Mayor Sullivans secretary.

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Administrator James A. MofTet of the housing act estimates that the country could use 500.000 new' houses every year for ten years. President Henry L. Harrison of the United States Chamber of Commerce guesses 750,000. Yet building trades workmen are unemployed and few people seemed willing to risk money in building or even repair work. That is why the government offered to lend money for it, and then, when people still hesitated to borrow, started itself to build. ana THE first effort was a $200,000,000 corporation under the public works administration. It tried to lend this money to cities or companies organized so as to make only a limited profit. This moved slowly. Thousands of plans were submitted. but many. Secretary Iskes found, were backed by real estate dealers who had old dead subdivisions on their hands and wanted to unload on the govern-

business men wishing to finance foreign sales also to foreign countries desiring to purchase here. Despite all the ballyhoo, only one loan has been made. It was for $4,000,000 and went to the tiny republic of Cuba. It was negotiated, incidentally, by the state department, not the Import-Ex-port bank. Reason for this inertia is twofold. One is the fact, that revival of foreign trade is a lot harder than the enthusiastic Mr. Peek and his cohorts realized. Credits alone will not do it, unless these is some prospects of those credits being paid back. The second was a bitter clash of personalities. Originally, the Import-Export bank was to have gone hand-in-hand with negotiations of commercial treaties. But Cordell Hull wanted to negotiate commercial treaties himself. And he didn’t want George Peek around. So each went off into his own corner. And each has done practically nothing. When the history of the New Deal is written, the clash of personalities will get credit for a terrific toll in errors. a a a HARRY HOPKINS and his relief administration receive about 5.000 letters a day. Probably no mail, not even that of the White House, contains more pathos, more human tragedy, and yet more unconscious humor than this flow' of letters. Here are a collection of quotes recently collected: "I am glad to say that my husband is now' deceased.” "Thus is my eighth child. What are you going to do about it?” "Unless I get my husband's money soon. I shall be forced to lead an immortal life.” "In accordance with your instructions I have given birth to twins in the enclosed envelope.” a a a COLONEL EDWARD M. HOUSE, white-haired political adviser of the Wilson administration. still is the gallant southern gentleman. Chatting with newspapermen in the Poughkeepsie railroad station, following his visit with the President at Hyde Park, he ventured: "I suppose you have met all the beautiful young girls at Vassar college?" The reporters shook their heads dolefully. "We've done our best, colonel.” one of them said, “but we don't seem to have much luck.” That is too bad.” condoled House. "You really are missing something. I've never seen such lovely young women.” "Perhaps.'’ piped up a newsman, “you could lend us a few telephone numbers?” The colonel laughed uproariously. "Oh. I was only talking in theories, not tangibilities.” he replied. iConvrisrh? 1934 bv United Fetur§ Svndicte Inc.)

SCHOOL GETS ART GIFT Charcoal Sketches by Julia Sharpe Given Washington High. Mrs. Julia Graydon Sharpe, artist. has given four charcoal life studies, each of which passed the criticism of the New York Art Students League, to George Washington high school. The pictures will be used by the advanced art classes.

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“Seems that private owners and builders have had plenty of chances to wreck shacks and put up decent buildings. But they haven’t. Don’t you think it’s about time that the government stepped in and showed them how?”

ment at a good price. As the object was to provide cheap housing, this was impossible, for you can’t rent houses cheaply that are built on dear land. So the government took the next step. It formed the Emergency Housing Corporation to buy land, condemn it if necessary, to build houses itself. Such a condemnation suit :s on now' in Atlanta, Ga., to get land for a large apartment house for

CITY STAFF IS URGED TO JOIN RED CROSS Employes Receive Letter From Sullivan. City employes were urged today to enroll as American Red Cross members, in a letter addressed to municipal departments from Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. “Let me urge all employes of the city to join whole-heartedly in the American Red Cross roll call,” the mayor said. “All of us are well aware of the wonderful work of this organization in relieving distress and suffering. The least we can do in helping the Red Cross to continue its fine work is for each of us to continue membership. Additional supplies totaling 7,000 w'ere issued to residential workers today. The campaign closes Thanksgiving day. Preliminary reports show an increase over last year’s membership.

CRIME PREVENTION TO BE MEETING SUBJECT Indiana Committee to Hold Session at Claypool Tomorrow. Possible legislation for the simplification of the criminal code, police work and prison management was to be discussed by the twenty executive committee members of the Indiana committee, in a meeting this afternon at the Claypool. Kenneth Ogle, chairman, announced. In addition to suggestions for the suppression of violent crime, the organization was to discuss possible addition to its program of preventive measures against crime. The organization has units in various communities throughout the state, representing practically every civic* organization in each community.

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Negroes. In twenty-three cities such plans are under way, and each should set an example in cutting out rickety, insanitary, crime and disease-breeding slums. But the government, in the housing act, also encouraged private owners to repair and build houses. It offers to guarantee 20 per cent of such loans by private banks, so they w'on’t lose anything. And $80,000,000 of private

I COVER THE WORLD a a a a an By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—On the basis that world conflict springs from clashing economic as well as political conditions, the administration has evolved a broad plan of action calculated to correct the present dangerous trend. Ambassadors and ministers from Europe, Asia and Latin America are returning to Washington for conferences with state department officials on trade and related conditions abroad.

The lifting of foreign exchange curbs, announced by the United States treasury, is only one of a series of moves, made or contemplated, to increase the flow of international commerce as speedily as possible. Francis B. Sayre, assistant secretary of state, expressed the government’s point of view' in an important speech w'hich went almost unnoticed because delivered on the day the country was counting votes in the New Deal landslide. He said: "The day of dynastic wars is happily past. But unfortunately other forces are at work which threaten to take their place as disturbers of the equilibrium of the w’orld. “It is when political or economic conditions become intolerable that most men fight. The turn which economic issues take today in large part spells the destiny of tomorrow’. “War or peace in our time may hang upon the choice which nations are now making of the economic policy which is to rule the world. “At this juncture two alternative economic goals present themselves: First, rational self-suffi-ciency and, second, rationalized international trade. Today, as every one knows, the drive of w'orld forces is strongly in the direction of the first.” a tt a CONTRARY to the general belief, he continued, economic nationalism is not new. History show’s a high correlation between

money has been thus drawn to repair jobs. a a a THIS brought the Jones discussion closer home again. "Well. I know one thing." sighed Mrs. Jones. “It'll be a relief to have new bathroom fixtures after all these years.” ’ Our job here in this house is a little one.” deprecated John Jr. “But if enough people will borrow money for jobs like ours here, •it will make work for many in the building trades. "You can even get these loans for building a house if you have a lot. You know how hard it’s been to get- a bank loan for improvements or building. “Now the government figures that by partly guaranteeing the bank's loan, and by getting lumber dealers to cut prices, it can get building started again." “TITELL, I* hope they do." put in W Pa Jones. "And I'm like Ma. I’ll be glad when we get the new ba'hroom in this old place of ours. And have you noticed how many people have been jogged up by all this government housing activity? “You saw where private owmers are tearing down old ratty tenements in New York and other cities. And I was talking to Old Man Moggridge the other day—you know he owns that row’ of old houses down by the canal —and he says he’s tearing down three of the worst, and fixing up the rest. “I guess a lot of people feel that way, now that the government is setting the pace." “You've hardly touched your dinner. John.” Mrs. Jones cut in. “Now’ you two stop talking, and eat. That’s important, too, don't forget. (Copyright. 1934. by NEA Service. Inc.) NEXT: Home Ownership—the Joneses have neighbors among the million families’ whose homes have been saved from foreclosure by the government.

wars and economic nationalism. And w’ars accentuate the trend, nations trying, by means of tariffs and other barriers, to make themselves self-sufficient after each conflict. Causes become effects and effects, in turn, become causes. Today the world faces a wholly new' situation. Tariffs as instruments of trade obstruction are being relegated into the background. High as they are, other instruments are far more deadly, such as quotas, exchange control systems, clearing and compensating agreements, government import monopolies and control boards. “Os necessity,” he declared, “this sort of regimentation tends to hold economic life in a static mold . . . The industrial and commercial regime is frozen. Here lies the way to disaster. Life can never be static. Whatever devices are evolved to prevent change merely result in generating and compressing gases which sooner or later w’ill produce explosion. “Economic nationalism is not the pathway to peace. But,” he added, “the alternative is not necessarily a return to the old laissez-faire methods of the last century. “The only way to save our international trade is to increase our imports through additional trade ... If the United States does not through its own action bring its international accounts into balance. the rest of the world w’ill do it for us. In fact they are at this moment achieving this result by closing their markets to our exports.”

FOOD OFFICIALS WILL HOLD MEETING HERE Central States Group to Hear Prominent Speakers. The Central States Association of Health, Food, Drug and Feed Officials will begin a two-day discussion of dairy products Monday at the Claypool. Martin L. Lang, state food and drug commissioner, is arranging the program which will include addresses by Dr. W. S. Frisbie. Washington; Dr. J. O. Clarke. Chicago; and S. A Postel, Cincinnati. Harry Klueter, Madison, is president of the group and Mr. Lang is secretary-treasurer. More than 100 are expected from Indiana. Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kentucky, Ohio and Michigan. SEEKS NOMINEES FOR TAX ADVISORY BOARD McNutt Calls Upon Seven Leading Groups for Suggestions. Governor Paul V. McNutt has requested seven leading groups, representative of business, agriculture and labor, to nominate a representative each to serve on an advisory committee for the revision of the state income tax during the coming general assembly. The associations to which the Governor sent such invitations are the Indiana Farm Bureau, Indiana Manufacturers’ Association, Indiana Bankers’ Association, Indiana Chamber of Commerce, Indiana State Federation of Labor, Indiana Real Estate Association and Associated Retailers of Indiana.

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Fair Enough WESTBROOK MR NEW YORK. Nov. 23.—Young men wishing to attend the United States military academy during the next few years might do well to acquaint themselves with the use of the hoe and rake as well as the dish cloth and broom in order that they may succeed in their careers when they are awarded their commissions and sent out to duty in the army. The activities of the army officer have undergone a distinct change under the New Deal and many of those who completed the old standard cur-

riculum at West Point have been meeting problems for which they were not prepared by their professional schooling. The academy itself. however, is slow to change and continues to specialize in firearms, the tactics of war. discipline and morale, although such subjects have been outmoded to a large extent, by the developments of the last two years. The CCC. or corps of nature lovers as it affectionately known, is the new branch of 'he service which has presented he most bothersome problems to the officers. In the corps of nature lovers the

officer who entered the service with the old conception of things military and confirmed it through four years of strict schooling himself facing conditions which were never discussed in the books at West Point. For one thing, he has been asked to maintain discipline without military authority as the members of the CCC still are civilians, though enlisted. The orthodox penalties for telling an officer to shut up or go to hell do not apply to an enlisted civilian. Dealing with an enlisted soldier, the officer would .now immediately what to do. It tells in plain language in the book. tt tt tt Musn’t Do That, Gus BUT if an enlisted civilian tells an officer to shut up or go to hell the officer must resort to tact. He might say. “Oh, now Gus, you know you do not mean that,” or if he prefers to appeal to the offender's sympathy, “Why Gus, you have hurt the lieutenant's feelings." Sometimes, dealing with an enlisted soldier, a young and robust officer may peel off his blouse and insignia and smack the ears off the soldier somewhere down behind the canteen. John Murrell, late full back at the military academy and late lieutenant in the infantry, did something of this kind to settle a distinctly personal problem between himself and a sergeant. The results were said to have been satisfactory even to the sergeant, who was convinced thoroughly that he had over-spoken himself. But if the sergeant had been ah enlisted civilian, he might have sent to town for a constable to arrest the lieutenant for assault and might have sued him, too. The civilian is very sensitive about his constitutional rights even when he is enlisted in the corps of nature lovers. Shrubbery culture, the raking of autumn leaves and the creation of custommade lakes are subjects distinctly outside the military training of the West Point cadet. Tourists driving through the reservation may see the young men in gray hopping around machine guns on certain afternoons or drilling with muskets, but the shrubbery and leaves are attended to entirely by civilian professionals and the only lake on the premises is a reservoir which was put in years ago. tt tt tt Housekeepers of the Future OF course the officer in the corps of nature lovers has the assistance of expert civilian gardeners and custom lake-makers for this phase of his duties but in the department of domestic science he is the final authority and on his own. In the matter of seeing that the beds are made, in all the problems of (lusting, sweeping, cooking, sewing and ordering the groceries, he is the little wife and helpmeet of his household. A cashing officer who went through West Point to become a soldier has remarked somewhat gloomily to your correspondent that he has traded his uniform for a housekeeper’s apron, his sword for a dishcloth and become a male landlady for a lumber camp. He looks forward to the next war hopefully, however. Learning something every day about a specialized branch of the art of war he thinks he might emerge from the conflict covered w'ith honors and lint as the general of the rug-beating Twenty-seventh, the best damn brigade of housekeepers in the army. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health —BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

SCIENCE has gone far enough with treatment of tuberculosis to be able to tell why some persons are likely to get this disease while others are not. and what there is in the physical structure of a person to make him more predisposed to this disease than are others. Os course, you know that each person has a constitution which is individually his own. There seems to be some evidence that all of us inherit our constitutions largely from our ancesters and that some types of persons can resist disease better than others. It is know'n also that the germs vary in their makeup and that they must find soil to which they can accommodate themselves. ana THEREFORE, in considering how persons get tuberculosis, we have to know the structure of the bodies, the number and kinds of germs of tuberculosis with which they come in contact, the kind of foods they eat, the homes in which they live, and many pther similar factors. To state this matter in another way—both the constitution, or heredity, and environment are important in considering the likelihood of one’s developing tuberculosis. Os course, w’e can change our environments. We can provide persoas with proper nutrition, including a sufficient amount of mineral salts and vitamins. We can make sure that they get enough outdoor exercise, and enough rest. a a a WE can make certain that the jobs at which they work do not bring in irritating factors, because we know that the constant breathing of dusts of a certain type may be associated w'ith an increased amount of tuberculosis. We can endeavor to find work and conditions of work which are congenial, because even such factors as these may be associated with a lessening or increasing of resistance. We know also that a human body that has been infected with influenza or measles is in a state in w’hich tuberculosis is more likely to occur. We can not do much to change the anatomical structure of the human being, and thus far we have not fully established special methods of inoculation against tuberculosis to increase the specific resistance against the disease which may be*naturally in the body. However, we can make certain that those who are likely to develop tuberculosis be kept away from sources of large doses of the tuberculous germs. If society does its utmost to control those factors that it can control, it will probably do a great deal to lessen the total amount of tuberculosis that occurs in any community. Q—What was the name of the very old man who appeared in "The Old Dark House” in 1932, and how old was he? A —John Dudgeon. He was 102 at the time. Q—Give the scheduled date and place of thu year's Army-Notre Dame football game. A—Tomorrow at Yankee stadium. New York City.

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