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Todays Science DAVnfwETZ BY the use of the radio, the airplane, and oth?r modem "working tools.” the United Stales weather oureau expects to make immense strides in 1935, leading to forece *s of greater accuracy and somewhat longer range than present forecasts, says W. R. Gregg, chief of the bureau. Hopes for this progress lie in the bureau’s adoption of the latest forecasting method, the so-called ’ air mass analysisln past years, weather forecasting was done aimost entirely from surface observa-

tion*. Originally, no other type could be made, although pilot balloons. carrying automatic instruments. were occasionally sent aloft. The airplane not only demand•2d knowledge of conditions above the earth’s surface, but also made i*. possible to study these conditions in their relation to what took place at the surface. Pinas for the reorganization of the weather bureau’s program were recommended by a subcommittee of President Roosevelt's scientific advisory bo*rd. Dr. Karl T. Comptor., president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is chairman of the SAB.

THE now program outlined by Mr. Gregg for 1935 includes the training of forecasters in the use of the new method, the making of more frequent and better observations of atmospheric conditions up to three or four miles above the earth’s surface, and more frequent and detailed reports of surface conditions, including ob*' , r , 'ations at sea. Mr. Gregg says that it will take from three to five years to tram forecasters thoroughly along the new lines of work. Meanwhile, the second part of the program—the making of high altitude observations—is already under way. With the aid of the United States army and navy flyers, observations are being made daily from twenty stations distributed over the United States. mm* ALLOTMENTS from the civil works administration have made it possible to begin the anaylsis of a vast amount oi data which has been accumulated over a period of years, Mr. Gregg reveals. From the study of these statistics, it is hoped that some facts about weather cycles can bt learned from which longer range forecasts can be made. Included in the data now being analyzed are the observations made during the International Polar Year. Thousands of observations made at sea are also being studied in the hopes that they will throw light on the origin of hurricanes. Pilot balloon observations are also being made from two to four times daily from seventy-five stations. Funds provided by the public works administration have made it possible to replace unstable and inaccurate river gauges with modern accurate ones. These gauges are necessary for keeping tables on flood-making rivers so that warnings can be issued.

Questions and Answers

Q—On what date did congress declare war on Germany, and what were the causes? A—Following a recommendation by President Wilson, congress declared war against Germany April 6. 1917. Among the causes that led up to the declaration were the sinking of the Lusitania, 114 American lives lost; unrestricted submarine warfare; the sinking of several American merchant ships; the discovery that members of the German embassy and other German diplomatic representatives had been plotting against the allies on United States soil; the Zimmerman note proposing an alliance with Mexico, and the general European utuation. Q —What is heat lightning’ A—More or less vivid ana 'xtensive flashes of light, without thunder, seem near the horizon, especially at the close of a hot day. It is ascribed to far-off lightning flashes reflected from the higher strata of clouds. Q—ls there more than one training school for United States naval officers? A—The United States Naval Acadamy, Annapolis. Md., is the only school operated by the United States navy for training officers for entrance to the navy. Q —Name the living widows of former Presidents of the United States. A—Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. William Howard Taft, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, and Mrs. Thomas J. Preston (formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland). Q—What is a "Charley horse”? A—A sudden bunching of muscles into a hard knot. It is one of the most prevalent and painful of athletic ills. Q—Name the principal universities in England. A—Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol and Reading. There are university colleges in Exeter, Nottingham. Southampton, Leicester and Hull. There are special agricultural colleges at Carlisle. Cirencester, Glasgow, Newport, Kingston-on-Soar, Wye, Uckfield and Ripley. Q —What languages are included in the Celtic group? A—Gaulish; Goidelic, including Irish, Scottish, Gaelic, and Manx; Brythonic, including Welsh, Breton and Cornish. There are four dialect groups of the Welsh language. Q—What is the area of Fairmount park, Philadelphia? A —lt contains 3,597 acres. Q—What is the source of the quotation: ‘‘As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he?” A—The Bible, Proverbs, 23:7. Q—When was the motion picture "Capital Punishment” released? A—January, 1925. Q—Who was Nazimova? A—A Russian actress. Q_What is the distance between each base and from the home plate to the pitcher's slab on a regulation baseball diamond? A—Distance between bases—9o feet; from home plate to pitcher's slab—6o feet 6 inches. Q—What is a fjord? A—A long narrow arm of the sea, usually with high rocky banks. Q— Who was Vesta in ancient mythology ? A—Goddess of the hearth and domestic senice. Q—What studies does one have to pursue to obtain the degree of Doctor of Divinity? A—That honorary degree is conferred by higher institutions of learning upon clergymen of all denominations for outstanding achievement in their profession. Q—What is the chemical composition and calorie value of mangoes? A—The average composition of fresh mangoes is: 81.4 per cent water, .7 per cent protein, 2 per cent ash. and 17.2 per cent carbohydrates. The caloric value is 335 and they contain vitamin C. but vitamins A and 3 are lacking or insufficient. Q —What is the highest percentage of alcohol by volume that can be by fermentation? A—The bureau of industrial alcohol says that 18 per cent alcohol by volume is the highest that can be obtained by fermentation, and this only under most favorable conditions. The alcohol, when it reachea 18 per cent, prevents the yeast from producing additional alcohol, or in other words destroys or kills the yeast. Q—Does maritime law require that a captoin go down with his ship In case of disaster? A —There Is no maritime law in any country which Imposes upon the captain such personal sacrifice. The custom has held deep fascination among seafaring men of all lands for centuries, and Is merely a tradition of the sea.

Whl about Hijr Loaf? What fores* of politic* and persorality hare ho'sted him from a ridiculed “Klnfflsh 1 ' ta a Wrto'.i dictatar af Louisiana? Wht is hi* influence spreading elsewhere? Is “Huey i.ont for President” on idle boast or a propl’oey? The Indianapolis Times aad other Seripps-Howard newspapers base seat Thomas L. Stokes of their Washington bureau to Louisiana neighboring states ta pu* these and other questions to Long's friends and enemies, and to And the farts. Mr. Stokes, a native southerner, is a veteran national political correspondent. The first af his dispatches follows. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 30. Down -here in the Mississippi Delta, where living has long been graceful for some and hard for others, people are beginning to feel the pains and pleasures—according to their circumstances —of the nation’s first state dictatorship, an experiment that may have far-reaching national implications, Huey Long is not only kingfish, but almost king. And he encourages rumors that he may be a candidate for the presidency. That rumor may not be taken lightly once one knows the man and appreciates the lessons of the last national election, and understands why thousands and thousands flocked to the Sinclairs and the Bilbos. Just now the field seems as fertile as Mississippi bottom land. Huey is king and he can do no wrong among his followers—that heterogeneous mass which is tied to him by jobs, by fear, by the glitter of his promise of $5,000, a car, a radio and no debts, and still others by simple, blind loyalty to a demagogic political wizard with few equals in American history. They follow, almost unquestionably, this cocky, versatile fellow who does not hesitate to use a varied assortment of inducements and pressures to hold his henchmen in line and to punish his enemies, who stalks about like a feudal baron with his bodyguards and retainers, who calls out troops before elections and makes the populace shiver, who bulldozes a legislature and brings it into submission by a combination of seeming hypnotism, cajolery and discriminate distribution of favors. Today Huey Long is, in effect, all three branches of state government here —executive, legislative and judicial. He clinched his power

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in that vaudeville second special session of the legislature a few days ago. The whip is his. He is. in effect, Governor as well as United States senator. At least, Governor O. K. Allen, a boyhood friend who has remained faithful unlike others, appears to function only as a rubber stamp. The legislature is Long’s, as it demonstrated so eagerly twice this year when Huey ordered its members about like so many hilarious schoolboys. H tt LONG supporters dominate the supreme court by virtue of an election victory and a legal trick. Huey can intimidate lawyers of the state by the recently granted power to pass upon all members of the bar, which carries the hidden power to de-bar. He controls the state university system and courts student support by personally ballyhooing the football team, by giving lavish gridiron parties, by leading parades and cutting up like a freshman. The school teachers are in his camp. He has virtual control of the election machinery. He controls the administrative boards and agencies. He is, in short, the state. He gathered up the final vestige of power at the recent special session. But the last stronghold of the enemy had fallen before him earlier—when he marched into New Orleans at the November

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30—The “all quiet” sign is about to be hauled down on the NRA front. Plans are being completed secretly by the Blue Eagle rulers for a direct assault on the group of defiant industries hitherto refusing to submit to codes. The proposed attack will take the form of a forcible imposition of a code on one of the recalcitrants. Exactly which industry is to receive the contemplated buckshot has not yet been determined. The NRA board expects its club wielding

to be met with legal resistance, and it is scanning the field carefully to select the most advantageous battleground. A number of industries, chief among them telephone, telegraph, insurance, tobacco, packers, wholesale druggists, still are uncoded. During his regime, General Hugh Johnson frequently threatened to impose codes, but never went through with it. Now his successors have determined to make the test. The Blue Eagle legal division, headed by young Blackwell Smith, believes that it is ready for a trial of strength. And with a session of congress convening shortly, at which the future fate of the NRA is to be determined, the board has decided that the time has arrived for a showdown.

AN unusually large delegation of reporters waited on RPC Chairman Jesse Jones following his return from a conference with railroad executives in New York. “Have you any comment to make on your visit?” he was asked. With great gravity Jesse replied, “Yes, I have.” An expectant hush descended on the gathering. With impressive solemnity Jesse continued: “I should say it was about the dullest meeting and the dullest luncheon I ever attended in my life.” m m m THEY have a way of coming back in politics. Major A. V. Dalrymple, chief of prohibition enforcement during the early months of the New Deal, is once more on the government pay roll. Dalrymple's first tenure was as brief as it was turbulent. The brawny California!' was in office only a few days when he declared war on the press, then turned around to shelve Commander John D. Pennington, ace of the dry service's field directors. But a few weeks after he had prepared to ship Pennington off to Hawaii. Dalrymple had his picture taken with his arm around Pennington's shoulder. Shortly thereafter during Cumming's reorganization of the dry bureau, Dalrymple was out. Now he is back as a member of the legal division of the federal communications commission. Seated at a desk in a large room crowded with many other workers, the one time dry generalissimo is expansive as ever, describes himself as the “official hand-shaker of the commission.” maw Harvey couch, former member of the RPC, is at work on an extensive expansion of his already large water power properties in Arkansas. He just

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HUEY LONG—‘LOUISIANA—I’M IT!’

Not Only a Kingfish, But Almost a King — That’s the Senator

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

election and took over the old city machine, an organization that is generally admitted here to be rotten and stupidly run. He only bides his time to take the city over on his own terms. a tt • r |’\HE outsider comes into the A state to find those who have fought Huey, those who .have tolerated him as a harmless buffoon, in complete and para.yzed bewilderment. They do not know exactly what has happened. But thej are learning that it is a great ceal. They find themselves confronted suddenly with a rude set of facts, not a theory. And they don’t know what to do. The Long enemy of today is, in many cases, the friend of yesterday, and vice versa. In the course of his amazing, fourteen-year career, the conservatives frequently have been in his camp. The newspapers which now criticise him have in the past supported him on this issue or that. Political leaders now discredited were once allied to him. But they are defeated and he is on top. There has been little consistent opposition. He has risen to power through divisions and feuds. He has weaved in and out skillfully, rarely down, never out. He has done many things for the state. He points to miles and miles of shining white highway where once was no track through

has entertained a group of prominent industrial and financial leaders, among them Owen D. Young, Charles G. Dawes and Rudolph Hecht, president of the American Bankers Association, at his summer home near Hot Springs, Ark. . . . Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, wife of the President’s second son, has set a style among Virginia’s smart riding and fox hunting set. At the first of this season’s famous Loudon hunts she appeared in a white leather sports coat with hat to match . . . Senate Democratic Floor Leader Joe Robinson’s indignant rejection of Senator Vandenberg’s offer of a partisan truce during the coming session of congress has an ironic angle. In 1930, following strong Democratic gains in congress, Joe joined with Alfred E. Smith, John J. Raskob and Jack Garner in a public statement extending a similar offer to President Hoover. The declaration stirred up such an outburst of criticism in Democratic circles that the Democratic leaders who backed it hastily withdrew. (CoDvriKht. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) rewe\aT~huwt~for girl Youth Sought for Questioning in Disappearance of Child, 3. By United Press CONNEAUT. 0., Nov. 30.—Police today renewed the hunt for Rita Margaret Lent, 3-year-old Richmond township girl, who vanished mysteriously eight days ago. A young Conneaut man. reported to have left the city suddenly, is being sought for questioning, police said. COMMUNISTS TO MEET Conference to Protest Execution of Srottsboro Boys. The Indianapolis Young Communist League will sponsor a Scottsboro-Hemdon conference at 7:30 Wednesday in the Union Tabernacle Baptist church. Senate avenue and St. Clair street. All city youth organizations have been invited to send delegates. The conference is being held as a protest against execution of the Scottsboro boys, two of whom are to die in the electric chair, Feb. 8. REED CLUB To~MEET “Labor and the Law” Will Be Subject of Symposium. A symposium on "Labor and the Law” will be sponsored by the John Reed Club tonight in its rooms, 320 Columbia Securities building, 143 East Ohio street. Several prominent speakers will discuss the subject, giving particular emphasis to the legal and social aspects of criminal syndicalism in various states.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1934

.01'Italy has its Mussolini, Germany its Hitler —and \ 1 ! *<ouisiana its Lor.g—Herr Huey der Kingfish, “monarch” /' j "3“ of all he surveys. “Sbare-the-wealth” founder, superpolitician and dictator of Louisiana’s thousands through \ \ I I \ i ] acts of the state's legislature, approved by the Governor \ ' \ -T and the courts, he nc*v has extended his rights to N v ' collegiate football and journalism at Louisiana State H-

the swamps and wilderness, to new bridges where there were no bridges before, to frt?e textbooks for school children, to local improvements of various sorts, to cheaper gas and electricity, to lower telephone rates. * tt m AMONG the solid citizenry, who concede Long's contributions and who recognize his power, how he got and how he holds it, the issue centers now on the loss of civil liberties in Louisiana.

THIEVES GET $350 IN CLOTHING FROM AUTO Twenty Coats, Two Vests, Two Pairs of Pants Are Loot. Max Koeppel, New Rochelle, N. Y., registered at the Antlers here, reported to police yesterday that the theft from his automobile of clothing valued at $350. The clothing, twenty coats, two pairs of pants and two vests, was stolen while the car was parked in the lot adjacent to the Antlers. Paul R. Stewart, Decatur, 111., last night told police that a black Gladstone bag with a shaving kit and clothing, the latter valued at $25, had been stolen from his automobile while it was parked at Senate avenue and. Ohio street. CONGRESSMAN IS HURT J. Ridley Mitchell, Tennessee, Injured in Auto Crash. By United Press NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 30. Congressman J. Ridley Mitchell of Tennessee’s Fourth congressional district, was in St, Thomas hospital here today with a broken leg, a broken arm, cuts on his head and possible internal injuries as the result of an auto accident last night on highway No. 70, three miles east of Crossville.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“Well, you must be worn out. You’d better meet me downtown after you get them all to bed and we’ll drof> in to see that. Shirley Temple pfcjture.”

They wake up to find themselves threatened from all sides. Business men won’t talk about Long publicly. They are afraid he will punish them. They are intimidated. They are afraid of. his weapons—his power over their credit through control of the state banking machinery, his power over their taxes through the new income tax statute. He has used such powers before to crush opposition. People here are concerned about

NEW DEAL STILL IS BADLY IN NEED OF THAT PROOFREADER

By Scripps-Hoicard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—The New Deal still needs a good proofreader. For the third time in six months, an official White House order has misspelled an appointee’s name. This time it is that of Frank T. Douglass of Oklahoma City, named last week to the textile labor relations board. The executive or-der-signed, sealed and deposited in the archives—says the name is “Douglas.” The same thing happened to Judge Walter P. Stacy, chairman of both the textile and steel labor boards. The executive order spelled the name "Stacey.”. Each man continues, however, to draw S4O for each day he mediates. But in the third case the appointee lost several weeks’ pay. William J. O’Brian’s job as customs collector at Buffalo was held up by the treasury because he was confirmed under the name of “O’Brien.” He didn’t take office until he was renominated and confirmed unde." the right name.

the loss of their liberties and worried about their skins. And they wonder what Huey may mean beyond the delta. There in much talk of the possible spread of Longism beyond Louisiana and Mississippi, where he also exercises large influence, to other states in depression. They watch the spread of his “Share The Wealth Clubs” and recognize the magic of his slogan: “Every man a king.” Next: “Louisiana, I’m it!”

C. OF C. GOOD WILL TOUR TO HELP STATE Trip Through Southwest, Mexico to Stimulate Trade The good will tour through the southern part of the Mississippi valley and Mexico, sponsored by the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, should be an important stimulus to Indiana manufacturing, William H. Arnett, managing director of the state chamber, said yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hinkle, Indianapolis, have been chosen to manage and conduct the sixteenday trip which will begin Jan. 15. Chambers of commerce, manufacturing ana trade organizations, social clubs and civic and booster groups are urged to send representatives. PROSECUTOR FIGHTS LAMSON DISMISSAL District Attorney Also Opposes Bail for Killer Suspect. By United Press SAN JOSE, Cal., Nov. 30.—District Attorney Fred Thomas entered court today determined to block attempts to have slaying charges against David A. Lamson dismissed. Mr. Thomas also planned to oppose any attempt to have Lamson released on bail pending disposition of the case returned to the Santa Clara county jurisdiction by the state supreme court in reversing a previous sentence of death.

ANDERSON MAN IS MUTILATED IN ATTACK Assailants Are Two Men, Three Women; Condition Is Serious. By United Press ANDERSON ind., Nov. 30.—Clyde Richards 36, was reported in serious condition in Si. John’s hospital here today while authorities investigated his story he had been brutally mutilated by three women and two men. Richards said he could assign no motive for the attack and could not identify his assailants. W. R. C. TO GIVE PARTY Will Entertain Past Presidents at Christmas Party A Christmas party and luncheon will be given past presidents of Major Robert Anderson post. No. 44, Woman's Relief Corps, Monday, Dec. 10, at Ft. Friendly, 512 North Illinois street. Mrs. Leona Welling, Mrs. Cora Summers. Mrs. Bertha Anderson, Mrs. Cora Swartz and Mrs. Clara Belle Bottorff are in charge of arrangements. M RS. BUSH IMPROVED Condition of Baseball Leader’s Mother Reported “Fair.” Mrs. Ellen Bush, mother of Owen Bush, baseball pilot, spent a restful night at St. Vincent's hospital, where she is fighting an attack of pneumonia, and her condition was described as fair by physiclans, f

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I Cover the World WMPHISr SIMMS WASHINGTON. Nov. 30.—An indulgent smile lights the faces of Mexicans and Central Americans here these days when ribbed about becoming subjects of Louisiana’s Kingfish. “The senator,” they remark reminiscently, “was born at least ninety years too late. But for tha; slight slip-up of nature, what fun Huey would nov be having!” A century ago and even less, they remind, one of the favorite sports of American pioneers, bored by the arrows of the Indians, was to organize filibustering expeditions against Mexico and Central America. One of these, by coincidence, was also named Long— James Long. Like Huey, he seemed imbued with the idea that Mexico would be nice to have as a part of

the United States, or vice versa. But Jimmy Long's invasion of Texas—then part of Mexico—did not get very far. This little flyer at annexation took place in 1820. But even before that another high adventurer, one Philip Nolan. had tried it. And so had Augustus Magee both without much success. Sam Houston, however, did the job, with the help of other Americans, high and low. A Virginian by birth, as a boy he went to live with the Indians in the west. In 1813 he enlisted as a common soldier and was given a commission. General Jackson took a great liking to him. Moving to Tennessee, he was

elected to congress, then Governor. But In 1829, when his bride of three months left him for some unknown reason, he at once resigned and went back to his Indian friends. The year 1832 found him in Texas, still a part of Mexico. He helped win independence from that state by defeating the Mexican President-General Santa Anna and became the Texas republic's first president. a a tt The Daredevil of All THE United States had long had its eyes on Texas. Emigration to that part of the world was not frowned upon. So in 1845, when congress offered Texas statehood, the offer was accepted—a bargain sealed by the United States’ victory over Mexico in 1848. But it is the name of William Walker that stands out from the glamorous history of such adventure. He, too, many believe, had backing in high places. But if he did, his sponsors left him in the lurch. For he faced the firing squad alone, on foreign soil. Like the Kingfish—who talks of nullifying the Louisiana Purchase and setting himself up as dictator over that vast area, perhaps with Mexico thrown in for good measure—Walker once made his home in old New Orleans. He was born in Tennessee in 1824. He was of good stock. He studied law and medicine in Edinburgh and Heidelbetg. He was a newspaper man in what was to become the Kingfish’s capital. He practiced law :.i California. He fitted out a band of daredevils like himself and, in 1853. set out to capture at least part of Mexico as Sam Houston had done in Texas. He made the Governor of Sonora his prisoner and set up a regime of his own in Lower California. Reinforcements had been promised him. These failed to show up. He had to make a getaway. Tried in San Francisco for violating the neutrality law, he was acquitted. tt tt It s. „ _ , t He Pressed His Luck Too Far f'CHOES of trouble in Nicaragua reached him In J 1855. Like a moth to a flame he headed in that direction. In this enterprise he unquestionably had the help of American capitalists there, if nobody higher up, and soon the little republic was in his power. He made a man named Rivas president, he taking the title of minister of war. Back in Washington, President Pierce proclaimed afresh the neutrality laws. But, somehow or other, ships continued to sail from New Orleans and San Francisco, apparently without hindrance, carrying arms and men to the American soldier of fortune. Rivas—so it is related—ran off with state funds. Anyway, Walker succeeded him as president. But an allied army of Nicaraguans and Costa Ricans drove him from power and he had to seek refuge aboard a convenient American warship. Reaching New Orleans he at once began plotting anew expedition. Landing in Greytown, he once more was arrested and carried back to the United States. Presenting himself as a state prisoner, in Washington, President Pierce dismissed the charge against him on the ground th£<t his arrest on foreign soil was illegal. Walker was hailed as a hero upon his return to New Orleans. But he pressed his luck too far. His next expedition was against Honduras. There, he and his band were defeated and captured. His followers were put on a ship, bound for the states, but he was stood up against a wall and shot.

Your Health -BY UR. MORRIS FISHBZIN

OF course, you are aware of the fact that you have a heart. And probably you can feel your own pulse. But it is not advisable for you to do so, unless you realize the significance of the pulse and the heart beat. Otherwise you are likely to misinterpret the significance of what you feel or determine. Persons who are hypersensitive or neurotic may get greatly worried about their heart beats and complain of palpitations and pains in the heart, besides other manifestations more likely to be due to trouble with digestion than with the heart. Overdose of tobacco, coffee, tea, or alcohol is frequently associated with digestive trouble and also with reference to the heart. Women, approaching the period when they pass from maturity into old age, are also likely to get symptoms which are referred to the heart. DURING the World war the relationship between extreme nervous excitement and the heart beatwas recognized, and the term “irritable heart” was applied to a condition in which there is shortness of breath, palpitation, and a good deal of fatigue. The normal heart beats from seventy to seventyfive times a minute, but not infrequently from eighty to eighty-five times a minute, and in some persons from fifty to sixty times a minute. The heart rate in babies and children is likely to be much higher than in grown persons. At birth, the heart beats around 130 times a minute; at 6 years of age, about 100 times; at 10 years, about ninety times, and at 15 about eightyfive times. mam THE heart beat gets much more rapid when there is exercise or excitement. It gets more rapid in fevers and in the presence of severe infections. It is much faster when there is overaction of the thyroid gland. Some persons normally have heart beats of from fifty to sixty, but usually this is much slower than normal. The heart beat gets a little slower with age, fatigue and during exposure to cold. In certain conditions involving the brain, with pressure inside the skull, the heart beat is likely to get slower. More interesting and significant, however, than either a rapid or a slow heart is an irregular heart. Irregularity of the heart, or a severe change in its rhythm, should be taken as sufficiently significant to bring about a visit to a doctor who can make an adequate study of the case. A sudden change in rhythm and regularity of the heart beat may indicate changes in its muscles or in its nerve supply, the significance of which can be determined onl. by proper scientific study.

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