Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 175, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1934 — Page 7
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It Seems to Me HEYWOD BROUN SOONER or later every man find* himself within the Alamo. Ism not speaking of the ancient ruin where brave men died and picture postcard vendors now hold sway. It is not the substance but the spirit of that shrine which I would like to conjure up. Davy Crockett drew a line with the toe of his boot across the floor of hard baked mud and he called upon his companions to make up their minds which .side they were on. Many recent books have
been written concerning that high adventure in the southwest, but I remember the incident, blurred and yet bright, from some forgotten textbook which we used In the eighth grade. There was one, I recollect, who lay wounded in a corner and he cried out for help so that he might be carried across to Join his comrades. And the strange thing about Dave Crocketts line is that though It was drawn in dust it has become imperishable. Nor is it necessary for any one to travel down to Texas to sec this scratch of sanctity. How could a man draw so straight a line
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with no more than the toe of a boot? But look for yourselves. You can see it marked across the floor of factories and office work rooms. Many a man in his own bedroom or study has observed the clearly cut bisection. It runs a true way through rough pine or polish. a a a The Line Grows Wider ISAW it last myself in the most unlikely of all places and at 4 in the morning. This traverse ran across the floor of a night club in New Jersey. And in the stillness of the night or above the roar of machinery this is a singing line. "Brother won't you choose a side,” is the refrain which most continually it hums. And Crockett s challenging chasm won t take ‘‘No" for an answer. Much less will it accept “yes and no" which is the more familiar rejoinder. I think a chemical analysis of the line might show an acid component and of patience hardly a trace. At any rate wherever the line appears you may notice that it very quickly grows wider and much deeper. Men have been known to hang back because in the beginning it seemed such a simple matter to step across. “11l do this later,” they have said or ‘‘l want to have time to think it over.” And this is a strange thing to say bdeause you might suppose a man of 21 or 30 already would know on which side he was. In the actual Alamo there seems to have been no indecision. They all came over with their heads high and their banners flying. It is the better way. Laggards have been compelled at times to leap for their lives because what was once a little line now had become a broad ravine. And some have perished in the leap or at best fallen into that deep pit which is the narrow pasture of all eternal neutrals. 000 They Just Stand Aloof \ OF course, there are those who turn deaf ears to Crockett’s challenge. They do not walk or run; neither do they leap. It is their preference to stand aloof and chew the cud of contentment. And ? t is true that in the grazing grounds of these well Kept cattle the grass grows greet# and very deep. As they swish through the meadows they make a tinkling sound for around the neck of each member of the herd there is fastened a little bag containing almost three dozen silver pieces. And these coins rattling together make the tinkling sound which has been mentioned. They say it is pleasant at first but that after a while even the wearers find it a little monotonous. Perhaps it doesn't matter very much because at regular intervals the masters of the rich grazing grounds pick out the fattest and most well favored members of the herd and call them in for slaughter. This is done in a seemly and quiet way and there is never any struggle. In fact those who are about to be killed and canned are called to their last appointment with words both smooth and cooing. “Here bossy, here bossy, come here you loyal worker!” But sometimes just before the sledge falls some on?> of the victims who "played safe" nag a passing qualm. “I wonder,” he says to himself, “to just what was I loyal.” (Copyright 1934.*
Today s Science
BY DAVID DIETZ
THE paper consumption of any country is a direct measure of its state of civilization, says Dr. Otto Kress, technical director of the Institute of Paper Chemistry, located at Lawrence college, Appleton, Wis. The United States. Dr. Kress hastens to add. has the highest per capital consumption of paper in the world, varying from 175 to 225 pounds of paper products a person a year. The pulp and paper industry is now the sixth largest in the United States, he says. Development of wood pulps suitable for chemical conversion into products like artificial silk, cellophane and lacquers, utilization of wood species, not now employed, perfecting of methods for increasing the yield and quality of pulp and paper and finding ways of overcoming stream pollution, are the major problems facing the industry, he says. These are problems which the institute plans to study. Surveying the growth of paper making. Dr. Kress points out that it probably had its beginnings in China. The Arabs learned it next, perhaps from a captured Chinese paper maker. It was brought into Europe during the Moorish invasion of Spain. a a a MODERN methods begin with Louis Robert of France, who in 1800 conceived the idea of making an endless web of paper by introducing a water suspension of pulp on to an endless moving belt of wire. This invention was purchased by Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier of England, who developed the machine. The process is still in use today on the modern highspeed paper machine which is commonly referred to as the Fourdrinier machine. ‘ The first Fourdrinier machine introduced in the United States appears to have been imported from England in 1927 by H. Ban lay of Saugerties. N. Y„” Dr. Kress says. “This machine was of a size suitable for the production of a finished web of paper sixty inches wide. “While this is indeed a far cry from the modern newsprint machine which ic more than 300 inches wide and makes paper at the rate of more than 1.300 feet a minute, producing in excess of 150 t ins of finished paper every twenty-four hours, the principle of the modern machine is identical with that of the original Robert and rourdninier conception.” m m m PAPER making was extremely expensive as long as it was all made from rag stock. About the middle of the last century, processes for making paper from wood pulp were introduced, thereby bringing down the cost. Four principal processes are used for the preparation of wood pulp, according to Dr. Kress. These are known as the groundwood, sulphite, soda, and kraft processes. In the groundwood process, long-flbered nonresmous woods, such as spruces, first, and hemlock are reduced by a mechanical grinding. The other three are chemical method.
Questions and Answers
Q—What proportion of church members in New York Cay are Roman Catholic and Jews? •—The last United States religious census - enumerated 4.079.501 church members, of whom 1.733.954 were Roman Catholics and 1,765.000 were Jews. Q—Give the airline and highway distances between New York and Los Angeles. A—Airline, 2,566 nuies miles; highway, 3,265 miles.
HUEY LONG—‘LOUISIANA—I’M IT!’
Citizens Astounded by Results of Kingfishs Legislative Session
This 1* the efond of a aerie* of article* about Senator Huey p. Long of Louisiana her Thoma* L. Stoke*, tent into Louisiana by The Indianapolis Time* and other Scrippt-Howard newspaper*. MM* BY THOMAS L. STOKES Time* Staff Writer NEW ORLEANB, Dec. I.—That remark of Louis XIV, “The State, it is I”—was hardly more true of the powerful French monarch than it is of Senator Huey P. Long today, though he perhaps would put It, cocking his head to one side: “Louisiana—l'm it,” Citizens of the state who care are now finding out, days late, Just exactly what Huey did for himself—and to them—in that mad, fiveday burlesque session. And they are astounded. Copies of the forty-four bills which were shot through the almost supine legislature were not even available for members at the time. Some of them can not be obtained today. On top of the wide powers Huey won at the first special session (which included virtual control of the state’s election machinery), and the measures by which he enhanced his popularity with the rank and file (which Included a $2,000 tax exemption on property, abolition of the dollar poll tax and reduction of automobile taxes), the senator's sway over patronage and the rights of citizens was broadened further. The thousands of debt-burdened will be drawn closer about his
standard by the two-year moratorium, a measure that has inspired alarm beyond the borders of Louisiana. Those who want such a debt holiday may apply to the state banking commissioner, Jasper S. Brack, who is one of Huey’s henchmen. The power this gives the Kingflsh is tremendous. 000 SOME lawyers who have studied this statute, which Senator Long said was modeled after the Minnesota law, believe it will be unable to weather a United States supreme court test. While the court upheld the Minnesota law it disapproved an insurance moratorium law in Arkansas on the ground that conditions in the two states were different. Lawyers forecast that the same thing will happen to the new Long law by the same general reasoning. There is real anxiety about other laws which further abridge the rights of citizens by vesting still more power in Long’s governor. The supreme court of Louisiana is packed with Long men. five out of seven. Now he is extending his domain over the lawyers. He has long had a feud with prominent members of the New Orleans bar, some on account of their corporate connections, some because of their challenge of his election tactics. So a board of eight men vas created, a state bar corporation, empowered to pass upon the qualifications of lawyers, with the added power to prefer charges of disbarment before another body which may hereafter be created. This supersedes the present state bar association. Senator Long can influence the appointment of these men, since it is provided that the Governor may appoint
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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND —By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—Harry Hopkins is staging a one-man fight against the threatened bonus army—and winning. Hopkins’ chief weapon is the one he uses in feeding a part of the population of the United States of America —federal relief. Although it has not permeated to the general public, a group of veterans is staging a drive to assemble a powerful bonus army in Washington almost on the day congress convenes. To this end they have their agents in every transit bu- ———
reau in the east and south. Floaters coming through the bureaus are advised to come to Washington immediately. This is where Harry Hopkins does his stuff. Through the transit bureau in Washington he corrals new arrivals. They are offered the choice of a job in either a CCC camp or with an FERA outfit—or a forced exit from Washington. ‘ “Work or Run’’ is Harry Hopkins’ motto. And in this way the converging bonus army is scattered almost as soon as it arrives. an n ARMY tanks have carried all sorts of men in all sorts of places both in peace and war, but last week it w’as recorded that for the first time in history a tank conveyed a congressman to the dentist's. The congressman in question is Ross Collins of Mississippi, who becatise of his appropriations for mechanization generally is known as the father of the army tank. Ross w’as sitting at home the other day when General Samuel Hos of the ordnance department telephoned. “Want a ride to your office?” he asked. “I'm not going to my office; I'm going to the aentist,” replied Collins. So a brand new army tank, making fifty-five miles an hour at top speed carried the congressman from Mississppi through the streets of the capital to the awaiting forceps. Ross said it was smelly and oily inside, with not very much air, but he enjoyed it. ana Eugene o. sykes. wispy little chairman of the federal communications commission, privately is a worried man. The cause of his worry is the fact, that his appointment comes up for confirmation in the forthcoming senate, in which will sit Mississippi's red necktie-wearing Theodore Bilbo. Sykes is also a Mississippian. But there is no love lost between the two men. Quite the contrary. During the recent senatorial campaign. Sykes slipped away from Washington to make speeches on behalf of ex-Senator Hubert Stephens, Bilbo's opponent. Bilbo, outraged, stumped the state announcing that if elected he would “run Sykes out of Washington.” Now the FCc chairman is worriedly wondering whether Bilbo can make good his threat, or whether Sykes' good friend, Senator Pat Harrison, can save him his job. a a a THE Nov. 6 balloting that g <e the Democratic party such a thumping victory was far from a majority vote of the nation’s electorate. On the basis of 1930 census figures, there now are approximately 69.500,000 persons entitled to vote in the United States.
until the next election, which is not for two years. Adroitly the senator asserted that creation of the board followed a recommendation of the American Bar Association that bar associations be incorporated. But the American Bar Association never meant anything like this. 000 JUST before the last election, the Long forces opened up tax assessments of the city of New Orleans for “adjustment,” acting under authority of the first special session giving the state jurisdiction. “Adjustments” of more than a million dollars, involving 5.000 persons, were made. Many of those whose assessments were cut would naturally remember who was doing this for them. The city challenged these adjustments and held them invalid —but this came after the election. Enough voters already had been persuaded. The senator corrected this question about the law at the last special session through an act permitting adjustments up to the time that taxes are collected. One of the most devastating invasions of local government yet accomplished by Louisiana’s dictator is in the act of the last special session by which the Governor may remove police chiefs and fire department heads in any cities where these officers are not elective. Though ostensibly aimed at the chief of police at Alexandria, La., where the senator was dismayed not long ago by a shower of eggs and rotten fruit, those who know Huey say he will use his new power to intrench himself further. Some dismissals, they say, may be expected. His political tactics extend to the very little things. He is strong on details.
Last election day only about 28.500,000, or 41 per cent, went to the polls. This number was some 11,000,000 ballots less than were cast in the 1932 presidential election. . , . The zealous salesmanship methods of one of the big telegraph companies are entirely lost on Harry Hopkins. The other night, after retiring. Hopkins was suddenly awakened by a telephone call. It was a teleiraph clerk asking if ne wanted to send an answer to a wire he had received that day from Wyoming. . . . The FERA is tackling a job which has baffled local authorities for a half century. As an employment creating project the agency has undertaken to put out a fire which has been burning underground in coal mines, near New Straitsville, 0.. for fifty years. (Coovrlßht. 1934. bv United Feature FRENCH LICK SCENE OF U. S. TAX PARLEY Twenty States to Be Represented at Session Monday. Twenty of the forty-eight states will be represented Monday and Tuesday at the second meeting of the National Association of State Tax Administrators at French Lick, where state tax systems and problems of their administration will be discussed. Speakers will include Governor Paul V. McNutt and Oscar Lesser, Maryland tax commission member. The majority of the sessions will be devoted to informal discussion. Included in the Indiana delegation will be Clarence A. Jackson, gross income tax department iirector, and members of the state tax commissioners' board. KERN. BAKER TO SPEAK AT DEMOCRATIC DINNER Cosmopolitan Club to Hold Victory Party Monday. Superior Judge John W. Kern, mayor-elect of Indianapolis, and Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker, who led the Democratic ticket in votej getting at the last election, will be l the principal speakers at a Cosmopolitan Democratic Club Victory dinner at 7:30 Monday in the Claypool. Dr. William H. Smith, club president, will serve as toastmaster, and John W. King, vice-president, will preside. Music will be provided by Walter Bradford’s band. Other Democratic oflicials-elect have been invited to attend. CARD”PARTY ARRANGED V. of F. W. to Sponsor First of Series Tonight. The first of a winter series of card parses by the Frank T. Strayer post. Veterans of Foreign Wars, will be he'd at 8:15 tonight at the post hr.li, 210 North Delaware street. James W. Carrington is card party i committee ehAirmyn,
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When Huey (Kingflsh) Long goes into action, hand-picked legislators and other officials who owe him body and soul humbly bow down to his will. Huey wanted to be boss. So he told his Governor, O. K. (O. K. Huey) Alien, to call a special session. He made a vehement speech, waving his arms and screaming orders at the top of his voice, as you see him here. Quicker than you can say “Huey hopes to be President some day,” all the laws Huey wanted passed were approved, making him practically king of all Louisiana.
BOI.riLY he celebrated the capture of New Orleans by taking over the sewage and water boards, giving these appointments to the state instead of the city. These, with police, fire department and other agencies, will give him about 2,000 new jobs in New Orleans to strengthen his hold there. In a thirty-six-page document amending the recently enacted income tax law, Long has extended his control over the state’s business and corporate interests by imposing an enforcement and inspection system far more elaborate than that of the federal government. This surrounds with still more power and prestige the woman
INDIANA LEADS U. S. IN HODSING PROGRAM Letter to Hoke Expresses Appreciation. Indiana now stands first in the list of districts and states participating in the federal housing administration, according to a letter received today by Fred Hoke, Indiana national emergency council director. The letter states that the weekly list shows that this state has produced more business for the housing administration than any other. “Let me express my sincere appreciation for the splendid job you have done in Indiana,” the writer, W. D. Flanders, field division director, states. ELLIOTT TO LECTURE AT CHURCH SESSION “Y” Speaker to Address North Side Yeung People. A. J. (Dad) Elliott, Y. M. C. A. lecturer on student religious problems, will address north side young people at the Tabernacle Presbyterian church, Thirty-fourth street and Central avenue, at 7:30 tomorrow night, on the subject, “Have The Youth of Today a Chance?” Mr. Elliott spoke at the Y. M. C. A. big meeting at B. F. Keith’s theater last Sunday. Fred Newell Morris, musical director at Tabernacle Presbyterian church, will present a special program for the meeting.
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boss of taxation, Alice Lee Grosjean, formerly Huey’s secretary of state, who as supervisor of public accounts, has absolute control over taxation. Likewise, the senator enlarged his supervision over the banking system by bringing the homestead associations, which correspond to building and loan associations elsewhere, directly under the state banking examiner. 000 npo complete the disgrace of his political foe in New Orleans, Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley, the senator extracted from his legislature the power to eject the mayor as chairman of the state Democratic committee, by con-
IN OLD NEW YORK By Paul Harrison
VEW YORK, Dec. L —The lady who was the hostess asked, with a sly grin: “How do you like those canapes?” “Swell,” said I, between munches. “What are they—chicken?” “Diamondback rattlesnake.” - , L .... “Oh, come now!” pleaded’a drama critic as he snatched another tidbit. “Don’t tell us that Eve ha3 finally double-crossed the serpent.” “Yes, and that’s no gag,” insisted the hostess, whose name hap-
pened to be Eve. She brought out a labeled can for proof. “You’re half wrong, anyway,” said the reviewer, who was looking a little pale. “It is a gag.” And away he went. a a a I SAT still, waiting to see if I had any symptoms. Didn't feel anything, so I asked about the 6nake business. Eve knew the whole story. Down in Arcadia, Fla., there is a man named George G. End. A few years ago, when he was operating a small cannery, one of his sons killed a big rattler and suggested that it ought to be good to eat. Mr. End said he thought so too. Mrs. End put on her hat and went to the movies. So the snake was cooked by the remaining Ends—the father and son, I mean—and they liked it. The rest was canned and later served to some of the Ends’ friends. Pretty soon orders began coming in, and that was the beginning of Mr. End’s new business. Now he sells ( thousands of cans all over the country. He doesn’t raise the snakes, but hires hunters to catch them. Long bamboo boles with wire loops on the ends are used for the pur-
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tinuing political committees and officers except the state chairman. ’ In a few days Huey will depose Mr. Walmsley and seat his own man. Repeal by the special session of corrupt practices act, and restoration of the old 1921 act, will forestall any future prying into campaign expenses. The substituted act relieves candidates from making any accounting of campaign funds and removes previous limits on expenditures, which ranged from SSOO for minor ward and parish offices to $25,000 for Governor and United States senator. NEXT—Why Is Huey Long?
pose. The by-products—skins and oil—are valuable, the latter going into patent medicines. The meat is put up with a sauce and mushrooms something like chicken ala king. When the late Theodore Roosevelt was President he ate some rattlesnake at a dinner in New Jersey. ft ft tt SINCE that memorable party I’ve found out about other snakes, and the markets for them. Two New York department stores sell harmless snakes in their pet shops at so much per inch. Coachwhips, western bull-snakes and kingsnakes are most popular. Boys buy them mostly, though there is a wealthy woman on Long Island w T ho keeps a few around her house. The School Nature League at the Museum of Natural History has several harmless varieties which it allows children to handle. Such fun! TWO MORRO CASTLE OFFICERS ARRESTED * Negligence Charged to Acting Captain, Chief Engineer. By United Prest NEW YORK, Dec. I.—The federal government sought an early trial today for two chief officers of the Ward liner Morro Castle held on charges of criminal negligence resulting from burning of the ship with a loss of 124 lives. The accused were William F. Warms, acting captain, and Eben Starr Abbott, chief engineer. The complaint charged they “unlawfully and willfully, by misconduct, negligence and inattention to his duties failed to take such stept> as were necesasry to provide for the safety of upward of 200 passengers and as a result the lives of upward of fifty persons w’ere destroyed.’’ GYMNASTIC COLLEGE PRESENTS DIPLOMAS Emil Rath, Retiring President Honored City School. The annual home-coming of the Normal College of the American Gymnastic Union was to end today after presentation of diplomas to members of the graduating class by George Vonnegut, 3721 North Meridian street, trustees board chairman. Last night. Emil Rath, 147 Berkley road, retiring as N. C.A. G. U. president after twenty-five years in that post, was honored at a dinner in the Athenaeum by more than 250 students, alumni, faculty members, administrative officers and friends of the school. William K. Streit, Cincinnati, was toastmaster, and the speakers included alumni and others prominent I in physical education. June Knight Is Married CHICAGO. Dec. I.—Five minutes after obtaining a marriage license Miss June Knight, blonde motion picture actress and former fiancee of Max Baer, was married to Paul S. Ames, New York broker. Ames falri he vas 32; Knight 2 L
Fair Enough WHoItKIfK IT would be hard to imagine a more sticky, stuffy and altogether horrible social ordeal than a place at table in Buckingham palace on the occasion of the state dinner for three kings, three queens and sixty-eight lower case members of the various royal families unless it could have been one of Calvin Coolidge’s spite breakfasts in the White House at which he used to command the attendance of people whom he didn’t like, to feed them sausage and
flannel-cakes followed by black cigars. The late Ike Hoover, forty-two years a flunkey in the White House, in his "Hat-Book." published posthumously. depicted Mr. Coolidges breakfast parties as a cruel and unusual form of punishment. Not in so many words, but effectively, nevertheless, he conveyed the agonies of jittering old soaks, in the throes of hangover, confronting heavy rations and trying to make conversation at 8 in the morning when they were filter subjects for gentle restoratives and soothing words. The alarm of the victims, chosen at random, and
their pathetic efforts to escape the presidential subpena when the White House called up. make heartrending reading to any one who has ever spent an evening peering at the world through the bottom of a goblet and, next morning found himself present at that barbarian rite, the social breakfast. Bui Mr. Coolidge gave his breakfast parties for no purpose except to enjoy, in his peculiar way. the distress of his victims. He made no conversation, but peered down his nose at his grapefruit and when these trials were over, sent the survivors on their way wondering why they had been invited and asking, “Death, where is thy sting?” 000 First Since 1914 'T'HE King and Queen of England, on the other hand, inflict the anguish of a state dinner on their royal relatives, in-laws and friends no oftener than they have to. The banquet to begin the week of festivities attending the wedding of their son was the first occasion of such awful importance and stifling formality since 1914. and the royal hosts tactfully gave their guests to understand that tho suffering was mutual if not more so. This was a comforting thought, at least, to the two other kings, two other queens and sixty-eight poor relations as they sat there creaking in their harness and wondering which fork to use on the ice cream and what a person had to do to get a spoonful of bicarbonate on the quiet. It wasn’t being done for spite, and they all had the small but helpful comfort of knowing that they wouldn't have to strap in their formal kit and endure another hour with so many of their own kind again for many years, if ever. Nevertheless, the suffering must have been pretty severe as they sat around the big room, done up with rosettes and sartorial parsley like so many planked steaks, trying to make conversation and hoping it was midnight when they knew it couldn’t be later than half-past ten. In a gathering of sixtyeight cousins, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces and miscellaneous kin there are certain to be some magnificent hatreds. Thus it was a fine display of self-control which enabled the gathering to come through the evening without at least a few fights. Moreover, so far as the newspaper accounts disclose, nobody’s Uncle Otto or Aunt Sophie got tight and brought up the subject of “your family,” always a dangerous topic. And, finally, the .nventory of the million-dollar gold service, when the party was over, revealed no gaps in the orderly rows of knives, forks, plates, salt-cellars and the like. 000 The Secrecy of Royalty TY OYALTY is famous for its futility and its faults -*-*• but it will have to be allowed that this gathering, under great pressure, behaved much better than a group of the American aristocracy ‘of 'Similar size would have been likely to. If these had been American aristocrats, undoubtedly, before the party was over, some polo player or society boxer would have invited somebody else outside to see who was a liar, somebody's mischievous daughter would have dived into the fountain on a bet, and the sporting element among the males would have wound up wearing the gold breeches of the butlers and singing “Sweet Adeline” around the kitchen sink. The secrecy attending the intimate details of the royal state dinner is exasperating, but will have to be borne. But perhaps even in Buckingham Palace they have an Ike Hoover of their own, a snoop-and-tattle flunkey who. when his time is up, will write a book relating that when the guests were gone and the royal couple were preparing to turn in, his. majesty let out a whoop and yelled, “ma, dammit, there's another button gone off my pajamas.” (Copyright. 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS (-ISHBEIN-
RHEUMATIC infections make up a large percentage of man's disabilities because of their relationship to heart disease. Out of 500.000 persons in Massachusetts who suffered from chronic disorders, 138.000 had rheumatism and 5,600 of these were totally disabled. There is no single cause of the various forms of rheumatic disorders, but various disturbances of the body may result in affections of the joints. Sometimes a disorder of the glands, sometimes disturbances of diet, and occasionally constitutional diseases may be at the background of an inflammation of muscles and of joints. In many cases, an infection which is localized in the tonsils or at the roots of the teeth or in the gallbladder may send infectious materials into the joints. a a a THEREFORE, any of several causes may be responsible for starting a joint disease or an inflammation of this kind, but later other disturbances follow and complicate the condition. It is of utmost importance for a person who has an inflammation of the joints or any other type of rheumatic disorder to learn the primary cause and to attack the disease from this point of view. However, since numerous changes will already have occurred in the tissues of the joints or in other parts of the body, it becomes necessary to treat each patient as an individual and to control each of the abnormal conditions as it is found. a a a ONCE arthritis has oeen definitely recognized and everything possible done to remove the cause, there are some simple, but important, directions as * to the general hygiene of the body. The diet should be appetizing and should include plenty of fresh fruits and fresh vegetables, to supply' the necessary amounts of proteins and fats. If there are any foods which the patient is inclined to believe disagree with him, he should avoid them. A chronic disease is usually associated with a poor appetite. For this reason such persons are likely to ov*reat of sugars. Because of their illness they are unable to take exercise and are. therefore, inclined io put on excess weight. Furthermore, it has been found by some investigators that reduction of the total amount of sugar and supply of sufficient proteins and fats seem to favor reduction of infection and swelling. At the same time, this type of diet will supply the necessary vitamins and also enough roughage and similar materia.: to overcome a tendency to constipation. Q—What is the average height of men and women in the United States? A—Men 5 feet 8 inches: women, 5 feet 4 inches. Q—What is the difference between opinion and fact? A—An opinion is a belief based on grounds short . of proof, a view that is held as probable. A fact is a thing that is known to be true, such as the fact that fire burns.
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