Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 225, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1935 — Page 11

It Seems to Me HEW# BROUN AITHEN I was a member of the Socialist party * and running unsuccessfully for Congress I had a conference one day with an old campaigner. We sat in my <-mall study and two feet in front of the visitor stood a very freshly painted early Broun The picture seemed to alarm my friend and pven divert him from his talic on strategy and so at last I decided to meet the Issue and I asked him how he liked my landscape He sighed and answered. "Comrade, practically all my work m the movement for the economic rather than the cultural front and so I couldn’t really give you an opinion.” In looking over recent columns I was struck with the fact that "It Seems to Me” has also been A W O. L from the cultural front for quite a time

and so last night I went to see a play and next week I mean to read a book. Not naving seen everything the current theatrical season has to offer it would be impertinent for me to pick a best” and yet I am prepared to wager that no better play than Robert E. Sherwood's “The Petrified Forest” is now on view. This is a distinguished drama of the school which I like best. The only easy label which I can think of is “an intellectual melodrama.” “Hamlet” has always seemed to me the outstanding work in this field, but Shakespeare's closest rival, Mr. Shaw, has also made a contribution

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In "Man and Superman' and possibly in “Saint Joan I mean that an intellectual melodrama is a play in which a definite philosophy is developed to the accompaniment of a vast and rapid pace of physical action. Some people like shows in which shots fly back and forth and others prefer those entertainments in which ideas alone are exchanged. “The Petrified Forest" offers both to its potential patrons. And w’hv not? a barrage of bullets is very apt to sharpen anybody's philosophic perceptions. The late war for instance, compelled many a nute Spinoza to think aloud for the first time in his life. And among the other attractions of the Sherwood show is the fact that it has enlisted one of the best casts I have seen in several scasonr. a a a Yen, That's Telling 'Em IN making the boast that I had left culture flat in order to delve into economic problems. I was perhaps a little unfair to myself and to culture. For instance, there has been time for a few visits to night clubs in order to study the development of art forms in the dance. I have attended two sessions of Mr. Rudy Vallee's institute at the Hollywood. I have viewed tvhat Mr. Rockefeller has to offer on the roof of his city in the Rainbow Room, and I took practically the whole course at El Chico’s in the Village. It was the slightly young Broun who induced me to matriculate at this resort. He told me of tequila, which is a drink, and of Rosarir. who is a dancer. My mentor explained that I could never possibly understand the painting of the Spanish masters until I had seen Rosaria dance. I think possibly he mentioned Velasquez and maybe E! Greco who came from Crete under the patronage of Philip 11. (I guess that’s telling ’em. fat lady). To me. Rosaria suggested rather more than the women who appear in the religious paintings of Peter Paul Rubens, the Flemish painter 1577-1640. I mean the particularly buxom one who is always bustling around the middle of every miracle. When I studied the work of Rubens in Antwerp some years ago I was told that this particular model was the wife of the painter, but I was only 10 years old at the time and perhaps they weren't really married at all. nan The Hottest Spot in Town AT any rate Rosaria. whose husband is a matador. is quite a bit on the beefy side. When she is facing the audience at the other end of the room she distinctly suggests a left guard on the Bucknell football team. But this was the subject of a somewhat heated debate between pere et fils as the French would have it. The slightly younger Broun was miffed at my christening the lovely lady Mrs. Joe Rumbleseat. But, I never did deny the fire and dash of her dancing and I will admit that she is quite what Ve.asquez ordered. Ih one dance Rosaria wears a hat which she impu'.Slvely places on the head of some customer just before the pace increases. Woodie said that it was not a personal tribute and that I just happened to De sitting in the right seat to serve as stooge. Next time we pursued our course in applied arts I let him have the favored place. That was the night Rosaria danced without the hat. And now she's gone to South America. But I will continue my researches into New York culture and make further reports from time to time. Indeed if Radio City's Rainbow Room wants a boost I am willing to say here and now. “John D. Rockefeller has the hottest spot in town.” iCopyrisht. 1935)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

ACOSMIC rav traveling with enormous speed comes plunging into the earth's atmosphere. Because of its tremendous energy, it goes through a thick lead plate. Finally it collides with the nucleus of an atom. The atom is smashed in a terrific explosion. Fifteen positrons and 10 electrons come flying out of the nucleus with a joint energy of 3.000.000.000 volts. By an ingenious adaptation of the Wilson ray track apparatus in which the paths of moving subatomic particles are made luminous, it is possible now to photograph such explosions. Several such photographs are to be found among many other highly interesting ones in Dr R. A. Millikan's new book. Twentieth century physics got its start with Prol. Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of the X-ray in 1895. This early period, during which radio-activity, radium, the nuclear structure of the atom, and the electron were discovered, may be said to have reached its climax in Dr. Millikan's own work to isolate and measure the electric charge of the electron For this work. Dr Millikan received the Nobel prize in 1923. nan THE tempo of research in physics has been so swift since 1930 that the last five years are often compared to those stirring days from 1895 to 1910. Dr Millikan has again played an important role in a period of accelerated progress. His confirmation of the existence of the cosmic rays, his own researches in the field during the last five years and the discovery of the positron, made in his laboratory by Dr. Carl D. Anderson, have all been important events. The time was appropriate, therefore, for Dr. Millikan to revise and extend his book, "The Electron.” This he has done and the new book, which incorporates the earlier one. in revised form, in its opening chapters, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press at $3.50. BBS THE title, one regrets, is lengthy and awkward and likely to frighten, rather than attract readers. It is "Electrons (Plus and Minus*. Protons, Photons. Neutrons and Cosmic Rays.” Certainly the title is explicit and complete, but one can't help comparing it to the one Sir Oliver Lodge used a few years back. "Atoms and Rays.” Well, don't let the title worry you. If you are willinc to do a little concentrated reading—you can't read this book in one evening with the speed of a detective story—you will find Dr. Millikan's book a veritable education in modem atomic progress. You wi.’l know the whole story of atomic research from what Benjamin Franklin thought about electricity to ihe Tnergy distribution in cosmic rays. There are chapters on The Nature of Radiation.” ' The Spinning Electro•v ’ “Waves and Particles." “The Positron.'' “The Neutron.” “The Transmutation of the Elements." and other important subjects. Q —Who was Booker T. Washington? A—American Negro teacher and reformer.

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THE SUPREME COURT WEIGHS GOLD America. Only Nation in World Where Judiciary Is the Ruler

BY EARL SPARLING Times Special Writer * r J"'o the outside world, Europe especially, the supreme power the American people have relinquished to the elderly black - robed legalists of the Supreme Court has been a continuing mystery for 135 years. No feature of the American government has awakened such curiosity in the American mind, said Lord Bryce, nor caused so much discussion. “In England.” expounds Dr. William Bennett Munro. of Harvard, “supremacy rests with Parliament, which can do whatever it will so long as it keeps within the bounds of what is humanly possible. No executive can veto the acts of Parliament. no British court declare them unconstitutional. In the French Republic, although there is a written constitution. no court can set aside the mandate of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies when they act in accord. These two countries. Britain and France, have accepted the doctrine of legislative supremacy. But in the United States, that is just what the framers of the Constitution sought to avoid. Experience with repressive acts of the English Parliament in the days before the Revolution had impressed upon them the belief that it is the habit of all legislatures to become tyrannical. nan UNTIL now the outside world could be philosophical about it. If America were satisfied to rest the future of the republic upon judicial supremacy, if nine men hold the to nullify any act of the Congress on grounds of unconstitutionality, that was America's problem. The rest of the world was interested only abstractly. But now suddenly the shadow of the Supreme Court lengthens beyond America's borders and falls deep upon many lands and many peoples. America, owed by nearly every nation in the world (three in the Far East. 15 in Latin-America, 25 in Europe), is the leading creditor of civilization. The value of this external debt, the amount the debtor nations must pay, depends on how the nine jurists in Washington decide the gold clause cases now before them. If the court rules that the Congress had no power to abrogate the gold clause in debt contracts, the burden upon the debtor na-

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

Jan. 29.—James Aloysius Farley is a busy man ▼ ▼ these days. His goings and comings oscillate with as much regularity as the rhythm of his jaws. On Tuesday it is a safe bet he will be in town for the Cabinet meetmg. On Tuesday night it is an equally safe bet he will be on the midnight sleeper to New York. On Friday he will be back for a Cabinet meeting. And Friday night he will be off again. Jim is extremely busy—in fact prides himself on being busy. But the time he spends at the expansive mahogany desk in the beautiful panelled office, for which he

thanks Herbert Hoover, is almost nil. All of which is getting to be one of the major inside scandals of the Administration. It is not that Jim is doing anything shady. It is the fact that as Postmaster General. Jim is doing hardlv anything at all. The result is that along with the Justice Department, the Postoffice has won the reputation of having the blackest mark of any in the entire New Deal. bbb 'T'HE funny thing about it is that Jim prides himself on being a business man. T> make a record for himself as an efficient postmaster is supposedly his greatest aim. Very clearly in his business career. Jim tied his fate to gypsum, an essential ingredient in making plaster, and at one time was the foremost gypsum salesman in New York City. In fact, so successful was Jim that he became manager of the Universal Gypsum Cos., then blossomed forth with James A. Farley and Cos., dealers in all forms of building materials, and eventually amalgamated seven other companies into one of the most important building supply companies in New York. Whether Jim s phenomenal rise in the business world was due to ne fact that he was also a power in New York politics and that politics and contracting frequently go hand-in-hand, is not recorded on the books of his company. * B B “T'HE important fact .however, is that when Jim became Postmaster General, he considered himself a great business man and set out to make a record as such. To this end he pared costs to the bone. He fired postal emploves right and left. He reduced services He put into force policies exactly the reverse of his chief in :he White House who was urging private business to increase wages and reduce hours. Underneath an elaborate camouflage created by selling ornate new stamp issues, Jim Farleys Postoffice Department has reached the lowest state of inefficiency in years. Complaints from business men have swamped the Administration. Deliveries are sometimes two or three days behind schedule. Even in the city of Washington letters have required two days to go from one department to another. What Jim loigni was the

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The United States Supreme Court: (Standing, left to right) Associate Justices Roberts, Butler, Stone, Cardozo, and (seated, left to right) Associate Justices Brandeis, Van Devanter, Chief Justice Hughes, Associate Justices Mcßeynolds and Sutherland.

tions immediately will be increased 69 per cent above the present levels. a a a THE total owed the people of this country by foreign nations and corporations is $7,080,000,000. The indebtedness is in the form of government and industrial bonds, all containing the gold clause which specifices that the money borrowed must be paid in gold of the weight and fineness current when the debt was created. The foreign debtors have defaulted on about $1,968,000,000. They are paying interest on about $5,112,000,000. Now, this foreign debt may seem small compared with the $100,000,000,000 gold clause indebtedness at stake within America. The fact that 27 per cent of it is in default is proof that it is not small to the nations which owe it. There was imminent danger of much more of it going into default up to the time the United States deserted the gold standard and subsequently devaluated the dollar to 59.06 per cent of its former gold value. That, with the congressional act abrogating the gold clause, reduced the debt of the foreign nations 40.94 per cent. On the undefaulted loans it is estimated American investors are receiving about $306,720,000 interest annually. Before devaluation of the dollar that was equivalent to 14,901,617 ounces of gold. To-

human element. Despite the tremendous mechanization of the postal system, it can not function efficiently without efficient, willing workers. And Jim has ground his postal employes down to such a point that they have gone sour on him. Typical of Jim’s postal administration was an incident which occurred in the National Emergency Council. The Postmaster General complained that government departments were misaddressing mail, that his department had to spend much time readdressing. The President asked Jim to briny in . xeport. Jim did. And obvior y reading it for the first tinv ne blushed, stammered and *■' Then, continuing to the end, he revealed that his own department was the worst offender. Copyright, 1935. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) MATE ASKS DIVORCE FROM WOMAN SLAYER Custody of Son Also Is Asked by Claude Sandstrom. Mrs. Anna Sandstrom, convicted on a manslaughter charge for the killing of Carl V. Thompson, Indianapolis casket salesman, and now serving a sentence of from one to 10 years, at Illinois State Prison, Dwight. 111., is named as defendant by Claude O. Sandstrom, 2031 Broadway, in a divorce suit on file today in Superior Court. Mrs, Sandstrom shot and killed Mr. Thompson in a Matoon till.) hotel when he attempted to end a clandestine love affair which had lasted a number of years. Custody of John Edward Sandstrom, 15-year-old son of the Sandstroms, is asked

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American Legion. Twelfth district, luncheon, 1364 N. Delawarest. Kiwanis Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Lambda Chi Alpha, luncheon. Russet cafeteria. Lions Club, luncheon, Washington. Indiana Retail Hardware Association. all day. Lincoln. Maternal Health League. 8 p. m„ All Souls Unitarian Church. Purdue Alumni Association, luncheon, Stube.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1935

day the foreign debtors are paying the same number of dollar’s but they are equivalent to only 8,763,429 ounces of gold. ana 'T'HE American investor receives only 59.0S cents of gold for every 100 cents of gold he lent abroad. But that is only part of the story. The real value of a dollar is its purchasing power. And within this country the 59.06 cents of gold are today worth $1.60 in purchasing power as compared with the 100 cents of gold that were lent. The index of the dollar’s purchasing power at wholesale averaged 108.52 from 1919 to 1929 during which period most of the money was borrowed. The index today stands at about 76.7. From the standpoint of the foreign borrower, the 59.06 cents of gold are worth 1.84 of purchasing power. The world wholesale price index, stated in gold, is down to 45.34, about the lowest point of the entire depression. In other words, the 8,763,429 ounces of gold now being used by the foreign debtors to pay interest to American investors will buy 84 per cent more in the world markets today than 14,901,617 ounces would buy on the average from 1919 to 1929. The American investor has only a 60 per cent advantage if he spends his interest within America ; he has an 84 per cent advantage if he spends it abroad.

NEW TRUSTEE, BOARD TO BE ENTERTAINED Bus Drivers, Janitors to, Honor Perry Townsihp Officials. Bus drivers and janitors of Perry Township's school will honor Leonard Hohlt, new Perry Township Trustee, and his advisory board with a dinner Thursday night. Frank Klein, Mrs. Annie Laurie Dietz and Harry Vetzell are board members. Speakers at the dinner will include Howard C. Smith, safety director for the Indiana Motor Traffic Association, Inc., and Miss Jessie Henderson, safety director for Marion County schools. DEPORTATION Ts URGED Junior Order of Mechanics Seeks U. S. Action on Aliens. Capitol City Council, No. 68, Junior Order of United American Mechanics, has adopted resolutions urging enactment of Federal legislation providing for deportation of aliens residing in this country five and one-half years without becoming naturalized and for a 30 percent tax on all money sent from the United States by aliens.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“Maybe I can remember where we parked if I can only think which car we were using.”

WHAT if the Supreme Court now rules that the gold clause is still in effect? Foreign debtors will again have to pay the equivalent of 14,901,617 ounces of gold interest, or 69 per cent more dol'ars. Instead of $306,720,030, A* ic -ican investors will receive $5lB 356 800 each year. The dollar value of the total foreign debt will increase from $7,080,030,000 to $11,955,200,000 and in purchasing power, compared with the time the money was lent, will be worth $19,126,320,000. Again, that is only part of the story. The 14,901.617 ounces of gold which the foreign debtors would need for annual interest will buy 140 per cent more than the same amount of gold would buy at the time the money was bon-owed. The foreign debtors would have to pay $2.40 of purchasing power for every $1 they borrowed. W. lan Mack, Times Special financial writer who has studied the situation closely, sums up the probable effects as follows; ‘‘So exiguous are the gold reserves of most debtor countries that demand by creditors for a ■full pound of flesh’ might precipitate such widespread liquidation of commodities to obtain the bullion needed to discharge external obligations that the deflationary impact would be felt throughout the world. “Tightened exchange restrictions, renewed depreciation of currencies to moderate internal re-

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

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—When French and British statesmen meet in London this week, the issues they juggle will involve the peace of the old word. Tomorrow Germany celebrates Adolf Hitler’s second anniversary as Nazi dictator. Under his leadership the Reich is feverishly arming for another bid at her place in the sun, territorially, po-

litically and militarily. Thursday France's Premier Pierre-Etienne. Flandin and Foreign Minister Pierre Laval will arrive in Downing Street. And there, about a green baize they will sit with Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, and others and discuss what to do about Germany and Herr Hitler. The question of stabilizing the franc in relation to the pound, and perhaps with the dollar, will also come up. But Europe's life-or-death problem today is this: Will Germany enter a peace arrangement with the rest of Europe, or must she be encircled by a ring of bayonets?

percussions. further curtailment of imports from creditor countries and a more pronounced tendency toward economic isolation might be among the eventualities.” ana MR. MACK points out that depreciation of the dollar and the pound sterling, the principal currencies in which world obligations are payable, together with repeal of the gold clause, was responsible for the gradual improvement under way in most countries during the last two years. He adds: “Only because of this factor were the obligator countries, nearly all of which had debased their own currencies, enabled to effect some semblance of equilibrium in their all-important balances of international payments, thus promoting the worldwide recovery thus far achieved.” All of which is as important to Great Britain and France as to the United States. Neither country can plan for the future or determine what it shall do with its own currency until it knows what the United States Supreme Court is going to do. However, if the Supreme Court does uphold the gold clause Congress and the White House may find another way to nullify or at least to neutralize it. How the other two branches of the government circumvented judicial supremacy in a somewhat similar case will be told tomorrow.

OVER this issue France and Britain are now at odds. Each has a plan, but they do not dovetail. It is to make them dovetail, if possible, that the FrancoBritish conversations are to take place this wee!,. Britain today is almost as afraid of Germany as is France. Britain knows Germany is rearming at a terrific pace—particularly in the air and chemically—and wants her stopped. To stop her, the British propose to legalize Germany’s rearmament where it is now, and lure that country back into the League of Nations and the disarmament conference. With Germany back at Geneva, Britain reasons, some limit may be put on her armament. As long as she remains outside, accountable to no one, only the sky is the limit. Such is the proposition Sir John intends to put to the French. 888 ' | 'HE French, on their side, likewise would like a halt in Germany’s war preparations. Probably not since the late Aristide Briand tried to make friends with Germany a decade ago has France been more sincerely desirous of a rapprochement. But Herr Hitler is hard to deal with. He vows he will return to Geneva if and when Germany has been accorded full equality, in armaments and otherwise, and not a moment before. And equality must be at the start, and not the end, of negotiations. By equality Hitler means France must even dismantle her chain of fortifications along her eastern frontier, or let Germany build one like it on the other side of the Rhine. And this France, with her 40 million inhabitants, beside Germany with her 65 millions, will never permit. She does not dare. The help of Britain is pretty nearly vital to the French plan. It is vital to any plan to safeguard European peace, regardless of the stand Germany may take. And France knows it. As long as Britain and France hold aloof from one another, French statesmen contend. Germany will continue to hike her demands menacing both of them and the rest of Europe. But the Bntish government seems unable \o make up its mind It is aware that the continent at any time may blaze up in anew war, but fears to do anything definite about it. Sir John is timid. Others in the cabinet are hesitant, if not jittery. Yet on their decision, perhaps this week, depends the peace of a continent.

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Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER JAMES A FARLEY might have to resort to inflation of the postage stamps to solve the embarrassing problem of the little gifts which he has been sending to President Roosevelt, Louis McHenry Howe, Harold L. Ickes and himself. Realizing that the President was an old stamp collector. Mr. Farley. early in his reign as Postmaster General, established a pretty little custom ot producing a freak sheet of stamps of each memorial issue for Mr. Roosevelt's private collection. While he was at it,

he printed freak sheets for Mr. Howe, the President's secretary, and himself. He cut in Mr. Ickes for a similar sheet of each of the ten designs in the national parks series. This is io take no account of any souvenir sheets ol the routine commercial issues regarding which your correspondent being not much of a reporter, failed to ask any questions. But there lave been 17 memorial issues in the two years since coronation day whereas, in the past, it was customary to iclease only four such issues a year. Never before in this country was it customary to cau-e accidents to happen by official order

and with malice aforethought, so to speak It a sheet of stamps came off the press lacking perforations, without glue or with the ink smeared, the custom was to destroy it. This sort of irregularity is the distinguishing mark of the iieak stamp. The outlandish values which are placed on freaks arise from the fact that ordinarily they reach the public only by accident. In fact, almost always the first pressrun ot anew design will produce mis-prints of one kind or another Now a Republican Congressman, Charles D. Millard. doubtless a destructive critic, is planning to call a congressional investigation because it appears that Mr. Farley's gifts to Mr Roosevelt himself and others, considered as philatelic rarities, have the value ot a fortune in each case. It is impossible to estimate the actual value without knowing all the factors. But a stamp expert in New York has expressed the otlief, with reservations, that a whole sheet of the freaks of the Mother's Day issue, for example, would be worth from SSO to S2OO a stamp. a a a He's Not Pokey in the Head THE sfanip nut, of whom there are 9,000,000 in this country alone, a figure based on the circulation of the collectors’ magazines and the sucker lists of the dealers, is a curious piece of work. He belongs to the same general family as the birds’ egg and ihe souvenir spoon collector and the man who flies a felt pennant in the rear window of his automobile signifying that he has just visited the Mammoth cave. One sheet of the Mother’s Day freak which turned up in Norfolk, Va„ for appraisal has been quoted at from $20,000 to $30,000, but no sale has been reported. If the minimum figure were adopted and applied to all seventeen freaks. Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Howe and Mr. Farley each would have $340,000 worth of stamps. Mr. Ickes would have $200,000 worth. But, of course, if all these rarities were dumped into the market at once, each w'ould damage the value of all the others. This thought offers a graceful, though perhaps disappointing solution to the problem confronting Mr. Roosevelt and his Administration. Asa stamp collector, he seems quite likely to have known that the freaks which Mr. Farley was sending him w’ere not ordinary, face value postage stamps. Mr. Farley, being no collector, did not know at first. But Mr. Farley is by no means pokey in the head and> it may be assumed that he very soon learned what ' sort of stamp collection he was storing away for himself and his heirs. a a a Let In on the Subject IT might be unseemly of Mr. Roosevelt and the three other collectors in the little circle to return or publicly destroy tneir sheets as this would convey just a faint suggestion that they had been caught in the orchard with a blouseful of apples. But Mr. Farley could easily equalize everything by inflation of the stamps, printing unlimited numbers of the same freaks and offering them to the public at face value. In that case, the only extraordinary value remaining in the Roosevelt-Howe-Farley-Ickes collection would lie in the autographs written large across the smooth, unperforated rows. Postmasters General in other lands have been guilty of very unethical practices in recent years as the freak stamp mania spread and the opportunities increased to make a private profit without resort to crude larceny. Italian stamps are in low repute, due to the mass production of museum pieces. Freaks of several South American republics are hardly worth their weight in waste paper and a couple of little roadside countries in Europe turn out a memorial issue, each witn its complement of Ireaks every time the postmaster general’s baby needs a pair of shoes. Being in the lath and plaster business and a prizefight commissioner when he went to the Post Office Department, Mr. Farley did not realize what a touchy and temperamental business ne was trifling with when he began to grab off museum sheets on the basis of one for you and one for me and one for Uncle Louie He knows now, though. (Copyright 1935. by United Feature Syndicate Inc.)

Your Health - DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

WHEN your wrist is injured seriously, and you have it in a cast for repair, you must put it through a series of strengthening exercises after the cast is removed. And, since so many small bones, ligaments, and muscles are involved, the exercises range from the simplest to the more complicated and must be taken with extreme care and patience. The hand, like the wrist, is capable of practically every kind of motion, and must be exercised just as carefully. At first the exercites should be controlled by a physician or physiotherapist, who moves the joints while you make no effort at all. a a a HAND resting on table, palm down: 'a) Move hand toward thumb. Resist with pressure on thumb near wrist, (b) Move hand toward little finger. Resist with pressure on little finger side of hand near wrist. Hand resting on little finger, wrist bent back to bend the fingers, and forward to straighten them. Hand resting on table, palm down: (a) Spread fingers flat on table. Resist by grasping fingers with other hand, tb) Bring fingers together. Resist by putting fingers of one hand between those of other. Arm resting on little finger side of hand, bring tip of thumb to tip of each finger and to first joint of little finger, making a circle. Resist with pressure between tips. Pick up a soft rubber ball, grasping and letting go. Repeat with smaller balls. Wring out different sizes of cloth. B B B CLOSE all fingers and thumb to a tight fist and open fully. Repeat against resistance offered by other hand. Hand resting on little finger and forearm on table, elbow bent to a right angle: <a) Turn hand so that palm rests on table. <b) Turn hand so that the palm faces up. being careful that movement is not made in shoulder. Carry a book between thumb and fingers flat on ti e book, arm at side. Carry a book on palm of hand, with fingers stiaight. When you have developed sufficient ability to move the hand, wrist and fingers satisfactorily, you may take up any type of fine work, such as basket weaving, leather work, and carpentry, to get the finer motions under control.

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