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It Seems to Me HEYDOD BROUN TT was a good rip-snorting speech which Gen. Johnson delivered at the Red Book dinner. Many men in public life excel the general as a radio performer but in my opinion he heads the list in his skilful use of a simple and vigorous proose style. The general is a bookish man but he manages to combine an occasional literary reference with ? slue of current slang and never once seems either to show-off or condescend. Asa phrase maker. Huey can't touch Gen.

Johnson. Long at his loudest is only a thin piper compared to the general when he calls upon all his brasses. And in a cussing contest the Louisiana sophomore would be pitifully outmatched And yet as the fight develops I am very much afraid that the old cavalryman is going to be chewed up. Tne irony of this lies in the fact that Long's attack will be against Gen. Johnson as the tool of the interests. The truth of the matter *s that Huey just now is the whitehaired boy of American capitalism. Big business is overjoyed at Senator Longs rise to prominence

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and power. One might think that the Roosevelt Admiru (ration had become sufficiently conservative to satisfy every need of the captains of finance. But they are Olivers and always ask for more. They begin to see the possibility of capturing the White House in 1936 with one of the old gang. Almost any minute now they will begin to groom some mute, inglorious Harding. Huey will furnish the smokescreen and the Republicans will take over the jobs. And Long and Father Coughlin know precisely the roles to which they have been assigned. • mm Rebuked Organized Labor r T~'HE weakness of Gen. Johnson's position is that "*■ hts place in the picture is far from clear in his own mind. On the surface he was hailing Franklin Roosevelt as a middle of the road man who must be supported lest the country fall into the hands of the lunatic left or the lunatic right. The general is n.ave if he really thinks that Huey and the good Fascist father are radicals in any sense of the term. But let us look at specific contradictions in his speech. He rebuked organized labor and said that it, ' ought not to grouse at an administration which has gone with it nine .imes out of 10.” And yet at another point in this same address he said that he himself had left NRA. "just before it went under the ether and had its intestines removed.” Does the general reallv think that labor should clap its hands and sing hosannahs to an administration which has placed the fate of the workers in the kindly hands of Donald Richberg. After all the surgery to which the general referred was. in the case of Mr. Richberg, merely a minor operation. The middle of the road which Gen. Johnson eulogized as the proper pathway for American democracy has led American labor straight into the court of men like Judge John P. Nields. In referring to collective bargaining with “outside unions” under the terms of Section v-A the judge declared. “It is not the twentieth century American theory of that relation as dependent upon mutual interest, understanding and good will. This modem theory is embodied in the Weirton plan of employe organization.” An editorial in the New York American commends the decision and declares, “in its dignity cf reasoning and expression it is in line with the high traditions of the Supreme Court itself.” * * * W ent Through the Motions F'ROM his point of view, Mr. Hearst speaks quite accurately. Dred Scott’s in his heaven and good old Uncle Tom will lead labor in militant company union struggle for better working conditions. “The decision.” says the Hearst editorial, “constitutes a classic answer to senseless and unintelligent business baiting.” It means all of that. Indeed it means the end of trades-union movement m America unless the decision can be set aside. I am aware that the government went through the motions of fighting the case but its whole procedure was slovenly and spineless. And where does the hope of labor lie in the prosecution of a prompt appeal? Technically it rests in the hands of the vacillating Homer Cummings. Actually the Attorney General will do nothing until he gets the word to go from Donald Richberg. Does Gen. Johnson really think that labor should be overjoyed at the trap in which it finds itself? The general asserted that the rulers of NRA had stuck bv labor nine times out of 10. You could say as much as that for Judas. Sure, the government stood by labor until the coming of the soldiers and the servants of the high priest. And even then it did not press dowira crown of thorns. Instead it left upon the brow of labor the kiss of death. lOpyrixht. IMS)

Today s Science —BY DAVID DIETZ—REPORTS from London state that the postmaster general has appointed a television advisory committee to co-operate with the British Broadcasting Cos. in the inauguration of public television service. Plans are to operate on ultra-short waves, using a radio wave about seven meters, approximately 23 feet. long. These waves, because of their behavior have been called quasi-optical since they behave in many ways like light waves. It is necessary to have a fairly uninterrupted path between the sending aerial and the receiving stations. For this reason, it is advisable to mount the aerial on a high station in the center of a densely populated area. The British authorities are considering using the top of the Crystal Palace Tower in London. This tower now fitted with experimental television laboratories. The Marconi-E M. L Television Cos. and Baird Television. Inc, are to install the new apparatus, it is reported. Among the most interesting experiments now going on in the radio field are these being conducted with ultra-short radio waves. These waves are also referred to as ultra-high frequency waves. Scientists of Harvard Uunversity have succeeded In sending radio waves with a wave length of l l * meters a distance of 68 miles. This is considered a record for waves of this length. mm* AMONG the most interesting developments of this sort is the ultra-high frequency link installed by the Bell Telephone System between Green Harbor and Pronncetown. Mass. These points are on opposite sides of Massachusetts Bay. The radio equipment is automatic, requiring no attendants, and the terminals appear on the longdistance switchboards at Boston and Provincetown so that the radio link may be hooked into any longlinee circuit. It is planned that in the future radio links of this sort will be installed wherever large bodies of water, high mountains, or unusual conditions make the construction of ordinary telephone lines too difficult or expensive. A similar ultra-high frequency link is being installed by the International Telephone and Telegraph Cos. between Barcelona and Mallorca. mam THE I. T. & T. recently developed a radio teleI printer to operate across the English Channel. This is working on the amazingly short wave length of only 17 centimeters. That is approximately six Inches. This teleprinter has been in operation for the transmission of messages since January. Ultra-high frequency radio telephone- links are being operated in Great Britain across Bristol Channel and between the mainland and some of the channel islands. An effective use of this type of radio link is being used in California at present in construction of the ban FrancLsco-Oakland Bridge. It is also being used to connect field camps in the construction of the aqueduct from the Colorado Rim' to Los Angeles.

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The LOVE LETTERS of NAPOLEON to MARIE LOUISE

CHAPTER TWENTY FATAL ARMISTICE QN May 22, at 7 p. m., Napoleon galloped off toward a hill overlooking Nieder-Markersdorf, where the fighting had not yet come to an end. Mortier, Caulaincourt, Duroc and Kirgener followed him. “My field-glass, my fieldglass!” he said. Caulaincourt turned round; the two of them were alone. A stray cannon ball had killed Kireener and disemboweled Duroc —Duroc, grand marshal and Duke of Frioul. who combined the highest qualities of a private individual with the virtues of a great citizen! Napoleon bent over the dying man, who pressed his hand and carried it to his lips. He said: “All my life has been devoted to your service, and I regret it only on account of any further use it might have been to you.” “Duroc," said the emperor, “there is another life. There you will await my coming.” “Yes, sire, when you have fulfilled all the hopes of our fatherland. I have lived worthily, I have nothing to blame myself for. I leave a daughter. Your Majesty will be a father to her.” And after a long silence: “Ah! sire, leave me: the sißht of me is painful to you." “Adieu, then, my friend!” And, leaning on the Due de Dalmatie and the grand equerry, Napoleon went back in silence to his tent. Ma bonne amie, I have received your letter. You will have heard of the fateful cannon-ball which killed the Grand Marshal I Duroc) and General Kirgener. Fancy my grief, you know how fond I was of the Due de Frioul. My affairs are going very well. The enemy is being followed up actively and is nowhere making a stand as you will see in the news. Adio mio bene. Tout a toi. NAP. In ramp near Gorlitz, the 34rd, 9 a. m. May. 1813). mam PROVISIONALLY, the duties of Grand Marshal were carried out by the Grand Equerry, Caulaincourt. Ma bonne amie. I was very sad all day yesterday over the death of the Due de Frioul. He was a friend of twenty years’ standing. Never did I have any occasion to complain of him, he was never anything but a comfort to me. He is an irreparable loss, the greatest I could suffer in the army. I have ordered the master of the horse to discharge his duties until I appoint someone to replace

T he DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen \\T ASHINGTON, March 7.—One of the most significant behind-the- ▼ ▼ scenes developments in inner White House circles is the way the President has quietly, but definitely, shelved pro-labor minded Secretary Frances Perkins as one of his counsellors. Until recently she was always consulted on policies affecting labor. But on three consecutive occasions, Mr. Roosevelt either has not sought her views or rejected them when given.

Miss Perkins opposed renewal of the auto code unless it was revised to give labor a better break. But the President turned the entire question over to Don Richberg. On the day the code was renewed. Miss Perkins tried repeatedly to get in touch with the "assistant-President,” and although only a few blocks separated them she was unable to reach him. She did not know the code had been extended until informed late that night by newsmen she met at a White House reception. A week later when the President sent the cigaret code to her for an expression of opinion she recommended certain prolabor changes. The code was signed by Mr. Roosevelt without change. Miss Perkins has sided with the Senate Liberals on the prevailing wage issue. But the President has not once consulted her about the matter. And now she has received another rebuff. For several months Miss Perkins has been press- .g 'he A. F. of L.'s demand <r Mr. Roosevelt that labor ► given another member or t ne NRA board. The retirement of Dr. Harry A. Millis from the National Labor Relations Board seemed to open the way for such a change. Miss Perkins proposed that he be replaced by Professor Walton H. Hamilton, who is now on the NRA Board, and that a laborite be appointed to the NRA in Mr. Hamilton's place. The President appeared sold on the plan. But at this point. “Assistant Persident" Richberg stepped in. He vigorously opposed ar.y change in the NRA Board lineup. He had devised the board, he declared, and to add another labor member would "throw it out of balance.” So Miss Perkins’ plan went aglimmering. Sincerely devoted and loyal to t£e President, the Labor Secretary has taken her spankings in silence. But to insiders there fire signs that she is far from happy. mam North Carolina's engaging Bob Reynolds was one Senator who really got reverberations from his home-folks for opposing the President in the workrelief wage controversy. Sco voted for the McCarran prevailing wage amendment.

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Outwardly and officially Austria still was an ally of France. But Napoleon knew, and even the people of Pans were aware, that the Austrian emperor, the father of Marie Louise, was yielding to the persuasion of his chief counselor. Prince Metternick, to desert the support of France. Between the rulers of the two nations there was no longer the amity they had displayed after Austerlitz. The scene of their cordial meeting there has been Immortalized in a painting by Antoine-Jean Gros which now hangs in the Museum of Versailles. It is reproduced above.

him. Adio. mio bene. My affairs are going very well. Tout a toi. NAP. Girlitz, May 24th (1813). “Madame et chere Amie,” Napoleon wrote officially to the Em-press-Regent, “I beg you to speak to the Archchanceilor and to the Minister of War, so that they may instruct the best of our young orators to pronounce the funeral orations of the Dukes of Istria and Frioul.” He informed the Emperor Francis of his victory: “Monsieur mon Frere et tres cher Beau-Pere, I gave battle on the 20th and 21st to the Russian and Prussian army, entrenched at the camps of Bautzen and Hochkirch. Providence granted me the victory.” And in order to weigh more heavily on the decision of the Vienna cabinet, he informed the daughter of the Emperor Francis that Prince Eugene de Beauharnais was building up a big army in Italy.

When this momentous word reached Beaufort County. North Carolina, a trial was in progress in the Superior Court. This fact, however, did not disturb one of the attorneys, H. S. Ward, a former member of Congress who was known in the House as "Hot-Stuff.” Mr. Ward interrupted the trial as follows: “If your honor please. I have a matter which I think is more important than this case. I have just received word that Bob Reynolds voted against the President, and I think we ought to recess this case so the Bar Association can meet and discuss the matter.” “I think that is a good idea, Mr. Ward,” replied the judge. “The court will take a recess for an hour.” Whereupon the Be vafort County Bar Association convened in solemn conclave, and after debating Senator Reynolds’ tetion, adopted a resolution that his vote in favor of the McCarran amendment "was not representative of the sentiments of the Beaufort County citizenship.” a a a . A SIGNIFICANT change has taken place behind the scenes on Capitol Hill regarding legislation for fixing the workweek. When the 30-hour measure was revived early in the session, floor leaders brushed it aside as not having a chance. Privately, they are talking differently now. They say there is strong possibility that a work-week limiting bill may be enacted. They express doubt that it will be a rigid 30hour measure, more likely a compromise at a higher figure, permitting certain exceptions. The fact that congressional leaders are voicing these views has greatly alarmed industrial moguls. Reason for the changed congressional situation is the Administration's abandonment of all pretense that the NRA can do anything about r e and u c i ” g unemployment rolls. Also there is growing pressure by organized labor for enactment of a statutory work-week. a a a STARTLED by the presence of an unusually large number of correspondents at his last press conference. Secretary Henry Wallace anxiously inquired: “What is the matter? Has something happened in the AAA?” The last time he had a full house was on the occasion of the recent purging of AAA liberals. (Oopyrlght 1935. by United Featui

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1935

Mon amie, I have just received your letter of tht 19th. I am very glad of what you write about the state of your health and that of my son, who, I presume, has grown considerably and is now a fluent speaker. Order a fine portrait of him. You will have been given particulars of the battle by Montesquiou. My affairs are going well. My health is very good. I hope the battle of Vargen will moderate the ambition of the Vienna cabinet. To meet contingencies. I have assembled an army of 120,000 men in Italy, that is what I sent the Viceroy there for. Adieu, mon amie, my health is very good. Tout a toi. NAP. May 25th (1813). ana FROM Gorlitz, Oudinot inclined towards Verlin, in pursuit of Bulow, Ney toward Bunzlau, Hainau, Liegnitz and Glogau, at the heels of Barclay and Yorck. Napoleon appeared to make out that all was well in his letters to the Archchancellor Cambaceres and to Marie Louise. “We are in the heart of Silesia,” he wrote to the former. “We are pressing on in pursuit of the enemy. The alarm about Austria is taken far too seriously in Paris.” And to the latter: Mon amie, I have received your letter of the 15th. As you see, my affairs are going well. My health is very good; I long to hear that you were pleased with the ceremony of the Te Deum. You know how I love you. I wish it was all over and I could see you again. Adio, moi bene. Tout a toi. Nap. May 26th, in the small town of Bruzelm, in Selesie (Silesia) (1813) Mon amie, I was concerned to read in your letter of the 22nd that you were feeling unwell. I hope that on the 23rd you will have been in good spirits and that you will have borne up well under the fatigue of the ceremony. My health is good; my affairs are going well. Adieu, mon amie. Tout a toi. Nap. May, 29th. (1813) Mon amie, I have received your letter of May 23rd. I am very sorry you did not reprieve the man condemned to death before going to the Te Deum. Such an act of mercy would have been ap-

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propriate on a day of rejoicing; the Archchancellor has been overstern in this matter. I love you as much as you deserve, or in other words, as much as possible. Ario mio bene. Tout a toi. NAP. From the farm of Roglin (?) May 30th. (1813) Mon amie. I have just received your letter of the 25th. You had been informed of the battle of Vurzen, which will have made you easier in your mind. My health is good, my affairs are going well. My troops have doubtless entered Breslau this evening. Adio, mio bene. Your faithful husband. MAP. Neumarck, May 21st (1813) Ma bonne amie. I have just received your letter of May 28th. It was childish of you to suopose that any one could have objected to your not receiving on account of health. Everybody will have thought that quite natural. Those who reported such remarks to you are silly fools. My health is good, be careful of yours. Give two kisses to my son and never doubt your (faithful) husband. NAP. (Undated) a a a MA bonne amie, I have received your letter of the 28th, by which I see that you are very distressed. I hope the news of a two months’ armistice that will have reached you by the telegraph from Mayence will have given you pleasure. My affairs are going well. My health is good. Be careful of yours. Give my son two kisess on the eyes and love your faithful husband well. Neumarck, June 4th. (1813) I shall proceed to Dresden during the armistice, so as to be nearer to you. Hard pressed. Generals Schonvalof and Kleist presented themselves at the outposts under a flag of truce. And on June 4 a two months’ armistice was signed at Plaeswitz between France. Russia and Prussia. “Austria still made a show of playing the part of peacemaker,” declared Caulaincourt, “but the pact with France was torn up, and we knew it. The armistice was a misfortune.” Napoleon, after his victory, moved to Dresden, just as though he had been defeated.

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Ma chere amie, I am going to Hanau this evening, and by the time you read this, I shall be in Dresden. So you see I am coming nearer to you. My health is good, my affairs are in very good shape. I love you and long to see you. A kiss to my son and never doubt your (husband). NAP. Lignitz, June 6th (1813). Ma bonne amie, I have received your letter of July Ist, I was sorry to hear that you did not enjoy yourself at Council of State. It is not a bad thing that you should preside over it once every month. I shall be at Dresden on the 9th, the day after tomorrow. You will certainly have heard that we entered Hambour. I hope you ordered our squadrons to be dressed and salutes to be fired for the Battle of Vurzen. My health is very good. I love you and long to see you. A kiss, please, to my son. Adio mio bene. Tout a toi. NAP. Brunzelau, June 7th (1813). a a a MON amie, I shall be in Dresden tonight, in good health, yet the weather has been very hot today. I was in the saddle all day long. Give a kiss to my son, all you tell me about him makes me long to see him, but it is you, mon amie, whom I should particularly like to kiss. Adio mio bene. NAP. Bauzen, 9th, 7 p. m. (June, 1813). Ma bonne amie, I have reached Dresden at 4 o’clock in the morning. I have taken up quarters in a small suburban house belonging to Count Marcelin (?) standing in very fine grounds, which is very pleasant for me. You know how dreary the king’s palace is. My health is very good. Give a kiss to my son.. You know how I love you. NAP. Dresden, June 10th, 1 a. m. (1813). On June 13th, he received the King of Saxony and his brothers, who had come to pay their respects to him in uniform; after which he attended church and sang Te Deum. The midday meal was partaken of at the palace of King Frederick Augustus. The “Aunt Therese” referred to several times in the letters to the Empress, from whom she complained of not having heard, was Marie-Therese of Austria, daughter of Emperor Leopold II and wife of Prince Antoine de Saxe. Mon Amie, I am dining today at the King of Saxony’s where I shall meet your aunt Therese. The heat is beginning to be very’ great. I was in the saddle yesterday from twelve to four. I came back with a touch of sunstroke. My health is very good. I hope you will enjoy yourself at Morfontaine, roaming through the fine woods and the park which is well laid out. You must give presents to those of the officers of the Queen of Spain, Hortense (?) who have served you. There is nothing new. Adio mio bene. Tout a toi. Your faithful Nap. Dresden, June 13th (1813). Next—The Arch-Intriguer. (■Copyright, 5.935, in France by Bibliotheaue Nationale: in all other countries by United Feature Syndicate. Inc. Reproduction either in whole or in part prohibited. All rights reserved.) schoolTboard chTef URGES NEW BUILDINGS Higher Tex Levy to Relieve Overcrowded Condition Suggested. Recommendation for an additional tax levy to remedy the overcrowded condition of schools was made by Merle Sidener, School Board president, at a meeting of the Indianapolis Federation of Public School Teachers in Caleb Mills Auditorium yesterday. Mr. Sidener outlined the need of additional school buildings to take the place of portable buildings now in use. A nominating committee was appointed to elect officers for the federation. The committee includes Charles H. Money, Washington High School: Miss Ersie S. Martin, Technical High School; Miss Emily McAdams and Mi’ Mary Moran, both of School 14, and Miss Dorothy B*gar, School 5.

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Fair Enough WESRMMER WASHINGTON. D. C., March 7.—The statesmen on the Hill, unable to legislate in the conventional. parliamentary manner, are considering a proposal whereby a work relief program affecting millions of unemployed men might win or lose by a left hook to the chin and a bonus bill be killed by a gunshot wound at dawn. There was more than just temper in the suggestion of Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas, to Senator Huey Long of Louisiana, that statesmen hav-

ing personal difficulties ought to settle them in the good, old fashioned way. It seemed the only feasible way to get anything done. There was plenty of temper, to be sure, for Mr. Robinson has a low boiling point and, for a long time, in his repartee with the dictator of Louisiana, has been holding back his Sunday punch by a visible effort of the will. He took steps toward Huey a few days ago during an exchange of remarks but broke off and laughed instead. Just what Senator Robinson had in mind at the instant was not stated for the record, but it did

not seem that he was advancing toward Huey to straighten his tie for him. Unfortunately for the free expression of that manhood which he called upon the Senate today to assert toward Huey, the Senator from Arkansas was involved in a little unpleasantness on a golf course because of his temper a few years ago and has been curbing himself ever since. Senator Robinson is persistently reported to be bound for the United States Supreme Court in the not improbable event of his being defeated for the Senate next and a record as a statesman accustomed to deciding disputed matters with a volley of lefts and rights to the face and body would hardly constitute an indorsement for this high, intellectual office. a a a Long Drives Them Wild THERE have been many masters of the art of ribbing, but Senator Long is by all odds the greatest of them all. Senator Long drives them wild and, since the man Bilbo, from Mississippi, who was expected to outrib the Kingfish, failed the gentlemanly element in the Senate, it will be up to the more civilized members eventually to take the chance. The man Bilbo was brought in for the express purpose of giving Senator Long a tossing-arour.d either by word of mouth or in the chamber of rough-and-tumble in the corridors. He has failed to keep his bargain and it is a question of considerable interest whether he has choked up or has some idea of making a deal and taking an important place in Huey’s dictatorship of the United States which Gen. Hugh Johnson saw in a vision in New York. The man Bilbo, has his vanity and his feelings were hurt worse than he ever let on when the Administration, wishing to take care cf him for a year when he was broke and out of a job, contemptuously put him to work cutting clippings out of the papers, at S6OOO a year. It wasn’t the S6OOO a year that hurt the man Bilbo, but the title of paste-master general which was hung on him by a derisive columnist back in Mississippi. The man Bilbo, sitting there now’, looking up at the Kingfish, would like to be a big man, too, but he knows he can never be anything more than just what he is today if he follows conventional lines as a member of an Administration which is trying to carry on in the traditional way of government. a a a Huey Won't Be Nice SENATOR LONG promptly declined Senator Robinson’s issue of manhood and skewered him again with a taunting allusion to the episode of the golf course. He won’t be nice, he never learned manners, he balls up everything with his shrewd knowledge of his privileges under the rules, he uses his immunity to slander and insult people and, when it comes to an issue of manhood and the traditional way of settling personal disputes he has ghost-fight-ers in his bodyguard, paid by the citizens of Louisiana, to represent him with knuckles, blackjat ks or guns, according to the requirements. To settle an issue of manhood with Huey’s ghostfighters, the other statesmen might find themselves required to hire unemployed prize fighters or some of the Chicago gunmen who seem to have been thrown out of work in the last couple of years. It would be one way of putting some idle men to work, at that, although it might be considered a pity that the fate of some great item of social legislation should have to be decided by a couple of preliminary boys in the backroom of some saloon. Still, the backroom of a saloon would have some advantage over the United States Senate in the matter of decorum in these days of Huey’s glory. In the meantime, Huey, though he blows out his cheeks till his eye is sunk in the red folds and thrashes the air with his arms in a wild show of anger, is having a magnificent time. Incorrigible, irrepressible, without scruples and relieved of all considerations of truth and civility which hamper normal men in battles with those rare, free souls who fight only tom-cat rules, Huey has the Senate and the Administration almost frantic with futile anger. It is a situation which Washington will long remember and the country long regret. (Copyright. 1935. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health by dr. morris fishbein THE belief that certain thoughts held by an expectant mother will induce a specific characteristic in her unborn child doesn’t seem to be borne out by the facts. Inheritance goes beyond mere thoughts or wishes. There is now good evidence that the color of the hair and its form, whether curly or straight, pigmentation of the skin, and color of the eyes are characteristics inherited to a considerable extent by the child from the father and mother. It is also likely that tall parents will have tall children, and short parents will have short children; but, of course, each of us is not only the direct result of factors coming from the mother and father, but also of factors coming from othe: ancestors. Occasionally there is a throwback to t.n ancestor who lived long before. a a a THERE are ways of improving height—for example, the correct amount of vitamins, the proper diet and outdoor air in youth. There seems to be good evidence that Japanese children born and reared in the United States grow taller than Japanese children bom and reared in Japan. This is probably due to the different type of nutrition and manner of living of the Japanese in this country. Diseases as such are not inherited. We do, however. inherit a type of constitution which seems to make some of us more susceptible to disease than are others. To have tuberculosis it is necessary to get the germ of tuberculosis into the body, but some persons’ bodies provide a better sail for tuberculosis than do the bodies of others. a a a THERE appears to be good evidence that cancer is inherited to some extent, out the conditions of marriage among human beings are such that the ccontrol of cancer by the control of marrir.ge seems hardly feasible. There is no reason to believe that a woman who sits before a beautiful picture or practices for hours on a musical instrument can make her child artistic or musical. There is, however, rather good evidence that a musical ear or a musical memory may be inherited. 9

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