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It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN 1 QUOTE from an Associated Press dispatch which reads: “Paris, April 23.—" War babies,’ 120.000 strong, streamed to the colors today to swell the number under arms in France to 420.000. In cities and villages throughout the land the conscripts—bom while the big guns of the World War were roaring—thronged railway stations, leaving for barracks for the start of their 18-month training period. Gay for the most part, the recruits sang and joked as they said au revoir.’ Many carried gifts and candy, cake and delica-

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cies.” Bom while the guns were roaring. some of them not yet quite 17, the youth of France takes up where another generation stopped from wounds and death and sheer exhaustion. And how old did you say P.crve was now? Seventeen his next birthday? I suppose he must be quite big by now. It’s years since I saw him. And yet it seems like yesterday that he was just a baby crawling along the parlor floor. And certainly it can t be so long ago that I watched him playing with his

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blocks in the garden in front of the house and building forts and castles.” "Oh, yes. Pierre is taller than his mother now. He has to shave regularly once a week. Only yesterday we saw him of! when he went to join his regiment. He's a man and he's gone to serve his countr ana The His/ (tuns /{oarer/ BORN while the big guns roared in the great war, earned bv some woman of France heavy already with the fear for her loved ones on the battle line. And perhaps she prayed for a daughter or she said, “they fight that this one elo.se to my heart may never know the agonv which is theirs” Surely no woman bargained that she should conceive in pain to place new recruits upon the altar of anguish. "Sleep, little cabbage, close your eyes end heed not that, distant rumble. It is the guns, but they are separated from you by many miles and by the years of your infancy. Daddy's gone a hunting for 'hat peace which shall be everlasting.” The war oabies were gay as they set forth to put on horizon blue and take the chances of what the next 18 months may bring. They never heard the screams and moans of those who lay in No Man's Land throughout the night cut off lrom stretcher bearers. And as they munched their chocolate they sang the lively songs of the boulevards. Not yet have they learned, 'here s a toast to the dead already and a cup to the next man that dies.” Tne Penrods of Paris play as yet something which is a game. They've cut the apron strings and are rollicking off to barracks. Who's afraid of the big bad war? And not even the littlest of the new recruits will whimper in the night or say to the sergeant, “Comrade. I'm homesick.” And yet Herod was more merciful when he killed the new bom while they were still in swaddling clothes. it a a They Are Torn Loose THESE are the lads torn loose after 16 or 17 years of nurture. Nor are they being sent to war. They will but drill and fight sham fights and thrust bayonets a little awkwardly into the straw bellies of dummies swung upon a crass piece. "This is the thrust, little man, if you would disembowel your adversary.” Os course, this isn't war. This is the preparedness which makes for peace. The next world war is all the way around the corner. Pierre and Gaston. Henri and Georges be choosey with your bonbons. Take one of the better sort all wrapped in foil. Here's a maraschino cherry. You play at war. You lark and sing. But note that something stirs in the wheat field below the ridge where you and the other babies are encamped. It moves slowly and on its belly. Infants that is the next war. It creeps up upon you. And it will be a war of blood and torture. Take another chocolate. You did not hear, your mother did. the guns of conflict. You must break free of that pre-natal curse. Now is the time to say, “I will not.” Speak for your own integrity and that of the woman who bore you. You are life and old men would condemn you. Death always condemns life. Choose for yourself and for the young and the quick of all the world They are your comrades. And you the women of England and Germany and Italy and America, how- old is your son? And are you content to wean him to carry on the line of crosses? (Convrieht. 1933)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

/ ~|''HE extent to which you chew your food depends J- on the food itself, the amount of saliva you put out, the nature of the food, and your own habits in swallowing. Some persons get used to swallowing large lumps and others must have their food finely macerated. Years ago a man named Horace Fletcher started a fad which he claimed would bring good health through chewing. The fad was known as Fletcherization. Fletcher believed that all food should be chewed until of liquid consistency. There are only two periods in your life when you should have liquid food—first childhood and second childhood. Between these periods you will do better with a certain amount of solid material, if for no other reason than to give exercise to the muscles of the stomach and the intestines. a a a r \ 'HE power of the human jaw is astounding. Some A persons can crack nuts with their teeth, and some are able to bite through very hard substances. This also depends on the development of the muscles of the jaws. Ordinarily you should chew your food until at least the larcest masses have been broken up and the fibers torn apart. Fibers in meat are a type of material which does not digest easily. The more such food is macerated or broken up. the more likely is digestion of the food to be good after it reaches the stomach. When the food reaches the stomach, it is churned around, mixed with the gastric juices and the hydrochloric acid of the stomach, and then properly forwarded into the bowel. a a a r I"'HE saliva, with which the food is mixed in the A mouth, goes along with the food to the stomach. It helps not only to moisten the food, but to wet the tongue and the esophagus, which is the tube along which the food passes from throat to stomach. Before the food reaches the stomach, the saliva starts its starch-digesting action on it. That is its chief ferment. No other action upon the food takes place in the mouth, but this first action, in which the breaking up of the food's starch is begun, is one of the most important functions relating to proper digestion.

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Q —On what dav of the week did Jan. 30, 1904, fall? A —Saturday. Q—What part of the camel does the hair come from that is used in camel's hair brushes? A—They are made from the tail hair of Siberian aquirrels, not from camel's hair. Q—How many foreign born persons 21 years and over, residing in the United States in 1930. were naturalized, and how many had taken their first papers? A—The 1930 census enumerated a total of 13366.407 foreign born residents, of whom 7.627.436 were naturalized. 1318.416 had first papers, and 3342.837 were aliens. The citizenship status of 448.954 was unknown. Q—What is the area of Manchukuo? A—The Manchukuo Year Book of 1934 gives 460,S& square miles as the estimated area,

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WAR-AND ‘THE DOLLARS OF DEATH’ m a a a a a a a a a a a a a a Revelations of Profits Spar Congress Drive on Money-Grabbing

War I* Bit Business. Cheeks for hute sum* are written in the blood of the battlefield*. Price* soar. The Dollar shrinks. Then the war clouds drift away, leaving in their wake an economically devastated land. • . A revealing wordpicture of “Thi* War Busine**” and of current lei*lativ* efforts to take the profits out of war is contained in three article* which have been prepared by John T. Flynn, the nation'* foremost journalist-economist, whose newspaper writings now appear exclusively in The Indianapolis Times and NEA Service. This is the first article. BY JOHN T. FLYNN < Copyright. 1935. NEA Service. Inc.) JU'OT long ago Mr. Eugene G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corp., told the Senate Munitions Committee his story. During the war he did his bit for America as head of the huge company which made ships and steel for Uncle Sam’s fighting men. For this he collected in one year—l9lß—a bonus of $1,386,193. The other officers of the company split among themselves $1,834,272. That makes a total of $3,220,465. That was almost enough to pay the salaries of a brigade of infantry at the frontprivates, non-coms, all officers including the general. Here is another story told me by Miss Mary M. O’Reilly, the able and gracious lady who for so many years, as assistant director of the United States Mint, has actually managed that interesting institution. It is about another man who did his bit during the war. His name was Beno T.

W’irth. As millions of men made ready to go in our armies to France, the government was making frantic appeals to citizens to turn in their platinum. Platinum Wu.s needed in making shells. The platinum was all turned over to the munition makers. But it had to be made into platinum gauze and the secret for doing this, which was German, was not known. The munitions plants were unable to solve the problem. They appealed to the government. Reno T. Wirth, a metallurgist in the Philadelphia Mint, went to work on the problem and solved it. But he received no bonus—not even $1,000,000. not even SIOOO. He got no more than the S6O a week he had always earned. And, strangely, he was quite satisfied. What is more, he spent so many sleepless nights on the desperate problem that he undermined his health and died. A grateful government did not even give a dollar to the large family he left behind. n a a SOMEWHERE between these two stories lies the problem which now faces the American government. Would Mr. Eugene Grace have worked for S6O a. week—s3l2o a year—if necessary to save his country? Or would he quit in a crisis? He says he would have worked just as earnestly if he hadn’t gotten that amazing bonus. I believe he- would. The issue is no longer an academic one. The war-clouds darken over the world at terrifying intervals. Dollfuss is murdered, Alexander is assassinated, Hitler threatens Danzig or Memel or Austria: Japan ravages Manchukuo, Germany rearms, and the nations of Europe draw their weapons and rush to their frontiers. At each such scare Americans wonder—can we keep out of the inevitable struggle? If we go in what will we fight for? And how? Grave statesmen tell us that, try

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

WASHINGTON. April 28— Now that the “financial log jam" is supposed to be broken and money once again is loosening up in the investor’s pocket, it is a good thing to keep an eye on the Securities and Exchange Commission. That commission, established after one of the hardest battles ever witnessed between Wall Street and Washintgon, now has been functioning about nine months.

During that time it has come to be one of the most sincere, and on the whole, effective of New Deal commissions. This is due chiefly to the fact that tne President started the SEC ofl with a genuinely high-grade group of commissioners. But perhaps because the quality of its personnel is so far above par. more is expected from the SEC than from the faltering steps of many other New Deal agencies. At any rate, certain weaknesses have developed in the administration of the Securities and Stock Exchange principally the fault of the acts themselves—on which the investing public should keep a weather eye. u u CHIEF among these is the fact that the law merely requires a company registering a stock or bond issue to tell the truth. The company may be as crooked as a dog's hind leg. but if it states the truth in the prospectus issued to the public, there is no way the SEC can stop the sale of the security. ■Hus is the greatest illusion which the investing public cherishes about the SEC. The unsuspecting man-in-the-street with a few dollars to salt away may have the idea that because the Gold Nugget Get-Rich Cos. has been O. k.d by the SEC. it is as sound as the Rock of Gibraltar, whereas the company may state quite frankly that its assets are purely ethereal and its profits as illusive as a firefly. One of the severest tonguelashines ever given by the volatile Ferd Pecora. former SEC Commissioner, was administered to a woman broker who had lost money on United States Smelting, a fluctuating stock, and then came to Washington to ask the commission to collect. * m a THE SEC, however, has not leaned backward to aid the unwary' investor in avoiding some of these pitfalls. In fact its ruling on the bond flotation of the

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as we may, we will not be able to remain aloof from the next world war.”"' If we go in will we expose ourselves to all the follies, sins and, in the end, the most prodigious losses ever suffered by a victorious nation, as we did in 1917? a a a AT this moment, amid all the troublous controversies of peace, Congress is rolling up its sleeves for a real scrap about the next war. There are two groups. Both want to take the profits out of war. One is strong in the House. The other is strong in the Senate. One wants to take the profits out of war b.v freezing and fixing prices. The other wants to do it by taxes—"paying as we fight.” One plan is put forward in what is known as the McSwain bill. The House has passed that. The other is known as the Nye bill, after Senator Gerald P. Nye, chairman of the Munitions Committee which has been investigating the munitions makers. Before you can know what the “shootin’ is all about,” you must know several things about this Nye committee. It has been looking into the business affairs of the munition makers who sell at least four billion dollars a year of their destructive products to the governments of the world. Out of this investigation many problems arise. The committee plans to propose legislation to cover all these problems—whether or not the government will nationalize the munitions business, the question of permitting the sale of munitions to foreign countries during peace time, the problem of selling munitions to belligerents during war, the difficult question of trading with warring nations and the delivery of any products on American ships, the policy to be adopted with reference to lending money to foreign nations, ana many others. At this moment the committee is dealing solely with the question of profits in war. It has been forced to advance this phase of the subjtci because the President

Northern States Power Cos. has let it in for considerable criticism. In this, the company purported to show an “earned surplus’’ of slightly over $4,000,000, although Arthur Anderson, the accountant, refused to certify this, and indicated that instead, by one form of bookkeeping the company had a deficit of $1,100,000. Thus, according to the accountant, the company's balance was overwritten by a total of over $5,100,000. By a 3-to-2 vote, however, the SEC let the Northern States Power Cos. get away with presenting this balance sheet in its prospectus. It contented itself with the fact that the item was explained by the accountant in the explanatory pages which followed, failing to take into consideration that the average investor never examines the reams of explanatory material accompanying a prospectus, and does well if he glances through the prospectus itself. nun THIS tremendous accumulation of evidence in the registration of a bond issue is one practice which tends to defeat the purpose of the securities act. The Pacific Gas and Electric, in all good faith, for instance, filed 26,000 pages with the commission. Obviously no one but a corps of trained accountants could make head or tail out of such a detailed report. And the average investor just hasn't a chance. At head of the SEC sits freckled. sandy-haired dynamic Joe Kennedy, moving picture magnate. close friend of the President, and a likable, fighting Irishman. Kennedy is putting his whole soul into the job. and also a lot of his money. To avoid any appearance of stock manipulation. Kennedy locked all of his stocks in a safe deposit vault and refused to sell even when he knew certain holdings were in for heavy losses. Asa result his values have depreciated by $150,000 during the nine months he has been in Washington. ♦Copyright. 1935. bv United l’eatur* Syndicate, In c.

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has insisted on dealing with it now. a a a NO one pretends that taking the profits out of war will end war. There are many causes behind war—old racial and religious hatreds, political ambitions of dynasties and dictators and statesmen, trade rivalries, the pressure of economic difficulties, the hunger for land or for crowding populations—many causes. But these basic war causes are accompanied by many irritants. And one of them is the vast profit that can be made out of war. It is an irritant before war begins. It is a destroyer after war starts. When other causes are present, it may be the deciding force between war and peace. The war-profits bills are efforts to meet that problem, and that problem alone. It is not merely a question of profits. War profits are just one phase of that terrible economic upset which attends wars. As soon as the war drums roll something happpns to the economic life of a people. Prices rise. Earnings rise. Wages go up. Profits are swollen. The spiral continues until before long the whole economic life of the nation is deformed. The war cost is inflated. When the ■war is over, the bubble collapses. Frequently the victor is as seriously devastated as the vanquished. In the last war America was not invaded. But some poisonous evil swept over the country which left us wounded and sick — and we are still sick. a a a BECAUSE profits represent the cut of those who assume to be our economic leaders and because they are the ugliest side of the war inflation, attention has been focused on them. The Senate bill, however, is designed to hit not merely che profits, but all the other economic evils which go with them. But as profits play so prominent a part in all the discussions, let us see what turned the Senate's attention to this subject. In the last year, we sent 2.000.000 men to France. The pay of those men—the two million private soldiers, for the period they were in France —was about $1,100,000,000. This is the sum which one corporation—the United States Steel Corp.—made in clear profits, over and above all taxes—in the

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five years of the World War—--1915 to 1919. Asa matter of fact, however, huge as these earnings were, they were small in proportion compared with the profits of some of the war babies. One steel company made 267 per cent. This may sound excessive until you are told that another company made 648 per cent and still another 676 per cent. It would take a man 100 years and over on a guaranteed investment of 6 per cent to make what this steel corporation cleaned up in one year when its country was at war. a a a BUT save your gasps. Another company made 943 per cent, got back its capital stock value nine and a half times in a single year as its dividends on a national disaster. It is easy to grow wrathy at men for such evidences of greed. It must be that men do not understand fully the deep implications of their own acquisitivenessIt is amazing how audacious some of these steel men were. The army was struggling frantically to get supplies. It had not the time to bargain too closely. What it wanted was munitions for its soldiers. Manufacturers knew that. And they did not hesitate to take advantage of it. Some complained that they were not being paid enough. The Federal Trade Commission made an investigation of the profits of some of these complaining companies. Here are the profits which some of the companies were making: Per cent profit for 1917. Allan Wood Iron & Steel Cos 52.63 Allegheny Steel Cos 78.92 American Tube & Stamping Cos. 40.03 Central Iron & Steel Cos 71.35 Eastern Steel Cos 30.24 Forged Steel Wheel Cos 105.40 Follansbee Bros. Cos 112.48 Nagel Steel Cos 319.67 West Penn Steel Cos 159.01 West Lcechburg Steel Cos 109.05 a a a THE copper companies did quite as well—or ill. The Utah Copper Company made $32,000,000 in 1917. That meant 200 per cent. The Calumet and Hecla made $9.500.000 —800 per cent profit. The munition maker must have sulphur. The Union Sulphur Cos. made sulphur for $5.73 a ton and sold it for slß.ll a ton.

By George Clark

The meat packers—Armour, Swift, Morris, Cudahy—in the three years before the war made $19,000,000 a year. In 1915 they made $36,000,000 more than that; in 1916 it was $55,000,000 more; in 1917 it was $87,000,000 more. Flour millers in 1916 made 13 1 * cents profit on each barrel, which was large. But in the first six months of 1917 they made $2 profit on every barrel. In 1916 the du Ponts paid 100 per cent dividend—the investors got back their whole investment. Then in 1917 they paid 50 per cent and the next year 23 per cent. They got back the whole investment in those three years twice. At the same time the investment itself increased from $74,000,000 to $308,000,000. a a a SEE what the war did for some of our leading producers. Here are their earnings for 1914 and 1917: 1914 1917 American Rolling Mill Cos. S 363.906 54,408.619 Allas Powder Cos 294,149 2,514.625 Hercules Powder Cos. 1,261,349 6.866.860 Colt’s Patent Firearms Cos 275,569 3,303,296 American Can Cos. . 5,807,802 21,995,042 American Car and Foundry Cos. 3,757,971 10,310.872 Meanwhile the managers were treating themselves well. The salary of the president of the American Rolling Mill was raised from $17,250 to $87,000; of the International Harvester Cos. from $87,833 to $185,00. The President of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Cos. went from $12,000 to $75,000 and of the Atlas Powder Cos. from $16,000 to $69,000. These were mere samples. There are many far worse cases. When one says the Senate is attacking the “profit system,” one may ask, “What profit system?” Is any one in favor of this kind of profit? Along with this went price rocketing. The old war dollar shrank. When you went to buy round steak your old dollar was worth but 55 cents. If you bought ham it was worth 43 cents; eggs 50 cents, butter, 50 cents, and milk only 50 cents. Some things went up three and four hundred per cent and more. And wages rose too, but far slower than prices. It was not until after the war that wages staged their biggest rise. And when it was all over we had piled up a debt of TWENTYTWO BILLION DOLLARS and a depression. NEXT—What price war?

WILDE BARES NEED FOR NEW SCHOOLS Some Buildings Inadequate, Parents Told. “There are certain public schools in Indianapolis which can not continue to operate in their present condition,” Carl Wilde, city school commissioner, said last night at a meeting of the School 3 ParentTeacher Association. “Unless the housing condition can be met by the unrestricted grant of adequate federal funds, of which there is at this time no definite indication, it will inevitably become necessary that a reasonable amount be included in the budget of the school city to meet the most pressing and urgent of the housing needs.” Mr. Wilde pointed out in lamenting low salaries of teachers in Indianapolis that the salaries are not now commensurate with the importance of the profession. CAVINS LAUDS G. 0. P. Can't Blame Republicans for Conditions in U. S., He Asserts. Alex G. Cavins. former assistant United States attorney, told members of the Indiana Women's Republican Club yesterday that the Republican party can not be blamed for any of the financial trouble or economic unrest in which the country now finds itself. The meeting was in the Columbia Club.

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Entered a Scrond-Clas* Matter at Postoffiee. Indianapolis. Ind.

Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER THERE has been an undercurrent of criticism of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt lately, giving your correspondent to wonder what the lady would have to do to please some people. Mrs. Roosevelt is less conspicuous just now than she used to be. either because her restless peregrinations in the little blue roadster and the transport planes have lost value along with novelty or because she has decided, for reasons of her own. to travel less and withdraw a pace from public notice. Nevertheless, she still

figures in the public imagination as a remarkably active and aggressive woman and either a good public servant or a bustling busy-body who ought to have more dignity. There are not a few who think the latter of Mrs. Roosevelt. Going back to the time when Mrs. Roosevelt took office—and it would be foolish to deny that she did take office along with the President—your correspondent remembers that, her activities were widely acclaimed as a favorable change. She was down a hole one day, asking Giuseppe and Stanislaus how they were getting along in their

work and the next day found her investigating working conditions among the steeple-jacks. She drove her own car. which was something for the papers, and the casual manner in which she hopped around in the big planes was a very definite boost for the air transport business. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote pieces for a magazine and more pieces for a newspaper syndicate and. though they won't live as literature, they were all right and. moreover, homemade. nun She Made Two Rad Rt eaks MUCH of Mrs. Roosevelt's personal activity, including her intimate friendship with the women reporters who were assigned to her and became coat-holders for her. can be described as bnbykissing if you feel that way about it. Much of the relief or improvement work can be summed up as boon-doggling if you insist. But perhaps someone who objects to Mrs. Roosevelt's tearing around the urban and rural slums of the country will suggest the name of some predecessor in the office who was a better hand at the job and showed a more humane character or better results. Mrs. Roosevelt has made two bad breaks in office, one when she nosed into a cheap congressional contest in New York on behalf of Mrs. Caroline O'Day, a Democrat, against Miss Dorothy Frooks, Republican. Miss Frooks is a woman lawyer who has been around some years and has learned that sweet are the uses of publicity and she naturally hollered martyr. But Mrs. O'Day was elected, just the same, and a good thing, too, because she was the better candidate. Nevertheless, that was one occasion when Mrs. Roosevelt should have been listening, not talking, because, busy and aggressive as she has been, her word in the contest was the word of the White House, notwithstanding her disclaimer. She can’t enjoy the prerogatives and influence of the White House in some matters and claim to be a private citizen in others, as she did in that case. n tt tt The White House Overspeaks THEN thpre was her remark about, the circumstantial evidence in the Hsuptmann trial \cl which, again, the White House overspoke itself to embarrass justice in the case of a man who had been caught with the goods and convicted in court. But, considering how much Mrs. Roosevelt has had to say on so many subjects, a couple of errors are to be expected and she is now well into the third year of her term with an average of almost 1000. Nowhere in all Mrs. Roosevelt's activity, speaking, WT'iting, baby-kissing, boon-doggling, salvaging, helping tiny individuals among the poor, has any one discovered a single instance in which she had a mean, harsh or selfish motive or inflicted hurt on any one with the exception of Miss Frooks. who is a politician and knows what to expect in a political campaign. It is true that the White House is no longer a museum, but an American home. But it was time someone opened the windows and aired out of the place some of the stuffy dignity tvhich not so long ago required a flunkey to introduce the President to his missus every time they sat down to snap at a lamb chop. And not yet in Mrs. Roosevelt’s administration have any couple of determined females been permitted to make clowns of themselves and a tentshow of a state dinner haggling as to w'hich one should sit how close to the boss. Mrs. Roosevelt has been too busy with such undignified trivialities as old-age pensions, a ban on child labor, unemployment insurance and the protection of the health of mothers and children. (Coovright. 1935. bv United Feature Svndicate. Inc.)

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

DEVELOPMENT of a chemical compound for the treatment of varicose veias superior to any agent now in use, was announced by Dr. F. R. Greenbaum of the National Drug Cos., Philadelphia, before the division of medicinal chemistry of the American Chemical Society meeting in New York. What Dr. Greenbaum has done is to make a compound of the two substances which in the past have proved most successful. Clinical tests, he said, reveal that the combination possesses advantages which neither of tne two possesses alone. Dr. Harold S. Booth of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, speaking before the symposium on the chemistry of the rarer elements, announced the discovery of two new gases. Os the 200 previously known gases. 13 represent discoveries by Dr. Booth. Dr. Greenbaum said he had named his new compound moruquin. It represents a combination of sodium morrhuate and quinine urethane. A varicose vein is one which has become distended and lost its elasticity. Asa result it becomes distended and filled with stagnant blood. They cause poor circulation and sometimes swelling of the arms or legs. Their chief danger comes from the fact that a blood clot may form in them, circulate through the blood, and lodge in the lung. Such cases may end fatally. nan IN the injection treatment, the varicose vein is first tied off from the main arteries. It is then injected with some substance which causes it to harden and the entire vein to clot, thus removing the particular vein completely from the circulatory system and preventing it from causing further damage or complications. The treatment was first tried 75 years ago and many substances tried. But up until 1933 no entirely satisfactory agent had been found. It was in that year that Dr. Greenbaum began experimenting with the combmation of sodium morrhuate and quinine urethane. Dr. Greenbaum said that the combination could also be used in the treatment of hemorrhoids, hydrocele, telangiectasis, spider burst veins and angiomatous tumors. n n u THE new gases reported by Dr. Booth are known as difiuordichlor-germane and tnfluor-mono-chlor-germane. They are both combinations of chlorine, fluorine and germanium. Chlorine and fluorine are themselves both gases. Germanium is a rare metal, resembling tin. Because of its scarcity, germanium is worth several hundred dollars an ounce. Both gases are extremely poisonous but Dr Booth said that they did not possess the qualities which would make them valuable in chemical warfare. Their preparation was extremely hazardous, he said, and several explosions, one of them violent, occurred in his laboratory during the experimental wrk.,

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