Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1935 — Page 9

It Seems to Me HEYWOD BROUN SCRAM LODGE. SOMEWHERE IN CONNECTICUT. April 29—Dear New York City—Well I finally got up to thp country. I'm sleeping under . blankets. Wish you were here. I'm sleepine under I blankets because right now there doesn't seem very * much else to do. I'm going to plow the north meadow, but they tell me along about dawn is the best time so I’ve put that off until tomorrow. I think I'll nse radishes in the north meadow and plant the honey dew melon in the field beyond the

spring. Somebody has chalked "Jack and Charlie'' over the door of the spring house in memory of a saloon which I used to visit occasionally when I lived in New York. But I can tell you nobody knows what drinking is until he's tried a bucket of thus pure icy water from the Scram Lodge well. Yum. Yum! And this round is on me. At Jack and Charlie's they used to mix a drink which, if my memory serves me. was called a Martini cocktail. It had quite a kick. But not the kick of this pure well water. Os course, the Martini has an

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Olive in it and all you get with the bucket here is a couple of dead leaves maybe. They add a tang. After three or four glas cs of this stuff I feel so much pepped up that I could slap a smallish rabbit right in the nose if somebody would agree to muzzle the rabbit and hold him back. Yes sirree. it certainly tastes good. It wouldn’t even go badly with a little Scotch. This water would more or less take away that nasty smoky flavor I used to find in Scotch. Maybe I could get a bottle down at the village. There's a bus leaves every four hours on the hour from Quentin's Creek, which is no more than a brisk three-mile walk from here. And some of it is down hill. Maybe I could run part of the way. a a a Immune lo Attacks I’M feeling a lot better already. Mv nerves don't jump the way they used to. Anybody can learn to be philosophical out here in a singlp afternoon. Only this morning I got. a telegram sent me the day before yesterday which read, “Have learned tl at Harvey J. Kelly made bitter attack on you in closed session of A. N. P. A. This morning fThursday) stop Kelly called you quote A round and overstufTed gentleman who delights in preening his feathers in public end quote Please let me know at once what reply you are going to make—John." Now in the old days before I settled down on the farm I would probably have dictated a carefully prepared statement and sent it around to the newspapers, which wouldn't have used a line of it. Now on account of the fresh air and the well water I don't seem to get excited about it. In the first place I can’t for the life of me remember the A. N. P. A. is or who the hell is Harvey J. Kelly. I used to know a Kelly who had a place in East 53rd-st before repeal. But he was sort of stout himself. Besides his name was Elisha H. Kelly. I never knew what H. stood for. Os course. Kelly himself was a pretty nice fellow' who'd stand for almost, .anything except free drinks on the house. He did get a little sore that day we lit the bonfire under i' his feet when we found him asleep behind the bar. ' But even so there wouldn't be any sense in his calling himself Harvey J. Kelly and issuing silly statements and challenges. I remrmber at the time he said he hated practical jokes. I did know a Harvey J. Snodgrass in college. I wonder whatever became of him? nan Maybe It’s Just a Carte PROBABLY that message was phoned over from Bethel to the general store and old Bill's getting a little hard of hearing. He makes a good many mistakes. The whole thing- might turn out to be a message for Mother's Day. That A. N. P. A. could be some sort of Western Union code. How about, “although now parted always—Harvey J. Kelly.” That's a little better, but it still doesn't make very much sense. It sounds as if there were a missing word in there. Harvey J. Kelly is always what? That's the question. Surely nobodv would take the trouble to send me a telecram to say that Harvey J. Kelly is always Harvey J. Kelly. There's no answer L to that except "So what?” or “Better luck next F time.” Os course, ‘‘preening his feathers” was obviously Intended for “pruning his feathers.” Some Mr. Kelly has heard that I've retired to a farm to raise garden truck and chickens and he thinks I ought to prune them. “A round and overstuffed gentleman.” completely eludes me. I have no idea to what that refers or what Its pertinence may he. I guess I’ll just drop the telegram down the well to soften the water. The sun is pnetty hot by now and I think I'll go and Jump in the lakp and Harvey J. Kelly, whoever he is, can go and do the same. (Copvrleht. 1935)

Your Health -BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN-

YOUR golf depends on the state of your mind and the condition of your body, any expert Hill tell you. I know of no game which demands more selfconfidence than does golf, and yet some of our pieatest egoists are poor golfers. That's because their very egoism makes them want to excel and they are under severe tension before they start. Premature tension means failure in any athletic sport. A clergyman, who was a golfing fanatic, once consulted a celebrated mental specialist because he was always under tension, relieved himself by a lot of bad language, and wanted to be freed of his difficult situation. The doctor askod him if he was happily married. Presumably his domestic situation and his repressions at home carried over into the tension on the golf course. That may be the explanation for a good many golf widows. The doctor advised him to give it up. “Give up what?" asked the clergyman, “mv bad language, my golf, or my profession." “Well.” said the doctor, “try giving up the bad language: then if you meet with no success, give up the golf.” The clergyman said he would rather reverse the order and give up his profession first. a a a GOLF is a game of relaxation in two senses of the word. You must be relaxed to play it well and when you play it well you rdax. At the same time, however, there is probably no other game that demands the same amount and the same quality of concentration that golf demands of Its addicts. Chick Evans once said that he owed his success to a single word of advice given to him by Harry’ Vardon. who said: “Think.” Nevertheless, it is possible to introduce a considerable amount of automatic action into golf. There is the power of suggestion which may come from the outside or from the individual himself. a a a AUTOSUGGESTION has done a great deal for a good many poor golfers. Since the mechanism should be automatic, some amateurs play more badly after a few lessons because they put their minds on mechanism. In such cases both kinds of suggestion are very useful. Since many persons are very easily subject to suggestion, they find themselves unable to do their best when playing against players who work the power of suggestion on them. For instance, merely calling attention to a bunker will cause some players to shoot right into the bunker or to slice hundreds of yards out of the way. The water hazards are in themselves a constant suggestion to the player of wrong temperament. A real understanding of the golfer's psychology was expressed by the famous specialist ArgyllRobertson, after whom a certain reaction of the pupils of the eyes is named. He said, “When looking for a lost ball, always go to the spot where you think it Is, then walk 20 yards back, and you will find it"

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WAR-AND ‘THE DOLLARS OF DEATH’

Anti-Profit Bills Before Congress Are Termed Aid to Peace

A romprrhrrulre vlrw f rnrrrnt legislative efforts to take the profits not of war Is afforded bv this article, the last of three which John T. Flynn, noted writer on economic topics, has prepared for The Indianapolis Times and NEA Service. BY JOHN T. FLYNN (CopvrlEht. 1335. NEA Service, Inc.) pERIIAPS it is too much to hope that America can create for herself a policy that will keep her out of war. But certainly it is worth striving for. The war-profits bill, therefore, is just the first of a great program which the Senate committee hopes to shape to protect what Woodrow Wilson called “this great peace-loving nation" from another war from which it has absolutely nothing to gain. What that program will be no one can now say because the studies essential to it have not been completed. But there is something to stir the imagination in the subjects which the program miist cover. It is a challenge to the statesmanship of the world. Here is an outline of what is proposed: 1. There is the war-profits bill, which proposes that in the next war we shall “pay as we fight.” This means that every man will be taxed. It is not just a soak-the-rich scheme. Even the man who earns SSOO will be called on to pay. The man with SIOOO net income will pay S6O. The man with SSOOO income will pay $470. The tax is so graded that the highest amount any one will be allowed to keep for himself, after paying taxes, is SIO,OOO. This does not mean no man can have more than that.

He will have deductions for wife and children, for interest payments and for state and city real estate and other taxes. Thus in actual practice a net taxable income of SIO,OOO may mean an actual income of fifteen or twenty thousand dollars or more. Furthermore many well-to-do people will still have what is their favorite investment, the interest from tax-free bonds. This is a heavy tax, to be sure. However, comparatively few of our 130.000.000 people have net incomes of SIO,OOO. The measure means the man in a peace time industry during war will be limited to the salary of a major general commanding a division in the field. The bill will also end speculation in ail commodities during war. Take wheat, for iastance. There are only a few thousand processors who use wheat. Why, in a war, should there be the uncertain, expensive and costly speculative machinery interposed between the wheat growers and the wheat processors? The exchrnge would be closed. A government commission would fix the price of wheat based on parity between wheat and other non-farm products. The farmer would be paid for his wheat by the government and the wheat would be allocated by the commission in the proper amounts to the essential processors. a a a THE bill also provides for an industrial management draft. There is no draft of labor and no conscription of men for the Army in the bill. But the managers of plants must register. If

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen ■

WASHINGTON, April 29.—Whatever may be its election chances next year there is one thing the G. O. P. is sure of—a large and varied stable of willing dark horses to pick from. Although the nominating convention still is more than a year off, a dozen candidates already have thrown their hats in the ring.

Some of the aspirants know they haven't a chance in the world. But they are busying themselves building up claims in the hope of grabbing off second place. The field of runners as it lines up at the starting tape today is as follows: a a a Herbert hoover, 61, has told friends he is not seeking the nomination: but neither they nor Republican leaders believe he means it. The consensus among them is that the former President, still smarting under his 1932 defeat, would like to carry the G. O. P. banner in 1936. ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG. 51. lawyer, author of several books dealing with Alexander Hamilton. and former newspaper publisher. Massively built, inclined to be pontifical. Senator Vandenborg owes his prominence as a nomination possibility to his reelection last year as Senator when practically every one—including himself —had given up hope. LESTER J. (Hell-Roaring Dick) DICKINSON. 62. Senator from lowa. tall, w’hite-maned. bullvoiced. old-fashioned high-tariff Republican, who privately is convinced he is the party's best bet. HAMILTON (Ham) FISH JR., 46. towering, wordy social registerite. a member of the House for fight years from the district that includes the President's country home in New York. To push his chances he issues statements on the slightest provocation. a a a GLENN FRANK. 48. president of the University of Wisconsin, dark, dapper, banjo-eyed: one of the country's most facile word jugglers. He rates himself a “constructive” liberal—whatever that is. FRANK KNOX. 61. (full name William Franklin), burly publisher of the arch-Republican Chicago Daily News and in the front rank as a serious contender. Col. Knox has powerful political and big business backing all over the country and. his friends whisper, the secret blessing of Mr. Hoover.

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their industries are held essential to the war then the President may draft these managers into the armed forces. They will not be mobilized. They will be permitted to remain with their plants at their executive jobs. But if they are found interfering with the war work, profiteering, aiding their corporations to dodge just taxes, revealing “unwillingness” because their profits have been cuj,, they can be mobilized into the combat forces. Finally, the government is authorized to commandeer any industry w'hich is refusing to cooperate—to carry out what is called “a strike of capital.” In the last war the government fixed 22 cents as a fair price for copper. The copper producers demanded 25 cents. jThe average cost to the producers was 13.7 cents a pound. Yet they held out for 25 cents. The government threatened to take over the mines. The steel industry balked on prices, too. Mr. Baruch himself said, “If the steel industry should not be willing to give its full co-operation because of the prices fixed, the War Industries Board would take the necessary steps to take over the steel industry.” Judge Gary told the board It would have to use force. The government had to back down. Men at the head of companies like these, thus found balking the government and holding it up on prices, could be soon w'hisked out of their jobs and into the armed forces where thry could do no harm. There are several points in which both the Nye bill and the McSwain hill agree. The McSwain bill includes price-freezing and fixing. The Nye bill permits the President to fix prices, but looks upon price fixing as a minor instrument. Both bills permit the

ALFRED MOSSMAN (ALF) LANDON. 48. Kansas Governor. A wealthy, independent oil operator, Gov. Landon twice has carried his state in the face of Democratic landslides. The fact that he has geography on his side has made him more than a mere “favorite son” possibility. FRANK FINLEY MERRIAM. 70. a fact he takes much pains to hide, lowa-born, beefy, bald and a rank mediocrity. Gov. Merriam is Governor of California thanks to two lucky breaks: one the death of Gov. Jim Rolfe; two, the Fan Francisco general strike which he craftily used to bludgeon : Republican leaders and business interests into supporting his nomination. OGDEN h. MILLS. 51, multimillionaire former Treasury chief, and the real power behind the Hoover regime in its last 18 months. Mr. Mills is a man of exceptional ability, one of the ablest exponents of conservatism in the country. Because of Mills’ personal unpopularity with party leaders and the country generally and because he is so intimately associated with Mr. Hoover, his chances of being chosen are remote. THEODORE ROOSEVELT JR. 48, a perennial candidate for any nomination he can get. His biggest—and sole—asset is his sister, Mrs. Alice Longworth, who is untiring in her efforts to push her brother. JAMES W. WADSWORTH. 58, blue stockinged New Yorker, onetime Senator, the last three years a member of the House. Like Mr. Mills. Mr. Wadsworth is a man of ability and unlike him has much personal charm. In 1936. geography will be against him and he hasn't enough other assets to overcome that hand: ap. JOHN G. WINANT, 46. wartime combat flier, former three-time j Governor of New Hampshire. As head of the Textile Labor Board last yefr he won the warm commendation of union labor. Tall, Lincolnesque in appearance, with liberal leanings, he would be the favorite in the race if he came from a more important state.

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President to set up preferences in the purchases of commodities for war purposes and licensing of industry where necessary. Both permit commandeering of industry. The chief difference is in the tax approach, which the Nye bill insists is the one big essential. a a a THE McSwain bill does not permit the commodity control or the industrial draft and makes no provision for financing industry during a war. It also attempted to provide for conscription, but Congress defeated this. 2. The next immediate problem is the question of our dealings with other governments about munitions. During war—that is when foreign nations are at war—l trust our munitions makers should be restrained from selling munitions to either side. The American airplane and submarine and other makers of war materials were busy selling to Bolivia and Paraguay until stopped by the government. As soon as they sold an airplane to one country, they rushed to the other to sell them anti-aircraft guns. What of soles during peace? Mr. du Pont told the Nye committee that sales abroad and exchanges of patents with foreign munition makers helped them to learn foreign munition secrets. The answer to that is twofold. Admiral Forbes told the committee there is no such thing as war and munitions secrets. But, far more serious, is this fact. Before the war we sold munitions abroad. The Electric Boat Cos. sold a submarine to Austria. The submarine is an American baby. The head of the Electric Boat Cos. admitted to the Nye committee that all the “vital parts” cf the German submarines were taken from his company. The Germans got them from that subboat which v r as sold to Austria. And it was those German submarines which sank our ships and brought us into the war. a a a THEN there is a little scrap of more recent unwritten history which ought to be told now. When Hitler came into power American munition manufacturers saw -with delight the rise of another customer. Their agents hurried to do business with the new war lord. By April of 1934 Germany swarmed with the representatives of American airplane makers. In July Dollfuss was assassinated and for days the world looked on with the gravest uncertainty as France and Italy and

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Czechoslovakia mobilized their armies. In the midst of these fears one American manufacturer of planes was putting on all possible speed to deliver parts, while the bellicose Goering bombarded the company for more and more speed. That company was delivering motors, crankshafts, cylinder heads in quantities sufficient for 100 planes a month. Another American maker of automatic pilots had turned over to the German government its plant for making certain aircraft parts. One of our largest plane producers was just getting into pro- ! duction and beginning to delivery of war airefrat complete. Altogether these American manufacturers looked forward to equipping Germany within a year—that is, by April, 1935—with 2500 fighting ships. To know what a formidable armada that is you must remember that the entire air fleet of the American Navy is but 936 planes. a a a THERE doubtless will be a movement to prohibit all munition trade abroad. 3. Nationalization of munitions must be threshed out. The committee is studying that subject. It is a big one, full of technical difficulties and questions. 4. What about trading with foreign countries when engaged in war? Should we sell them clothes, food, luxuries? The trend of opinion in the committee seems to be that perhaps this sort of trade should not be, and perhaps could not be well prevented—but that the United States should forbid the shipment of anything to belligerents during the war on American ships. 5. Next there is the subject of international control of munitions by some international body. Dr. Manley Hudson of Harvard went to Geneva for the committee to make a study of that subject and has made an elaborate report. 6. Then comes the question of American wandering into war zones. Already Senators Nye and Clark have introduced a resolution in the Senate to deny passports to “American citizens traveling in war zones or on any vessel of any belligerent power except under such regulations as the President may make.” 7. In the last war we loaned ELEVEN BILLION DOLLARS to our allies. One by one they all put their thumbs on their noses and waggled their fingers at us. For those loans now we are hated by the world, damned by our allies

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as a Shylock, Also we are out eleven billion dollars. Also they helped to get us into the war. Senators Nye and Clark have introduced another resolution which is designed to make it unlawful for any American to lend money or extend any credit to any belligerent government for the purpose of buying or paying for munitions of war. That all the.se plans together, if carried into law, would prevent war no one imagines. There still remain the great human causes of war. But it so happens that we have no real quarrel with any nation on earth. The great human causes, which run so deep and which afflict all the nations of Europe, do not touch us. Our chance of being drawn into a war is mere likely to come out of some of those irritants which rise suddenly out of the trade relationships of warring peoples. THE END. |COUNTY ODD FELLOWS OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY Rebekahs Join in 116th Birthday Program at Auditorium. Paul A. Pfister. grand master of the Indiana Grand Lodge, and Mrs. Mary A. Wilson, president of the Rpbekah Assembly, were the principal speakers at the 116th anniversary observance of Odd Fellowship yesterday in the I. O. O. F. auditorium. The program included the singing a male choir of the first ode ever known to have been sung in an Odd Fellow assembly, and a tableau by Fidelity Rebekah Lodge No. 227. A. E. Rettig, District No. 23 president. presided. The event was sponsored bv Rebekahs and Odd Fellows of Marion County. kern”to speak at" ROTARY CLUB SESSION Mayor to Discuss Some Problems of City Government. Mayor John W. Kern and other members of the city administration will be the guests of the Indianapolis Rotary Club at its regular luncheon meeting in the Riley room of the Clavpool tomorrow. Mayor Kern will speak on "Some Problems of City Government.” The program has been arranged 1 by the club's public affairs committee of w’hich Almus G. rtuddell is : chairman. The club’s bowling team will par- | ticipate in the 19th annual Rotary : International telegraphic bowling : tournament at 8 tonight in the InIndiana Bowling Alleys. Clarence J. I Hill is team captain. GEN. NAYLOR TO TALK AT OFFICERS’ SESSION Ft. Harrison Commander (o Tell How Future Wars Will Be Fought. Brig. Gen. W. K. Naylor. Ft. Benjamin Harrison, commanding officer of the Indiana military area, will explain his theory of how future wars will be fought, whan reserve officers of Indiana meet May 4 and 5 in South Bend at the annual state convention. Other speakers will be Brig. Gen. Charles D. Herrqn, executive for reserve officers in the War Department, and Col. Frank E. Lowe, national president of the Reserve Officers’ Association. DEPRESSION BROKEN, MANUFACTURERS SAY Recovery Is Within Grasp, National Association Declares. By United Prmi i WASHINGTON. April 29—A National Association of Manufacturers report asserted today that the nation is about to break the back-bone of the depression. “Virtually every business index studied points upward at this time,” the report stated. ‘"There is an undoubted spirit of optimism in the land. Recovery is within oui grasp.” Personnel Group to Meet Members of the Personnel Association of Indianapolis will meet at the Athenaeum at 12:15 tomorrow Carl Beck, a member of the Indiana State Committee on Governmental Economy, will discuss the committee's functions and activities.

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Fair Enough WESIBROOK PE6LER ANY ONE who spends a considerable portion of each year on the road, stopping at reasonably good hotels, is likely to have wondered at times why it is that hotels still profess to be homelike and to offer good food of the sort known as home-cooked. The truth is. of course, that a hotel, in order to succeed against any worthwhile competition, must provide a degree of comfort and a pampering type of service to which only a few extremely wealthy and self-indulgent people are aocustomed at home. And

the hotel dares not affront the expectations of its guests with homeeooking lest the stuff be sent back to the kitchen and the customers driven out. never to return. It Is the hotel man’s problem, in fact, to anticipate and eliminate, as far as possible to do so. the annoyances to which the average customer is accustomed when he is under his own roof. The hotel manager keeps a staff of bell-hops and waiters alert to hop up the service elevator with the bowl of cracked ice and the corkscrew, the short-order menu, the cigarets, the newspapers and stamps. His house-

keepers inspect the work of the chambermaids to make sure they have emptied all ash trays and wastebaskets, left new soap and an abundance of clean towels in the bathroom, swept in the comers and changed the linen on the bed. The pants-presser. known as the valet, will come for the laundry in the morning and return it by evening or. at the latest, next morning and. if the guest has left town, will’ ship it on to him, insured. Moreover, the valet will press a suit in half an hour. And lay out the harness which the patron must wear to the convention banquet in the evening, even to the difficult matter of inserting the studs in the boiled shirt. Finally, in the hour of departure, the valet will fold and pack the visitor's duffle in such a manner that there is no necessity for jumping on the lid to close the suit case. n a a Home Never Like This '“pHESE services are routine. There is no rumJ- maging in the pantry or kitchen drawer, no splashing of water over the subject’s trousers as he melts the dam cubes out of the dam tray at the kitchen sink for his evening's dramming over the home-town paper which has been discovered on the news-stand or perhaps sent up to him, free, with the compliments of the management. If he burns a scar on the table with a careless cigaret the management pulls no reproachful faces at him. If the electric bulb of the reading lamp is burned out the hotel never takes refuge in the answer that mother has only one pair of hands, but sends the electrician up to screw in a fresh one. The hotel has innumerable pairs of hands. Does the door-bell, by some remote chance, refuse to work, the electrician is on the job again with his little satchel of pliers and wires. If it is steam heat that the inmate wants there is a man down the cellar who tends the valves and shovels in the coal and another in the office to pay the bills. The guest mert ly turns a gadget and the room gets warm. They may be having cabbage or cauliflower in the hote , but if so the fumes are resolutely escorted up to the roof-line and out through a kitchen flue or used for fuel, perhaps, to run the electric sign out front. In no case are they allowed to permeate the premises to the discomfort of those in residence. There are neither rollerskates to trip over in the dark nor year-old magazines accumulated on the table and the general demeanor of the hotel employes. with their yes-sirs and right-awav-sirs is the hotel man's idealized notion of the way the flunkeys treat the King and Queen in Buckingham Palace. a a a They're Too Darn Modest A S to the quality and variety of hote! food and 1 A the manner in which it is treated, the superiority oi hotel fare over that of the better-than-average American home needs but be considered to be conceded. It is one of the fondest American fallacies that woman's place is in the kitchen and that, by reason of long imprisonment there, she has acquired a sort of natural knack for cookery. Truth, however, demands recognition of the fact that the best cooks the world over are men and that the greatest achievements of the skillet and spider, the roaster and pan have been accomplished by males with rather more than a faint aura of garlic about them. And beyond this superior efficiency and art in the kitchen, the male chefs in the hotels have learned timing and tact in the preparation of food. Thus they perform as matter of the most casual routine culinary prodigies which, in a household kitchen, would not be possible without days of planning and toil and a frightful clutter of debris. There is only one criticism which I would level against American hotels in general. That is a hypocritical mock-modesty. Far from claiming to be homelike they should have the confidence to adopt as their motto. "Home was never like this.” (Copyright. 1935. bv United Feature Svndicate. Ine.)

Today s Science — BY DAVID DIETZ

THE day when the physician will insure each of us a life of health through a “hormone survey” in infancy is approaching as a result of the new union between chemistry and medicine. Diseases of the heart and other vital organs, maladies of the nervous system, and derangements of the ductless glands, may be anticipated and prevented in the future just as public health measures now anticipate and prevent the contagious diseases of childhood. When the day comes, the skill of the surgeon will be required chiefly for the treatment of wounds and broken bones. The general trend of medicinal chemistry and endocrine therapv are pointing the way toward the health utopia. They have these aims: The discovery of all hormones and other complex chemical substances in the blood stream; the determination of the exact chemical composition of each; demonstration of the exact function of each, and synthetic or artificial manufacture of each in the laboratory so that deficiencies in the individual may be corrected. B B B HOW the union of chemistry and medicine is pointing the way to better health and longer life was made increasingly plain at three important scientific conventions which I have attended during the past three weeks—the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Detroit: the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, and the American Chemical Society, New York. Important researches disclosed at these meetings served to emphasize that the hormones, exceedingly complex chemical substances, manufactured by the ductless glands of the body, maintain its physical and mental health and control its susceptibility to disease and functional disorder. a a b THE time is probably not far distant when the physician will be in a position to make a complete survey of the hormone balance of the infants. He will check the functioning of the ductless glands and tabulate the percentage of each hormone present. Is there too much of one of the pituitary hormones? Too little of an adrenal hormone? Too much thyroxin or not enough insulin? The balance will be adjusted in infancy instead of waiting until diabetes or goiter or some other usorder makes its appearance. As yet the physician does not have exact knowledge. It is certain that all of the hormones are not even known. But progress is being made.

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