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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1936. LOUIS C. TRAUGOTT 'T'HE sudden death of Louis C. Traugott, president of the Fair Store, comes as a sad blow to the hundreds of persons who knew him intimately and who admired and respected him. Mr. Traugott was a man of vision and of faith. In his youth, just after the turn of the century, he foresaw a thriving future for Indianapolis. He was one of the founders of the store he headed, and in the more than 30 years he served in the business and civic life of the city he won the friendship of countless men and women. He was in the prime of his life. His death has taken from Indianapolis a loyal and useful citizen. AND VICE VERSA epHOMAS JEFFERSON was shocked and alarmed " when the party of Alexander Hamilton, in office and responsible for the state of the nation, decided thp Constitution was broad enough to permit establishment of a national bank. *A few years later Jefferson, in office and responsible, decided the Constitution was broad enough to let him purchase the Louisiana Territory, though it made no mention of such powers. Hamilton’s followers were so upset over this and other “infringement of state rights” that they began talking, in New England, of secession from the Union. When the second bank of the United States was being established by the party of Jefferson, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts was denouncing nationalism and shouting for state sovereignty. John C. Calhoun of South Carolina was advocating broad construction of the Constitution. Twenty years later Webster was the greatest advocate of nationalism the United States had seen at that time and Calhoun was extreme in his support of state rights. The Democratic Party, in power in the years before the Civil War, found one justification after another lor adding to the territory of the United States, though no words in the Constitution permitted this. Nor was there any sanction for internal Improvements, yet Jefferson Davis himself, as Secretary of War under Pierce, proposed construction of a southern transcontinental railroad. o st a DEMOCRATS had been assailing the Supreme Court as a usurper of constitutional powers until It handed down the Dred Scott decision. Then Stephen A. Douglas began denouncing any one who attacked the court, and Abraham Lincoln began saying that, this decision must not stand. After the Civil War it was Republicans who centralized and Democrats who viewed with alarm until Cleveland became President. He helped put the Interstate Commerce Act on the statute books and sent Federal troops to quell the Pullman strike while a Republican governor shouted his protest. Roosevelt the first took a broad view of the Constitution and Democrats, once more on the outside, howled about unconstitutionality, usurpation of functions, and the danger of tyranny. But very soon thereafter Woodrow Wilson became President and fathered a whole brood of laws extending the power of the Federal government over commerce. Republican outrage was silent only during the war. By 1920 that party's platform was talking about the “Despot s plea of necessity or superior wisdom.” ThPn for 12 years, while the Republicans were in end the centralization trend continued, the Democrats again viewed with alarm. And now, as we go into the fourth year of Democratic incumbency, we hear the Republicans talking as Democrats used to talk —and vice versa. F<ut the “outs” are saying the same tiling “outs” always have said—and the “ins” likewise. All cf which suggests that the voter who reads history will not get too upset by 1936 campaign alarms or by what is likely to happen to the Constitution. THE TAKE OF TWO CITIES r I ''HE recent Liggett murder in Minneapolis and the Shoemaker murder in Tampa remind Americans that the forces of civic decency can not sleep. The story of Minneapolis has been told, and that of Tampa is now being published in a series in this newspaper by David E. Smiley, editor of The Tampa Daily Times. It is the story of the flogging of three political reformers and the killing of one by a torture crew for a political clique. Under indictment for murder, kidnaping and assault are 11 men, including Tampa's ex-police chief and six policemen. Ku-Klux Klanism, red-baiting and the sort of patriotism that Samuel Johnson called “the last refuge of a scoundrel.” appear to be elements In the outrage. But. behind these is the thing familiar in so many cities. “There is just one answer." writes editor Smiley. “Rotten politics. Crooked, dirty, corrupt politics. That and nothing else." It matters a lot to Minneapolis and Tampa that their evil messes are cleaned up. not only by convic- . tion and heavy punishments for the criminals, but by a reform of their election systems and a banishment of the political crooks that have run their affairs. And it matters to America. What Lincoln Steffens called “The Shame of the Cities"—the corrupt alliance of their governments with vice, gambling, utilities and other favor-seeking interests—has not disappeared. CHARLES MARTIN HALL 'T'HE memory of a 22-year-old college boy who helped make the modern world whet it is, was honored Monday night by leading industrialists and scientists gathered in New York. The dinner, given by the Electrochemical Society. celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Charles Martin Hall s discovery of the electrolytic process for manufacture of aluminum. Aluminum is the most abundant of all the metals present in the crust of the earth, but so difficult was the removal of the metal from its ores that 100 years ago aluminum sold for SSOO a pound and was used for the manufacture of jewelry. Napoleon 111 commissioned Henri Deville. a French chemist, to tackle the aluminum problem and by 1859 Deville had developed a process which brought the price of aluminum down to sl7 a pound. But what the French chemist had failed to accomplish with the backing of his empjnror was

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accomplished a few years later by an American youth working In an Improvised laboratory in the woodshed behind his home in a little Ohio town. It v is on Feb. 23, 1886, that Charles Martin Hall made his great discovery. The preceding June he • had graduated from Oberlin College. The son of a Congregational minister, he had taken the classical course, studying Istin and Greek. But he had r.iso studied chemistry and habitually spent his spare time in the woodshed laboratory. Mr. Hall made use of the electric current to solve the problem. In the Hall process, an aluminum compound known as cryolite is first introduced into the furnace. When the passage of the electric current has melted this, oxide of aluminum is then added. Statistic* tell the story of Mr. Hall’s success. Aluminum today sells for approximately 20 cents a pound. In 1886, tr.e year that Mr. Hall made his discovery, the world production of aluminum was exactly 16 metric tons. In 1929, the production of aluminum attained its all-time high of 281,615 metric tons. Present indications, however, are that the figure for 1936 will be still larger. Mr. Hall died in 1914, an inventor who had won both fame and fortune from his invention. CATHOLICS AND CHILD LABOR /'AF great significance to the proposed Federal Child Labor Amendment is the new Catholic Committee for Ratification headed by the distinguished Catholic layman, Frank P. Walsh, and Including many distinguished Catholics of the nation. Mr. Walsh and his associates declare themselves distressed that selfish industrial interests, wanting to exploit children, are convincing large numbers of Catholics, many of influence, that the word “labor" in the amendment would be stretched to moan “mental toll” in education, opening the way to Federal control of the education of the nation's children. The committee, Mr. Walsh declares, is certain that no lawyer could successfully champion such a far-fetched pretense or trick. He cites the late Senator Walsh of Montana, Catholic, who said that “authority as well as reason impels to the conclusion that such fears are without foundation.” Mr. Walsh, committee chairman, continues: “A study of the history of the amendment and its drafting leaves no doubt in our minds as to the sincerity of its proponents or the reasons for the specific phraseology.” The campaign of deliberate twisting of fact, he believes, is in good part responsible for the fact that the 12 states yet required for national ratification are holding back. Meantime, with NRA protection gone, factories and sweatshops are conscripting tens of thousands of children for the places of grownups and parents, curtailing national spending power toward recovery by the smaller pay the children get. Mr. Walsh and his influential associates should be able to turn great numbers of deceived citizens to the support of this economically indispensable measure. THE GREAT WHATISIT npHE Liberty League rises to deny it is a “lobby,” •*- and advises its members to refuse to answer any questions put to them by the Senate Lobby Committee as to the source and use of league funds. Which raises the query: What, then, is the Liberty League? It isn’t the United States Supreme Court, although its lawyers’ committee has sent out advice to the country to ignore the Wagner Labor, Guffey Coal and other duly passed acts of Congress. It isn',t. the Republican Party. Chairman Henry Fletcher says there isn't any connection between the G. O. P. and the league, although he welcomes “the help of any God-fearing citizens.” It isn’t anew research foundation like those endowed by Rockefeller and Carnegie, although the House of du Pont fortune bulks large in contributions to its support—s23,soo In gifts and $129,750 in loans for 1935. It isn't an eleemosynary institution. Nor a haberdashery for supplying shirt fronts and tophats. Nor a fish and game club. Unless it sees fit to clear up the mystery or the Black Committee sees fit to subpena its members in the interest of the truth the league says it loves, we suppose the country will have to call this side show what the late Barnum named one of his, the Great Whatisit.

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson REMEMBER the Sabbath Day to keep it holy. The ancient admonition, heard so often in our youth, always will prick the conscience of this breaker of commandments. Yet on certain Sundays I am beset by a powerful desire to get at jobs unbefitting the Sabbath. Although it does not often afflict me on week days, the lure of the broom and scrubbing brush may become irresistible just as the church bells begin to peal. I am overwhelmed with longing to chase the dirt in odd corners, to straighten closets, or to polish, the silver. Last Sunday I gave way to the desire. Strrung on the bathroom cabinet, I gradually worked my way through the house and by 4 o'clock was tired, grimy and entirely happy. According to the orthodox. of course, such unregenerate behavior should have left me remorseful and discontented. Instead, I felt particularly virtuous. A sweet calm settled down upon me, as pictures of secret crannies, shiny with fresh scruiA'ngs, rose in my mind; the thought of bottles and boxes standing in neat rows, and of clothes and linen folded in orderly array, was frankincense and myrrh to my spirit. How wonderful it is to be a woman with a house to clean! While the body toils and the dirt flies, the heart sings its own peculiar Hosannahs. Is God wrathful that we so toil on His day? Every instinct says no. While we serve our .Lares and Penates, we are giving thanks for our treasures of life and love. Surely these must carry to Heaven a kind of sincere praise and adoration that does not always arise from pulpits and altars. These orgies of housework are a great escape for the modern woman. Frcm them she may fly into the deep primordial regions of the eternal feminine, whose greatest urge is creative and whose sharpest desire is the desire to renew, to make whole and clean. Our prayers may go unsaid, but if our hearthstones are shining does that matter? For there are many ways of praying. Whether he kneel in pews or on the waxed floors over which the feet of our loved ones pass, our genuflections are all made in the same spirit and to the same source. FROM THE RECORD SENATOR NORRIS (R., Neb.)—lf Congress makes a fool of itself and passes a law which the people do not want, the people have a remedy by the defeat of that Congress and the election of one which will repeal the obnoxious act. However, if a question is to be submitted to a body of nine men, five of whom can control, for the action of that body, there is no remedy on the part of the people. There is no hope for other action, except by the impractical method of amending the ConstituAon.

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CELEBRITY note: Years ago, when one of her sons was a cadet at Culver. Madam Schumann-Heink journeyed there to visit him and found he was quartered in a dormitory wing then still under construction. She made her way to the wing and up the stairs for a surprise visit. As she went through one of the doorways a sliver of wood caught and tore her dress. She was examining the tear when a blithe little cadet encountered her, saw what had happened and said in good-natured impudence: “Madame, you have to come in these doors sideways”. She gave him a quick little laugh, threw up her hands in mock despair and replied: “Mein Gott, child, i have no sideways.”

/CONDITION of trade note: ‘ At least one downtown department store has run out of men’s mufflers, save for two. One of them is an awful yellow, and the other isn’t much better. But the man behind the counter is cheerful. He fairly beams when he tells you there will be no more in stock until next winter. “The weather,” he says, “has been so good to us in the muffler department that we’re not going to take any chances. We won’t order any more this winter.” tt tt tt YITHAT next note: ’ ’ An auto sales firm in the city is currently selling used cars by the pound. They run as low as 2 and a fraction to as high as 18 and a fraction cents a pound. I w'ant to be around when some kid comes in with his allowance and wants a pound of Buick, a half pound of Chevrolet, two pounds of Ford, all in the same sack, please. He ought to wind up with a kiddie car, at that. tt tt tt ETYMOLOGICAL note: In good American idiom, not generally used now, to flummax meant to die; a 100-foo was a guy who just didn’t belong or was an outsider; a fouty was a simpleton; full chisel meant at full speed; a gander party was a stag party; a rejected suitor got the mitten; hugger mugger was to hush yo’ mouth; and honey-fuggle was to cheat or swindle. Hunkey was good as the comparative, and hunkidori was best, the superlative; a hurra’s nest was a disorder a lady allowed to accumulate in her household; and, in Indiana especially, huss-bran was the husk of an ear of corn. These things come from a lightning perusal of “Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms,” published in 1877 by Little, Brown & Cos. The book gave a good deal of attention to free love, the origin of the idea, quotations about it, and its definition. One illustrative quotation read thus: “ ‘And you believe in free love, do you not,?’ tsaid Prof. Gusher to Josiah Allen’s wife). “ ‘How free?’ she demanded coolly.” OTHER OPINION A Switch in Tactics, Not in Purpose [The Richmond Palladium] Supporters of the American system of government, are not deceived by the announcement from Washington that the Administration will avoid proposals for amending the Constitution during the coming campaign and that it will seek to accomplish New Deal purposes “within the language of the majority opinion of the Supreme Court.” The announcement reflects a change in tactics, not in the design of the New Dealers to transform a constitutional government into a regimentation of subjects who have been deprived of their constitutional prerogatives. Expediency prompted the switch. President Roosevelt and his advisers were not prepared for the avalanche of condemnation following his “horse and buggy age” comment on the Supreme Court’s NRA decision.

TODAY’S SCIENCE —BY SCIENCE SERVICE-

Meteorologists are beginning to learn how turbulent the earth's atmosphere really is. The winds and storms encountered upon the earth's surface are trifles compared to those of the upper atmosphere. “We live in the undertow* or backwash of the great currents of air that flow silently overhead,” Edward H. Bowie, principal meteorologist of the San Francisco Weather Bureau, states in a report prepared for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. “Were it possible for one to occupy a point of observation well without the earth’s atmosphere and were the rivers of the atmosphere visible to the eye, one would be more than impressed—he would be awed—by the appearance of the atmosphere in turbulent motion and made to realize tjiat its normal state is surely not one of rest.” This state of motion, he continues. is brought about by the unequal heating of the- earth’s surface 'by the sun. This is brought about not only by the difference in various areas—oceans, lakes, mountains, deserts, etc,—but by the fact that the amount of heat received is, of course, the result of the earth being tilted on its axis at an angle of 23degrees. a a a THE result of the unequal heating of the earth’s atmosphere, coupled with the deflective influence of the earth’s rotation, is to cause major atmospheric flows, Mr. Bowie continues. These include “the prevailing westerlies of extra-tropical regions and the easterlies—trade winds—of the tropics, the latter separated by the equatorial belt of calms.

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The Hoosier Forum I disapprove of what you say, but 1 will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire .

(Times readier} are invited to express their views in these columns , religious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short, so ail can have a chance. Limit them to SSO words or less. Your letter must be signed, but names will be withheld on reouest.) tt tt tt PLEADS FOR NON-PARTISAN SECURITY BOARDS By C. R. F. The special legislative committee named to draft social security legislation for Indiana has chosen to play politics at the expense of human suffering and has taken the first steps toward creating another political octopus to prey upon the state. Its plan is to administer relief upon the basis of political and personal favoritism by or through the present elected township and county officials. The first step in any non-political program must be to unite all poor relief, old-age pensions, blind pensions, unemployment insurance, mothers’ aid, public health work, county infirmaries, insane asylums, hospitals, children’s homes, parks and playgrounds, and local probation activities under non-partisan, continuing county health and welfare boards. It is absurd to assume that a non-partisan board can be created through appointment by a single political personality. These boards might* wisely be composed of five members. Two of them might be appointed by a committee consisting of the county schools superintendent, the judge of the circuit court and a practicing physician, to be selected by the county commissioners from without their number. Two other members might be appointed by the state welfare director, subject to the consent of the State Welfare Commission. The fifth member would be selected by these four. All appointments to positions as welfare director, investigator, county physician, county health officer,

Watch Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN ONCE upon a time, people did a good deal of worrying if they were thin. Nowadays, they usually go about bragging how they can control their weight, the worrying being done by fat persons trying to get. thin. Any one who is seriously undernourished, and consequently thin, however, has something to worry about. Failure to keep the weight up to normal, as indicated by a haggard appearance, is a definite disorder of the human body. Sometimes a disturbance of the glands of internal secretion is involved; usually, though, the cause is overactivity of the thyroid. Thyroid overactivity can be determined by a study of the basal metabolic rate, and by other symptoms which the physician will find on examination. In any such instances, immediate rest is necessary, and the removal of all or part of the thyroid gland by surgery may be necessary. In the majority of cases, undernutrition can be overcome by three good meals a day, selected for their nourishing qualities. If you are gravely undernourished, it might be necessary for you to go to a hospital where you will be cer-

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etc., should be on a merit basis, from lists of eligibles found by the state commission to be qualified. The present county infirmaries are costing the counties $1,064,000 a year. Forty per cent of these institutions are totally unsuited for infirmary purposes and only one-third of them have modern buildings and equipment. If consolidated under state support and supervision and operated in connection with the social security program, most of these institutions can be abolished. The millions of dollars’ worth of property owned by them could be sold and added to the tax duplicates in their respective counties, thus creating anew 7 source of county revenue along with a large decrease in county operating expenses. tt tt CALIFORNIA’S BUM RUSH IS FLAYED By M. E. Jones The holdup of bums on state lines bordering California and Colorado* is a criminal outrage if one ever existed. The dirtiest, raggedist bum that ever lived is more valuable to his country than this brute who calls himself chief of police. The bum probably would work for an honest living and refrain from molesting weary travelers who have no place to lay their heads. I am 100 per cent American and no bum, but I am just about finished with my defense of our Constitution which these bums were called on to defend. Why should I cling to a document that turns back its savior and welcomes the millionaire? J. Edgar Hoover in Washington had Dillinger shot to further justice. He makes no complaint about this outrage. Neither does Herbert Hoover in California, who is always harping about protecting the Constitution. The common people will question the next appeal for its protection. I guess the big chief thinks the millionaire will fight for it hereafter.

tain to get plenty of rest, and where hospital authorities see that you get the food you need. a tt ANEW method for fattening people rapidly involves the use of insulin. Given before each meal, followed by food rich in carbohydrates, a little insulin helps to put on weight promptly. The amount of food required by any individual depends not only on the work he does, but on his size and the amount of rest he takes daily. Failure to gain weight may be due to either overactivity, excessive smoking, nervous exhaustion, or lack of sleep. If you fail persistently to put on weight, consult a physician. He will study carefully your physical condition and habits, and base his advice on the condition he finds. In the vast majority of cases, however, putting on weight is merely a matter of “physiologic bookkeeping.” When the food enters your body, it is absorbed. Your body burns up a certain amount of material in its daily work, and the ren of the food accumulates. If you do not eat sufficient food, your body will burn up, first of all, the stored-up fat; then it begins to use up the protein from the tissues. This is harmful to health.

House of Representatives on March 19, 1934. and by the Senate on March 22, and was signed by the President on March 24. The Philippine Legislature accepted it on May 1, 1934. Q —What is the political status of the Panama Canal Zone? A—lt is a military reservation under the direct supervision of the War Department. Q—Did President Wilson veto a soldier bonus bill? A—No bonus bill was passed during the Wilson administration. The first Adjusted Compensation Act was passed by Congress in 1924 over the veto of President Calvin Cooiidge.

THINKS THIS PAGE HAS LOST ITS PUNCH By Hiram Lackey For four years I have labored to lead your readers to peruse the editorial page of The Times. I now plead with The Times to publish the things that strike. As long as The Times throws the articles with punch into the waste basket and publishes the insipid things, it encourages its readers to ignore its editorial page. When you ignore articles of unpopular truth you encourage contributors to write the inferior articles which at present disgrace your editorial page. Asa student of your editorial page for years, I ask you to assume the courage of the men who lifted your seat to its high place and face the facts. Do you need the daringly courageous to remind you of the tragedy which is blighting your prestige? Do you esteem, appreciate or understand the virile manliness which made possible the present influence of your newspaper? Do you realize what the daring of such Christian soldiers as the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin is doing to the influence of your publication? Try to erase his influence, if you think that an oiled cloth will remove a granite inscription. It is not too late for you editors who are accused of being anemic and guilty of apostacy to answer, gloriously, the question which no man can evade: “Are you going to be a coward or a hero?” BELIEF BY JAMES D. ROTH In that dark hour We’re in His power, In that last mile To the mystic isle. We have a thought, Our passing’s naught But into dawn; New breath we’ve drawn. It was ever so, All this I know, It’s there to see—- “ Come unto me.” DAILYTHOUGHT Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house of the Lord.—l Chronicles xxvi, 27. MEN who have nice notions of religion have no business to be soldiers.—Wellington.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“Look, Joe, the boss has hired another one of those human v • |Jynamos."

FEB. 20, 1956

Vagabond from Indiana ERNIE PYLE

Newport news, va. Feb. 20. —ln the past 24 hours I have become an authority on vaccination, inoculation, pain, misery, woe. grief, aches, chills, fevers, ennui, nostalgia and stiffness of the joints and muscles. In other words. I hurt all over. It came about like this: Being a cautious young man. I had myself vaccinated for smallpox a few days ago. and at the same time started.a* series of three typhoid serum i&j jections. to come a week apart. The first one wasn’t so bad. My arm was pretty sore for one afternoon, and that was all. But the second typhoid injection. Oh boy! The doctor jammed in the needle for the second one here in Newport News, at 10 o'clock in the morning. By noon my arm was getting stiff. By 3 I couldn’t move it. At 4 I began to ache all over. At 5 my back started to break in two. By 6 my legs ached so I couldn’t stand. By 7 I had chills and fevers. At 8 I called in my beloved and said good-by. But she' had had a shot too, and didn’t seem to care whether I was saving goodby or hello. It was a miserable night. Wild, dreams, and levers. The weight of the covers almost killed me. My eyes puffed up. and my face was. on fire. And my back, oh my poor back! You've never heard of anything that hurt the way my back hurt. a SOMEHOW, morning finally came. I couldn’t get up. but I did sit. up and read. And I read, of all things, a volume entitled “Triumphs of Medicine.” by H. S. Harizog Jr. (Asa matter of fact, I brought the, book along especially for this purpose. knowing I would be laid up, and figuring I might as well write a piece about it.) Well, that's a grand book. There’s stuff in it worth knowing. About smallpox, for instance. Did you know that before inoculation became known, smallpox killed 15,000,000 people every 25 years, and that 10 of every 100 people who died, died of smallpox? The Chinese, as usual, were ahead on inoculation. They would take smallpox germs, in powder form, and blow them through a silver tube up a person’s nose. He would then have smallpox, usually in a mild form, and if he survived he wouldn't catch real smallpox. u tt tt Edward jenner, the famous British country doctor, was the man who substituted modern vaccination for inoculation, in 1796. Inoculation, you know, was by real smallpox germs, taken from a per-, son with the disease. Vaccination is with germs that have passed through some other natural process. The difference in effect is this: One of about 90 inoculated persons died, and also the “reaction” was fully as contagious as natural smallpox. Vaccination kills hardly any-i body, and the “reaction” is not contagious. Jenner got his idea from studying milkmaids who contracted something known as cowpox from milking cows. It turned out that cowpox was smallpox had by a cow. By* long experimenting, Jenner discovered that you could give a cow smallpox, then take the germs and give them to a human, and the human would thereafter be immune. There was opposition to vaccination (there still is, for that mattery; One surgeon thought It would corrupt the mind. Somebody started a rumor that vaccinated women would bear children resembling calves. But on the whole, vaccination was readily accepted. Preachers in England and Holland urged it on their congregations. The Spanish government in 1803 sent an expedition on a three-year trip around the world, just to spread the gospel of vaccination. In Russia the first child vaccinated was named Vaccinoff. and educated by the state, by decree of the Empress. Vaccination started in this country about 1800. President Thomas Jefferson had vaccine applied to a hundred people. tt tt o UNFORTUNATELY, my book has very little to say about typhoid injections. I don’t know whether the serum they shot into me comes from an ox or a glowworm. But I do know that it’s mighty, mighty powerful, and that before they give me the third and final shot, they’!! have to find me. And if they look in Virginia, I’ll be in North Carolina. And if they look in North Carolina, I’ll be in Georgia. Down with malaria, probably.