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ashingtor (Ernie Pyle, Page g BY RAYMOND CLAPPER "VV ASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—This episode of

the airplane shipments to Spain gives the country its first chance to become ac-

quainted with the Acting Secretary of State,

Judge Walton Moore.

He was in Congress some 30 years, representing the Virginia district which adjoins Washington. In the House he was a crony of Cordell Hull who took him into the State Department. He is an elderly philosophical bachelor, with the same hard sense and practical wisdom as Hull. They get on with Senators and Representatives better than any pair in the Administration. Judge Moore shows his emotions with great restraint, but effectively. In the midst of the excitement over the shipment of American airplanes to Spain he remembered a quotation from “Paradise Lost,” had a sheaf of copies typed and gave them out at his press conference with the solemnity of a foreign minister . making a pronouncement of policy. The quotation was this: “Mammon, the least erected spirit heaven, For even while in heaven his looks and thoughts were always downward bent, Admiring more the riches of heaven's pavement, : trodden gold, than aught divine or holy.” Judge Moore could have talked for an hour-and not done a more devastating job on those who would take advantage of Europe's agony to scavenge for bits of blood money.

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n “President’s Liberia Report ITH a fancy flourish, President Roosevelt called attention of newspaper correspondents to a ‘report on Liberia. Reporters listened patiently. Af the end, one of them said: “Mr. President, every time the State Department wants to cover up something, they peddle an item about Liberia. They tried to peddle this one to us

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recently while keeping quiet that one of our ships

had been fired upon. Does this mean that you are _ sitting on another big story?” . Roosevelt joined in the laughter. He Said the . Liberian report had been on his desk for a week ‘so that if he was covering up anything it must be

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F. D. R. Flays Arms Sellers

ONTRARY to rumors in Washington, there is nothing mysterious about the heavy publicity ‘which the govefnment turned on the $2,777,000 airplane order just licensed for shipment to tHe Spanish Loyalists. Caught in a difficult situation, the State Department merely made the most of it by giving the episode the fullest public airing in a way that might deter any one from attempting to complicate the dangerous European situation further. Roosevelt followed through the next day by denouncing those who would sell arms and munitions as an unethical, . chiseling minority who were unpatriotically taking : advantage of their legal rights: 3 Incidentally, this right will be wiped out as soon .as Congress returns. The hole in the neutrality legislation which failed to cover internal strife _ will be plugged. : \

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.~ _PWA officials have just discovered why they “could get no replies to inquiries concerning a power project in a certain Indiana city. After weeks of fruitless letter writing they were advised that the “mayor was in jail. Just one of the handicaps of the Democratic form of government.

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BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

: JPOSTON, Thursday.—I suppose on New Year's Eve 7 one should look back on the year that has passed and forward to the New Year, and it should inspire ‘one with some great thoughts. - However, at the mo‘ment I am watching some goldfish in a bowl and all I “can think of is that even goldfish act in a human fashion now and then. : * They seem to have likes and dislikes for each other and when they get too close, they swim away as much as to say: “You're an inmate of my bowl, but I like a certain amount of privacy and when you invade it I shall walk away (or swim away) and, in order to show you plainly how I feel, I will refrain from conversation.” * I have.seen that same expression on many a human being’s face. ® ‘Well, we must think about the past and the future. | Nearly a week ago, in a press conference, the girls ssked me what I had to say for the New Year and I }aemed to have a great many more thoughts than I have today. ; Many people seem to think you should live a wellplanned life, have objectives, lay out a course and, at ‘the end of the year, point with pride to your achievements. Ill agree about the objectives, but it seems to me with most of us that is about as far as we can get. Circumstance, or luck or fate, or whatever you choose to call it, is always ‘stepping in to interfere with well-laid plans. I'm not so sure that it isn’t the better part of wisdom to make up your mind to live as happily and as fully as you can. Seize on everything that comes your way which makes life. more interesting, or agreeable, Meet whatever circumstances arise in what some critics call a haphazard or opportunist manner, but in what you, yourself, may consider is the only. way to face an ever-changing life in an everschanging world with a smile and a retention of a sense of values. 1 wish for those I love this year an opportunity to . earn sufficient, to have that which they need for their own and to give that which they desire to others, to bring into the lives of those about them some. measurc “of joy, to know the satisfaction of work well done, of reereation earned and therefore savored, to end the year a little wiser, a little kinder and therefore a little “happier. : .

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“REVIEWING THE BUSINESS YEAR -

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what lies ahead?

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industry would improve but

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BY JOHN T. FLYNN (Copyright, 1936, NEA Service Inc.)

EW YORK, Jan. 1.—And now for a 12-month look—

Last year at this time we ventured a forecast for 1936.

which got under way in 1935

would continue; that production in all consumers goods industries would increase, employment increase, that security markets would reflect this activity and stage a desperate effort to revive speculation’ that the capital goods

not sufficiently to permit the

government to withdraw from spending. We suggested also that the year ‘would reveal that there was no straightjacket on business, which would

demonstrate this by moving into a strong recovery movement. This, of course, has been borne out. com-

pletely by events. ™ Now for 1937. Barring the impact of foreign war, the effect of which no one can predict because we do not know how it will come abut, the. business curve should rise throughout the year. There will, of course, be occasional adjustments in the curve, but the year should push farther ahead the recovery movement -now flowing strongly forward. 2 8 2 HE capital goods industry should pick up well during the year—heavy machinery and construction ‘marking their first real important upward surge. As the year develops, the appearance of a boom should be more and more evident. Bank credit will probably be loosened up greatly, mortgage money will become more hospitable and interest rates should remain lcw. Prices will continue to rise, but there will be plenty of resistance to this and a lot of talk about it. Profits will increase and the stock market, after a kick-back or two should, on the whole, forge ahead. Employment will increase. The year will probably see what has the appearance of a shortage in the skilled trades. This will be more apparent than real. Up tc now large numbers of skilled workers on WPA jobs hesitate to leave for jobs in private industry, though they pay better wages, because they have felt no assurance of permanence about these jobs. The WPA authorities can do something to relieve this sitpuation by setting up an efficient: employment machinery and obtaining for workers the necessary information about the perma*: nence of the jobs offered. In some

cause unions and mills have discontinued during the depression their apprentnceship recruiting for displacements.

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skilled labor available. The rolls of the WPA ought to be reduced substantially® during the year. But there is little prospect of much reduction in pure relief rolls, since they are now made up largely of unemployables. There are some dangers, some threats ahead. One of these is rising prices.

now in the commodity industries. They will, if not checked, halt the whole recovery movement and ultimately send us into a reverse. But this will not ‘happen this year, though it may well slacken the pace of recovery in the construction industry. : The other menace is labor troubles. It is difficult to believe that there will not be a steel strike and, perhaps, -a soft coal strike. This will be a titanic struggle if, it develops. There may be trouble in the automobile industry. Labor troubles. will probably make their appearance in other mass production industries. This will be fostered by rising retail prices, by the drive of the C. I. O. to organize the mass production industries and the appearance of skilled labor shortages. . . These labor troubles ought not to halt the recovery movement, but merely slow it up. They will make it necessary for the government to remain longer in the spending business. 2 4 4 HE third threat is the fear of credit getting out of control. This my well happen in 1938 or later. It may actually happen in 1937, but the effect will be merely to stimulate business. The evil ef-

lines the shortage will be real be- |

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These are making themselves felt |

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The field of transportation contributed heavily to recovery dur-

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step up the pace during 1937. Indianapolis Railways took advantage of a PWA loan to replace “ miles -of trackage in Indianapolis, some of the work being shown in the top photo (above). Under that is pictured a heavily laden freight pulling out of Union Station. Airlines also shared.in the returning prosperity. Lower, a hostess on one of the lines serving Indianapolis. >

1937 Should Bring Greater Prosperity to Nation, Flynn Finds

fects will not be noticeable until later. Then, of course, there is the ever-present business of war. It is difficult to see how war in Europe can be much longer averted. Should it come, it ought not to produce too much upset here, provided business and the government recognizes its appearance and take the necessary steps. One danger—the chief one, of course—

is that it may stimulate business

CHINESE SYMBOL OF YI EXPLAINED BY ALICE

N-YANG T HOBART

“* ANG AND YIN,” the title of the éurrent best-selling novel by Alice Tisdale Hobart, also author of that perennial favorite, “Oil for

‘the Lamps of China,” has created a ‘veritable furor of conjecture among

American book lovers and readers. This title, correctly - pronounced “yahng” .(“a” as in father) and “yin,” has not only been widely mispronounced; but completely baffling as to meaning. The two strange words have been variously interpreted as the names of two Chinese characters in the book, thé name of an old Chinese pcem and one person even asked if they stood for two Chinese medicinal herbs. It was this widespread misunderstanding which prompted a West Coast radio announcer. in interviewing Mrs. Hobart over the air a few days ago to

ask her to explain exactly what the

title did mean. The answer, quoting Mrs. Hobart, was: “The yin-yang, or creative symbol (numbered (1) in the accompanying illustfation) is reproduced on the end papers and jacket of my book. You probably all have seen it somewhere, but perhaps you did not know its meaning. It is a circle, within it, a dark and light half, each If curved to fit thé other. This circle with the two fitted halves is an ancient mystic sign representing the two creative forces of life—male

.|and female, yang and yin, in their

eternal struggle toward union. The Chinese believe that down to the very last lump of coal the world is divided between the two opposing forces, male and femalk, active and passive, light and darkness.”

2 ” ” ” II “Yang and Yin,” Mrs. Hobart tells a story of many dramatic conflicts, always yang vs yin, each one seeking harmony with the other. Two examples: Maleys, female and

i| the West vs. East, will illustrate.

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American doctor in China, to sacrifice himself for the interests of the suffering millions represents the yang quality; Diana, his beautiful wife, represents the yin, or female element in the struggle, by her opposition to his determination to sacrifice. Again Peter’s aggressive’ use of the scientific knowledge of the West represents yang element in its struggle with the passive of yin attitude of the Chinese scholars toward human suffering. The elements are artistically and dramatically resolved by Mrs. Hobart’s plot and fine characters. | In completing her discussion of the yin-yang question, Mrs. Hobart explained how the symbol of the yin-yang had been the source for many other symbols and designs. Again quoting Mrs. Hobart:

” ” ” “YDERHAPS many of you have : this symbol in some decoration in your house and have not realized

it. For through the ages this mystic symbpl has = gone through many changes. You may have it on a rug or carved on 2 piece of furniture, but have not recognized it because it has evolved, it has taken different forms. The swastika, symbol of Herr Hitler’s Nazis, is supposed to be one of these forms. They key border used on so many rugs, especially Chinese rugs, is the yin-yang symbol made in geometrical lines. Some cf you have Chinese tables with the cut-out key pattern around the edges of the table. Again the old mystic symbol of yang and yin. A sign of the two forces, male and female that create life—the philosophy of opposites.” (The accompanying illustrations show the conventionalized offshoots of the yang-yin symbol as we see them about us today.) Mrs. Hobart thinks that the Chinese words yang and yin so well express the concept of the conflict of

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opposite that they should be incorporated into our cwn language. She says: : “For this philosophy of opposites which is instinct in every phase of life, we have no phrase in the English language. As we have borrowed words from the French, Spanish and Italian to enrich our ianguage, why not borrow from the Chinese their phrase yang and yin?”

Spray Seen Curb To Dread Malady

By Science Service : ALTIMORE, Jan 1.—About one-

third of those persons who

used the alumplicric acid nasal spray

as a preventive of infantile paralysis during the epidemic in Southern states last summer were protected against the disease by this spray. This appears from the first report of results with the spray. The report was given by Dr. Charles Armstrong, United States Public Health Service officer, who developed the spray, at the meeting here of the Southern branch of the American Public Health Association. While these results are somewhat disappointing to Dr. Armstrong and his associates, investigations are now under way which it is believed will give a more effective method of prevention in time for use next summer. Improvements along two lines are expected. One will be to make the chemical solution less irritating. The other will be to improve the method of administering it. The picric acid-alum. solution when sprayed into the nose acts to protect agdinst infantile paralysis by setting up a barrier so that the virus cause of the disease can not get through the lining of the nose to thé olefactory nerve along which it makes its way to the brain and spinal cord. Monkeys—24 out of 25—have been protected against the disease by this method. The spray was used on a large -scale on children and young adults during the outbreak in the South last summer. Since September, Dr. Armstrong has been gathering reports on its use. The fact that it was used by laymen as well as physicians complicated the situation considerably, because the layman in many cases did not use the spray as effectively. and thoroughly as a physician would have. The results show, among other things, that the method is not suitable for use except by physicians, r. Armstrong commented. “A house-to-house survey was made of 20 representative districts in Birmingham and seven districts in surrounding Jefferson County. In this group, 5010 persons opt of a total of 8093 used the spray at least once. (The directions were to use it every other day for a week and

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here and create a collection of internal quarrels which will afflict our economy. But despite all these clouds—war, labor, credit, price—

Sullivan Laud For Stand

BY MARK

ASHINGTON, Jan. 1.—President Roosevelt’s press conference Tuesday was reported in the newspapers with the fullness called for by the subjects discussed. If some accounts spoke of Mr. Roosevelt as “indignant” that is because all of us tend a little to emphasize the dramatic, whether in newspaper narratives or personal conversation. To me, the President seemed completely even-tempered and poised. Most of his remarks were offhand in both nature and manner. Mr. Roosevelt began with comment on the sale of planes to the Spanish Loyalist government by one American dealer. He said that many manufacturers had asked the State Department for licenses; the department in all cases replied that it would grant the licenses if they were insisted upon, ‘because the neutrality law is mandatory on the department; but the department in all cases appealed to the manufacturers, as a public service, not to demand the licenses and not to sell the goods. The .department asked this as a help toward preserving neutrality. . About the one dealer who stood on his legal rights, Mr. Roosevelt was rather emphatic. He used an expression about such an action being not patriotic. He then used

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that seems fundamental in his thinking. He said this is another case of the recalcitrant 10 per cent. Ninety per cent of business, Mr. Roosevelt has said again and again, do the decent thing. It is the 10 per cent that go off bounds.

coat » ” ROM the airplane shipper, Mr. Roosevelt turned to the matter of a possible successor to NRA. He cid this not in a premeditated way, but in answer to a question. He said clearly that he has no revival of NRA in mind. But he said there has been in some parts of industry lately a tendency toward ynwholesome practices—use of child labor, starvation wages, long hours. In answer to a question, he said that in his judgment this can only be prevented by Federal action—action by the states can not do it. He said explicitly that he has no definite plan in mind» From what the President said on this and other occasions, I surmise his point of view to be something

I do not think the recovery movement in 1937 will be crushed. The penalties ‘of these "things, if they visit us, will come later than 1937.

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that state action will not do, because if one state forbids child labor and decrees a minimum wage, the recalcitrant 10 per cent can move their factories into another state.

2 # s ; . OW the point of view of those who differ from Mr. Roosevelt is that we should not put the 90 ber cent, and all America, and all of us as individuals, into a Federal strait-jacket—merely in order | to check a recalcitrant 10 per cent. | It is up to those who hold this view to show that their contention is Pasty cable. They should show that the desired end can be accomplished by nieans other than statutory law uniform for all the varied parts of the country—in short, that there are ways other than merely crying “pass a law.” They must show, as respects industry, that the objective can be accomplished by, perhaps, compacts

tary, self-imposed restraint; a finally by use of our ordinary institutions’and mechanisms other than legislation.

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s n : OR letting this airplane shipper know that we regard his action as undesirable, and for checking him, what are our resources? There are the newspapers. It would take a bold and callous person to go an under widespread exposure and condemnation- by the press. There are the churches and the clergy—that are custodians of peace and here is a call to action. There are the labor unions—would it not be proper an wholesome for the unions to refuse to handle such shipments? The are trade associations—can they nat find ways of disciplining a man wh does something generally disa proved? One hesitates ever to sug gest boycott, business or social, but at least boycotts pass with the oc casions that give rise to them, whil laws remain on the statute books t bedevil us in ways that the law di not intend. Tera During the recent presidentia campaign there were a large num ber of persons and groups, many be sides purely political organizations who opposed Mr. Roosevelt becaus they opposed his policy of Federa regulation. Can not these individ uals and groups now find ways take action to make Mr. Roosevelt’

like this, that the public will in’ policy unnecessary? Unless they can

time come to see that evil practices in business can be handled effectively only by Federal action, and that when the country comes to this conclusion, some appropriate Federal action will be found. : In this connection, Mr. Roosevelt again returned to the 10 per cent. Ninety per cent of business, he repeated, does the decent thing. The 10 per cent that follow sweatshop practices are a menace, an unfair competition, to the 90 per cent that are decent. Not only for the good of the country, but for the protection of the decent 90 per cent, Mr.

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and do, Mr. Roosevelt can claim he is justified. Here is an opportunity for persons believing in “the American way of life” to demonstrate their faith by works. |

KNOW YOUR INDIANAPOLIS

The Civic Theater has its own playhouse at 19th and Alabama-sts. This city also has its own symphony orchestra of more than 65 members.

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Our Town

F all things that happened last night, only, “one incident stands out crisp and clear

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'—as unforgettable as the stars. Last night,

and for the second time that day, Arthur Bohn jumped into his bathtub, presumably, for a second scrubbing. That done, he dressed himself in a brand-new suit, including a brand-new set of linen, socks, shoes and the necktie

somebody gave him for Christmas. Thus, purged and

pure, he met the New Year, Following which, he went to bed immediately. iL Mr. Bohn, I am reliably informed, has practiced the same ritual on Saint Sylvester night for goodness knows how many. years. At that, it was the most sensible of all things that happened last night. Well, another year has passed away without anybody leading us into a collective state of society and I shudder to think what will happen if a leader doesn’t turn up - pretty soon. The trouble is that our leaders can't get going, and the reason they can’t get going is because they keep on staying mad. . David Windsor, for in stance, doesn’t talk to the Archbishop of Canterbury any more and Stanley Baldwin bites his finger nails every time he thinks of Mrs. Simpson. . Mrs. Simpson is mad at the Mother-Queen, and the Mother-Queen, in turn, is mad at Mrs. Simpson, Heaven only knows what Adolf Hitler thinks of the whole affair, but he’s probably mad, too. To be sure, Alf Landon shows signs of warming’ up to Mr. Rooses | velt again, but aside from that there is little improves | ment. How can we reach a collective state of society with our leaders behaving like that?

2 a 2 | Wants Better Weather Reports

OR. my part, I don’t ‘hope for anything from our leaders—least of all, during the coming year— but I think something might be done in the way of improving weather reports. After that, maybe, we, can expect some improvement on the part of the - United States Supreme Court, too. | The trouble with weather reports is that they are written indoors from delicate instruments when, as & matter of fact, they should be written hy men shivering’ (or sweating) in the street. Sometimes, the ine door ‘reports are unbelievably fantastic. Supreme Court reports are also written indoors|from delicats instruments by. men who don’t get around much. Sue preme.Court reports, too, are unbelievably fantastic. ’ $n

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fT year, for instance, the Supreme Court met any number of times to examine the delicate ine strument called the “Constitution.” | Five mental giants, looking at the wheels go round, saw one thing, rendered what they called a majority report. Four mental giants, examining the same delicate instru ment, saw just the opposite, rendered a minority re= port, though, goodness knows, it wasn’t worth the - trouble. Where does this leave us? Just here: That we can’t be sure of anything in 1937 except, possibly, wash Monday, athlete’s foot, Amos 'n’ Andy and the ultimate survival of the pigeons in University Park.

A Woman's View BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON - .. food DITH MAXWELL, whose trial made every front page in the country. was convicted for a second time last week of the murder of her father by a jury of Virginia mountain men. The result is significant of an American mood. It shows growth of a strong resistance to outside meddling by provincials. Women’s clubs Jin various sections of the nation, nctably the National Woman's Party, busied themsselves in Miss Maxwell's defense, Funds were raised | to employ counsel for her and there was a great deal | of .sentiment worked up in her favor. | ag Yet any one who understands the solidarity of an isolated community could have prophesied the out<{ / come. There is a dogged defiance in the mind of the 3 average small town and rural dweller to any interw ference with his habits, manners, and especially with & his justice. Nor is this dislike to be found only in the % country mind. It is likely that Tom Mooney would § have been released from San Quentin Prison years ago, but: for the agitation carried on over him in Eastern states. I : So the mountain men of Virginia have not only pronounced a verdict of guilty against Edith Maxwell, but against all outsiders who stick their fingers into local matters. And looking at it one way, there is something to be said for their attitude. It is not to be denied, for instance, that uplift organizations and women’s clubs in particular, are very fond of neglecting their home work in order to look after far away affairs. We all have a passion for long distance reforms. Without exactly knowing what goes on in our own town or state, we get ourselves into a passion of nobility over the cruelty and injustice im other sections. It took years to break down the fore eign mission fad—which was mainly a feminine dee termination to feed hungry little Armenians or Chie nese or Fiji islanders, although thousands of American babies were starving to death. And no doubt every woman's club who made Edith Maxwell's case their major project for the year, could, with very little searching, have found within their city, many evie dences of injustice upon which their efforts could have been spent. Pn 2 Worthy as.our motives may be, we do not gain our ends unless we can mix reform with diplomacy.

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN |

Editor, Amer. Medical Assn. Journal |B a person with acute tonsiilitis goes to bed prompts ly and applies the remedies his doctor recome mends, he usually will recover without much trouble, In such cases, application of an. icebag will bring ree lief from pain. .A gargle with baking soda will help to remove the mucus. . id : The doctor will prescribe remedies which may be taken internally and which will diminish pain and help to overcome the infection. In many instances the doctor may apply with a swab, directly on the surface of the tonsils, antiseptic substances which destroy germs. ; The swollen tonsils will return to normal size after the patient becomes better. However, in some cases, the germs are so virulent, or the infection becomes located in such a spot on or around the tonsils, tha§ an abscess develops. The resultant condition is come

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monly called quinsy, or quinsy sore throat.

In these cases, the swelling, stiffness, and sore ness of the mouth and the jaws will cause the vice tim to speak in a high voice, and will interfere with his chewing and swallowing. A patient with quinsy sore throat suffers a good deal of pain which frequently is related to the ear. Moreover, his fever and the difficulty of eating or swallowing, as well as sleep- | ing, soon will causephim to grow weak and lose weight. ! 3 No one can treat his own quinsy. When a doctor investigates the condition, he locates the abscesses | in the throat and, as soon ‘a8 seems desirable, opens them with a suitable implement. The moment the infectious material is released from the abscess, the pain stops, the swelling in the throat goes down, and the patient is able to eat,

_ drink and sleep.

The rapidity of recovery from quinsy following this procedure is so. prompt that it seems almost miraculous. : Occasionally a quinsy or peritonsilar abscess bes comes ripe, like a boil or abscess, elsewhere in the body and bursts of its own accord. It is not desirable to wait for this, however, as the. blood may pick up the germs and carry them elsewhere in the body where they may set up secondary