Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1937 — Page 11

FROM INDIANA

ERNIE PYLE

UMA, Ariz, Jan. 12.—Justice of the Peace E. A. Freeman, the marrying judge of Yuma, is a remarkable man. I think anybody is remarkable who starts something new at the age of 47, studies every night like a school child, and “graduates” himself in six years. That's what Judge Freeman did. Out here they call a fellow “Judge” even when he’s only Justice of the Peace. When Freeman was

elected Justice 10 years ago he had always been a real estate man. Didn’t know a, thing about law. But he was in earnest, so he did two things: .One—he stopped drinking. Because he couldn’t stand to sentence somebody for drunkenness and have the fellow -say, “Why, you were drunker night before last than I was last night.” Two—he bought law books and started at it. He gave up the card games he loved to play and stopped going to parties. He studied two hours and a half every night for six years. He took the bar examination four times before he passed. Ho got so accustomed to taking it that when he did pass, four years ago, he was “sort of disappointed. Marrying people is what made him famous, but Judge Freeman takes the rest of his duties just as seriously. He is a sort of town conscience—he advises the young, and lectures the wayward, and dispenses the law .without fear or favor, as they say. He fined his own wife $10 for speeding. Gave her an embarrassing lecture before the whole court, saying she ought to be ashamed, especially since she had such an exceptional opportunity to observe sane driv=ing while riding with him. Mrs. Freeman says he’s the worst driver in Arizona,

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Sends Best People to Jail

E sends some of the tewn’s best people to ail for drunkenness. Says he doesn’t blame Mexicans and Indians for getting drunk. Says he'd get drunk, too, and stay drunk. But he does blame the important people, amd he socks it to them. The judge was disappointed that nobody came to get married while I was. there, so he could show me. But he acted out a whole ceremony for me, going through every word. He says a good many people cry while they’ re getting married. On day a girl got to crying, and “the groom was embarrassed, and after it was over took the judge aside and apologized for her. The judge said: “My boy, don’t apologize for that. If she'd been laughing and making light of it, then you'd have had something to apologize for.”

Mr. Pyle

” : ” ® Decides to Retire

UDGE FREEMAN has four grown children. His first wife died, and he married again a few years ago. His second wife has begged him every since to retire. So this fall he gave in, and declined to run, He must have been. good, for he is a Republican in a 3-to-1 Democratic town, and he's been re-elected five . times. He is going into partnership with a Yuma lawyer. But he has told his partner not to look for him for months at a time. ‘He’ll be down in Mexico hunting, or even over on the coast fishing, or down at his wife's ranch looking after the cattle. You make quite a bit of money marrying 25,090 people. And the judge is still young, and he’s going to enjoy it. He has just one idea that worries me. He wants to write a play about his marrying career, and we’ll split the profits. I'd sure like my half of the profits, but the trouble is I don’t know how to write

a play.

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

TASHINGTON, Monday—It is certainly annoying to feel perfectly miserable and yet not really be ill! For two days now that has been my condition. A certain amount of temperature but nothing which could serve as an excuse for the temperature and no real reason to consider myself an invalid. This time I think it is going to wear itself out before it wears.me out, for today the temperature has more or less departed and I feel quite ‘able to take an interest in my fellow human beings. I came up to the surface sufficiently yesterday afternoon to discuss at some length various abstract questions of government and business. Sometimes I wonder if we will ever have the courage to go ahead and try anything new if we believe all the pessimistic things we hear. We had a family luncheon party today with only - one guest, but there was plenty of interest in the conversation for the guest was a gentleman with ideas and ideals. The family is always ready to argue, which is conducive to conversation, but also takes up a good deal of time. Before I knew it my first afternoon appointment was upon me. Crystal Bird Fauset, who is an intelligent, levelheaded member of the younger group of colored women who are really constantly working to improve the conditions of their people, came to see me to talk over certain matters of interest in the development of good feeling and mutual understanding between women of different racial backgrounds. Then my next appointment, three very charming ladies from North Carolina who want me to come to their part of the State the iatter part of May for their strawberry festival, and to visit the homestead projects down there at that time. In a few minutes the first of two teas will begin. My part of the mail has not been so heavy for the past few days, but the inauguration plans are weighing very heavily on Mrs. Helm’s mind. I think she was very happy to find I was not going out this morning so she could really have an opportunity to talk everything out. Judge Kernochan’s death in New York has been a blow to my husband, for they were associated in many ways. His wife was a Miss Howland, whose grandmother, Madame Howland in Paris, was a connection

of my husband's and much admired by both my hus-'

band and his mother.

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Second Scction

TUESDAY, TANUARY 12, 1937

Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis, Ind.

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‘THE NAME IS LEWIS—. F orceful Labor Louder Is Directing Fark lung G. M. C. Sires

(First of a Series)

By WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent

THERE was a hush in ‘the Department of Commerce auditorium in Washington during a hearing on the coal code, one hot summer day in 1933. Every eye turned toward the platform, where a massive figure was striding toward the amplifiers. The 700 people sweating in the hall, coal operators, miners, government officials, all recognized the wavy mass of "hair, the bushy eyebrows, the deep-lined face. Some hated him, some loved him,

but all knew him. He paused a moment before the microphone, enjoying the dramatic effect. Then he turned, unsmiling, to the stenographer. “The name is Lewis—John L.!” boomed the great voice. Today when 100,000 men stand idle before General Motors auto plants, and 12,000 watch the fur-

naces gradually cooling in a dozen glass factories, fhe name on their lips is Lewis. Today when steel and rubber workers stride from the gates of their plants, talking organization, strike, and sit down, you hear the : name of Lewis. Today when miners gather in the dingy coal towns and discuss the tottering Appalachian wage agreement and the chance of a sudden ° nation-wide soft coal strike, once more the name is Lewis. Today when men discuss the future of organized labor, or: the possible political lineup four years hence, again the name is Lewis. John Llewellyn Lewis is a coal miner, and the son of a coal miner. He rules the 540,000 tightly organized coal miners of the United States, and he rules them with an iron hand, brooking no interference or opposition.

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E organized and heads the Committee for Industrial Organization, which consists of a dozen unions intent on organiz-

. ing into industry-wide unions the millions of workers in the mass’ |

production industries—steel, autos, rubber, glass, aluminum, textiles. An active Republican for 12 years, velt in 1932 and 1936. He now is regarded as the principal factor in any labor party that may be organized before 1940, as well as being the most frequently mentioned possibility as its candidate for the presidency. To see his massive, 215-pound figure in the ancient streets of Alexandria, Va., of an evening, you would suspect nothing of all this. Mr. Lewis does not go about breathing fire and brimstone, nor does he look like a bellowing bullape, as some ‘scriptions might lead one to believ.:

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T his home, a pretty little white Colonial house built 150 years ago by George Washington’s personal physician, he lives a quiet, domestic life. His household consists of Mrs. Lewis, a gentle, refined, selfeffacing woman; his son, John IL. Jr.; his daughter, Kathryn, and Socrates, her amiable though fero-cious-looking white bulldog. A snappy car with whipcorduniformed chauffeur drives up in the morning to take Mr. Lewis to the United Mine Workers’ offices in Washington. There, from 9:30 a. m. “until the day’s work is done,” Mr. Lewis toils daily. His daughter Kathryn, a Bryn Mawr graduate, acts as his private secretary. His son is in a Virginia

OHN L.

Mr. Lewis and his family live in this pretty house in Alexandria,

Va., within easy driving distance of Washington.

longed 150 years ago to George

The house beWashington's personal physician.

Mr. Lewis. backed Roose-

prep school, Woodberry-Forest. ” ” ”

T his desk in the spacious U. M. W. headquarters Mr. Lewis looks somewhat shorter than his 6 feet, because his 215 pounds are beginning to make him a bit girthy, though broad shoulders just let him through the average door with a couple of inches to spare. He takes no exercise except evening walks, but retains a surprising agility. And he also retains enough strength to enable him to knock down William Hutcheson, 285-pound head of the Carpenters’ Union, when the two clashed at the 1935 A. F. of L. convention. Mr. Lewis has been in marvelous health, never sick. His hair, red when he was a boy, is now rustygray, but as moplike and unruly as ever. The famous shaggy eyebrows emphasize ratiner than conceal steely-gray eyes. His deeply lined face is startlingly pale. He favors snappy patterns in suits, and wears whatever neckties Mrs. Lewis picks out for him. He has no diet fads, and eats potatoes. He seldom drinks, and then judiciously. His feet are surprisingly small. He has not yet learned to smile for the camera, with the result that most of his pictures are scowling and aggressive. But he can smile, and attractively, too, when he is at ease. Mr. Lewis is a glutton for work. When the NRA codes were being framed, the endless powwows and the 48-hour sittings wore out everybody but Mr. Lewis and Hugh Johnson. While lawyers and executives were working in relays and snatching naps on sofas between arguments, Mr. Lewis and Mr. Johnson were the ones who sat tirelessly until the job was done. ” t-4 ” E is full of restless energy, hates to be kept waiting, likes to stalk up and down, feels confined if there is no room for stalking. He has been known to make nimble standing jumps to a desk top and down again. Try it, if you weigh 215 and are 56 years old! While Mr. Lewis never goes to church, his speeches are studded with biblical quotations and parables. And though he never got past the seventh grade in formal schooling, Shakespearean quotations fall naturally and easily from his lips. He has done a vast amount of reading, and knows the classics far better than most college graduates. When the 1919 coal strike

Mrs. Lewis, quiet, cultured, a former schoolteacher, helped her husband get the education which he missed as an Iowa mine boy.

was in the making, reporters found him in a pullman car calmly reading The Iliad. “The “world is much the same today as it was then,” them. Like so many other men who read heavily in economics, history and the classics, he turns to detective stories when he can’t sleep. “Alas, poor Green, I knew him well,” paraphrased Mr. Lewis to reporters when the A. F.of L.-C. I. O. feud was - just getting under. way. And in a letter to Green later, he averred: “Candidly, I am temperamentally incapable of sitting with you in sackcloth and ashes, endlessly intoning ‘O tempora! O mores!’” thus getting Seripture and Cicero into a single quotation. Years of practice in the turbulent miners’ meetings, combined with his relentless home study, have made Lewis one of the most

BRITISH ATTITUDE ON ABDICATION REVEALED AS NOT WHOLLY PRETTY

By MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Staff Correspondent 1. Joon Jan. 12.—The British press, pulpit and politicians still are preening and priding themselves on the great calm and order with which England faced the constitutional crisis brought about by King Edward’s personal problems and his final abdication. And, in many ways, as showing democracy firmly rooted in a Europe where fascism and communism

are in the ascendancy, all this is’

true.

But there are other things that stick out from this greatest of all modern human interest stories which are not so pretty. and in which the British cannot legitimately take much pride. : # 88 MRST: There was a persistent attempt here in all classes, which’ did not tolerate Edward's contemplated marriage, to make the American press the goat of the whole affair. They spoke glibly of the “scandal” in American newspapers—a scandal ‘which aroused the Dominions and: seeped back to Britain in the form . of clippings irom American friends to British friends. But—in British sophisticated circies, in the swank clubs, in the swish country houses, in the wise-cracking stock exchanges, the. names of King Edward and Mrs. Simpson were coupled in crude jests and ribald verses which: were handed on from smirking person to smirking person tefhing just tog. go

to one’s self. There was neither the boasted allegiance to their sovereign, nor the chivalry to a woman in all this. * 2 ” ” ECOND: This boasted British calm about Edward’s abdication is in great contrast to the attitude formerly noted throughout England when it was said over and over again that Edward, as Prince of Wales, was the greatest asset the British royal family had ever produced. He was also called the Empire’s greatest asset. He was not called Prince of Sales tor nothing. He boosted the Empire. He boosted British wares. He made friends for himsels and his people wherever he wen

Now the British press is preparing to make of Him one of the world’s forgotten men. As much as they dare, they are going to play him down just as much as in happier days they played him up. For them he- is Prince Charming no more. or 8 8 =n HIRD: From no source did Mrs. Wallis Simpson get very much real kindness. Even after Edward had abdicated and spoken without rancor toward anybody, the clergy of the Established Church, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury himself, took a final kick at him and

‘his circle of friends. The voices of

protest in favor of more righteous dealing were few. Fourth: The events of recent weeks have Sripped bare much of

chy. The ruler is revealed as a person not allowed to have his own thoughts and his own way of life. He is a stuffed image, an emblem of empire. So long as he does not run counter to his Cabinet, the King of England, for all ‘outward show, is a man of power and high office. He goes to Parliament in a golden coach, surrounded by gaily-clad

troops. He is dressed in royal scarlet

and ermine. He has a. golden crown. He is the cynosure of all eyes. \In his speeches—written for him by the Cabinet—he is permitted to speak of “My Army,” “My Navy,” “My dominions,” “My people.” He is surrounded with a halo of adulation. It is doubtful whether all this ever fooled Edward VIII. He hated the flummery. He discounted. the adulation. Long years ago, when Prince of Wales, he said to my barber in Le Touquet: “I envy you your lot. When your day is done, yo shut up shop and go about your own ‘affairs. You are a free man.” The other day, Edward himself shut up shop.

KNOW YOUR INDIANAPOLIS

Indianapolis is the country’s fourth largest corn market, receiving nearly 20,000,000 bushels annually. One of the largest corn mills is located here.

John Llewellyn 1. wis, whose mop of russet-gray hair and overhanging thicket of ey: brows are rapidly becoming known to thousands as his unionization as five threatens to bring the auto industry to a

standstill.

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effective of platforr! often likened to Bryan, 8 = = HE miners, wi ose chins dropped abruptly ‘when they first heard slick eight-cylinder phrases dropping froi: the lips of the rough-and-ready Mr. Lewis, have come to like them. He is quick-witted, and fei care to tangle with him in veibal debate.

Once during an NRA code hearing, Pat Hurley, wha came up from the mines, opiosed Mr. Lewis as a lawyer for he operators. Mr. Lewis flaye¢. him un-

speakers,

| mercifully and concludtd with:

“It is a source of pr de to see a member of the United Mine Workers go out into pilitics and make a noted name fin himself. But it is a matter oii profound sorrow to see a man | who has made such a name hitray the union of his youth” ‘here Mr. Lewis paused—“for 30 Io sy pieces of silver.”

Mr. Hurley, furious, < arted to-

ward Mr. Lewis, Semanding retraction. “Very well,” said Mr. Lewis slowly, turning to the stenographer, “Strike out the ‘30 pieces of silver’.” Lewis runs his turbulent union with a high hand. His opponents say, with a dictatorial hand. At the union’s latest convention a delegate rose to make a protest. “I want to go on record—" ‘he began. Bang went ‘the gavel. . “If you want to go on record, write it on a slip of paper and hand it to the secretary!” boomed Mr, Lewis. “Next order of business!” Twenty-six years as a labor leader have put John L. Lewis very much on record. And a whole Nation waits today to see what is his “next order of business.”

NEXT—How the son of a blacklisted Welsh miner came to run the greatest coal strike the coun-

try ever saw.

Clapper Urges Statutes To Keep Us Out of War

Ei RAYMOND CLAPPER

ASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—During the Harding FE 'esidential campaign in 1920 I was 1 political reporter for the United 2ress and lived in Marion, O., fir several months in the home of g lawyer on Mount Vernon Ave., a fey, doors up from the Harding front | iporch. It was a comfortable house, (in a treeshaded street, like tholsands of others throughout the Mic dle West.

The lawyer had a suficient income. His wife was kind a ad motherly. They had one small Jaughter. In the living room of ti :ir home hung a bordered service fi g. In the center of this flag was a old star. He must have been a ‘ery fine young man, judging by hij parents and by his picture, which jad been taken just before he siiled for France about two years | efore to help make the world safe, for democracy. Some people are telling us again that- we should go.to th: help of democratic nations. They ( lon’t advocate an open alliance ith the democratic nations. But |'n some vague way they are sure le ought to do something. We are, | hey say, helping Hitler by cutting "ff arms shipments tu both sides i. Spain. The Communists think it is outrageous and that we ought ii} realize that the Spanish Govern: nent is fighting the battle of civ/lization. Propaganda speakers ant “missions” are beginning to co ne over to tell us about our duty to the world, that we are big an: strong and should not stand aliwf but should join another crusade,

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OSSIBLY so. No one can be sure what will be ‘best for 20 years or 100 years from nw. In the presence of such grave gestions cveryond mg be humble at d careful. It no matter for I ysteria, and angry labels. We can je hottempered and impulsive abot t small things. But when what we sy may affect the lives of everyone in the country, judgment, calm, :areful thinking are an obligation—Ii >t only ypon statesmen, but upon iriters, speakers and upon every m:n and woman. - There is not a person ir this country so obscure but thit his opinion counts, He may noi make speeches which are heard br: millions. He may not write 'n the newspapers. But he may be tn employer who seems to thos¢ who work for him a wise and trustworthy judge of what is best to do. He may .work at a machin , bus 8

to him with respect. Some neighbor will be influenced by what he says. hd it all up and you have public opinion—the overpowering giant which in the end sweeps us all along with its irresistible force.

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OBODY deliberately wished to hang that gold star in the living room of that Middle Western family. That tragic end came about through slow, almost imperceptible steps. A cable from Paris is delivered in a Wall Street office building asking for credit. . , . A long-distance telephone call to Washington. . . . A State Department official slips into the White House in the evening and the next night meets a man at the Metropolitan Club to tell him that the President is agreeable and to go ahead. . . . Orders for wheat and cotton. . . . ing out of Atlantic ports loaded to capacity. . . . Orders. Orders. Orders. . New prosperity which must be preserved at all costs. . . . Our ships must be free to go into British ports. . ... Nohody can order us to stay out of any submarine zone. . ,.. American Ambassador Page sits down in London to write the State Department: “Perhaps our going to war is the only way in which our present pre-eminent trade position can be maintained and a panic averted.” ... And so on until it is all over and the world has been made safe for democracy and families in Marion,~O., and all of the other Marions in America go sadly down to meet the train.

o ” ” ILSON in his discretion didn’t will this. The pressure rose from small beginnings until the whole country was swept in. Wilson along with it. Possibly if there had been brakes on the statute books, they would not have held, even when the hole in the dike was still a small one. That we shall never know. We don’t know whether statutory brekes would hold in the future. We only know that Presidential discretion was not sufficient the last time, that we again have another great President who is also . conscientious and able and that legisiation might relieve him of some of the pressure, and provide barriers around which. public sentiment could gather. i “Then with such disSrejion vo this as the Preside! is always bound to have in

duct of

‘to high places.

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Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER -

JEAN-FRANCOIS ‘MILLET, painter of

“The Angelus,” was born on the fourth of October, 1814, in the hamlet of Gruchy, parish of Greville, a few miles west of Cher= bourg, France, close to the Cape of La Hague. The house where he was born is still standing in the little village street; and we can look down across the fields where he sowed and reaped to the wide stretch of sea and the far horizons which filled his young mind with dreams. JI haven't the least idea who lived in the house after Millet left in 1837 to go to Paris. Nor have I any information concerning the old house after Millet left Paris to live near Chailly, the drowsy little town where Barbizon folk went: to be married and buried, and in whose churchyard Millet sleeps today. Perhaps it isn’t important to know what happened to the old Mr "house during Millet’s absence. What ? is important—at any rate, for today’s purpose—is the fact that 10 years after Millet’s death in 1875, an Indianapolis man went to Greville, bought Millets ‘old home, and lived contentedly there ever after. His name was Frank Edwin Scott. Scott left Indianapolis” in 1881 to go to New York to study at the Art Students League. He was 16 years old then, and up to that time had been a protege of John Love, who started the first art school liere. After Mr. Love’s death, Scott sent a drawing to the New York Academy of Design as a sample of his work, He held his thumbs all the time it was in transit, hoping it was good enough to admit him as a pupil, He was turned down. A little later, he sent the same drawing to the Art Students League, and this time it worked.

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HE drawing submitted by Scott was made in the #rooms of the Bohe Club, the first art club in In= dianapolis. Its active members were the students and followers of John Love and included William Forsyth, Tom E. Hibben, Fred Hetherington, W. O. Bates and Charles Nicolai. The associate members were Clare ence Forsyth, George Cottman, the Stem: brothers, John and Hartsel and “Old Man” Wappenhans who,

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" besides running the local weather bureau, had enough

time to dabble in the arts. 3 Scott spent a year or so in New York and arrived in Paris sometime in 1882, resolved to enter the Ecole des Beaux Arts. What's more, he made it. After two years work in Paris, he returned to New York and became a teacher in the Student League. It didn’t sui$ him at all and he longed to return to:Paris, which he did after two years. After that, he picked up Millet’s old home. ” ” 2

Fixed House as Studio

PFPTER that, too, he fixed up the old place as & studio. The French journal Le Gil Blas de= scribed it at the time: “A large studio which suggests a Swiss chalet, and at the same time, a family hall of the middle ages, lighted by a soft light; Burton chests, the old Gothic chairs, with rugged sculptures furnish it. On the walls are pictures, studies of land and sea, showing an infinitely refined color sense.” . Curiously enough, this article appeared in 1912, tha same year that brought Mr. Scott the honor of being elected & member of the Paris Salon. Mr. Scott's achievement coupled with that of the auto speedway, which was getting under way at the time, sort of pub

Parisians wise to Indianapolis.

A Woman's View

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

HERE goes the city’s most successful man.” We say that to visitors when Mr. Jones passes by, We are proud of Mr. Jonss and his achievements, His name can be seen in newspapers from one end of the country to the other. Aut of nothing he has built a great fortune; from obscurity he has climbed

Fathers point him out to their sons. That's one way of looking at it. There's also’ another way. Many years ago, to avoid his domination, Mr. Jones’ wife took refuge in illness. She was afraid of his bossing, and, like so many weak women, she found invalidism the easiest way of escaping it. His children nurse a smouldering. resentment against Mr. Jones and his arrogance. He gives them a great deal of money but no respect whatever. Their main purpose in life is to get away from where he is, So Mr. Jones has a magnificent house but no home. The people who work for him are loyal to the company. They might be loyal to its head if he would let them. As it is, he is merely the first name on their office s tationery. He will not permit any closer intimacy. ‘Mr. Jones has no real friends—only sycophants who would like ‘to do him out of some of his money or enjoy standing under his dollar sign. He has thousands of books in nis library but doesn’t read them. He isn’t interested in music or pictures. He has no hobbies. The larger issues of life, such as justice and mercy and brotherly love, do not concern him. The only thing he likes is money. “He thinks in terms of stocks and bonds, dividends and profits. And his greatest fears are death and taxes. On second thought, then, our Mr.f Jones turns out to be a failure—a miserable, pitiful failure, be<

.cause with all the opportunities for making a life

he has only made a fortune. Nobody loves him; he loves nobody. Soon death will take him. Yet for many years we will continua to speak and write of him as a successful man, although in:everything that counts he is a tragic

Your Health

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor, American Medioal Assn. Journal

ISEASES of the blood concern deficiencies or excesses in its various elements. When the red blood cells are increased far above the normal amount, the condition is called polycythemia. As I have already said, the average - number of red blood cells is about 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 in each cubic millimeter of blood. In polycythemia, the numa ber may increase to as many as 15,000,000 in each cubic millimeter. Obviously, the presence it such large numbers of red ces makes it difficult for the blood to flow and may be associated with serious symptoms. A slight increase in red blood cells is found in certain chronic diseases and also is associated with slight de i of poisoning in various cases. Usually such slight increases indicate that the body is trying

.to make up for lack of oxygen. - It is said that hard exercise will increase the

number of red cells in the circulation, and also that massage may bring about this result. - The symptoms associated with an excessive nume ber of red blood cells are dizziness, fainting, a feels ing of fullness ir the head, nosebleed, and somes times disturbances of ¥ijion and constant ringing in

‘the ears.

Headache is not an infrequent symptom because of over-congestion of the blood vessels. People with such condition of the blood frequently are told by their friends that they are becoming dark colored, and there may be some disturbances of the nervous

; system because of changes in the Blood.

| Fortunately, useful metheds of treatment recently hive been L Seveloped. It has :become possible to um and the X-ray to the spleen and the;