Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1937 — Page 13
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agabon FROM INDIANA
ERNIE PYLE
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 14.—1t is four years and a half since I am closer than a mile to “a Navy airplane. So, thinks I, I'll just go over to the Naval Air Station at Coronado and have a look. But it winds up that I see
so many old friends I never get around to looking at airplanes. The first person I see is Matt Gardner, who is a Lieutenant Commander now. Back in the gay days he was leader of the Navy's famous stunting team of Tue Flying Fish. “How's your stomach, Matt?” 1 says. “It’s fine,” says Matt. “And do you know what was the matter with it? It had an antipathy for - whole-wheat bread. Ever since I found that out I've felt like Hercules himself.” Matt is one of these fine Navy officers who have no fuss or feathers and fit like an old shoe. He is glad to see me, so he takes » PYI®~ me in tow for the day. I haven't been there two minutes till word flashes around that a plane is on its back wout on the field, and Matt rushes out to survey the damage. It is a youngster from Pensacola who put on his They do it every day and it’s about to drive the Navy nuts. An ambulance, a fire truck and a crash truck are kept on the line all the time. The drivers never leave their seats, and they warm up the engines every few minutes. “You ought to see Ernie Litch,” says Matt when he comes back. “He's a squadron commander now and this kid’s in his squadron. . Ernie has 18 planes to start with, and this crackup leaves him only 13. He's wandering around out there black in the®face. Let's go to lunch.”
Have Lunch
O we climb into Matt's old car and take off for his new house in Coronado. “Well, glad to have you aboard, sir,” says Matt, and we quaff a couple of quorums of huckleberry juice, and then fill ourselves full of Mrs. Gardner's southern California lunch. After that we sit in Matt’s garden and chat a while, and then we go back to the Air Station and drop in on Capt. John Towers, who's the whole works out here, and he laughingly tells how my boss, Mr. Scripps, calls up and complains about the Navy planes making so much noise over his house. 2 2 E-
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Loses Cap ND then when Capt. Towers hears about the latest crackup he tells how a kid once got his signals mixed up and landed on a carrier when he wasn’t supposed to, and his wing tip knocked off Capt. Towers’ brand new dress cap that he'd paid $21 for, and it fell in the water and they never did get it back. . Then we drop by the operations office to see Lieut. Fred Harper, and who is sitting there also but Lieut. Stan Ring, who used to be aid to Admiral Moffett back in Washington. It begins to take on the appearance of Old Family Reunion Week. “Let’s have some coffee,” says Fred. So a chief petty officer mixes us all some coffee and we drink it, although we’d just had lunch half an hour before. That's one of the things about the Navy, you know. In the Navy you drink coffee at intervals of five - minutes, no matter where you are or what you're doing. And you can tell a cup of Navy coffee a mile away.
Mrs.Roosevelt's Day
By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
[Jy aasmoToN, Wednesday— Yesterday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Yorke Allen came to spend the night. After a very brief time with them, I drove over to the clubhouse of the American Association of University Women, where a meeting was being held by the Southern Woman’s Educational Alliance, of which Dr.fHatcher has been the head for many years. I thought first of the question of health where underprivileged children are’ concerned, no matter what part of the country they come from. I asked Dr. Hatcher if they were including physical examinations and an effort to remedy physical defects in their | program for vocational and educational guidance. She says they are, for they find, as I have found, that the first requisite for every child is a sound body. We have a 7 o'clock dinner, for last night we held the judicial reception. In spite of the flu which | 4s raging and has iaid so ma people low,” Chief | - Justice ‘and Mrs. Charles Evans ‘Hughes, Mr. Justice Willis Van Devanter and his sister, Mrs. Sanford L. Raridan, Mr. Justice James McReynolds, Mr. Justice Sutherland, Mr. Justice and Mrs. Butler, Mr. Justice and Mrs. Roberts and Mr. Justice Cardozo were all there to head the line. Mr. Justice Brandeis has made it a point not to go to any social gatherings whatsoever for some years past. He has reached that heavenly situation where, if you really want to see him, you go to see him in his own home, so he is quite assured of never seeing people who are in any way paying a perfunctory visit. Mr. Justice Stone is still away on account of illness, but is expected back before very long. Following the Justices came the Attorney General and Mrs. Cummings, the Solicitor General and Mrs. ~ Reed, then judges and members of legal fraternities with their wives and daughters up to a goodly number. Last night it turned out to be 940 when the last one had shaken the President by the hand and he had retired to the oval room on the second floor. ‘James and I started through the rooms and it was about 10:15 when we found our way upstairs. As I was walking up to the White House yesterday afternoon after lunching with Mrs. Garner, a man | ran up behind me and offered me an inaugural program, which was very kind of him because I had not seen one before. I found it very interesting, and I think the program committee has given people something they will like to read in case they are kept |- waiting at any point during the day of Jan. 20.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 14,1937
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"THE NAME 1S LEWIS—JOHN Lr
(Third of a Series)
By WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HROUGH the years from 1920 to 1933, life was just one long fight for John L. Lewis. He had to fight bitterly hostile coal operators, who had the advantage of backward and almost feudal con-
ditions in many coal fields.
He had to fight minority elements and rivals in his own organization, with biting and gouging permitted, and no holds barred. He had to fight the sickness of the whole coal industry. Battered by war-inspired overproduction, increasing competition of oil and gas, and increasing efficiency of coal-burning machinery, the whole industry had been sick for 20 years or more. So Mr. Lewis’ postwar slogan of “No Backward Step” was more aggressive than it sounds. For it must be read against the background of the drive to “deflate the wartime gains of labor.” In 1921 Mr. Lewis opposed Sam Gompers for president of the A. F. of L. Mr. Lewis was nominated by’ William Green. Today Mr. Lewis will demy that he was very serious about this campaign. Mr. Lewis lost, his own miners being divided. But getting even. half as many votes as the veteran ‘Sam Gompers helped enhance his prestige in labor circles. Stories were written at this time about “labor standing at the crossroads,” with Mr. Lewis representing a radical threat to the conservative leadership of Mr. Gompers. But, as a matter of fact, Mr. Lewis had been up to this time a thoroughly conventional labor leader, standing out simply by aggressiveness and force rather than by any radicalism of doctrine or aim.
” 2 ” OR who but Mr. Lewis purged the United Mine Workers of I. W. W.s and Communists at this time? When the Nova Scotia miners flirted with the “One Big Union” idea, whica was the “wobbly radicalism” of the day, Mr. Lewis jerked them back ruthlessly into the fold by threatening to kick them ail out of the U. M. W. His fulminations against communism and any alien-directed. radicalism make up a long record. It is true, however, that many of his strongest opponents in the U. M. W. were of radical complexion, and, in attacking radicalism, Mr. Lewis was also striking at his opposition. Typical is Alexander Howat, leader of the Kansas miners. He was, and probably still is, a Socialist, persistent, somewhat erratic, but all on fire with zeal and oratory. ° Mr. Howat refused to send the Kansas miners back to work after the 1919 strike settlement, defied Governor Allen’s compulsory arbitration law, and defied Mr. Lewis when the latter flayed him unmercifully as “a man devoid of principle and destitute of honor.” The 1921 convention was all drama, with Mr. Howat crying out that “the machine is trying to crucify me,” and Mr. Lewis replying that Mr. Howat was a Red and a contract-breaker. But Mr. Lewis’ .melodramatic presentation of his case led to Mr. Howat’s cxpulsion.
A labor leader gets around a lot among all ranks of people.
Lewis (left) is shown with a group
Mr. of his own miners at Scranton, Pa,
after signing the 1930 anthracite agreement,
The parting of the ways.
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Above, Mr. Lewis greets President Wil-
liam Green of the American Federation of Labor as the latter comes to address the 1936 U. M. W. convention.
N 1924 Mr. Howat attempted a comeback, and ran Mr. Lewis a close shave in a vote for his reinstatement, 2263 to 2106. Pandemonium broke loose amid shouts of “Recount!” and “Mus-
. Solini!”
For an hour booing and disorder. shoek - the hall, but Mr. Lewis stood firmly on the platform, pounding with his gavel. He adjourned the meeting and appointed a “provisional government” for the Kansas district, ending the Howat threat. For years thereafter Mr. Howat continued to try to get a foothold in U. M. W. conventions, but was never given a look-in. Frank Farrington was a totally different Lewis rival. Mr. Farrington ruled the Illinois district, one of the best organized in the UMW. On several occasions Mr. Farrington tried to negotiate separate agreements for the miners of his own district. He and Mr. Lewis exchanged verbal lashings for years. ; Then, while Mr. Farrington was in Paris in 1925, Mr. Lewis got his chance. He learned that Mr. Farrington had gone on the payroll
of the Peabody Coal Co. for $25,000 a year. . That finished Mr. Farrington, or practically so. In 1922, only three years after the first great coal strike, came another. The anthracite and bituminous agreements expired on the same day, and the operators ly refused | to negotiate new - contracts. - Mr. Lewis wrote, “These operators do not deny that they are ‘contract-breakers. They only say, ‘Well, what are you going to do about it?’ ” What Mr.. Lewis did was to strike in both fields with lightning rapidity. For five months the strike dragged on, the union’s resources fading away, the operators complacent in the fact that there was an oversupply of coal above ground, anyway. But at the end of that time, Mr. Lewis won a continuation of the old scale and the checkoff, and a national agreement. That was better than a cut, no checkoff and state agreements.
# 8 a N 1924 Mr. Lewis did it again,
negotiating the now famous . Jacksonville agreement, which
His Record Is One of Desperate Battles With Operators and Picks
RR : ee Above Mr. Lewis is shown with Joh:i D. Rockefeller Jr., at a Senate - committee table during the, 1928 investization of the Pennsylvania coal strike, . He’s at home among all classes.
FESR I, a Eo Sr aa Suita
But now they draw apart, as sugge¢ ited in the photo above, showing the two leaders on opposite sides ¢ a wide aisle at Major Berry’s
“labor and industry clinic,”
[|Our Town
continued until 1927 the 1920 rate of $7.50 a day. That was indeed considered a triumph, and Mr. Lewis was labor’s hero of the hour, as well as the bogeyman of capitalists, who muttered of “King Lewis I,” and “a bigger man than Coolidge.” But directly below this crest, there was a yawning trough. Within three years, Mr. Lewis vas to see his union lose 200,000 members and approach bankruptcy. Declining demand and increasing competition from the West Virginia and Kentucky fields, where nonunion miners were paid $3 a day instead of $7.50 vere playing hob with the Jacksonville agreement. The fight to unionize those states led to repeated bloodshed, almost to civil war. Mingo County and Sheriff Don Chafin and his company-paid Sepuiies made labor history. Mr. Lewis flayed the operators, who, he cried, “have torn up their wage contracts . . the mine workers simply ask that these coal operators . .. be compelled to live up to their contracts and not act the part of industrial knaves and poltroons who seek to render to their employees less than is their just due.” - wo” = BLIZZARD - of injunctions fell about Mr. Lewis, who Sisregarded them. The Illinois dis-
trict and others were in turmoil. M:mbership fell away, the union troasury declined. fn 1930, the Illinois district, led by: Mr. Howat, John Brophy of Pennsylvania, and John Walker,
tr ed to call an anti-Lewis miners’ coavention to “save the union.” {The history of the U. M. W. ui der the regime of Mr. Lewis his been an unbroken series of defeats!” “} lection - stealing, conventionpacking, and slugging of delegates hi ve reduced the old-time democray of the union to a ghastly face.” 3ut Mr. Green, now head of the A. PF. L., stood by Lewis, refusing ta ecognize the rebels. The move m; de little progress. Mr. Lewis stepped in “with my hip boots on.” He arbitrarily imposed a wage coiitract and ousted local officials. “his strife culminated in the batile at Little Muddy River in 19:2, when Franklin County, Illino: :, bristled with guns, and open wa fare raged. The outlook for the United Mine Workers and John L. lewis was dark and bloody. “hen came the NRA.
MN EXT—Does Mr. Lewis want to be President? He pulls his union by NRA stirrups up to a new positi in of power, and reaches ahend to iiew policies.
REP. LOUIS LUDLOW FLAYS WAR AND PROPOSES WAY TO AVOID IT
N- awful “hell” in the shape of a general war likely to involve America unless something is done and done quickly is seen by Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind.) in his newly published book, “Hell or Heaven,” (Stratford Publishing Co., Boston). He advocates a specific proposal to keep out of threatened entanglements and to stabilize the peace of America, which, he says, would be “heaven” in comparison with involvement in another mass slaughter. The specific anti-war proposal advocated by Congressman Ludlow is a Peace Amendment he has introduced and which provides for a popular vote of the men and women of the country on a declaration of war (except always in the case of attack or invasion) and also for taking the profit out of war, these peace-promoting objectives to be attained by amending the Constitution of the United States. Congressman Ludlow predicts that if this constitutional amendment is adopted “America will be almost 100 per cent protected from any foreign war and from involvement in any war of any description which we ought not to enter” and this result, he asserts, will be accomplished without any weakening of the national defense. In fact, he declares himself an advocate of strong national defense. ” ” = ITH the world in a condition of turmoil”it would be folly not to have strong and adequate national defense,” he says. “The Peace Amendment has nothing to do with national defense. It relates only to the method by which war shall be declared, whether it shall be declared by a littlé group in Washington subjected to a thousand different kinds of pulls and pressures and singularly overlorded by whoever at the time happens to be President of the United States, or whether it shall be declared by all of the people of the Nation in a solemn referendum. I favor the latter method as the best and only accurate plan of ascertaining the na-
tional will. My proposed mend- - based on- the
Rep. Louis Ludlow
that those who have to suffer and if need be to die, and to bear the awful burdens and costs of war should have something to say as to whether war shall be declared. “Nearly all of my mature life I have lived among members of Congress and I have the highest respect for their average character and patriotism,” he says. “It is a
high average. But members of Con- [*Wh
gress are human. When the war fever is on and the bands are playing and pressure in a thousand forms is being applied and the propagandists are in. action, members of “Congress are likely to crack under the strain and vote for war when otherwise they would not do 50. “ No member of Congress likes to be called. ‘yellow’ ‘and no member of Congress wants to be seared and burned by the opprobrious: epithet of ‘traitor, ” ¢ Mr. Ludlow points out that under the existing. war mechanism 267
‘members of gran 218 : Repre-
ing a majority of members of both branches, can declare war at any time and 127,000,000 people, comprising the remainder of the Nation, have nothing, whatever, to say about it. “Of the members of Congress at the present time only six are women, so you see how utterly negligible is the opportunity to give expression to whatever may be women’s viewpoint on any particular war proposal,” he adds. “And why should not women have a right to vote on a declaration of war? Women go down into the shadow of the valley of death to bring our boys into the world. Why should they not have something to say as to whether their flesh and blood shall be hurled into the hell of a foreign conflict, to be mowed down by machine guns, to be blown to ‘bits ‘by bombs from the air or to die in spasms from disease germs hellishly spawnéd in foreign laboratories?” > 8 nn =n ‘CONSIDERABLE part of Mr. Ludlow’s book is devoted to showing that under the war mechanism as it now exists war-making is really more of an executive than a Congressional function. and that the individual who happens to hold the office of President of the United States, whoever he may be, could maneuver the Nation into the biggest kind of a- war at any time he chooses to do so. From this premise he argues that now is the time, before some tyrant makes his appearance in the ite House, to decentralize the war power and vest it with the people “who have to do “the suffering and the dying.” “There would be little, if anything,” he says, “to prevent such a
plunging America into war with half of the world” For President Roosevelt the author expresses warm affection, declaring that he is no sword-rattler. “He is a sincere friénd of peace and will do everything he can to keep us out of war, but, after all, the period of service of one Presi-
dent is. but a ‘moment in the life of
tyrant from running amuck and)
Clapper Pictures Lasser, Head of f Relief Marchers
By RAYMOND Ci APPER
ASHINGTON, Jan. 14—Back of the agitation for higher relief appropriations is a slender, black-haired young man in his carly
30s, David Lasser, president of the Workers’ Alliance of America. He voted for Hoover in 1928 and now look at him.. He has directed the sit-down strikes of relief workers in various localities. He marched his hunger squads of unemployed into State capitols at Trenton, Harrisburg, Madison and other places to lay siege for larger state 'relief appropriations. He organized the current relief march on Washington— he calls it a “mass delegation”—to persuade Congress to .appropriate twice as much relief for the next five months as President Roosevelt, in his role of the great humanitarian, has recommended. Mr. Lasser is head of a mass movement which is second only in its potential power to the shortlived bonus army which took over Washington for a few days in 1932, until Hoover drove it out with troops. His only rival in lobbying for relief is the Mayors’ Conference, which works in a more whitecollared way. The {wo groups squeeze simultaneously from both sides. ” » ” T isn’t only the ragged armies of the unemployed like those Mr. Lasser rounds up who do mass lobbying here. One of the quickest and most deadly jobs of this kind was done by a group of retailers | here last year who marched on Congress and forced the RobinsonPatman anti-chain store bill through. The utilities lobby had about as many people in town to defeat the Holding Company Bill as Mr. Lasser will produce but they scattered ' among the first-class hotels and went to Congress in twos and threes instead of going all together in a parade. The hungry and unemployed make more noise when’ they lobby." However, Mr. Lasser does not live
up to what the head of such a re- :
lief march ought to- be. The big useular ©
you f/ould expect to find undertaking sich a spectacular niece of mass rousi: 8. Mr Lasser is the opposite, an engineer, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Is this true that you voted for Hooviir in 1928, or is that a gag?” he wiis asked. “It's; true,” Mr. Lasser said. He has #| slight hesitation in his voice whicl off-stage is as devoid of dramatics as a bookkeeper's. “I thought the ¢juntry needed an engineer. I thought that Hoover could fix our trouk/es by running the country on sounc: business and engineering principles. But he didn’t have the
| social philosophy that is necessary.”
2 wm & N 1182 Mr. Lasser joined the Socig ist Party, to which he still beloni s—Norman Thomas’ faction. Other | questions brought out that Mr. Lasser was born in Baltimore 34 yee is ago, and spent 2 year and a half iii the Army: “I was a patriot during the war even though I was not olil enough to know what it was all abut.” He {5 married, has one child.
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R= UBLICANS are being inconsistent again. After the Democrats lipped a bill through both Houses of Congress to exempt purchasers: of inaugural tickets from the cu stomary amusement tax, a handfu’ of Republicans forced withdrawal of the measure and insisted on the tax. What can the Republicans find in a Roosevelt inaugural that comes under the head of amusel ent?
KNOW YOUR INDIANAPOLIS
Mare than 700 whol:sale establi::hments here | yearly transact business exceeding '$400.(100,000. These oncerns emplcy more than £300 and “sala
cried this convention.
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cient,
By ANTON SCHERRER
NDIANAPOLIS lost something when men stopped wearing bright red flannel underwear. Fifty years ago, for instance, it was a grand experience to go into the country and
see the harvesters stripped of everything to
their waists except their bright red undershirts. The vivid touch of scarlet imparted by: men moving in the fields charged the landscape with somes thing unforgettable. It made the landscape throb—
something I haven’t seen it do since the good old days when Nature and Art conspired to make something worthwhile of the American scene. The bright red flannel undershirt charged our street scenes with gaiety, too, because I distinctly recall that the red undershirt was the badge of any good workman when 1 was a little boy. At any rate, it was the badge of anyone who worked at Atkin’s Saw Works, Schmiary Brewery and Hetherington an erner’s : ig They were a grand lot, Mr. Scherrer afd it wouldn't surprise me to learn someday that the wearing. of red flannel underwear contributed tc their skill as workmen. Come to think of it, the red undershirt was more than a badge. It was more like a symbol suggesting that maybe the Bible was right when it expected men to earn their bread by the sweat of their brows (Gen, 3:19). Be that as it may, I remember that perspira= tion and red flannel undershirts sort of went together like the elective affinities, or whatever it is that smart. people call such relationships. Anyway, I can’t re=" member anything more picturesque or more tc the point than a red-flannel-clad man wiping the sweat: off his brow. It was a common enough.sight around 6 o'clock of a summer evening when the men, moving in groups, returned to their homes after a good day’s work. ” ” 8
Changing Believed Dangerous DON'T know why the bright red flannel underwear went out of style when it did, but I seem to re-
memher that sometime in the Nineties there was a
lot of loose talk to the effect that the wearing of bright red flannel underwear had something to do with a superstition. With two superstitions, as a matter of fact, because, besides the presumed possession of a kind of superstitious virtue additional to its warmth, there was also the superstition that it was dangerous to change red flannel underwear, a prejudice that led to its retention throughout the summer.
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Hurt Wearing of Red DON'T know much about the merits of the case.
All I know is that, for some reason, bright red .
flannel underwear went out of style sometime in the late Nineties. went man’s courage to wear anything made of red material. I know that to be a fact, because when red underwear went into the discard almost every man around here lost interest in red suspenders and red neckties, too. To be sure, the love of red is slowly coming back, but it’s going to be a long time, if ever, before it gets back to the place it had when I was a little boy. Any= way, something went out. of Indianapolis when men stopped wearing bright red flannel underwear.
A Woman's View
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
EAVENS!” cried our hostess as we unfolded the napkins. “We're 13 at table!” Forthwith, a gentleman of note in our community launched into a discourse about the superstitions of women. There was much merry talk as each cone fessed to her besetting delusion in this respect. The local Big Shot, during lulls in“the conversation, an nounced that he had succeeded in ridding ‘himself entirely’ of all such childish ideas. He no longer put faith in magic formulas. Much later, the conversation turned to: the subject of war. “Undoubtedly,” boomed the same man, “undoubtedly, we can not hope to abolish war, It’s the only method man has yet found for settling international disputes. The truth is sad, of course, but unavoidable.” Now not only is this attitude sad, but it is frankly superstitious. To believe any longer in the utility of war for any purpose whatever is just about the last word in Witch’s Magic. Yet you will invariably find that attitude among the very people who pride themselves on being practical. They aren't going to indulge in sentiment; they look facts in the face, and facts tell them man always has made war; therefore, man always must make war. Now the facts, of course, say no such thing. Instead, they prove conclusively that war, as a means of establishing a principle or gaining a point, is a flop. As it is now conducted, it gets no better re= sults than the incantations sung to a devil’s oracle. People who believe otherwise are the most ime practical, the most sentimental, and the most supers stitious in our world. They are moved wholly by tradition and not at all by truth. The same form of prejudice was lodged in the minds of those who once
believed that smallpox, typhus, yellow fever, typhoid
and jnalaria were beyond the power of mortals to cure; The superstition about the inevitability and usefulness of armed conflict arises from the same stubborness in the human mind. It is neither an occult. power nor a perverse need, but his own folly, that drives man to war.
Your Health
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, American Medical Assn. Journal
S I have pointed out in a previous column, -a deficiency of iron in the body may be associated with anemia. Such deficiency occurs particularly in babies and in women; in fact, victims of this type of anemia so frequently are babies that specialists in diseases of children are calling it. “dietary anemia,” “alimentary anemia,” “nutritional anemia,” or “milk anemia.” These terms are eed to describe a blood condition resulting from a lack, in the diet, of food or mineral eleménts necessary for the proper formation of red blcod cells. If anemia develops when the diet is adequate, it usually is due to failure of the body to utilize or absorb the substances necessary for blood formation. This may be caused by infection or by disease which attacks the bone marrow or the blood-forming organs. The most common and the most easily correctable form is that due to lack of iron in the diet. This condition occurs in children who constantly refuse to eat
iron-containing foods for long periods of time. There °
are babies, for example, who have been fed nothing but milk for 12, 18, or more months after birth. Sometimes the mothers have added cereals, pota« toes, and other foods to the diet, but have failed ta add foods rich in iron. In some instances; babies are born with an iron deficiency, because the mother has
It was a great pity, because with it:
not followed a suitable diet during the period before -
the birth of the child. Sometimes there is anemia in twins, because the amount of iron available is sufficle ent for one baby but not for two. A diagnosis, of course, is made also by a. study of the blood to determine the amount of red coloring matter that it contains. Fortunately, these conditions are easily treated by providing proper amounts of iron, or iron and copper, in the diet, and by the prescrip=tion of iron in suitable amounts in medicinal form. At the same time, the doctor is‘likely to give ade=
quate amounts of the necessary vitamins and fruit : and.to see ® fo it that 31S Wations has sufficient
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