Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1937 — Page 11

Vagabond

FROM INDIANA

ERNIE PYLE

ASHINGTON, Feb. 23.——In Memphis 1 made a lot of literary hay while the

rain poured, and 1 now wish to make my |

semiannual bookworm

follows: I LIKE THE DEPRESSION, written hy Henry Ansley—This is an optimistic tome by a man in Amarillo who styled himself “Jackass of the Plains.” He liked the depression because it made his wife go

back to wearing old-fashioned flannel nightgowns instead of flossy pajamas, and such asinine things as that. Gene Howe gave me this book, and said it was wonderful. I thought it was one of the worst I ever read. The author is dead now. O’BRIEN’S BEST SHORT STORIES of 1936-1 have been reading Mr. O'Brien's annual ¢ollections for more than 10 years now. But lately I got sort of fed up with them. Mr. O'Brien's choices got too arty for me. All the stories seemed to be on the new intelligentsia pattern of suddenly cutting the story off about three pages before the end, which is very, very literary but makes poor reading. So it was with a great deal of pleasure that I discovered that Mr. O'Brien's selections this year make sense once more. There are some real masterpieces in the volume. I've never read a better short story than “That's What Happened to Me,” by Michael Fessier. It's the kind of story that just burns me up because I didn’t write it.

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Mr Pyle

un Country Town Sayings

OUNTRY TOWN SAYINGS, by Ed Howe—The 25-year-old collection of the pithy newspaper paragraphs of the famous Kansas country editor. Bd Howe at one time in his life was turning out as many as 250 of these things in a day. If I could turn out one a week I'd be proud. Such items as:

“After a boy gets a three-base hit, it takes his | mother a jong time to get him under control again.” |

. . No one ever took all of a bottle of medicine It always makes

fied. . . . Some people are courteous only to strangers.

. + « Soup is too hot and icewater is too cold. . . . The | greatest possible joke on a woman is for a man to | Poor and rich |

shoot her because he loves her. . . . people have funny notions of each other.

“A man should be older, taller, heavier, uglier and |

hoarser than his wife. , . . Women often say of a man who is perfectly sober ‘That man is drunk!’

their father Papa. . . and you can do nothing for it.

him. . . . The great trouble is, people expect to be happy, and are mad because they are not. have ho reason to expect to be happy.

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More Sayings

“PPEOPLE don’t pay much attention to what I say. | . + . An Atchison man is | .. At some time |

How do they treat vou? so contrary that cheese physics him . in the life of every man he tries poetry and the chicken business. children, and the children hate I try to do now 1s get through the day.” I FOUND NO PEACE, by

foreign correspondents’ reminiscences. simplicity, its obvious honesty, its calmness, and Mil

ler's refusal to turn psychologist and analyze himself |

I don’t know why I've | . 9 hy ve | sued a writ of habeas corpus for

and all the rest of the world. come to hate analysts so.

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

EW YORK, Monday-—I felt very guilty not being in Washington yesterday when my husband

telephoned me to tell me that little Ethel du Pont | had to go to the hospital to be operated on for ap- | pendicitis, One cannot foresee what is going to hap- | Fortunately her mother reached Washington |

pen. this morning and all is well. I have moments when I want to settle down in the country and one of them was on this morning!

I wanted to walk for miles through the muddy fields and not care how muddy I got, and when I came home I wished for a wood fire with a luncheon table in front of it and then a comfortable chair. a book and nothing else to do. Ever since a group of unemployed girls asked me

the guestion, “What would you do, Mrs. Roosevelt, if | I have been haunted |

you were out of a job today?”

a man mad to ask him to be identi- |

People |

. The schoolteachers hate the | the schoolteachers | . + «1 was very ambitious when I was young; but all |

Webb Miller.—This | seems to me by far the best of the recent flood of | Because of its |

I wanted to play hookey and go down and pick pussy=- | willows and bring them in and watch them come out. |

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Second Section

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1937

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“THE COURT, THEREFORE, RULES — Grant Was Accused of ‘Packing’ the Bench for Lesal Tender Act

kees. allies of the Spanish.

to the Supreme Court.

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(Last of a Series.) By WESTON BARCLAY Times Special Writer ORN TASSEL was a bad Indian. Indian in the Cherokee country of Georgia in 1830 and was duly arrested, tried and sentenced to be hanged. His trial was held in a court of white men in disregard of a treaty George Washington negotiated with the CheroThe treaty was signed when the Cherokees were strong and there was fear that they might become the In 1830 they were weak. There

He killed another

Corn Tassel except to appeal

The Court ordered Governor Gilmer of Georgia to appear in the case. The Governor announced that he would resist the order with all the force at his command. Gold

land of the Cherokees, and

respecting scraps of paper that would interfere with white domination over In-

dians.

His Legislature agreed. It ordered all State officials to disregard the Supreme Court. In direct and disdainful defiance of the Court, Corn Tassel Was hanged. Corn Tassel's story is one of scores involving defiance of the Supreme Court. Men as low in rank as sheriffs and as high as Presidents have refused to obey its commands. National executives from the time of John Adams have sponsored legislation to affect its decisions. Attacks upon the Court have been made by conservatives as well as liberals. It depended upon whose ox was being gored. When the Court had a liberal trend in the early years of Roger Brooke Taney's rule as Chief Justice the

conservatives were no end annoyed. ” =u " HE supporters of the Court, liberal or conservative, always contended that it was the guardjan of the Constitution. When Andrew Jackson was President he ridiculed this doctrine. He said that “the opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress has over the judges.” Abraham Lincoln was elected on a platform which demanded the overturn of the Taney decision in the Dred Scott case. He never was sympathetic to the Court. During the Civil War Taney is-

a citizen of Baltimore who was under military arrest for aiding the Confederacy. The Army declined to obey on the ground that Lincoln had suspended habeas corpus. Taney sent an opinion to Lincoln declaring the President's order to be unconstitutional. Lincoln stuck the opinion in his desk and ignored it. An armed defiance of the justices occurred in Pennsylvania not long after the Revolution. It grew out of the capture of the British sloop Active by Gideon Olmsted, privateer and war hero. Olmsted and three other Colonials were prisoners of war on the Active in 1778. They seized the ship off Long Island by turning a onepound gun on her officers and crew. After they sailed her into the Delaware River a dispute arose between the State of Pennsylvania and Olmsted over $98,800 in prize money. The case was

| tices joined with the minority to reverse the decision.

Gilmer had no intention of ®—

carried from court to court for 30 years. Olmsted finally won in the Federal courts. The State asserted its sovereignty, refusing to admit that its Treasurer could be sued. When a United Staves marshal tried to serve a court order on the executors of the Treasurer he was met by armed militia. The marshal swore in a posse of 2000 men, but before there was bloodshed the State gave in. Olmsted got his money. ” 2 5

N the afternoon of Feb. 17, 1870, the Supreme Court handed down a decision declaring unconstitutional the law passed during the Civili War to make paper money legal tender. The decision was 4 to 3, there being two vacancies at the time. On the same afternoon President Grant sent to the Senate nominations for the Court of two men known to be supporters of the legal tender law, William Strong and Joseph P. Bradley. The new jusformer

The New York World said in

| comment that the reversal was a

“base compliance with executive instructions by creatures of the President placed upon the bench to carry out his instructions.” Historians of suspicious disposi= tion say that Grant packed the Court. They say Grant's assertion that he selected the judges well in advance of the deci sioh meant nothing at least one member Cabinet was told what the decision would be. Other historians insist that Grant did not know the decision in advance. In addition they point out that no one doubted that whenever Grant appointed new justices they would be men of legal tender persuasion. Legal tender was upheld by leading Republican judges of the time. The first attempt to influence decisions of the Court by changing

of Grant's

| the number of its members was | made under the second President

of the United States, the conservative John Adams. Three weeks before he was to leave office his Congress passed an act reducing the Court's membership from six to five, effective with the next vacancy. ou » ” HIS was to prevent the radical President-elect, Thomas Jefferson, from appointing a suceessor to Justice Cushing, who was ill and considering retirement. The Jeffersonians not only repealed the law but passed a bill

| ing the Administration of Andrew

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| abolishing the next two terms of

the Supreme Court. For 14 months

| the conservative judges were not

able to meet to pass on the acts of the new AdiZinistration.

The Jeffersonians tried to oust by impeachment Justice Samuel

because | Chase who had been making po-

litical speeches from the bench. Chase was ably defended and the attempt failed. If it had been a success the next impeachment action probably would have been against Chief Justice John Marshall. In later years the number of judges was increased to seven, to nine and then to 10 as the number of Circuit Courts was increased. The number was 10 dur-

Johnson before Justice Catron died. The President named Attorney General Henry Stanbery to fill the vacancy. At the time Congress was in violent conflict with the President over reconstruction legislation. The Senate was determined not to confirm any justice who would oppose its oppression of the recent Confederates or its legislation giving Negroes political power in the South. Congress ignored the appointment of Stanbery and passed a bill reducing the number of justices to seven, effective with the current and next two vacancies,

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number was increased to nine, where it has remained. During the Johnson Administration a bill was passed over the President's veto removing a reconstruction case from the jurisdiction of the Court. Another bill, passed in the House but not the Senate, provided that the Court could declare acts of Congress un= constitutional only by a twothirds vote. This bill was warmly | applauded in the Republican press. | The Indianapolis Journal said that to have reconstruction acts “stricken down by the decision of | some old fossil on the Supreme bench would ¥e an outrage on humanity.”

” ” » ROM the days of reconstruc= tion to the present there have been few attempts in Con= gress to influence Supreme Court decisions through legislation. There have been no cases of armed opposition to the Court's author= ity or any refusals by Presidents to recognize its power. There has been a persistent dise satisfaction with the Court on the part of liberals, partly due to the membership. Conservative Republican Presidents have appointed many of the judges. These men have declared void scores of social laws of both state and Federal governments. President Theodore Roosevelt

In Grant's Administration the

by the feeling that it is up to us to make some sug- |

gestions in answer to that question. I found a man on the train this morning-—a perfect stranger—who was full of an idea. He wanted to go back to a little place in Maine, where he had grown up, and put it on its feet. He

told me his ideas as to how it could be done and I | was worrying me and asked him if | He agreed |

told ‘him what some ideas I had seemed practical to him. with me that a careful survey in many communities and an imaginative mind might bring to light a num-

ber of services which people might be willing to pay |

for, even people with small incomes. He made one statement which impressed me because ae is evidently an experienced salesman and manager in a large firm. He said the great buying public is not the few rich people, the market lies in the $1200 to $3000 a year group. They are the people who need things.

New Books

PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

NE evening at Melscheimer’s, men sat talking. One of these men was William Reedy of “Reedy’s Mirror.” The other was Charles J. Finger, author of VALIANT VAGABONDS (Appleton). Presently their conversation turned “to the relative values of tradition and accepted history,

to men whose names were whispered faintly in leg- |

ends, and others who discovered lands before they were officially discovered, and expeditions of archaeologists who found that old tales were true. Reedy maintained that history was not necessarily the truth but rather an accepted account of events.” And so from that conversation came a book of forgotten men. We like to believe that the white race alone is capable of worthwhile endeavor. Read then the account of the Chinaman who first told the East about the West, and the young man from Fez-Ibn Batnutah, who was one of the world's greatest adventurers. The words of Pindar, the famous Greek poet, are used in the introduction of the book, “Mighty works of valor are wrapped in great darkness, if they lack for song.” But the veil of darkness has been lifted. A troubadour has sung their song.

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NCE upon a time when the world was still new men heard the whisper of exploration and adventure and obeyed. Their deeds of daring, told before countless campfires and enriched by the passing of years, have become our heritage of legend and myth. And stili today men hear the call of that “everlarcting whisper”"—and answer. Stories of their adventures are found in EXPLORERS’ CLUB TALES (Explorers’ Club, New York: Dodd). These are true stories of exploration, research, and experiment, told by such men of daring and achievement as Roald Amundsen, Richard E. Byrd and Lincoln Ellsworth. Perhaps among these 30 tales which tell of the Arctic region, of the far-flung islands ot the South Pacific, of the “Last Wild Buffalo Hunt” in the mountains of Montana, and of the ever-mystifying Sahara, are some that will join the parade of legend and will forever keep the “whisper” of courageous adventure alive in the h=art of man : .

in St. Louis, two |

BILL WOULD EXEMPT COMPETENT, SAFE MOTORISTS FROM TESTS

By WILLIAM CRABB

HE man was indignant, “Why should the Legislature | make me take a drivers’ examination? T've operated a car safely land sanely for 18 years—never had |an accident. And I should demon- | strate my ability to drive!” | Then the: Representative, home | for the week-end, explained to his | constituent that, under the pro- | posed Uniform Operator's a n d | Chauffeur’s License Act, now before | the State Legislature, he would not |be required to take an examina- | tion. He told him that only beginners land motorists with questionable | records are affected by the measure. | He assured him that drivers with | good records and sufficient experilence will not be bothered. ” ” ” | QO TATE officials have received nu- | merous queries on the operation | of the proposed law. National Safety | Council officials say that motorists of the 23 other states considering similar their office for explanations. The Indiana bill recognizes that

cepts these good records by allowing such applicants to obtain licenses without examination if they have been driving a year with a satisfactory record. Beginners, however, must show their driving ability to the satisfaction of the State. Under provisions of the measure, a beginner must: 1. Obtain a beginner's permit. 2. Drive for three months only when accompanied by a licensed driver, who must sit beside him in the front seat. 3. At the expiration of the training period apply for a beginner's | license. | 4. Demonstrate to State Police officers his knowledge of & car's operation. 5. Drive for one year with a beginner’s license. 6. Make a monthly report to State officers. The report shall list the number of accidents, if any, the licensee was Juvoived in Runing he preceding month; whether been arrested for any offense in*the

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measures have besieged |

many motorists have driven for | years without an accident. It ac~ |

operation of a motor vehicle within | operating a road roller, road ma-

the preceding month, and the approximate number of miles traveled.

» ” " A “BEGINNER” is to include persons between 16 and 18 years of age and any person over 18 who has not operated an automobile for at least a year. “School permits” may be issued to children 14 to 16 years of age to enable them, to drive to and from school exclusively. The permit shall prescribe the territory in which the applicant may drive the car. Many farmers have asked if it will be necessary for them to have licenses to operate their farm machinery. The proposed bill provides: “No person shall be required to obtain an operator's, chauffer’s, public passenger chauffeur's or beginner’s license or a beginner's permit for the purpose of driving or

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chinery, trackless trolley or any farm tractor or implement of husbandry temporarily drawn, moved or propelled on the highways.” | " » ” TS bill also provides that the | State keep a register of all licensed motorists with their safety and criminal records.

A mandatory suspension of the driver's license shall be made when he is convicted of any of the following offenses: Manslaughter resulting from the operation of a motor vehicle; drunken driving; a felony in which a motor vehicle is used; third reckless driving offense, and failure to stop after an accident, The bill would prohibit habitual drunkards ang persons physically unfit from operating an automobile. The license fee would be 50 cents.

| AM EASY TO GET BUT UNLESS You DRIVE CAREFULLY You'll FIND I'M HARD TO KEEP = I'M A LICENSE FOR You To DRIVE ONLY SO LONG AS YOU ) OBEY THE LAW|

was indignant when the courts interfered with his trust busting. In 1912 he came out for both recall of judicial decisions and recall of judges, these notions being among things which kept him from getting the Republican nom= ination in that year. He did not apply the proposals to the Supreme Court, but others did. Incidentally, Luther Martin, one of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, strongly op-

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ao posed ratification of the Constitu= tion because it did not contain provision for recall of public offi=

Another bitter critic of the Federal judiciary in recent years was the late Senator Robert M. La Fol= lette, who said that the courts provided one law for the poor and another for the rich. He declared that the courts loomed as ‘one formidable obstacle which must be overcome before anything sub= stantial ean be accomplished to free the public from the exactions of oppressive monopolies and from the domination of property inter=ests.”

” ” ” HE most biting comment on any decision affecting New Deal legislation was made by a lawyer of high standing in refer= ence to the majority opinion in the case of J. E. Jones vs. Secur= ities & Exchange Commission, In this case the conservatives in the Court stripped the SEC of authority to proceed against a stock promoter after he withdrew a challenged application for the | registration of securities. Said the lawyer: “To permit an offending registrant to stifle an inquiry by pre= cipitate retreat on the eve of his exposure is to give immunity to guilt; to encourage falsehood and evasion; to invite the cunning and unscrupulous to gamble with detection.” The lawyer who expressed these views wrote them in a dissenting opinion. : He was Benjamin N. Cardozo, associate justice of the Supreme Court.

(Tomorrow-=A statement on the Court controversy by F. H. Stinch= field, president, American Bar Assocition, First of a series.)

By RAYMOND CLAPPER

Times Special Writer

ASHINGTON, Feb. 23-—The Senate Foreigh Relations Committee has agreed upon a coms promise neutrality or peace program. This measure probably will be brought up in the Senate this week and is likely to go on the statute books with little change. The resolution, to be known as the “Peace Act of 1937” bearing the name of Senator Pittman (D. Nev.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, seems destined to be a landmark. It involves a revolutionary departure from our past conduct as a neutral. Essential provisions of the Pitt man measure are these: 1. Continuation of existing provisions for mandatory embargo on shipments of arms and ammunition to all belligerents or factions in civil strife. 2. Discretionary power to the President to list additional materials, which American ships would be prohibited from transporting to any belligerent. 3. No such materials shall be allowed to leave the country until all ownership and interest in them has been transferred to the foreign purchaser, 4. Mandatory embargo on all joans or credits to all belligerents, although the President may except ordinary short-term commercial credits used in normal peacetime transactions. 5. Mandatory prohibition upon any American vessel carrying arms and ammunition into any belligerent port. 6. Discretionary authority for the President to prevent American ports from being used as supply stations for belligerent vessels. 7. Mandatory prohibition on American citizens traveling on vessels or aircraft

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8. Mandatory prohibition upon arming of American merchant ves= | sels that go into belligerent ports, n ” " HUS the program essentially is based on the “cash and carry” policy and upon keeping American citizens and their interests out of the line of fire, This is not exactly the policy that the State Department would like. The Pittman measure is built entirely upon the purpose of isolating Americans from trouble. It is indifferent as to the merits of the respective belligerents and is concerned entirely with keeping the United States out of the fight. Many in the State Department have felt that the United Sates should cooperate with other nations against the aggressor. The Pittman program, theoretically, treats all belligerents alike, Practically, it would not work out quite that way, particularly ih event of a general European war, because our raw materials and other supplies, aside from direct arms and ammunition, would be available to those who would come and get them and pay for them. In such a lineup of powers as is taking place in Eurepe, our policy would therefore favor Great Britain, or whatever group of powers held the sea power. ” ” ” HE Pittman plan abandons all attempts to devise complete or partial embargoes against supplies, other than direct arms and ammunition which are flatly embargoed. Considering the intense controversy over this subject, and the danger that under pressure of potential war orders such embargoes might not hold, the Pittman measure probably rests, upon a more secure founda-

tion in permitting the trade, but oreign purchaser's risk,

Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

ODAY 1 want to review the art of cone versation in Indianapolis. I happen to have some ideas about that, too. My ideas are more or less half-baked, to be sure, but sufficiently hot, I trust, to administer rebuke to those who hold that the art of conversa tion around here is headed for the bow-wows. Nonsense! In the first place, 1 don't share the opinion of many of my friends that conversation in Indianapolis is a lost art. Much > less do I share the opinion that it is a lost art because people around here insist on talking shop. Shucks! Some of the brightest, certainly some of the most illumi= nating, conversations it has been my good fortune to hear consisted wholly of talking shop; and they made such an impression on me at the time, I remember, that I've now come around to the belief NN , left for men, and women too, for Ye. SUverior that matter, to contribute anything new to the gene eral run of things. Indeed, I feel so strongly about the whole thing that I've just about made up my mind that the trouble with conversation in Indianapolis is not that 80 many people talk shop but that so many don't, Instead, they talk about art, books and Mrs. Simpson, about none of which it is possible to say anything new, Which brings me to the matter of small alk and those pessimists who pounce upon it as the cause of affairs. Well, believe it or not, T have a rather high opinion of small talk, too. As a matter of fact, I re= member some conversations which turned out to be rather monumental in their way, and I distinstly res call that they started with nothing more than a general observation on the weather. You never can tell.

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Small Talk Neat Invention

MALL talk, when you come to think of it, is the neatest thing ever invented, because without it we'd have silence. And I can’t think of anything more fatal for the future of conversation than sis lence. For that reason, I hope the weatherman will always stay with us, Finally, there is a class of critics around here who believe that conversation is headed for the rocks be= cause it meanders too much, Well, I believe in me= sndering, too. I don’t know who it was that started the nonsense that meandering is such an awful crime, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it was Charles Dickens. ”

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‘No Meandering’

NYWAY, it was Charles Dickens who invented the anonymous old lady in “David Copperfield” who used to approach all problems of life with the general admonition: "Let us have no meandering.” If that doesn’t recall her to your mind, let me add that it was the same lady who had the extraordinary luck to win at a raffle the caul with which David was born. Sure, I knew you'd remember. Well, despite the lucky little lady, I still hold that meandering is no sin, least of all in conversa= tion. Otherwise it wouldn't be possible to dis= tinguish between good hooks and good conversation, Or, to put it another way: The reason we are short of good books is because we have too many authors long on conversation,

A Woman's View By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

“¥T isn't the smart women who are flocking to die vorce courts,” savs an Indianapolis correspondent, “It’s the dumb ones. The others are doing the best they can to make a go of marriage and plenty are succeeding.” How refreshing to hear such an opinion! Amid the unverified statistics and haphazard charges flung about against our sex in general, few voices are raised in honest statements of the facts. When we study the subject we find that the good wife and the good business woman possess just about the same qualifications. In each case she must hold her man==be he husband or boss. This is why the girl who is educated to play the moron or the golddigger these days is destined for failure. The time has come when the individual must be trained for her work, whatever that work may be. It’s as hard a job to be a wife in the 20th Century as it is to be an expert secretary, saleswoman or pros fessional expert. Whether a woman works in the home or in an office, she will have to learn how to compromise, to bring the best of herself to her particular task and to adjust herself to her social group. For the office woman that group is the boss and her fellow=-workers; for the wife it is her family and the relatives. Plenty of the dumber members of our sex got married but only a few of these stay that way. They clutter the divorce courts, file heart-balm suits and ask for exorbitant alimony. Why? Because they aren't smart enough to know that good lives cannot be built of shoddy materials. No woman can Keep a man's love or her children’s respect, any more than she can keep a good business position, with dishonorable behavior and purely mers cenary motives, The intelligent woman knows that it is a mark of defeat to fail at marriage just as we believe it to be a mark of defeat to fail in our careers, And she is not failing, She's the alert, socially interested, average, unpublicized wife who is doing more than any one else right now to preserve mare riage, be a helper to men and make a better world for coming generations, In many ways she's the smartest individual on the American scene.

Your Health

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor, American Medical Assn. Journal

EASLES is spread mostly through direct contact of persons who have not had the disease with those who have it. The substance that carries the infection apparently is present in the secretion of the nose and of the throat We do not happen to know definitely the cause of measles. We do know, however, that it is ine fectious. This can be shown in various ways, For example, injection of the blood of a measles victim into the blood of one who does not have the disease will cause the second person to contract the disease, Moreover, nose and mouth secretions of those who have the disease may be used to produce the diseases in others, : We know from studies made by investigators that the virus which carries measles is injured by expose ure to air and sunlight. ‘ In other words, should a visitor get some of the virus on his hands or his clothing, the virus may die during the time spent in going from one person to another, For this reason, doctors and nurses who care for measles victims may visit other patients without danger of transmitting the disease, provided reasonable precautions are taken, Thus, it is wise to wash the hands thoroughly after visiting a patient. People who enter the sick room should put on a clean gown before entering the room and remove the gown after leaving. Dishes, bedding and other materials used in caring for a child sick with measles should be boiled before they are again used. There are some strange things about measles that make it different from diphtheria or scarlet fever, Few actults are likely to catch these last-named dis eases, yet an adult may catch measles from a child if he has not aready had the disease. Measles is particularly virulent when it is introduced into a population in which there has been no measles for a long time, ’