Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1937 — Page 14

Vagabond

FROM INDIANA

ERNIE PYLE

NEW YORK, April 13.—There has been much talk lately about burlesque and strip-tease dancers. A Congressional Committee has heard the strip-tease praised as a native American art. Columnist Pegler has damned .it as a social infection. People are talking about it. So I went io a burlesque show on Broadway. You can't tell anything from one show, so I went to another one. ‘I have always felt that a writer should not attempt a discussion until he is thoroughly familiar with his subject. So I went to a third one. : A complete grasp of the burlesque situation is still not mine, but after all, a writer can’t study forever. Seven shows have given me a sort of inkling of what burlesque is like, The one tonight will make eight. Burlesque, in case you don’t know, is like a Broadway musical show, except the women are nakeder, the jokes dirtier, the dghorus uglier, the audience lousier, and you can det the best seats for 55 cents at the box office, instead of $7.70 at a scalper’s Burlesque has always been a show of dirty jokes and partly-undressed women. But in recent years he undressing business has grown into a national The strip-teaser has become an in-

There are usually six strippers during the hour-and-a-half burlesque performance. The stripper comes the stage alone, just after the musical chorus

HE is good to look at. And she is beautifully

jances, or marches swingingly back and forth across e stage. Smiling, of course. The spotlight is on

ler, ‘She never says a word. She reaches behind her waist. But nothing hapens. She goes on walking. She reaches for the lasp at the back of her neck. But nothing hapens. She walks and swings and smiles. That's the tease. But finally she really goes after e clasp, and boy she unhooks it, and, boy, down omes one side of the front of her dress. And then, oy, down comes the other side. She’ keeps walking and smiling. After a while jhe dress starts coming off at the hips. Just as it falls, she disappears into the wings. But the applause brings her back. She comes out holding the dress in front of her, and she walks and smiles and wings to the music, and after a while she throws lhe dress into the wings, and there she is walking ind swinging with nothing on but a figurative fig leaf which you can’t see.

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Backstage All Is Modesty

URLESQUE, as you see, is designed for bringing out the, ah, shall we say, beast in man? And ‘et I've never been in a less sexy place than backstage of a burlesque theater. You stand in the wing, with a side view of a stripper dancing and undressing and smiling out there on the stage. At last the garment drops off; she slides back into the wings. And do you know what she does? She folds her arms in front of her, and grabs a hanging curtain and hides until somebody hands her a dress, and then she slips it around her and runs up to her dressing room. You never saw anything so modest as a strip-teaser backstage. (Tomorrow: Burlesque’s “Grand Opera.”)

= ; Mrs.Roosevelt's Day By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Goran Tenn., Monday—We reached Natural Bridge, Va., Saturday at about 7 p. m. after a most glorious drive through Shenandoah Park. The skyline drive is really very beautiful. Having started late, at 12:45 to be exact—we didn’t stop until nearly 3, when we pulled out at a parking place, with a glorious view down into a ravine, and drank hot coffee. We had brought orange juice also, but our hands were sO cold we could not unscrew the top of the bottle. We've learned, however, to accept such vicissitudes with calm, and were grateful it had not happened to the vacuum bottle containing the coffee which we were able to unscrew. With my usual optimism I thought spring began in April, but it was really midwinter—a beautiful, clear, blue sky alld as cold as Greenland. ; After dinner we wandered down to see the illumination and pageant. The lighting is beautiful and gives it all a mysterious, almost prehistoric effect. This morning, after breakfast, we walked along the stream again, and thought it just as impressive as it was last night. * It is extraordinary to think of the years it has taken for the slowly dripping water to break through that stone wall. The old arbor-vitae trees, said to be over a thousand years old, were a tremendous surprise to me, for I didn’t think they ever lived that long. : Sunday’s drive began at 10:30 and, until we came in view of the Great Smokies, the scenery was not as impressive ‘as it was yesterday. We reached Gatlinburg about 7:30 and we are enchanted with the hotel in which the furniture is all made by local craftsmen. The rooms are panelled, the curtains are woven in the local craft shop and, tnough it is too dark for me to be sure tonight, I feel we are going to look out on a panorama of mountain tops tomorrow morning. The last thing we saw this evening as we drove in, was the deep blue of the mountainsides in contrast with the snow on their peaks. The white clouds floating above looked like mountain peaks themselves.. Mountains have a beauty and a calm which should have a soothing effect on the most worried of little ‘human souls.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1937

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BASHFUL? MEET DALE CARNEGIE

Author Amved a Brisk Sale of His Book on Howto Make F riends

By MORRIS GILBERT NEA Service Writer

NEV YORK, April 13.— “Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves,” says Rule 4 in Chapter Four, Part Two, of Dale Carnegie’s famous handbook on charm, “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” which its author was amazed the other day to learn had sold more than

| 269,000 copies.

That put it up to Mr. Carnegie. Should Mr. Carnegie encourage the interviewer to talk about himself? That would be guaranteed to make the interviewer like him. Or, on the other hand, should Mr. Carnegie. break the rule and talk about himself? “1,” said the interviewer, “like New York. I don’t care much about baseball ‘any more. The best kind of beer is—” “Nobody,” said Mr. Carnegie, “was more amazed than I was when the book began to sell up in those figures, I wrote the book for two reasons. First, to correct the mistakes 1 used to make myself. Years ago I did practically éverything wrong. I was always criticizing, . arguing, talking too much.” “Now, Mr. Carnegie,” said the interviewer, “I want to tell you about the time-—" “The second reason I wrote the book,” Mr. Carnegie continued, “was to have a textbook for the classes in my Institute of Effective Speaking and Human Relations here in New York. I thought at the most it’ would seil around 15 or 20 thousand copies.” “Now, I think,” said the interviewer— “1,” said Mr. Carnegie, “have written six books. One of them is much better written than this latest one. .It is called ‘Lincoln the Unknown. That is the book I like best among those I've written. It sold less than 10,000 copies.” “As I was saying, Mr. Carnegie,” the interviewer began— “The reason,” Mr. Carnegie said, “it didn't sell like ‘How to Make Friends’ was because the thing that interests people most in this world is their own human problems. Come right down to it, isn’t the human relation practically YOUR own problem?” : " “Yes, Mr. Carnegie,” said the interviewer. " 2 ”

ALE CARNEGIE has the congenial, evangelical expression of a pedagog untroubled by worry or guile. His graying hair, sideparted, curls in a lavish roll high

A woman well known in Manhattan’s upper society busily records the aphorisms of Dale Carnegie at the opening of “Get Acquainted” session of the new term.

Unaccustomed as she speaking, the young pupil (above)

violent attack of the giggles when required to address the class and felt obliged to call for Mr.

Carnegie himself.

above the brow. He has discarded those-octagonal nose glasses of his pictures and replaced them by silver-rimmed spectacles. He talks rapidly and easily. It’s hard for quoting himself Ree&use his book is peppered with\ epigrams, and

an epigram once knocked together

isn’t easy to improve on. “Remember that a man’s name is to him

the sweetest and most important sound in the English language. That's a sample of the Carnegie line. “Make the other fellow feel important—and do it sincerely.” Again: “You can’t win an argument,” he declares with earthly shrewdness. “You can’t because if you lose it, you lose it; and if

. you win it, you lose it.” A rule for

making home life happier: “Why wait until your wife goes to the hospital to give her a few flowers?” : Mr. Carnegie was born in ’88, “the year of the Great Blizzard,” on a farm near Maysville,, Mo. The family was mighty poor, but Dale Carnegie’s father sent Dale. and his brother to school and college. “If I leave you money,” Dale's father said, ‘‘somebody’s liable to come along and beat you out of it. They can’t take away an education. ; Hard luck dogged the Carnegies on their Maysville . farm, and pretty soon they trekked to Warrensburg, Mo. His parents’ ambition kept Dale in State Teachers’ College there. The farm was three miles out of town. Dale was too poor to spend the dollar a day it

cost to live at the college, 50 he rode in on horseback every day.

82 8 8 “ Y clothes were awful,” he said. “Hand-me-downs. I developed a terrible inferiority complex. That's the reason for

the work I'm doing now. If I'd had good clothes and lots of money, I don’t suppose I'd be interested in it. It’s compensation.” He went in for debating at college. He was a flop at first, then he began to win. He was so good in local debates that he started a correspondence school. It failed. He became a salesman. A hard, grinding period set in for him when he sold and traded and played poker and rode the range all up and down the West. Jan. 11, 1911, found him arriving in New York. He went on the stage, touring in “Polly of the Circus.” He wasn’t a good actor. Pretty soon he was trying to sell the idea of courses in public speaking in New York College extension courses for adults. The authorities wouldn’t hire him, but agreed to let Mr. Carnegie start such a course on a percentage basis. He did well. “I had to be practical,” he says. “I had to give them something they could use in their daily lives and business.” ] His “little institute,” as he calls it, “run privately, with no reputation, no endowment,” became a success. Thomas H. Nelson is now dean of the school. Its offices are in 42d St. but the classrooms are

HOW HOOSIERS IN CONGRESS VOTED ON CURRENT MEASURES

By E. R. R. HE Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives at

{Washington suffered three defeats

last week at the hands of various combinations of liberal and conservative Democrats and Republicans. The first reverse for House leaders came when the membership refused to consider, and thus in effect rejected, the Mitchell (D. Ill) Antilynching Bill. That measure, carrying milder penalties than the Gavagan (D. N..Y.) bill, had been hurried to the floor by the Judiciary Committee after completion of a 218-signature discharge petition on behalf of the Gavagan bill. By refusing to consider the Mitchell bill, a majority of the House put itself in position to pass the more drastic Gavagan bill under its voteforcing petition. The result of the roll call on consideration was 122 yeas to 257 nays. Democrats were fairly, evenly divided, but all except seven of the Republicans voted “nay.” How Indiana Representatives voted: Yeas—Schulte, Pettengill, Farley, Griswo'd, Greenwood, Gray, Larrabee; Nays—Halleck, Boehne, Crowe, Ludlow. The second reverse for the leadership was a vote of 184 to 38 to table the Dickstein (D. N. Y.) resolution proposing an investigation of Nazi and un-American activities in the United States. The resolution had been favorably reported by the Rules Committee, the major “political committee” of the House, whose decisions are supposed to be controlling upon the membership of

| the majority party. The motion to

table was carried by a standing vote, with individual members not recorded. liberals feared that the investigation would be made a vehicle for attacks upon labor organizations under the guise of an inquiry into Communist machinations. " oF 2 HE tabling of the Dies (D. Tex) resolution for an investigation of sit-down strikes, another measure favorably reported by the Rules Committee, was the third and most striking defeat of the week for the leadership of the lower house. But this defeat of the leaders was, in effect, a success for the Administration which believed that an investigation of sit-downs at this time would seriously embarrass the President. “The real issue presented by this resolution, so far as the general public is concerned,” said its author, Rep. Martin Dies, “is whether we approve or disapprove the sit-down strike lawlessness. . . . Those who believe the sitdown strike technique is indefensible, and can no longer be tolerated in a land of law and or-

der, should support this resolp-

tion ‘ee o SH :

A direct record vote on the resolution was avoided. The motion to table was carried by a voice vote, after a test call had demonstrated that the resolution was:/due to be shelved. The test vote came on a motion for the previous question, which, if adopted, would have had the effect ‘of closing debate. The motion was lost, 149 yeas to 236 nays, and the resolution was thereupon tabled without further debate. Only 75 Democrats joined Majority Leader Rayburn and Chairman O'Conner of the Rules Committee in supporting the mbtion for the previous question. Seventy-two Republicans also voted “yea.” The “nays” were 216 Democrats, 9 Republicans and 6 Progressives and 5 Farmer-Laborites. Indiana Representatives voting for the motion were: Halleck, Farley, Jenckes; against, Schulte, Greenwcod, Boekne, Crowe, Gray, Ludlow. Speaker Bankhead (D. Ala.), third member of the triumvirate which is supposed to be in command in the House, was not recorded on either the Dies resolution or the Mitchell bill, although he has voted in most of this session’s roll calls in other important measures. ” ” 4

HE Democratic leadership of the Senate had a more suceessful week. By skilful tactics it extricated the Senate from the dilemma in which it had been placed by the Byrnes proposal to condemn sitdown strikes, and brought about adoption of a separate labor resolution which commanded the support of all except three members (Borah, Frazier and Lundeen). This resolution will be acted upon by the House during the .present week, with all signs pointing to its adoption by an equally overwhelming vote. Submission of the: Byrnes antisitdown -amendment to the Guffey Coal Bill at the end of the preceding week, and the insistence of its supporters that a record vote be taken upon it, had brought about a confused adjournment of the Senate, followed by numerous strategy conferences over the week-end. When the Senate met on last Monday the Byrnes amendment still confronted it, but Majority Leader Robinson announced that after the amendment had been disposed of an opportunity would be afforded to vote on a separate resolution, which he believed would be acceptable to the entire membership. The Byrnes amendment, when voted upon, was rejected—36 yeas to 48 nays. All of those who voted “yea” favored the strongest possible condemnation of sit-downs. Many of those who voted “nay” explained that they did so simply because they believed that such an amendment had no place in a bill dealing with an industry in which no sit-down strike had occurred.

amendment and Senator Minton against it. " n ” CONCURRENT resolution previously offered by Senator Pittman (D. Nev.) was then brought forward. In its original form it had proposed to condemn sit-downs in terms similar .to those employed iu the Byrnes amendment. On motion of Senator Robinson it was amended to include condemnation of industrial spy systems and the fostering of company unions as ‘‘contrary to sound public policy.” With condemnation thus equally divided between sit-down strikers and employers who resist New Deal enactments in behalf of labor, the resolution was adopted by the overwhelming vote of 75 to 3. Senators VanNuys and Minton voted yea. The resolution, if approved by the House in its present form, wlil constitute merely a declaration of policy by Congress. A perfunctory effort by Republican Leader McNary to change it from a current to a joint. resolution—which would require the signature of the President and would thus align him with the policy --expressed—was abandoned before the final vote was taken. The controversy, over the sit-down amendment completely distracted Senate attention from the essential provisions of the Guffey Bituminous Coal “Stabilization Bill to which Senator Byrnes had proposed that it be attached. The bill authorizes fixing of minimum prices, by districts, for bituminous coal and in effect, established a “little NRA” for the bituminous industry. The labor provisions of the original bill, declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, were omitted from the revised measure. Nevertheless, its principal purpose is to insure a cash return to bituminous operators which will be sufficient to meet the wage scales fixed in their new agreement with the United Mine Workers of America : . #8 N amendment by Senator Borah (R. Idaho) which would have eliimnated from the bill a provision exempting operators who comply with its terms from the operation of the anti-trust laws was rejected by the Senate, 27 yeas to 53 nays. This amendment, if

price-fixing provisions and rendered the whole bill virtually inoperative. Senator Minton voted nay. Senator VanNuys did not vote. After defeat of the Byrnes amendment and the Borah amendment, the bill was by the Senate, 58 to 15. Five of the Senators who had supported the Borah amendment (Adams, Brown, Connally, Pittman, Tydings) voted for the bill on final passage.

is to even semipublic

adopted, would have nullified the’

Indiana Senators support-

succumbed to a effect when he

But the soothing influence of America’s No. 1 prophet of personality had an almost mesmerizing

came to her rescue. In his pres-

ence, the nervous student calmed down and was

able to face the mike.

Relaxed and comfortable, Dale Carnegie takes his ease at his desk

in New York and considers the

astounding sales of his book on

personality and friendship for which he modestly disclaims any

" which causes people to buy it.

. spectacular personal part, emphasizing that it’s the book’s message

hotel banquet halls, and classes are limited to 40. There are 10 regular teachers, who work evenings, and a few extra ones from time to time. Courses last 16weeks. Under the impetus of the famous book, the school is rapidly expanding. “The classes at the beginning of each term are as funny as a Broadway show,” Mr. Carnegie says. “Everybody has to make a speech. They're so nervous the first night we let them sit on a table. Later they get better.”

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E listed his commuters, other thay the famous one who came from Havana to prepare to make one three-minute speech down there, after which he was labeled one of Cuba’s most sterling orators. A Colgate has been a student. So has Mr. A. Lee Whiteside, president of Dun & Bradstreet, and Mr. Hildick cf Hildick’s Applejack, and a big executive from Mueller’s Macaroni. Mr. Wilson B. McCandless, president of the Denman Tire & Rubber Co. of Warren, O., pullmans to New York Sunday nights, spends Mon-=~

day preparing his lessons, attends class Monday - night and catches the late sleeper home. Others commute from Albany and: Philadelphia. A retired rear admiral in the United States Navy has been coming down from New Haven. Mr. Carnegie lives in a small house in a quiet side street in For“est Hills, L. I. His two nieces, Josephine and Pauline Carnegie, live with him. “I was married once,” he said. “I'm not married now.” : “I'm not a prohibitionist exactly,” said Dale Carnegie, “I hardly ever drink, and I think it’s the cause of a lot of crime.” He doesn’t smoke. Sometimes he goes to the Community Church in Forest Hills. He doesn’t believe in the study of ancient languages or higher mathematics. They're a waste of time, he thinks. “They say Latin helps you to know English better and that mathematics trains the mind. Once I went out to Kansas City to see my folks. I went by way of Mexico. But it didn’t prove that that’s the best or.only way to go from here to Kansas City.”

Disarmament

Conference

Now Hopeless, Flynn Says

By JOHN T. FLYNN Times Special Writer

EW YORK, April 13.—Word comes from London that Norman Davis, American ambassador-at-large, now attending the sugar conference, is in reality looking over the situation with a view to a disarmament conference. This is merely a suspicion formed in the minds of London pressmen. But the idea, of course, has been knock-

ing about in the President’s mind

for some time. And probably before long we shall hear of a gathering of diplomats and perhaps premiers in Washington in another conclave to reduce armaments. In this business of armaments, of course no stone should be left unturned to check the vicious rivalry of nations. But, in’the end, if we hope to accomplish anything we shall have to be realistic about it. Disarmament conferences, of course, have one quality. They are spectacular, dramatic, get an immense amount of newspaper space, give the impression of doing a great deal. We have had conferences to disarm and to end war frequently these last 20 years. If they have accomplished anything, it has been to prove that agreements about limiting arms and ending war are utterly, hopelessly futile. There is one reason why a conference on disarmament now is tragically hopeless—so much so indeed that it amounts to nothing more than a great international show to tickle the vanity of statesmen who cannot er dare not face realities. It is as follows: ; o ” ” i HE principal threat. of war now comes from several nations, like Germany, Italy, Austria and Japan. These countries are absolutist countries, and the very existerice of their regimes depends on fighting off the economic depression which hangs over or around them persistently and grows more perilous with each month. At present the one thing which is holding back the flood-gates for these nations is war industries. All of them. are spending vast -sums,

making guns, explosives, tanks, airplanes, ships of war, submarines. All have vast armies in training, thus keeping that many men out of industrial competition. The result is that in all these countries there is a kind of artificial stimulation of industry created entirely by war industries supported by government ‘borrowing. One thing is as clear as the noonday sun—if these war industries were to be stopped either quickly or over a brief period the economic system of each of these countries would collapse like a house of cards—and it would collapse instantly. To call the representatives of these desperate powers together and ask them to agree to disarmament would be quite the same as asking all to agree to suspend or end the one activity which keeps the hardpressed governments afloat. 3 To suppose that they will agree to anything of any importance or effectiveness is naive beyond the dreams of credulity.

HEARD IN CONGRES

Senator Wheeler (D. Mont.)—I think the President could pick (for the Supreme Court) from the group of college professors who have testified before the Committee on the Judiciary men who would decide anything any way any office boy told them to decide. ” ” ” Senator Black (D. Ala.), referring to Senator Wheeler—He believed in minimum wages and he believed in maximum hours. Then, the first time he gets a plan that will work, it frightens him, just like boys who are going through a graveyard are frightened. . . .

” ” ” Senator Ashurst (D. Ariz.)—Mr. President, let me state the issue. The so-called - reactionaries have stretched the Constitution to protect every dollar in the land, but when an effort is made to stretch the Constitution to protect human

life, the- same reactionaries yell like

wolves on. Un shore,

' do her fanciest work during April | can’t miss her windows, they're bang-up against the

Second Section

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Our Town

(Photos, Page 6)

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ETTER keep your eye on Mrs. Essie Burke, the lady who fixes up the dise - play windows over at the State Library. Especially this month, because if IT know

anything about Mrs. Burke, she’s going to You

elevator. : Maybe you don’t know it, but April" is the Warp

Month of the United States, and it’s something right up Mrs. Burke’s alley, because there isn’t anything she likes better than to show off a good war. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Burke is going to show off three (3) good wars this month, and it’s going to keep her more than busy. It's going to keep the rest of us busy, too, keeping up with Mrs. Burke. Mrs. Burke had her window going good with the Civil War when I arrived on April 7. I got there just in time to see Gen. Robert E. Lee hemmed in, Mrs. Burke had it fixed to have Gen. Lee retreat the

Mr. Scherrer

| next day. And the day after that—April 9—was the

date she had set for his surrender. 1 don’t know whether I've made Mrs. Burke's plan clear or not— goodness knows it’s complicated—but she’s doing her level best to maintain a successive display of newspapers and war telegrams throughout April, changing as frequently as may be necessary to meet annivere sary dates. It keeps her hustling. I don’t suppose anybody but a woman would have tackled a job like that. * Mrs. Burke's display of war newspapers is exciting even if you don’t care a whoop about the Civil War. You can pick up-all sorts of other things. For example, on the very day Gen. Lee was hemmed in, the English Opera Company, consisting of “40 artists of acknowledged ability,” put on “Maritana” at the Tabernacle on the Court House Square.

8 ” ” ‘Peg Woffington’ on Too

( VER at the Metropolitan Theater, Mr. and Mrs, . Peter White were billed in “Peg Woffington.” And lover at the Masonic Hall “Paradise Lost” was playing, “carrying out Milton's idea of Heaven, Hell, Chaos and Paradise.” Anyway, that’s the way The Indianapolis Journal of April 7, 1865, advertised it. There’s even more to it. While Gen. Lee was on the spot, J. H. Baldwin & Co. was advertising “ths newest shapes in hoop skirts.” Platz & Denny, operating a place in Pearl St., advertised “fresh fish— all alive.” And E. Cottrell spent a pretty penny telling about his “Peach Blow Potatoes.” Browning & Sloan, the druggists, advertised “Blank’s Itch Cerate.”

” ” s Papers Didn’t Recognize War

Mr of this information comes by way of the old Indianapolis Journal, which apparently had the best battle news. Anyway, it’s the paper Mrs. Burke leans on most for her display windows. I asked her why. “Well,” she said, “the old Sentinel didn’t know we were having a war.” The Democratic Pharos of Logansport had the same notion, she said, and prace tically ignored the whole affair. After Mrs. Burke gets done with the Civil War, she’s going to do the same thing with the Spanish« American War, and then finally the World War, They're all April babies.

A Woman's View

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

OPHIE TUCKER says chorus girls make better wives than college girls, and there may be something in the idea. e main business of every chorine is to look pretty, to please, and to smile as a good trouper must, and certainly these attributes are value able in marriage. The finest asset of the show girl is her good disposition. She knows how to take hard knocks, and the peculiar nature of her job obliges her to be merry at times when merriment is a mighty tough assign= ment. The ability to laugh things off—that’s her greatest - asset. When your fairy godmother endows you with such a talent, you're bound to grow into a pleasant woman and to make some man an excellent wife. - Most women are too solemn about everything, and college women are usually the worst of the lot. Which is the real reason they are less popular with men than

- they would like to he.

There's something about the whole system of higher education for both sexes which appears to take away the ability to find joy in life’s simpler routines. We get culture in great gobs, but somehow in the getting we lose so much of the mystic, elemental qualities which are essential to heart’s ease and soul's delight. During the past few decades women’s colleges have undoubtedly committed the error of ignoring the importance of emotion in the feminine nature. Some of them are recognizing their mistake and have taken steps to rectify it. The spinsterish ideal is doomed, and while it is ine evitable that many modern women will never marry, neither will they be spinsters in the old-fashioned meaning of the word. Any education that dehydrates does more harm than good. For we are first of all men and women, and afterward intellectuals. When we get away from the elemental intelligence which so often distinguishes unlettered people and which is the very: core of wisdom, we often forfeit both our prsonality and our hape piness. That's why a good many Phi Beta Kappa maids might well take a few lessons from the chorus

Your Health

‘By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor, American Medical Assn. Journal

NEUMONTIA is essentially a disease of winter and early spring. It is estimated that, in the North ern part of the United States, 75 per cent of the cases occur in the four months from January through April, The condition may begin with chills, fever, pain in the chest, and coughing. Frequently, however, it follows an ordinary cold, measles, or some other infece tious disease. It is largely with the idea of prevent ing pneumonia, incidentally, that physicians constante ly urge prompt attention to the common cold. In coughing, the patient expectorates a thick sputum which frequently is dyed red by blood cells from the inflamed lung. A massive inflammation of one or more lobes of the lung is the first important symptom of pneumonia. Since it is a communicable disease, passing from one person to another, people who are fatigued, undernourished, or subject to colds should be particularly careful to avoid contact with anyone who has pneue monia. * There seem to be people who can carry pneumonia germs without themselves suffering acutely from the disease. Fortunately, these germs do not thrive in the presence of sunlight and air; otherwise the dise ease would be much more common. The germ ordinarily does not multiply outside of the body. Yet it actually may live for months in the dust of a room in which a person who has had pneumonia has deposited his sputum. Pneumonia affects alcoholics more frequently than other people, and it is| likely to attack those who are “run down.” For this reason, it is especially dangerous to the aged and to people enfeebled by other conditions. It seems to be well established that overcrowding, which. favors the spread of the common cold, ine fluenza, sore throat, and other diseases affecting the nose and breathing tract, is an important factor in the spread of pneumonia. In some cities, attempts have been made to isolate victims of the disease, but this, in general, has nok been found practical. / Care should always be taken to dispose suitably of 4

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