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

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FROM INDIANA

ERNIE PYLE

EW YORK, APRIL 14. —During most of its lifetime, burlesque has kept its place. Burlesque theaters were on side streets. Down in the tenderloin among the flotsam and jetsam, as the novels say. | But not any more. as come uptown. Today there are at least eight burlesque houses right in Times Square.. They run continuously from 10 a. m. to 11 p. m. They are usually full.

The theater which started the uptown move, if I am correct (and

if I'm not it doesn’t matter), was|

Billy Minsky’s. So I thought I'd go around and see the Minsky people. Well, Billy Minsky is dead. He was the original in 'burlesque— he and his partner, whose name was Weinstock. The business is now run by young Eddie Weinstock, son of the original partner. Eddie Weinstock is still in his 20s, I'd say. He was an all-Amer-ican football player at Columbia, and took postgraduate work at Harvard Funny background for burlesque. Weinstock is a very quiet and sincere fellow. He says I have the wrong idea of burlesque—that it isn’t designed to appeal to men’s dirty minds. He says nearly half their audiences are women.

Billy Minsky’s has become what you might call the grand opera of burlesque, and is becoming more so -under young Weinstock. He has a lot of ideas. He's - changing the Minsky shows. He's putting more art into them. And more freshness. For the first time in burlesque history he has a writing department which turns out original skits for burlesque. Weinstock honestly looks upon burlesque as musical comedy for the masses.

Mr. Pyle

” » » Costumes Fresh and Bright

ND partly, that’s true. For in the Billy Minsky shows the costumes are fresh and bright, the chorus girls don’t have that sad, guilty-dog look, there is music that sounds about as sexy as “Rock.of Ages.”

But no matter which way you rub it, it’s still burlesque. The jokes are dirty, there are enough ugly women without clothes to make it seem vulgar, and there appears a deliberate attempt to keep from being too high-class. To Weinstock, burlesque is merely a business. To the people in it, it’s a business. They look at it as a profession, I had supposed that secretly they felt degraded by it. They don't. 2 aia’ / Wages Are Good wh 7s

URLESQUE pay is good, as stage pay goes. The chorus girls have a union, and the minimum pay is $25 a week. Usually, with extra shows, they make more than that. The strip-fease dancers make from $65 to $200 a week. Backstage at Minsky’s Republic Theater on 42d St. I chatted with a couple of strippers. Dorothy Maye and a French girl named Verne. Dorothy Maye’s husband is a comedian in the show. Offstage he’s anything but comic. He wears glasses and sits and reads like a tired salesman. If you happen to have a beautiful body, says Dor-

othy Maye, and present it beautifully, what's the harm.

in that? There's little enough beauty in the world as it is. She says she strips because she couldn't make such good money at anything else. And she isn’t ashamed of stripping by a long shot.

(Next—The thoughts of a strip-teaser)

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

¥ATLINBURG, Tenn. Tuesday—Yesterday morning was warmer with a clear blue sky and sun. We started a few minutes after 9, each. of us driving in the front seat of an open car. To clear the road, a ranger rode out ahead of us in a truck with all his fire-fighting paraphenalia in the back. I felt tHese many preparations were a little elaborate, but the open car was so delightful and, being in the front seat, my hair was not blown about at all. My chauffeur companion at once introduced himself as one of the mountaineers and then, with a smile he added: “I was born and brought up here. inch of this country, but I've never left it. find my way around a city.” The last part of this I rather doubt, for he was very interesting to talk to and told me a great many things which showed a rather wide acquaintance. We talked of teachers and their salaries, the cost of board in the mountains, farming, the average cash income, life in general as compared between city. and country folk, and he remarked: “Even if you don’t have much in the country, you're better off than if you were poor in the city.” First we drove through a deep gorge where the redbud’ was out in great profusion, giving the hills on either side an almost purplish look mixed with the green of hemlock. Then we came to some glorious mountain views and finally we came into Cade’s Cove, completely circled by mountains. It looks as though it might have been a lake once, but they tell me that the formation does not indicate that it ever was one. We were the guests of Mrs. Will .My { at lunch in an immaculately clean mountain cabi The food was delicious, so of course we ate more than we ever would at home—ham, not smoked but air-cured, which is very delicious; biscuits and corn bread, beans and cauliflower, mountain honey, cottage cheese, ‘coffee and coconut cream pie. Luckily our fourmile walk gave us an appetite. A good part of the drive home was over a road built by the CCC boys, and it was just as lovely as it had been on the way up. In the gorge the shadows were already falling, for the sun could not reach down into its depths.

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N 1928 Leon Trotsky, then only recently exiled from Communist: Russia; wrote: and sent to the Sixth Congress’in Moscow a criticism of the party program. For long this criticism was partially suppressed and bowdlerized; and only now, with the title THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL AFTER LENIN (Pioneer) does there appear a complete English translation taken from the original text. After Lenin's death, the Third International aban- . dened the immediate task of creating an international Sccialist society and undertook to build such a society within its own borders, isolated from an otherwise capitalist world. The present volume is ‘Trotsky’s criticism of that endeavor and his answer to his own exile. In coming to terms with capitalist society, he says, and trying to secure nerself- within such a world, Russia has in effect encouraged reaction and conservatism and has compromised with the enemy at home. Instead of socialism, she has a bourgeois ruling class and is burdened with an inflexible bureaucratic government. And unless the “world revolution” occurs, thereby revitalizing the Russian revolution, it cannot be long, Trotsky believes, until the new ruling class in Russia returns to the familiar forms of capitalism. :

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1937

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LONDON SMILES T HROUGH T [ERS

Metropolis Busy Billie to Accommodate Coronation T ones

By NEA Service

ONDON, April

Big Ben.

Oxford St.

on May 12.

Stadium.

for the biggest royal hooplah since the hippodromes of Queen Victoria’s time.

Between Southampton and

Waterloo Station, the signs reading, “Decoration Devices for the Coronation” tell the traveler what London has to sell at the moment. The same message is spread on thousands of shop windows from Marble Arch to Whitechapel. ® 5 2 N the Personals columns, a Coronation' customer can scan a wide selection of flats to suit a fat purse at from $250 to $3500° for the week of the celebration. The little flat in the Cumberland Terrace Mansion where Mrs. Simpson lived g while has been rented for more than $250, but Londoners rather wouldn't mention it (“if you dan’t mind, old boy”). + The Simpson flat, incidentally, wasn’t taken by a Briton. Forty legitimate theaters are open and by the time their Royal Majesties ride the saffron coach to be officially sworn in and properly crowned, there should be 50 playhouses ready with flesh and blood entertainment. Night clubs have begun to enjoy a flush of prosperity. The hotels—and London has hardly enough—are sold out. In fact, the Coronation, biggest show in the world this year, al-~-ready has a guaranteed S. R. O. sale all around, and even standing room is at such a high premium that it will be impossible to shake a leg anywhere in London on that auspicious day. Long ago, a tourist agency which had gobbled up a large bloc of well-located sites, got rid of all its $262.50 grandstand seats and the cheapest spots to

14.—London’s precoronation theme song is played with hammers, buzz-saws and automatic drille that drown out even the noontime chimes of The skeletons of tier after tier of Coronation grandstands, miles of them, are rising from Rotten Row to

In Mayfair, Park Lane and Pall Mall the visitor gets the same lumberyard panorama-—wood platforms, raised scaffolding and busy carpenters at work. No inch of space has been spared along the route of the royal procession Even this early, there must be enough grandstands in London to go 10 times around the Yankee

* But business is going on as usual during alterations, while millions of the King and Queen’s subjects prepare

parkyarkarkus, at $94.50, are going like our proverbial hotcakes. " ” ” S this is being written, every major hotel in London has reservations (with deposits) on hand for every suite, room, bed or couch from the pantry to the belfry for Coronation week. A fleet of steamers, some transAtlantic liners, serving as floating hotels in the port of London, have sold out all their ace commodations. Coronation visi~ tors are contending with the British Government which has been buying out hotel space for official delegates arriving from eyery corner of the globe. Besides, foresighted potentates, billionaires and moguls from farflung points, unofficially concerned with the Coronation, have made heavy demands upon prominent hotels. ‘The Grosvenor House, for example, must accommodate not only large delegations from Austria, Uruguay, Portugal, Albania, Brazil and Iraq, but must make plenty of room for the Maharajah of Kasmir, the Sultan and Sultana of Johore, the South African millionaire, Sir Joseph Robinson, and other’ notables who travel with long retinues and are not accustomed to any suites less than 15 rooms. : » ” ” NDEED, any London resident whose ‘‘flat” happens to be blessed with a window sill along the line of Coronation march, is counting on harvesting a fortune May 12. : l Window sills are going from $5 to $100 per person, with a max-. imum elbow capacity of 12. And should a hotel room window overlook any part of the pomp and

“sons in all can fit into the Abbey

Being rushed to completion at Westminster Abbey is an annex to be used as a robing room during coro-

nation ceremonies—its clean, new concrete contrasting sharply with the age-grimed Abby walls.

- circumstance, it will cost from $50 to $200 above the room rent, if a visitor already has been lucky enough to engage ‘the accommodation. 'For this extra price, he is privileged to invite no more than five of his personal friends up to his window sill, as his own private guests.

Naturally, the hostelry man-

agers see the specuiative dangers

in this arrangement. They have guarded against them. Should a guest be discovered to racketeer his window sill for a profit among strangers, his lease on his’ room can automatically become forfeit and cancelled. un ” ” HOUGH business is going.on as usual during alterations in most places, Westminster Abbey has been closed for building ‘stands for the Coronation. Transients, then, must content themselves with an exterior view of its magnificent spires and Gothic. But no matter how altered the Abbey appears onthe inside, this hallowed building's custodians have not yet decided how to jam

15,000 British subjects and visitors into the premises. Only 8000 per-

snugly. This ‘is a problem for the dis-

29 STATES HAVE NO STATUTES COMPELLING JUDGES TO RETIRE

By E. R. R. ESPITE recent publicity implying that optional or compulcory retirement of judges 1s a general practice of the states, a survey of available records reveals no retirement provision for judges in either the constitutions or statutes of 29 states, possibly because they all. elect judges for specific terms, rather than for life. Compulsory retirement is practiced in only six commonwealths, and the 13 remaining states have optional retirement plans for judicial officers, but since such provisions already are embodied in laws for the Federal judiciary, such statistics are scarcely germane to the present Supreme Court reorganization controversy. Intensely interesting, however, in relation to the larger national issue, is the fact that in three states, Connecticut, Maine and Pennsylvania, retired justices remain active in an advisory capacity. In Connecticut, where retirement is mandatory at 70, judges of the Supreme and Superior Courts hecome ‘state referees” for life at three-fourths of their salary. Maine's statute provides nominally for optional retirement at 70, judges

drawing three-fourths of their salary and serving in an advisory capacity under the title of “active retired justices. But—Maine’s law, as amended in 1930, contains a rider, the effect of which is to make retirement manddtory if judges hope to receive their pensions. Any judge who refuses to retire at 70— and who serves as much as one year thereafter — automatically waives his right to retirement compensation.

un ” ” ENNSYLVANIA’s law fixes no retirement age, but provides that any judge may retire after 20 | years of service, drawing one-half | pay and “holding himself in readiness to advise with his successors and their colleagues and to perform the duties of a master of referee.”

The Pennsylvania and Massachusetts laws, incidentally, contain unusual provisions which confer upon the Governor powers of removing judges for age or physical disability. The Massachusetts law makes retirement at threefourths pay optional at 70, but specifies that the Governor may “with consent of the council and

after due notice and hearings, retire justices because of advanced age or mental or physical disability.” The Pennsylvania law gives the Governor power to retire judges “for incapacity upon medical evidence.” Most uneqivocal of all compulsory retirement laws are those of New Hampshire and New York. The New York law requires retirement not later than Dec. 31 following a 70th birthday, and the New Hampshire statute allows no person over 75 to

| serve as judge of any court or as

sheriff of any county. The Louisiana law provides optional retirement at 70, and compulsory retirement at 75. Wyoming's law provides compulsory retirement at $4000 yearly when judges reach 70. Following are optional retirement

| ages as fixed by other states: Arkan-

sas, at 70 after 10 years’ service; Colorado, at 68 after 10 years;

| Florida, at 74 after 30 years; Illinois.

at 65 after 24 years; Maryland, at 70 after 15 years; Michigan, at 75 after 16 years; New Jersey, at 63 after 20

| years; North Carolina, at 65 after 15

consecutive years; Rhode Island, at 75 ‘after 15 years; Virginia, at 70 after 10 years; West Virginia, at 65

Vafter 12 years.

NORWAY CHRISTENS NEW PRINCE

(aunt of

v 9 Sweden nd

The first Prince born in Norway in 600 years lies in his mother’s arms in at the child’s christening in the Royal Chapel at Oslo. and on either side are his sisters, Princesses Ragnhild British Frincesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. George VI of Britain), Princess Marjarethia. of of Denmark, Prin King Haake > VII of Norwayy Prince Fleming of Denmark. Oro d Prince Georg of Denmark.

Prince, Olay of

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the above picture, taken

Crown Princess Martha holds the tiny Harald, and Astrid, who are second cousins to the Standing are (left to right) ~Queen Maud of Norway

cess Ingeborg of Sweden, Ni Prince Carl

tinguished committees: to brood over. But. the proprietors of the grandstand adjoining Westminster Abbey ' aren’t brooding. Their raised - platform,’ with the little

cubicles, happens to be the choice locations on eventful May 12 and $500 will be a modest price to have paid for them. They're all gone, anyway.

Art of Communal Living Br Lnowd Flynn Says

By JOHN T. FLYNN Times Special Writer

EW YORK, April 14.-—Trouble, trouble, toil and’ trouble! This is the theme of the news columns now. Each day the arresting tale unfolds of wars and rumors of wars, strikes and plans for strikes, attacks and counterattacks of .politicians, trade groups, racketeers, reformers and revolutionaries. The world seems to be in a state of jitters. But it is an old phenomenon. It is not easy for millions of men to live together in society. And as you watch daily the endless succession of difficulties and defaults you have to conclude that this is because men have -not, in: spite of centuries of social existence, yet learned the art and science of communal life. And because of this at iritervals the hig

.| or, little society which he organizes

goes off into disorder. It breaks down. The society runs out of money or out of work. Its wheels stop turning. Its wealth stagnates. And because we see the same condition all over the world, perplexed men say it is a world condition.

{By this they mean that scine cen-

tral force has hit at some point on the map and the contagion has spread from nation to nation until it envelopes the world, The explanation is too simple. The trouble lies in the fact that all our societies, however they differ in certain external and accidental characters, are essentially the same economically. And hence the defects found in one economic society are found in all. All nations break down, not because some single malignant energy travels from one to the other, but because all suffer

from the same defect in organiza- |

tion. ” » ” T is not new. The money economy is old and has existed in one form or another and at intervals for endless centuries. - And wherever it has existed it has suffered from the same breakdowns. There was a depression in ‘the Athens of Pericles in which most

of the phenomena we have seen in the depression of 1929 were to be found. © There was the growing numbers of unemployed, the crushing weight of debt, the decline of agricultural prices, the clamor of farmers for subsidies and for inflation, the demands of the rich for economy, the resort to colonies, and even a PWA. And in the end —war; the-Peloponnesian war which ruined Athens.

From that day in different countries in all ages where the capitalist money economy existed the same story has been repeated over and over. And now we see it here and in Europe—country after country breaking down in its economy‘; and politicians, lawyers, adventurers, warriors, some with good and some with bad intentions, struggling with the problem. The struggle takes many forms but essentially it is the same—industry slowing down, men out of work, populations turning to the government for aid, unemployment plans, public works, the rise of war industries, the dominance of promisers who offer abundance, the spread of disorder, the opportunity for the strong man, the emergence of the dictator, the appeals to emotions and hatreds, the explosion of the war spirit and finally«~—war. When all the time the setting of it to rights is a.job for experts, for experts who understand the organization of industrial society, of the money economy. But experts are rigidly excluded from the task. The only experts who get in on it are ‘the quack experts who, like the “scientists” who serve patent medicine advertisers, are willing to peddle any advice their masters want. Meantime the social, economic machine has as much chance of being set to rights as an automobile plant which has gone wrong would have if a flock of lawyers and politicians and bankers were called in to repair it.

Clapper Says President Should Drop Court Bill

By RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer

ASHINGTON, April 14. — Although the Supreme Court on its last two decision days has given the New Deal the green light, indications in informed quarters are that the first reaction at the White House is to continue to press for enactment of the. Supreme Court enlargement plan. This intention—if it is really serious, which is not yet determined —-will be a disappointment to a number of Senators and Representatives who have been supporting the President’s plan. Many of them would like to take this opportunity to let the matter rest a while and keep the Supreme Court on probation, so to speak. They may take matters into their own hands and delay action indefinitely. Such a course would save. a good many faces which are badly in need of saving. ” ” tJ HOSE around the President who wish to push the Court bill despite the change of complexion in the Supreme Court majority argue that the New Deal laws are now getting by chiefly by grace of a one-man majority. They insist that is too narrow a margin of safety. The 5-to-4 victories have been won by the switching of Justice Roberts. One of the President’s intimates has renamed the Court’s “no man’s land.” He calls it “Roberts’ land.” Bitter-end New Dealers say that the Court is moved by the pressure which Mr. Roosevelt has put on it and that it would not be safe to let up now. They want to go hounding through for the kill. ? ” ” ” N the other side is this argument. The Court has proved Mr. Roosevelt's fundamental contention, which was that the Constitution was all right and that the trouble was with the Court. Mr. Roosevelt Jot ‘that the Court was!

Tory prejudices into the vague phrases of the Constitution, thus outlawing New Deal\legislation not because it conflicted with the Constitution but because jt conflicted with the ideas of Supreme Court justices as to what was wise or desirable legislation. Now the Court is giving Congress the benefit of the doubt. That is all that Mr. Rsusevelt sought. He was trying to get a Court in which the views of the minority throughout the last three years would prevail. If none of the reactionary justices would resign he weuld try to offset their views by adding members to the Court. But the Court recently has found in several major decisions that there is a way under the Constitution to enable the Federal Government to deal with national problems. Under: the attitude taken by the Court in the Wagner case, in reversing its earlier decision against minimum-wage legislation, in upholding the FrazierLemke farm mortgage moratorium, and the Railway Labor Act, the Court has found a way to permit modern democracy to work. In the fields covered by these cases, Mr. Roosevelt could not ask for more power—and would not want more power—than those = decisions give the Federal Government. t.4 = ” Jin HEREFORE, since the real object of his Court reorganization bill is achieved so far. as’ .the. decisions of recent weeks go, why not let it go at that? Lay the bill on ice. It might be needed again, but probably not. The Court has probably learned "its lesson. It brought the present trouble down upon its own head. Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Roberts by courageous and heroic effort have pulled the Court out of the hole, rescued it from its untenable pasition. Sel Ne 2 '

Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

HEN the Herron Art people made plans to open their Dutch Show, somebody with a decorative sense suggested that the rooms be festooned with garlands of laurel, And sure enough, that’s exactly what hap-

pened. Maybe you noticed it yourself. ‘Well, just before the show opened the purveyor of the decorations took Wilbur Peat aside and told him how to treat the laurel to make it last as long as

possible. “It’s laurel, but not hardy,” he said. You'd be surprised to see how stuff like that keeps piling up on my desk. For example: Brandt Steele always feels weak after a haircut. It affected his father the same way, he says. . . . Mrs. Otto N. Frenzel Sr., and Mrs. Hugo Pantzer are the only women left in Indianapolis who still use broombags. . Meredith Nicholson wears a 73s hat. ... Mrs. Churchman of Detroit, who used to be Elsa Wocher in Indianapolis, was the first girl to pilot an automobile around here. . . . Banker Arthur V. Brown shaves himself in his office after he gets down in the morning. . . . Mrs. Vernon Kniptash didn’t discover that her husband couldn’t smell until two years after her marriage. It made her awful mad to think of all the money she spent on per= fumes to catch him. To go on: Mrs. Norma Mueller Stone to this day can repeat word for word the instructions that used to be on the Indianapolis Street Railway transfers, to wit:

Mr. Scherrer

fd os os How to Transfer = : RANSFERS must be made within one block of point where line upon which passage was taken first intersects with line upon which transfer was made; or, if from this point both lines run for a distance upon the same track, then at the passenger's option he may ride to the point of divergence and

there transfer in either case to the car for ‘the pase senger’s destination first leaving the point at which he left the car upon which he took passage after the arrival at such point of the latter car.” -

It was generally supposed at the time that Attore

ney Ferdinand Winter thought that up. ” ” ”

Autographed Books

ND maybe you don’t know that the George Washiggton High School library has a shelf of 76 presentation copies, all autographed with the authors’ names. Some even go further, like Hugh

Walpole, for instance, who wrote on the fiyleaf of “Fortitude”: “It happens that I have found more friendliness in Indianapolis than in any other town in the United States, so that it is easy for me to say to the George Washington High School: “Be kind to strangers, “Be more than kind to your friends, “Be kindest of all to your enemies.”

A Woman's Vie ans View" By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON HEN you hear women voicing tirades against their own sex you can be fairly certain that something is wrong with their innards. Either their digestions or their emotions aré affected. Perhaps they have been disappointed in love or in their husbands. : Not long ago I heard one who couldn't think up enough charges to make against the several women superiors in her office. “They’re snooping, mean, intolerant tyrants!” she exploded. “And you can bet I'm looking around for a man boss. If you want to get unfair treatment and be subjected to every kind of miserliness, just work for a woman. We aren’t cut out to give orders, and from now on I'm taking mine from a man.” She could have gone on like that all day, thinking

up reasons for her prejudices, and to her they are very justifiable ones. Our particular critic had been unfortunate enough to meet only intolerant women—and we have plenty of them around—but her predilection for men un-

doubtedly goes deeper than the matter of holding a’

Job under a feminine boss. It’s something much more fundamental—the desire of a woman to be in the company of men, to be noticed and admired by men and to be loved by a man.

Frustrated in this urgent need, a good many -

women, like our particular young lady, simply take it all out in railing against their kind, never suspecting that the fault-finder may be the most culpable person in the whole wretched business. For here generalizations are dangerous indeed. Women are not really more cruel to women than men are to men. But so long as Old Mother Nature is on the job, each sex is bound to be more leninent with its opposite than with its like. For sex shapes the pattern of. our behavior, wherever our days may be spent.

Your Health

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor American Medical Assn. Journal

mt meme)

T= person attending a patient with pneumonia

should wear a clean gown, which should be changed before she comes in contact with other people. Her hands should be thoroughly cleaned with soap and water whenever she leaves the patient. The sick room sshould be kept as clean as possible and thoroughly aired, wamed and sunned ‘after the vice

tim recovers. It is particularly {esorant to protect children from pneumonia. A baby should never be taken inte a room in which there is someone suffering from that disease. ! One of the most important factors in caring for a patient with pneumonia is to keep him as quiet as possible, both mentally and physically. Good nursing may mean the difference between life and death. Because of this, most doctors feel that a pneumonia victim is better of in a hospital than at home. Moreover, it is better to get the patient to go to the hospital immediately and not to wait until his illness has reached a critical stage. The pneumonia sufferer should have a large and well ventilated room with access to plenty of good fresh air. This does not mean he is to lie outdoors, exposed to storms. He must be protected, in fact, from inclement weather. Because of the inflammation in the lungs, the control of breathing is one of the most difficult factors in the treatment. It is for this purpose largely that oxygen is used. The number of visitors must be kept at a mini= mum. A patient with pneumonia should not have

-. to. worry about troubles in the family or business af-

fairs. He must be kept on his back for at least a week after recovery has begun. X-ray may be used to determine the extent of pneumonia when it attacks. Sometimes a: consolida= tion in the lungs, due to the inflammation, may thus be noted even before any physical signs appear. Since the onset of pneumonia resembles that of

‘some Other infectious diseases, the diagnosis often is

difficult in early stages of the disease. At this time, the doctor may wish to avail himself of all the latest methods in establishing the diagnosis with certainty, This early diagnosis is especially important, be=

cause the chief value of the serum, as will be shown |

dates as the_spewd with. which 3 iz giver) Rtse thie diagnosis is

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