Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1937 — Page 9

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FROM INDIANA FF ERNIE PYLE

(COLUMBUS, 0., May 1.—Columbus is a horserace:betting town. I don’t know why—you don’t think of Midwest cities as going in for anything but plow horses, But there are more than 50 bookmaking estab-

lishments in Ohio’s capital. : I've just had a nice visit in a “bookie place” in "downtown Columbus. It may not be unique, but it’s certainly unusual. It is a betting place for women. Nn Hymie, the proprietor, is a nice-looking fellow,: serious, sensitive, and” they say he’s as honest as Diogenes. Hymie has been a bookmaker in Columbus for eight years. A little more than a year ago he got the idea of starting this place just to cater to women. Hymie's hunch was right. His place is crowded all the time. He has a clientele o£ 800. His daily play averages around «2% % $10,000... On Saturdays his crowd Mr. Pyle is about half men and half wom- \ ! en, because a lot of men come ‘with their wives. But through the week 90 per cent of the players are women: The whole place is set up like a restaurant, with tables and modernistic chairs of ¢@hromium nickel and red leather for 160 people. ,. On Derby Day Hymie has to reserve every seat, 'in order for his regular gustomers to have places to sit. # Young men and w omem_hop back and forth among * | .the tables, taking bets just as they'd take orders for food in a restaurant. paying off. 7 There isn’t any blackboard, as in most bookie places. The odds, positions during the race and payoff prices are announced over a loud speaker. When the winner is: anhounced there is a little shoyt of exuberance. But that is all. There is no bhoisterousness, or loud talk.

” ” n - Resembles Schoolroom

EOPLE sit at their tables, and quietly study their racing forms. Hymie uses 90 forms a day. In some ways the place resembles a schoolroom. Hymie will say “Now turn to page 7,” and there will be a great rustle of paper and all the women thumb over to page 7 while Hymie gives opening odds on the next race. Sometimes if the talk gets too loud he will rap for order, just like a sehooltedner. The house provides cigarets and free parking of cars. This sets Hymie back about $50 a week. No liquor is: $oldy no drinking allowed. They do sell soda pop, but Hymie says he gives away as much as he sells. Hymie says that if a traditional race track “tout” walked in he'd feel so out of place he'd walk right out again. Consequently, he has no trouble with bums. But he does have trouble with some of the women. Nbt really trouble, but once in a while some loudmouthed gal with a couple of drinks in her will come in and start shooting off at thesmouth. Hymie. has had to throw only one out, but he’s had to call several down. . He says women play hunches more than men do. | Some of his customers never look at the form sheets.

After the race they go around

” ” ” Afternoon’s Entertainment

OST of the women are quite well-to-do. They'll h drive down to Hy mie’s place in the afternoon _ just as they'd go to a ‘movie—for SHtertainment. Most of them make small bets. e lowest you can bet is. 50 cents, and that's ri most ‘of them play. : ‘While we sat talking to Hymie, I took a gander at the people studying their form sheets. It really

looked like a high-class crowd. There wasn’t much |

| talk. Everybody was figuring out the next race. They all Seemed io be to be enjoying it quietly.

Mrs. Roosevelt's Day

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT :

AN FRANCISCO, * Friday. —I promised I'd tell S° something about this trip, which has been rather an {amusing and eventful one. Chicago everything went smoothly, except that our youngest passenger, aged 7 months, found the trip not to her liking and told us so vociferously. 1 have always thought that girl babies had better lungs than boys and this one ‘proved it, She never stopped. I wads almost more than sorry for her poor mother, who worried about the rest of the passengers, than I was for the baby herself, though: there were moments when I thought the infant would burst. We arrived in Chicago around 4 a. m. and were informed that the ceiling was too low to proceed. We all went up to the Blackstone Hotel and I hope . everybody. else slept as well as I did. By 10:30 we were back at the airport. Mr. C. R. Smith of the airline ‘came down to our plane and remarked that the modern. plane was so « perfect it required greater skill-on the part of the pilots than ever before. When we took off there were two baby passengers on the plane. The second one was more sophisticated * and not so decided in her tastes. She did not eomplain as vigorously. But our baby of the night before had periods during the day when she told us in no uncertain terms what she (thought of her travels. In Omaha we ran into a muddy field and were . mired. Nearly an hour was spent getting the plane out again. In Cheyenne we took on another baby passenger, this time aged 3 and most sophisticated. She had made eight trips across the continent. For a long time she sat quietly in her seat in the passenger compartment with no one with her. Her father was the copilot and she was returning to her mother in Salt Lake City. The father came out once and brought her down ‘to introduce’ me to heér. She took the introduction solemnly and with very little interest, but after he returned to the pilots’ compartment, she waited about five minues and then came down the aisle and became very Iriendly.

New Books

PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

UCH in our English literature courses may have escaped us, but most of us remember that back in _ the early 19th Century there was an author who confessed to opium eating, thought murder a fine art, and wrote about the awful speéd of the English mail coaches. | ciated today, but two studies of recent months remind us of the considerable achievements of this extraordinary man. Just as the Oxford University Press was publishing Horace Ainsworth Eaton's THOMAS DE QUINCEY; A BIOGRAPHY, the Yale University Press was accepting Edward Sackville-West’'ss THOMAS DE QUINCEY; HIS LIFE AND WORK. The former is - predominantly biographical, the latter critical, so together they delight the student. In spite of garrulity and irritability and though

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Barbara Bradford, who kissed the same boy for three days at $5 an hour.

It's Easy. Way to Make a Living but it Won't Last Forever, Model Says, So She Studies Singing

For Career After

(Fifth of

Present Job Ends.:

a Series.)

By ALLAN KELLER

Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, May 1.—Glamour is one thing in Monhots

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tan and quite another in San Salvador.

If you're a

doubting Thomas sort of person consider the yarn told by Dorothy Drew, the “Blond Viking” of New York's upper

stratum of models.

“I went to Central and South America on a Grace Line

tour,” filing cabinet and a hat box.

too.

name to Jean Perry. a chaperon and:a cameraman to complete the party. “We flew from Guatemala to San Salvador. just ahead of a line squall, By the time we went to bed we knew we were in for a storm, but we were dog-tired and fell tight off to sleep. Whém 1 awoke the first thing I saw were my shoes floating around on the top of more than a foot of water. That's when I.started wishing I had stayed in the States.” 2 ® ”

HE rain kept up for days, she said, and the girls were marooned for two weeks. All that time Miss Drew and Miss Perry slépt together on a canvas army cot. “They put the town under martial ‘law and issued one quart of water every day,” said the model. “We had to drink it and use what was left to bathe. The last three days we lived on black beans and coffee. Whew! When we finally got out on mule-back to the airport and got away we didn’t care if we never saw the tropics again.” After that experience, life in New York is a little tame. About the most exciting thing she does now is to change her costume in a speeding taxicab as she hurtles from one posing job to another.

Miss Drew believes that model-

« ing is the easiest way for girls to

earn an excellent living. : “But it won’t last forever,” she said. “I know that. Recause I don’t think the average model has a chance in the films unless she's got something unusual on the ball, I'm studying singing. I don't want the end to come and find me unprepared.” " 2 ” LUFFING her blond hair over her ears, Miss Drew said she was conserving her assets by never posing the same way twice. “I'm tickled to death to get the back of my head in a picture,” she laughed. “If they don't see your face you last longer.” Her rather sensible outlook was

she said, swinging her well-shod feet between a “They wanted us to model in each port-of-call so they could get out some cruise ads. Betty Miller went along, + That was before she made good in Hollywood and changed her

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reflected by another vivacious blond girl. Barbara Bradford, the Nordic, who was:born and grew up in Cuba without getting a coat of tan. “I don’t like these milk-fed diets some of the girls adhere to,” she said belligerently. {We drank cocktails while we were growing up and it seems natural for me to do it now. This business of taking yourself so seriously is silly. Some of the girls think their looks are more important than the fate of the franc or! the welfare of the share-croppers.” It was Miss Bradford whon won the marathon kissing title among models. She did it for $5 an hour, she explained, not for love.

“It was for Brad Crandall,” said the manikin. “He told me to get to the studio early, as it would be easier to meet the boy model that jr But .we-met in the elevator going up to the artist's studio. When we called .the same floor he looked at me and said ‘Thank God!” “Then for three solid days—oh, with a little time out, or course—I had to stand up and kiss that boy. We thoroughly hated each other long before it was over.” John Powers, the manager of Manhattan’s maddest manikins, swears that Barbara Bradford was born for the movies, but she says modeling is artificial enough to suit her. ” ” ”

F you could stand in an out-of-the-way corner of Ruzzie Green's studio as he” photographs the models it would be apparent that there is considerable truth in the remark about artificiality. But it’s not all artifice, by any means. At the bottom of every picture job there is 4 beautiful girl, features and eyes that would drive a prospector daffy. To be: reportorially accurate ‘these girls’ eyes can and do drive strong men wild. Even Yale men. Frances Donelon received a let-

a girl with finely chiseled

Frances Nolle being made up for a pose.

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Frances Donelon, admired at Yale, loved in the Arctic.

ter from a boy at Old Eli last year pleading with her to be his partner at the junior prom. “Here at Yale we always strive to bring the prettiest girl,” he wrote in care of the magazine on which her current picture was displayed. “I don’t know who you are, ° but I know if you do me this great honor you and I will wind hands down. I will defray all expenses, including a chaperon, and provide transportation. Will you, please?” A lonely man up in the Mackenzie Valley wrote to one of the girls, telling her that he had her pic. tures on the wall of his cabin, dnd that he talked with her when the nights were long and the winds

The expert conception of the expert model—

blew cold. His letter was so pitiful and so obviously devoid of any psychopathic evidences that she replied; Her letter came back unopened. The mailman doesn’t ring twice in the Far North.

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UT to get back to Ruzzie ‘Green's studio and the way the camera glorifies the glorious.

Redbook Magazine wanted a cover job done in color for the August issue (it was then March) and Frances Nolle, the Texas Bluebonnet Girl, was chosen topose. Her pictures for the Texas Centennial had gone far Bn wide over the country, luring people from coast to coast .and calling all cars to Dallas.

She walked into the studi’ at 3 o'clock one afternoon and set: to work removing street makeup and putting ‘on studio makeup. + A bright young lady patted on the ground color from some of the 17 little rouge pots on her palette.

DIRECT RELIEF CENTRALIZATION

ENTRALIZATION of direct relief activities, proposed in many

states and effective.in others, is opposed by Miss Hannah Noone, Center Township Trustee.

“There are many temporary re-

lief cases involving high type fami-

lies, and under a central agency the misfortune of these persons would have to be exploited more publicly,” she said. Miss Noone said more centralized relief also was objectionable becavse agencies covering wider: territories could not fully understand the needs in each community. Leo X. Smith, attorney for the

and county government cannot carry the load and that permanent state-wide setups must be maintained. 8

States, therefore, while bringing all possible pressure on the Federal Government to extend WPA and to perfect some form of long-range future relief policy of its own—are on a still hunt for funds for their own immediate use. Oné answer, unquestionably, will be a new flood of taxes. Illinois already has voted a 3 per cent sales tax on utilities until July 1, 1938, and continuing at 2 per cent thereafter. All sorts of special taxes on real property, newspaper advertis-

fare responsibilities in one agency, with rather broad supervisory powers. Similar bills are pending in 10 other states. Pennsylvania has recognized that the relief problem is permanent and has set up a legislative commission to “seek a permanent solution. Pennsylvania has passed two bills appropriating $10,000,000 for continuation of emergency relief; Ohio has re-enacted its emergency relief law, authorizing special bonds by counties and cities to pay their share; the New Jersey Legislature approved a $12,000,000 appropriation for relief, of. which nearly $8,000,000 comes from

Eye -lashes were turneds

MISS HANNAH NOONE OPPOSES

up with mascara, eyebrows penciled in darkly, and lipstick applied with a camels hair brush. The model suggested a raised eyebrow line. “Oh, no you don't,” interrupted Mr. Green. “You're being sweet and innocent and corn-fed in this picture. This job is for small towns, as well as New York.” When the job seemed finished the makeup artist. smoothed the

color down with a rabbit's foot. |

The complete “paint job” was a darb, the photographer said, and under the bright lights of the studio the apparent excess color faded away. : Before she faced the camera it was 4:30 o'clock, and the ice cubes in the chilled tea had melted. Others were added, and.a bowl of summer flowers, grown under glass, were taken out of the refrigerator and placed on a table with the tea. Miss Nolle sat down in her summer garden frock and

folded her long white gloves be-

side the flowers. For twenty minutes Mr. Green

* fussed over the lights and camera,

a $3000 instrument held on the

.arm of a giant tripod that per-

mitted shots to be taken from any angle from the floor to the ceiling. a: n : T 5:30 o'clock the test pictures were taken. When the negatives were developed they were studied for flaws. tographer and the art director for the magazine conferred and approved the details, By that time it was after 6 o'clock, and the final shots were taken at fiveminute intervals until six or seven had been completed. Miss Nolle rubbed the makeup off with cold cream and rushed to a date at Princeton. For her part in the Rfternion’s work she received $25. The phctographer’s fee was 10 or 20 or perhaps 30 times that figure. The magazine paid and will be well satisfied if the cover on the newsstands next August catches and holds the eyes of the men and women with change in their pockets. “We're willing to go to extremes to get a good finished product,” said Mr. Green. “I personally shopped in five stores to get the dress, the hat, the gloves and the compact the model used. We don't want any inaccuracies. “One time—this will show you

The pho-

why we don't want to make s mistake—we did a cover with a

girl varnishing the spar of a sail- | She had a brush in her | below the *

boat. hand and. swinging boatswain’s seat was a can that once had orange paint in it and was splashed with orange. “The magazine got hundreds of letters from smart guys, saying there was no paint on the brush. They didn't know that all paint

“ers use old paint buckets for var-

nish and that varnish on a brush

_.doesn’t .show.

“Those guys ought to see us working on still life. One day we opened 24 cans of peaches to get eight perfect halves and another time we had a butcher cut into 13 hams to get a slice to suit the advertiser.’ 2 ” 8

TORES that supply clothes and |

accessories for models to pose in are paid: with a credit line under the picture, or if there is a reason to omit this, they receive 10 per cent of the retail cost .of the goods. When models pose in bathing suits and lingerie, just as much care is taken as with cover shots or full page fashion ads. The only difference is that the manikins get double fees for posing in less than the normal number of garments. The most successful models will have nothing to do . with the seminude jobs, as a rule.

Few girls will pose for the third |

group of ads, known to the trade as “objectjonables, ” which deal with medicating materials, feminine hygiene or any of the troubles that make lovely girls mysteriously lose friends. . The high-paying stores and magazines ostracize the girls who specialize in the second and third groups. Everything considered, their standards are higher than the public surmises. But the public is that way when it comes to pretty faces and figures.

- NEXT—Glamor girl with baby.

HEARD IN CONGRESS

- Rep. Charles L. Gifford Mass): I wanted to ask the entleman what he has to say about the recent discovery that we have exhausted the Treasury and the credit of the country? Rep. H. Jerry Voorhis (D. Cal.): I do not think we fave made any such discovery. | Rep. Gifford: I wonder! I read this morning of a man who left his

boarding house after two‘ years. They asked why, and he said that he found they had no bathroom in the boarding house.

TREE BELT THRIVES

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Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

“JNDIANAPOLIS ha as) instituted a novel street-lighting economy. Instead of reg-" ulating the amount of light by rule of thumb and calendar, a photoelectric ‘eye’ will turn the lights off and on according to the degree

of visibility at any hour all year round.”

At any rate, that’s what the National Municipal Review says, and I guess it’s as good a way as any to start today’s piece about the lamplighters of 50 or more years ago. Maybe you don't i know it, but the early lamplighters of Indianapolis were just as much an institution and just as ° picturesque in their way as anything Charles Lamb wrote about the chimneysweeps of Equipped as they their short ladders and/ coats, they went abou§ their business. at . sundown like guardians of the night, ever mindful of our comfort and security. What I'm trying to say, of course, is that. they lit the gas street lamps we used to have around here when I was a boy. They were as fleet as\Mercury and as dependable as Vesta. Indeed, they knew their stuff so well that never to my knowledge did an Indianapolis lamplighter have to use more than one match to turn the, trick, no matter how hard the wind was blowing, Which, of course, is something the best. pipe-smoker can't do today. Before sunrise, they. were at it again, this time putting out the lights, and it always appeared to me, the few mornings I was up that early, that the lamplighters of my day worked even faster in the morning than ‘they did at dusk.

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Mr. Scherrer

gm. Deleriovation Set In

O be sure, the lamplighters deteriorated a little after that, and began using a new-fangled kind , of wick to light their. lamps, but even so it was. a nice thing to watch. As a matter of fact, the lamplighters around here were good to watch until they began going around on bicycles. Of course, it was a nice trick to carry a ladder on a bicycle, but it was @ bad sign, nevertheless. After that, we were pre= pared for anything, evén the photoelectric eye. -| I doh’t know why I'm carried dway by the olde time lamplighters today, unless it is that the ‘same mail that brought me news about the photoelectric eye also brought me a letter containing the rather - startling item that Chris Bernloehr is the, original . lamplighter of Iristi Hill. Not only that, but he was the fastest lamplighter the old Hill ever had.

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oo» Takes It Easy Now

R. BERNLOEHR takes it easy now and can be seen any noon eating-liis lunch at Stegemeier’s Cafe. He's mighty particular about his lunch, too, because he’s pretty proud of the fact, and doesn’t mind telling you, that he will be 71 years old pretty soon. I wanted to ask him the last time I was over there a what he thought of the photoelectric eye to light lamps, but I didn't have the heart to.

A Woman's View By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON ‘O% I wish'I could do something really worthe while!” This is the plaint one hears so often

these days from women engaged in domestic pursuits. For the ones who have lived past middle age..and

have done®™with child bearing and child trainihg, I ~~

feel the deepest sympathy. The care of one man, no matter how much he may be loved, has never yet been enough to occupy 12 hours. of a woman's day, And least of all now, when dusting is done with

- machines and food comes in cartons and cans.

~~ The younger ones who express the same desires need enlightenment rather than pity. Where do they get their feeling of inferiority? Why do they truckle to their sisters who file documents - or take dictation in offices or to the one who, like me, sets down words upon paper, words which will be cast away and forgotten tomorrow? What makes them apologize because they are busy with making homes and rearing children? Of late this inferiority complex has become so noticeable that statisticians are using it in their come pilations. One of them calls home women the “Une paid Worker Group.” i That title, it seems to me, explains the origin of their humility. For although we say over and over that they reap the finest awards life has to offer, they are unpaid in terms of money, and who will deny: that money is regarded as‘the best of all ree wards for labor in our social system? ~ These unpaid workers never punch.a time clock: they never ask 'for a raise and they never go on | strike. Yet they are the prop of industry in a capi-= | talistic country, the backbone of labor unions, the | very core of society, since they keep our homes and | in them train citizens for a future and we hope a | greater America. | “To do something worth-while"—a universal ambie | tion. Yet, in the last analysis, does any one succeed better than the woman who in the twilight of life | can point to strong men and good women she has created and whose character she has formed. Nothing | man does is more worth-while than that. |

Your Health

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN |

Editor, American Medical Assn, Journal { O frequent have recommendations been made for removal of tuberculosis victims to the Southwest, | or to sanitoria situated elsewhere in the United States, | that there was a time when éveryone who had tubers) culosis immediately began to travel. : § Not long ago, however, the United ‘States Govern-| ment, through its Public Health Service, protested such shipping of patients to certain states when these, peopleidid not have the means to purchase necessaries | of life after they had arrived at the new location. The minimum costs of care approximate $25 to $50 a week. Unless?an invalid is able to provide from $1200" to $1800 a year for his. care, he cannot do him-! self much good by moving to another state in which neither his citizenship nor his residence is established. | When the burden of providing for himself in a strange town is added to that of the disease from which he suffers, the invalid loads himself with a handicap so great that it may mean the Sigerened. between life and death. ! After a consideration of all phases in the climatic factor- of tuberculosis, Dr. James Alexander Millet summarized the situation as follows: 1. The regimen of regluated rest . and exorclie, proper food, and open-air life, is the fundamental essential in the treatment of tuberculosis. Suitable

‘climate environment makes this open-air life more

easy, enjoyable, and beneficial.

- often “imprisoned in the haunted:ruin of himself,” De Quineey’s enormous knowledge, astounding memory, fantastic imagination, musical style, and rhetorical brilliance made a place for him among the

Center Township Trustee, who has studied relief work in Marion County, said establishment of central agencies would increase relief costs.

ing, fuels, theaters, motion picture films, and other articles and commodities—plus a host of new fees

a diversion of state highway construction funds.

.Gasoline tax diversion has been a

en these essentials are assured, a change of climate is of definite value in a considerable number, probably the majority of cases, but with the proper

literary immortals. The rhetorical brilliance of Mr, Sackville-West compares well with that of his subject. . : 2 nn id i collection of American frontier stories called THEIR WEIGHT IN WILDCATS (Houghton, Mifflin) .and illustrated by James Daugherty, ranges ~ from incidents in the adventurous lives of ‘such men ‘as Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, to the blustery, punger:t “tall tales” of Paul Bunyan and John Henry. Mr. Daugherty, who probably more than any other modern itlustrator has caught the brawny vigor of the ‘frontier, has added materially to the value of the book with his excellent drawings. It is only recently that the United States has begun to realize that it has a rich legendary and folklore literature of its own; and contributions to this field are welcome, especially when—as in the present case— “sources are given which may encourage the reader to po do a little “tall SOY a hunting on hisgeen account,

" EJ 2 HATEVER the Federal’ Government decides to do about

relief in the 1937-38 fiscal year—

and it seems certain that WPA will

be extended in one form or another —states will still have to handle their own “unemployables” and they will need millions of money to 80 the joh. - The problem breaks down into two parts. The trend of all social security legislation is toward liberalization, gvhich means more cash on the line. States, too, are beginning to realize that the relicf problem must be regarded at least as semipermanent, that local city

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and licenses for special services— are in the legislative hoppers of the various commonwealths.. Many legislatures this year have attempted the temporary expedient of dividing the relief load petween state, county and city governments, authorizing many types of special bond issues and relief tax levies. # a2 a» v EANWHILE, there is a concurrent and integrated trend toward the setting up of permanent relief and welfare group as official agencies of the states. Seven states, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho,

New Mexico, South Dakota, Tennes- |

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see and on have enacted laws el-

ventealising Aslist

et _and_ public

prolific source of relief moneys in the past. Of the more than $600,000,000 collected by the states from gasoline in 1935, at least $167,000,000 was diverted. Of this total 15% millions were earmarked for relief, and nobody knows how great an additional amount went for this purpose through roundabout channels. The best opinion is that an even larger amount was diverted in 1936, but the 1937 trend, so far as it can be charted, seems to indicate a reversal “of the practice, unquestionably because of the influence of the Hayden-Cartright act which partially withdraws Federal . highway funds from states practicing di ve

ver-,

breadth across

Thriving magnificently in its third year in spite of drought, ‘this: shelter belt section in Oklahoma is just one of many which have been. or will be planted in a swath 100 miles wide from Canada to the

Téxas panhandle...

The trees are planted in strips 100 yards in belt, wherever experts think it necessary to diminish drainage, |

i Between; the ateigs, farming | 1

regimen many cases will do well in any climate. 3. Any change of climate involving the fatigue of | travel is contra-indicatéd in acute cases with fever or hemorrhage, or in very far advanced and marked] debilitated cases. Absolute bed rest 1s the one essen tail here. 4. No patient should be sent away in search of climate who cannot afford to stay the necessary time and to have the necessary food, lodging, and care. 5. Competent Metical advice and supervision are

6. One of the most valuable assets of change is the education of the patient. This may, of course, be ob=tained in a suitable environment without regard to climate, as in a sanatorium near -home. + 7. Selection of a suitable locality is an individual problem for every patient, depending upon his tem= perament, tastes, and individual reaction to environ-

essential.

ment, as well as the re of his disease, ; climate,

_ 8 There is no ‘universal