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KRON, May T7.—Twelve thousand men

"were on strike in ‘when I wrote this piece.

since been settled.)

strikes were started ( after I arrived in town. The pa-

24 hours

(The strike has Two and finished) in the

pers had just a few lines aout them,

Akran was smoking, and

ber was everywhere in the

| of people, \ f handsome. 2 in| one hptel. ' hotel sounded like the |

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prospero [So I] How come,

‘the odor of burning rubwir.” The streets were full The store windows ‘were I couldn't get rooms The coffee shop of

Xchange on a busy day. In ards, things looked mighty 1S. started asking about it. in an industrial city

like Akrgn, how come no fuss with practically a fifth of the rubber industry shut down?

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Mr. Pyle

“Why, the very first si Akron more than a year

just don’t know Akron. year ahead of all other cities in our x relations,” they said.

they said. “You

pooh,” We're a

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go. We've had 150 small

sit-down strikes, and two huge ones, in the past year.

We don't pay any attention]

“Yes, I guess Akron is i Bl the labor situation,]’

to them any more.” a good bit ahead of other one striking worker said:

e pay has always begn pretty good in the rubber plants. And the companies have made a good

mény concessions to us in tf

“This isn’t a sit-down st down. They wouldn't try strike-breakers. There's a there’s nothing to picket,

he last year. rike. We don't have to sit to operate the plant with . picket line out there, but The plant is shut up cold.

A year ago there would have been trouble. “It’s true what you've been told about Akron not

paying much attention to t too peaceful. citement to keep the boys 2 =z

‘Scared to Death’

S° Igotoa prominent what I've been told,

represented in: the roundup.

he asked. “That will have “All| right, then, I'm not. busts ssmen think of the hey’re all scared to where we're going. They

hese strikes. Why, it’s got

We have trouble keeping up enough.ex-

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businessman. I tell him nd say I just want him “Am I being quoted?” ‘to be up to you,” I'll tell you what the situation in Akron, death. They don’t Xnow have no assurance what-

ever that there’ll be any business a year from today.

“There isn’t a business]

man- in town who would

think of putting any| improvements onto his prop-

erty until we see how thing

Akron is going to disappe But| we have to lay our p

I don’t think we have al Akron will continue # gn “I guess it's true [that as much attention to stri cities. But I don't think jy in our stride or don|t wor I think it’s just that we've by | a

No Such Animal

So where are we? |I don |depend on the’|viewpoint.

search of [oes

started out in I wanted to dig up plants | and have him

as IT was looking for. | “You can’t talk tb anj story mixed up in the 1a “You can't separate is iq right now. EveryHody wi a red apple.” “What does ‘that ean}

union booster, while a “red

“red | hot”)

5 are going. I don’t think ar or anything like that. lans on the premise of a

and with things the way they are,

ny assurance at all that ow. we apparently don’t pay kes as they do in other ou can say we take them ry as much about them. ecome reconciled to them.” 2

't know. It all seems to It's like when I another kind of column. old character in the tire

tell me about his years in the

1. But I talked to half a dpzen tire workers, and they said there wasn't any su

th animal in Akron now wr’ ybody without getting his bor situation,” they said. b from his union feeling i either be a red hot or I said. And they exwas a dyed-in-the-wool apple” was a worker with

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Mrs, Roosevelt's Day

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

EATTLE, Thursday—Though my opportunity for doing much sightseeing on this trip has bec slight, 'T have learned -off some interesting . things. Yesterday, a group of boys who are working in the National Youth Administration wood-working shop under Mr. Dean presented [me with a model of a loom as [beautifully made as| any miniature piece of furniture. f It is always harder [to

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make a small article than a large one, and these boys cculd undoubtedly make a workable loom for use| in their homes far more easily than they made!this tiny and perfect model. Judging by the results, I feel sure that this particular NYA project is doing a very good job. From an| Indian project, a very beautiful pair of beaded moccasins was brought to me. I am glad to see these Indian -arts preserved and developed for I feel sure there is a market in this| country for their skills. : | Mr. Hugh Brown, sedretary of the Washington State Chamber of Mines) brought me three of the most interesting pieces of] petrified wood that :I have ever seen... One is a piecg of petrified cypress of the late eocene era, approximately eight million years old. One, a beveled-edge cunt of petrified elm, is a beautiful piece of workmanship, and finally, a piece of the ancient ginkgo tree is a|lovely opalized stone. I was interested to find that the CCC camp nearby is lone where boys from |the lower East, Side of New York are learning what the Far West is like. The State of Washington is|rich in natural resources. They are about to build a building in which the publics attention may be drawn to these resources by exhibits. Oné other thing, whith has to do with human resour es, has been brought to my attention. Unless our citizenship is constantly improving, our natural resourges will be of little value to us. I know of few ways better adapted| to the developing of intelligent, citizens than the discussion forum, and Seattle ‘has the largest attendance at public forums of any place in the United States.

| | New Books

PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

ERIDING a civilization in which the hope of the farmer’s prosperity rests upon bad weather and short crops, John Langdgn-Davies, in a SHORT HISTORY OF THE FUTURE (Dodd, Mead) presents his view of the inevitable development of society within the next 100 years. f | Man, he says, is not free to use his reason in determining his own future. Economic pressure has already doomed the familiar forms of capitalism and liberal democracy. The [final struggle of capitalism against the inexorable process of evolution is dividing the world in the camps of “left” and “right.” When this struggle has been decided and man has accepted the fact that his reason can be used only under the direction of what he calls ‘the social habit,” then, says Mr. Langdon-Davies, we shall have a sane ‘world. The population | problem can be dealt with scientifically; the race problem will cease to exist; the "relation between sex, mapriage, and the family will be altered entirely; crime will disappear, and art will be a servant of the prevail ng social philosophy. zB MEXICAN novel, Ex iio, by Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes (Bobbs-Mefrill)| was winner of the first National Prize award of that country. Without naming any characters or places, , the author | has succeeded with quiet simplicity in recreating the life of a primitive Indian village; and|as the various scenes unfold, it is the village itself lwhich becomes the leading character. The reader may exsitblisane the course of Mexican

istory.in the story. Moreover, he can without much .

magination visualize once again the tragic results of the onrush of civilization upon the helpless primitive. But the deeper implications of the book need not lessen the sheer enjoyment of reading it. Written in a vein new to American readers, it is a charming and refreshing novel. The English translation is by Anita Brenner and the lustrations by Diego Rivera.

41s ‘that Jimmy Woods is a more

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SIX ROYAL GEORGES OF ENGLAND First One Ruled a Country Whose Language He Never Could Speak

By MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Staff Writer

J ONDON, May 7.—When King George V1 and latest of England’s royal Georges,| is formally crowned on May 12, it will be just 2R3 years since the first George of England crossed the Channel to be the ruler of a country he did not understand, of whose history he was ignorant, and whose language

he never spoke. Born a German, he remained a German, milking England for the benefit of himself and his native Hanover.

Cate of the first George—1714— is more than distant in time. All the vast British Empire has grown up since then. Railroads, steamships, airplanes, telephones, telegraph, cables, wireless, a thousand everyday things of today were “then still in the womb of the years. Engiand was self-satisfied, despite a corrupt ruling class. The purity of the courts, the government, the church, so taken for granted today, was not even dreamed of in that loose era. George 1 was no better than some of his more profligate subjects. He never expected them to be his subjects until he was well along in years. His father was Ernest Augustus, first Elector of Hanover. His mother was ' Sophia, granddaughter of King James I of England. That connection caused the English Parliament to name Sophia as heir to the throne of England when Queen Anne died. . But® Sophia died first and so her son came to the English throne, in addition to being Elector of Hanover, 7 x» \WENTY YEARS before, he had been one of the figures in a tragic romance. George entered into a loveless arranged marriage with his cousin, Sophia Dorothea. She was beautiful, lively, witty. He was cold, silent and brutal. He had his mistresses. She found solace with the handsome adventurer, Philipp, Count Koenigsmark, who had taken service in the Hanoverian Army. Philipp boasted he was Sophia’s lover. He begged her to flee with him. On the night of July 1, 1694, as he left her rooms, he was set upon, killed, his body burned and the ashes scattered. George 'had his alibi ready. He was in Berlin at the time. But the tragic event remained in the public mind. At the age of 54 George came to England as its King. He brought with him his German flunkies and two mistresses whom he Anglicized to the extent . of creating one Countess of Darling and the other Duchess of Kendall. Because of their figures, the former was soon known in England as “the Elephant” and the other as “the Maypole.” Of such was the top crust of English society made. His favorites sold public offices. George himself frequently left England for long periods to spend the time in Hanover. " ” s ERHAPS the two principal events of his reign were the Jacobite insurrection of 1715, which was quickly and harshly suppressed, and the bursting of

the South Sea Bubble. A company had been formed to push trade with the then Spanish colonies of South America. When it crashed, many were ruined and George was blamed because the ‘Duchess of Kendall was said to ‘have been bribed to push the sale of the shares. Death came suddenly to George I. He was on. one of his periodic excursions to Germany when he succumbed to an apoplectic stroke at the Osnaburg, June 11, 1727, at the age of 67. Hanover mourned him, but few tears were shed in England except coldly official ones. George II, who now succeeded to the throne, was like his late father, a German in education and language. Like him, he was of loose morals, a little, red-faced Turk of -a man surrounded by a regular harem of women favorites. ” n 2 IS father had truly said of’ 4 him: “He is wild, but he fights like a man.” It was true. He had served under the great generals, Prince Eugene and the Duke of Marlborough. He had distinguished himself in the battle of Oudenarde. And at Dettingen, when his horse proved fractious, he dismounted, saying now he knew whatever happened, he would not run away. Like his father before him he was born in Hanover, 1683. - During his reign he had little influence upon events, his ministers running the country while he ran after women. But it was a reign pregnant with great events for England. The last of the

Scovch pretenders to the throne

George I (left above) founded the line of England’s Georgian kings, but to the day of his death he was a German in language and interests. His son, George II (seen at right in action in battle), was little more British, but it was during his reign that the foundation of the empire was laid by his ministers. More remarkable than

. George II was the loyalty of his

‘beautiful, witty wife, Caroline (right), daughter of the Margrave

of Anspach. PC

King George II

was whipped at Culloden in 1746. England _ joined in the Seven

Years War which resulted in the death of French colonial pretensions. By the victory of Plassey, Clive laid the foundation of what was to be England’s empire of India. By Wolfe's victory at Quebec in 1759, Britain finished the conquest of Canada from the French. The days of England as a great world power were firmly established. In his private life profligate

. George II was luckier than his

father. He wooed and wed Caroline, daughter of the Margrave of Anspach. She could have had an emperor. She chose George.

SUBJECT OF CHILD REARING TEST NOT SO POPULAR AS HIS TWIN

By MORRIS GILBERT NEA Service Staff. Correspondent EW YORK, May 7.—Science, take it from the younger generation of Washington Heights, New York, is the bunk. They know, these small fry of the upper West Side, because they nave been exposed to its effects: in concentrated form, and their almost unanimous. opinion

regular feller than -Tohnny Woods. Learned treatises have been written about Johnny Woods. Copious scholarly notes have been recorded | in his case for almost five years. For Johnny Woods is a “case,” an “experiment” in child rearing under the most modern technique of the celebrated Normal Child Development Clinic of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, He is the “conditioned” one of the famous Woods twins, the little nipper who at the age of 2 was a notable roller-skater and a climber so fearless that he almost frightened the doctors. Yet Jimmy, the “unconditioned” twin who “just grew” like Topsy or any other neighborhood kid, and. lived: from birth with his mother and father, a gatekeeper at che Polo Grounds, turns out in their fifth year to be- the more popular, the more mature, and the more fun, in the opinion of his mates. 8 8 2 NE comrade defended Johnny. So did one little girl—my daughter, a stranger to the twins— who paid a call on them at the Washington Heights Nursery School where Miss K. W. Burton, supervisor, turned the Woods boys loose for our benefit. Turned ‘loose is the right word. Very loose, and in a spot very fascinating to 5-year-olds, namely Miss Burton’s own desk. Well, Johnny, after dabbing a rubber stamp on the ink-pad, planted it emphatically in the front center of Joan's rose-colored pullover (washable). Then Jimmy poured the ink out of the bottle onto a blotter — and the desk—and wrapped the blotter around Joan's wrist (also washable).

Never had Joan

encountered | «

grown-up don’t touchables like ink, pens, and blotters. When Joan is pleased, she laughs from the diaphragm, up and out. The room re-echoed. “Don’t laugh,” the Woods twins protested. They themselves were too busy to laugh. Trey were involved in a whirling, spinning intensity of action. They were moving with the rapidity of kittens from one preposterous performance to the next. Afterward, Joan's primness _asserted itself. “They're funny,” she said. “Their games are funny. I don’t like their games.”

#2 nn 8 : RDINARILY,” Miss K. W. Burton, supervisor of the school, had explained, “I wouldn't let them behave like this. The children aren’t allowed in my office. I really don’t believe in too much

freedom. But today I'm letting them run a little, for your benefit.” So she watched the twins batter a pen to pieces, strew rubber bands around the room after. snapping them across their own eyes (which Joan imitated), scribble on the correspondence, accomplish an almost miraculous mess on the desk. She interfered only when the’ fearless Johnny climbed onto a table and tried to. pat Fluffy, the biggest tabbycat in Washington Heights, who was asleep on the mantlepiece. Fluffy is 9 years old, she explained, and-getting a little crotchety. Jimmy can write. He borrowed the interviewer's pencil and wrote the letters O T A. Then he systematically destroyed the pencil. Johnny took a pen, dipped the wrong end in the ink, and began. painting, A blackboard on an easel attracted them. They called for chalk. (“They say ‘salk,’” Joan commented.) Jimmy solved the problem of standing the easel upright by pulling out the back legs. But it was Johnny who discovered how to tip the blackboard surface up to write on. Soon they managed to break both leg supports of the easel by standing on them. a

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girl?” the Woods twins were

such inventiveness, such splendid and reckless imagination applied to

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OW do you likes the little,

Later Joan said: “They're not twins. Johnny is bigger. Johnny has dimples. That’s the way to tell them apart. Jimmy talks more, but I like Johnny best.” “Even when he shoved you off the chair and sat down himself?” “Yes,” said Joan. It was a distinctly feminine reaction. Dimples apart, Johnny is the handsomer. Or was it because of his famous conditioning? . There’s little to choose between the Woods twins. Jimmy seems to have generally overhauled his cultivated brother. In leadership, speech, and performance at school he excels Johnny. “Johnny hollers and runs away when you want him to play,” said little Joan Babb, a schoolmate. “I like Jimmy better because he plays games and is nicer to me than Johnny. Johnny doesn’t play with me much,” said Mariessa. Richard Lawrence, 7%, defends Johnny. “We wrestle,” he said. “He can take it better than Jimmy. Johnny’s bad, often, but I like him better.” Peter -Stavrous likes Jimmy better, “’cause he makes me laugh and can beat Johnny up.” E- 2 n

JIMMY takes care of Johnny, hangs up Johnny’s coat for him, gets back his belt when some other kid swipes it, folds his own

and Johnny’s camp-beds on which they nap. Johnny hasn’t much to say, but frequently repeats Jimmy's words. Johnny keeps his superb balance in climbing, while Jimmy still has a normal fear of high perches. Jimmy’s natural promise is asserting itself, in the opinion of Miss Burton. “Jimmy was the brighter child at the beginning of the experiment, ” she said. “It’s his natural heritage. He's the friendlier, too.” Meanwhile, the Columbia-Pres-byterian clinic ‘said that the work on Johnny Woods had now reached a less spectacular phase. Johnny still goes there every fortnight, but it is the hope of officials that he will now lapse into greater anonymity than hitherto, both for his own sake and for that of the clinic's experi-

asked. They preferred not to say.

ment,

She was a beauty, clever, learned, witty, charming. George was unfaithful and she knew it. Yet all her life she loved him, helped him, forgave him. Her father-in-law, in his dull way, appreciated her superior brains and called her “that little devil of a princess.” Her husband, despite his loose life, was faithful in his appreciation of her great qualities and said of her that he knew no woman worthy to buckle her shoe. 4 J ” HERE is no queerer story in history than that related by a chronicler of the times who tells how, on her deathbed, Caroline told the weeping, aging King to marry again. “No, no,” he protested, “I will have mistresses!” He did. And yet the strange creature ordered that, when he died, his coffin should be placed beside that of Caroline. Moreaver a side was to be taken out of each coffin, so that their poor mortal remains might mingle their ashes. Lover and sinner, his name remains immortalized in American history, for it was after him that

what is now the great state of

Georgia was christened.

NEXT—George IIT and Revolution.

Hopkins in No Mood to Cut Relief Budget,

Clapper Says

By RAYMOND CLAPPER

Times Special Writer |

ASHINGTON, May 7.—Some of the New Dealers are growing tired. That starry look has gone from their eyes. Their morale is low. But not Harry Hopkins. In four years as head of Federal relief, Mr. Hopkins has been tlie center of more- controversy and criticism than all the rest of the New Dealers combined. You might think that by now his sharp-jutting chin would have been worn away by what it has had to take. Yet it is sticking out, as strong as ever, ready for more, and ready to move in against the 'streng fight for retrenchment that has develcped in Congress. . This week Mr. Hopkins is wrestling in executive session with the House Appropriations Committee, trying to convince them that relief appropriations cannot be cut below the $1,500,000,000 which he persuaded President Roosevelt to ask for

the coming fiscal year.

Since he was sworn in as head of Federal relief on May 24, four years ago, Mr. Hopkins has administered $7,000,000,000, thus earning his title as the gréatest spender in history. Through WPA, which is two years old today, he has become the largest employer in history. He is in’ no mood to let up now.

” E-4 = EITHER does Congress seem in

any mood to let up in its economy drive. At first the economy

talk sounded like the usual airing of

good intentions which were to be promptly forgotten as soon as they had been printed in the Congressional Record. But instead they seem to mean it this time. The chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee handling relief, Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum of Virginia, talks about the wonders of the New Deal and what it has done and praises Mj. Roosevelt and then he cracks down on expenditures. Senator Byrnes of South Carolina, one of the President’s most intimete advisers in the Senate, is talking in dead earnest. He has won over the majority leader, Senator Robinson. In fact, the Democratic leaders in both™ houses seem So serious about economy now that even some Republicans are. beginning to be convinced and to suspect that Mr. Roosevelt quietly has signaled a go-ahead to make economies which for various reasons he does not feel free to urge directly himself. Whether he has the President fully behind him or not, Mr. Hop-

_Jkins is holding to the President's!

official recommendation that $1,500,000,000 must be appropriated for relief. That, he says, is the rock- bottom figure. ; If Congress succeeds in making a heroic economy stroke by cutting off

one-third of this, paring it down to a cold billion dollars, Mr. Hopkins is convinced that next winter the other $500,000,000 will have to be handed over in a deficiency appropriation. Therefore, instead of a fake economy cut which would be restored next winter, Mr. Hopkins wants Congress to.do the full job now, so that relief activities can be planned with certainty. 2 2 8-1 R. HOPKINS asks, where can - you cut? Let ’em starve? No. Cut on administration? He says that administrative. costs in relief amount to 4.7 per cent whereas in private business a 10 per cent administrative overhead is regarded as good management. Senator Byrnes says the states and local governments contributed only 13 per cent of relief expenditures last year. He would require them to. bear half the expense. Mr. Hopkins says that states and local governments spent nearly four times as much. for relief last year -as they did in 1933 and that their share of the load is steadily increasing. Thus the argument goes, round and round. One small bloc is insisting .that Mr. Hopkins isn't asking for enough and this group is calling for an appropriation of $2,000,000,000 or more. That, plus heat from Governors, Mayors and relief groups back home, is counted upon by the Hopkins group to help stave off the economy drive. Mr. Hopkins, however,. can expect little help from other Administration quarters. Certainly he won’t get much from Secretary Ickes,

whose PWA looks like a starving

Armenian and may soon have to apply for relief itself. Secretary Wallace has his own spending program. So it is with other officials. They are not so much concerned about what will happen to Mr. Hopkins as about what may happen to them. - It’s every man for himself now. To Congress Mr. Hopkins symbolizes spending, and the best chance to make a showing is out of his hide. Even if Congress has to let him in through the back door next winter to quietly pick up that other half billion. In that way Congress could have its balanced budget until

Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER * (Photos, Page 35) N open letter to Edward W. Redfield and

George F. Buehr. Dear Sirs: Before I get going good today allow me to say that I established your identity bes

fore starting this letter. At any rate, I confirmed the rumor that you—and you alone—picked the pictures for the 30th exhibitiori of work by Indi ana artists now on view at the Herron. You helped

award the prizes, too, I understand. I'm one of the guys around here who doesn’t know anything about Art, but knows what he likes. Maybe you don't know it, or maybe you don’t want to, but I. represent the majority. I'm not bragging about it, however. Quite the contrary, because nothing impresses me quite as much as the ability of those who can explain what they like in terms of Art, and get away with it. : At any rate, I take it’ for granted that ‘you two gentlemen know what you like and that’s exactly what bothers me. Your attitude bothers me because

Mr. Scherrer

-it leaves me no alternative but to believe that the

pictures you chose represent what you like. Either that, or they represent what you men call Art. Well, that’s where you and I part company, bee cause to tell you ithe truth without putting too fine 'a point on it, there are a number of pictures you picked that represent neither what I call Art, nor what I like. I am Simple. minded enough to believe that what I like is At,

= Left in Bewildered State NYWAY, you left me‘in a bewildered state, be= cause I can’t help wondering about the pictures you rejected to get what you got. I'm .pretty sure, and I think others will agree with me, that you mgt have rejected some .pictures every bit as good as those vy accepted. For the very good reason the 3 sof possible to paint pictures worse than » of those listed in this year’s catalog gi the other hand, you certainly picked some honies, and I can’t tell you how its strengthened my hope’ that some day you and I will see eye to eye. r 3 zn Liked Mayer’ s Picture AYBE you gentlemen are interested to know what I liked. Well, T'll tell you anyway. 1 liked Henrik Mayer's “Picnic on the Allegheny” (29) just as much as I did the first time I saw it,” which ought to be proof that I can make up my mind and stick to it. And then, too, I liked Clifton Wheeler's “Portrait” (53), even if he did make Mrs. Wheeler look older than she is. I think I'll go back to have

| another Zook just to see how nicely- it’s painted,

The picture that tickled me most, though, was Alan Tompkins’ “The Dinner” (52). It's slick. I don't believe that Peter Arno and James Thurber, rolled into one, could think up anything better. Anyway, I never knew that Mr. Tompkins had so many mean remarks saved up in his system.

A Woman's View By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

N certain “smart” (aleck) publications we” find men writing about the unsightliness of the middle= aged woman. Indeed it has become quite the fashion for us to snicker behind our hands at the individual who has been working too hard to keep her hip-line down or her neck properly massaged. So from various # quarters ; about ‘thie stodgy club. ladies, or the fattish home-: bodies, or the shrewish Mrs. Caudles giving curtain lectures. That form of wit which pokes fun at solid virtues and worthwhile. enterprises has become so common we feed it without protest. Thus the dazzling dames

come semi-insulting comments

ged in the business of gypping their sugar dad¥fés are the benefactors of all the promotion schemes and the sales talk. We could bear such injustice with more calm if most of these cracks were not made by. gentlemen who are so homely themselves-they took like comic= strip characters. It strikes us as impertinent for the fellow with a bay-window front to bewail the many wide-waisted women he meets in elevators and hotel lobbies, or for the -bald-headed guy to call loud attention to a dowdy spinster’s badly cut locks. For it is generally agreed, we hope, that badly cut locks are better than no locks at all, a humiliation that many of our finey men suffer. And we might also point out that women arg not in the habit of twitting them about this mis fortune. Being civilized and, we trust, Christian gentlewomen, it is our desire to help them bear their burdens of physical ugliness with good grace: “When they reach the middle years and have lost their Adonis beauty, their hair and their enthusiasm; we are sorry for them, making allowances for their helplessness in the matter. From that time on their spiritual and mental qualities rather than their avoirdupois are the subject of our attention and comment. It would be well for some of our critics to look into their mirrors more often. In a bunch, middle aged women stack up pretty well against middle’ aged men. That being true, we would appreciate . little more gallantry and fewei wise- -cracks about our appearahce,

Your Flesh

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, American Medical Assn. Journal | HE heart is one of the muscles of the body that act involuntarily. There happen to be a few recorded instahces in which peggle have been able to control their heartbeat voluntarily, but most people, perhaps fortunately for them, do net have this power, The heart begins working before the child is born and never ceases until death. The only rest it gets is when its beat is slowed a little or decreased somewhat in ifs force. The vital organ must therefore be protected in ever, possible against overstrain and damage. Fortunately, the heart is situated in % part of the body where it is reasonably well protected against most ordinary dangers. The heart lies just below and to the left of the lower two-thirds of the chest bone. Its shape is like that of a large pear with the broad end upward arid under the chest bone, and the pointed end downward and to the left. If you put your finger in the space just below the- fifth rib and slightly to the left of the breast-bone, you can feel the impulse of the heartbeats. The heart lies inside a sac called the pericardium, which serves to separate the heart from other chest organs and to hold it in position. Sometimes the "strain and pressure on the heart may be so great that it would swell like a balloon if this sa¢ did not keep it from stretching too much. The outside of the heart, too, is inclosed in a membranous sac. A thin layer of fluid keeps these two layers of tissue from being rubbed together when the heart beats. The heart is a muscle, called the myocardium. The - interior of the heart is lined with another membrane called the endocardium. The heart gets its own nourishment from blood vessels which pass into the muscle tissue from the large blood vessels that carry the blood away from the heart. The small blood vessels that nourish the heart with blood are known as the coronary arteries, Remember thissname, because trouble with these coronary arteries is responsible nowadays for a ‘good many cases of sudden death. : -All of the openings leading into and passing out of the heart are controlled by valves which open and shut as the blood enters and leaves. Similar valves

Christmas and then, oh well, that’ll be -another year. :

govern the passing of thg blood from one part of the heart into another, :

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