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ERNIE PYLE 2 A May 8.—Once upon a time (this was in my palmier days) I drove in a ~ Model T roadster from Washington to New York—via El Paso, San Diego, Seattle -and St. Paul, This happened in 1926, and in a mere 9000 miles we completely demolished a set and a half of new tires, plus four second-hand ones I picked

up in Jamestown, N. D., for a dollar apiece.

It seems the hot sands of the Arizona desert. cooked the rubber, and -consequently those old tubes

were popping like a motorcycle all

the way up the Pacific Coast. And then coming east from Seattle somebody had scattered tacks in a gravel road. In one - forenoon I changed tires 13 times. When we arrived in New York and drove bewilderedly up Fifth Ave. in a rainstorm, each front tire had a knot on it as big as a quart can. Just as we turned the wrong way onto Vanglerbilt Ave. one of the knots let go. I'm telling this merely to illustrate how terrible tires were 13 years ago, in comparison with today. When you get a puncture today it’s an event, and I expect two-thirds of the motorists under 30 wouldn't know how to take a tire: off the rim. So in Akron, the hcme of tires, I decided to find out how this vast improvement came about. I thought maybe it had been something so simple as discovering that they had been making them wrong-side-out. I went to a tire company and asked them to tell. in primer language, just how they did it. To make a long story short—I never did find out. But they did give me some figures: 1908 1915 Mileage on average tire 2000 6000 Cost of average tire $35 $21 No. of new tires per car per year .. 4-5 4

2 " ”n Do Improvements Cut Business?

O you see how mileage has gone up and prices J down} and how the tire companies have simply improved | themselves out of a great deal of business. They der v it, but it's true. of ‘hanging their heads in shame and crying into their rubbery beards, here's how they argue it:| ‘Because tires have improved so, a lot of new uses [for tires have sprung up, such as for heavy trucks, tractors on iarms, wheelbarrows and what not. They say the expanding market (caused by “tires being good) more than offsets the shrinking auto market (caused by tires being good). I found out a few simple things about tires that I never knew before: _ 1. That it’s wise to put in two more pounds of air than the dealer says. 2. That it is not more dangerous to blow a front tire than a hind one. 3. That a factory test-car driver can sense a blowout several seconds ahead; and that "if he’s doing 80 he can be slowed down to 40 by the time it blows. But not one ordinary driver out; of 100,000 “could sense an impending blowout.

2 n 5 Trend Toward Big Tires

. That those huge doughnut air wheels weren't et put because car design wasn't up with

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them wet. But that the trend is for bigger tires, with less air pressure, all the time. 5. That a new tire loses air faster than a monthold tire. That the average tire loses two pounds a week. That the spare is in worse shape after riding 10,000 miles than if it had carried the load 10,000 niles. 6. That vou should take a screw driver and pick out those little pebbles in the tread every chance you get. 7. That some bus lines use nitrogen instead of air in their tires to keep down heat. And that some trucks have little fans blowing across the brake drums and tives. That the people in Akron say one tire is about as ona as another (but for goodness’ sake don't repeat that).

Mrs.Roosevelt's Day

By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT |

EW YORK CITY, Friday—Last night I left Seattle. It was a beautiful day and, after spending a very brief time with my daughter at her office, we went off for a drive to the Cascade Mountains. Theve we lunched at Canyon Creek Lodge, a very unique place. The dining room is paneled entirely in hand- - wrought cedar shakes. - The natural grain of the wood makes an intricate pattern on the wall that no artist could have produced with paint and brush. We were home by 4 o'clock to greet a few guests at tea and to talk with the grandchildren concerning

the short visit we had paid to their school class- ’

rooms in the morning. A very charming woman is

head of this school. and I liked the children’s teach- |

ers and the bright and Sunny atmosphere of the school. Afterward we went down to the school auditorium, which is also used at noon hour as a lunchroom. We stepped into the kitchen for a! minute and met the very sweet-faced, capable woman who presides over the school lunches and trains some of the girls as her assistants. i The children had supper with us and then I left for the airport. It's grand to see one's children, but always hard to leave them. However, I hope they will be visiting in the East before many months have elapsed, and, I certainly shall look forward to my next visit in Seattle.

I am about to arrive and after filing this will pro-

ceed to Hyce Park for the week-end.

New Books PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS—

_N excellent picture of “back-stage” in the publishing business, and a fascinating tale of literary London, is SWINNERTON; AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Doubleday). Unaffectedly the author tells of his early years, his serious illness, and the family’s many moves .about London and the subtirbs, moves made froin necessity (they were never rich) or merely to satisfy a " wanderlust. He recounts his experiences with the great publisher, J. M. Dent, and his many years as a reader for the publishing house of Chatto & Windus. In these chapters, Frank Swinnerton recalls delightful personal bits about such literary figures as H. G. Wells and- Arnold Bennett, and gives vivid sketches of the ‘younger generation” of English writers, J. D. Beresford, Aldous Huxley, Compton Mackenzie and others. He includes some entertaining chapters on his American confreres and witty reminiscences of his two visits to this country. The autobiography ends with. the author’s retirement from active publishing to devote his time to writing; for, he explains, he has attained many of his boyhood ambitions, the chief of which were a cottage in the country, a charming wife, a lovely garden and thousands of books. = ”n ”

HE tall, stately, divinely beautiful Gibson girl, with her steadfast admirer, the Gibson man— equally tall and handsome—come to life again in the pages of PORTRAIT OF AN ERA AS DRAWN BY C. D. GIBSON, a biography by Fairfax Downey (Scribner). Brought into vogue by her originator, Charles

Dana Gibson, whose pen-and-ink illustrations of this:

famous belle filled the pages of the popular magazines of the period, the Gibson girl held full sway from 1890 to 1906. Mr. Downey's biography is important, not only for the story of the man and his work, but as a picture of the social life of his era. During the war Gibson was organizer of wartime pictorial propaganda for the United States; from 1920 to 1932 he was proprietor of Life, and now, at 69, he is still active. The book, which is splendidly illustrated with over 200 of Gibson's best drawings, will be a delight to the older reader who can remember the fashions and foibles of the “Gay Nineties,” and to the younger one who is intrigued by a vogue of mann®s and styles which had vanished before he was born. .

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SIX ROYAL GEORGES OF ENGLAND

Third Gre Lost American Colonics, but Won Lotion as Foniily Mon

Second of a Series

By MILTON

BRONNER

NEA Service Staff Writer ONDON, May 8.—The reign of King George III of England was of patriarchal length, 60 years. It was made tragic by suffering, blindness, total deafness, madness. It

was embittered and acquired

vast historic importance by

the loss of the American colonies.

~ But it accomplished the

downfall of Napoleon, thus

eliminating the greatest menace to the life of Britain

since the Norman conquest.

It saw the expansion and aggrandizement of the na-

tion’s powers greater destiny.

and wealth, the beginning of the nation’s

~, It cemented the kinship of the House of Hanover and made this house truly British for the first time. And it showed the people of the realm that a king

could be a decent, simple, home-loving,

deeply religious

man—a tradition which the fifth and sixth Georges were

‘to continue.

George I1I was the first Hanoverian king to be born

in England. He was the ¢ first to live a godly, serene, family life. George was born June 4, 1738, son of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta, who was a daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Gotha. His father died when he& was 13 and the boy thus became heir to the throne of his grandfather. He learned French and German, but his English was bad and all his life he could not spell correctly.

the British peerage had all the fun and all the power and was dissolute, impious and immoral as it was powerful. George mounted the throne a moral and a pious man and such he remained all his life—a creature of simple tastes, who loved his wife, his children, his fireside. He liked to play| at farming and so became known as “Farmer George.” 2 2 ” - E fell in love with a letter written to him by Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and in 1761 married her, his proposal letter inviting her to be “Queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland.” This was probably the last time an English king clung to the illusion that he still ruled over part of France. ; Their match was a happy one. They reared their 15 children. They danced long hours in simple family parties. George sat and listened while his Charlotte played He adored long sermons and church music. His mother long ago had pronounced him a dull but good boy and in his private life he remained exactly that. In his public life he was not quite so happy. He could not understand great men. He disliked statesmen like Fox and Chatham and Burke, and warriors like Nelson who shed luster on his era. He had exalted ideas of the prerogatives of the crown and steadily and stubbornly resumed powers which had been taken by the cabinet. He seized much of the patronage and a party of “King's friends” grew up. He used corruption both in elections and in Parliament to gain his ends and he did break the long oligarchy of the Whig Party. °° He disliked the American colonists because of their growing in-

dependence and was happiest when hie found a ministry subservient to his ideas of crushing them. From 1770 to 1782 he virtually directed affairs. He heartily favored the long wars with France which finally broke Napoleon's power, and he stubbornly opposed emancipation of ‘the Roman Catholics among his subjects. # nn =a HE closing years of his life were as black as those of some protagonist in a stark Greek tragedy. In 1765 he was mentally deranged for some time, but recovered. In 1788 this recurred and the first bill was passed making his eldest son, the Prince of Wales, the regent. Again he recovered.

But in 1809 he became blind and in 1811 after the death of his favorite daughter, Princess Amelia, he became hopelessly insane and also deaf. He was a King in total darkness and isolation, a King often in a straitjacket. He died Jan. 29, 1820. He was succeeded by the son who had been regent so long and who now mounted the throne.as George IV. This King was born at St. James’ Palace, London, Aug. 12, 1762, and five days later was made Prince of Wales by his adoring father. Among his earliest toys were a set of Indian bows and arrows sent him from New York by the still loyal subjects of the crown. He grew up a handsome lad, with a quick brain for languages and all kinds of learning. He played the cello, sang pleasingly, rode well. But as the years went on, the good-looking lad became the redfaced, bloated man of the world

who cared more for the set of a wig and the fit of a coat than for anything serious. He was as dissolute as the rich patricians of his time, instead of moral, like his father and mother. In the days when he was regent for his mad father, he made the “regency days” famous, or infamous, according to the viewpoint. He made of the seaside place of Brighton a resort of fashion. He became one of the most extravagant princes in England's history. He was cold and heartless and not only dropped cne-time friends

‘The First Gentleman of Europe” is the ironical titie bestowed on King George IV (upper left in his coronation robes), because

his conduct toward Queen Caro-

line (left below) was a royal scandal that alienated his subjects. Unlike the earlier Georges, King George III (right above) proved to be a devout and faithful family man of modest tastes and moral habits, devoted to Queen Charlotte (right below), who captivated his fancy Heourh correspondence.

like the famous Beau Brummel, but the doll women he for a time petted and adored, and the woman he married. He was constant only in his inconstancy.

” n 8 HUS, antedating the Duke of Windsor in his love for a commoner, he contracted a form

MARS VISIBLE ALL NIGHT IN MAY: MERCURY TO PRESENT RARE SIGHT

By JAMES STOKLEY OMING into view in the evening sky after an absence of many months, “the planet Mars is! now visible during the-entire night. It is above the star Antares, in the scorpion, and both planet, and star are shown on the accompanying maps. These depict the appearance of the heavens at 9 p. m. on the 15th and 8 p. m. on the 31st. |

On May 24, Mars is directly opposite the ‘sun. Then it rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. At! about this time it is also at the closest approach it makes to the] earth on this trip around the sun. - No other planets are visible in the early evening sky this month, but Jupiter rises about 12:30 a. m., at the beginning of the month and about 10:30 at the end. It is then a brilliant object -in the southeast. Saturn and Venus hoth appear in the east about two hours before sunrisg. ® o on HESE planets are all bodies like the earth, shining by reflected sunlight, but the other objects seen in the night-time sky are stars, far distant suns. Most brilliant of these now to be seen 1s Vega, in Lyra, the lyre, low in the northeast. Still lower is Cygnus, the swan, which contains the bright star Denab. High in the north is the great dipper, part of Ursa Major, the great bear. The dipper is upside down, the bowl to the left. The ‘pointers, the two stars in the "bowl farthest from the handle, indicate the direction of Polaris, .the pole star. ” 8 8

T is unfortunate that the chief event on the May celestial program, a phenomenon which occurs approximately once in a thousand years, is not visible from North America. This is a partial transit of Mercury. The planets revolve around the sun in orbits approximately circular, but not in quite the same plane. Nearest the sun is Mercury. Transits of Mercury are more common, and happen every seven years on the average. There was one on Nov. 8, 1927: there will be another in 1940 on Nov. 12. Then the planet will be completely in front of the sun. A person looking through a telescope equipped with the proper eyepiece, for protection from the solar brilliance, will see the huge disc of the sun,'with% tiny

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speck upon it. On such an occasion, the sun’s apparent diameter is about 160 times that of Mercury.

8 2 2 ECAUSE Mercury is so much

smaller than the sun, a mere :

speck, in fact, if it comes in front of the sun at alle: it is generally completely in front of it. If it does not cross the disc, it misses it completely. But, at rare intervals, it just skims along, the sun’s edge, partly on it, partly “Off. That is what will happen on May" 11. From a _point Ocean, about Australia, Mercury would be seen to- enter for more than half its diameter on the solar dise. It is not very likely that anyone will see it from this inaccessible location. But from most of southern Asia, the Philippine Islands, western Austra- | lia, the Indian Ocean, and central and southern Africa, the planet will be seen to enter the sun’s disc to a lesser extent.

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this partial transit will be in the possibility that it affords of check-

ing the existence of an atmosphere.

on Mercury. Theoretically, it. has none. Certain observers of Mercury have noticed peculiar effects which they interpret as showing the presence of an atmosphere after all. If there were an atmosphere, it would bend like rays around it, like a prism, and, with the sun behind it, the dark disc of the planet should be surrounded by a brilliant halo. At ordinary transits of Mercury, the planet is so small, and moving so quickly, that there is little time

'| to make these observations as it en-

ters or emerges from the disc of the sun. When it is on the disc, the

sun’s own briliance would make it But this

time there will be many minutes

twhile the panet is partially on the

disc. During this time, there should be plenty of opportunity to see whether there is any effect of an at3 ges 1037, by Science Service)

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of marriage with a Mrs. Fitzher= bert in December, 1785. To get

Parliament to help with his mounting debts, he allowed an official denial of his marriage. Again %o secure Parliamentary doles, he wed his cousin, Caroline of Brunswick. His conduct toward her was cruel and callous to the extreme and helped alienate the English. After the birth of their daughter, he deserted Caroline to climax his abominable conduct toward her and made attempts to secure a divorce from her. It was this roue, this fop, this profligate who was called a little over one hundred years ago—"‘The First Gentleman of Europe.” His reign was marked by great events. While regent, his England gave the mortal blow to Napoleon and fought the War of 1812 with the United States. When he was King, England helped the Greeks attain independence from the Turks and the long fight of the Catholics to have full rights of British citizenship was at last

won. George IV, regretted by few, died at Windsor, June 26, 1830. (Copyright, 1937. NEA Scrvice, Inc.)

Social Security Case Hinges

On Roberts

, Clapper Says

By RAYMOND CLAPPER

Times Special Writer

ASHINGTON, May 8.—How would you like to be carrying

the responsibility which is loading

down the stalwart 62-year-old

shoulders of Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts today? It is the responsibility of deciding whether some 26,000,000 wage earners and salaried employees under ihe Social Security Act are to have their oldage benefit system taken away from them. The Court is now considering the case for decision within the next If the Government in I'its arguments before the Court this week has persuaded Justice Roberts, If it has failed to persuade him, then the chances are that the Social Security Act will go out the window, pecalise Justice Roberts is the key man on the Court in this case. If the Government can’t sell the Social Security Act to him, it certainly can't hope to persuade the four extreme rightwingers on the Court—Van Devanter,” McReynolds, Sutherland and Butler. So that would make five or a majority, against the act. On the other hand, if the Government can persuade Justice Roberts, the same arguments would be likely to persuade Chief Justice Hughes and the three consistent liberals— Brandeis, Cardozo and Stone. : That is why when Robert Jackson, Assistant Attorney General, argued the social security case, he in effect was arguing to a onejudge court. He was pleading his case for the special benefit . of Justice Roberts. At least the method of his presentation would suggest that.

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OR instance, Mr. Jackson wasted no time in growing eloquent about the new social order. He toned his argument to appeal to hard-fisted conservatives. He emphasized that the Social Security Act was a thrift measure, to enable people to take care of themselves in old age by putting away savings out of their wages. He warned that if this scheme were thrown out, anything else that might replace it would likely be more radical, more like the fantastic Townsend plan. He recalled that the depression wrecked the thrifty as well as the shiftless and that this law was an attempt to safeguard the man who works from having his old-age savings again wipeg

out,

It is ironical that Justice Roberts is the chief hurdle in this case. He was confirmed by the Senate after Judge Parker had been rejected by the Senate as too

reactionary. Senators thought Mr. ||

Roberts was a liberal. That was chiefly because of the excellent impression he made in prosecuting the Teapot Dome cases. After he went on the bench, however, the conservative Philadelphia lawyer, in him came to the surface. ~ Government arguments seemed pointed to show Justice Roberts how he could get around two of his opinions which

against AAA and his against the Railroad Retirement Act, from which, significantly, Chief Justice Hughes dissented. n n n N the AAA case Justice Roberts made a heavy point of AAA taxes being inextricably entangled with farm benefit payments so that the tax, as he put it, was a mere incident of the regulation. As if fearful that Government Attorney Jackson might neglect to deal with this point, Chief Justice Hughes asked a direct question from the bench to bring out the fact that the Social Security Act is entirely different in this respect: That gave Mr. Jackson his cue to emphasize that the pension system is not at all dependent upon the pay-roll tax, that the tax could be repealed and the pensions paid with borrowed money, with greenbacks, or by heavy income taxes, or any other way. Similarly for the benefit of Justice Roberts, Mr. Jackson stressed differences between this act and the Railroad Retirement Act. But it was impossible to tell what effect these arguments had on Justice Roberts. He rowsed over a copy of the Cons rtution and at one time pointed out something in it to Justice Butler, who sits next to him. Most. of the justices, by their questions, indicate what is disturbing them. When a point is made that impresses Chief Justice Hughes, you can see his eyes light up with a twinkle. In the social security cases argued recently, every justice except Justice Roberts has asked questions. He just sat there, saying nothing, Sesping the best poker face on the Court.

- I have also’ the babies they used tg : toddlers, striplings—one picture merges ~ and all those countless sweet beings are indubitably-

are - possible | obstacles to his going along with | the Social Security Act—his opinion | opinion |

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Our Town

By ANTON SCHERRER

OR fear of incurring the wrath of those readers less interested in the old Cyclorama Building than I am, I have abstained for several weeks from all mention of the subject. But today, if only to wind it up, I must report about William D. | Yount of Bepisuile: Route 2, Box 125.

. Yount gets in today’s column Because of a i Te sent me which is so rich in source material

' that it ‘makes my own look posi-

tively sick beside it. Listen: “I thought you might like me to help you out on the history of the Cyclorama Building. We moved to Indianapolis-in 1899, and left in 1901. I was only about 6 years old at the time my father worked in a barber shop across from the ‘old building. They called it the Zoo. I imagine it was winter quarters for some circus. I remember Bostock and his famous lions were there, and a woman with a ring of leopards. “There was a central ring. in the middle of the building where cages were arranged around in a circle, containing all manner of wild animals. Inside that were smaller creatures, like snakes and things, There was also a dwarf horse (not a |pony) which was about the size of a hound dog, and | weighed not over 50 pounds. :

Kids Rode Animals

TZ had a parade of seyeral L Larnors, camels and elephants—on which. kids could ride. I stood my turn with a box of crackerjack in my hand, and picked out a camel. I watched how the camel rose from the rear first, but didn’t realize how it would be. They had little seats built on the camels with a rod at the top so that two kids could ride at once. We were strapped onto the seats, and a good thing, too, for when my camel rose up from behind, I wasn’t expect=" ing just how it would be, and dawgone if I didn’t drop my popcorn and an elephant stepped on it. “One day, my father was sitting in the window of" the barber shop reading the paper when two elephants were brought in from the train to the Cyclorama, Building. There was a dog and pony show there at the time and a lot of these dogs ran out to bark at the elephants. One big brute got scared, shut . his eyes, and ran straight into the barber shop. My dad ran to the back of the shop, but here was no back door. 2 | Enrocked Streetcar off frock FTER the elephant had stuck his head through

the plate-glass window, he opened his eyes and turned and tore down the street, causing several horses

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| to run away. Finally, he knocked a streetcar off the | track. That stopped him.

“Another time, one of the cage boys came into tha

| shop to be shaved. He told my father that, somehow, | he dreaded to go to work that day, but he didn’t know

why. About 10 o'clock that morning a lion grabbed his foot, got a taste of blood, and grabbed him by the neck as a cat, would a mouse, and nearly bit his head

All of which leaves me time to point out, lif further proof is necessary, that there is nothing quite so precious as the mind and memory of a 6- year-old boy,

A Woman's View

By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

AM tired: of hearing motherhood praised. It is a privilege any woman ought to be grateful for, and it merits no pensions or bouquets: Its true rewards are intangible joys which cannot bel measured in money or gifts, Looking back across the years I feel moved to give thanks for two sons and one daughter who bring me more credit than I deserve and seem to be turning out well in spite of me. I think of all the ways I have failed them, of the times when I was {oo busy to hear their problems, when their little troubles were brushed aside to make room for my more petty ones, when they were left to grope their way alone in what must often have been to them a fearsome world. I remember my ignorance, my carelessness. and my errors with re=gret. They have loved me nevertheless, as is the generous way of children who realize perhaps that parents

| are often wrong and never infallible. Over and over

again they have forgiven me .my sins of omission and commission. For my shortcomings, my tempests of anger, my unreasonable whims and demands, they have never reproached me. Although I have not always been worthy of their tru, it has been mine

! unwaveringly.

One child has reached rathoed. one womanhood and one adolescence during a. period when social changes have been so swift and drastic: that’ the most level-headed adult could hardly maintain his spiritual balance—yet never in all those trying years have they let me down. Not only do I have them now, as|they are, but be. Infants,

into another,

mine. Red gold curls, big brown eyes, pranks, wail= ings, laughter and love, their soft cheeks, their fond arms, their wide grins, the wonder of sigh possession, even when glimpsed through the curtain which the years hang between our Then and our Now—must move any woman with a sense of great blessing. Here is one who ‘feels enormous surprise that so imperfect a parent could have mothered three such

Your Health

By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

Editor, American Medical Asan, Journal

SMALL percentage of children are born with hearts which are not quite normal and which, fheretore, may cause some difficulty ny after irth There may be a narrowing of some of the lores blood vessels which leave the heart, defects of ths walls of the heart, or other disturbances which maka it difficult to secure complete and proper circulation of the blood. * The victim of such disability suffers sooner or later from ;shortness of breath after slight, exertion, and occasionally fainting spells. In such cases, the ends of the child’s fingers seem to be cl bbed: that is, broader and flatter than normal, and he usually has a blue appearance. Since children with congenitally defective hearts cannot indulge in normal activities, and, furthermore, sometimes have insufficient muscle ih their tissue, they may seem below normal. in growth and developmen There is not much that can be done in such cases, except to make certain that the child Javoids exercise and never gets so active that he has (more than a moderate shortness of breath. * Such children should be allowed to lead the lives of normal youngsters as much as posible.” They must, however, be given a considerable amount of care to make certain that they avoid serious infection. Tuberculosis, for example, is a constant threat bes cause of its wide prevalence among the public gen= erally. It should be borne in mind that no type of opera= tion can take care of a structural defect in the heart. The only hope lies in suitable control of the child’s activities. Overexercise ordinarily will not injure a normal heart, because resulting unconsciousness will stop the overexertion. If, however, a heart is seriously damaged, overexercise or overexerfion may lead to an exe ceedingly serious, if not fatal, result. When the heart is overworked, as occurs, for ex= ample, in marathon running, it may be [forced to pump so fast and so hard that the tissues stretch. This is called an acute dilation. Naturally, stretching of the hear y disturb the valve action or otherwise gam . heart seriously.