Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1937 — Page 11
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FROM INDIANA
ERNIE PYLE
LEVELAND, May 10.—Some friends of mine who recently moved here go practically into hysterics when they tell about the “greeter” situation in Cleveland. ° It seems that all newcomers to Cleveland
‘are officially greeted, whether they're in a greet-receiving mood or not. ’ These friends of mine had been in their new apartment about an hour. It was a miserable, raw
day, and they were just up from sunny Florida and hadn't wanted to come to Cleveland anyway. The doorbell rang, and a woman - walked in and threw cout her arms and said, “Welcome to Cleveland, my ~dear.” The woman had a bouquet for the wife, and a cigar for the husband, and some candy, and 1 forget what else. And oh yes, a letter from the Mayor of Cleveland. Well, my friends were nice to the greeter (at least so they say) : and they all sat down and had a good old chat. And finally after they were thoroughly greeted she got into her gray car with unifcrmed chauffeur and drove away. But she hadn’t got around the corner before the doorbell’ rang and another woman greeted them. “Welcome to Lakewood,” was this one’s slogan. . : If I remember correctly, this woman .had a few bottles of milk, and maybe another cigar. (The thing has all got confused in my mind, for there's more to come.) And what else do you suppose she had? Yep, a letter of welcome from the Mayor of Lakewood. Well, they all sat down and had another good old chat. And finally she left, and she hadn't got around the corner till a greeter came from the dairy, bearing gifts. And then a welcomer from a big store. And then a woman from the Service Bureau, to get them a maid or anything else they wanted. And then a greeter from the insurance company. . . .
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T this point in the story my friends were getting woozy, so I decided to look into the greeter situation myself. And here is what I found: I found Mrs. Sally Campbell, the greeter-in-chief, in a downtown office. And I found that this greeting business isn’t a civic thing at all, put on by the city as we had supposed. Naw, it’s commercial, It’s a big company. Has branches in 200 cities. The name of it is Welcome Wagon. Mrs. Campbell is the head of a staff of four greeters. They welcome about 150 new families a month. The freight is paid by whatever companies are signed up by, Welcome Wagon to do the paying. The companies that pay are recommended to Mr. and Mrs. Newcomer (that's what Mrs, Campbell calls them) by the greeters. = = ”
What New Families Get
N addition to. her bouquet and cigar, Mrs. Campbell carries to new families (except people on relief and things like that) the following little items to make life pleasant: A free car-wash coupon; a card from the public library; a free chassis-lubrication coupon; a coupon for one pound of bacon, one loaf of bread, and one pound of coffee from a certain grocer (all free, but you have to make three trips; can’t have them all at once); a coupon for packages of powder and perfume, a chocolate soda, and a 25-cent aliowance toward a dollar purchase at a drug store ~ (three trips here, too); cards giving you a free lunch, and a snampco and finger wave at a big department store; an inventory bookiet from an insurance company; two movie passes; and just plain old welcome cards from a laundry, a coal company and a creamery.
Mrs.Roosevelt's Day
By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
LBANY, N. Y. Sunday.—-It is hard to realize that Thursday evening at 7:30 (Seattle Time), I took to the air. I reached Newark only half an hour late, crossing the entire continent in less than 24 hours. : Not long ago someone asked me why I liked to fly. From his point of view the only reason why anyone would want to fly would be to save time and, after all, the time saved was frequently of very littie value, Flying does, however, make it possible to do a great many things we would like to do and perhaps might not think possible. . Quite aside from time there is! beauty in flying. For instance, we were over the clouds for a time and I could not help but think of how interesting the view was. Even more than the beauty of sunrise or sunset, there is a fascination which I think every aviator must feel in conquering a new element. At the bottom of all study and invention lies that constant effort on the part of man to control his surroundings. all these efforts men give their lives, but each loss of life brings something new to the sum total of knowledge which mankind has as a whole. Just as I took off the news came of the horrible accident to the Hindenburg. All of us grieved over the loss of life. It seemed even more pathetic when one realized the journey was really done. The interesting thing to me was that no one I saw suggested for a minute that we would ‘not go on with experiments on lighter-than-air craft. All the discussion was over what occasioned the accident and how best such mishaps could be prevented. Therein lies the greatness of man. Fear is never allowed to dominate that desire for greater knowledge, and as long 3s mankind retains that spirit we
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«HE busy life back-of-the-scenes in a large museum is the setting of THE ARROW POINTS TO MURDER, by Frederica de Laguna (Doubleday). In the “Academy of Natural Sciences” occur two deaths which at first seem accidental. It is very easy to prick oneself with an arrow tipped with poison, but what laboratory worker would deliberately shut himself in a room which was to be fumigated with poison gases? Richard Burton, one of the assistant curators, sets himself to prove that the deaths were urders. Te the actual clues, which were the poison arrow and an Indian gourd, and the probable motive, professional jealousy, Barton attacks the problem with the weapons of scientific research: “the unbiased mind, the rigorous method, the patient ‘and meticuious search.” However, he has the aid of a chemist, four frogs, and a chatty stenographer before he finds his answer. Miss de Laguna is herself an archeologist and is well acquainted with her subject; she introduces the reader to an’ interesting group of scholars, a great number of unpronounceable scientific terms, and a treatise on curare which will make him wary of South American arrows. 5 : ” ” ” N the maze of “isms,” proletarian churnings, capitalistic lamentations, and general widespread chaos reflected in literature, comes a treat in the calm and Sane presentation of J séphine Lawrence's SOUND OF RUNNING FEET (Stokes). From president, to youngest stenographer and janitor, the reader is swept along in the current of hopes and fears of a one-time. busy office force, which was “like a big family” until now—when each individual is for himself with his own problems to solve. We get a definite impression of the workers as they think, feel and act toward one another. Then following them to their homes, we discover psychological reasons behind their’ failings. The individual stories are bound together by the vital necessity of each worker to hold his job. No solution is offered except the apparent aphorism that “life must go on.”
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By MILTON BRONNER NEA Service Staff Writer
ONDON, May 10.—When George VI of England is crowned Wednesday, he will have in mind that his late father, George V, was not only the first of the Georges really to be loved by his people, but that he achieved this, place in history not by being brilliant or self-assertive or
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George V was good not only in his morals and family life, but also in that he was a carefully constitutional King, who never ran into a head-on collision with his ministers, as did the Duke of Windsor, former King Edward VIIL
‘Perhaps it was the luck of George V—Dborn in London June 3, 1865—that he never expected to be King and. that, having adopted the Navy as a career, he had a lot of foolish notions knocked out of him by his fellow cadets. His brother, the Duke of Clarence, was the heir to the throne. George, therefore, elected to take his studies seri-
ously. Like all aspirants for rank in the “senior service,” as the British Navy is called, he became a student cadet at the age of 12. He was made a lieutenant in 1885. After the unexpected death of his brother, he was created Duke of York in 1892 and the following year married Princess Mary of Teck, who had been betrothed to the Duke of Clarence. He was created Duke of Cornwall in 1901 and, later in the same year, was made Prince of Wales, after he had completed a long journey to the British Dominions.
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N the meantime, he had not lost his interest in matters naval, being made captain in 1893, rear admiral in 1901 and vice admiral in 1903. His intimates insist these promotions were honestly won, as they say George was a real sailor with an ability to work like one and to cuss like one. It is reported that many a time when battleships were . coaled,
"George knew what it was to have
his face, chest and arms covered with black grime. During the
war, when, as, King, he visited the
American battleship fleet, Admiral Hugh Rodman reminded him of this. And to prove its truth, the sovereign went below and shoveled some coal into ore of the furnaces. He thus became the first royal stocker in tne records of the American Navy. When, upon the death of Lis father, King Edward VII, 1010, the Prince of Wales came to the throne as George V, he was still an unknown quantity to
the British people. He was a sort
of blank white page upon which they were later to write their verdict. He had not only lived quietly, but had been completely
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overshadowed by the enormous prestige of his grandmother, “Queen Victoria, and the immense popularity of his father. The new King, who was crowned June 22, 1911, found a profound constitutional crisis right on his doorstep and one which tested his mettle right at the start. The House of Lords, largely Tory in sympathies, had repeatedly ditched radical measures passed in the House of Commons by the Liberal majority under Premier Asquith.
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HE latter now proposed a bill to take from the hereditary house much of its former power. But, to become law, it had to be enacted by the very House of Lords at which it was aimed. There was only one way to assure this, if the Lords proved obdurate, and that was to pack the upper house with many hundreds of newly created peers pledged to pass the measures Asquith wanted. The Premier advised his: new King that this was necessary. And George V at once assented to his ‘minister. If necessary, he would create the new peers. It never beNcome necessary, because, when Asquith revealed this pledge, the House of Lords knuckled under.
The year 1911 was further notable in the new King’s life because he went to India and held a great and successful coronation durbar. At home he showed his courage in another way. For years the slander had been peddled that, long before he married Queen Mary, he had contracted a morganatic marriage with the daughter of an English admiral. = - In 1911 the editor of a small sheet, printed in Paris and peddled in London, once more printed this yarn. King George's legal advisers promptly started criminal libel proceedings and proved once_for all that the story was totally false. In 1914 came the World War, leaving George the only monarch of a great empire to retain his throne. He was indefatigable in his' visits to the troops near the . front. To accentuate the future Englishness of his family, he changed the name from the House of Wettin—which was German— to the House of Windsor. The war over and won, he made himself as much as possible the sharer of his people’s joys and sorrcws. When hard times came, he voluntarily cut the allowances made to himself.
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e father, like.son,” is’ the hope Britain holds for the reign of King George VI (right), because (left), monarchy solidly in the affections of the people of
ROYAL GEORGES OF ENGLAND Fifth ’s Example of Hard Work Raises High Hopes for Son Ss Reign
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dazzling coronation display at Buckingham Palace (below) will far outshine the brilliance of the new
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when the silver jubilee of his reign was celebrated in 1935. Such outpourings of cheering crowds, anxious to show their affection for the sovereign, were unknown in Europe. They moved him almost to tears. He died Jan. 20, 1936, after a short illness, a man without an enemy in his kingdom. His exemplary family and religious life, his strict adherence to his sworn duty, his conduct in many serious and trying times, caused an entire nation to mourn his passing. There is rather a striking parallel between King George VI and
Leopold Called Broken-Hearted King; Wife's Death Grieves Belgian Ruler
By NEA ONDON, May 10.—“The King with the broken heart.” That’s what loyal Belgians call.Leopold III, who came to the throne as the result of the accidental death of his father and became a widower as the result of a fatal accident to
his wife. And he is only 35. As kings go nowadays, Leopold III is pretty nearly a model monarch—and this is no press agent
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his father came to be known, he had an exemplar of religious faith, devotion to duty and love of home life and family. ” 5 ” S Crown Prince, he was at the front with his father during the great war, and saw the sufferings of the Belgian soldiers on the tiny scrap of their native land they still held from the Germans. Again as Crown Prince, he came with his parents to America and sat in Congress to listen to his father—the first king to address the United States legislative body. Still as Crown Prince, he made a love match when he wedded the
lovely Princess Astrid, niece of Sweden’s King.
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N Feb. 17, 1934, he received the tragic news that he was now King of Belgium, Albert having fallen to his death while mountain climbing. On Aug. 29, 1935, while on holiday with his Queen in Switzerland, driving his own car, he had an accident, his wife being killed instantly. He was now a widower with three small children—Princess Josephine Charlotte, who is 9; Prince Baudouin, his heir, who is 6; and Prince Albert, who is 2. It is commonly believed in Belgium that only his feeling of duty to his country has kept the young King on the throne. Otherwise, being a - deeply religious man, bowed with grief, it is thought he would have retired to a monastery. Last year he went to Switzerland four times to pray at the shrine erected where his wife met death. og
Hardly a week passes that does not see him out at Laeken, praying at the crypt where she .is buried. 4 ” ” O it is no wonder that his entourage have been greatly angered at the frequent rumors of his forthcoming marriage. Last year his name was coupled with
cess Juliana, Holland (now married); Princess Marie, Savoy; Princess Eudoxie, Bulgaria, and
no less than five princesses—Prin-
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two or three Danish princesses. These rumors became so frequent that Baroni Capelle, secretary of the king, summoned the press, denied all these rumors in toto, and then added the striking words: . “The King is a man who still has in his heart a very deep wound which has not healed.”
Thus was officially acknowledged his tragic feeling of responsibility for Astrid’s death.
2 2 2 O carry on, as he thinks fitting, Leopold has made himself as much |as possible the people’s King and, in his private capacity, his | children’s devoted father and companion.
As King he takes an interest in everything Belgian. When there is an accident in a coal mine, he is one of the first to gb there to help in the rescue work and to bring consoling words to the mourning.
As parent, he never lets anything interfere with his slipping off to the children’s nursery, so he can join them in their prayers and kiss them good night. The Princess, his eldest child, goes to a select school, which inciudes among her fellow pupils a daughter of Premier Van Zeeland. Prince Baudouin, his heir, is being taught at home, and is said to be quite a linguist, even though he is only 6.
In the care of his children, the King has the full co-operation of his widowed mother, Queen Elizabeth, who came out of her own retirement and mourning to stand by her son and help him in his family burdens.
HEARD IN CONGRESS
Rep. Allen T. Treadway (R. Mass.): I am not an expert on architecture, but I do say the building is gaudy in the extreme. The Supreme Court ought not to be housed in either an inconvenient building or one which is not acceptable to the eye of the average citizen who goes to see it. Rep. Rankin: In line with what the gentleman is now stating, the new Supreme Court Building has the worst acoustics, possibly, of any building in Washington. The lighting is so bad that it has been found practically impossbile to adjust it so as to enable the oustices on the bench to see their manuscripts. Taken from every standpoint, it seems to be a superb model of inconvenience.
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his father. Like George V, the present King was not reared with an expectation of coming to the throne. Like him, he elected to make the navy his career and, like him, Le reaily wor quite a long period i him again, he made affection and began family. Like him once more, he comes to the throne rather overshadowed, in his case by the widespread popularity of his late father and by the glamor of ‘his brother, the recent King Edward VIII. He is the first English King ever to ascend the throne because a monarch who preceded him abdicated for love of a woman. George VI was born December 14, 1895. and early entered the He made trips with the fleet to different parts of the world. In the World War he was a serving officer on a British war vessel during the crucial battle
arriage of rear a
off Jutland and was favorably mentioned in dispatches. The war over, he identified himself with the Air Force and also went to Cambridge. University.
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IS interest as second son of the reigning monarch were in camps for boys and in the working of industry—things that did not bring him much publicity. When his brother abdicated the throne, the then Duke of York was formally proclaimed King George VI on Dec. 12, 1936. There has been no hilarious:
enthusiasm over his accession to the throne, but Britons are saying of him that, like his father before him, he can be depended upon to be a dutiful, hard-working King, amenable always to the advice of his ministers and anxious to uphold the constitution.
Coronation Ju
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People Like It, Clapper Says
By RAYMOND CLAPPER
Times Special Writer
JTASHINGTON, May 10.—Most, of us look with a certain envy upon England this week, thinking of her coronation, rich in ancient pageantry. . We feel envious in spite of ourselves. We know it is but a show. Real kings do not wear crowns any more. The monarchs today are Comrade Stalin, and the ex-painter Hitler, and Mussolini, who used to be a radical journalist. King George is only a live museum piece preserved tenderly as we preserve George Washington's coach at Mount Vernon. He is the only big-league crowned King left in the Western World but he has no kingdom. He is simply a decoration, preserved in modern times, a kind of living ancestors’ portrait, hung for sentiment’s sake over the hearthstone of a modern democracy. We know the coronation with its great parade is a sort of glorified apple-blossom festival, a merchant’s field day, a cross between a booster parade and visitors’ day on a movie lot. The people like it and it helps trade.
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HE hollowness of the show has been disclosed in advance. Only a few weeks ago we saw who the real ruler of England was when Baldwin told the recent King where to get off and he got off. Romance meant more to him than a crown which had been reduced to an empty symbol. The truth was even more significantly revealed just a few days ago when, on the eve of the coronation, Prime Minister Baldwin delivered his farewell speech in the House of Commons. : With but passing reference to the coronation, Baldwin spoke from his heart about England's demogracy, about its dependence upon wisdom and reason, rather than force, a note which - was echoed almost simultaneously here by Chief Justice Hughes before the American Law Institute and by Senator Borah in his criticism of facism in the Senate. All three addresses might have been made in England or in America, so alike were they in their allegiance to the basic principles of democracy. Democracy, said Baldwin, is the most difficult form of government
achieved its full possibilities. England’s democracy, he was convinced, depends upon the wisdom which is found in all ranks of life. He said that no one is wise enough to be trusted and followed blindly, and that to make democracy a success every individual has to do his own thinking. This farewell advice, from the man who has been the real operating head of the British Empire for several years, not only strikingly emphasized that Englend's royal show this week is only a sentimental ceremonial but it carried reassurance that the roots of democracy are very much alive.
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E have in this country the same philosophy of government. Only we don't dress up our democracy in royal trappings. The real head of the British Government must bow and defer and pretend inferiority to the | nominal head of it, who may be only a bewildered young substitute shoved in to pinch-hit on the throne, Our Chief Executive gets the full honors as well as the kicks. He ranks everybody. Yet when you speak to him, he is plain Mr. President. He has to get out and work to be elected. When he is in office he taxes precedence over everybody. But he is protected by no royal robe. He is steady game for all who wish to criticize. The King has no power, but he 1s protected by a kind of public awe which makes him sacrosanct. The President has great power but he is protected from nothing short of physical violence. We make him President and then he has to take it from all of us. Yet, different as we are from the British in our forms, we come out at about the same place. We both muddle and fumble and take an interminable amount of time, but somehow we get through. Our way seems simpler and plainer. We don't dress up our democracy like a plush horse. The British upholster theirs until sometimes you can scarcely see it for the trimming, and even though “we know it doesn’t mean a thing, and that it would look silly here, we are secretly envious at a time like this, We all like a
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Our Town
RANK Noll urged me to drop everything and go and stand on Kentucky Ave. near the entrance of the Lincoln Hotel. He said if I’d stand in the right piace and run my eye back of the big Mistletoe Gin sign located at the point of Illinois St. and the Avenue, I'd see a building a hundred years old. At least that, said Mr. Noll. | It’s funny how close Mr, Noll hit it. The building
is 97 years old. I looked it up. | It’s a good-looking building, too, with Greek Doric columns, pilas- | ters, pylons and everything. And it’s got a pediment, too. To be sure, a big Wrigley Gum electric | sign hides the pediment, but don't | let that fool you. If I know my business, there’s a pediment back | of the sign, even if you can’t see | it. Anyway, let's hope there's a | pediment. * I want the old building to have | a pediment, because I want it to look like what I think the old State Bank looked like when 1t was new. Sure, that's what Mr. Noll sent-me over to see. . It was in the beginning of 1834 that the State of Indiana got money-minded and. chartered a State Bank with “Branch Banks” distributed in the principal towns. At the start, 10 branches were created but the number finally increased to 16. Indianapolis | had a Branch Bank right from the start and because it also had the State Bank, it behooves you not to get the two mixed. Curiously enough, the Branch Bank was at the other point where the Indiana Nae tional Bank now stands. a
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Started in Governor’s House
HE “mother bank,” as the State Bank was called, started off in the Governor’s house on the Circle, but didn't stay there long. Something must have been the matter with the Governor's house, because some= body was always moving out. : Anyway, the State Bank moved to Washington St. and stayed there until 1840. In the meantime the directors had been building a Greek Money Temple— sure, the one Mr. Noll discovered—and in 1840 they moved the bank into its new quarters. It ‘stayed there the rest of its corporate life, or, to be plain
about it, until 1857. Today, it's ghost lurks behind the electric signs.
The State Bank changed a lot of things around here. For one thing, it brought paper money; for another, it brought American coins. Believe it or not, we didn’t have much American money around Indianapolis before we had a bank. To be sure, we had the big copper cent, as big as a half-dollar, but nearly all the rest. were Spanish coins. Either that, or Mexican,
3% #8 =n ‘Pistareen’ Worth 20 Cents
A SPANISH coin worth 20 cents or so was called a “pistareen,” and one worth 1215 cents was called a, “levy,” which, for some reason, later on became known as a “bit.” A still smaller coin worth half a bit was called a “fip.” In later years, when we started sending hogs to New Orleans, a fip was known as a “picayune.” That's what the Southerners called it.
The first American silver coins, outside of a stray dime once in a while, were brought to Indianapolig«' by a jeweler named Foster who picked them up in : the East. Legend has it that Jeweler Foster placed them in the ccrnerstone of the first (frame) Christ
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A Woman's View By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
TT old woman's granddaughter was dead. Dead in the glory of her youth and of an abortion
she had committed to escape the disgrace of bearing an illegitimate child. ‘
The friends and neighbors came and went upon their little errands of mercy, and few knew the secreb that lay like lead upon the heart of the grandparent. She twisted her handkerchief; her tired feet trudged back and forth, back and forth, across the room. Bewildered, her imagination roamed ‘restlessly in the cage of her weary mind as she watched the shadows
lengthen and the sun set upon her first day of bereavement.
“Why didn’t she tell me?” Over and over she repeated the question, unable to grasp the truth of a deception which had cost the life of one she loved best upon the earth. “Why was she afraid? I would
have helped her. I would have understood and not been hard on her.”
Her words fell in a cascade of questions, which none of us could answer. For. how does one explain the gulf that grows and grows between individuals Who are separated by one generation of living? ~~
In many respects its distance is | limitless. Upon one side stand the elders, apprehensive, filled: with the bitterness of life’s hard experience, and upon the other the young, with their dreams| and their reticences, yet how far they are from |those who "love them best and would like most to help them,
Over and over the young have died and the old have wept because youth is obliged to adjust its behavior to fit the morality of a bygone generation. Our ethics are not made to help those who are alive now but to justify the beliefs of those who have done with living. ” The pale face of the dead girl reproached us. She was dead because we had taught her that motherhood under certain circumstances is a sin and that it is ° better to destroy a child than a social reputation.
Your Health
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, American Medical Assn. Journal
Me serious of all of the heart diseases of child- . hood and of the younger ages is rheumatic fever. Usually this condition affects children between 5 and 15 years of age. The resultant damage is crippling, if not promptly fatal, in many instances. The disease may come on abruptly or th: onset may be insidious. There are many cases in which there are no acute symptoms. :
There may-be loss of appetite, symptoms of disturbance in the stomach or intestines; headache, and all of the usual symptoms which go with most illnesses. of children. Most important, however, is the fatigue and feeling of tiredness; which is out of all proportion to the amount, of exertion it follows. | Victims of rheumatic fever are usually pale, and it is difficult to keep the total number of their red blood cells up to normal. When their blood is examined, it is found that there is an iincrease in the number of white blood cells, which indicates presence of an infection. Usually, too, the rate of the heart is more rapid than normal. While any unusual amount of fever may not be found if a thermometer is placed in the victim's mouth, repeated tests of his temperature by placing the thermometer in ‘the rectum may show occasional attacks of fever. ° | : It will be noticed that there is nothing characteris» tic in any of these symptoms. They are, however, an indication that something is wrong and that an investigation should be made and repeated until the doctor has determined definitely what is responsible, In the insidious cases, months, even years, may elapse, with these easily overlooked symptoms present, before an acute attack of rheumatic fever aflecting the heart pecomes apparent. :
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