Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1937 — Page 13
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< ERNIE PYLE
OLEDO, May 11.—You might as well get I'm not
this straight right off the reel. in the habit of browsing around art
museums. But the spectacle of a rough-and-ready city like Toledo making such a to-do over its art museum got my curiosity aroused. Why, to hear people tell it, the four main things in Toledo are the art museum, the C. & O. coal-loading docks, the zoo and the Maumee River at icebreaking time. So I hires me a taxi and taxies out to the art museum. The Toledo museum has the highest per capita attendance of any art museum in the world! The city’s population is arqund 300,000, and last year the museum had 350,000 visitors. And practically all of them local, since Toledo isn't much of a tourist place. Do you know what catsed this? Education caused it. The Toledo museum has been educating people in art for 35 years. | Toledo people know art when they see it. And they enjoy it. The museum is a vast: and magnificent place. It doesn’t cost the taxpayers a cent. It was built and stocked almost wholly by gift upon gift from the artconscious pocketbook of the late Edward D. Libbey, Toledo's glass king. It cost millions and millions. My trip through it was swift, and not very inspiring. An art museum looks like an art museum to me. When I wound up in the office of Director Blake-More Godwin I said: “I don’t know anything about art. To tell the truth, where I would have liked to spend a couple of hours is down there in that room full of kid paint-
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two feet longer than the others.” And Godwin said: “You're exactly right. That's where the imagination is. You and I don't count any more. We're dead. We hate to admit it, but were all washed up. People our age aren't going to change our ideas or have many new opinions from Nobody but children look forward.”
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O Godwin sat down and told me why Toledo appreciates art. It's because they concentrate on the kids. Why, right today nearly 1800 children are attending free classes at the museum in art appreciation, in art design, in music and so forth. And they're not even’ trying to teach them to be artists. Just showing them how to understand and love good art. “Why,-if we trained 1500 people to be artists, 1499 of them would starve to death, says Godwin. “So it’s appreciation we try to teach.” Godwin says art is for people, so why get so highbrow about it? He says art is 90 per cent trash anyway. He says he hasn't any sympathy with the old guys with beards and dirty fingernails who are horrified at commercialism in art. Why not commercialism? asks Godwin. That gets it to the public. And art is for people. Godwins says the fellow who designs one of the suave Zephyr trains, or a silvery streak of a transcontinental airliner, is producing art, too, maybe even more so than the fellow in the smock. And certainly more people get
‘to enjoy it.
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HE Toledo museum starts kids when they are 5. They are taught the most simple fundamentals. They are taken up, step by step. through the years until they have a genuine grasp of art, the way a child finally gets a grasp of arithmetic. : They don’t hang onto every kid that comes in. Some children just can't be taught art appreciation. The museum says, “Many children have no mental equipment for its enjoyment, no manual equipment for its manufacture.” These Kids wind up the way I did, reading funnies. Sometimes I sort of boast about it in good .cornfed fashion, but the truth is I'm not proud of the fact that I can’t sit through a symphony concert, or that There’s apparently something fine there that I don’t understand, and maybe if I could study it, like these Toledo kids,
I would understand.
Mrs.Roosevelt's Day
By ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
LBANY, N. Y., Monday.—Some of you may remember that I told you when I was in the mood I would give you that other inscription from a Charleston, S. C., tombstone in St. Michael's churchyard. Here it is: “James Louis Pettigru, born at‘ Abbeville, May 10th, to. Justice, Orator, Statesman, Patriot. Future time will hardly know how great a life This. simple stone commemorates. The traditions of his eloquence, his wisdom and
In admiration of his peers In the respect of his people In the affection of his family " His was the highest place. The just meed Of his kindness and forebearance Of his dignity and simplicity His brilliant genius and his unw earied industry. Unawed by opinion Unseduced by flattery Undismayed by disaster He confronted life with antique courage And death with Christian hope. In the great Civil War He withstood his people for his country But his people did homage to the man Who held his. conscience higher Jhan their praise. And his country Heaped her honours on the grave of the patriot To whom, living, His own righteous self-respect sufficed Alike for motive and reward. Died at Charleston. March 9th, 1863.” This pictures a character and a way of life which
is rather unique.
New Books
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compasses a complete book. TIME AT HER HEELS, by Dorothy Aldis (Houghton) is the provocative title. Mrs. Aldis has written several books of children’s verse, but this is ner first adult novel. The characters—among them a typical “funny story absent-minded” professor, his artist wife, their three children, a spinster aunt, and a varied processiom of minor actors—are unusually human and likable. | Mrs. Aldis is in Indianapolis today to speak at the May luncheon meeting of the Woman's Press Club of Indiana and at the English Club of Roberts School later in the afternoon. " n n OMEN of all countries—of the harem in Arabia the slave trade in Abyssinia, workers of the new Russia, women of China, Haiti, Java, Turkey—are the general subject of a book of short sketches by Rosita Forbes. WOMEN CALLED WILD (Dutton) has no unity except that its stories are all about women. We are transported into an atmosphere where anything may happen and nothing can surprise us. We are left with the feeling that a woman author has succeeded. where possibly a man would not, in collecting a series of episcdes from the inner lives of all sorts of women. Whether completely authentic or not, the book is readable. 4
The Indianapolis
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Second Section
TUESDAY, MAY, 11, 1937
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By MILTON NEA Service
ONDON, May 11. President of the United coronation of a British King cration, dominated from begi lished Church oi England. 1t unfolds, proudly, pageantry, founded in ancient
slowly,
BRONNER Staff Writer
Unlike. the inauguration of a
States—a political act—the is a solemn religious consenning to end by the Estab-
in royal and mystic tradition and ritual, uniting
the vast British Empire as in one stupendous sacrament. Cuts in tomorrow’s ceremony ordained by the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, presumably out of regard to King George VI's state of health, —— as
make it the shortest coro-
nation for centuries.
The Litany, famous ‘“versicles and responses” of the English church, will be chanted in all its length before the King and Queen even appear at the West Door of the Abbey. There will be no sermon. Most profound change of all will be in “The Homage of the Peers.” Formerly the homage of each peer to the new King was done individually. On May 12, it ‘will be done “en masse,” or rather in several masses. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishops of the Church will be first. But only the Archbishop will advance to the throne in the great “crossing” of Westminster Abbey, kneel there, and then kiss the King's left cheek. Then will come the Princes of the royal blood, led by the Duke of Gloucester. Then will come the peers, in their categories of importance. Dukes first, then Marquesses, then Earls, then Viscounts, then Barons. But only “the first of each order” will advance to the throne for the traditional fealty.
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ESTMINSTER ABBEY, heart of the empire, the “theater” of this majestic pageant, is ready. The principal ceremony takes place at the ine tersection of the choir and transepts. Here a square platform has been built, covered with cloth of gold. The King will sit in a richly draped chair in the center to receive the homage of his peers.
In the sacrarium which forms part of the altar space, are placed the thrones in which the King and Queen are crowned.” The most. ancient one is known as King Edward's and is for the King. The Queen's is known as Queen Mary's. The back of the altar has been draped with purpie and gold silk. ‘The floor of the sacrarium has been covered with a purple and gold carpet.
When the procession from Buckingham Palace to the Abbey reaches the great West Door, the sovereign will be received by the Prebendaries and the Dean of Westminster Abbey, followed by the King's equerries, gentleman ushers, grooms-in-waiting and high officers cf the Crown—all in gorgeous uniforms. Next will come the staff, spurs, orb, scepter and swords of state, all carried by. peers whose hereditary job it is. The King will wear a robe of crimson velvet trimmed with ermine—the Queen, purple velvet and ermine. As the royal pair steps inside the Abbey, their ears will hear the choir intoning the anthem: “I was glad when they said unto me: we will go into the House of the Lord.”
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HE King and Queen will walk to the “theater” where they seat themselves after a moment of silent prayer. Now the Arch-
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bishop of Canterbury, primate of the Church of England, accompanied by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Great Chamberlain, Lord High Constable and Earl Marshal, goes to the four corners ot the platform, corresponding to the four points of the compass. As he ;does so, the King turns to the four points, the Archbishop four times saying: “Sirs, I here present unto you King George, the undoubted King of this realm. Whereupon all you who are come this day to do your homage, are you willing to do the same?” The people in the vast audience repiy: “God save King George!” And the golden song of the trumpets rings out. Now the Archbishop goes to the altar and puts on his cope. The King, attended by the Bishops of Durham and Bath and by high officials who carry his regalia, kneels betore the altar and makes his first oblation. That is, he hands the - Archbishop a pall of gold and a pound ingot of gold. The Archbishop recites a prayer invoking divine guidance for the sovereign. The Communion follows, whereat the Archbishop stands before the sovereign and asks: “Sir, is your Majesty willing to take the oath?” He replies: “I am willing.” As the Archbishop reads the oath the King solemnly promises to govern the people of Britain, the Dominions, Colonies and In-
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‘customs, to cause justice in mercy to be executed in the courts, to defend the Protestant faith. He then kisses the Bible and signs the oath. The King then goes to the chair near the altar. and kneels on a faldstool while the Archbishop and choir sing the hymn “Veni Creator Spiritus.” The Archbishop now says a praper which recalls that the Lord of old, by anointing with oil, did make and consecrate Kings, priests and prophets to teach and govern his people, Israel. The prayer now ‘asks God to bless King George who is about to be anointed with oil and consecrated as King.
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T this point, King George will step before the altar, his crimson robes having been removed. He will kneel on a faldstool while four Knights of the Garter hold over him a pall of silk. The Archbishop now anoints the King on the crown of his head, his breast, and the palms of his hands, the anointing
" being in the form of a cross.
Next the King sits down. The spurs are brought by the Dean of Westminster and handed to the Lord High Chamberlain, who, kneeling, presents them to the King, who sends them back to the altar. The same is done with the swords of state. Next the King is robed with an imperial mantle of gold and ermine. He
When George VI receives the royal crown of | Great Britain austere Westminster Abbey will be turned into a theater of brilliant pageantry as when George V and Queen Mary were crowned above. The late King, surrounded by peers of the realm and dignitaries of the church, is seated on his throne in the center, with Queen Mary’s throne at the exMembers of the royal
treme right in the picture.
NEW KING ENT HRONED T OMORROW
Byillini: Pageantry Is Shortened Due to George VI Health
family are seated in the rear, in a gallery surmounted by the arms of Scotland, England and Ireland. The fanfare of the coronation is sounded on solid silver trumpets (left below) from which hang tap- . estries embroidered with the royal arms. eagle with outstretched wings, the ampulla below) holds the oil with which’ the Dean of Westminster consecrates the King.
A golden (right
is handed the orb. A ring: is placed on his finger as a symbol of royal dignity and he is given the scepter as a symbol of royal power. At last the crown is. placed on his head, while the people cry: “God save the King!” After another prayer and an anthem, the King is handed a Bible, the Archbishop of Canterbury reciting an allocution which begins: “Our gracious King we present
PLANE LIN CONTRAST
DBERGH FLIES NOW IS TO SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS
By NEA Service > IRPLANE styles have changed for Charles A. Lindbergh since, on the morning of May 20, 1927, he sat in the “blind” cabin of the Spirit of St. Louis and opened the throttles for the takecff toward Paris and fame. Steel nerves and faultless dead reckoning saved Lindbergh from disaster that morning. Enclosed by the cabin, his forward vision down the runway was zero, and once in the air, he could get a clear view ahead only by swerving the plane and looking out the tiny side window. Such inconveniences are missing on the new Miles-Mohawk low-wing monoplane which Lindbergh is piloting now, 10 years after his transAtlantic flight. Built -in England with English materials except for the motor and some of the instruments, the new plane is wholly Lindbergh's own idea of modern flying mechanism, even to its orange and black covering, designed to nmake it visible in bright or dull weather.
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1= engine is a 415-pound supercharged, 200-horsepower, Amer-ican-made Menasco./ It has six cylinders in line, providing a top speed of 2)0 miles an hour with a gross weight of 2700: pounds. It is cooled by air and the cylinders, instead of being on top, are on: the bottom of the engine, permitting wide visibility for the pilot. In the Spirit of St. Louis, .he engine was the air-cooled rotary or “whirlwind” type, with 200 horsepower providing a maximum speed of 135 miles an hour. Proof of its sturdiness was the fact that it carried a 5200-pound lead off the ground and maintained an average speed of 109 miles an hour for tlie] 3650 miles of the Paris flight. Lindbergh’s new plane, dubbed fhe “Flying Caravan” in England, carries in its wings enough gas for a 1020-mile nonstop cruise. Its highly streamlined landing ust,
are not retractable, but may be replaced quickly with seaplane floats for cross-water travel. . The 425-gallon gas load ofy the Spirit of St. Louis was carried. below the wings directly in front of the pilot and instrument board. When Lindbergh landed in Paris, he had enough gas left for another 500 miles of flying. The landing, assembly was equipped with standard disc wheels.
” 2 ” OST striking to the layman in- [ specting the new plane is its seating plan. Within transparent removable roof and sides, the two
(tandem seats are so arranged that
they can be made into bunks. Behind them i~ the luggage compartment and stowage for tent, collapsible dinghy, and other articles handy for a “camping out”. trip. With dual controls, the plane may be piloted by either passenger, with almost perfect visibility in all directions. Far less comfortable was the cabin of the Spirit of St. Louis. Besides affording limited vision, it was cramped and hot. The pilot's feet were edged under a section of the gas tank. Space for packing food was below the seat. Back of the pilot was a rack for flashlight, notebooks, etc. Back of that, in the steel tube fuselage, was space for a life preserver raft and an earth inductor compass. Naturally, to lighten the load, all the available space was not used on the Paris flight. ” u ” OMPLETE radio, flying and navigation instruments are part of the equipment on Lindbergh's sleek new plane. The instrument board of the Spirit of St. Louis had
only oil gauge. air speedometer,: dial
showing propeller revolutions, turn and bank indicator, rate of climb meter, altimeter, fuel gauge, oil thermometer, and clock. Whereas Lindbergh had to take
much of the blast of heat and noise from the motor in the Spirit of St. Louis, he may cruise in comfort in his new plane, in which noise and exhaust are piped off below the cockpit.
The Lindberghs have put many
‘miles on the “Flying Caravan” since
it was delivered in 1936. The most notable trip took them on a long flying cruise through the Mediterranean and Far East countries, early in 1937.
In spite of its refinements, its reputation for being the most completely equipped job ever turned out by its makers, and its techincal superiority over the Spirit of St. Louis, the “Flying Caravan” as yet has not been called on to do the mighty task that “We” so successfly completed 10 years 280.
HEARD IN CONGRESS
Rep. John E. Rankin (D. Miss.): The new Supreme Court Building is the ne plus ultra of inconvenience so far as the public is concerned. It is the most inconvenient building for the people who use it—the nine justices excepted—that has, perhaps, ever been erected with the same amount of money. At the front of the building, for instance, there is no sheltered way to get in and out. It is exactly 69 yards from the front of the building to the edge of the concrete walk, and a flood of
| water runs over the space in front
of the building and across the walk every time it rains. There are something like a thousand visitors to the Court every time it convenes. If it is raining, as it usually is, they must wade out through the rain and through the water that runs off the building. There is no way to drive up to the entrance, no place for them to catch a taxicab or any other means of transportation.
you with this book, the most valuable thing this world affords. . Here is wisdom. This is the royal law. These are the lively oracles of God.” After the Archbishop pronounces the benediction upon him, and the choir sings the “Te
Deum,” the King at last seats himself upon the throne for the peers’ homage. Then the drums beat, the trumpets sound and the cry is heard: “God save King George!” “Long Live King George!” “May the King live forever!”
Tax Sit-Downs by ‘Economic Royalists’ Confuse Clapper
RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer
By
ASHINGTON, May 11.—1It will be a long time before the argument as to where the sit-down strike originated is settled conclusively. The Government has introduced a confusing element into the controversy. It is trying to show that long before the Akron rubber workers began their sit-downs and showed labor how to do it, the economic royalists - had developed a high degree of technique, which they use on the tax collector. There have been earlier hints of this, as when the Pecora banking investigation ferreted out the tidings that J. P. Morgan, while far from poverty-stricken and in fact able to live practically in the style to which he had long been accustomed, paid no income taxes in the early 1930s. Now, proceeding in a more scientific attempt to demonstrate its contention, the Government is before Judge Richard Disney of the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals, with evidence concerning Pierre du Pont and John J. Raskob, business associates who engaged in an elaborate series of stock selling and repurchasing transactions with each other, winding up with a difference petween them of only $46 after nearly $30,000,000 had changed hands between them. The Government is trying to collect $1,026,000 in taxes from Raskob and $617,300 from du Pont for 1929. At the moment the case against du Pont is being heard but part of the evidence is being gathered from Raskob.: . 5 = s n T appears that Raskob, while still I chairman of the Democratic National Committee and acting as its angel, was, for tax purposes, practically starving, In 1930 he paid no income tax at all, although it was at that time that he was financing the rejuvenation of the Democratic
‘| National Committee and was stak-
ing Charley Michelson to a fancy contract in order to induce him to leave the old New Work World as its Washington correspondent and become the ace political press agent
of all time for the Democratic Party.
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HEN the New Deal moved in on the Democratic Party, Ras-
kob moved out, leaving nothing be-
‘the little salaried worker, who drives®
hind but his loans. He transferred his affections to the American Liberty League. That, he has said, explains why the Government, years later, is trying to collect more than $1,000,000 in income taxes from him. The Government's story is that Raskop sought to escape~taxes by setting up fictitious losses in stock transactions with Pierre du Pont. For instance, at one time Raskob sold du Pont a batch of stock worth $4,606,000 and bought from him stocks worth $4,583,750. That was in November, 1929. Just after the year closed, on Jan. 6, 1930, Raskob rebought the stock du Pont had taken from him for $5,989,500 ang du Pont rebought the stock he had sold to Raskob for $5,254,125. Deals were settled by checks, both men using the same bank. The Government contends that Raskob did not have money in the bank to cover these huge checks. His secretary lestified that he arranged with the bank to have Raskob’s check arrive simultaneously with du Ponts. Sometimes they were sent to the bank in the same envelope. By trick sales between themselves, the Government argues, each was able to show heavy paper losses for tax purposes. ” 3 2 » ASKOB some time ago explained that both he and du Pont had substantial profits from the sale of securities in 1929 but that due to the great drop later in the year, both had substantial losses in other securities. The only way they could establish these losses, he said, was to actually sell the securities. They decided to sell to each other and avoid dumping large blocks of stock on the panicky market. " ” = HE case is complicated legally. About all that the nan in the street can make out of it is that there is something co¢keyed somewhere. Else how do you ~xplain why
his Ford and mows his own lawn; has a bigger income than the great capitalist, who with his yachts, his fine motor cars, his staff of servants and his rich estates here and there which his gardeners keep looking so beautiful, has no income at all?
‘ common sense or even of plain /moral justice.
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ur Town By ANTON SCHERRER
NOTHER quaint fallacy of amateur his. torians is the assumption that style in photography came to us by way of Holly-
wood. Nonsense! Stylish Phiojcarsy came to Indianapolis in the early Nineties by way of Marceau and Powers, who had their Gallery in the old Windsor Building. It was where the Block people now do business. Hollywood wasn't wh the map
at the time. 1 don’t know why -all the styl-
"ish establishments, circa 1890, had
their common center in Illinois St. in the block between Wash-~ ington and Market Sts. All 1 know is. that they did. ' Billy Tron, for instance, picked the east side of that block for the faneciest saloon in Indianapolis, and so did Albert Kuhn for the fancies grocery. As a matter of fact, Mr. Kuhn advertised that he sold “fancy groceries.” Across the street was Joe Rink’s spiffy “Cloak House,” and farther down the block in the Bates House was George Knox's sumptuous barber shop, than which there was nothing| more stylish this side of the one in the Palmer | House in Chicago, They were all there when Marceau and Powers are rived. The first thing Marceau and Powers did was te set up a ground floor gallery which was enough of an innovation to startle the natives. But they didn’t stop there. They had a show window, too, and it
Mr. Scherrer
was worth anybody’s time to stop and examine what
it contained, especially in the way of feminine pule chritude. Indeed, a girl's picture in Marceau and Powers’ show window was a pretty good sign that she had arrived. Anyway, if was as good as having her name in the Almanach de Gotha, and a lot more to the pufpose. ” 2 ”
Steeped in Atmosphere
N the inside, the Gallery was steeped in atmos= phere. The floor was: carpeted, I remember, and tapestries depicting the love affairs of shepherds and lovely ladies decorated the walls. Instead of doors, the openings were hung with heavy draperies, every fold of which appeared to be carved by ‘a sculptor. There was a kind of hush and stillness about the place which was not unlike that of a church. And what made it appear even more like a church was the fact that Marceau and Powers used candlesticks like those in a cathedral. : : The furniture, too, was good enough for a bishop. Especially one chair. Everybody remembers the chair because everybody remembers that it was an integral part of Marceau and Powers’ photographs of William Jennings Brvan, Theodore Roosevelt, Tom Marshall, Albert Beveridge and Julia Marlowe. To say nothing of the thousands of Indianapolis girls who sat in that chair. I guess the girls must be close to 65 years old now. Sixty, anyway. t n ”
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BRING up the subject of Marceau and Powers old chair because it’s still in existence. Edward R. Sitzman, the artist, owns it. Joe Rink bought out Marceau and Powers in 1895 and put his father-in-law, George Pfau, in charge. When the Windsor Building ‘was sold to the Block people, ~the Gallery was moved across the street. Later the present Rink’s store was erected, and the Gallery disposed of. It was just about this time that Mr. Sitzman happened to visit Mr. Rink and found most of Marceau and Powers’ furniture in the kindling heap. He got permission to pick out what he wanted and that’s how he got the chair. It wasn’t the only thing he rescued. One reason Mr. Rink was so nice fo Mr. Sitzman was because he was a first cousin of Mr. Sitzman’s wife.
A Woman's View By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON
CCORDING to a recent report from the New York County Lawyers’ Association, there are not many women in the profession. Which suits us toa T. We've seen too many kind-hearted, emotionally responsive, trustful young men become fishy-eyed, sus=picious and piratical after a number of years in the practice of law to wish our sex to take it up generally. The legal mind doesn’t fit well in| the feminine skull and we hope it never will. Now: somebody is sure to get nasty at this point and explain that woman's mentality is| nof strong enough to master the subject. Maybe so. | We only pray that it always remains that way, because there’s something about the profession that not only crystallizes thought but solidifies it. Although the laws themselves change as frequently as does the moon, th ' legal mind is fixed in one permanent pattern. As a consequence we are forever bumping our heads against the stone wall of decisions which were handed down about the time of William III of Eng land, and we get very little done since the courts ale ways have to spend months and years of resegfch ta find out what some long-dead judge ruled on a/similar question back in the 1800s. Today there’s no such thing as tackling any sort of legal problem according to the simple: standards of The
lawyers have seen to that. ‘No citizen of the U”S. A. can perform the simplest act these days without the advice and approval of the barristers. From the minute when his birth is regis tered until his will is filed, he transacts his business—e financial, civil, political and sometimes domestic according to the promptings of his attornev. In short we are enslaved not by the law, but by the lawyers, to whom we have surrendered our right te think. - So we hope the girls will stay out of the law
Your Health
By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor, American Medical Assn. Journal
HEUMATIC heart disease tends to occur in families in which there previously has been rheumatic disease. In many cases, the sole evidence of a disturbance of the heart was a heart murmur which the doctor could hear only when he examined the organ. The exact cause bf rheumatic fever is not known. For its cure there is no specific remedy that has been scientifically established. When a rheumatic condition attacks the joints or ‘some other part of the body, there seems to be no certain way to protect the heart. We do know that rheumatic fever occurs much in the temperate better in Florida,
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zone, and: that patients do much Puerto Rico, or similar places than they do in the Northern pprt of the United | States. When the heart is involved in cases of rheus matic fever, there may have been various symptoms for several years befote definite si of the attack on the heart became evident. No child suspected of having| rheumatic tevei should ever be allowed out of bed until his tempera« ture has been normal for at least two weeks or more, In rheumatic fever the whole heart, may be inflamed, including the pericardium or memprane which surrounds the heart; the muscle of the heart, or the line ing of the heart. ; As these changes take place, there may also be dee formities in the heart valves, in which case signs of damage such as are represented by murmurs may be detected by the trained ear of the physician. In order to conipensate for the | damage to the heart, the tissues may enlarge and the muscular walls become stronger. The heart has to pump more blood at each stroke to make up for the biood that flows back a the heart through the damaged valves.
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