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"FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1938
SIX MORE VICTIMS MARION COUNTY traffic claimed its fourth and fifth victims of the week yesterday and its sixth today, raising the 1938 county toll to 30°'and the city toll to 17. One of yesterday’ s victims was’ a 16-year-old youth, the second to be killed this week. | Comparison of this year’s. shows the safety consciousness -
with the 1937 tafe record .of ‘the: public and law en-
forcement have reduced ‘automobile fatalities. A year ago 4 the county death list had reached 47, while 84 had been:
killed inside the city limits. But so long as automobile accidents claim six or more
lives weekly, the county’s motorists, pedestrians, officers and courts have a serious problem to solve.
THAT DICTATORSHIP DISCLAIMER To those who have come to believe the charge, the denial * will be a case of “doth protest too much, methinks”; to Mr. Roosavelt’s supporters the statement cannot escape
the category of queer happenings. : We take at its face value what the President said. For we think him much too intelligent not to be sincere when he declares that this country was not cut out for a Duce; that he possesses “too much historical background and
_ too much knowledge of existing dictatorships to make me |’
desire any form of ‘dictatorship for a democracy like the United States of America.” But, for a President of these United States to feel called upon hurriedly to issue at a wee sma’ hour a declaration that he does not want to become a dictator is indeed one of the strangest events of our time. : How did this dictatorship charge grow so great as to call for the official recognition 4t has now received ? Certainly not because of the current question alone which brought forth the denial. Bad though the Reorganization Bill may be, it could not of itself have created the dictator issue. Ihvolved, rather, is a series of events, at ‘home and abroad, coupled with a trait very fundamental in the make-up of the American people. As to the latter, we in this country have a deep and instinctive fear of anyone in public life who gets too big for his clothes, whether it be an Admiral Dewey of the Navy or a President named Roosevelt. / When less than two years ago the ill-starred Liberty League got red in the face and began the dictatorship cry, it was to laugh. That this genial, snfiling, robust, hail-_fellow-well-met in the White House might aspire to power
beyond the bounds of democracy was so unthinkable as to.
be ludicrous. The answer to the cry was the Presidental vote of November 1936.
o8 » » 278 2 THEN followed the Supreme Court move—out of the blue, and without consultation with that other “equal and coordinate” branch of government which is called Congress.
Then a series of further moves each of which was to drive -
for power and more power in the person of the executive. - The wages-and-hours bill, for example. Its ostensible pur-
pose was to establish a minimum on wages, a maximum on’
“hours, and abolition of child labor. . But as it was handed to the lawmakers by those oh-so-clever executive draftsmen it proposed regulation of the nation’s business so far in excess of minimum wages, maximum hours and abolition
of child labor that even Hugo Black sat up nights with his
pruning knife. That bill would have passed and ‘would be
on the statute books now if it had only been originally
presented as Black finally pared it down. But its first version killed it. The full intent had been revealed. The later modification didn’ t allay the suspicion of power-grab-
- bing, super-bureaucracy and centralization—which had |
characterized the original try-and-get-away-with-it. Reorganization, the same. Federal Trade Commission, . Interstate Commerce: Commission and other Congressional creations, all were in the first proposal and were to go under * the thumb of the executive. More. pruning followed that, but more suspicion had been generated, and remained, after the modification. Other and not so conspicuous events occurred, all pointing in the same direction, of more authority in the executive, less for the legislators—more centralization in Washington, weakening of the states and of home rule. It is not necessary to enumerate. But to.one who desires _ to study the picture minutely, a reading of the first drafts of the wages and hours and the reorganization bills and a - comparison with the pruned versions will tell the story. In the meantime throughout the rest of the world, growing with amazing speed were—dictatorships; Hitler, . Stalin, Mussolini, personal power run amuck, and a corre- - sponding caution in America toward anything which looked like that. ; If it hadn’t been for what happened abroad during the months that followed the re-election of Mr. Roosevelt we
, don’t believe that F. D. R. would have summoned the corre--
. spondents in that little town of Warm Springs to report
: the midnight disclaimer that he, too, dreamed. of dictator-
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GRAN DMA, 1938 MODEL
IF you are one who remembers Grandma as a sweetly wrinkled old lady in lace cap who sat by the fire and knitted ..on winter evenings and rocked and fanned herself on the “porch in summer, you're just an Old Timer. The activities of a Grandmothers’ Club recently organized in Chicago will
give you ‘an idea what a streamlined person. le contem-
. porary Grandma is. &, The club boasts 89. grandmothers. One i is’ a candidate
for Mayor. - Another employs 300 people in her candy fac-
“tory. A third heads the B. & 0.’s women’s department. A “fourth manages a $2,000,000 estate. A fifth (with 13 ~ grandchildren) manages a gravel pit. A sixth, 2, has sold * insurance for a living since she was 54. ‘And so on. Like younger folks these grandmas play “is _well as - work, Listed among their recreations are horseback rid-
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By Westbrook Pegler
There Are, Others Besides Whitney
Who Invested in Economic Dingbats Issues. 1°
Rather Than ‘Conservative
EW YORK, April 1.—Amusing, of course, is the revelation that much of the personal fortune of
Richard Whitney, the former president of: the New ‘York Stock Exchange, was. invested in economic ding-
bats rather than conservative, blue-chip issues. But.
some restaurateurs go next door to eat, many saloonkeepers are teetotalers and Barbara Hutton wears very little from the counters of the five-and-tefi. Mr. Whitney's properties - included an applejack firm, a dirt mine whose product was calculated to invigorate tired land and a bug juice inimical to insect pests. These be queer interests indeed for a man in his pesition, and Mr. Whitney may. feel embarrassed by the disclosure of his foibles in the’ inventory of his
old golf sticks, collar buttons and initialed belt .
buckles. Great men do have their whims, however. The infallible fire extinguisher which ‘Tex Rickard bought from an inventor was his favorite investment. It consisted of a powder inclosed: in a glass.grenade or egg, and the theory was that hundreds of grenades
‘tossed through the windows of a burning building
would shattér and smother the flames under a sifting of the magic chemicals. Unfortunately, however, in practical tests the glass eggs plopped in the blazing crates which Mr. Rickard had ignited for his demonstration. : 8 2 2. : R. RICKARD was pondering on designs similar to the salt shaker and talcum powder sifter. He was sensitive about his patent fire extinguisher and defended it doggedly against the scoffing jests of Mr. Géne Fowler, who was his press agent :at the time: but lacked the true reverential Spirit of the press
- agent toward his employer.
Mr.’ Rickard was the associate of many ‘rich and socially refined Wall Street operators; included among his memorable 600 millionaires,’ and he always in-
sisted that if a poor man rubbed elbows with mil-
lionaires long enough he would: ‘rub off some of the rich onto ‘himself. Yet hé was only a little
- ‘brother: of the rich when he died, and he had had
to endure much from Mr. Fowler; not only with regard to his magic powder but also concerning his interest in acoustics Somehow around Madison Square Garden about that time there developed a strange interest in acoustics, and a number of fight managers and boxing writers talked loftily of their investment in a company which manufactured them. Mr. Rickard urged Mr. Fowler to get aboard.for the future security of Agnes, his wife, and Jane¢, their young daughter.
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R. FOWLER floored him, however, with the re- . ‘mark that acoustics were nothing but echoes and that he doubtless had.been swindled by some clever scoundrel not above imposing on his unleariedness.
There may be some in this country who will jeer at President Roosevelt’s economic knowledge, but among New Dealers he is held to possess the sum of all wisdom on such matters. Yet it was not many years ago that Mr. Roosevelt, as a private financier, was promoting a company to trade in German marks, a company to .produce a glorified tintype or snapshot gallery for the sidewalk trade and a company which was going to conduct vast retail business entirely by slot machines. Henry Morgenthau, an economic genius surely, was a colleague of Mr. Roosevelt -in those venturesome, days, and in view of their interest in dingbats Mr. Whitney's investments in the applejack company, the dirt mine and the bug juice may be sald to haye the most eminent precedent.
Business
‘By John T. Flynn
FTC Adviser's Testimony Shows at What Pace Antitrust Action Moves.
NIV YORK, April 1.—Liberal groups are asking | in Washington and New York with uneasiness, and business groups with some relief: come of the President's great monopoly drive? It.is only a few months ago that the Administration was trumpeting the doom of the monopolies. But one of the strangest phenomenon in American political life is the swiftness of monopolies and the sloth of their pursuers. ' ‘ Recently Willis J. Ballinger, economic adviser: ‘of the Federal Trade Commission, told a Sehate committee of a classical case. The International Harvester
+ Co. was formed in 1902. It was promptly Sefiouniced
as an illegal trust. The Government took 10 ye
before it brought so much as an’ indictment Soa
the company. Then it took two years mere to try the case. At the end of this time a district court held the company guilty of violating the antitrust laws and ordered a thorough-going dissolution.
Then there was of course an appeal, which after a year was argued before the Supreme Court. But the months slide into years and two years later the case was placed on the court calendar. In another year it was reargued. All this 15 years after the company was formed.
Before the decision was handed down the company agreed to a consent decree and the case was dismissed. But ‘two. years later the Federal Trade Commission criticized this consent decree and charged that the company was still a monopoly—18 years after formation. . Then in 1923 the Attorney General began an attempt to reopen the cease. Three years later the Supreme Court decided in favor. of the Harvester Company. ;
Binder Prices Increase
These attacks had: dragged through Democratic and Republican Administrations. There had been one adjudication of its case-—that held it guilty of violating the law. 'It escaped through a consent decree.
Lasf. year the company made more money than ever before. Last year farmers paid 130 per cent ynore
for binders than they did in 1902. And, oddly, the economist of the ‘Commission charges that the only product on which its prices have declined are its tractors where it has had to meet the motor industry's competition. It is at this pace the enforcement of the antitrust laws proceeds. And, strangest of all, the Administration with the greatest do-nothing record on antitrust attacks is the present one, which three months ago sounded the tocsin for a big monopoly hunt and now, already, seems to have called it off.
A Woman's Viewpoint: By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
What has be-
THE INDIANAPOLIS: TIMES: Getting a Bit Hot Under the Collar By Tabu
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The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what. you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—"Voltaire.
PLAYING OF BINGO IS DEFENDED By P. G. " All‘these people who are knocking
the bingo games give me a pain. It’s
just a lot of jealousy and people running them for personal profit that has caused all the fuss. As for people spending their money—isn’t it better to spend 25 or 50.cents to play a game they enjoy with a chance to get some of their money back than it is to spend it for drink and other things just as bad? As for the halls being fire hazards—most of the games are held in lodge halls having several exits and which were used previously for playing cards and dancing. The American people are glamblers at heart—so why not let them have their bingo so long as the game is played for a good cause and run on the level?
ENDS READER'S DOUBT By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport Headline, “Ralph Capone Cruel, Says Wife in Divorce Suit” That's hard to believe—from such a nice family, too
Commenting on the home-hunt--
ing activities of the Duke’ and Duchess of Windsor, one gentleman
recently delivered the opinjon that
“the Windsors are hard nuts to crack and want the world for nothing.” Well, that’s more or less understandahle- in one who did possess a fourth of it. . The Times’ “Mind Your Manners” column says that a meal may be served until 12:30 and. still be called breakfast. I'm glad to know that— I've been in doubt for a long time as to whether I've .been eating breakfast or luncheon.
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SPAIN CALLED GOOD
WAR LABORATORY By Agapito Rey, Bloomingfon The American people, regardless of their views, are unanimous in their condemnation of the brutal bombings of Spanish ‘cities by Italian and German air forces. In less than a week more than 1000 innocent victims, mostly women and children, have been mercilessly slaughtered. -In Lerida alone 78
| children were killed when a- public
school was bombed; 29 others
ished in Barcelona when the walls of a church in which they had taken refuge caved in when struck by bombs. The Vatican and our Secretary of State have protested: -against these outrages, but their ‘words lacked both force and sincerity. Why the bombing of these cities removed from the front? Simply to test the new equipment and war theories of dictators. The Italian newspapers were very much pleased | with the results obtained, Franco is satisfied; his radio station at Bur-
gos broadcast that the raids had;
been very successful. Spain is a good
laboratory in which to demonstipte
(Times readers are invited to express their : views in these columns, religious controyersies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
in a practical way the efficiency of death-dealing machinery. American war materials have made the grade. Our bombs are gaod — they ' worked on innocent Spaniards. German aviators are using them in large quantities. We
‘sent two shiploads of them to Ger-
many for use in Spain early in January, and most effective destruction began soon afterward. These
. , | shipments were protested, but in COLUMN DEFINING BREAKFAST | il
Our neutrality act does not permit us to sell anything to the legitimate Spanish Government to defend itself—but we may furnish the foreign invaders all the war materials they need. Where is our. sense of justice and fair play? Shall we follow the infamous conduct of England in the Spanish conflict? We should make up for the injustice of our arms policy by sending medical aid and food to the victims of these air raids. Thousands have been left homeless, destitute
| and crippled.
® » = RAPS INTERFERENCE WITH WPA PROJECTS
By H. M. B. I am a union man who lost my job, had to go on relief, then was given work on a WPA project. Certain contractors and union officials are now trying to stop the project to which I was assigned. They do not seem to realize that there are all kinds of skilled and union men who have been forced to take WPA work or starve. Why should they wish to replace us. It isn’t because the contractor wishes
~~ CASUAL By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL His way was casual Gay and free. | She gladly lived and Laughed to be A part of life with Him at last. But now her joy is Gone and past. - He took her love as Carelessly - As hurrying winds Ruthlessly Strip trees bare of leaves.
DAILY THOUGHT
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.—Deuteronomy: 25:16.
N honest “man’s the noblest work of Giod.—Pope.
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to give work to skilled union work-
men, but it is because he is looking
out for the profit that he may get. I think the contractors and union officials should not interfere with projects which give us work when they are not able to do so. 2 8 » SUGGESTS U. S. GOVERNMENT TAKE OVER GAMBLING | By Mrs. W. A. Collins . Why is a prominent business group squealing about bingo? I'd suggest the Civil Service take over the gambling in the United States and pay off that tremendous
debt we owe. Pay our blind and old people a pension whereby they can
live and not just exist.
» ” » FAN SEEKS ANOTHER, ROLLER DERBY By Roller Derby Fan I am a roller derby fan and I
would like to see a derby here|
again. From reliable sources I have found they will not be allowed to come back. Why? Six-day lowed. :
ike races are al-
If a roller derby were here, four | hours a night for three weeks, it
would have operated only 84 hours. And each skater skates but two hours a night, or 42 hours if he remains in the entire race. I think it is a grand sport at admission prices the average working man can afford. If bike races are allowed, so should the roller derby. If it is true that the Agricultural Board will not lease the Coliseum
for the derby, I believe they should. have given the residents of Indi-'
anapolis a voice in the matter. tJ ® » OBJECTS TO PROPOSED TRACTION: ABANDONMENT By R..M. Stacy .. The Indiana Railroad's proposal to ‘substitute busses and trucks for interurban service om its Indian-apolis-Peru-Ft. Wayne division can only result in inferior service to the public. Busses and trucks could not equal the present interurban service
to towns off the highways which the | busses and trucks would use, or do
it on a timetable as fast or convenient as the present traction schedule. The interurban rolling stock is in condition, and provides
much more pleasant riding than could ever be furnished by busses. A large portion of the traction line is protected by automatic block signals, and its safety record is far above that of any bus company. Many thousands of dollars taxes will be lost annually by counties in which interubans operate if busses
and trucks are substituted. It rests
with the people to voice their opinfon against abandonment, so that the traveling public may continue
to ‘receive the most convenient,
economical, dependable and ‘safe transportation available, which is furnished by the traction line.
Gen. Johnson
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he Stock Market Decline Was the
| rincipal Cause for the Slump .in utomobile Production and Sales.
T, April 1.—Conditions in the automobile 4 industry are bad. There are about one million new and used cars and. very high inventories of patts and materials backed up in the channels of production and sale. The outflow from the Fack-valer ot ion is just a trickle. - ‘The automobile industry is so large a consumer iron, steel, copper, glass, lumber, textiles, rubber and incidental gadgets and it gives employment to so many people in these industries and in the business of sell-
- ing and servicing a whole nation on wheels, that any
slowing up here is instantly reflected in every field of business and employment in the country. Of course any such Almost complete damming up of activities by
' so great a hump of stalled material is the largest
single cause of bad business and unemployment,
What caused the sudden and wholly unexpected
- slowing up of new car sales that. turned off the sun-
light on our whole business pattern? Principally the
11937 stock market slump. Call them “paper values”
if you will, but a sudden. wiping out of 25 to 50 billions of stock values not only makes people feel poorer, but actually greatly restricts their buying power. In spite of theory, the cold hard fact remains. that automobile production and sales go up and down directly with the market. | : *® = '2 ELL, if the toniinig d market decline is respon< sible for the iin. in automobile sales, and
in employment and the new depression, the forces that caused the market decline are the forces that brought. the depression. And what are they?
There is almost no room for argument about that. When the early 1937 recovery started, the President expressed Sets about rising prices. The Fed-
the a is responsible for the general decline :
eral Reserve, and especially Mr. Eccles, began to give out state ts about its power and policy to regulate cycles and check booms and then acted to “restrict vernment deliberately moved with its vastly increased powers against the recovery.
Apart rom this direct kicking and cuffing around ‘of our delicate economic mechanism, was the incie dental music. Threats and accusations against busi«= ness grew in a rising chorus from many Administra« tion sources. A series of bills was introduced in Congress further to concentrate such powers and strengthen a qistincyy antibusiness Administration policy. 2 = ” ‘there was any intent to shut off the . ste and delay recovery, the psychological effect did exactly that. It crashed the stock market and kept it on the toboggan. The President talks about purchasing power as the necessary ingredient to recovery and he is right. But for every. one billioni of purchasing power, he creates by extravagant spending, "his policies here have destroyed at least ten billions in purchasing power by destroying values. If ever responsibility for unemployment and distress was. single and direct on a political administration and policy, it is here. In this, Detroit, cen tral agitator of half the business and employment in the country, you can trace the result so clearly from cause to effect that there is little room for argument about it.
The hope lies here; the backward movement has gone too far. Af extremes public sentiment always goes too far—too low at the bottom—too high at the top. A rebound is certain soon. When it comes and corisumes these excess inventories, recovery will resume as sure as sunrise,
It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun: - -
Even In the Role of a Centenario, Ethel Barrymore Remains Herself.
EW YORK, April 1.—There will always be, I trust, Drews and Barrymores in the American theater, They constitute the first family of our stage. Of late much brilliance has been brought to Whe drama by newcomers. >
But it seems to me that it is a mistake in point of view to hold tKat hospitality for the rookies in art must include the demolition of their elders. . For instance, whenever a young American writes: a' good’ novel of Middle Western homelife many reviewers are apt to drag in William Dean Howells and slap him around. Possibly I'm going back too. many years, since tHe subject of my essay is.not among the ancients. However, I hope that she will pardon me because: of the fact that in “Whiteoaks” Miss Ethel Barrymore plays the part of a woman 101 years old.-
It seems to me to rank among the finest things which Miss Barrymore has done. in the theater. Many actresses would be fempted to go in for enormous elaboration of makeup and spend hours before each ula formance in the creation of wrinkles. And there wou be the traditional quavering. voice, | .
Indeed, most thespians .go mad whenever the opportunity is prese: nescence. I have an.amateur actor in my own family, and in college theatricals he leans toward those roles which enable him to wear a While Wig and a long” gray beard.
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Now, of course; Miss ‘Barrymore knows far more about the art of acting than any relative of ming, and still I was a little worried before I went to see her do the part of a grand old lady of 101. I knew it would be interesting, but I had a slight suspicion that she might give ‘it a shade too mich of this and that. I know my Barrymores. Miss Ethel Barrymore in “Whiteoaks” has “rigozously resisted the ‘temptation to do that dreadful thing known in the theater as a “character part.” She takes on more than half a century and still re-
with’ themselves d to portray se-
mains essentially herself. Never have I held with
those critics who complain that this or that great one of the theater plays herself in every role. Why not? When I see the name “Ethel Barrymore” in the lights I go to watch Miss Barrymore and no changeling brought about by sleight-of-hand or bladk magic. “Whiteoaks” is no ‘masterpiece of playwriting, bat I recommend it as an entertainment to be put upon And arrogantly assuniing an authority which I do not possess, I hereby awa ‘a gold plaque studded” with diamonds and rubies | to Miss Barrymore as the person who has given the finest performance of the season. :
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein ¥ : ‘
Sn, bowling, ishing, ‘hiking .and ‘gardening. ve _feit of
HE rain. fell so slowly it was as if the heavens wept for some ancienti hopéless sorrow—hard reluctant tears that became cold penetrating wetness when they touched the desolate men and woms-
en before the door of the. relief paeney. They stood in a bread-
Farther up ‘the same street a chauffeur stopped his car before the entrance to a towering office building, and out of it emerged a richly clad man and woman. But curiously enough beneath the veneered surface of their faces could be detected the same strained, greedy look which haunted the countenances of their neighbors across the tracks. "For these also Wels in a breadline. There are two ‘breadiines in our society. .In one wait: the shivering, hungry poor, wanting food for their bodies, in the other some of our well-to-do, though they have a surake, search for the bread
pitied than the former, for they do:
not know what it is they desire. Men with unlimited power such as Hitler and Mussolini, long-dead heroes with the same urges as
Napoleon and Philip of Spain, are
soul-starved types. And all. lesser men who strive only for worldly gains, for material wealth, brief
glory, position, publicity, go unsated
to their graves. They mark time in an unending breadline. And this breadline, where -the soul-starved stand, is more menacing to ci tion’s security and peace than that where the emptystomached linger. ° By the exercise of a Httle generosity, wisdom and common sense we can feed those who hunger in their bodies. But how can we
build a great nation until we have:
also stilled the spiritual longings of those who hunger for something. more than bread? Lacking hope, faith and a God to worship, man has always red And. these we
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‘study of a science
OR years Indianapolis has been waiting for a book from one of
her most vital and beloved citizens,
Mrs. George Phillip Meier. Now out of the wealth of a fruitful life and
from a deep and scientific knowl-
edge of a hobby which became a life work, Nellie Simmons Meier has delved deeply into her treasure chest terial and gives us LIONS’ PAWS (Mussey), the story of famous hands. J Thirty-five i years | ‘of intensive ‘which is as old as history has resulted in the examination of some-20,000 pairs of hands. This reading ‘of human character
from man’s most illuminating mem. | genius
ber, a work of love into which goes a probing knowledge of human nature has, when transmuted by the author’s colorful and discerning personality, produced a book which is unique. Whether it is approached for the rules. of paimistry with accompanying thats and hand p prints Thi
the celebrities which jewel its pages, or merely for the pleasure of the facility of expression, one may be sssured of a reading treat, supreme! Meier's “Lions” come from all lepers from stage, screen and the arts, from big business and politics, from those who soar the| upper air and explore the ocean bed.. Here are Lynn Fontanne’s exquisite hands which remind one of a Frago-
nard painting and Martin Johnson’s
enormous paws which have literally hewn a way through pathless jungle. The author has marvelled at the revelations in Fritz Kreisler's remarkable hands, at the spark of shown in Helen Hayes’ dainty palms; she describes the whorl which’ appears occasionally in the hands of fortune’s annointed to indicate a mysterious sixth sense, a touch of personality b lus The oi of her “Lions” is an. interesting feature of the work; although most of them corne gently and joyously into her presence, and the. “roaringist into. !
ENIERE'S disease is an unusual condition in which the characteristic symptoms include the sudden onset of dizziness with the sensation that the patient is rapidly spinning or that surrounding objects are spinning. rapidly around ‘him. With this there may be nausea ‘or
vomiting, persistent ringing. in -the ears and a gradual loss of ’hearing on one side. The attacks come on at {rregular intereals and once the condition has
started, they may return with ins |’ creasing ; gradually get worse. Aside from the
frequency. Moreover,
to some oe the internal ear and particularly in that part made up of what : are called the semi‘circular cansls—the little canals in. side the head which let us know our position in space. More recent ine vestigations indicate that the condition may arise from: disturbances in the brain or in the herves and may the ©
ringing in the ears and the -diffi-|get
culty of hearing, these people feel perfectly well between attacks.
The dizziness may, however, come |! It may come on |
without warning.
while the patient is asleep, while st | the € work, walking or sitting quietly and in tl
reading. 1 The condition is called Meniere's