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MONDAY, MAY 2, 1938

THE THOMAS OUTRAGE OONER or later, the Constitution of the United States is going to catch up with Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City. The Norman Thomas incident justifies hope that it may be sooner. Two weeks ago a man named Jeff Burkitt—a long-time opponent of the Hague political machine—tried to make a street-corner speech in Jersey City. Mayor Hague's men hauled Mr. Burkitt off to jail, had him sentenced to six months although a dozen witnesses testified that neither his language nor his conduct had been disorderly, and denied him bail pending an appeal. They didn’t quite dare do that to Norman Thomas. Mr. Burkitt is an obscure magazine salesman, but Mr. Thomas is a national figure, three times the Socialist Party's candidate for President. No more than a few hundred thousand of his fellow-citizens have ever voted for Mr. Thomas, but many millions of them respect him. So, when Mr. Thomas applied for permission to hold an orderly outdoor meeting in Jersey City, it was denied. When he appeared in a public square there, and before he had started to speak, he was grabbed by Hague policemen, hustled away in an automobile, and placed forcibly on a New York-bound ferry boat. This, of course, was as flagrant an assault upon the rights of free speech and peaceable assembly as if he had been thrown into jail. In one sense, it was even more outrageous. Placed under arrest Mr. Thomas could have appealed immediately to the courts—and even the courts of Jersey City might have been afraid to deny justice to a citizen of his standing. Mayor Hague and his men evidently didn't care to risk that. They took the law into their own hands, as they have done so many times against labor organizations and other victims of Hague's hatred, and deported Mr. Thomas. We don’t know whether Mr. Thomas will find it possible to prosecute his kidnapers under the Lindbergh law, but that action would seem to be thoroughly justified. Certainly

Hague, who “terrorizes an entire city at the polls and else-

where as effectively as any dictator,” is a vice chairman of |

the Democratie National Committee and a close political associate of President Roosevelt. Mayor Hague may continue a little longer to be, as he boasts, “the law in Jersey City.” But decent people everywhere in America ought to make it clear now that they have no sympathy and will have no political dealings with his brutal and cynical Fascist regime.

IT'S THE PEOPLE'S MONEY GLY charges of relief-fund pressure in Pennsylvania and Florida primary contests are now being investi-

in Washington. The promptness of Mr. Williams’ action is in keeping with the record of WPA at the top in attempting to prevent political use of the vast Government funds that are distributed throughout the country. In so far as WPA general headquarters in Washington are concerned we believe the history of the whole operation has been one of good intent. But in view of the tremendous spread of the WPA expenditures, administered as they necessarily must be by all sorts of men, we think that restraint from Washington no matter how well-intentioned cannot be sufficient. We see recurrences of such charges with more and more frequency. For example the case of “form 100,” entitled “application for indorsement by Kalamazoo, Mich., County Democratic Committee,” given out to those seeking relief jobs, containing questions like these: “Did you vote in the primary of September, 1937? Democratic? Republican?” “Did you vote in the primary of September, 1934? Democratic? Republican?” “Are you a member of any Democratic organization or club? Where?” “Did you vote in the election of November, 1934?” “Have you contributed to any Democratic organization in Kalamazoo County? To whom? How much since Aug. 1, 1932?” Activities of local political organizations having influence over the routing of tremendous sums of money are bound to lean toward the spoils system. Accordingly, we think that direct legislation on the question along the line of that suggested by Rep. Bruce Barton of New York is long overdue. Mr. Barton would have an amendment to the Corrupt Practices Act making it a penitentiary offense for any official in charge of the distribution of Government funds to influence the political beliefs or actions of a recipient. He likens the proposal to the provision in the Wagner act making it illegal for employer to try in any way to influence the opinions of an employee. Since the United States Government is the biggest employer of all we think the analogy perfect. And we believe that such a statute would put the burden of proof where it belongs, and instead of investigation after the fact would leave the responsibility on those who administer the funds to be duly cautious “before the fact” or suffer the penalty. We believe what Mr. Barton says is the truth: “This is not a partisan issue; it reaches to the very roots of our democracy. If a voter on the payrolls of the WPA and the PWA can be told how to vote, if a corporation receiving Government orders must take political orders

as well, then we have passed out of the state of free democ- |

racy and are entering into the ‘bread and circuses’ era which preceded the decline of Rome.” Expenditures of taxpayers’ money are too far-flung for any administraton at general headquarters, no matter how

wd &i el intants : : honest and sincere and well-intentioned, to prevent misuse | of men went away bewildered, wondering What was

unless aided by some law with teeth in it such as the one i Mr. Barton has proposed.

| which | hands.

| Whoops O'Malley in Boston. | and pugnacious, and Mr. Schmeling developed some | diplomatic equivalent of the broken hand.

| Maybe we might add a fourth. | electricity, automobiles and skyscrapers.

gated by order of Aubrey Williams, assistant WPA director |

| been built. | learned how to use steel to build simply, quickly,

{ knew began to own cars.

| stage in “Victoria Regina.” | to be “Everybody.”

| loyalty.

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

If the Best Traditions of Naziism And Pugilism Are to Be Upheld, the Bomber Must Delay His Go With Max

EW YORK, May 2.—It is a little too early, but every day I turn to the sport page expecting to read that Joe Louis, the heavyweight champion of the world, has broken a hand in a training contest, necessitating the postponement of his fight with

Max Schmeling, the hero of the Hitler youth. This |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES How About It, Sucker ?—By Talburt

really cannot be expected to happen until about the | first or second week in June, as the date set for |

the struggle is June 22. After that Louis would need two months for mending. And after that, according to tradition, the champion would be entitled to a tune-up contest. Training for the tune-up contest would require four weeks. And then, in simple justice, Louis would need two weeks’ rest before going into training again, which would take four weeks more. ” n »

HAT would defer the championship fight until November, which is football season and no time of the year for an outdoor prize fight. So the hero of the Hitler vouth would have to bide his time until the summer of next year. There might be some who would doubt the genuineness of a broken hand in view of the fact that Schmeling knocked out Louis the last time. But the injury could be substantiated by X-Ray photographs, of which there is a large file available in the hospital libraries at all times. The Nazis, of course, would regard this as a dirty

{ trick, but pugilism is very much like Naziism.

Moreover, Schmeling himself has set precedents would justify the fracture of one of Louis’ Soon after Schmeling came to this country he was matched to fight a slashing tiger named Mr. O'Malley was stout

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ATER on Schmeling won the bauble, as it is called by a special favor of Jim Farley and the New York Prize Fight Commission, which declared the bauble to be at stake in his contest with Jack Sharkey when obviously it was not. He promised to give Sharkey a return match as a return favor to Mr. Farley and the Commission, but returned to

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Germany, and the next year fought Willie Stribling | He knew he could beat Stribling, but he |

instead. had doubts about Sharkey, because Sharkey had been striking him with furious lefts and rights to the face and body, as the saying goes, when he won their previous match, and the bauble, on a foul ‘He also postponed and eventually completely avoided Primo Carnera, who looked rather difficult at that stage, and when he was ultimately crowded

into a ring with Sharkey for his long-deferred re- | | turn match he lost the bauble.

So a fracture or a run-around of some kind seems imperative in the case of the proposed Louis-Schmel-ing fight if the finest traditions of pugilism and Naziism are not to be lowered into the dust and Schmeling’s own precedents are to be respected. As the hero of the Nazi youth, Schmeling should be treated according to his own precedents and an adaptation of David Harum's version of the golden rule, “Do unto a Nazi as he would do unto vou and

he is justified in calling attention to the fact that Mayor | do it fust.”

Business By John T. Flynn

Private Borrowing and Spending Ended the Country's 1907 Slump.

EW YORK, May 2.—A New York bank economist : says Government spending to get out of depressions Is wicked and that, what is more, we never did it before, yet we got out of depressions. That brings up the question—how did we get out of depressions before this? We had a depression in 1907. How did we climb out of that one? Three things pulled us out of that depression. The three were The fourth might have been new machine methods. By 1907 the rapid spread of electricity to home lighting, power, trolley systems was in full swing. How did this help us out of the depression? By borrowing and spending borrowed funds. It was

| private borrowing and spending, but it was borrowing | and spending just the same.

The skyscraper had been introduced in the early Nineties. In every town a skyscraper or two had Then at the turn of the century engineers

cheaply and safely to almost any height. There was a wave of office-building all over the country. We

actually had begun to do something which we very | nearly completed in 1929—take down the business | sections of all our towns and build them over again.

Billions of dollars went inte this from 1907 on for several years. And this, too, helped to pull us out. But why? By borrowing and spending; borrowing on mortgages and spending on workmen and materials.

Came the Automobile Maybe borrowing and spending are unhealthy. That is a long story full of technical economic analyses. Then there was the automobile. In 1907 there were still more horses on the streets than cars. The price of cars had begun to come down. People we all The car began to affect in a moderate way the manner of life of the city and country. The first signs of road building and suburban building due to the motor began to appear, though this did not reach its full proportions until after the war. tion of large-scale machine production. Little tories were being scrapped and big ones being built. Big machines were taking the place of little machines, That is what took us out and up for a brief space after 1907. It didn’t go very far and didn’t last very long, because in 1912 we were on our way down again and we unquestionably would have gone further down but for the intervention of the Great War. But it was borrowing and spending that did the trick—borrowing, and spending of what was borrowed hy private interests.

/ . » A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Xe HO wants to see a play about a little old fat woman?” I heard this remark made when Helen Hayes began her long run on the New York The right answer seems

Now on the road, Miss Hayes is having such a turnout as few actresses receive. And perfect as she is in the role, even she must realize that the real Victoria, so long dead, pulls in part of her audiences. A little old fat woman! In the end that’s what Victoria was. And yet how her story clutches at our hearts. It is the tale of a marriage, and one of the most beautiful love stories of history. No wonder people pour in to see it, sitting entranced with wet eyes, for it brings something lost and lovely into a world confused with too much liberalism. What is this quality that so moves us in the stodgy, stubborn Victoria? It is the quality of

thought of that little old fat woman keeping her dead

Albert's room exactly as he left it, there are tears |

behind our laughter. Wise men tell us now that this was a very bad Perhaps they are right. I wonder. Whatever may be best for us, one little old fat woman knew how to love. I daresay that thousands of women who have seen Miss Hayes in the role carried aching hearts with them out of the theater, and that an equal number

causing the heavy weight in their chests. It is, I think, a realization that we have lost the capacity to love as Victo loved. ¢

But sound or not, that's what happens. |

Then there was the rapid introduc- | fac- |

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I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

ENGINEER'S DEFENSE | IDEAS CITED By F. R.

| gineer, a “naval expert” and a man | of ideas. Like Private Willis, | House of Lords sentry in “Iolanthe,” | he thinks of “things that wouid as- | tonish you.”

: | the Senate Naval Affairs Commit-

| tee to approve his idea for a billion- | the | need | Ap- |

| dollar waterway right across | continent, so that we would only one navy for both shores. parently he has discovered the longsought Northwest Passage. All

River headwaters. Presto! would save $5,000,000,000 for extra Atlantic Navy. | But that's not all. | Uncle Sam

|and which he said could be built | for $200 each and flown by citizen | defenders. Finally, the Government | should give 20 billions to “outside | brains.” | Chairman Walsh

of the Senate

| Committee asked Mr. Rice where he |

| would get the money for these | measures of defense. | had an answer for that, too. { “Where are you going to get all | this money that's going to be spent anyhow?” he retorted. Mr. Rice's “outside brains” be a bit overfertile on engineering ideas, but on finance they greatly

resemble inside brains.

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LAUDS RECORD OF SULLIVAN

By F. D. O. Making a political menagerie of the County Jail yard (Exhibit A to the north; Exhibit B to the south) shows a tendency toward childishness in middle age. In fact, such cheap ballyhoo is no longer used at county fairs and makes intelligent voters feel them-

native Barnum II. Both political parties have neces-

candidates of the highest standing —men of the caliber of Reginald | Sullivan, whose past record as | Mayor has no equal. He never re- | sorted to cheap publicity, but went along quietly doing his duty as he saw | Job—so good that he was practically

{ drafted by his many friends to re- |

| peat it. ” » BELIEVES TVA PROBE | CAN SUCCEED By E. E. | In spite of Senator Borah, I be- | lieve that the Congressional committee can do a good job of investigating the Tennessez Valley Au(thority. The Senator's memory many more years than mine, and he says he can't remember any successful joint investigation by Sen-

Edwin L. Rice is a Maryland en- |

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For instance, Engineer Rice urged |

we | need to do is cut a four-mile canal | from the Missouri to the Columbia | Ne | an |

He would have | build 20,000,000 flying ! autos, which he called “triphibions.” |

may |

selves classed as imbeciles by our |

sary organizations and usually pick |

fit. «. And he did an excellent |

covers |

(Times readers are invited their in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can

to express views

have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

ators and Representatives. But this one can be successful. I regret that

Nary declined to serve. After all, however, the committee may be just as well off without a member who thinks the whole “town meeting” and a member who | is intensely busy with other mat- ! ters, Most of those who will serve seem to be fair-minded men. If they will recognize that they have been given

an opportunity for genuine public in service, and if they will put enough |

| time and energy into their work, | they can bring out the facts about TVA—those favorable to the present | operation and those unfavorable. And that is all that is necessary to make the investigation a success.

But Mr. Rice |

» n » URGES MANAGEMENT TO LAY [ITS CARDS ON TABLE |By M. s. In Bridgeport, Conn., the other evening the president of Manning, | Maxwell & More Co. {equipment manufacturers,

come and talk over their common { problems. About 750 workers at- | tended. The president then pre-

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‘TO THE MEMORY OF OUR |

| MOTHERS | By MARIE C. M'CARTHY

| A mother’s love is like a canopy | Of fabric strong, but soft in color, Protecting from the glare her loved ones | And all the beneath. O’er her children’s father spreads the shade Of that maternal armor which endures | Through the years, shadowing all | The little lapses and the greater sins, { Braving storms ebbing; | And, as this kindly shelter gently folds, Baring a harsh, stark world, She softly prays that they may face it unafraid.

leaning, needy ones

until her life is

DAILY THOUGHT

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass | away.—Matthew 24:35.

HE spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together per(ish with this corporeal clod.—Milton.

thing will be a |

railroad | hired a | hall and invited 1000 employees to |

[sented the workers with facts about | {the concern and business generally, |

(illustrated with lantern

slides. |

| Whereupon the employees fired a lot |

{of questions at him on taxes, for- | eign trade, tariffs, profit-sharing, [advertising worker efficiency, tech- | nological unemployment and other { matters. So far as I know such a meeting is unique. Yet why should it

A modern industry is no longer an |

[individualistic affair between master {and men, but a group venture of {management, stockholders, salesmen and workers.

|as in its profits. If management generally laid its cards on the table with its part(ners, the workers, I believe would be fewer strikes and less of {the class-war spirit in American industry, ”n ” 5 | QUALIFICATIONS OF | WALTON, LISTED

y PFC 3 | ing such as is incidental to the office {of Surveyor of Marion County, it is | necessary for the office holder, to be la registered professional engineer. | The designing of highways and | their maintenance, structures and | their construction, levees, drainage | systems and technical advice to

township and county governing units |

are all problems for the County Surveyor to work out and execute. Darrell C. Walton, the Demo- { cratic candidate for this office, a registered professional and highly capable of performing the duties of this important office. He has been engaged in both me-

here in Marion County for a period

” ” ” IMPORTANCE OF PROFIT | ASSAILED BY READER By Guy Spittsmesser, Elwood

I am one of those poor creatures called a farmer but I feel I should have a small voice in things that affect me so much. All these years I have heard little else but a constant howl by certain institutions and politicians against | communism and Reds. I have carefully watched world events and have found that thus far fascism has invariably followed on the heels of such propaganda. Then the attitude of our Government and the stand we took against the Spanish Government proves to the world just who { dominates us. | They would like to tell us of the { dangers of Moscow, but fail to tell lus of the times we had to bow to | Mussolini and his coworker, Hitler. | We claim we are neutral in

Japan anything and everything they | want to murder an almost helpless | nation. | There are many in our land today { who would rather sell a few dollars | worth of goods, even if the buyer should come back and murder a million of our boys, than to miss a sale for a profit.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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It is a devotion to the idea of marriage as | | an eternal affair, to the idea of love as something that can transcend sex, and although we smile at the

THERE IS a story that Bismarck arranged the marriage of Nicholas II, last Russian Czar, to ncess Alice of Hesse-Darmstadt, wing

"DAD, WE DISCUSSED IN TODAY WHY THE SON OF THE ST CZAR WAS A BLEEDER AND DECIDED IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE— IMMORAL LIVES OF HIS ANCESTORS" "SON, IT5 ANOTHER CASE OF THE CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM THE SINS OF THE FATHERS"

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that she carried the bleeding heredity, in order to weaken the Russian royal family. Whether true or false, it is a corking story and pre-

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| cisely what Bismarck would have done if he had thought about it, as he probably did. As I showed recently, bleeding is a pure, inherited trait carried by the women but shown only, so far as any cases are shown, by the men. If we could arrange the marriages it would be a simple matter to produce it in the women also. I'll explain why later.

2 ” ” A GROUP of Harvard scientists reported recently to the American Association for the Advancement of Science that a person goes to sleep gradually and that different parts of the brain go to sleep at different rates and times. They found | this out by watching the brain | waves shot out by the brain as in- | dividuals were going to sleep.

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IT IS ABOUT the wisest thing in the whole budget. When a girl says it “means everything” to her to be dressed properly, especially at a party, she teils the truth—it means more than food and as Emerson said, gives a ‘consolation that even religion is powerless to convey.” It involves not only her normal sex emotions, but the passion of human soul to be important—

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Gen. Johnson Says—

Charts and Graphs Give Some Idea

Of What Might Happen, but They Do Not Express Hopes and Fears.

OT SPRINGS, Va.,, May 2.—One way to get some idea about what is happening—or likely to happen—in recovery in the near future, is to read graphs and play around with charts and statistics. That is the Washington way. It is a good way and a necessary way. But, standing by itself, it isn’t worth a hoot. Charts and statistics are historical. In the words carved on the great Washington hall of useless and obsolete records: “Past is prelude.” It is necessary to know its But never yet has any cartographer been able a to get into his curves any expression of what John L. Lewis calls “the hopes and the fears of the unfortunate biped of the genus homo.” These hopes and fears are precisely what make people buy and venture and invest—to talk with people whose hopes and fears influence production. The best do that is when they are at least a little relaxed—

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treats of economic royalists. back seat to which they are relegated just now in the tents of the mighty, they come from the firing line. Some of them know precisely, for example, the rate at which manufactured goods are moving out of the inventories which were backed up by this depres= sion. Most of them know the state of forward orders and the prospect of saies—which is another way of saying the prospect of re-employment and better times in the immediate future, It isn't good. In fact, it is terrible. Even the usual and expected spring rise is not developing. The automobile industry, which is the greatest cone sumer of the products of all industry, is not getting started. Enough time has elapsed to read the effect of this for several weeks in advance. No hopeful spurt can be expected before next autumn. The Govern=-

{ ment gestures toward inflation haven't yet produced | any result—and few expect much from them this | year, | counted.

Any effect of pump-priming was long disIt is now quite certain that in practical result it will add very little on “purchasing power” .

and spending in time to do any good this year,

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ROF. ARNOLD'S speech was a good one, in so far . as it seemed to promise a more definite specifica=

tion of what Government desires and condemns in the

operation of business bigness. But it was, as usual, a broadside threat and accusation without naming

names If there are evils in business, they should be prosecuted and abolished. But it is not necessary to threaten all business with assault. If there are prices improperly maintained at extortionately high figures * and returning more than a fair profit, let's hear about them. But it is no argument that because some prices are less flexible than others, the former are “monopolistic.” : It is a general opininn in industry that the depres« sion could be turned around in 60 days by simply lete ting the profits and capitalist system work. This Ad« ministration seems congenitally incapable of doing so,

lt Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Roosevelt Must Be Re-Elected in '40 to Maintain Progressive Gains,

EW YORK, May 2.-It is a sound American

tradition which holds that no Chief Executive of the nation should have a third consecutive term, And so it might be good strategy for Franklin Delano Roosevelt to announce that after his re-election in 1940 he will serve no more. To me it is unthinkable that he should not be a candidate to succeed himself two years hence. There is no one else who can maintain the gains which progressive government has made in the last few years. I thoroughly agree with many of the criticisms which have been directed against Mr. Roobevelt, It. seems to me that he has proceeded with an excess of caution and that on all’ too many occasions he has held out an olive branch instead of a hickory stick. He has played with forces which have wel« comed periods of truce only as opportunities to under mine and undercut all his liberal policies. And at times the technique of the man in the White House has been singularly inept judged by any political yardstick whatsoever. I refer to those oce casions upon which Mr. Roosevelt has succeeded in alienating his supporters and maddening his foes with one and the same gesture, But all this should be skipped by those who are * interested in the forward march of liberal policies in America. This can be proved by a simple laboratory test. Let any progressive take a pencil and a piece of paper and set down the names of those who are available to carry on New Deal policies.

Hopkins Gets Most Support

A small group tried it the other night, and we ended up with Lehman, Minton, Swellenbach and Harry Hopkins. Most of the support among the meme bers of this particular small cross-section went to Hopkins, but there was no one who seriously thought

he could get by the Democratic delegates, let alone the voters, in 1940, La Guardia is a progressive, but his only chance of a major party nomination lies with the Republicans, and that party most certainly is not going to choose a liberal as its standard bearer. At the moment the G. O. P. leaders feel that they are sitting pretty, and that they can win with anybody. I ¢ wouldn't be at all surprised to see them pick Bruce Barton. Friends of the President seem to be of the opinion that he wants to get out at the end of his term, That's irrelevant, Mr. Roosevelt's wishes in the mate ter are not important. Progressives must draft him, and they must get behind him now,

Watching Your Health 4

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

INCE the development of modern methods of training for physical efforts and the continucts striving to break all sorts of established records, physicians have been more and more concerned with what happens to the heart of the athlete as he grows older. Recently a number of scientific Japanese ‘ine vestigators have been studying the lungs and hearts » of members of the rugby football team of the New Zealand University which visited Japan.

They found that the chests of these athletes all showed congestion of the blood vessels of the lungs, due to the necessity for the supply of great amounts of blood to meet the requirements of rugby football played at high speed. They found also that every member of the team had a heart that could easily be described as “athlete's heart.” These observations are important because the: would seem to establish the fact that intensiv training always affects the muscles of the heart. If the person concerned happens to be of a con stitutional type with a tendency to certain dis. turbances of the sympathetic nervous system -—what is called “vagatonic”—the enlargement of the heart may be unstable and lead to a relaxation of the heart that will eventually interfere with its use as a vital organ. Since this disturbance of the heart was much more frequent in the constitutional type of humabeing that is subject to disturbances of the symp. thetic nervous system than in other types of huma. beings, there would seem to be some indication for people in charge of athletes to determine somethin: about their constitutional type before permittir, them to engage in certain forms of athletic activit

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