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@ive Lioht and the People Will Find Their Own Way

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1938

ARTICULATE BUSINESSMEN HE United States Chamber of Commerce is meeting in Washington and many speeches are being made by businessmen—too many for all of them to be mentioned here. So we'll mention two. One was by Winthrop Aldrich, chairman of the Chase National Bank. Mr. Aldrich suggested that the country needs a “two or three years’ breathing spell” to enable Government and business to “consolidate, modify and assimilate what has already been done, and . . . to study quietly the basis of further reform.” “It is not a wholesome situation,” he said, “when the head of a factory is obliged to spend more time with his lawyers than he spends with his engineers, his treasurer and his sales manager. The architect is very unlikely to get an audience under such conditions. And the blueprint of a new invention which in quieter times would have a chief executive's eager attention, finds itself covered under on the executive's desk by legal opinions on the consequences of recent legislation and reports on the prospects of proposed legislation. The pace has been too fast. We must pause, consolidate, modify, at points retreat, and adjust ourselves to the whirlwind changes that already have taken place.” Here is a conservative saying “go slow, go slow,” and giving reasons against too-fast movement. It is possible to disagree with him. We do, for example, if his cautionary remarks can be interpreted as opposing action soon on wagehour legislation. We believe this is a matter on which there has been enough delay, and that a good wage-hour bill would help rather than hurt business. But Mr. Aldrich’s attitude, it seems to us, is more intelligent than that displayed by some who call themselves conservatives and rugged individualists, but who in hard times such as these spend their days wringing their hands, spreading imaginary fears, and opposing all change, either fast or slow, and regardless of necessity. It was of such none-too-rugged oppositions that another Chamber of Commerce speaker was thinking. We refer to Charles F. Palmer, of the building construction industry,

Atlanta, Ga., who said:

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“Conditions are a little better in the Southeast than | in other parts of the country, but I think one reason is | because we have tried to stop being ‘againsters’ and have |

tried to work for things.”

LABOR VS. LABOR UT of the ports of the Pacific every spring sail the ships of the Salmon Fleet hound for the rich red-salmon fisheries of Alaska. The ships, formerly windjammers and now steamers, bear with them 20,000 fishermen, mechanics and cannery hands, many of whom make enough out of the summer catch and pack to last them through the year. This year that fleet may not sail for its annual argosy of canned salmon and jobs. That isn’t because of a wage-hour dispute between the cannery owners and the men. Such a dispute has been settled by help of Government conciliation. It is because of another of those intra-union rows between the A. F. of L. and the C. L. O. The A. F. of L. demands an immediate election, and threatens to boycott Alaska salmon if it isn’t forthcoming. The C. 1. O., claiming 70 per cent of dues-paying members, replies that it will submit to an election this fall, when the ships return, but that there isn’t time for one now. This stand is backed by the conciliation award. The cannery operators say that if the warring union factions do not settle their row the sailings will be cancelled for the season. The stakes in this row are huge. A salmon pack worth 845,000,000 to the Pacific Coast; revenue for the territory of Alaska, which gets 80 per cent of its income from the salmon pack; jobs for these thousands of men. Strikes, lockouts, boycotts and other disputes between owners and workers are foolish enough when they destroy industrial peace and progress. But when factions in labor destroy their own common livelihood, folly is triumphant. Possibly a maritime mediation system such as is proposed in the pending Copeland bill might help prevent such fratricidal rows. But the danger will not be removed until labor makes peace in its own family. This patient country hopes that such peace will be not long deferred.

ECONOMY ON G-MEN -MEN numbering 320—half of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s nation-wide force—have just started a month's furlough without pay. The other half is to be furJoughed in June. Twenty employees of the fingerprint division have been discharged. All this is because the FBI is running short of money, with two months of the fiscal year yet to go. The Justice Department says it would need $173,000 to keep the full force of G-Men at work through June, and that the shortage of funds is due to an increased volume of work undertaken by the FBI, including the Mattson, Fried and Levin kidnapings and other costly cases. The cost of supporting the FBT has increased rapidly in recent years, and some people think that Director J. Edgar Hoover is a pretty extravagant official. We don’t know about that. We do know that his bureau has run down a great many kidnapers and other public enemies, and we believe that most American citizens feel it is worth its cost. And it does seem a little strange that a Government now talking about spending $4,500,000,000 on pump-priming should find it necessary to cripple this bureau and send the G-Men on payless furloughs in order to save $173,000. Let's see: $173,000 is to $4,500,000,000 as 1 cent is to $260.12. WHAT VALUE RECEIVED? XILED Emperor Haile Selassie, according to a dispatch from Geneva, has paid to the League of Nations a part of Ethiopia's overdue assessments,

We wonder, did the League treasurer turn his face

When he accepted the payment? .

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler The Chicago Background of Their

West Coast Leader Irks Some in The Alliance of Stage Employees.

EW YORK, May 4—A few critical individuals in the mechanical and unskilled lines of work in the moving picture business in Hollywood are waging a fight against the leadership of George T. Browne, president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, and Willie Bioff, his personal repre sentative on the coast. The alliance is very powerful in the movie industry, as it controls, among other operations, the projection of the movies onto the theater screens. It is undemocratic toward its rank-and-file members, and in one department its initiation fee of $1000 is believed to be the highest in the country. The newsreel photographers are required to pay $1000 to join the union and an income tax of 10 per cent of their earnings. Members of the union with whom I am personally acquainted have an understandable reluctance to criticize the leadership or management of the organization or demand changes in rules or practice.

* # 8 HE Alliance has cast covetous glances at the Mov= ing Picture Actors’ Union, which would yield rich returns to the treasury if the actors were taxed on their income at the same rate, The actors, however, are aware of this interest and have threatened to go to the floor and fight for their autonomy if the alliance should make such a move, Browne became head of the Chicago Moving Picture Machine Operators’ Union after the elimination of Thomas E. Maloy, who was removed from office by a sawed-off shotgun, locally known as a blast furnace, on Feb. 5, 1935. Five months later two-gun Louie Alterie was removed from the leadership of the Theatrical Janitors’ Union with similar abrupt emphasis. The Chicago police expressed a belief that both Maloy and Alterie were removed by the same opposition.

IOFF, a former associate of Jack Zuta, Lawrence Mangana and other influential leaders in the social and cultural life of Chicago's West Side, had been serving as Browne's escort or companion after Browne's accession to the leadership of Maloy's union. Certain members of the theatrical trades in Hollywood have a feeling that Bioff's Chicago background makes him unacceptable as the personal representative of Mr. Browne in charge of their affairs. They may be too fastidious, but that is the way they feel about the matter, and they have been trying to rally the rank and file to stand up in meeting and elect officers out of the working membership. Although Mr. Alterie was the first Chicago gangster to wear a bullet-proof vest, he appears to have aressed hurriedly or carelessly on the day of his removal from office, for he did not have it on at the time. It would have made no difference, because the committee, doubtless knowing of this little affectation, shot him only in the head. Although Mr. Browne is the supreme boss of the alliance, the opposition for the time being is concentrated on Mr. Bioff, with his delegated powers as personal representative. There is a feeling that, somehow, Mr. Bioff is not the type and that a more suitable man easily could be found to administer the affairs of thousands of workers in a very wealthy union.

Business

By John T. Flynn

La Follette Seems to Realize What Is Most Pressing Economic Problem.

EW YORK, May 4.—Governor La Follette, starting his new party, seemed to give first place to the most important, indeed the overshadowing economic problem of our time. It is the principle of production as against the principle of scarcity. The Democratic Party under Roosevelt has stood for scarcity. Republicans have criticized the Presi-

dent's course as, for instance, when the late Ogden |

Mills said that the President sought to cure the great evil of men languishing in the presence of a full supply by cutting down the supply. But the Republicans have stood for precisely the same thing. We have to judge what men and parties stand for not by their pronouncements but by their actions. The President probably talked more about abundance than any other man who has occupied the White House, but he was the first to set up Government machinery to deliberately produce scarcity. Before that Republicans always talked about plenty. And since they have attacked the President for his course. But what the President did was to make into law and give the sanction of popular approval and statute to the principle upon which American business has been trying to operate for 60 years. That principle is the principle of scarcity. What Roosevelt has done and still tries to do—as in the Guffey act—is to accomplish by law and more effectively what business thought it could do by private agreements.

Businessman Is Wrong

It is all wrong—utterly, completely. tragically wrong. It 1s perfectly naturai for a businessman, thinking in terms of his own interest and profit, to want to see the competitive supply reduced. He

thinks that is good for him. And often for a time |

it is good for him. But it is not good for the country as a whole. And in the end it is not good for him. La Follette turns his back on this profound error and he puts that principle at the very head of his program. He speaks wisely of the means bv which production is to be increased rather than curtailed. He says honestly that the way is not fully understood. But, he insists, it will never be understood until we try our hand at it. Maybe we do not know how to increase it. But we do know that the drive for deliberate scarcity is not the way. The way to increase production is first to adopt that as our objective. Then we will slowly learn more and more how to do it better.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson YRNA LOY has been voted the ideal wife by

thousands of young men. She is the girl who haunts the dreams of the modern male. Her directors have been astute enough to cast Miss Loy always in the part of a woman who not only understands her man, but who loves him in spite of his faults. She is noble, though never obnoxiously so. She is clever, but never so clever as her husband; and

she makes no demands upon him, but is ready to follow him to the utmost limits of his folly. Blessed with a sense of humor, her wit is never caustic nor brittle. She does not worry about money; if the male mood happens to be wasteful she can watch the cash disappear with charming calm, and when economy is the pattern she economizes like a niggard. Last, but certainly not the least of her virtues, is her aversion to nagging. This alone is enough to fasten her image forever in the heart of the average man. Miss Loy’'s portrayal of the wife in “The Thin Man” established her reputation as an ideal mate, and her role in “Test Pilot” with Clark Gable will enhance that reputation. For here she is indeed a noble helpmate. Surely no man could ask for more virtues in a spouse. It is to be hoped that none of us is fool enough to think that men can be managed according to a set formula or that life will give us the breaks that movie directors hand to screen couples. However, all women could profit by a study of Miss Loy's cinema technique. Every man has a dream girl whom he carries in his heart, and every dream girl has some of the attributes of a good dog*-that is to say, she loves the fellow, { Ya

not for his virtues but in spite of his sins,

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| of that age—yes, that's He

| writes Mr. Flynn, “are the chiselers

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1938

Or Where Do We Go From Here ?—By Talburt

DON’T YOU TRINK' MERBE WE COULD PATCH

The Hoosier Forum

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

CITES LATEST EFFORTS IN ILLUSION-SHATTERING

By B. C. It's getting so a person can't believe in anything any more for more than a few days at a time, what with all this illusion-shattering business in the scientific field going such great guns. The latest breath-taker comes | from D. M. T. Moreland, a British | authority in the field of bee re- | search. It seems it's not such a good idea after all to hold the busy bee up to the younger generation as |

(Times readers are invited to express their these columns, religious conexcluded. your letter short, so all Letters must

views in troversies fake can have a chance. be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

reckless politicians and wastrels! Unchecked, these will drive their states toward financial bankruptcy

owners and their 40,000 employees, offers, we believe, a more effective mechanism than one set up under the railmen's National Mediation Board. Such a board would have no judicial powers. The existing Labor Relations Act protects the workers’ right to organize. The existing navigation laws protect the shipowners in maintaining discipline at sea. There is no hint of compulsory arbitration or limitations on the right to strike in a safe port, as guaranteed in the La Fol- | lette Seamen's Act. | One dubious feature is the pro-

a model to pattern one's self after.|and their old people toward moral | posal to empower the board to sub-

The bee, according to Mr. Moreland, has practically no sense at all. From Atlantic City comes another | disclosure that knocks a few old | ideas into a cocked hat. Dr. Victor E. Negus, prominent laryngologist, declares that nature never intended | the vocal organs to be used for talk- | ing at all. Dr. Negus reported this | at the American Laryngologist,|

| Rhinological and Otological Society |

convention. But wouldn't it be awful to de- | termine to abide by nature's inten- | tions? If vou did that you'd never | such titles Laryngological. Rhinological,

Otological Society. » ” » PASSAGE OF BYRNES AMENDMENT URGED

By M. S. “Doc” Townsend's scheme putting everyone past 60 on a Federal pension is dead, but in certain of our states its soul goes marching on. Writing in Collier's, John T. Flynn charges that in Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Illinois and Colorado, politicians are playing ducks and drakes with their state's oldage assistance—or pension—funds by loading them with nonneedy pensioners to build political machines.

In Ozark County, Missouri, Mr. Flynn says 93 per cent of all people over 70 are on the pension roll, and in New Madrid County the number is 99 per cent. In Butler County, where there are 603 persons past 70, pension checks are going to 654 | persons, and in a county in Okla- | homa five people out of every four |

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getting pensions. Colorado is struggling with a law requiring pensions of $45 a month. “The beneficiaries of this scandalous misuse of public funds,”

who get on the rolls without right. The victims are the worthy old people who have to be satisfied with inadequate pensions so that there will be enough for the politicians to hand around to the ineligibles.” One can imagine no more sordid picture than is painted here. A benevolent plan for helping needy elders to end their days in decency being debauched in the interest of

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bankruptcy. The Social Security Board, an interested party since the Federal

Government puts up as much as |

month for each state pensioner, has cracked down in the Illinois and Oklahoma situations and forced cleanups. Missouri has undertaken a housecleaning on its own accord. Meantime there is pending Congress the Byrnes amendment to the Social Security Act, providing for civil service in state old-age pension administrations benefiting from Federal aid. This should go a long way toward cleansing these systems of politicians,

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5 % 3 FAVORS MARINE ACT

| LABOR AMENDMENTS

By a Reader

In general the proposal for a maritime mediation system, as emin the pending Senate amendments to the Merchants Ma-

| rine Act of 1936, is better than any

other suggestion so far offered to mitigate the evils of strikes and labor unrest on the American seaways and waterfronts. Here is a modest proposal to proffer expert Government aid in stabilizing employer-employee relationships. The proposed separate Maritime Labor Board, te deal only with the relations between ship-

ETERNAL By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL

White clouds go sailing by, Across a sea of clearest blue. Yellow Forsythias’ happy smile Greets awakening tender green. Gay song birds lilting cry Leaves on the heart a lovely pain. South breezes softly pause to Kiss The tears of gratitude, For all this wondrous beauty sent— The miracles of spring! Revealing to observing eyes Eternal resurrection of the earth.

DAILY THOUGHT

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.— Isaiah 26:20.

EWARE of the fury of a

patient man.—Dryden.

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| pena witnesses and records. Such inquisitorial and punitive powers, | proper to a quasi-judicial body, have no part in a service dedicated to | conciliation. The bill's authorization | to the board to encourage and help {in making and maintaining written | agreements, tobe filed with the | board, goes far enough. The sub- | pena power should be withheld. Unlike the railmen’'s system this | proposal does not spell out the rou- | tine steps looking toward the ad- | justment of disputes. It is not a | declaration of permanent policy, nor [a statutory blueprint for procedure. | But it points the way toward both.

The authors recognize this as a|

temporary arrangement that must be changed with time, and would authorize the board to submit a plan for establishing a “permanent labor policy” two years hence. This measure should work to- | ward better management-labor relations, fewer strikes and less chaos, |if the board is manned by men of | tact, intelligence and reasonableness. n ” ”

DEFENDS QUALITY OF WPA WORK

By a WPA Half-Baked Mechanic I note that Mr. Kern, Building Trades Council president, wants assurance that half-baked WPA mechanics will not be used on construction of public buildings.

Just what does he call a halfbaked mechanic? A young man who buys a saw, hammer and a framing square which he doesn't know how to use, and goes down ahd pays $25 or $50 for a card and calls himself a carpenter? Or a man 50 or 60 years old who has worked at his trade 30 to 40 years and knows it from A to Z, but owing to age, a contractor will not hire, so is forced to work on WPA? This is the class for which WPA was intended. If you want to see what halfbaked WPA mechanics can do, inspect the new Naval Armory on 30th St., one of the best-constructed buildings in the state. Then go out on East 30th St. and see the community house which WPA mechanics built. After inspecting these buildings you might stop off and look over the new apartments at Lockefield Gardens built under contract by PWA with union labor. These apartments were completed more than a year ago and still unfit to live in.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

THE SRY HEREDITY.

THE SMITHS

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NOWADAYS WHY MOTHERS OFTEN OUTDO THEIR

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RE THERE SPECIAL REASONS "| "MOTHER, I KNOW TM GETTING BAGHEUL AND AWKW TEACHER SAYS THE "AWKWARD AGE ‘I INHER AND THAT I CAN'T HELP IT." "NONSENSE, BUD, ITS JUST A NOTION YOUNG PEOPLE GET, ESPECIALLY BOYS FROM TWELVE TO SEVEN-

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be. They are likely to show off and make dramatic, imaginary statements or else to become so confused they really don't know what they are saying. Witnesses should be

examined quietly by a few competent judges, psychologists, social workers and physicians, and the brow-beating lawyer kicked down the back stairs.

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CERTAINLY, there are a number of reasons. Mothers nowadays of 40, 50, 70 and 80 are far younger than ever before. They often have that delightful attractiveness that comes only from maturity and the poise and grace developed only by experience. » ~ n

THE TEACHER is right when she says the awkward age is to some extent inherited, but wrong in saying it can't be overcome. It is, of course, due to the fact that each sex becomes gradually aware of a vast new world—the opposite sex. If the boy or girl has been timid— either from natural timidity or from being scolded and ridiculed—this new world makes him more selfconscious and awkward. More boys than girls experience the awkward age but whether because girls naturally have more self-confidence or are reared differently is unknown. However, the remedy is for parents to teach them social behavior and for the boy or girl to get interested in other people and thus forget themselves. }

Gen. Johnson Says—

Ghost Writing for Roosevelt Is A More Difficult Assignment Than It Was in Wilson's Administration,

ASHINGTON, May 4.—This is a ghost story. It is called forth by pretty general agreement of literary critics, that the recently published “Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt” dis« close the hand of a master of style in oratorical writing. “One must go back to Woodrow Wilson to find speeches to compare with these in literary merit and range of appeal’—and similar comment. These, coupled with other pieces describing how the Presi dent composes his speeches, give, I think, a wrong impression. This isn't intended as in the least critical of ghosts and ghost-writing either on the part of the spook or the spook-ee—~the man who delivers as his own the literary composition of another. In the first place, no principal Federal executive could possibly perform his necessary duties and spend the time necessary to write a really good speech— especially in these radio days when you have to say it in 15 to 30 minutes or not say it at all.

» n » HOSTS are an absolute necessity in Government and especially for the President who has some= times had to utter as many as 12,000 words in a

single day—and do his daily job as well. Furthermore, when a man, especially a publie official, takes another's composition and revises it to the point where he is willing to utter it in his own name, it is his. He must take the responsibility for it and, therefore, he is entitled to whatever credit it carries, just as he is saddled with whatever blame it brings. By accepting all that, it is a different matter to take the gullion of half a hundred ghosts, no matter how much edited, and read into it any such cone sistency of literary quality or method as would justify calling the ghostee a stylist. I doubt if any public character ever had so popu=lous a menagerie of ghosts of such diverse philosophy and such individualism in their own styles as Mr. Roosevelt, Any considerable collection of his speeches read in sequence must reveal this variety of spirit hands. ” on w

S a general rule, the President picks good ghosts, There is no doubt of his ability as an editor to prune and pad their output to make it say what he wants it to say. But that isn’t literary talent. It's another kind. As a matter of fact, I never read a composition of the President's very own that was anything to write home about. These very circumstances make it impossible to do a really expert job in ghosting for him. It could be done for Woodrow Wilson. I knew a man who occasionally ghosted the ‘“may-I-not” so well that you couldn't tell the difference. That was because Mr. Wilson mostly rolled his own and had a very distinctive style. When this ghost, who was a natural imitator, did his stuff, he would first go into seclusion and simply soak himself for three days in the copious writings of Mr. Wilson. Then, knowing exactly what the President wanted to say, he would produce something you couldn't distinguish from the genuine with muriatic acid. But nobody could do that for Mr. Roosevelt. A good impersonator can make himself look and sound like another man at any given moment of time—but he can't make himself look like 50 other men all at once.

li Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

A Mere Speech Is Not the Solution To a Complex Industrial Crisis.

EW YORK, May 4—When the people came to Rehoboam and complained that their lot was hard he answered them roughly, and it seems that little Phil has taken this young man as a model. Little Phil thinks the wages of industrial workers should be lowered, and Brother Bob has frequently advocated the broadening of the base of the income tax. In other words, the bright gospel which the La Follettes would sell to the workers of America is that they should receive less and pay more, There is again a disturbing jingoism in the plank of our external relations. The entire hemisphere, from the Arctic to Cape Horn, is set down as being reserved for us. This smacks all too closely of Hitler's dream of Germanizing all Middle Europe. It is too much, and just why this grass root chauvinism should be hailed as liberalism I cannot for the life of me understand. The press comment on the opening address is de cidedly interesting and significant. The editor of the New York Herald Tribune, whose record on liberalism is well known, waxes almost lyrical on Little Phil's long address. But the high spot in Littie Phil's mara=thonic masterpiece, according to the Herald Tribune writer, is his magnificent indifference to the problem of distribution. The commentator sees this piebald progressive as saying, ‘Cease the senseless quarrel over distribution, and concentrate on putting both capital and labor to work and keeping them at it.”

A Familiar Formula

But I am still under the impression that this is precisely the formula that was being followed when the cyclone hit us in 1929. Oodles and oodles of automobiles were being turned out every day and the producers never even gave thought to just who was going to buy them. And yet there was overproduction then. The cars didn't just amble out of the factory and steer themselves into the various garages to snuggle up beside the automobile which was aiready there in Herbert Hoover's bright vision. Even the chicken grew notionate and was reluctant to jump into every pot. It isn't progressive to say that we must turn back to the ways of our forbears. We couldn't do that if we fried, because it is impossible to reproduce the physical aspects of the land in which they lived. Phil La Follette refuses to face the hard facts of the machine and the making of the machine. He seems to sympathize with the theory that all business needs is to be let alone. But that's been tried. You cannot solve a complex iiwdustrial crisis with a tubthumping speech.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

N the typical case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever from two to five days elapse between the time when the patient is bitten by the tick and the appear« ance of the first symptoms. In the milder cases from three to 14 days may elapse. Then there comes a distinct chill, and with this there is headache, backache, sweating, redness of the eyes, pain in the abdomen, the bones and muscles. When the doctor examines the patient with this disease he will find that the spleen, and some of the lymph glands are enlarged. He will also notice the typical rash or eruption of this disease. The fever usually lasts two or three weeks, but may go on longer. If the condition gets worse the fever goes higher and is more persistent, These patients are restless and find it difficult ta sleep. The skin is over-sensitive and there may be pains along the course of the nerves. ¢ In order to prevent this disease one may stay away from the infected areas. Dr. R. R. Parker of the United States Public Health Service has also given some practical hints for avoiding the tick. Clothing should be selected that will prevent ticks from attaching to or crawling up the legs. High boots, puttees, leggings and socks may be worn over the trousers’ legs. If the ticks crawl up the outside of the clothing they are seen and removed. Those that reach the back of the neck should be removed as soon as they are felt. Indeed, it is good policy to feel the back of the neck for insects at frequent ine

tervals anyway, when in an insect-infested area. There is also a vaccine that can be injected for

preventive purposes into people who have to go inte infected a