Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1938 — Page 12

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Give Licht and the People Will Fina Their Own Way

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TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1938

HUGHES AND LINDBERGH AYS the man at the next desk: “Howard Hughes flew from New York to Paris. what? Lindbergh did that 11 years ago.”

and our guess is that it will stand forever as the most thrilling chapter in the story of man's conquest of the air. Aviation has advanced far since 1927. Hughes had a faster plane, as his record of 16 hours and 35 minutes— half Lindbergh's time—attests. He had the last word in scientific equipment. He had four assistants—two navigators, a flight engineer and a radio operator—where Lindbergh flew alone.

3 {or oot at the crew and the scientific ap- | : : But don’t forget that the pe interest rates, that money is available, that he is not

paratus weighed 3000 pounds. It required skill of the highest order to get that overloaded monoplane into the air, and courage as well as skill to regulate the engines’ power, using just enough gasoline but not too much, where the slightest miscalculation could have meant disaster. And don't give all the credit for the speed record to the plane. This same Howard Hughes has flown from Los Angeles to New York in less than 7 hours and 30 minutes—332 miles an hour—and no one else has equaled that. Lindbergh's flight, it seems to us, was the sort of thing that only a superman might accomplish.

ordinary human beings will feel safe in embarking as passengers on air liners to Europe.

A SUCCESSOR TO CARDOZO

A/HEN Thomas Jefferson went to Paris as ambassador,

it is said that a functionary of the French court remarked: “So vou have come to take the place of Benjamin Franklin?’ To which Jefferson is said to have replied: “1 have succeeded Dr. Franklin; no one could replace him.” That is how Benjamin Nathan Cardozo must have felt when President Hoover asked him to take the U. S. Supreme Court seat which for 30 years had been occupied by Oliver Wendell Holmes. And that, no doubt, will be the feeling of anyone whom President Roosevelt appoints to succeed Justice Holmes, worthy successor.

Another observation of Jefferson’s which should live | long was made when he was writing about the responsi- | “No duty the Executive had to | perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right |

bilities of the Presidency:

place.” It is an especially difficult task that Mr. Roosevelt

faces in selecting a justice to carry on the fine liberal tradi- | | was to be found in all the depressed areas of the

tion of Justices Holmes and Cardozo. Jurists who combine

their mellow scholarship and broad humanitarian philoso-

phy are rare in the history of any people.

Mr. Roosevelt delights in disregarding those precedents ! But, |

which he thinks are just hoary mistakes of the past. it occurs to us, here is one precedent which the President's

own high regard for Justices Holmes and Cardozo may |

counsel him to observe.

political reasons, nor was either picked on a blind hunch that he might make a good judge. Both were promoted from lower judicial positions in recognition of distinguished service. For 20 years Justice Holmes had served on the

were recognized the country over. So with Justice Cardozo, who for 18 years had adorned the highest bench of New York State. Among those being mentioned for the new Supreme Court vacancy are some persons now outside the judiciary. Several of these, we believe, would make good judges. Yet

there are others whom we already know to be good judges. | Hep : . i : | lief, old-age pensions, unemployment insurance and And the promotion of one of these would encourage other | ! r

lower-court judges likewise to strive to deserve promotion, and thereby stimulate the morale of the entire judiciary. We'll mention here two who, by their temperament, training and demonstrated liberalism, represent the type to which we refer. They are— Judge Sam Bratton, of the 10th U. S. Circuit Court, who started his career in New Mexico's state courts and served brilliantly in the U. S. Senate before advancing to the Federal Appellate bench, an able jurist whose mind marches with the times; and

Judge Florence Allen, of the Sixth U. S. Circuit Court, a scholarly judge who won promotion from Ohio's state courts, one of the nation’s most eminent women.

CUT THE WEEDS

OTORISTS and hay fever victims especially will appreciate the weed-cutting program the City is starting today for forgetful property owners.

For not only do the plants in vacant lots often obstruct the view at street intersections, but several varieties are powerful inducers of sneezing. Men working under the

Street Commissioner are to cut the weeds, after which | | dismantled but empty.

property owners will be charged $3 a lot for the service.

We're glad to see the promptness shown on the project, because right now these wild plants are, in truth, “growing like weeds.”

TOE BE OR NOT TOE BE?

E don’t know about that new fashion we see advertised —toeless stockings to be worn with the toeless summer sandals. Toes, even the toes of lovely ladies, even when the nails are painted red, are not, to our mind, the most beautiful things in the world. But it interests us to find that we've been ahead of the styles all these years, without knowing it. Only we've been thankful that our shoes were not toeless, so that our toeless socks didn’t expose our pinkies to the public gaze.

Hughes’ flight, | on the other hand, make us feel very near to the time when |

i can give the same charm of novelty.

Washington

By Raymond Clapper

Roosevelt Is Doing Something on This Trip Vastly More Important Than Giving a Boost to Senators.

(Westbrook Pegler Is on Vacation)

ASHINGTON, July 12 —Although it is important as an immediate detail that President Roosevelt is going into various states and indicating the men he would like to have sent back here to the Senate to help him, he is doing something of vastly greater long-range importance on his present speaking trip. That is the stimulating of public interest in democracy and Government. Roosevelt has been doing that for six years, and

in the long run that may prove to be his great service during this period. For if the people are indifferent to their Government and are poorly informed about it, no brains in Washington, real or alleged, can do a very effective job. Roosevelt, whatever his mistakes and faults of administration, has conducted an edu-

Well. of course. But the comparison is unfair to both. | cational campaign designed to help the public take a

Lindbergh's feat was a triumph for sheer flying genius, |

clear, long-range view of what its Government ought to be. This was remarkably evident in his Marietta, O, speech when he compared the social exploration going on today with the exploration and settling of the great Northwest Territory 150 years ago.

N those days food, shelter and clothing were to be had by anyone who was willing to work for them. The pioneer settler rounded up his neighbors to help him put up his house. They helped each other in the husking bee. When a present-day American wants to put up a house, he can’t call in the neighbors. He must very likely borrow money, give a mortgage. So it becomes important to insure that he has reasonable

gypped in the financing. Our people, Roosevelt said, are now on a mental

| migration, and see that there are things which the

Government can arrange which were not so much needed in the early pioneer days—unemployment insurance and old-age pensions, for instance. The need for this re-education of the people as to

| the function and service of our democracy is striking-

ly set forth in a recent lecture by Thomas Mann, just published. Foe of fascism, Mann says that America

| is aware that the time has come for democracy to take | stock of itself, for its renewal in thought and feeling.

= 8 8 ASCIST dictators have picjured democracy as decrepit, decayed, out of date, stale and hopelessly tiresome. With daring showmanship the Fascist dictators have made their regimes spectacularly interesting and novel to their peoples. “Democracy,” continues Mann, “should answer this Fascist strategy with a rediscovery of itself, which

this situation to renew and rejuvenate itself.” For that purpose, Roosevelt has a sense of showmanship rarely equaled in American politics. He continually takes advantage of the opportunity thus offered to discuss not only the immediate but the long-range purposes of government, to give the country a perspective of democracy and of its changing obligations with the changing times. The fact that

| Roosevelt goes into Kentucky and plugs for Senator | Barkley becomes a small incident when compared with

the political awakening of democracy which he has brought about during the last few years.

Business By John T. Flynn

Not Just Dixie, but All Depressed Areas Present Our No. | Problem.

EW YORK, July 12.—Amidst all our problems the President finds one which he calls problem No. 1.

| He gives this name to the South.

He is very close to the truth. He would be nearer the truth if he did not limit the problem to the South; if he said rather that our great problem No. 1

country, For these dark spots are to be found in many parts of the country. They also exist in the stone quarries of Vermont, in the bootleg coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania and in the soft coal country of western Pennsylvania, southern Illinois, western Kentucky, in the copper country of Montana, the lead country of Coeur d'Alene and the cut-over lands of Minnesota and Michigan.

These are largely one-crop or one-product areas, like the countries of South America, impoverished by

>is p . 4 : . | their dependence on the whimsical course thes Neither of these eminent justices was appointed for | 2 3 the RE Tse

| pending on the world without.

single crops. They produce little for themselves, deThey suffer from sterile and depleted lands, exhausted resources without knowing how to use the resources of others. They are in a condition of unchanging economic famine.

Because they are so poor in things they are poor

. . . cA : | also in education. Their leaders, therefore, are usualhighest state court of Massachusetts, and his qualifications | | and promisers,

ly the most ignorant. They are marks for demagogs

Core of Cure Is Education

But they are a problem for the whole country, because they infect their neighbors and tend to spread out their influence and their poverty. They

| do not use the products of their neighbors because

they have no purchasing power. In fact, like the slums in cities, they are a drain upon more alert communities. This is especially true now with re-

all sorts of public aid for the backward.

They tend to bring down the standards of living |

and of employment for other sections.

This problem is not to be attacked piecemeal or in some swift stroke as part of a political campaign. It is largely a problem of civilization. The cure can be hastened by statesmanlike policies, but fundamentally the core of any cure must be education. A great Government department should be set up to deal intelligently with this problem of rehabilitation. It must be managed by men and women who understand that it is a problem requiring time and understanding.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

UCH to our delight, the landlord promised recently to redecorate the house. As is so often

the case nowadays, the landlord is a corporation, whose business is handled by a bank. That meant, first, the visitation of several lordly appraisers, after which there descended upon us the contractors. Several days later we woke up to find in our front yard a truck, eight men, and two boys for errand running.

The first day the whole horde began on the job !

and I had visions of getting all the furniture back in its place by nightfall. But in a couple of hours I descended from my own workshop to find the place Their traps were there, but the workers had gone. At 3 p. m. they buzzed in again.

This went on for days. Sometimes there would be regiments and then the next thing I knew only one

lone boy would be present, half-heartedly scraping off.

the wallpaper.

They worked in relays, it seemed, and the faces .

were never twice the same. Being hired by the contractor, they moved from one job to another. Finally the painters got around to the kitchen. Although the outside of every door was screaming for a coat, they refused to put on so much as a dab, because, they explained, their contract called for work only on the interior of the room. No coaxing Bot coin could persuade them to make the dirty half clean. Maybe this is cricket, but I know I wouldn't expect to hold my job a week if I were as unaccommodating and arbitrary as these men. Yet they were pleasant men, too. As individuals, I mean. Only they dared not put in one extra stroke of work. Perhaps this is good for the masses, but it's certainly tough on the little guy—especially if the little guy is a housewife,

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TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1938

The Hoosier Forum

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

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FAVORS PRIMARIES OVER CONVENTION | By H. H. Evans

The same agency by which some f our officeseekers and holders have

0 kept themselves in office and Killed

| the ambitions of many worthy per{sons in Indiana finally | political throats. | the political machines have spon-

| sored the convention system for the | | higher offices and in each political | have state

25 persons named the candidates for | office. The fellow who had some ideas of his own never had a chance. The people have not had anything to say about naming the candidates in the convention. That was fixed by the old political gang of each party. The time is at hand in Indiana when we must demand a state-wide primary, with the nomination going to the man getting the most votes. It is not any more expensive than the convention system and a whole lot more honorable. It also will stop | a few in this state making their livling off the candidates for office.

| party less than

cut their For several years |

(Times readers are invited to express their these columns, religious conMake

views in

| troversies t your letter short, so all can Letters must

excluded.

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

| field always at the upper left hand ‘of the observer from the street. | When displayed on a pole or staff | the blue field should be in the upper | corner next to the pole. Let we, who are patriotic citizens, display pur colors in the proper manner in { the future. | ” ” ” | ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF | F. D. R. ARE LAUDED | By Observer A number of friends as well as critics have said that President Roosevelt's weakest spot is his administration. I have wondered a

horse balks, the efficiency of the whole team is impaired. The President in getting as much co-operation from helpers and ‘“reformers” as he does, has accom plished more that way than any other reform President we've had. It is my notion that he has a good deal more administrative ability than he is given credit for, plus political shrewdness and a knowledge of human nature. But not unless he were running a private buslness would it be perfectly apparent.

F 5 #4 INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY SEEN IF NEW DEAL IS DESTROYED

By William Lemon

To preserve industrial slavery at a |

starvation wage the economic para-

sites must first destroy and discredit |

the New Deal, then elect a Republican President in 1940. The next move then would be to destroy labor unions and control labor by armed force and through starvation methods.

This idea failed in Europe, but the

British were more conservative and retained their Democratic government by giving labor a voice in Par-

| When the people are permitted to | nominate the candidates for state {and national office, then will there | be honor in politics.

| good deal when great reformers should lack administrative ability as | so many of them have and I have come to the tentative conclusion strike, but has a hostile press to # ££ | that mn B Rmnesaey Such 25 OWS | publish its false propaganda. Try- | SCORES ACTIONS OF POLICE In the first place, it is one thing | IN8 to discredit the WPA is doomed

ON STRIKE DUTY [0 conceive and plan reforms. | to failure, for its idea is “don’t bite

liament and using common horse sense. Capital is not only on a sitdown

That |

| she hand that is feeding you.” depends on the reformer alone. But | Labor does not ask for charity, it is quite another matter to put

| those reforms into action. The re- | but gainful Smplo gies a a ving nt ’ . i . f 5 : n o former must depend on others— Ee herr ss | helpers chosen by the people as well 4

SS inority’ } as those he chooses himself. These | gardiess of the minoriiy's ideas

helpers cannot be expected to Set | CEARS COMITUN ISN eye to eye with the reformer at all | . ie

| and a machine gun. The workers p 7 | are practically aD women times. Sometimes they are over |IS ENCOURAGED zealous; often they try to grind per- | By a Jackson Democrat

of Is Yor Spon ora Poliee | sonal axes in the helping; and some- | Congressman Hamilton Fish has ’ : | called attention to the fact that

he threw a torpedo at one girl's feet | times they are just plain balky with | last Tuesday, burning her ankles, | antrums if their political feelings | Aubrey Williams is catering to com- | This on a day when fireworks are | Pave been slighted or hurt. munistic elements organized as the Workers Alliance. Here are Mr.

tion is that we have many law- | © ig i good, make enemies | apnea] of Mr. Williams to the combreakers among our law enforcers, |°f Some few. That, too, is inevit- | mynist element proves how far the This act did not go unnoticed, but | PIE: ; . : Administration will go in dispersing I'm not sure what his punishment| FOF 2s in a 20-mule team, if one relief funds for partisan purposes. | consisted of, if any. These things That the Workers Alliance is com- | are disgraceful. I am not interested munist in character and that it has | in the strike beyond being a woman and is receiving aid and comfort | and a sympathizer. from the Government is plain. Chairman Shepard of the Campaign Investigation Committee cannot safely ignore this dangerous liason between Government officials and these dangerous revolutionary agitators. Here is the evidence from Mr. Williams: “In discussing the efforts of the workers to secure a higher wage payment, I urged upon them a strengthening of their organizattion.” The question for Mr. Shepard to decide is whether or not Aubrey

By Mrs. J. E. Poe |

Workers at a local plant are on strike in protest to a 10 per cent | cut in wages. Some days the police { on the job outnumber the workers. One day in particular there were | about 15 police cars, a riot squad

JULY SHINES By M. P. D. In gleam of hollyhock, Where brown birds flock, In silver crest Of peaceful lake Where sunbeams rest, And in the soft white flake Of calla lily white; July shines In all things bright.

DAILY THOUGHT

At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.—I Kings 14:1.

2 = ” | CORRECT DISPLAY | OF FLAG URGED By Bill Crimans and Bill Ashoy

Many of our patriotic citizens attempt to portray their feeling toward their country by displaying | its banner. These should be commended for their patriotic gesture. However, many of these people are not careful to display the flag in the proper manner. Some show it | — in such a way that it indicates the | JN sickness let me not so much | Williams is encourgaing commusdistress signal of the sea, (with | say, am 1 getting better of my | nism among relief workers. This si the blue field down). The properly | pain? as am I getting better for |not merely a question of political displayed flag should have the blue it?—Shakespeare. I'corruption for campaign purposes.

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

| formula as the safest general bet | for “buoyant” instead of “merely | passable” health. “Spend one-fifth | of your food budget for milk and | cream; one-fifth for fresh fruit and | green vegetables; three-fifths for meat, fish, bread, butter, eggs, tea, coffee, condiments and sweets.” ” 3° 8 IN A HARD-HEADED straightthinking book, by Dr. W. J. | Reilly, he says a ‘one-track mind | gets a hunch and then jumps all | the way to the end of the track to | a conclusion. It's like the man who | was moving and sold his stove to a second-hand man for $20 who sold it to the new tenant without moving it for $35! Dr. Reilly said he failed to get off the one track idea

A —“Sell the stove”—and think of “4 the “best ways to sell it.”

id a 3 i 3 EW ; 5 BE LT tL o ” “ » ® § I RECENTLY had the honor to fé 1 PossiBLE speak on the same occasion FOR A DEMOCRATIC | | with Miss Dorothy Thompson and GOVERNMENT she said, in essence, that a democratic government cannot guarantee everybody a living but that a democratic society can come nearer doing it than any other we know about. A democratic government, she argued, can set rules, minimize restrictions, insure freedom or individual enterprise, and in emer-

DOES A PERSON WITH A 'ONE-TRACK MIND" THINK STRAIGHTER THAN OTHERS YESORNO 4 2 a

(] THE Ap 7 lem AppETITE | A SAFE GUIDE IN DETERMINING ONE'S BEST DIET FOR HEALTH AND LONG LIFE? YOUR OPINION

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LIVING WAGE-?

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ever, as Doctor Sherman, Columbia University nutrition expert, says, a —egspecially vitamin B-—but don't| correct diet could be determined know it. Millions need mere cal« | scientifically for every one. Seems | gencies (not permanently) plan unejlum and phosphorus or more or|a pity this can’t be done but Dr. | dertakings that release and aid in less acid and don’t know it. How | Sherman suggests the following) dividual initiative, .

FAR FROM IT. Millions of people need far more vitamins

Gen. Johnson Says—

Roosevelt Had Plenty on the Ball When He Spoke in Oklahoma, Where

They Prefer Politics in the Raw,

ETHANY BEACH, Del, July 12.—The President did a masterly professional job in Oklahoma. My state likes her politics raw and blistering. With his genius for tuning to popular temper, Mr. Roosevelt served it exactly so. Disagreeing, but being an Okla= homan, the radio thrilled me with a masterpiece of politics, showmanship, and enough stuff on the ball to satisfy the toughest Sooner from the short-grass country and still not demean the official dignity of the speaker. But so skilfully was this superpunching done that the press accounts said that he was gentle with Senatorial Candidate Gomer Smith, didn’t take a crack at Gubernatorial Candidate Alfalfa Bill Murray, and only mildly indorsed the Senatorial incumbent—Yes= Man Thomas. No old-timer Oklahoman would agree. The Presi= dent demonstrated that he knows his native Sooner product better. His only burst of true and tumultuous cow-camp applause was when he interpolated exteme= poraneously that one of the candidates for the Demoe cratic state ticket was nationally known as a Repub= lican. ” ”n ”

T referred to the fact that Alfalfa Murray, as Governor before, in his 1936 bitterness, made the deadly mistake of introducing Alf Landon, who was political poison in Oklahoma. Old Bill, with my own father, helped organize the Democratic Party in Oklahoma. He was responsi= ble as any for the break that nominated Woodrow Wilson. Calling him a Republican is like calling Hamilton Fish a Communist or, for that matter, calling Mr. Roosevelt a Democrat. But that isn't the point. The point is the amaze ing dexterity in sideswipin® the Democratic candie date for Governor in favor of the WPA candidate —Keys—by a deft and deadly punch to the most vulnerable spot in Alfalfa’s whole anatomy. The cleverness of that was what brought the old “ki-yie vip” out of my state-mates, whether they agreed with it or not—and most of them don't.

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NOTHER solar-plexis punch was aimed at Gomer Smith. In the last Senatorial primary, Gomer was a Doc Townsend advocate in a contest in ime possible promises with Josh Lee. Josh Lee oute promised him, but now Gomer is fighting the Presie dent's “old friend,” Elmer Thomas. And did Mr, Roosevelt by another anonymous adroitness bat Gomer’s ears down? He talked about “people with panaceas” who would “reform the world overnight.” That spotted Gomer in the mind of every real Oklae« homan. Then Mr. Roosevelt sent over his sizzler. Such people, if not exactly in Theodore Roosevelt's “lunatic fringe” are so close that a slight shock would send them to the nut-house. Gomer on this policy is precisely in the Presie dent's beloved Senator Pepper's record and position, He is crazy like a fox. He also is of the red clay of the Sooner state. If memory serves, Teddy's “lunatic fringe” were, in part, people who would cure all ills by printing unlimited worthless money to pay for unlimited Gove ernmental spending. That is precisely Elmer’s lunatie panacea. But this isn't a piece in praise of political sanity or honesty—only a political adroitness.

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

There's Nothing Funny About the

Debate Subject Chosen at Groton.

EW YORK, July 12.—Lucius Beebe relates in high glee some recent goings-on at Groton. Mr. Beebe sponsors a column called “This New York,” but he can best be identified as practically the only male society reporter who does not turn out to be pen name for Cholly Knickerbocker. He recounts that at Groton, “the lads in the upper forms have their own debating teams, pick their own subjects and conduct their oratorial tournaments without let or hindrance from their instructors.” Mr. Beebe adds that this year the head master, the Rev. Endicott Peabody, “descended with outraged screams and howls upon the entire program, called everything off and retired to his study mopping his clerical brow over the narrowest call of his career.” It seems the manly little lads had chosen as their subject: “Which of its graduates, Richard Whitney or Franklin D. Roosevelt, has brought more discredit to Groton?” Now that is not funny. It shows to what a great extent the swanky schools of America are inculcating class consciousness and teaching class hatred. It may be held that Dr. Peabody was at fault in merely stopping the debate and not correcting the conditions in the school which made such an attitude possible. In all fairness to the reputation of the edue cator it should be pointed out that he has to handle a pretty solid phalanx of problem children. The home Initience is very bad in the case of many Groton 0yS.

It's Not Cricket

During the vacation periods when they mingle with their elders the little fellows are thrown into the company of sub-debs and Wall Street weepers. The average Groton undergraduate was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and moreover the spoon was filled with mush. There is little in the social life or the curriculum of the school calculated to ree move either. In a democratic country it is the privilege of little groups to gather under a high hat and to entertain each other with tournaments designed to pick out the one who can raise his or her eyebrows in the most regal fashion. Hauteur in the court is traditional, But these people should know their place, They are off the reservation when they invade public forums to weep like crocodiles about liberty and freedom. That's not sporting. And the pity of it is that many of the boys who are put through the mill could be useful citizens if only given half a chance. It isn't their fault, but the fault of a system if they are doomed to be snobs,

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

PPARENTLY infantile paralysis spreads from one person who has the disease to another by the secretions that come from the nose and throat. No class of people is exempt. The social and the sanitary conditions do not seem to influence in any way the incidence or spread of this disease. The majority of cases seem to affect children bee low 5 years of age, but people as old as 60 and 70 have been attacked. In more recent epidemics older children and adults have suffered increasingly. Just why some children are attacked by the dise ease and others fail to become infected is also not known with certainty. It has been argued that the constitution of the child may be important, that

its diet may be important, but none of these factors have been certainly established.

It is established, however, that in the majority of cases the infectious agent enters the body by way of the nose, although it is also established that it is possible for the infectious agent to enter the body through the bowel or even through the skin.

Presumably the condition is not often transferred by milk or by the water supply, or by swimming pools and beaches, yet it is conceivable that it can be transmitted in this way. We know that when a child is born it may have from its parents a certain amount of resistance to this disease, and for that reason very small infants are not frequently infected. However, this resistance may disappear early in life. In other cases it may persist for longer periods. Moreover, there seems to be some evidence that ple Who ure quite well may carry the infectious °