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Gen. Johnson Says—
Your Columnist Wonders Whether Depression Hasn't Lived Too Long And Is About to Die Natural Death.
ETHANY BEACH, Del, July 14.—Far be it from
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There's a Vital Lesson for the Republican Party in the Program Of the English Tory Government.
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THE MORTGAGE
A LL of these figures except the one at the bottom of the
column are taken from the Treasury's records:
Fisc
1933... ‘ 1934 . ‘i 1935. ‘i
1
1937. Gesbiausiiunsiniiine 1938. Ciiecessitrsscnnsince 1939. The bottom figure is from the President's revised budget estimates for the fiscal year just started—and it seems to us the most important item in those estimates. |
al Year $689,400,000 756,600,000 820,900,000 749,400,000 866,400,000 926,200,000 976,000,000
Paar BPA ERNE Sesser BERERRLERN PS Sheer csr DNRDS
936. .e
Sess Rss EEREOEDS
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Interest of Public Debt
| by the Conservative Government.
ASHINGTON, July 14.—It isn’t Roosevelt who
should be sending that commission to England to study labor and industrial legislation. The Republican Party should be sending a commission of its
own over there to find out how the British Tory Gov- | ernment has faced realities in its domestio economics ! in very much the same way that the New Deal has
done, When Ambassador Joseph Kennedy was here, he
was telling friends privately about the nationalization |
of coal deposits that is being put through Parliament The British Government is buving coal deposits from private owners at a price fixed by a royal commission. There is some grumbling from long-mustached Tory peer coal owners who sav they are not being paid enough. Otherwise the nationalization is going through without anybody patting an eye. Try and get anything like that through over here, Kennedy said. You'd have the whole pack on the Government's neck,
2 ” ”
FRIEND sends me a digest of the report which | Ernest Brown, |
the British Minister of Labor, made to the International Labor Conference at Geneva recently, It sounds like a New Deal report. Listen to Tory Labor Minister Brown:
“A new factory act has been passed to come into |
operation on July 1 making improved provision for
| | |
{ swing than they have in a long time. tion several skeptical commentators are talking about
me to be making predictions of prosperity or,
| even by implication, running a tipster service on mar=- | Kets.
There is not enough wisdom to do that—here or anywhere, But there isn't a doubt that all the important busi
| | ness indices are turning upward. What was spotty
a month ago, is becoming more uniform and things seem, at least, to be in better balance for an upIn this condi»
“false down” and comparing this advance with the remarkably sudden upward surge in 1833 that began in March and ascended farther in a shorter time than any in our history—only to strike the ceiling in Au-
gust and come bouncing back.
That, so runs the argument, was due to business trying to “beat the gun” and get out a lot of production before the NRA, codes by increasing workers’ pay, would raise all costs. The idea of these Job's Comforters is that the new Wages and Hours Act is like NRA and that the present spurt is another “false
| down” due to a new effort to “beat the gun,” on a
new increase in wages and costs. ” » # OR opinion based on ignorance this hits a high,
In the first place, NRA was the least of many influences that caused the spurt of 1933. In a condiw
| tion of absolute defeat, demoralization and despair,
with all the banks and most of the factories closed, employment at a standstill and worse threatened, en=
Only one billion dollars, almost as much as we pay | to operate the legislative and judicial and executive (nonmilitary) divisions of the regular Federal Government, nearly twice as much as we spend for benefits to veterans of all past wars, more than we spend for the enlarged
safety, health and welfare in factories and workshops and limiting the hours of women and juveniles. “We have extended unemployment insurance fo about a million workers, including agricultural workers. to whom it did not previously apply. The total number of persons now insured against unemployvment is more than 15 millions. We are taking steps to insure that adequate wages are paid in the road trans-
: on . introducing ‘ac 1 port industry and we are introducing practica le x ” s A es > : ili it 1 Ss Xes ¢ artificial shortage to in measures to facilitate holidays with pay through processing taxes and 1 g -
For the trucking industry the Conservative Party J 38 i, hh ¢ : 3 2 - ’ ¥ : crease costs far more than NRA, The later experiset up a system of national and regional wage boards 1 P57 E 2 aS LE BA ment of devaluating the dollar was expected by many to fix minimum wages for certain classes of trucks. n = 40% VS RED Y : = {5 almost to double them. Sure, there was a rush to Some “liberals” objected that the measure would help fie (&S gl “beat the gun,” but NRA wasn't the principal gun. the big truckers and penalize the weaker independ- SLANE The real cause was that on all fronts was expected a, ents. To which conservative newspapers replied that vast inflationary boom and the whole country rushed companies, large or small, do not deserve protection to “buy ’em low and sell ’em high. if they cannot afford to pay decent wages.
terprise in this country was completely comatose. Mr. Roosevelt's activities in his first few weeks had the effect of galvanizing a corpse. The mental attitude of this country changed more quickly and completely than anybody thought possible, from an absolute low of despair to almost unlimited hope, | Ccnfidence returned in a tidal wave.
farm programy As for fear of increased costs, AAA promised
There is no way of escaping this charge on past borrowings, For several years we have been trying to pass the burden on by paying it with more borrowed money, thereby making the burden larger year after year. Because of lack of desirable investment opportunities elsewhere, the Treasury has been able to make substantial cuts in the rate of interest. The rate is now almost at an irreducible
# » ”
minimu interest
m, vet the debt bill higher and higher.
continues to rise, making the
What a lot of fine government services we could buy | with that money, if it weren't for the mortgage! Not to | mention the luxuries, perhaps necessities, which future |
taxpaye
INDIANS VS. THE LEAGUE ONIGHT it's Indianapolis against the American AssociJy virtue of their lead in the league on July 5 the Indians are to play an All-Star squad selected from the seven other teams. The All-Stars promise worthy opposition, and a victory for the Redskins would add to the laurels already accorded them for earning
ation at Perry Stadium.
rs will have to forego.
the right to play hosts,
In regular competition the Tribe continues its com2
mendable showing. Midseason finds it in the midst of a
hot, five-way race for the league leadership.
This record speaks well for a team picked in April |
to finisl
1 no higher than seventh place.
CALLED AN “OFF-YEAR” ELECTION
R.
primary.
Governorship fight.
Mr,
in Oklahoma
—has won renomination to the Senate.
than Senator Thomas.
So
an “off-year” election.
goes the campaign of 1938.
Roosevelt's, or at least Mr. Farley's, | side lost in the Pennsylvania Gubernatorial race. Mr. Roose- | velt's, or maybe it was Mr. Ickes’, side won in the Oregon Mr. Roosevelt's, or perhaps it was just | Jimmy Roosevelt's and Harry Hopkins’, side lost in Iowa. And now, the man to whom Mr. blessing blessing Thomas is returning to Washington, presumably to give more of the same loyal support to New Deal policies. Gomer Smith is remaining at home, along with E. W. Marland, who told the people he was even a better New [dealer
loosevelt gave his true, it wasn’t an all-embracing |
It is something new for The shadow of one man, himself |
|
” » J HEN 1 was in London last year, Conservative Party managers showed me some of their political campaign literature. Here are snatches from the Tory leaflets: “Sweeping away the slums—slum dwellers are being rehoused at the rate of 6000 a week. Support the Government that gets things done.” “Great new pension scheme,” “Milk at school for 3.000.000 children.” “Continuous advances in both wages and employment.” “Progress marches on.” “That's what the British Tories tell their voters.
And that's why they have stayed on in power during |
a period when American conservatives haven't made a real dent in Roosevelt, So American Republicans would do better to send Dr. Glenn Frank to England to learn how practical conservatives handle themselves instead of assigning him to sit in Chicago and suck an anti-Roosevelt program out of his thumb,
Business
By John T. Flynn
Ideas on How to End the Nine-Year Slump Scarce Among Candidates.
EW YORK, July 14. —The most interesting feature of the many battles now going on over senatorships in various states is the complete lack of program for doing something about the grave economic situation of the country. Here is a nation which has had nine years of depression with a brief interval of spurious recovery
| built on Government spending. There is only one real
issue before the American people—how can this be brought to an end? Yet nowhere is there a serious candidate in either party with a reasonable proposal to accomplish this. It is in fact singular that there are not around now even those windy and preposterous promisers who flourished in the years from 1931 to 1934. The Democratic Party, of course, has been in power for five years. It has managed the Government during the greater part of the depression, Yet it has no plans for mending things—save spending Government money borrowed at the banks, the ultimate result of which will be to bankrupt the Government. The opposition is equally without a plan. The candidates for the Senate in the states through which the President has been traveling—save Oklahoma—are all without
| plans.
not a candidate for any office casts itself across state lines |
and athwart the multiple cross-currents of local issues and
contests. Men running for sheriff or county prosecutor |
are telling the voters that they love Mr. Roosevelt, expect- | ing thereby to get WPA support, or that they don’t approve | all of his policies, thus bidding for the suffrage of inde- | pendents and dissenters. | If Elmer Thomas had been defeated, newspapers all. over the country would be carrying headlines today saying
that Oklahoma voters had humbled Mr. Roosevelt and re-
nounced the New Deal. By that rule-of-thumb, it follows
}
that the results should be interpreted as a great victory |
for the
President.
Yet there are pertinent facts not gen- |
erally known outside of Oklahoma—for instance, that Sen- |
ator Thomas’ principal opponent, Gomer Smith, campaigned primarily on promises of higher WPA wages and larger old-age pensions, and in no way spoke ill of Mr. Roosevelt's
| year.
In Oklahoma alone the promisers still exhibit a sort of last-ditch energy. They promise more and bigger pensions to the old folks and more relief. And there is always Senator Thomas who believes that inflation will do the trick for us, The best choice the President can make is of the Senator who favors inflating the currency.
Ezekiel Plan Due for Whirl
So far as the actual consequence to the economic life of the country is concerned it doesn’t make very much difference which candidates are elected. All are bankrupt in ideas as to what to do about the mysterious malady which afflicts us Looking over the scene the cne promising program which seems destined now for a vigorous whirl is the extension of Secretary Wallace's ever-normal granary plan to industry—the ever-normal warehouse, This takes birth in the Agricultural Department and Mr. Mordecai Ezekiel’s proposal to have the Government and industry regulate production with the Government buying up surpluses in excess of permitted output. This is the plan to insure evervbody $2500 a No party has taken it up vet. But it seems inevitable that one will. Perhaps the inflationists of the corn belt will start a drive for that in time for the 1940 campaign. Aside from these two ideas, one of which is perennial, there is nothing else in sight. And
i speech at Covington, Ky.
{of primary
| obligations
| fession | first to admit.
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
| OMISSION OF TEXT OF F. D. R.| SPEECH VEXES READER By E. C. Carlson This writer, who receives | local newspapers by the long-tri d | | method of newsboy delivery, was | both angry and dismayed at omission of President Roosevelt's | I was one | of the many who heard part of the | speech over the radio but did not | have time to listen to the complete address, feeling that I would certainly be able to read the remainder in The Times the following evening. | Since when has it not been news importance to the people when the Presi- | dent of the United States delivers | an address attempting to clarify | the policies of the National Administration? If our great newspapers are try-
his |
the |
American
ing to serve democracy—and many | say they do—it may be well for the | publishers to remember that it is { only by the consent of the American | people that the constitutional free-
dom and immunity of the has been preserved. That the public has a right to expect that the press live up to its in return for such a great privilege, the journalistic prowould undoubtedly be the That being the case, | most of us would probably agree that neither individual, personal likes or dislikes, nor economic bias should be tolerated to interfere in | important news reporting where | public issues are at stake, Honesty and integrity in the newspaper business are just as im- | | portant to the general public as in | any other Government-protected | | enterprise. In interfering or omitting news of national importance, the press, | upon which the public depends to a large extent for its information, sets itself up as a censor, thus de- | | priving the public of their constitutional guarantee of a free press. { NOTE—The Home Edition of ‘The | Tithes, criticized above, devoted | three and a half columns to the { President’s speeches within that 24- | { hour period, and gave the “lead po- | sition” of the entire paper to the | story.—The Editor.) { $ 5 = | LANDON IS CAUTIONED | BY READER Br Daniel Francis Clancy | Alfred M. Landon says that the | builders of the state of Kansas had | fire in their bellies. In the first | place, Alf, that's getting vulgar— | and in the second place, it was| probably fire-water, . . . General Johnson passes
press
on the
| information that if there are no new
our
{ Must
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reserves will not outlast 1941, That's
| not so bad—at least we won't have
to worry about getting oiled during campaign year. . . . Forum headline: “Reader Wants Weeds Cut.” And if you're going to accept all complaints, you might put me down as wanting someone to
cut my lawn. . . . F. D. R. in a recent radio address: “Assuming the mental capacity of all the candidates” . . . Mr. President, if we could do that with an easy mind, half of our troubles would be over. . : I draw attention of regular contributors to this column to a quotation from Wilfred J. Funk's “So You Think It's New.” Cicero as follows: “I conducted myself in such a fashion that my fel-
low citizens saw me every day. I|
was perpetually in the Forum.” 3 8 =n GIVE YOUTH ITS CHANCE, READER PLEADS By Edwin Smith
Modern youth is perplexed, bewildered and somewhat disappoint-
TREES
By TEDDY HILL
trees are used for things— They can be an apple's home; Such lovely {fragrance when in bloom-—~ A place for bees to roam.
Yes, many
| Then some are tall and stately,
Like a sentinel at his post, And I saw one on a moonlit night, Arms raised just like a ghost.
But the kind of a tree I'm looking for— Now listen just a minute— have limbs quite enough For building a tree-house in it.
DAILY THOUGHT
strong
Mr. Funk quotes |
ed with the almost hopeless task of job seeking. University and high school doors have opened and flooded the vast area of industry with capable, com- | petent jobseckers who are held back | with the same old question: “What | experience have you?” |
Experience is the best teacher of all. However, if business will not | take the responsibility of working | these youthful men and women in- | to the routine of salesmanship, etc, | how can it hope for the valuable | | ideas these men and women migit | | possess. { There are countless numbers of | | artists and genii among them who | | wish to bloom before they are 30. | {| With the co-operation of executives | | and employers they can realize their |
| ambitions much sooner.
{ The cost of letting a | ployee learn is much, but the in-| | valuable service he renders after | i learning is the reward. |
new eni-
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| MOTHER SEEKS | WPA JOB | By Mrs. D. T. i | Why are women with no depend- | ents permitted to work on WPA | earning at least $44 per month while mothers are forced to live on $18 no matter how many others over | 16 happen to be in the family? I have had a tailor's diploma from Scranton, Pa., since 1924, but have | never been allowed to work at the | | sewing room. Three years ago the | excuse was that there were 90 ahead of me. Later I must accept $18. Is this a local condition or is the adage, “two can live cheaper than | one,” being overworked? | | Just try to keep house for three | | years on less than health magazines | tell you to spend for food alone, and | you can get a good picture of my home. I could have kept it up had I been given equal chances. Advice as to getting work on WPA { would be greatly appreciated. » 2» TERMS READER'S LETTERS ‘SAME STUFF | By A. G. I have noticed that for several | months one Agapito Rey has been | | writing letters to The Times and I am beginning to wonder how many | readers, like myself, watch for each |
FI HERE is no parallel whatever in the condition now-—no record blackness of despair to start from, no threatened inflation of farm prices, no new dollar devaluation, and as for any vast increased costs due to the thin and puny little Wages and Hours Act, that is an acme of absurdity. In the 10 basic industries, it will have no effect at all. It applies only to small sweat shops, industries or sweated areas where costs have very little effect on the general price structure, This recovery doesn't look like any new “false down” to me. Maybe it is, but if it so turns out, it won't be because of any rush to “beat the gun” of the Wages and Hours Act. That isn't a gun. It isn't even a toy cap-pistol. Without any prophesy, we are entitled to wonder whether the depression hasn't simply lived too long, isn't about to die a natural death through age, and if this country isn’t just too rich and resilient to ba kept down by any force of blundering economic cr political tinkering.
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun
We Know What We Like in Art, and No Master Mind Should Interfere,
EW YORK, July 14 —In his brief book, “The Coming Victory of Democracy,” Thomas Mann takes Hitler for a bumpy ride in regard to his dog= matic utterances concerning Kultur. This represents only one phase of Mann's attack, but it is the portion of the indictment in which the noted German author lashes out with most assurance. I think that few will deny that in this field Thomas Mann speaks as an expert witness and that even Der Fuehrer's best friends must admit that Adolf has not yet won the right to be numbered among the distinguished artists of the world. But in assailing Hitler for his attempt to hitch all art to the Nazi chariot Mann does not maintain that our old friend “the creative artist” should close his eves to the world of affairs and take a penthouse apartment in an ivory tower. On the contrary, he quotes Bergson's line, “Act as men of thought; think as men of action.” Thomas Mann rounds out his criticism with the declaration that the man who sets himself up as the censor of painting, literature, music and sculpture be= trays a contempt for the masses and for their opinion. It seems to me that there is in Germany today no such thing as national art. There is Hitler art, and that is at best a matter of whim, predilection and prejudice. Thomas Mann is too polite to mention the fact that even in America there have been efforts to tell free people what they should read and what they should see, and to standardize expression.
A Difference of Opinion
Parents and various groups have every right in a democracy to say in as loud tones as they can command, “We don't like this picture.” But I think thew
{ err if they attempt to make it impossible for others
even to peek at the things which seem to the censors repellent. The same 1s true of books and other things. Af the moment the question of obscenity is not in mw mind. I am thinking more of some of the books now hugely popular in America which are called “inspie
His disciples said unto Him, Lo |One and read it just to see if it is| rational.” I think they are dangerous, crass and vule
now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.—John 16:29.
wisdom of long experience, in brief, epigrammatic form.—T, T.
{the same stuff. I would suggest |
that his next letter be printed | | alongside the article on Page 27 of |
{ PROVERBS are the Soridensed | ike May issue of Readers Digest |
(which is by Ellery Sedgwick, Editor |
| |
| of the Atlantic Monthly) in order |
gar, but I would be the last to suggest that anything should be done about them. A flowing book purges itself. So does a live and growing democracy. Today's best seller may well bes tomorrow's trash. We live and learn. But we know what we like, and no master mind should block the road of the individual to that form and kind of art
leadership. And the man who ran third did so urging the people to “march forward with Marland and Roosevelt.” He wasn’t a poor third because he was 100 per cent New Dealer, but because Oklahoma voters thought he had been
petroleum discoveries present | Munger. | to provide a suitable antidote.
LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
these are pretty poor stuff. which happens to be of his own choosing.
a poor Governor.
Yet to people from the outside—in looking at other states as well as at Oklahoma—such factors are blurred. | . . . | Around one dominant personality, one man, whirl the head-
lines, the political dope, the popular impressions.
NOT DIZZY—BUT GOOD
“YT'S a dizzy pace!
“Mr. and Mrs. Henry Niemeyer and family, John Beck and children and D., C. Brewer enjoved ice cream Friday evening at the Oscar Brewer home. . . . Mrs. Orval Dobson purchased Barred Rock and Rhode Island chicks at the Bigler hatchery Friday.” = n » = x = 19
Stillwater (Okla.) Gazette.
Well, maybe there is something quaintly funny in the fact that there still are communities where such items get into the papers. On the other hand, it’s just barely possible that the Niemeyers, the Becks, the Brewers and Mrs. Dobson were making news of more real importance than many of the exciting things the city newspapers
print.
Country families gathered on a summer evening to eat ice cream, farm wives buying baby chicks—perhaps But, somehow, it's good to read about them, even at second hand in a humorist's
they're
column,
missing a lot of thrills.
wisecracks a columnist, reprinting the above items of country correspondence from the
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{ of the most
| honeys
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
HOT political campaign shows up humanity at its worst. established an all-time low in manners. It was one vicious Gubernatorial and Senatorial fights Oklahoma has ever had—and she has had some
| voter to wonder whether the three-ring circus that
| that.
we call "running for office” is worth the money, Such campaigns are amusing. No doubt about
And enlightening, because only at such times does the observer get an idea of exactly how many politicians infest his land. This year's crop was cer= tainly staggering. They came from all corners, some leaping like jackrabbits out of the tall grass, others popping up from unexpected burrows like prairie dogs whiffing food, and still others sneaking in under the fences. And while the little guys buzzed and swarmed, the big ones put on an act that resembled nothing so much as the antics of back-street hoodlums. “I can lick you,” yells a Governor to a Senator. “I double-dare you to try,” yells the Senator back to the Governor. “You're a liar and a thief.” “You're another. The President likes me better'n he does you. Smarty! Smarty! Smarty!” And so on, with all the lesser candidates playing copy-cat, The spectacle of a Chief Executive with a horde of midget political aspirants grabbing at his coattails is not edifying. It makes you wonder why democracy and dignity are so seldom on speaking terms. The tea-party manners of the lady campaigners have often been the subject for jest. By contrast, however, they show up pretty well beside the boorish behavior and bootlicking fawning of men, of which we've had such a notable exhibition. W)
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And this year’s OKlahoma primary |
It was, in short, enough to cause the average |
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM,
WOULD IT MAKE: Elec
ARRIAG HAPPIER IE BOTH PARTIES WOULD DEFIN'TELY AGREE AT THE START ON WUAT THEY CAN'T S AGREE UPON? Si YES ORNO. 4 ( ; ? He
THE best book I know of on how | to stay happily married is not a book about marriage at all. It is a little book by Dr. W. J. Reilly,
“How to Use Your Head.” As he
CA ES papiline a v Vy
RE YOUNG PEOPLE JUSTICE IN eee IN SETTING
PEOPLE OFTEN SA PARENTS WHO lig NURSES FOR THEIR CHILD REN, “IF YOU REALLY LOVE YOUR CHILDREN, YOU'D TAKE CARE OF THEM \ YOURSELVES, NN SY RAT TaN BILE aed shows, in all controversies, the parties should find as soon as possible what they can’t agree on—get that out of the way and then tackle the rest. Most unhappy marriages are
aS NY
| bined. The latter
| | parties have | learned how to use their heads. ” on un
THEY ARE JUSTIFIED in us- |
so because the
4 ing any honest means that | | promises to land a job. To be exact, | a recent study by Dr. Hazel Gaudef, showea that 70 per cent of a large; sample of persons had learned of] their present jobs through friends; or relatives, 15 per cent through can- | vassing and only 10 per gang through employment and advertis= ing agencies. ” = n IN A PENETRATING ARTICLE by Helena and Henry Pringle, they say they have turned over the raising of their two juniors largely to Mamie. But Mamie seems to be a prodigy for childraising, although they help Mamie all they can and yet make a living —mostly by writing—and get a little selfish life for themselves. I think that is about the answer--getting the right Mamie. Often she is far better for the children than both parents and a psychologist comis a powerful team for a child to go up against— | yet some manage to grow up with it and escape both the penitentiary and insane asylum. Yes, I think it all depends on getting the right Mamie. If you can’t better do the
job yourselves,
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
ANY physicians believe that in the preparalytie stage of infantile paralysis injections of the blood of a person who has recovered from the disease may be of value in preventing some of the paralysis, However, other physicians are not yet convinced of the value of this method ef treatment. Experiments are being conducted on a large scale in various portions of the United States. as well as in other parts of the world, which may determine juss how much dependability may be piaced oan this
. method.
In view of the difficulty of treating patienzs with infantile paralysis in this stage of the disease, and in view of the fact that the method has not been shown to be in the slightest harmful to either a normal or a sick child, many physicians and health departments encourage the use of the convalescent serum in this stage of infection. Obviously, these examinations and these methods of treatment demand the immediate attendance of a competent doctor. As soon as paralysis begins, the method of treat ment depends on determining which muscles have been involved and the extent of the involvement. Nursing must be exceedingly gentle. All unnecessary movements of the patient should be avoided. From six to eight weeks may be necessary to permit the damaged nerve cells to recover as much as possible, Unfortunately, many parents submit children in this stage of the disease to rubbing and tion by all sorts of healers who are true nature of infantile should be undertaken