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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 13838
WAR POSTPONED HARGING that Czechoslovakia has dented the Sudeten Germans the right of self-determination, Adolf
3,500,000
Hitler at Nuremberg last night in effect demanded a plebiscite or some equivalent. - Thus, for the moment, the Nazi warlord has postponed the showdown for which all Europe is waiting. But that is all. He is merely using a delayed fuse. For throughout his speech his utterances indicated buildup for early and drastic action unless his demands are met. Depriving the Sudetens “of their rights,” he cried in a
voice that popped like a backfiring truck, “must end. . . .| They are creatures of God and were not created to be surrendered to hatred and to be persecuted. . . . I can] tell the so-called democrats that it is not a matter of indif- | ference to us. defend themselves, they will receive help from us.” And the vast multitude of fanatical followers sent up a | roar that almost shattered radio tubes halfway around the globe. When governments are contemplating the eventuality of war, the public utterances of their diplomats and leaders are generally weighed very carefully with a view to incorporating them, after hostilities have begun, in white books, blue books and books of other hues put out for propaganda purposes—to prove their cause is just. Hitler's speech last night seemed to have been cast with some such use as that in view. Czechoslovakia, he said, was set up by the “so-called | democracies.” Yet, he added, it was established against the will of a majority of its inhabitants. While selfdetermination was a democratic slogan after the armistice, | 3.500.000 Sudeten Germans are still being denied the right to say to what country they wish to belong. This right Herr Hitler now demands, and soon. If it is not granted promptly, he threatens to take the matter And if this creates trouble abroad — |
If these tortured, oppressed creatures cannot
into his own hands. meaning in Great Britain, France and Soviet Russia—he will be sorrv, but Germany will go ahead just the same. The pronouncement constituted a thinly veiled ulti-| matum. Czechoslovakia will shortly be called upon to say | ves or no to Herr Hitler's proposal. Doubtless her advisers— especially France, Britain and the Soviet Union—will help For the decision will be momentous. |
her make up her mind. If Czechoslovakia says no, Germany will almost certainly occupy the Sudeten area if no more. The Fuehvrer has now committed himself, without qualification. To back | down now would mean for him an intolerable loss of face. | If Czechoslovakia is dilatory, if she attempts to avoid | the issue too long to suit the Nazi demigod, the chances | are better than even that Herr Hitler will seize upon the delay as an excuse to repeat his coup against Austria. If Czechoslovakia savs yes, the Sudetens will almost
certainly declare for independence or anschluss with the | Reich and a new frontier will have to be drawn. Where- | upon if Hungarian, Slovaks, Poles and the rest also demand | a recount, the brave little democracy of Central Europe will simply disintegrate. Great Britain, France, Russia and Czechoslovakia have | the floor. Pending their answer, Europe will be living | under a truce which may be broken at any time.
THE RESULT IN MARYLAND AVEY LEWIS was led out into the traffic. The brake | slipped and the purge backed up over him. It is a <hame. Because he is a statesman. And if he had stood for re-election to the House instead of getting lured into the Senatorial contest he would have stayed in Congress, | for his victory would have been automatic. As it is, the
nation is the toser. We haven't felt, as a lot of others have, that Mr. Roosevelt's entrance into primaries was any sin. It was his richt to take his chances, to yield to the urgings of his impetuous counselors, and to see where he came out. But it was about as poor political management as this country has even witnessed. Especially so in Maryland, the state more than any other in the union super-sensitive to outside
interference. So the expected has happened—at the cost of one of the best men that ever served in the House of Repre- | sentatives. There may be one good by-product. If the outcome causes the Boy Scout purge directors to pause and look at | their hole cards, Davey Lewis may not have sacrificed in | vain.
THE HINES MISTRIAL |
IVE incautious words from District Attorney Dewey—
and Justice Pecora finds it necessary to let four weeks of a momentous, expensive trial go to waste. Mr. Dewey may have erred technically when he spoke | those five words linking “Hines and the poultry racket,” something which had nothing to do with the charge on which Hines was being tried. But we think many laymen will feel that the Dewey error might have been corrected at far less cost than judicial declaration of a mistrial. They will ask why the court could not have warned the jury to ignore the offending words, just as it had warned the jury to ignore many other words and questions in the course of the testimony. They will wonder why these intelligent “blue ribbon” jurors could not have been trusted to escape “prejudice” in this particular matter, just as they were going to be trusted to avoid prejudice in discriminating between masses -of admitted and ruled-out evidence. As it is, neither the innocence nor guilt of Hines, the Tammany leader, has been determined. There must be a complete new trial of the policy racket charges, involving expense to the defendant and to New York State. One result is likely to be a deepened public conviction that present rules of evidence, as applied by trial judges with a wary eve on higher courts, are still too {gid for full justice.
| in the chorus of praise in The Progress.
| running upon the shoals of economic collapse, { can be no doubt that the economic structure of both
{ nomic crutches such as his is? debacle will come before Hitler can accomplish his |
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
The Paper Huey Left His Political Heirs Still Knows How to Struggle Along, if That Is the Right Word.
EW YORK, Sept. 13.—There has been another outpouring of the proper spirit in the columns of The Daily Progress of Hammond, La., originally the official organ of Huey Long's dictatorship and now the equivalent of Mussolini's I1 Popolo D’'Italia in the regime of Governor Dick Leche. The Progress has issued a special edition of 60 pages to solemnize the second anniversary of the reign of Mr. Bob Maestri as conqueror and Mayor of New Orleans. Since the anschluss of New Orleans and the happy compromise with President Roosevelt, Jim Farley, the Treasury and the Department of Justice, known as the second Louisiana Purchase, The Progress has smoothed out many of its earlier technical journalistic crudities and is now qualified to goosestep with its contemporaries in the Rome-Berlin axis. The tribute to Mr. Maestri fittingly maintains a modest position two paces to the rear of that which was published some time ago to celebrate Governor Leche's first anniversary as Governor. On that occasion the Progress obtained whole page advertisements of Louisiana State University, a state insane asylum, the charity hospital of New Orleans and the Shreveport charity hospital. u = 8 T= also were page advertisements of the Louisiana Congressional delegation, the Louisiana Supreme Court, the state conservation commis-
| sion and the cities of Baton Rouge, Hammond and
Lake Charles. In one municipality wrong-minded citizens struck
| a note of disharmony in the paean by legally enjoy-
ing the payment of $500 out of local taxes for a note But other-
wise the edition was a joyous homage to the Kingfish's heir. The advertisements and text in the Maestri memorial edition are a melodious blending of obvious cause and inevitable effect. The text tells of great material achievements in New Orleans, which consumed vast quantities of steel, gravel, roofing, restaurant and hotel supplies for the kitchens of public institutions, hardware and building equipment, drainage tile, concrete and machinery. * The advertisements convey hearty greetings from many admiring individuals and by no means soulless corporations dealing in such commodities. 5 = = ANKERS, members of a group often accused of unwisdom, ingratitude and lack of generosity, refute these foul aspersions with lavish purchases of
| space next to not necessarily pure reading matter in
which to make obeisance to the lower-case duce. And the loan sharks of New Orleans, those everready altruists who tided over the city employees in spells of payless paydays when blood was on the moon
| at Baton Rouge, express no less endearingly their
homage to a man than whom. Hammond, home of The Progress, is a town of 6000 people, but the advertising staff of this journalistic prodigy is the envy of the whole profession. It takes but a hint from a Progress man to sell a page or half-page of space to certain types of clients at times when flattery is in the wind. The circulation branch, too, displays something akin to wizardry. That it costs maney to praise Mr. Maestri in the
| Progress goes without saying.
Business By John T. Flynn
Great Britain Is Gambling Upon Economic Law Destroying Hitler.
EW YORK, Sept. 13.—What is going on in Europe now is a race between Adolf Hitler on one side and economic law on the other. That at
| least is what England believes and what she is bank-
ing on and what Hitler told England very pointedly
| last week she is foolish to bank on.
Few who are familiar with Hitler's grandiose objectives will feel any assurance that he will be sat-
| 1sfied with any concessions the Czechoslovakian Gov- | ernment will make. | the east and Czechoslovakia—all of it—is in his path.
For Hitler is on the march to
Hitler has made his own general aims sufficiently plain in Mein Kampf. And more recently informed
| observers in Europe have made abundantly clear just
what he is driving at. Hitler's eves are turned eastward. He wanted Austria because it was part of the great German nation and was an essential unit in moving into the Ukraine. He wants Hungary for the same reason. He wants Bohemia because it is German and because there are centered all the great industries of the old Austrian empire. He wants, above all, the UKraine because there lies the greatest of all wealth—grain. He does not care about the Czech and Slovak and Ruthenian provinces of Czechoslovakia
; save as they form part of the Reich's highway to the
Ukraine. Only Czechoslovakia Remains
He has Austria. He has apparently made his terms with Hungary. He has the spiritual hegemony of Bohemia, and seems now upon the point of getting that. There remains only the rest of Czechoslovakia. Is it to be supposed that if he captures Bohemia he will abandon his dream upon the very threshold of its realization? England knows this. But England is gambling upon economic law devouring Hitler. During the Ethiopian war Eden banked heavily upon Mussolini There
Germany and Italy are impossible—that both must sooner or later crack up. They are utterly without external credit. They are floating upon a false hull
of government credit and dictatorial social arrange-
ments. But how long will Hitler last? How long can he prolong a regime sypported by fantastic ecoEngland hopes this
grand scheme. And this beyond a doubt is an important reason for Chamberlain's temporizing policy.
A Woman's Viewpoint
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
O finer tribute has ever been paid to Mrs. Elea-
nor Roosevelt than that written by Esther Arthur in the current Harper's Bazaar, which classifies her with “The Energists”—such women, for instance, as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frances Willard, Susan Anthony, Margaret Fuller and others equally active and famous. Let's quote a few lines: “These women were undismayed by the viscissitudes and deceptions of living, for they believed, as Mrs. Roosevelt does now, in the spirit of Nietzsche's great saying, ‘Everything is accomplished notwithstanding.’ It is that mighty certainty that Mrs. Roosevelt shares with the great American women who have gone Before her and that gives to the First Lady's activities and aspirations an ultimate significance that transcends both her own limitations and the confusion and bewilderment of our age.” In analyzing for ourselves the amazing performances of E. R., we find she shares another quality with all the great of her sex—she is wholly impervious to what is said about her.
And that's a rare trait in women. Most of us grow pallid with fright as we consider how the neighbors will talk if we take a stand on the unpopular side of any question. Although we share this rabbit quality with al! humankind, it is more marked in feminine nature and has prevented our participation in many high causes. The average woman fears loss of social caste much more than she fears the loss of a cause in which she may believe. That's why so many of ul fail at politics, at business, at social-service work—even at homemaking. And the thing I admire most about our present First Lady is that she goes—loping generally—about her business, ugterly unconcerned whether she is liked or disliked, blamed or praised.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Soliloquy—By Herblock
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TUESDAY, SEPT. 13, 1938
“If IT WERE
IT WERE DONE QUICKLY: IF THE ASSASSINATION COULD TRAMMEL UP THE CONSEQUENCE, WITH HIS SURCEASE, SUCCESS: THAT BUT THIS BLOW MIGHT BE THE BE-ALL ANP THE END-ALL HERe"“
DONE WHEN 'TIS DONE, THEN '"TWERE WELL
AND CATCH,
— Macbeth
I wholly defend to
The Hoosier Forum
disagree with what you say, but will the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
AID SOUGHT FOR FARMER By James R. Meitzler “I hold in my right hand,” said Republican Candidate Willis, “a McCormick mower guard with ledger-plate selling at 35 cents; in {my left hand one German-made, | price 17 cents. The American maker | does not charge too much. His labor rides to work in automobiles; the Germans on bicycles, or walks.”
In market reports you find items | like these: “Increased seeding in| Australia drives wheat prices down.” | “Wheat market off on Im- | proved prospects in central prope” “Surplus wheat in United States, Canada and Argentina tumbles prices.” “Russian sales of 3.512,000 bushels wheat to Europe sends price to new low levels.” “Corn price sags| with beneficial rains in Argentina.” | “Argentine shipments to Europe causé corn collapse.” The bicycle riders of the world are setting the] price of the American farmers’| c1ops. This happens whenever we raise] fa surplus in both Republican and | Democratic administrations, in good! [times and bad, with high tariffs or {low. A tariff of a dollar a bushel {offers no more protection than no | tariff at all when there are more | {bushels inside the tariff wall than] | the consumer inside that wall cares
[to use. For example, in
Hoover's term, | {with a tariff of 45 cents, wheat | sold for 30 cents; with a tariff of | 25 cents, corn sold for a dime. The { farmer who pays 35 cents for a |17-cent mower guard, and other goods in like proportion, in order that the workman may enjoy an [ American standard of living, was,| !before the New Deal offered its] equalizing subsidies, forced to ac-| | cept bicycle rider's pay for his | crops. How can the Republican Party | expect the farmer, who is forced to pay automobile wages for the] things he buys, to vote for a can-| didate or a party which compels; him to accept bicycle wages for] what he sells? §F & 4 QUESTIONING NEED OF RELIEF IN A LAND OF PLENTY By Bystander | Is relief necessary in a land of unlimited resources? California’s $30-every-Thursday pension plan may | be all wet as a solution to our na-| tional creeping paralysis. It is, however, an attempt to solve the enigma | of poverty in the midst of plenty. Rats would not starve because the corn crib was too full. But share-
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| croppers go in rags because there
{is too much cotton. Farmers must |be given relief because they raised {too much wheat and corn, while they are denied buying power to] buy factory products. Is that any
flation as the pension plan scrip
|demands taxation that will inflate | missed an
| Republican writers have condemned |
| work.
taxpayers have been glad to promote and help sustain WPA for the good that it has heen doing. So now by word of mouth, in a sudden change which cannot possibly be heartfelt, they promise even more for the WPA worker. Please note that Raymond Willis, Republican candidate for Senator, now shouts: “I feel a keen sympathy for the WPA worker. He left a job that paid him $25 to $50 {per week in private industry.” crazier than the $30-every-Thurs- Don’t be foolish, Mr. Willis. He day idea? didn’t leave any job; he was thrown Why is it that commerce, agricul- ou, of any kind of ‘a Job at all ture, labor and government cannot during a Republican administration. now set up a national production y >» plan to gear our resources and man- | RELIEF CALLED LARGEST
power for immediate production on ERE 7 a full capacity basis? We cry th. PUSINESS ENTERPRISE By A. B. C.
method is promoted. Have we any The Government is on relief; it ability to set up a plan that will cannot pay its bills out of income. work now? Or must we drift along | Mr. Herblock’s cartoon depicting on WPA until Government credit one family out of every 12 on WPA | important group that prices beyond the reach of even the should have been with these famipresent’ consumer group? [lies. All the little businessmen and Why wait for the crisis and the |big businessmen who get the money crackup? Are we stolid, stubborn, |spent by these families should have or too hell-bent for politics, to meet been placed in the picture. They, the problem in a scientific way? |too, are on relief. Relief is our That would be better than waiting |largest business enterprise. for the crisis and disaster. Business would collapse overnight FF 4 if WPA dropped its workers. WPA
: . io v cannot be discontinued without AN ATTACK ON THE G. 0. P. wrecking the whole American busiIN DEFENSE OF WPA
(Times readers are invited to express their in these columns, religious controversies * excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
views
Gen Johnson Says— ]
Mexico Has Told Us to Jump in the Lake Imperiling; Says the General, The Whole World's Foreign Trade.
ETHANY BEACH, Del, Sept. 13.—What are Wwe going to do about Mexico? President Cardenas has burned his last bridge behind him so far as any retreat toward the position of our State Department is concerned. He insists on the right to take any foreign owned property in Mexico. He admits no duty $o - pay for it. If ever a protesting nation was told to go and jump in the lake, he has told us that. L Few of our people want to rush into war to protect any American's dollars invested in another country, but Senor Cardenas has raised a much londer question than that. If his Government can seize Americans’ property at will so can any other Government. If Mexico can take a farm or an oil well, then Argentina can take a ship in the harbor of Buenos Aires. Russia confiscated foreign owned property and never paid for it. Hitler didn’t take it but he won't let any profits from foreign-owned property move out of Germany. , These are all challenges to that part of international law which makes possible commerce among the nations. If property outside our borders can be grabbed at will, who will venture his property abroad? If the answer is—‘nobody,” then there could be no foreign trade on earth. ” n ”
HE nations are so dependent on each other that some, like England, simply could not exist in such a world. Mexico, standing alone, is not a great factor in our economy. But if we permit such seizures in any country, we open the door everywhere for just such trade destruction. That is exactly what Senor Cardenas proposes. His speech invited all of Latin America to do like= wise and to some of these republics it must be tempt= ing bait. Our State Department is in a tough spot. Its first note to Mexico used many words to tell Cardenas how “liberal,” if not pink, is our own Government— how much more we are concerned with human rights than property rights. That was talking not “to” Cardenas but “at” our own radicals who are now ‘so strong in government. He promptly seized it to wise=;crack back something to this effect: “Yes, with such policies, if you didn't have the money to pay you would confiscate wealth too. You did confiscate gold.” That wasn’t inaccurate but it was hitting toe close for comfort, i & uw on HEN there is the necessity of maintaining our trade and new good will with all of Latin Amer= ica—always hitherto suspicious of the old “dollar diplemacy” of what they call the “Colossus of the North” and not yet fully convinced of any change of heart. But this is gangsterism, the same kind of inter=national hijacking that Hitler does and dares to do because he gambles that no nation will pynish him. If a nation goes gangster there is no restraint except a sock in the jaw by the nations which ate being hijacked. This sock doesn’t necessarily have to be with air bombs and machine guns. It might be by economic | pressure. Mexico is getting plenty of that now. May=- | be that will be enough. If it isn’t, we will have to do something more. We can't let Mr. Cardenas get away with this one.
It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun
Ah, for a Taste of Democracy, He Sighs, Thinking of Cotton Ed.
EW YORK, Sept. 13.—It has been frequently said that such ills as we find in democracy, or think we find, might be cured by the administration of even more democracy. Most of us go along in the serene
belief that universal suffrage has been established in America. We know, of course, that there are states in which very few Negroes vote. In some states none but whites may participate in the Democratic primaries. %
ness structure. Some day we will By J. H. have a reckoning, however. That For months, Republican
gressmen, Republican orators
on- ] pons {must be levied to pay for this relief.
| Then prices will soar, consumption the assistance given by the Demo- | drop abruptly, and the debt pyramid cratic Administration to men out of | Will collapse. : They have condemnad| Let's hope the Republicans are in WPA from all angles; they said roads should not be
WPA is a poultice on our eco-
but not least how often have they] : nomic carbuncle. It needs lancing.
portrayed the WPA workers as lazy loafers leaning on shovels. This was all done in an effort to appeal to any and all taxpayers to vote against the Democratic Administration of WPA. But these Republican candidates now have found that thousands of fortunate
HOMESPUN GOWN
By MARY WARD I look upon each woven thread Of an old-fashioned gown, Preserved, although the years have fied And merged in memory’s crown. So unassuming the design That flying fingers drew— May my life's pattern trace a line As finely spun and true.
DAILY THOUGHT God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him. —Psalms 67:7.
# ” SEES NOTHING WRONG WITH ROOSEVELT AIMS By Edvard F.
Just what is the President striving for? He is obviously trying tp have Governmental control of business. Ctherwise business wouldn't so tenaciously oppose him. As for his desire to run business efficiently and to the greater mass advantage, is there anything wrong in that? At present business is run in°fficiently and not to greater mass advantage, Is there anything wrong in that? Some say that in order to accomplish the President's «ims, he would be dictatorial. 1f he abuses his power he can be removed as he is elected. Is it right to use might for right? If you don’t have {leader and don't follow him when vou do have, you can never accomplish anything. cmni If we adopt the defeatist attitude HERE is little influence where land say that progressive acts may he there is not great sympathy.— | corrupt in time, we might as well Prime. | quit and admit the futility of life,
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CERTAINLY. We try to make] ourselves feel we haven't had a| fair chance, that others have mistreated us, that the world is against us and all that. It is the vegy es-
sence of individuality and person-
LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM—-
of our minds is to try to find reasons why others are to blame for our situation. zn ” 2 THERE are angles from which both are right and both wrong. Higher living standards may indirectly elevate our ideas of marriage selection and increase the number of children in the abler families (although so far they have decreased them) and thus improve the average heredity of the race. But the biology teacher is probably right that the better diet and living of the parents will not improve the heredity of the children because these apparently improve the body cells but not the germ cells. Of course the diet of the mother is very important in improving the health and size of the babes at birth.
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MOST PSYCHOLOGISTS believe you do not. Many instances are on record where, following a head injury or in a de'lirium or under hypnotism, persons | have recalled, perfectly, long conversations or even whole books written in a language they did not know but ality to struggle for self-approval,|had heard read aloud only once. which means securing a favorable But if almost everything did not comparison of ourselves with others.| drop out of your conscious memory Even when we are down-hearted|you would be able to remember with feelings of inferiority and|scarcely an g when you wished failure, one of the favorite tricks|it most. \ :
THE STORY OF HEREDITY.
"DICK, OUR DOMESTIC SCIENCE TEACHER SAYS
ING THE HEREDITY OF THE RACE." "YES, DOT, BUTOUR BIOLOGY TEACHER SAYS THEY WON'T." WHICH 15 RIGHT? YOUR OPINION —— 2
4 i AW DO YOU EVER REALLY FORGET | ANYTHING? 3 VYESORNO
coPvAIBNT 19%) JONN DALE co
{day will come when Federal taxes |
have Power then to show us how stupid con- | they, too, are to gear the economic
| structed, buildings erected, and last | machine.
But Cotton Ed's own state has somewhat modified this prohibition. In South Carolina, according i to the World Almanac, every Negro applying for membership in a Democratic club or offering to vote in a {| Democratic primary, must produce a written statement of 10 reputable white men who shall swear that | they know of their own knowledge that the applicant voted for Gen. Hampton in 1876, and has voted the Democratic ticket continuously ever since. After those few simple formalities he can vote, and you have undoubtedly read that Cotton Ed’s recent victory in an intermural contest constituted a mandate of the people. However, quite a few of them were sitting on the sidelines. : Some say that people who speak of Negro rights are trouble makers and fanatics. It is urged that nothing is needed but a little patience, and that all these problerffs will be solved in time. But, of course, they don’t say how much time. 3
Not Wholly Sectional Problem
The problem is not wholly sectional, for several Northern States still bar a considerable number of potential voters. In his last Friday's press conference at Hyde Park, President Roosevelt said the poll tax was an outmoded remnant of the Revolutionary period when ownership of property was necessary to participate in an election. Mr. Roosevelt remarked hopefully that the nation had been getting away frem the poll tax more and more during the last decade. ° Some of Mr. Roosevelt's strongest supporters have a feeling that in some things he is too conservative. After all, “The Revolutionary period” was quite a few years ago, and there ought to be a statute of limitations providing that after a certain period patience ceases to become a virtue. - There are those who say that they wish to keep our country democratic. But I would rather enlist with those who would go even “further and make it democratic. .
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
NTIL 91 years ago serious consideration had never been given to the possibility of relieving women from the pain associated with childbirth. Then ‘an eminent British physician, Dr. James Young Simpson, thought that he would make a trial of ether as the means of putting women to sleep during their travail, The first test with childbirth was done on Jan. 19, 1847. The obstetrician, or the specialist in childbirth, knows that it is possible to anesthetize a woman so much that the musciw¥ar action of her body will stop. Should this occur, of course, the progress of tHe childbirth will not go on. For that reason all attempts ara directed toward finding drugs that will produce oblivion to pain and yet at the same time permit the necessary muscular action. Not only have ether, chloroform, and nitrous oxide oxygen been used for this purpose, but indeed every drug that has been developed with a view to lessening pain or producing complete oblivion has been tried from time to time. Time and again during the past 90 years it has been announced that some one method or another is the ideal, but it is safe to say that even yet the ideal method has not been found. This is simply because none of the drugs thus far used can be said to be completely efficient for the purpose in the ways that have been mentioned. The important fact is for women to realize that medical science is doing its utmost to give them aid in this serious process. Unquestionably the near future will find more
and Hote Sesuiiy of giving women relief from pain and still permitting a safe childbirth.
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