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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1938

AFTER MUNICH...? MUNICH gives a breathing spell. Reichsfuehrer Hitler, Prime Minister Chamberlain, Premier Mussolini and Premier Daladier are sitting down together to try, “by negotiation,” as President Roosevelt suggested, “to avert and avoid war.” If thev succeed, “as hundreds of millions throughout the world” hope and pray they will, then, in our judgment, the time will have come for international diplomacy to take steps in the direction of lasting peace. For let us not fool ourselves: If war is averted at Munich, what we will have

will be only a truce, nothing more. Peace will depend upon |

the use to which world statesmen put the breathing spell. |

When an old sinner has lain close enough to the door of death to look through into the Great Beyond, his first thought, as he begins to recover, usually is to call the parson and sign the pledge. And that is what the war-sick world did in 1918. Shellshocked and frightened, its first sincere cry after the Armistice was, “Never again!” But somehow, while mankind wanted a permanent cure, the doctors did not know how to effect it. Perhaps they were too embittered by what thev had gone through. Anyway, the world slipped back, little by little, into its old, prewar mood until it once again was on the verge of disaster. For weeks on end, therefore, we have been looking down the muzzles of cannon which we knew to be loaded and ready to fire. And once again what we saw filled us with horror.

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effort at world peace, it probably never will be, short of another Armageddon. . Psychologically and otherwise, therefore, we believe

major powers are fast approaching the moment when

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new world peace move might succeed; when armaments |

night be limited on land, sea and in the air; when vexatious

and often dangerous territorial, racial, economic, commercial |

and other problems might be ironed out in a way to inspire peoples everywhere with new hope. Into this general scheme, the international trade prooram of our own distinguished Secretary of State Cordell Hull would fit, still further bettering the chances for a lasting peace through better times. A new World War at this time would doom democracy, win or lose. The only thing that can save democracy is peace, at home and abroad—a peace made durably by the <pirit of live-and-let-live; trade, jobs, individual and national cecurity and some sort of international understanding based on fair dealing. That is the opportunity ahead.

PENNY WISE If the threatened 3-cent cut in the City School tax levy is made, nroposed classroom building at Technical High School. : And that despite the fact that 6800 Tech pupils now are housed in buildings which the School Board says were accommodate only 4000. Moreover, should the dropped, a Federal grant of 2257,625 will be with little likelihood of its recovery in the future. , pound foolish!

it will he necessary to abandon plans for the

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TWO-THIRDS RULE AGAIN GERTAN anti-Roosevelt Democrats are canvassing the possibility of restoring the two-thirds rule in the Democratic convention of 1940. They hope thus to thwart the renomination of President Roosevelt, or any nomination

dictated by him.

The rule requiring a two-thirds vote for choosing |

Presidential and Vice Presidential nominees was abrogated the Democratic national convention of 1936. The rule

hy had been in effect for 101 years. ay Each national convention adopts its rules early in its sessions—usually the rules of the preceding convention. At

hat time any rule can be adopted by a majority vote. After

the rules of a convention have been adopted, a two-thirds |

is necessary to change them. At the opening of the 1932 Democratic convention, the

Roosevelt forces made a move to aholish the two-thirds

vote

rule. The effort was abandoned when it gave rise to bitter | unsportsmanlike to try to change the rules |

cries that it was

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while the ga g played. However, it was voted to bring the question before the 1836 convention. The Rules Committee held hearings in 1936 on abrogat-

ing the two-thirds rule. Those in favor of abrogation held | that the rule denied the right of the majority. The other | cide pointed out that the rule gave a velo power OVer |

nominations to the South, the foundation of the party's strength.

But it was pointed out that the South no longer con- |

trolled one-third of Democratic conventions. In fact, the

13 states of the so-called Solid South accounted for only |

9615 per cent of the delegates in 1936. The Rules Committee voted 36 for abrogation to 13 against. Only six of the 13 negative vcles came from the South. To appease the Southerners, the Rules Committee voted to recommend also that the convention in 1940 change the apportionment of delegates thereafter. The new arrangement would “take into account” the Democratic vote in the preceding elections. Thus normally Republican states would enjoy less power in Democratic conventions. The 1936 convention by a voice vote adopted this recommendation and abolished the two-thirds rule. The traditional explanation of the two-thirds rule is that President Andrew Jackson imposed it in 1332—the first vear that the Democrats held a national nominating convention—to get Van Buren nominated for Vice President. Whatever the real reason for its origin a century ago, or whatever its advantage would be to one faction or another in 1940, the two-thirds rule certainly is

undemocratic.

So. if public opinion is not now ready for another su- |

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

| If Peq Just Had in His Heart the Kindness Infecting Our Mr. Pyle And a Similar Columnist in Europe.

EW YORK, Sept. 29. —Not long ago Mr. Bob Davis, who does a travel column for American | newspapers, wrote one from Vienna explaining why in the midst of the turmoil and horror he has refrained from discussion or even mention of such things. I hope that what I am about to say on this subject will not be read as an attempt to take him to task for his marvelous detachment. He has his peanut stand and I run mine, and I will say that he sells a very good brand of peanuts, heing a good writer and storv-teller. with a great knack for getting about and picking up entertaining pieces. Mr. Davis said that, of course, he could not help | hearing the wind blow when it does blow, but there | were experts to attend to that which might be called | the sordid and painful side of life and politics, and that he had an agreement with himself to yield their special field to them. His-salute to the experts was a little too elaborate, because Mr. Davis aiso knows a thing or two and, if he were of a mind to dip his bill into the subjects which he has arbitrarily forbidden himself, would do as good a job as most of the specialists. So, with full respect for his honesty, I suspect that he is being more modest than he should. No human heart can remain unperturbed and impartial effortlessly. It takes work. = = x

Mr. Ernie Pyle, who rattles about the country endlessly, writing in much the same vein, although at times with more feeling, a note of sorrow or pity | for the human race. Never does he write in terms of the Tory versus such knights in armor as Senator Minton of Indiana, preferring. apparently. the belief that most people would like to get along without much hating and fighting but, unfortunately, don’t know how. That is my general interpretation of his line, but not an attempt to commit him to a formula. He roils his own. There are men I envy in my heart, and millions of others must, too, because they seem to be calm and optimistic, and Mr. Davis almost indifferent, in print, although in his soul he may be as badly troubled as the rest. ~ ~

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at this great distance from Austria and Ger- |

many, to reawaken their knowledge from individual experience that the German nature is not entirely that of Hitler. Up to a year ago there were many here who paid scarcely any attention to rumors of war abroad. They would still like to turn back the

clock to the davs when Vienna was a city of music |

and politeness and human decency. Editors of newspapers in this country often make

One and from the editorials and comment. steadily the darkness has deepened, and people who | tried so long, or didn’t even have to try, to put dread out of their hearts now discuss war and its possible personal effect on them and their children, I wish Mr. Davis and Mr. Pyle could be multiplied by many millions, for we then would have an effec- | tive nucleus of tolerance and understanding, but first | of all I selfishly wish they could infect me. because | they both seem to find nothing but kindness in the | hearts of men wherever they go. Maybe the reason is that they find in the hearts of others only that | which is in their own. That could be the trouble { with me, I suppose.

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By John T. Flynn

We May Expect Effects on Three Economic Fronts if Europe Fights.

EW YORK, Sept. 20 —The three fronts on which a European war will affect us so far as business is concerned is in its results on (1) international exchange, (2) on the sale of foreign security holdings here, and (3) on our import and export trade. (1) Probably the most difficult to guard against will be the effect on exchange. The first gun fired will set in motion a powerful inflationary movement in Europe. The movement has indeed already begun. The report of the Bank of France last week shows a large and swift increase in credits. The day's re- | ports from Berlin already show “a strong inflationary { drift.” Paris is already discussing a new national loan { and similar movements will be in progress in every | belligerent capital without delay. It will be impossible for the Governments to com- | pletely control the price index. The pressure of such | immense expenditures will be too overpowering. So | that with prices rising in England and France and Germany and Italy and other countries, our own imports will be quickly affected. It will be difficult to protect ourselves against the inflation of Europe and when the war ends and every currency there collapses, as it will, we will probably be confronted with a devaluation decision in this country which will be difficult to resist.

No Reversal From 1914

(2) Many persons have been deceived about the | phenomenon of foreign money flowing here for safety. This they think will reverse the flow which set in in 1014 when foreign investors began to dump their holdings here. Foreign investors hold as much in this country now as they did in 1914 and these holdings will be quickly taken over by their governments. Against the demoralizing effect of this, some protection can be set up by adopting the suggestion made | here many weeks ago. namely the closing of the Exchange and the organization of a bankers’ committee { to bring about an orderlv marketing of these hold- ! ings. While dumping will be great, it will not be compleie. In the last war out of six billion in foreign holdings here, Mr. Thomas W. Lamont estimated that | between two and three billions were sold between 1914 | and 1919. This doubtless can be reduced to an orderly procedure. (3) As for exports, they may not be heavily re- { duced, but they will be shifted—shifted from peace to | war goods and from one market to another. Exports | in 1914 were as great as in 1913 and in 1915 they were | slightly greater. While sales to Germany fell, exports | to Pngland increased. A wise Administration can protect against the effect of these shifts,

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

‘M BOGGED down in war news. Any female pacifist is bound to feel insignificant while the dictaters | thunder denunciations. statesmen declaim ultimatums | and the cables sizzle with martial news. This is definitely the day of the male-—-and see how he struts. All over the earth woman and everything | she believes in are shoved into the background. Our | poor little foothold on the ladder of equality is slipping and at last we see how great a farce that | equality was and is. By orders from His Lordship Mars. wives and mothers everywhere, even in our country, are subservient and mum. My guess is that we'll stay that way for a while, | unless of course the powers decide to fight it out with { guns. In that case the New Woman—a hybrid neuter-gendered creature—may emerge and be the sole victor in a world catastrophe. ‘Only our sex got anything valuable out of the last war. It’s true we had our share of pain and tears, and later depression and poverty took a heavy toll from us. But for a very little while, too, we had freedom, so far as there can be freedom during a war. ! Out of the cataclysm of 1914 came woman's suffrage | and the equal-rights program and the ceaseless trek | of women to the industrial world.

When men begin to fight, women begin te boss, | For each thousand |

both at home 2nd in industry. of boys who march away to the front, a thousand girls must be conseripted to take their places at lcom and plow.

| ness methods began | trouble keeping us satisfied and quiet at home. This is only a surmise on my part, but if another | world war fakes place the men may find themselves | so much in the numerical minority that theyll be the

T home we have a somewhat similar specialist in-

a conscious effort to roll back the clouds from Page | But |

So it was that our first taste of liberty | | came 24 years ago, and with it our feeling of self- | reliance grew and our mastery of masculine busi- |

Since then there's been some | (revolutions. That profound thinker, |to emancipate her,

{Olive Schreiner, said that women pressure from women aids the proc- imind, namely, sheer joy that our

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 29, 1938

The Hoosier Forum

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

| {OBJECTS TO CLASSING AGED AS “RELIEFERS”

By J. Pierce Cummings, Past Worthy President Fraternal Order of Eagles, | Member State Board of Public Welfare I speak in behalf of 44.000 old {people, 2400 blind and 30.000 or|phaned children of Indiana who are the recipients of Federal-state-|county public welfare assistance. It |was written as the law of Indiana {in 1936, with hardly a discernible |voice in opposition, that these perisons, meeting rigid requirements ‘and shown to be in need, should be granted a pension or public assistance at standards “compatible with decency and health.” Now, while IT am strongly in favor of keeping local property taxes at the lowest rate, I also strongly resent the concerted efforts of the agents of the farm bureaus and the {organized corporations to make the (orphans, the old folks and the blind the object of their tax-saving attacks. They have done this by 'classing these unfortunates, who have utterly no chance of bettering {their lot through self-help, as ‘“re{liefers.” They go before tax review {boards and wail about the tre/mendous costs of relief and then instead of looking to township relief {budgets they start whittling on th 120 per cent which the county puts {up as its part toward the payment lof public assistance checks for the orphans, the blind and the deserv-

ling old folks. They disclaim attacks |

lon actual payments to the needy aged and others, saying they are cutting down administrative costs; | vet it has been the money which |

administration and which has kept over 30.000 ineligible | persons off the public assistance rolls.

£ Se - (Times readers are invited

to express their views 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.)

{given the slightest authority over poor relief, it will then be time— and not until then—to talk about “welfare relief.” Welfare aid is “public assistance,” based upon rigid requirements and high standards. |but if it is the thought to take away {from the needy aged that which lawfully has been granted to them, {then maybe we had better let down |the bars, grant pensions to everyjone and call it “relief.” I'll assure vou the cost would be nearer $100,000,000 than $20,000,000 for whole state. Let's be fair and look (to the tbwnship trustee's budget [when we are talking about general | relief; to material

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budget when we are talking about

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and old-age pensions. { ¥ w=» S30-A-WEEK PROPOSAL SOUND, FLYNN CRITIC SAYS By Mrs. Hattie E. Ryker

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appropriations! when we are talking about WPA| welfare | {

column of error in a manner to convince people who cannot think for themselves. A just and openminded person will investigate and study a subject before stooping to criticism. Any citizen with a credit rating can go to a bank and borrow money on his promissory note. Quarterly or semiannually he can go into the bank and pay the interest on his note and at the end of the year he can go in and pay the balance of the interest and principal and | redeem his note. The bank has re- | ceived the principal of the note | which it has loaned and has profited ‘to the extent of the amount of in-

terest it has received for the use of

| the principal. | The $30-a-week American pension | plan is the same process on a small { scale, the Government acting as the bank. | There are 30 baby promissory notes issued to each eligible person {each week. A special 2-cent Govern-

ment stamp is to be affixed each]

week on the reverse side of this baby note in one of the 52 spaces designated thereon, by the person who holds the note on the day which is designated as the due date. This process is followed for the year and at the end of the year, the Government has taken in $1.04 which pays the principal of the note and 4 per cent interest. The Government is not “out” a penny. When this plan becomes a law, the Government will take $2.50 from the first $30 paid the recipient to pay for printing

has been paid out for first grade every

After reading The Forum I wish these baby promissory notes, incur-

to say that it is well for a person to inform himself on a subject from angle before attempting

investigation criticism,

Mr. Flynn can only write his

As a member of the Fraternal or-|A LONE MORNING GLORY

der of Eagles, which originated the old-age pension movement in this country, I would like to remind

tween “poor relief” !sistance for the aged. that there is

those who make no distinction be-| and public as- Absorbing the dew, just as

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By ROSE MARIE CRUZAN

‘ring no expense whatever itself.

The Government should be security for these baby notes the same as {it is for all the credit money circu{lated by the banking system at the | present time. That money would not | be of any account either if the peo{ple had no confidence in it. There {1s no good money. Even gold itself is

Gen. Johnson Says—

It's the Same Story With Germany: The Sympathies of the World Are Against Her From the Very Outset,

EW YORK, Sept. 29.—In the old German diplo= macy, which reached its peak at Sedan under Bismark and von Moltke in the Franco-Prussian War, Germany never started a war until she had made sure that she would have to fight nobody buf the nation she attacked. Those were the wars that created the myth of German military invincibility—swift knock-out punches planned for years in the most minute detail. It was the ex-Kaiser who Kicked that over in favor of his idea of an army “invincible against the world.” Germany must be so strong that she would not have to depend on friends. Their idea of the World War was to destroy France in six weeks and then smash Russia at leisure. It failed and Germany was opposed by almost the whole of civiliza= tion. Hitler doesn’t seem to have learned a thing. The only outlanders- for whom he has a kind word are not Italy and Poland or their people, but their bosses— my good friend Benito Mussolini” and “a man” in Warsaw. The democracies are “deeply de= spised”—including us apparently as “despicable No, 1.” He claims his army can lick them all. = = z HERE are here so many unknown quantities that military prophecy is worthless. But if it is really true that Hitler is going to invade Bohemia and that England, France and Russia are to defend her, then all the known facts seem to say that Mr. Hitler's tale is told-—and that would go also for his friend Benito if he butts in. Caught between any such millstones as that, Germany’s only possible allies, Rumania. Poland, Yugoe slavia—even Hungary—must hesitate long before taking sides. That uncertainty will pin hundreds of thousands of Germans on those frontiers. If Mussolini enters, the Allies ought to win a vies tory every day. England would bottle up the Mediter= ranean at both ends—Suez and Gibraltar—and Italian legions in Ethiopia would be slaughtered. The Magi< not Line, when manned, would keep half a million German soldier anchored to the Western Front. » ”n » F the fortifications in the Sudeten mountains are manned, Hitler will not be able simply to march through there in a week. On the more or less elastic rule that it takes a three-to-one superiority to force good troops out of strong defensive positions, he will need a million and a half men to crash through. That much it seems fair to guess at, but the uncertainties are great. Nobody can be sure how new troops wiil act until they face fire. The German Army is mostly new. The same question goes for the Russians and the Czechs. The French Army has a continuous history and is completely ready. Hitler's only probable superiority is in aircraft, but it is doubts ful if, even there, he is superior to such an alliance. Germany's essential weakness in a second world war would be the same as before—the sympathies of most of civilization would be against her and from the very outset, this time, the heaviest weight of men and metal. This and the fact that Hitler did not strike long ago—when he had the advantage of mobilization and surpriss—makes me still think that he has been bluffing and will now crawfish,

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun He.

World, He Believes, May Marshal Voices More Powerful Than Hitler's.

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EW YORK, Sept. 28.—American isolation has ended. With dignity and simple eloquence President Roosevelt has pointed out that we belong to the fellowship of nations. I think we might all commit to memory this statement from the message to Chancellor Hitler and President Benes: “The supreme desire of the American people is to live in peace. But in the event of a general war they have to face the fact that no nation can escape some measure of the consequences of such a world catastrophe.” It seems to me that this is beyond denial. The truth of such a factual statement is not likely to be challenged. Indeed, it seems to me that an immediate attempt should be made here at home to reconcile those who have conducted verbal battles over the wisdom of “isolation” and ‘collective security.” These are words which at times have served to confuse rather than to clarify opinion. In the heat of debate charges have heen hurled back and forth which were hardly fair. There has been, for instance, the accusation that anybody who said he believed in “collective security” favored the sending of an American expeditionary force to defend the borders of Czechoslovakia. And it has been unjust to accuse all “isolationists” of being completely indifferent to

e last morning glory still blooms No good unless the people believe| any woe outside our borders. Bi

on the vine, though it were wine;

n it. Man is pleased to call it a]

{standard of value and the poor {dumbbell has to dig it from the

{ground before it can even become |

a vast difference. They operate un- She poses so proudly, for all friends that.

Ider entirely different laws and by {widely separated authorities. {township trustee is overseer of the poor, The Public Welfare Depart-

to see,

she not be?

| Commentators are paid by outside

The Yet she must be lonely; why should interests to knock everything that

| will do the poor people any good. The banking gang takes care of

'ment receives applications of those Her gown is deep purple, with trim- | that.

seeking pensions.

It is the law in|

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Indiana that the State will join| White satiny stamens; she Gignily PUTTING IN A BOOST FOR

| with counties and the Federal Gov{ernment to pay pensions or public

{assistance to needy persons meeting |

| strict requirements. If the profes|sional tax-savers want to urge separate counties to welch on their part | of the pavments to the deserving aged, blind and widowed mothers, I hope they will be willing to take the responsibility if it comes about {that Federal and State funds are (withdrawn from the county and local property owners are asked to

bears;

‘With silvery lining, enfolding green THE TOWNSEND PLAN

shawl—

Design for a princess to wear to a!

ball. DAILY THOUGHT

Let us lift up our heart with

our hands unto God in the heavens.—Lamentations 3:41,

OD has two dwellings: heaven and the other

one in in a

pay the other 80 per cent of the bill. meek and thankful heart.—Izaak! Whenever welfare departments are! Walton.

{By R. M. R. .

The strangest paradox that ever faced the American people is that of want in the midst of plenty. There are 45 millions of men, wom{en and children in this land of un{bounded wealth who haven't | enough to eat, not enough clothing | to keep up a respectable appearance, and not a decent place to call their { home. Is there a remedy? I Townsend Recovery Plan,

Yes—the

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would always be oppressed whenever it suited man’s

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

| age, women have had to leave the

GAN WOMEN DO BETTER WORK IN SOME FIELDS

*Pol)TICS THAN MEN P YOUR OPN

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AGREAT WRITER SAID "WE ALL EIND A MEASURE OF SATISFACTION

IN THE 5 WSFORTUNES 16 THIS TRUED YES OR NO ees

IF it depended on the women, never be emancipated until it was to influence and power. we would probably never have man’s social and economic interest whole, our satisfaction is not quite

Of course the

ess of emancipation but I think

selfish interests to women have gained emancipation could | chiefly

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home to aid in the processes of pro- | ducing wealth, and. gradually, she | has gained rights and privileges be|cause man believed by giving her | these she would become a better | wealth producer. ” ” » | Yes, in many fields. What + women bring to politics is not (greater knowledge or intelligence but ‘greater appreciation of many kinds of human needs. They have been a powerful influence in shaping laws

relating to the home, the welfare of children and women, the schools, and all those phases of community life that especially appeal to the heart of humanity. .

» ” » YES, but if it be true friend-

ship this satisfaction is mainly due, not to any gladness that the friend has met with misfortune but that it gives us an opportunity to |give him greater service. Of course this also gives us that inevitable

{glow of self approval and of exerting But, on tne

{what this writer apparently had in friend's misfortune has made him

inferior to us, it is rather that we can be of greater service to him,

Tougher on the Surface

Possibly one of the best ways to arrive at an effee= tive and united American policy on foreign affairs would be the scrapping of the old phrases. Let us all, at the very least, arrive at a clear and concise definition of whatever phrases are to be used. In the present situation America must formulate a policy. And I insist that neither giving thanks for the Atlantic Ocean or saying, “Let Europe siew in its own juice.” is a sufficient policy. In fact, neither constitutes any policy at all. Here in America we heard the voice of Hitler distinctly the other afternoon. It was—shall we say in an effort to be moderate?—a shade disturbing, Further comment may be made later, hut my first impression was that Hitler was tougher on the surface than in the core of his pronouncements. And I do believe that the world may marshal voices stronger than that of Hitler, even at his highest pitch, This is conjecture. Oct. 1 is near at hand. You and I have heard the voice of Hitler. We have read the words of President Roosevelt. A choice lies before us. There is no choice of what our choice will be. The fabrie of peace throughout the world must be preserved, We cannot close our eyes. We are among the family of nations.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

MONG the most widespread of all conditions affecting people today is ringworm of the feet, named by some inspired advertising man “athlete’s foot.” Long ago it was recognized that the chief difficulty was not in clearing up the condition as it exists on the skin, but the prevention of reinfection, It has been found that the fungus of ringworm which causes athlete's foot can live in the stockings, the shoes, on the floor of swimming pools, in undercloth=ing, and indeed almost anywhere. : Therefore it becomes necessary not only to make. certain that the condition is removed from the skin, but also that the living organisms which can reinfect the patient are removed from his clothing and his surroundings. / People infected with athlete's foot will walk in their bare feet on diving boards, on rocks at the sea= shore, and in gymnasiums; the blisters and the scales caused by ringworm of the feet will be dropped off and infect the surfaces on which the person may walk. The investigators have found that formaldehyde vapors will destroy ringworm on clothing and on shoes. Woolen and silk stockings may be ruined by. boiling, and it has been recommended that stockings: and shoes be placed each night in a cabinet such, as is used by barbers, in which there is epportunity: for exposure of the shoes and stockings overnight - to the formaldehyde vapors. Such vapors will not destroy the appearance or the color of the fabrics concerned. There are, however, certain people who are sensi=- . tive to formaldehyde. They should, of course, knoy . with certainty that they will not react to the formal-_: before embarking on such a program. ~

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