Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1939 — Page 10
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TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1939
EMMET G. RALSTON HE death of Emmet G. Ralston, general manager and vice president of the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. | takes from the industrial and business life of the community an important and respected figure.
Mr. Ralston was the son of Samuel M. Ralston, former | Governor and former United States Senator. He gave to his business career the same industry and devotion that his father gave to statecraft. ; For 27 vears he was connected with the local utility. Two years ago when flood waters were threatening the company dam, he personally directed the work on the White River bank. The effort apparently overtaxed his strength and led to the illness which resulted in his death last night at the age of 48,
COAL—AND POWER POLITICS SOME 350,000 miners are idle and many key industries are threatened with paralysis. Mayor La Guardia sends a | plea to the President to do something in behalf of the mil- | lions in the nation’s largest city who are dependent on the | intricate mechanisms of electricity, which in turn is de- | pendent on coal—hospitals, subways, fire departments, | office buildings, hotels, apartment houses, homes. And across the nation, cities and industries, large and small, | face the same dangers. This, at a time when our country’s | business already ig sick in a war-sick world. What is it all about? | A lockout, savs labor. A strike, says capital. But—! “there is no dispute as to wages or working conditions,” | says La Guardia. That is literally true. The trouble stems directly to the struggle within the labor movement itself. | The United Mine Workers probably are the most closely | organized of all labor, and the best disciplined. John L. | Lewis, their leader, fears encroachment by his enemy, William Green, on the mining preserves. : To copper-rivet his position as leader, Lewis stipulates | certain things that have nothing to do with wages, working conditions, hours or the principle of collective bargaining. Hence the shut-down. He charges that employers, including many important coal customers, are plotting to break the union. Probably a lot of them would like to do that very thing —to take advantage of labor's civil war. But the essence of the situation is another form of | power politics, as dangerous domestically as is power politics in the foreign scene. Power politics in labor. We hope that the President in considering Mayor La Guardia’s appeal may devise, in the interest of peace and | prosperity at home, a move as dramatic as was his message to the power politicians overseas,
ADOLF HITLER'S REPLY DOLF HITLER'S order for the German Reichstag to meet on Friday, April 28, to hear his reply to Presi--dent Roosevelt's world peace project is almost as surprising as the project itself. d The first reactions from Germany all indicated that the | =~ Fuehrer had gone into one of his rages upon receipt of the S President's message. A loud and not very polite “no” was § forecast. Yesterday, however, came Berlin's surprise anA nouncement. “The Fuehrer.” it said, “considers this affair 3 so important that he has decided to make known hig answer | § to the American President in the name of the German | people before the Reichstag.” Instead of taking only two or three days to reply, the Nazi dictator is waiting nearly two weeks. Which, as well as the manner of his making it, seems extremely significant. | The chances are it will still be “no,” but with a difference. | Just why Hitler considers “this affair so important,” is known probably only to him and his associates, including, of course, Mussolini. But we suspect something like this: Observers on the spot report that the German people are just as opposed to war as are the people of Britain and | France. Especially, it is said, are they against a war of | aggression. If that is true, then such appeals to reason as | that of the President cannot be sneered aside. They must | be answered seriously. Even dictators must occasionally | look back to make certain that the parade they are supposed to be leading is still behind them. Too, Hitler and Mussolini have been bearing down pretty hard on the bugaboo of encirclement. Yet the President, in effect, told the Fuehrer and the Duce: “If vou do not intend to attack vour neighbors, there will be no war. And if you do not intend to start a war, sav so and we'll start at once organizing the peace. We'll trim armaments | expenses, get international trade going and let mankind everywhere return to normal life.” That does not sound like encirclement. It sounds like common sense. In short, the President tore a pretty bad hole in Herr Hitler's picture. The Fuehrer doesn’t dare leave it as it is. | He must patch it up. This he probably will undertake to | do a week from next Friday. Meanwhile, Dr. Geobbels’ propaganda machine undoubtedly will be busy, trying to build up the proper background. |
CLEAN UP. PAINT UP T is encouraging to note that the annual Indianapolis clean up, paint up campaign is being carried on again | with the aid of the city’s school children. Last year was the first in which the children co-op-erated with the Fire Prevention Bureau in the campaign and the success of that venture has apparently cemented the tieup. Each child reports on his own home. He is asked to fill out a card indicating just what he has done personally to | clean up the premises, removing trash from cellars, painting | and similar tasks. This preliminary work lightens the load | of the inspecting firemen who come along later in‘ the campaign. The plan is a sound one. It inculcates good habits of | household cleanliness in the youngsters, and gives them pride in the appearance of their homes. The mere clearing away of rubbish—regardless of | whether there is any | of a home and naturally reduces the hazards of fire.
painting done—helps the appearance |
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| human liberty.
viation By Maj. Al Williams
Midair Refueling to Increase Pay Loads Is Planned by England on Trans-Atlantic Lines This Summer.
ike gas stations are scheduled for Europe this summer—but none for the United States as long as we continue our aeronautical research on a dime-
and-nicke! basis. Corner filling stations aloft. This subject may look like a long jump from the current international soruggle for control of the world’s airways, but as a matter of fact the refueling of commercial aircraft in flight may enable international air lines to put something into the company till. : Aircraft designers and the great commercial sir lines are striving to stretch the cruising range and load-carrying capacities of airplanes, but big ships with big wings and many motors are not the answer by a long shot. As the plane is increased in size, weights mount up at a disproportionate rate. Long-distance flight requires great quantities of gasoline. The average 1000-horsepower aircraft engine burns about 50 gallons of gas an hour. Gasoline weighs six pounds a
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OMMERCIAL air lines depend for revenue upon useful loads carried, yet every 30 gallons dumped into a plane's tanks means one less passenger seat. The compromise between gas load and profit-earning load. means the difference between ships that earn money and those that lly at a loss. An airplane can fly at less than half the horsepower required to get it off the surface and into the air. With the exception of stunt flights, where the ships are refueled in flight, commercial air ‘liners are forced to take off with all the gas on board required for the entire flight. My old friend. Sir Alan Cobham, has been conducting important experiments in refueling in the air. The results of these experiments will become evident this summer when Imperial Airways flying boats renew trans-Atlantic operation. The same boats that plied between Europe and America last summer with no pay load on board will do the job this summer carrying about 5000 pounds of profit-earning load.
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HE big Imperial boats will take off the water | T loaded with passengers, mail and freight and
only about three hours’ gas.
Headed straight for America, the ship will lower a |
line through a hole in the tail end of its fuselage. A big tanker airplane, or flying gas station, will pick up
the line and climb to a position above, and slightly
behind it. \ the line which will be drawn aboard the receiving
ship. Both ships will be held on an even, straight course. while fuel flows from the tanker. When the job is complete, the tanker will roll in its hose, and
| the liner wili contintuie its transoceanic flight.
The British have gone into this refueling business thoroughly. and intend to standardize the operation.
| A single tanker can take care of a great many air | liners, | be concentrated on tanker crews. With a few such flying gas stations. spotted at |
Whatever expert training is necessary is to
proper points. a flying boat could easily be ilown right around the world nonstop with a pay lead on
(Mr. Pegler It on Vacation)
Business
By John T. Flynn Lewis Fears Big Coal Users and
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C. 1. O. Foes Aim to Break His Union.
EW YORK, April 18 —Some curiosity has been expressed as to whom John L. Lewis was re-
| ferring when he said that outside interests were in-
fluencing the bituminous coal operators to break with the unions. There can be little doubt just whom Mr. Lewis was referring to. He was referring to two sets of influences. what he had in mind. The first group are those of whom he has spoken
often in the past. Mr. Lewis has already insisted they |
were the curse of the soft-coal industry. They are those utilities and manufacturers who are large
enough to take a great part of the output of a single | | mine.
The soft-coal mine owner sells to such & customer perhaps a third or a half of his output—maybe more.
this fact the customer becomes a sort of tyrant of the mine. He knows that if he takes his business away from the mine it will go hopelessly inte the red. For years he kept the wages of labor to starvation levels. Now that there is a higher scale he seeks escape in mechanization. Mr. Lewis likes to pose as the champion of these
i t, here is |, ‘ Whether he Was right at not, here Js ism is the only social order in which [for Roosevelt to try his brains.
|free willed men are rewarded for honesty, |demerited for laziness, negligence, URGES GREENBACKS and waste. The greatest dangers TO SPEED RECOVERY to America today are comparatively |
[factions are at grips with each other. (It seems that they both will sur-| ‘vive, but subject to the will of 95 and ill-housed. We had better get per cent of the people who are being four brains to work solving this prob{hurt badly.
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small independent mine owners and it was to help |
them resist their despotic customers that he helped put through the Guffey Coal Act.
These customers have always exerted pressure on the owners to resist the unions which, of course, having tended to put up the price of coal. Mr. Lewis believes they are doing the same thing now.
Operators Deny Hostility The other group to whom he was referring doubtless were the large business interests which wish to destroy the C. 1. O. If its enemies could break the
| United Mine Workers they could break the financial
back of the C. I. O. C. 1. O. leaders are fearful that the present coal dispute might be selected as the battleground for this great objective. They may, of course, be wrong. The coal operators deny it and insist they are ready
| to sign a contract tomorrow the same as the one
which expired April 1. The United was in a bad way in 1933. The deIt was in no position to make a long or desperate fight then. But after 1933 Lewis utilized the new conditions admirably to rebuild the United Miners and replenish their war chest. He is, doubtless, cautious in his efforts to avoid any repetition of the 1933 depression in the union and suspicious of the power and ill-will of his enemies. This feeling lies heavily behind the present situation.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
F we are to be shoved into another war to save democracy, I think we ought to face the fact that democracy everywhere means one thing for men and another for women. We speak of France as a nation that champions
Yet she has never given her women the vote, and I am told by the eminent biographer, Andre Maurois, that no wife in his land is permitted to have a private bank account. In England, too, where the first fights for equality were made and where brave feminine souls of a past generation marched proudly to prison for a cause in which they believed, fewer privileges are accorded their daughters than those in our country . Man is still the chief beneficiary of the democratic ideal in the British Empire, And how goes it in the United States? Not so well, my sisters. Indeed, it is disheartening to observe the efforts being made to take away from certain groups their hard-won privileges. Some of the mouthings of our state legislators sound singularly like those of Adolf Hitler. Thoughtful women, who soberly consider their nation’s welfare, are made the butt of jokes which lend small credit to masculine wit or sanity. Their continued championship of the spoils system
in politics causes us to doubt their love of country.
They argue also—and with what feeble logic—that
| married women ought to be denied the right to earn. | But it seems to me that their unpardonable sin
against democracy is their willingness to use the educational system to flout its fundamental tenets. when they would have us apply one rule of conduct to men and another to women teachers. 3 Evidently a good deal of work is necessary, if we are to save dynocracy here at home,
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have become wealthy in world trade {have the strongest arms. same token the larger cities have thing the matter with capitalism is| ‘the largest police forces and fire that it does not provide a way hy fighting equipment.
|new—control by bloc, extravagance {in government, loose morals in poli- | tics and the resultant weak law enHe becomes entirely dependent on him. Because of forcement. Failure to correct them S Cept {will lose for mankind 300 years of
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The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
Gen. Johnson Says—
Roosevelt Stand Interpreted as Attempt to Undermine the Foundation of Monroe Doctrine.
ASHINGTON, April 18.—Mr. Roosevelt's message to Mussolini and Hitler cannot be read apart from his Pan-American Speech, his Mt. Vernon speech, his Warm Springs farewell and his indorse-~ ment of an editorial interpreting it. They are just five cards in the same poker hand. They amount to this: First, we will defend the Western Hemisphere by force, if necessary.” Second, force cannot be applied to dis~ turb present boundaries of European countries or their
possessions without eventually calling forth our might and power to preserve them. On the first pronouncement, the country is squarely. behind the President. It is not behind him on the second. It is propaganda to call people who dispute the second point “isolationists.” Spreading our wings over half a world is not isolation. It would be fairer to call the advocates of it “interventionists.”
The latter and the bulk of comment say that the
.| President has done no more than to reaffirm the Mon-
roe Doctrine. That is incorrect. On the contrary, he is blasting away the foundation of the Monroe Doctrine. It seems to be forgotten that there were two complementary principles in Monroe's famous message. The first part is rarely mentioned. It reasserted a keystone of American foreign policy, first stated by Washington, and repeatedly by Jefferson and Madison. “In the wars of European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so.” ” o = ASHINGTON had stated the thing at the oute set. “Why quit our own stand on foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?” That is the foundation—part one—of the Monroe Doctrine. Here is part two: “The political system of the allied (European) powers is essentially different from that in America. We . . . declare that we should construe any attempt on their part to extend their systema to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous
to our peace and safety.” os . This filters out to a very simple proposition: “You
ELABORATES ON DEFENSE OF PRIVATE OWNERSHIP By Voice in the Crowd I wish to comment on the replies of G. C. R. and R. Sprunger to my defense of private ownership that appeared in the Forum of April 11. G. C. R. recognizes my belief and I am glad to be understood. I comment entirely on experience and |
(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious cone troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
know whereof I speak. I claim that io make shirts, dresses, overalls, the creative initiative of men must gheets and kerchiefs for the mil
ship of a fair reward for their ef- cannot buy it back. There's cotton forts must be undefiled. aid. It is true that the nations that! They don't need war material;
By the | they need wear material. The only
| which those who produce wealth jcan get the bare necessities of life. {They are underfed, underclothed
it is true that two monopolistic
|lem before nature works out a drasThe American system of capital- tic remedy. Here is a good place
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industry and thrift, and]
By H. L. 8S. To speed up business, may I sug‘gest to the United States Treasurer that he run off 500 million new dollars in greenbacks, backed by the enormous silver hoard held by the { Treasury. These greenbacks to be designated as “trade velocity dollars.” The velocity dollars should be made nonhoardable, by provid-
ing an attached space for affixing When Mr. Sprunger states that “Labor is prior to and superior to FREEDOM pal may as well say that | By HELEN ECK e egg is superior to the hen that laid it. They are one and the sims | isnever | sl 3u:4 os ® their interests are identical. Labor = of now things ought to grow: and capital (or preferadly leader- Brow! ship) work or loaf together, and the! last 10 years witness this fact. Labor and capital are Siamese twins; separate them and they are both dead. It is too bad that they are joined at the waist and not at the head. Let us take note, however, that 200 million laborers in China have gotten nowhere without creative] leadership and thank God that we live in America. » 2 ” WANTS ROOSEVELT TO FORGET ALBANIA
By American
If Roosevelt could only get his mind off Albania and think serious-
R. Sprunger states that “capitalism will pass on in the same manner as savagery, barbarism and serf{t is my observation that they have not passed out.
I yearn for the wide-open meadows, A hedgerow here and there; Buttercups sharing with lilies The balm of the summer air: Where ivy is fondly caressing The stately elm for its shade; ‘Each animal and bird possessing A freedom to live, unafraid!
DAILY THOUGHT
Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood. Jeremiah | 48:10. . T is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is
to get that 11-million-bale cotton their finding it out.—La Rochefousurplus run over the textile spindles cauld.
| LET'S EXPLORE YOUR
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM. -
MRS CLUBS?
TNE STORY OF PERSON,
ALITY, SOE
OPINION wa 3
& RT I APPLCANTRcR hoa sere ron bo it YOUR OPINION ea. 1
YES, if it is done so the SOiNi- | ese and how much ghe could probcant is not made to feel he or! ably earn at piece work. she is no good for any other job.| Before this the only way she In a large shirt manufacturing con- could find she was not suited was
cern elaborate tests were made by|to try and after weeks of worry and
which to predict a woman's suc- (loss of time, fail. She cah now be
“trade velocity stamps.” The space for stamps to provide for 52 stamps, one 2-cent postage stamp to be
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affixed by the holder at the end of
each week. The 2-cent stamp would amount to a 2 per cent discount for all business transacted. with these velocity dollars and this discount would go into the Treasury. - Stag-
ness than a stagnant pool is to (health. Money has no value except
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be respected and that their owner-| S ja 3 edi oF Sxshange aq : “lions who raised that cotton but should be made nonhoardable. Of |
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deposit to business? ” ” »
{WOULD MAJOR SPARE {GOLD STAR MOTHERS?
|By Constant Reader Maj. Edward L. Dyer says he doesn’t want all who are on relief shot—just those who have no visible means of support, Of course our, dear Major would know that this, includes hundreds and hundreds of
fathers and mothers of World War | soldiers who lost their lives or were maimed and in such condition that | they are unable to help their par-| ents, and also hundreds of others] who have been reduced to poverty through heavy tax burdens, losses and sickness.
Of course this brave Major, is re- | (tired and receives a nice pension | ‘and has nothing to worry about, but it would be a wonderful sight to! 'have all these cripples and underfed | (people that he suggests face a fir{ing squad. | If the dear Major doesn't like (things in this country he could | ‘probably have his pension trans- | ferred to some foreign country — I don't know which one that would | be—where he would have more say | than he would have over here.
& 4 n INCIDENT ABROAD BRINGS RECOLLECTION
By Daniel Franeie Claney, Logansport A March 17 dispatch from Brno, |
Moravia, telling of Hitler's triumph- | ant arrival and drive through the city's streets, continued: “The city | was gaily decorated with swastika | flags, which had been brought from Germany immediately after German troops occupied the country.”
Imagining Nazis feverishly rush- | ing about party headquarters grabbing armloads of bunting and swas-| 'tikas hurriedly to bedeck Brnn for
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Der Fuehrer’s appearance, recalled
my days in practical politics. County | headquarters was always filled with |
porting flags, posters, portraits of the President, Senators and state chairman, to the high school gymafternoons preceding a 'midcampaign appearance of some i lowbrowed party boss.
MIND
shown her probable success and earnings in advance with considerable accuracy and thus save her dong the heart-breaking experimentng. . » ” ORIGINALLY it was the men, simply because they did not admit women into their clubs. So as s00n as women got the necessary freedom to engage in any public, concerted action outside the Church they proceeded to organize their own clubs. . No doubt this has worked out for the best as it gives the members of each sex the chance to express their own special needs, attitudes and desires.
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YES. This does not mean that making any old decision is wise, but as Dick Carlson shows from his famous work in developing the personality of thousands of students at the University of California, it is a fine exercise to decide both big and little matters when they come up, as soon as you can get the necessary information. “Your judgment can never be better than vou» information.” But many people weaken their personalities by putting off decisions—"cartying the burden of indecision.” Don't. do
{what value is the stagnant bank)
busy party workers who were trans- ls
this—decide now—get it out of the way. :
stay out of our backyard and we'll stay out of yours,”
| Mr. Roosevelt amends the Monroe Doctrine at its very
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“We'll dip into European affairs when tay out of the affairs of the Americas.” ” ® ” HY doesn’t this justify the gangster states in saying: “You, yourselves, have denounced the Monroe Doctrine. If you have now a right to meddle in Europe, we have a right to meddle in the Americas. Part of this is too far in the realm of conjecture to base a complete reversal of a proved policy of a céntury and part of it is incorrect. What the effect of present or future aircraft developments may be on the strategy of tactics of war Is still an unknown and unpredictable quantity. But oceans will surely remain a tremendous strategic barrier forever, Eco-~ nomic functioning of the world is not ‘becoming in= creasingly a unit.” It is becoming - increasingly A honeycomb of water-tight trade-compartments 0 barter, tariffs, quotas, subsidies, dumping and embargoes. We have been as guilty of these as any in the past. Now we propose, in several ways to become niore guilty in the future.
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun He's Really a Superpacifist, His Aim Being, 'Keep World Out of War.
EW YORK, April 18—I think I am much more strongly for peace than many members of the «peace Group” in this country. The slogan on which they have centered is “Keep America out of war.” I would go much further. All that I can possibly do 5 going to go into the program “Keep the world out o. war.” Seyeral readers have reminded me that I am fat and 50 and that in the event of American participa tion they couldn't even truck me up to a front line trench. And so the sneer runs that through a feeling of security I am insensitive to what happens to
the youth of America.
That is not accurate. I am closely related to fa young American of military age. I do not want him or any other to be sacrificed in a meaningiess shambles. He does not see entirely eye to eye with me, and he has said, “My whole attitude toward foreign
policy can be summed up in the simple statement,
| I think it would be a good idea to keep H. H. B.
all in one piece.” . Naturally I echo the same hope. The disagree=
ment might come on the problem of the best way to promote security for youth in. America and in all countries. I do not see how the problem can be
separated.
Stopgaps Won't Do
At the moment policies may deservedly draw sup= port which are no better than stopgaps. 1 have expressed the guess that I do not think there will be a world war this year. Who knows about 1940 or the twelve months to follow? Peace which 1s preserved on a week-to-week or even a day-to-day schedule is better than armed conflict. But it can hardly be accepted as a goal which is satisfactory for human nerves and for human aspirations. : And there are certain temporary concessions which - are worse than useless, since they may promote the surety of war in the near future. It is not a service to humanity to delay war for a day if the action taken makes it even more likely within a fortnight, We are playing with time. We are living on bor= rowed time, and posterity will have every right to judge us harshly unless we make some intelligent use of the delay which shilly-shally may afford us. I am not sentimental about war. I saw a small section of a large one. And yet I would borrow the pattern set down by a general in time of conflict, I think. of course, of the phrase, quite possibly apocryphal, attributed to Joffre: “My right is broken, my left is crumpled, my center has been driven back. I shall attack at dawn.” That isn't verbatim, bub it contains the idea. I would like to see the forces of peace operate under the same psychology.
Watching Your Health
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
REQUENTLY I have pointed out that our constiF tutions and the general characteristics of our
bodies are inherited according to a form established
by our ancestors. : It is, therefore, hardly within the realm of pos ; sibility for parents of small and frail body type to expect to have children who will be tall and robust. However, regardless of size, it is possible for the - human body to be healthful. It is possible to make a - great deal of strength out of a small body. Too many parents are ready to disclaim their re sponsibility by saying that the boy or the girl has always been delicate, or even to say, “Our family has always been delicate.” As soon as this point of view is established, it becomes simple for the child to neglect any opportunity to develop himself by repeating the label placed on him by his parents. Some children are subject to chronic disease. A child who has been infected early in life with rheu= - matic fever, a child born with damage to the heart, or one whose heart has been infected early in life . by the presence of some other disease is likely to be, all his life, more or less delicate. Such a child must live his life largely in relationship to the heart condition. : Physicians recognize certain symptoms which ars | characteristic of such cases. which comes on after slight exercise, breathlessness that comes on easily and lasts long, & pale or pasty color with blueness of the lips, a pinched, anxious expression, and frequent attacks of dizziness should be a warning that the heart is not functioning as i should. oi The doctor in such cases should plan for the child
a program of reconstruction based on properly bal- ’
anced relaxation and exercise that will do- much $orepair tha weakened heart, :
For example, fatigue *
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