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The Indianapolis Times

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Give Light and the People Will Fina Their Own Way

MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1939

GARNER GETS IN HE political tempo picks up sharply with Jack Garner definitely in for the 1940 Presidential nomination, whether Roosevelt seeks a third term or not. This is an important development in the drama which

will reach a climax one year from this month. Whatever one may think of Garner, all admit that in politics he “knows how.” He is plenty dry behind the ears. Four decades, lacking three and a half years, have seen him elected and re-elected to Federal office. He was skilled before some of those now active in pre-1940 maneuvers knew the difference between a ballot box and a baby’s bottle, He is one of the few men in public life who has learned that silence can be an asset. While most politicians spout at every opportunity, he has developed the unusual art of turning taciturnity into attention. His foot may slip between now and a year from now but it is less likely to slip than nearly any foot we know. He will encounter fewer banana peels than other men, for the simple reason that he won't be moving around where the banana peels are. The point of all this being that if F. D. R. decides to try and bust that big precedent he will be dealing with no novice.

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THE HATCH BILL MOVES—AT LAST | HE Hatch Bill today is being taken out of the pigeonhole | where it has rested since April 20, the date the bill was

referred to the House Judiciary Committee. A subcommittee headed by Rep. Healey (D. Mass.) at last has got around to the point of meeting to read and study the measure designed to take politics out of relief and in general to prohibit future political activity on the part of Federal administrative officials. The bill was passed by the Senate without a dissenting voice, and has been given the blessing of both President Roosevelt and Vice President Garner. It should be enacted, and it will be if it is ever brought No lawmaker of either branch has yet publicly opposed it. But of the many and devious ways of killing legislation, few are public. And unless popular interest continues centered on the Healey subcommittee, there is danger | that the Hatch Bill will find its way back into that same |

to a vote.

cobwebby crevice.

JUSTICE CORRUPTED N ARTIN T. MANTON was senior judge of the Second United States Circuit Court of Appeals. As such he held a position of responsibility and trust in the Federal Supreme

judiciary second only to membership on the U. 8. Court. Saturday night a jury in the Federal Court in New York City found Mr. Manton guilty of conspiring to sell justice. The charges involved six decisions which Mr. Manton was said to have given, and $186,000 which he was said to have taken. Attorney General Murphy, who forced Mr. Manton to resign from the bench, and Prosecutor Cahill, who has done utmost to send Mr. Manton where he belongs, deserve

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his high praise for their zealous efforts. With pardonable pride we recall that more than a little credit is due to H. Burton Heath, reporter for the ScrippsHoward New York World Telegram, whose six months of intensive investigation, together with evidence uncovered by Themas E. formed the basis for Mr. Manton’s forced resignation and the subsequent indictment and trial. “One of the most monstrous plots to buy and sell justice was born and hatched within the four walls of this very courthouse,” U. S. Attorney Cahill. The jury concurred in that opinion. 3ut the prospective penalty—=10,000 and two years in prison, the maximum under the conspiracy count—seems but a slap on the wrist compared to the seriousness of the, offense. A man who steals an automobile and drives it across a state line is subject to a maximum of $5000 and five years

Dewey,

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in prison, ; Perhaps a hint of what's wrong with the law may be found in the remark of the presiding magistrate, Federal Judge Calvin Chesnut, that the accusation against Mr. Manton was “unprecedented in the history of 150 years of the Federal judiciary.” It would seem that our Federal criminal statutes need a thorough overhauling. For, as an offender against society, a corrupt judge belongs more in the category of a traitor, rather than with a stealer of automobiles. His offense is no mere larceny of another man’s prop- | He despoils the processes and institutions upon which |

erty all men depend.

EDITING NEEDED OME of those New Dealers who are always talking about “co-ordination” ought to get together and cc-ordinate the Congressional Record. A few days ago one of the syndicated columns printed a table of comparative figures showing improvement in various commodity prices and other indices since 1932. It was an interesting column. So we weren't surprised, in thumbing through the appendix of the Congressional Record for May 23, to find that a member of the House had | inserted it in an “extension of remarks.” As we proceeded through that daily compendium of speeches, statistics and reprints, we came across the identical column, inserted by another Congressman. That seemed a little wasteful. We went on wading through the fine print, and pretty soon we came across the same column a third time, under the imprimatur of a third Congressman! The Congressmen, Messrs, Gever (D. Cal), Ford (D. Cal.) and Smith (D. Wash.), aren't out of pocket, but the Treasury is. It costs about $55 a page to print the Record. | We respectfully suggest that what the Congressional | Record gpeds is less paste and mare blue pencils.

| careful fashion-—the necessity for which already has

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Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

Murry and Lose Lives and Money | Is Rule in Training Air Fighters: Plane Losses Heavy Since Jan. I.

ASHINGTON, June 5—As our air rearmament program gets under way, we are entering a difficult period in which the quick penalty for misjudgment is crashes and loss of life. If we train new fighting pilots in a systematic,

been forecast and stressed by Maj. Gen. (Hap) Arnold, chief of the Army Air Corps—then we will keep our

casualties within normal limits. But if pressure is applied to turn out great numbers of pilots in a short time, there will be lots of | trouble. The casualty curve will go skyrocketing. It | is my hunch—and hope—that since our supercharged statesmen have been unable to find a war under every | cot. we shall be able to get on with our training pro-

gram without stamping “Emergency” on every stu- | I saw one war training period for fighting airmen, and it was a hectic affair. | = = = S for new types of airplanes, we have had a pretty high bill for crashed experimental ships, even before pressure for production began. Since Jan. 1, nearly a million dollars worth of American experimental planes have been cracked up.

The Douglas that the French tried to buy (beat- |

| ing our Air Corps people to the purchase) cost about | | $100.000.

The Army Lockheed twin-engined pursuit | ship that flew from the West Coast to New York in| phenomenal time and cracked up in New York, cost an estimated $400,000. The twin-engined bomber manufactured by North American Aviation Corp. and bought by the Army, cracked up at Wright Field, cost | $250,000. The Seversky single-seater fighter cost | $150.000. The costs I have quoted represent the in- | surance figures. ” = 4 D all this before the pressure of the air rearmament program got underway. Hurry and lose money is the iron-clad law of the air. There's another angle of the present period which bears close scrutiny. When testifying before con- | gressional committees, many of our air leaders squirm | and twist away from answering direct questions as to | whether we are or are not behind Europe in fighting air equipment. : They do hedge bravely, however, by stating that we have led the world for the last 15 or 20 years—

| but that if we did not get the appropriation they { were sponsoring. oh, the result would be terrible and

we would be behind Europe. | Every experienced airman has read such testimony as closely as a pilot studies an emergency landing field below. It's old stuff for us. The truth is that we are definitely behind Europe, not only in engines and planes, but in our organization setup to stage a real airpower war The most immediate concern, however, is with trying to catch up and do in one or two vears what we should have been attending to during the last 15.

(Mr. Pegler did not write a column for today.) |

Business By John T. Flynn |

Among Mysteries of New Deal Is Its Attitude Toward Antitrust Law.

EW YORK, of the mysteries of business in America is the present attitude of the Government toward the antitrust laws. It will be recalled by Americans that we have on our statute books a law which prohibits twe or more busiess enterprises getting together into any Kind of agreement to “restrain trade.” But on all hands we read almost daily of various business groups getting together for this very purpose Publicity is now given openly to a plan which cotton mills are debating. These mills insist that they have on hand something like a quarter of a billion vards of cloth which they cannot sell at enough to pay the cost of manufacture. This constitutes a surplus which tends to bring down the price Therefore, the mill owners are discussing a program to set up a standard by which they can determine when the surplus is above a normal healthy supply of stocks Having established this standard, they then pro-

June 5.—One impenetrable

| pose to organize a corporation which will buy from

the members of the plan all the cloth in excess of this standard surplus. The corporation will buy the cloth and held it off the market until the price rises Meanwhile. the members of the combination will agree not to produce in excess of a certain amount for the purpose of aiding the price rise.

Why Have Such a Law?

Now if there is one thing clear, it is this—that if a group of cotton producers located in different states and engaged in interstate commerce make an agreement by which they will hola their stocks off the market to increase the price and at the same time agree to limit production, this is a restraint of trade within the meaning of the antitrust laws and therefore illegal. What is astonishing. however, is that newspapers putlish :ccounts of discussions of owners looking toward such a ononspiracy. It is difficult to believe that they would thus openly put their necks out unless they had some encouragement or assurance from the Government that they would not be prosecuted or impeded by the Federal Government. The big question. therefore. is this: If cotton textile makers are not subject to the law which prohibits agreements in restraint of trade. combinations to limit production and increase prices. then how do they come to be thus exempt? And if they are exempt. why 1s it that others are not exempt? And if they are exempt in so flagrant a case as this. what is the object of having an antitrust division at all?

, - A Woman's Viewpoint | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson “QCHOOL'S OUT!"—The familiar shout is a chal-

lenge to mothers. From now on Brother's |

| basebail bat and tennis racquet will be dumped in |

the most inconvenient of the front room floor

places—usually the middle | Sister will keep the bathIn a state to behold. Small boys and girls

There'll be mud tracks on smudges on the wallpaper. Rocking walls will testify to the turmoil, as doors slam and feet thud and | the rooms echo to the vells of children unconfined Fortunately, most mothers these days realize that | life blows in on the winds of this turbulence. The family is all together—a small unified group, drink ing deep of the sweetest nectar distilled for human- { Kind. Underneath the din and confusion and some- | times the impatience and anger, love throbs. a power- | ful pulse, and so long as that throb continues the world is bound to be good. Usually we are so busy with the details of living that we do not take time to examine life jtself. We never get the feel of it into our bones nor the taste of it into our throats. Yet what a wonderful experience it is to be busy with the beautiful, rich | things of every day! Women with their children around them are standing knee-deep in happiness, although they are not always aware of the fact. As we struggle with the little frets of the present, if we could only remember that they are a part of the warp and woof of the life we are weaving, endlessly weaving, and that sometime in the future thev ! will make our tapestry of memories. That tapestry can be gorgeous. colorful and broad. or it can be |! drab and shrunken, according to the threads we put into it now. The little things of existence are | the stouiest bits in life's fabric.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1939

Oh, for a Can Opener !—By Talburt

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| cation, I know what happened.

Gen. Johnson Says—

Hopkins Led Business Leaders to

White House, but Chances Are Talk Was No More Fruitful Than Others.

ASHINGTON, June 5.—At least Harry Hopkins as a contact man between business and Governe ment has a two-way connection. Uncle Danny Roper invented the “Business Advisory Council.” It was a group of industrialists, some important, some less so. It was supposed to keep the President advised through his Secretary of Commerce as to the needs of business and to keep business informed of the plans and poli cies of Government.

But Uncle Danny worked only one way. The busi« ness big-shots wore their patience. if not their hearts out suggesting this and that with never so much as an echo in response. Now Harry has taken some leading spirits right into the White House. No account of what happened there has been made public—but it will seep out. If the past is any indi The President did the talking—charmingly, except for a few clever little digs, and the pundits finally filed out just as wise and

| no wiser than when they came in.

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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.

LAND SPECULATION SYSTEM CRITICIZED By Dirt Farmer It is too bad the idle funds in our | banks cannot be invested as prof- | itably as the $2 membership fee in| the American Farm Bureau Federa- | tion. Mr. John T. Flynn complains that Mr. Wallace's “consumer subsidy” | to the relief families, in orange and blue tickets, is designed to keep food prices up. Why single out food prices: the whole program of our] economy is designed to keep prices up all along the line. Insured loans, guaranteed bank deposits, publishers’ subsidies in mail preferences. shipping subsidies, air mail, tariffs, crop subsidies, relief buying power subsidy—the list is almost endless. If land were held from the Government, instead of held in fee simple by the owners to speculate with, we would operate land for its value, not its speculative value. All this subsidy scheme is necessary to maintain speculative value of land. The farmer only receives about 25 per cent of what the consumer pays according to Congressman Lemke. With land “speculative value,” it is also necessary to have speculation in grains after production. This speculation deals in grains and fibers far beyond the total produced. They are our true “blue sky stocks.” { No such gambling goes on in iron.

under lease

| steel, furniture, clothing, shoes. Only

the farmer lets himself in for such “wage adjustment.” That is the reason he must be subsidized with subsidies from the Government, If government would throw overboard the system of land speculation, by exercising the power of eminent domain in purchasing all land at its use value, and then leasing it for production according to its use value, we could abolish the agricultural and industrial subsidies Enough subsidies will drive us to that eventually. Subsidies indicate internal disease in the system.

= E CREDITS DISCIPLINE WITH SUB RESCUES

By Ex-Sailor |

People often wonder why men in a military or naval service must undergo such long training. It often seems that “squads right” and “hit! the deck” might be learned in less! time than is given to them { So they could. But what can't be | learned sO quickly is a habit of discipline that acts automatically and correctly in an emergency when there is no time to think. Such a moment came to Electrician’s Mate Maness on the trapped submarine Squalus. He had charge| of the bulkhead door between the!

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LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

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YOUN TODAY KNOW

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NO. The well-nigh exhaustive!ley Forge and his crossing the Dela- | students ware as shown in the famous paint- | workers need these periods when | |about our history—or any history— ing, Sheridan's ride, Barbara Friet- the higher brain centers let down

ignorance of college

(Times readers are invited |two systems of procedure. One is | the spoils system—self-explanatory.|

to express their in : Take while you can. The other is |

these columns, religious con- cv : : 9 the merit system which insures in- | troversies excluded. Make

efficient incumbents that they are our letter short, so all can practically immune from removal. | Y S = 5 Neither of these systems tends | have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be

toward economy, | withheld on request.)

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Compare the operation of the political systems with the com-| petitive production system of |

flooded after battery room and the| unit control room.

close some of his own shipmates were in|the head of enterprise that remain

circumstances is the whole purpose represent.

CLAIMS PUBLIC SERVICES By a Voice in the Crowd

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sential that they be publicly oper-

| by production, and they are an ele- absolute

support.

| private initiative, that forces every | to produce more goods at [lower cost with beiter quality or In an emergency, his duty was to fall behind the procession. It is the door. Though he knew a tough game. Only those men at | Maness alert remain in business. That is | did his duty. Had he stopped tothe American system. It is the| think too long. he might not have only natural system, the only done it. And the whole crew, to a/system that is worthy of iree men man, might have been lost. But or that will keep men free. Maness was trained to act, and he, Qur problem demanding solution acted. lis the 10 million unemployed and That men may so act under such | {he 30 million consumers that they | TL I believe that any po- | of military training and discipline. )jtjcal group that is more intent on | remaining in office than they are of recovery, should be removed. I believe . that any group that fixes prices in restraint of consumption of goods, or makes pressure de-| In his very interesting contribu-|Mands for spoils from the taxpayer, Vox Populi lists the various | °F any group that restricts proguc-| : tion or apprentice opportunities,

public institutions, such as the should stand corrected.

postal service, public works, public | . : defense and education, as social-| I Delieve that business groups, istic institutions | farmers, labor and every other bloc None of the departments he list-

that bands together solely for the is self-supporting. They are Purpose of producing less and getvery essential and it is perhaps es-

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ARE NOT SOCIALISTIC

ting more are hurting the cause of the unemployed. There has been ated. However, they are not cre- t00 much organizing against the

ative of wealth. They are items of rights of each other. overhead that must be supported| I believe in unfettered initiative, equality of opportunity | ment of the difference between pro- and unrestrained, but fair compe- | duction costs and consumers’ prices. | tition. By that means more goods | They are public services; they are will be produced and consumed and |

not socialistic; they do not benefit actual wealth be more Sinrtmted us to the same extent nor do we! Sore men will reach the top. share the cost equally for their What of it? You would not kill | | Joe Louis because he can fight, or | All of our public institutions are Hank Greenberg because he can more or less politically operated. hit the ball. Then why kick a suc- | Political operation recognizes only cessful man when he has to per- |

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ruins.—Edith Wharton.

form a lot of service before he can | TO A FRIEND

succeed? By MARY WARD & wr »

| Secure in cherished places of my SPEEDWAY VISITOR

heart, EXPRESSES THANKS

Wherein no shadow ever dims the g= Elmus Beale; Mutrays: RY: ( . todd oh is. golden in every part—| I have had the pleasure of visiting] The sunshine of your friendship |and attending the 500-Mile Race on that I know. several occasions and it affords me] mm genuine pleasure to express my ap- | DAILY THOUGHT preciation for the hospitality I have Rejoice not against me, O mine always received in Indianapolis. enemy: when I fall, I shall arise;

when I sit in darkness, the Lord

All of us visitors are specially in-| debted to your officers who handle] shall be a light unto me.—Micah |traffic; they are a swell bunch of] 7:8 men and I have been coming to] —— vour city for several years and have | IFE has a way of overgrowing|never seen more courtesy extended | its achievements as well as its|the visitor anywhere than in In-| dianapolis.

| |cure, as the late President Masaryk, of the late Czechoslovakia, said, “to write democracy not merely in our constitutions, but upon the souls of | the people.”

THE highest authority in the world on this point is Prof.| Lewis M. Terman, Stanford psy-| chologist. He studied more than | 1000 gifted children in the Southern | California Schools, among which] about six boys to every five girls | made scores on intelligence tests of | |140 or higher—the point at which |

2 [16 THE BRIGHTEST CH LD IN A FAMILY 180 op scHool RO AR LIRELY > ‘he decided to term a child “gifted.” | YOUR OPINION. | This may mean that bright girls | | |usually reach their limit earlier] than bright boys—the boys con-| tinuing to develop mentally a few | Imonths longer than girls and thus, | as a rule, reaching a higher level lin the end.

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! NOT if he is also a hard worker and does not work at his loafing too frequently and too long. Long ago, the philosopher, William James, expressed pity for the man who has never known the delights | and inner growth brought about by | inspired, bovine loafing. Brain |

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3 YES OR NO

That is why it seems to me vacation time should and of the struggles for liberty and chie, etc.—none of which took place land the lower, purely organic, bodily | be a glorious season of family unity and why, for |democracy is distressing. I am glad |—before I learned “the cold facts” senses and functions take possession

most of together.

, parents and children ought to spend |I learned American myt ology— | from the modern debunkers. = ashington pra t Val- now we need every aid we can se-

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HERE was a time in early 1933, when such cone ferences were not so fruitless. Business was trye ing to help make the Administration's program suce ceed and the President was meeting them more than There is no man in this country who can conduct such a conference so successfully, when he wants to, or to get more action out of an unofficial group. But the honeymoon was over before 1934 and, after that, the relations grew so frigid that there were no meetings at all. Mr. Hopkins’ part may not have accomplished much, but something was gained by the mere fact of the foregathering. Such men as Averell Harriman, Edward Stettinius and Arthur Whiteside are a long way from being New Dealers. But, irom the very beginning, they have earnestly tried to have business co-operate with this administration. Such business leaders do not want to turn the hands of the clock of social progress back beyond 1933. They are resigned to the general objectives of the New Deal. They are prepared to play the game In accordance with the rules. They ask for just one thing—to know what those rules are. on ”

HEY have not known that. That ignorance, rather than ‘‘deterrent” taxes or any other single , uncertainty of which business complains, is the principal barrier to returning business activity, Business 1s essentially a process of planning ahead. Congress enacted & law which most lawyers bee lieved authorized the National Labor Relations Board, In 1ts discretion, to hold labor elections at the re= quest of either employers or employees. That board

| arbitrarily ruled that only employees could call it in,

Such a howl went up that Congress seemed about to clarify its intention by an amendment Whereupon the chairman of the board indicates that it will receive requests from employers That is only one of many examples of the uncer tainty which attends the constantly widening control of business by Government. The control is largely unavoidable, but its harmful effect could be much eased if it were made less of a guessing game of blind man's buff.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

It Bothers Him to Report That the Baer-Nova Fight Was a Thriller.

EW YORK, June 5--It embarrasses me to admit that I enjoy prize fights. It is a pretty cruel sport, and you can't console yourself with the platie tude which pacifies vour conscience when vou fish. Even the dumbest heavyweight does feel the hook. It is we, the fight fans, who resemble the worm by being a bit coldblooded. The bout between Baer and Lou Nova was more than usually gory, but whatever the merits of the contenders, it seemed one of the most exciting matches I have ever seen. Let the column constitute a public penance for my having exclaimed when the referee pushed bate tered and bleeding Baer to his corner, “I guess Maxie can’t take it.” There were other stylish stouts on the shady side of 50 who fell into the same pit of passing judgment on something concerning which we have no personal knowledge whatsoever. In all frankness, it should be admitted that I know just about as much of the manly art as Gan. Moseley does of democratic institutions. It is a cinch to sit on the sidelines and be critical of the fellow in the ring, whether his battle happens to be pugilistic, political or economic. “He doesn't like 'em down there,” we sav, or, “He can’t take it.” and echo should nudge us sharply and whisper, “Well, who does and who can?” Accordingly, here goes my apology to Max Baer and to others who have gamely stood up under jibes or jabs until they reached the point where they could endure no more,

A Bit of Deception

I was for Lou Nova, although I thought he would almost certainly take a licking. He closed a slight favorite, and many of the experts picked him. Pose sibly that “and” should be a “but.” In any case, it was my feeling that IT had valuable inside informa tion. A couple of weeks before the fight I met Lou Nova at a party. He seemed a nice young man, but he made a remark which chilled the marrow of my bones and made his chances sink to zero in my estimation. “Mr. Broun,” he said, “I wish you would come over and visit my training camp. My training camp is not like any other which you have ever seen. All my

| sparring partners are gentlemen.”

I thought to myself, “The poor young man. What a trimming he is going to take if he approaches a fight in that spirit! He'll be knocked around from pillar to Emily Post.” Anyhow, I scored the observation heavily against the chances of Mr. Louis Nova. It seemed to me that he must be a bum judge of distance.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein ;

EADACHES are extremely frequent and there ° are many different kinds. The chief manifestation of a headache is pain, although sometimes dizzi ness, nausea and similar symptoms are associated. As new methods are being developed in medical science for the study of various diseases, new attention is being given to the causes of headaches. In fact, it is already apparent that there are many different varieties and that there are different mechanisms associated with each variety. For instance, there is one form of headache which occurs within a few hours after spinal fluid has been removed for purposes of investigation. It has become apparent that the pain in this type of headache is due to a mechanical disturbance which results from a lowering of the pressure of the spinal This kind of headache disappears when the pressure is restored to normal. Another kind of headache occurs with fever in infectious conditions. This type of headache is apparently due to the stretching of the sensitive tissues which surround the arteries or blood vessels within the skull, and presumably arises from a relaxation of these blood vessels. Most severe of all headaches is the typical ‘sick

| headache” or migraine.

It has been found that this kind of headache can be controlled by the injection of a new remedy called ergotamine tartrate. Apparenly this type of headache is largely concerned with the blood vessels, but there

| may also be sensitization of the nerve endings for

pain. Other frequent causes of headache are the presence of growths within the skull which increase the pressure greatly; inflammations and infections also cause increased pressure, Obviously it is important for medicine to under stand the nature of the different kinds of headaches if specific*treatment is to be applied.