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TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1939

BUSY DAY ON THE POTOMAC

HE sun pounds down on Washington and many an issue sweats to the surface. Doffing their black robes and departing for cooler climes, the Justices of the Supreme Court make one last sweep of the docket, deciding— 1. That Jersey City must remain enjoined from en- | forcing ordinances that deny free assembly and free speech | to citizens; in other words that Mayor Frank Hague must | obey the Constitution of the United States—Justices MecReynolds and Butler, of course, dissenting; 2. That Congress and the AAA have power to try to bring order out of chaos in the milk industry; 3. That the Child Labor Amendment has not died of old age, though it has been pending 15 years and is still eight states short of ratification. Most people, we feel sure, will hope that eight more Legislatures will now indorse the | amendment, so that Congress can proceed to “limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of |

age.”

» = 5 A judiciary subcommittee of the House, headed by Rep. | Healey (D. Mass.), comes to grips at last with the Hatch Biil, prohibiting politics in relief and forbidding nonpolicymaking Federal officials generally—including postmasters and internal revenue collectors—to engage in campaign activities. The subcommittee’s report advances the bill one step nearer to the House floor—and passage, if it ever gets there. For no matter how much Congressmen privately wish to keep postmasters, internal revenue collectors and WPA supervisors as their personal political henchmen, they dare not be caught voting that way. The Senate passed the bill without a dissenting voice. ” 5

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= Squirming of House members was something to behold when the high-salaried farm lobbyists loosened the steam valves on the wage-hour bill. By telephone and telegraph, and with the threat of farmer votes, the lobbyists convinced a majority of the House that thev would be classed as

enemies if they voted a 25

a 25-cents-an-hour wage to the men and women who process butter and cheese and sugar and cotton, or work at canning fruits and vegetables. Though the lawmakers heeded the lobbyists, they took care not to leave any marks. They invoked anonymity by a “teller vote.” So there is no record to be scanned by the less-than-25-cents-an-hour constituents who can the peaches and freeze the ice cream back home—and have no money to hire lobbyists.

GERMANY IN BOLIVIA ERMANY'S reported acquisition of an important air base in Bolivia can hardly be construed as a threat to the Panama Canal, which is separated from the airport in question by nearly 2000 miles of jungle and mountain. But as another symptom of Nazi commercial penetration, at the | expense of our own actual or potential trade, it is disquieting. Three points might be worth pondering in this connection: 1. No good is being done our relations with Latin America by the corned-beef mentality of some of our statesmen, who grew so apoplectic over a piddling order to Argentina for Navy rations. 2. If we are to retain our rigid Neutrality Act forbidding arms shipments to warring powers, we might as well say goodby also to much of our peacetime trade in airplanes and other armaments, and let the Germans and others snap it up. During the Chaco War we refused to ship arms to Bolivia or Paraguay, so now in peacetime Bolivia is turning to Germany for her planes and guns—in return for which Germany will get the cream of Bolivia's exports. If our unselfish renunciation of such trade is playing into Hitler's hands is it worth while? It is a question that at least deserves study. 3. Bolivia possesses enormous deposits of tin, of which we have virtually no native supply. The strategic materials bill, just passed by Congress, will enable our Government to spend millions for emergency stores of tin ore. If handled diplomatically, such purchases might give a foothold to our exporters in competition with the Germans, who today very definitely have the upper hand in Bolivian trade.

HE CAN'T BE FAIR

HE resolution by Senator McKellar of Tennessee. calling for an investigation of Superintendent J. Ross E: kin’s administration of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, has been reported favorably by a Senate committee. It's fairly safe to assume that the Senate will adopt the resolution and that Vice President Garner will then | appoint a committee of three Democrats and two Repub- | licans to conduct the investigation. We hope, in this case, | Mr. Garner will ignore the usual though not invariable | precedent and name someone other than the resolution’s | sponsor, Senator McKellar, as committee chairman. Last year Senator McKellar argued logically, and suecessfully, that Republican Senator Bridges of New Hampshire, who had introduced a resolution for investigation of the Tennessee Valley Authority, should not be chairman of that committee. He said what obviously was true, that | Senator Bridges was prejudiced against TVA. But Senator McKellar’s prejudice against Mr. Eakin is | much more obvious. He has denounced the park superin- | tendent on the Senate floor as a “crook.” That's one reason | why the Senator should automatically be disqualified as | chairman or even as a member of a committee charged with | the duty of conducting a fair and impartial investigation. A second reason is that Senator McKellar's own methods | of obtaining “evidence” against Mr. Eakin should be made an important part of the inqury. We want to see the truth brought out about how and why Democratic election officers in Tennessee smeared Mr. Eakin’s ballot with ink, for purposes of later identification, and then got word to Senator McKellar that the superintendent had voted the Republican ticket. The Senator should not be put in a position where he can persecute Mr. Eakin for political reasons or cover up his own connection with the ballot- | smearing outrage.

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Maybe Mr. Billings Should Agree To Stay in Prison, Else His Pal Mooney Would Have to Find Work.

EW YORK, June 6.—As long as Warren K. Billings remains behind the bars in Folsom, Cal, Tom Mooney will have an excuse to abstain from common toil. But the minute the forgotten man of the historic dynamiting case walks out of prison Mr. Mooney will become fair prey for any sinister character who wants to walk up to him and offer him a job. It might be hard on Mr. Billings to stay in Folsom, but it would be worse cn Mr. Mooney to let him out.

Not only would Mr. Mooney be exposed to employment—an awful fate for one who had abandoned

work in the literal and arduous meaning of the word long before the dynamiting—but he would lose the | | mission in life which enabled him to appear at, public | ceremonies and accept ovations.

Mr. Billings should be willing to make this sacrifice for one so noble as Mr. Mooney. Moreover, the defense business would go into a tailspin, for with Mooney and Billings both out of jail and earning a living there would be no further excuse for the collection of funds for the cause of Justice in this particular case.

It was a sad day for the defense business when |

the state of California ejected Mr. Mooney from his status of distinguished guest in San Quentin.

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R. MOONEY had centered all the attention and !

publicity on himself and the public had all but forgotten that Mr. Billings was in prison, too, and the victim of an outrage no less vile than the one of which Mr. Mooney claimed to be a victim. In his conversations at San Quentin, where he was allowed to hold press conferences, Mr. Mooney rarely mentioned Mr. Billings, and when he was evicted by the American system of justice he was at a loss for a few minutes. But in this desperate situation Mr. Mooney thought fast and decided that it would be quite impossible for him to disappear into the obscurity of daily employment as long as Warren

| Billings remained in prison.

He became suddenly very much aware that there

| was such a man as Mr. Billings and pledged himself

to the sacred task of getting him out. That is nice

work, and Mr. Mooney enjovs it thoroughly, not only | because it protects him from contact with the time | clock, but also because it affords him opportunities to

accept ovations for Tom Mooney.

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E once wrote that he had received “the highest tribute ever given a human being” when he returned to San Francisco, and the confession that he

regarded himself.as a human being was the most

modest expression that he had uttered about Tom Mooney in vears. Mr. Mooney almost missed an ovation arranged

| in his honor by Communists on his arrival in New York to continue the not too dreary work of agitating | | for the release of Mr. Billings.

It appears that he got in a couple of hours too early and found that the ovation was not due to start until the arrival of a later train. But Mr. Mooney is not one to deny the Communists a longed-for opportunity to express their

admiration of Tom Mooney, so he waited patiently |

and then descended to the train level, where he entered a rear car of the later train and emerged to accept the tribute

Business By John T. Flynn

Mead's Bill Insuring Loans to Business May Hurt Banking System. EW YORK, June 6.--The belief persists that the

thing which is holding back recovery is the in- | | ability of the small businessman to borrow money at

the banks. Therefore Senator Mead of New York is pressing his bill to ease the flow of bank credit into small business. His plan is to insure banks against

losses on business loans through the guarantee of the Reconstruction Finance Corp It would be interesting if we could have cleared up the kind of credit which this is intended to release. In our economic system there is a very great difference, so far as the economic effect is concerned. between short-term and long-term credit. Ordinarily when business is active short-term credit : available. What is lacking now is long-term credits. I venture to suggest that if long-term credit were energized, there would be no difficulty whatever in the supply of short-term credit. Therefore the great problem is the release of long-term credit. Does Senator Mead expect that. if loans are guaranteed, banks will begin to make long-term loans to business? Does he believe that banks ought to make long-term loans to business? Before the depression there had been a steadily growing body of opinion against the use of bank credit for long-term loans. For many years the effort had been made by banking reformers to cut down the extent to which bank credit became tied up in longterm loans. That reform did not make much headway. The reason was obvious. The competition be-

tween the Federal and state banking system resulted In a gradual liberalization of banking practices until |

the banks were engaged in all sorts of activities which sound banking authorities knew were thoroughly bad.

Are They Desirable?

One of these activities were the many devices by which bank funds became buried in long-term loans under one disguise or another. Immense sums of bank credit were sunk in real estate bonds and in outright mortgages. The responsibility of this for the bank crash is now plain. In 1935, in its eagerness to stimulate building enterprise, the Government reversed the order of bank-

| Ing reform and began to guarantee bank loans for | building purposes. | would come

At the time I said that ‘he time when the people would deeply deplore this policy. Now it is proposed to go another step and encourage the banks to plunge into the business

of long-term business loans guaranteed by the Gov- |

ernment. They must be long-term loans or Senator Mead’s bill is meaningless. If the Government does this it will have taken another step in the direction of weakening the nation's banking structure.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OMEMAKING is a noble word, describing a noble calling. But I am sometimes struck by the fact that a good many women of our time miss its finer implications. We often are so intent upon building beautiful houses that we have no time to make homes. And that's a great pity.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ran two articles, a United Press re- | |lease and an editorial, concerning |

attention of you and your readers

is easily | BINGO BACKER WANTS OTHER RACKETS SUPPRESSED

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‘only now it is “Oh-Kay.”

Now Swing It, Big Boy'!—By Talburt

TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1989

Gen. Johnson Says—

‘Economic Bromide' or Not, He Will Continue to Quote F. D. R.'s

Famous Pittsburgh Speech of 1932.

ASHINGTON, June 6.—Writes brother-columne ist, Ernest Lindley: “Pride of authorship is a foible pardoned by everyone who dabbles with pen or typewriter, But I wish Hugh S. Johnson would for= get the speech Franklin D. Roosevelt made at Pittse

burgh in October 1932." I don't like quarreling with columnists—especially with one who is so careful a craftsman, But I can't let this crack pass. Ernest says I like to quote this speech because he thinks I wrote it. He says: “It was a concentrate of economic bromides,” that I omit to quote a line some other ghost inserted and that 1 was the “economic medicine man” who sold Mr. Roose« velt an expenditure of $3,300,000,000 in the Recovery Act—the “biggest peacetime expenditure which had ever been voted until then—and that I was sore because I wasn't allowed to “spend it rapidly. . . .” Mr. Roosevelt's undercover household cavalry have their columnists, too. One or maybe two, in exchange for Corcoran pressure on papers and radio broadcast= ing companies to buy and publish their stuff plus occasional confidential hand-outs of White House thought or action, write advocate's briefs, called columns. Such, I hasten to add, is not Mr. Lindley. Nevertheless, this piece bears unmistakable internal evidence of being a “command” performance straight from the feed box.

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RNEST, you and your crowd wish I would forget the Pittsburgh speech. True, it was full of “economic bromides’ —just like that old one, two and two make four-all the old copy-hook maxims such as “If you don't work, you die” and “You can't squander yourself into prosperity.” You'd like to have us forget it but we can’t—any more than we can forget that wa« ter doesn't run up hill or that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points. The principal “bromide” that you would like to forget is “taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.” My omitted quotation, as to which I am accused of being misleading, said that if the budget had to be unbalanced to prevent starvation: “I shall not hesitate to tell the American people the full truth, etc.” There isn't room here for direct quotes about what the Presi«

The Hoosier Forum

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

$8, NOT $1, PAID AS RENT

(Times readers are invited IN ‘SHOCKING MISERY’ CASE | |

to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make

your letter short, so all can

By Dolores Dodd, Chairman of Relief Practices Committee, American Association of Social Workers

On May 31 and June 1, The Times |

have a chance. Letters must

in In-| ye signed, but names will be

“shocking human misery” dianapolis as reported by the Amer- | eh a jcan Association of Social Workers| withheld on request.) in a nation-wide Relief Survey. ——— The specific case story quoted was broom-—also useful in the horse and correct in every detail as to the buggy days. vermin and rodent-infested living| We should stop parking cars in

quarters of the family, but due to a the mile square; stop speed in the

typographical error, the amount of mile square and stop accidents. We rent quoted as being paid by the !'should pay no attention to protests Township Trustee was incorrect. and save lives, Whereas the articles stated that the | »

5 rent paid by the Township Trustee - : } was only $1 a month, it was actually FAVORS EXPERIENCE

in this case $8 a month. OVER EXPERIMENTS People Sie RI gn no. By W. M. Manecese tions in e city know at it Is : ractically impossible to rent Many explanations are given for BD se which is habitable for not balancing the Federal budget. $15 a month And excuses are found easily for not . . reducing taxation, thus discouraging § ‘ the | TSH > Tis SHOT iS eink brought 0 the business and the re-employment of the millions out of work. And as a

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. . Shin TIS in us o Fe TORE last resort, reference is made to the tee's ‘ollice Which can ¢ Corp |so-called higher rates in Great rents from between $8 and $10 a

Iv after ralief Britain. no SHouh Oh er a Ten { Just as an honest solution to this client has been evicted.

| dilemma, the writer has often won- » | dered why those in the high places lof our government don't seek the services of some first-rate bookkeeper. According to one of his biographers, America's biggest name in the financial field of the last gen-

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Bingo Fan

I see the bingo debate is on again, I can't

[sven investors. What special knowledge they have acquired from | | formal education in textbooks and | [attending colleges apparently has [proved of little value in govern- | [mental finances. Finally, if experi-| ence is so important to the sur-| |geon, the judge, the educator, why | shouldn't it be true in matter in-| volving money figures? It is about time that experimenting gives way to experience!

” ” » URGES THE WORLD TURN TO RELIGION ‘By Joseph Lesinsky The world is on the brink of

war and ] believe our only salvation is faith. There can be no cure for the world's ills and no abatement of the world's discontents un-

| tion and motorization” of the Army

(one another,

| Our social and international rela-| tions are very serious. At the rate | {the world is arming for war no spot | jon earth will be safe from modern warfare. We must turn back to God | in order te be saved. | Every steeple that points to the] |SKy has a message. The message | [in our visible world is geared to a| (world invisible from which it can] derive power and even wisdom for | [the regulation of human life.

| ent,”

| and emotion clings forever to the concrete

help but wonder why the owners of bingo games or other games with similar names are not to be allowed to make money just as the owners of the baseball ticket racket make | theirs. In nearly every pool hall and small restaurant in Indianapolis you can (if you are known) | buy baseball tickets and you don't even get the fun of seeing how near | you can play to hit. I say if one racket has to go they| should all go and not just pick] on the one the ladies like. Many a| man's weekly salary goes before he | gets home on pool and baseball] | tickets. So if Indianapolis is going | to clean up the rackets let's get] them all.

| > » Ww | APPROVES REMOVAL OF | INFORMATION BOOTH |

By Onward “True Blooded Citizen” who pro- | tested the removal of the 40-year-old booth at Washington and Illinois Sts. might consult a telephone | or city directory. Suppose he lived in Detroit where | | nine out of 10 asked for informa- | tion speak no English. He had bet- |

eration was supposed to have relied | The church must fight this on the advice of an old railroad ac- menace which threatens to destroy countant. If results count for any-|.jyilization, for it is only through

thing, it must have been pretty good advice. Economists—whatever they are —may be all right in advising stock

KEEP AT IT By JAMES D. ROTH

If at first the fish won't bite, Keep at it. Many a battles hard to fight, Keep at it. Be not discouraged lest you fail, And you will weather many a gale. Keep at it.

If you would gain the hall of fame, Keep at it. Put your spirit in tne game. Keep at it. As problems in your life you meet, You'll know no failure or defeat, Keep at it

DAILY THOUGHT

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison .—James 3:8.

universal faith that the world can) become safe for humanity. The | existing conditions of the world | should be a challenge to the church. | When men are hungry for power and proceed to attain this power) through violence, and we permit (this, there must be something | wrong.

” » » [LAUDS ROY HOWARD'S

| DEFENSE OF PRESS

By John P. Reid

Mr. Howard expressed my senti- | ments when he asserted in defense |

of so-called “commercialism” in| newspapers that “the greatest eci-| (torial genius would be voiceless if | his efforts were not backed up by a successful business office.” A concern cannot reasonably be expected | to cut off its nose to spite its face. Nevertheless there is need that {governmental politics and the public get “slammed in the teeth” to force them to reason (economically) let- | [ting them realize that “the devil]

Iter cry over the disappearance of O sword bites so fiercely as an take them” if they be unreasonably |

the old man with the shovel and

evil tongue. —Sir P. Sidney.

| heedless.

The old-fashioned parlor—are you old enough to |

remember it?—was tightly closed except on rare oc-

casions, and yet, in exclusiveness it had nothing on |

ways feel at home. Papa has to build himself a den somewhere in the ‘basement in order to entertain his cronies, and Junior goes forth automobiling, risking his own and many other necks—sometimes, I suspect, because mamma goes into a state of jitters when he fills the house with his destructive pals. Homes ought to be lived in, from cellar to attic, 3 't give a fig for all your precious antiques, or your velvet upholsterad furniture, or your array of china. silver and crystal,

| unless they contribute every day to the pleasure and

ornamentation of family existence. Many women hunt antiques with a vigor and per-

| sistence worthy of a better cause, yet they seem to

forget that the value of the articles they search for comes from a constant association with the men, women and children of a bygone age. Grandmother's spinning wheel, at which she wove daydreams as well as linen, has become a precious relic. Not because it has an intrinsic value, but because through it we hold fast to something fine and imperishable which Grandmother and the women of pe symbolized—goddesses tending the hearthfires of home,

| some modern residences which are never opened up to | | friends and where husband and children cannot al-

(Prasae w ae PB W

YES. A hundred times harder. What we now call the “necessities of life” were the luxuries of

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM

1S THE ABILITY TO FORE INGRATITUDE A TEST OF We

YOUR hl A

WHICH DEFEATS MORE PERSONS = BOTH £40 EN AND ADULTS FEA LACK OF ABILITY > 3 YOUR OPINION comm

land electric stoves, steam heat, telephones, radios, automobiles, frequent visits to the beauty parlor,

yesterday. The tiled baja, gas|silk stockings, are all now con-lare afraid ofl

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sidered “necessities” in the worst

as well as the best regulated families. It requires continuous study and a vast amount of self-control for a woman to decide what are necessities and what are mere

luxuries. ” » ”

YES. On: of the very best tests. The biblical injunction to love | your enemies, to do good to those 'who hate you is the highest and richest possible statement of generosity. This kind of generosity goes out with a genuine desire to save the ungrateful from the folly| of his own ingratitude—from the deterioration of character which in-| gratitude always brings. ” ” FEAR, because it is the one great curse of the world. It de- | feats more lives than poverty, ignorance, superstition, war and | tack of ability combined. The commonest and most destructive fear of | people in schools, offices, etc., is that they won't make good--although

tests show they usually have more ability than the very people they

| that

| ought not to be said without qualification. questioned facts seem to be these:

dent afterward told us. But, what he continued to say for at least three years was that the budget would be balanced. If the “full truth” was ever told, I don't know when, ® ®» = S to the 3.3 billions “spending” act that Mr. Linde ley says I “helped draft,” it would he a swell idea for him to go back and read that act, The emphasis was on some foresight that might have stopped Hitler, who came in at the same time. It was for “mechanizaand for the Navy. The rest was for “self-liquidating” loans for railroads and the like and an honest housing program. It went for raking leaves. That act cid not proe pose spending in any such crazy sense as we now ine dulge in, After six years of extravagance, this Administration is just beginning to stagger back toward the “concentrate of economic bromides” of that act— balance of revenue with income on out-of-pocket reg= ular expenditures—liberalization of loans for selfe liquidating public works to aid heavy industries in step with NRA activation of consumers’ goods induse tries—perfection of national defense against a world in turmoil.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun He Loves America Best Who Owns Even a Small Part of Its Soil.

EW YORK, June 6—“How can a man love America, which no man has ever seen, unless he

| loves with body and heart and brain some bit of

American earth-——a few nameless fields, a tangle of woodland, a huddle of little hills far off. Or a brook that talks in his own tongue?” I quote from Odell Shephard’'s flne book “Connecticut, Past and Prese Mr. Shephard adds that flanneled-mouthed dictators and patrioteers may rouse bovine millions to frenzy just as a gadfiy may stampede buffalo, but that such results are spurious. ‘Patriotism grows,” he thinks, “like a tree by striking down in one pare ticular soil. Patriotism is love, love is emotion, It chere ishes the weak and little things that need our help, things dear because they are near, things known as sights and sounds, as textures and tastes and odors. No more than any other kind of love can patriotism be taught or commanded.” And this, I think, is true talk and fortifies the feeling of many that our democracy can best strength« en and deepen itself by solving the problem of the land and bringing to the tenant farmer and the sharecropper the security of right to his own home and furrow. “The right to work,” is a phrase flung about widely of late, and seems to me the emptiest of all slogans unless it is defined and broadened into some conception of what the reward is to be.

We Must Find a Way

Freedom must be better than a bus ride to nowhere, Even though the section be small, to every man should come fulfillment of the age-old dream of digging his toes into the dirt of his own garden. There can be no joy in the life of those who trade at company stores, live in company houses and come, through good behavior, to be buried in a company coffin. If there is dignity in property how can anyone possibly deny it to the many and give commitment to the few? There are rulers today who say that they must bring the world down into war, because they need more land for their people. But when they conquer some vast new territory, just what portion of it actu ally goes to those who have borne the burden of the blood and heat? A ship is turned away to the sea on the plea there is no room for men and women who want nothing more than the chance to find a bit of shade in a world where the sun is pitiless. But we will not forever be blind to the common right of all our natural heritage given to us at the dawn of creation. Man and woman will find the way again. They

| will clasp hands and return to the Garden,

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

ECENT years have seen great growth in interest and popular knowledge of psychiatry and mene tal health. The terms of the science are used frequently in conversation, unfortunately often by people who have only a sketchy idea of what they mean. To begin with, many people will glibly tell you that mental disease is increasing at an alarming rate. This The un-

About 1 per cent of the people of the United States are incapacitated by epilepsy, feeble-mindedness and various other types of mental disease. About 40 per cent more are now in hospitals for mental disease than in 1926. Bach day about 300 such people enter such institutions for the first time, This makes the problem of the care of mental disease an increasingly important one. But it does not necessarily mean that mental disease itself is ine creasing. People live longer today, and the older we get the more chance there is of breakdown of the mental functions. We diagnose mental disease more accus rately than we used to; people with mental defects used to die earlier than they do now. The handicapped child today has a better chance to live due to better facilities and medical procedures, The advance in such diagnosis and treatment is such that it has become a new medical specialty on a tremendous scale, known as psychiatry. Even this has already been divided into several specialties, The problems of mental defect and of mental disease are now approached not only by putting the patient into an institution, but also by applying new forms of treatment, many of which have been discovered only within 25 years,