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* WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1040

GOING, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

‘HE news that the last two remaining units of the once giant Indiana traction system are soon to give way to trucks and busses strikes us sadly at the moment. For we ‘can remember only too well how proud we were of that - huge barn and all those big. cars. “There,” we used to say grandly to our visitors, * the world’s largest traction station.” We rolled over that word “world’s” with a great to-do. “And -do you. know,” we used to say, “they go as fast as 70 miles an hour sometimes.” - Gradually, the 400-mile system which a quarter of a century ago was known as the world’s largest interurban railway, has been reduced. Lines that once were very profitable became heavy losers. Trucks and busses took their place. : " Yesterday Bowman Elder, receiver for the Indiana

Railroad, Was granted court authority to ask abandonment |

of the last two units—the Indianapolis-Ft. Wayne and Muncie-New Castle runs. Between them, the two runs lost $62,000 in the first nine months of last year.

Going, going—

A FORGOTTEN LAW THE United States Code, Title 18, Section 201— = “No part of the money appropriated by any act shall, in the absence of express authorization by Congress, be used directly or indirectly to pay for any personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone, letter, printed or writ-

‘ten matter, or other device, intended or designed to influ-

ence in any manner a member of Congress, to favor or oppose, by vote or otherwise, any legislation or appropriation by Congress, whether before or after the introduction of any bill or resolution proposing such legislation or appropriation; but this shall not prevent officers and employees of the United States from communicating to members of Congress on the request of any member or to Congress, through the proper official channels, requests for legislation or appropriations which they deem necessary for the efficient - conduct of the public business. . .

Violation is classed as a misdemeanor, puiiehable by removal from office and fine or imprisonment, or both. » ” 2 3 1 ” ” » * ~ This forgotten statute, passed by Congress in July, 1919, has been dramatically brought to public attention at the hearing of the House committee investigating the Na{ional Labor Relations Board. ;

The committee’s counsel, Edmund Toland, produced the statute after first presenting documentary proof that regional officers of the Labor Board, with the knowledge and even the connivance of superiors in Washington, had organized campaigns to influence Congress against proposed changes in the Wagner Act and reduction in the Labor Board’s appropriations. : 2 s 2 »: » : Here is something "bigger than these particular exposures involving these particular Labor Board officials.

For what Mr. Toland has done is to disclose that all

_ these years we have had on the statute books a law which,

if enforced, would break up one of the worst political rackets that afflicts the American taxpayers. The Labor Board is not a lone offender. Offhand, we can think ‘of no department, bureau, board, commission or other -Government agency which does not, as a regular practice, violate this law by lobbying Congress for more money. Any Congressman can tell you that whenever any cut in expenditures is proposed he is immediately bombarded with telegrams and letters written or inspired ‘by Government officials and employees whose jobs and influence depend upon the appropriation immediately concerned.

If this law. were enforced, in our opinion, Congress could balance the budget. We hope it is ‘not too late to start.

PROFESSOR DODD

~ WILLIAM E. DODD, who died the other day in Virginia,

had been an ambassador but never a diplomat. He would not scrimp truth for the sake of tact.

Perhaps such stubborn candor is out of place in an embassy. But it is hard fo resist a glow of satisfaction at recalling how this farm-born, self-made scholar laid his democratic philosophy on the line for all Germany to see.

Asked to speak before. the American Chamber of Commerce in Berlin, Ambassador Dodd took as his subject “Economic Nationalism?” "the : :very core of Naziism—and.. pro: ceeded to break that. doctrine on the wheel of logic. “The Caesars,” he remarked; “Succeeded for a short moment as measured by the tests of history.”

It is. too had he could not have lived to see the Caesar of Berchtesgaden run. his course,

SAVIN GS

‘AR’S pinch is forcing what seem prefiy trifling economies upon people in Europe. Germany saves a little cloth by limiting men’s trousers to one hip pocket, E gland a little wood by decreeing that British broom handles from now on must be square. In this country a professor of aeronautical engineering at Michigan University calculates that his state’s ‘mew auto license plates, 30 per cent larger than the old ones, will add. nearly a million dollars to Michigan motorists’ gasoline bills in 1940. Even the old plates, he says, increased the air resistance of the average car enough to burn up $2.50 worth of fuel ina year, Without waiting for war, American genius

Hcense tags for our streamlined automobiles,

N EVER OUT OF DATE

ERMAN publishers are assured of a bright future, if they can depend on a new edition of “Mein Kampf” every time Der Fuehrer changes his mind about whom

-| at cracks about their

| that she is a traito s might save a sight of gasoline by devising streamlined | A e :

: Navy bills.

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soldier.

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler:

; la Guardia Cited as Example of A Why Statesmen Should Not Sreopl.

‘To Humor at the Festive Board. |

EW YORK, Feb. 14. —Several times 1 have heard) Mr. La Guardia orate on political ‘matters be- | fore dressy gatherings of stags, and always out little} . alcalde had laid an egg. In each case the company, | on the average, was fairly well muled~up, some indi-| viduals being just so many male Ella Booles, it is- true, | - but an equal number at the other extreme being at or

| close to the yodeling point. The majority were. Just

gently aslosh on the tide of ‘their tall-scotches, which|’

are taken as vaccination against the food at such.re-|. oicings. 1 These were not: political meetings, but social nights| out. fo for suburban Americans of the husband type. * Mr. La Guardia’s worth as a public executive suf-

fers not at all from the fact that he is neither a} comedian nor a humorist. He always overbuilds an] - anecdote until the edifice falls in on ifself and he has|

to piek his own way out of the debris. Yet he and most other public men of sound reputation feel re-

quired somehow to imitate the rowdy. nary To 353

persifleurs of the night clubs as a pre intelligent remarks i Shey! have prepared. =

result is that it the company has kicked T over their chairs and scattered to hotel suites|

around town to take the last half-hour’s advantage of a night's permission from home the speaker of the evening has been put down as a disappointment who got where he is by: political accidents and newspaper publicity. : “Far be it from these dis es to deplore humor, of which the world has nowh near enough, but many citizens‘with the gift of government not merely fail but discredit themselves in the role of comic and never shotild try to be funny. Mr. La Guardia, giving out on subjects which are in his line of business, deserves attention from any audience, and even Frank Gannett might be listened to with profit, if only by way of refuting the hardy ¢ld fallacy that every little boy has a chance to be President. It is not my intention to localize this awkwardness. La Guardia is only one of many who suffer from inability to turn down invitations: to unsuitable occasions and try to ingratiate themselves by acting the fool badly. Comedians are a dime a dozen in any agent’s office, but comedy, nevertheless, is a trade, and certainly an important statesman shouldn’t feel obligated to amuse, 2 8 2 ET serious’ men may be seen every night during the banquef, season, especially in a Presidential year, putting on their specs and squinting nervously at the notes of lumpy gags as the time comes nigher when they must rear up and lay them in the aisles with a ready flow of preoperative wif, to be followed by six minutes of serious information. The banquet, or dinner, incidentally, is peculiarly ill-suited to serious political discussion, because the spirit is alcoholic, and the boys on the fringes always make sneaks during the blackout while the baby-spot is beaming on the toastmaster as he presents the speaker of the evening. The rest, being in no posi-

tion from which to escape gracefully, feel trapped and |

resentful and sit there wondering how long this is going to take, instead of relaxing to absorb wisdom. I select Mr. La Guardia for my horrible example, because he is a great orator in his own line, but as a comedian he is worse than Olsen and/or Johnson, yet invites people to judge him on the least important and least of hisgtalents.

Inside iadionapalis:

56,000 Contribute to ‘the McNutt War Chest, Declares Mr. McHale.

HE McNutt organization. has not one, but two fund-raising organizations at work. One is “Paul V. McNutt For President In 1940, Inc.” and the other is the “Paul V. McNutt for President Committee.” Frank McHale has just made clear to the United Press which is which and what's what. The first one, it seems, the “For President in 1940, Inc.” is a sort of club idea which collects $1 apiece fro embers. The second one takes contributions from anybody. Aside from the $1. club membership, says the energetic Mr. McHale, 56,000 persons in Indiana alone have contributed funds to the McNutt war chest. : Besides being energetic, Mr. McHale is also astute. He has a big loose-leaf book in which every donation is recorded and a receipt is mailed to each contributor. This has nething to do with any election ‘laws;

but it provides the basis for an accounting in the|

event any contributor sued for one at the end of the campaign. Mr. McHale said the campaign postage Bill 79) ran between $2000 and $3000 a week. y ~ thing he didn’t mention , was how much oo a in the kitty. ® ” 2 THERE ARE AT LEAST 50 copies of “Gone With The Wind”. at the Public Library. . . . But not a single one is immediately available. . . . You just have to put your name on the waiting list, vin In case youre interested, to get those automobiles

-into the Hotel Lincoln lobby they just drive in through

the Kentucky Ave. door. . . . Yessir, it’s a sort of tight squeeze. . . . Nona Howard, ‘who started newspaper work around here in 1923 (on The Times) has written a book on horoscopes. . . . And she’s dedicated it to Booth Tarkington. ... . Anachronism of the week: In the list of Lenten specials on the menu of a local hotel is “Gefullte Blinssen.” £ ” ” 2

POLICE. DEPARTMENT cars and motorcycles traveled a distance of 1,717,082 miles during 1939, the Safety Board learned yesterday. The cars—768 of them—put in 1,403,928 miles and the cycles—465— rolled up 313,156 miles. They used 178516% gallons of gasoline and 2257% gallons of oil and 596 pounds of grease. Ves, they work that closely on ’em. But the. surprise came when it was shown that the average cost per mile on the cars was 8.3 cents. It was too bad, said Chief Morrissey, but you could blame that on the ancient equipment. The report showed the motorcycle cost per mile to be $1.14, The Safety Board had missed that, but the Chief was sure there was a h Mistake some place. We'd guess, ‘so too.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

S| CAETANS, we find, are almost as touchy about :

their armies as women are about their clubs. And that’s ‘plenty touchy. Even as the ferninine dander rises a abstract criticism is made of ,organizations with which women are connected, so the ire of military men is aroused profession. Talk about taking everything personally! The ladies could never be worse at that than .the captains, lieutenants, and

‘veterans who write to this column--all of them mad

as hornets. The attitude is natural, perhaps, but hardly sensi‘ble. No more sensible, in fact, than it would be for a mother to take offense when somebody discusses the general wildness of modern youth. And the woman who behaves in such a fashion is held up to deepest masculine scorn. For the masculine mind, so we've heard, is less prejudiced than the feminine,

and gentlemen seldom construe a general remark as|

a PI ul t.. Well, ’tain’t so! ‘And the captains ve it. are easily: stirred to protest, and if hig so J Tey points out certain glaring inconsistencies which mark military - procedure, they are quick to retaliate by nr dg the critic with: intentions to obstruct na~ tional defense. Which, in more concrete terms, means a villain and a dirty red,

Yet, it seems. to me it ought to be possible for any|

citizen to express an -honest opinion about milita methods without oro somebody shout “off with her head”! . After all, the civilians pay Army and

the educational advantages of Army life

2 ;Among it’s a pity the captains aren’t taught that when one ent|

talks about bungling methods of the War

one isn’t taking nasty cracks at vi service, either officers or individuals in he today affects the

privates—and also‘ that war| civilian as much as it does the :

alentines for

Voters

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Lev FOREIGN NATIONS

RISE AND FALL

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OBSERVE

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NATIONAL HEART, WHICH ONCE |

BELONGED TO DADDY, BEAT FOR A BALANCED BUDGET, NEATLY GRAPHED! £ THRILL TO MY CHART = WwiITH GENTLE PIDDY-PADDY

THROB TO THE METRIC MIND OF ROBERT TAFT!

BUDGETS ARE RED. MY HAIR IS GRAY. GARNER YE © VOTERS, WHILE YE MAY.

BEAOLDT ™E GREEK PERFECTION FEATURES CLEARLY CUT!

ror ADULT, CHILD AND MUTT! THEN MARCH TO THE ELECTION ‘OF PAUL V (BOOM!) MENUTT

cof | HEAVENS S Aaove!

AFFECTION

FROM CITIES AND FARMS, | OLD OR NEW DEALER- - FLY TO THE ARMS OF BURTON WHEELER!

1 WASH THAT | COULD SPEAK OF MY INTENTIONS IN PHRASES THAT WOULD ECHO NEAR AND FAR;

BUY, AFTER ALL, THERE ARE THE Gwo) CONVENTIONS — I'LL SEE YOU LATER,

PARLING.

FDR.

defend to

The ‘Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will

the death your right to say it.—

Voltaire.

SEES WOMEN WORST SUFFERERS IN SLUMS

By a Houser

Discussions on housing always em-

phasize. the slums’ influence on: the community, on real estate values, on crime, health, morality, delinquency, the younger generation, the citizens of tomorrow, etc. Fiddlesticks! What .about the mothers? Don’t they count? - Men

| have the zest and stimulation of . thefr work; children their new as-

sociates and interests at school, but what do the poor women get out of life-in slum dwellings other than filth, drudgery, cheerless discomfort, bedbugs and tuberculosis? | All our American chivalry counts for nothing while we continue to let women slave, bear children, grow old and die-in the sordid conditions now being uncovered, even in our “mile square” by the WPA housing survey. I suggest that every women’s organization fighting so fervently for “equal rights” and other noble aims devote one afternoon a month to a tour of Massachusetts Ave. tenement flats and W. 12th St., Pearl St. and Holborn St. hovels. Don’t just walk by. Knock on doors. Ask to see interiors. Ask what rents|W are. ' The poor don’t bite. They make brave efforts to keep things livable, Women, instead of pitying, should fight for their slum sisters!

» SEES’ RURAL AREAS HURT BYINDUSTRIAL’ CENTRALIZATION By WwW. H. Edwards, Spencer, Ind.

Voice in the Crowd’s. Forum letter |

gets out of gear- when he accuses me of condemning the machine age. The intent of my letter to which he referred was. to point out that while the machine age had benefitted many .people there were many economic -deserts in our own state that had thousands of workers made idle by the industrial efficiency developed by machines. Some time ago I was talking to a business man in Indianapolis about industries concentrating in a few selected districts, leaving, especially in the southern part of the state, many counties with almost no industrial employment. He told me that people living in the congested districts wanted ‘playgrounds like Owen County, so they could get as near to nature's environment once in a while as was possible. That business man seemed not to care that whole sections of the state left near nature’s arms created economic handicaps for many of us who by choice or necessity remain

(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.)

trees, firmly rooted to land which has become almost a part of us. And it is not’ pleasant to see our children, one by one, forced to leave their native habitat to go to some city where jobs may be had (?) and where high wages go to enrich too

There are many locations within these “playground” regions ideally situated for industrial development, with far more natural advantages than congested centers can offer. But while industry continues to flock together in a few places, the benefits of industrial efficiency will leave many of our people without work, despondent, despairing. These forsaken regions have but a negligible alien” ‘population. Perhaps industrialists prefer to give employment to those who come to our land from: across the seas.

x 2 8 = MR. MEITZLER AGAIN REPLIES TO CRITICS By James R. Meitsier, Attica, Ind.

Our relief sob-sisters brought out the usual theatrical props—starving children ' contrasted with wealth’s pampered daughters, .blistered feet, flag wavers and WPA hardships. ‘One WPA softie complains of working roads, sometimes in zero we: cher. I and every farmer who raises stock works every day, including Sundays, this winter and all winters, no matter hpw cold the weather. So do all men who have outdoor jobs. And I and thousands of other men have worked with pick and shovel 10 hours a day for $1, $1.25, $1.50—a lot less than-WPA wages. : Reliefers in Fountain County wear out automobile tires . and cushions instead of shoe soles. No blisters -on_ their feet. Thousand-dollar-a-week Brenda Frazier spends her own money, not the taxpayers’ money. There were four million conscripts in the army. Naturally a few would use the flag for a meal ticket.

There are many gooq men and

Side Glances—By Galbraith

near scenes of childhood, young married life, and continue, like old

many real estate and rental sharks. |

women on relief. They do not blame their indigence on those who have better brains or better luck, nor complain of their hours and wages (more money for less work than they ever had before); least of all do they try to hog everything by objecting to aid being given a brave people about to perish. ; 2 =» 8: URGES U. S. ACTION or TO END WAR ON CHINA By E. 8. H.' I think I have never missed an article in your paper on the Japan-ese-Chinese conflict since it started and have read the “Rape of China” articles recently with much interest. One day last week there was a statement in The Times that 90 per cent of the materials used by Japan to carry on the war in China was furnished by the United States and that if we should declare a complete embargo on Japan they could not continue the war for even 90 days... ... * If that aggression could be stopped it would be the best deed the American people could do this year. . , .

® £8 2 : RECALLS KIND TREATMENT BY DICK POWELL : By Just a Hoosier

As one Hoosier to another, we welcome back to Indiana our own Dick Powell. In 1936, when Dick was busy making history for himself, we visited Hollywood on a tour. We went to the Coconut Grove, to dine and dance, where we found several hundred in attendance, including quite a few motion picture stars. The autograph craze was at its height. My two daughters and my wife were with me, and the girls decided they wanted autographs. I thought, before embarassing some of the stars, I would renew acquaintance with Dick Powell. After

greeting him, he insisted on coming |

back to our table and welcoming us to Hollywood, and encouraged the girls to -solicit autographs, saying

“This is Dick Powell's night. If|

there is anyone who does mot give you an autograph, I will go to the table with you and get it, ? and we never missed a one. We have that collection of autographs and before Mr. Powell leaves town, we are going to greet him personally and again, on behalf of the missus, the two daughters and myself, welcome him back to Indiana.

. 8 » URGES CONGRESS END EXEMPTION ON BONDS

By H. L. Unfinished business is for Congress to removz the tax exemption from income received from public bonds. = Since capitalist investment has taken to investment in Government debt, rather than investent in new “productive facilities, PF drastic tax on income received from public debt should reverse the trend to seeking investment in risk assuming ventures. : Continued expansion of investment in Public debt will destroy the investment. Such investment is non-productive and dilutes the margin of safety now existing for private investment. aay Then the next step is to remove subsidies to business from the pub-

lic trough.

FEBRUARY BROADCASTS By MARY P. DENNY

February sings of valeritine Arrows flying in the snow

Happiness is’ everywhere, Songs of winter ring out loud Far above to winter cloud, In one broadcast sounds the line Of all joy in winter time. ;

DAILY THOUGHT

But he that oe 4 truth cometh ‘to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God —St. John 3:21.

IFA THOUSAND old beliefs were ruined .in . our march to truth, we

~ |must still Inarch on-Stopiord Ail

Brooke...

. infection.

Ger. Johnson Says—

Sending Mr: Welles A oad Fife | in . With Campaign for Thifd Term and Program to Go Farther in Europe.

EW YORK, Feb. 14.—There is no earthly reasom h why Mr, Roosevelt should not ‘send Sumner Welles abroad as” Ambassador-at-Large- to Europe, There is nothing new in the idea. 2 several “years we had Norman Davis abroad on a lar job. There is an ugly precedent in Mr. Wilson's, “win soul,” Col. House. But the very: ugliness of it tends to.avld ita

danger. Mr. Wilson finall ainis io tool Co House's y tt oo

secret commitments had foreclostd his plans for world peace. ‘There is no danger of that kind of result hee. Mr. Roosevelt has no “twin soul.” Mr, Sumner Welles, in spite of a rather snooty Groton-Harvard exterior

1 and his apparent authorship of the absurd “safety

zone” around the Americas, is a gdod listener and a man not likely to exceed his A in committing his countiy to anything not auth: d by his boss. If we get mired in European mud b our, depth, it will be by no over-reaching or ona our Mr, Welles, It will be because our all-highest willed it so. La HAT. the boss has reached such a conclusion now is no; likely. He couldn’t as yet carry the coun= try with him. But there is no doubt :whatever that, like Woodrow Wilson, Mr. Roosevelt feels a heavenly call to make right the wrongs of the world, It is one of the strongest of: the incentives that are leading: him so to draw all lines as to make his ‘re-election. inevit-

| able,

Whether intended or. not, this and all his: recent actions and expressions, tend to be,| first, an argument for ‘a third term and second, if he - ‘gets it, a mandate to go farther in mixing in European:affairs. The argument will be that, by this-inereasingly close contact with the interior stresses “and: strains of the European vortex, no new administration would be as well fitted to deal with it. If he is overwhelm= . ingly elected, the “mandate” will be. that his. pre= election actions sufficiently revealed |his purpose - to take a dominant part in the reconstruction’ of the world and that-his election would indicate & vote ‘of Songdencs and a popular" command carry Hture er. 8 8» T= effect, if not the purpose of sending Mr: Welles on this mission when neither belligerent seéms to have requested it, or even. especially to welcome it, is the cleverest kind of both personal and political

strategy. ~~ Mr. Welles has a colle and Mr. Roosevelt an international adviser in Ass t Secretary of State Adolf Berle, the ex-infant prodify. Mr. Berle has re= cently uttered very expansive thoughts on ‘our com< ing re-enactment of our 1919 ‘role as saviour of the world. We would again bail out its battered hulk financially by the use of the gold we have purchase from it at nearly double its , value—giving it back | necessary. The generosity of some great “thinkers” with other people’s money is almost divine. In addition to gen erosity, M1. Berle has the supreme self-confidence of a really brilliant intellect. Without .a- misgiving, she would undertake the financial reorganization. of heaven without a retainer, .or charge hell' with ‘a bucket of water. So, 2s it is to be deared, would the President. Le j

Youth and Reds

By Bruce Catton

Row Ovef Communism at Recent Capital Parley Old Stuff for Them,

TYASHINGTON, Feb. 14—The American ‘Youth Congress was born in a row, and has been in the center of intermittent rows ever since—most of them over communism. Between rows and meetings— which have been congruous on some occasions—it is run by three young men and a girl. Properly speaking, it isn’t a group but a conglom=

eration of independent organizations—60 or more of . _

them, with four million-odd members. Practically speaking, four of these are the congress’ backbone: the National Student Federation, the American Stu= dent Union, the International Student Service snd the United Student Peace Committee, aad Greatly condensed, here’s the layout: "The officers: Jack McMichael, chairman. Born in Georgia, graduated from Emory College in 1937, now enrolled at Union Theological Seminary preparing to be- a minister. Worked for the Y. M. C. A. after. leaving Emory and spent upward of a year Oe China. --. McMichael is tall, slim and: good-looking. His 4s an unpaid office. He was elected fo it; last: June; and it’s his first Youth Congress. office, Joseph Cadden, executive secretary. A New Yorker; graduated from Brown University in 1931; worked for: the National Student Federation and: tor the Inter national Student Service: y His congfess job is full-time, and in theory pave $25 a week. Actually, he took in about $800 last year,

. He ekes out his income by lecturing on the side; -

Frances Williams, administrative secretary. Contes from New Jersey, graduated from the New Jersey College for Women in 1935, and went to work for the Foreign Policy Association, Her job is full-time, too; like Cadden’s, it's ‘supd Poted to pay $25 a Week, but really pad Shout, $500 ast year.

Won Support of Mrs. Roosevelt

Abbott Simon, legislative director. Graduate of Harvard and holder of an M. A. from Columbia, a lives in Washington and acts as the congress’ contac man on Capitol Hill. His is not a full-time i) and carries no pay. : a The history: : xi In 1934 a meeting was called in New York to or« ganize a youth movement. Moving spirit was Viola Ilma, who did most of the original pushing; the meet ing broke up in a row, however, and split into twa wings. One of these—Viola’ s—dwindled and died, The other became the Youth Congress. . The Congress went ahead, trying to educate both young people and adults to the existence of a “youth prbblem,” stirring up localities to meet teil. youth needs, and so on. It won the friendship of Mrs. -Rgeger

‘velt and. the iii of Martin Di nl : ; |

Watch Your Health

By Jane Stafford he

S™ VALENTINES day as. somaliow acqfired: oF AJ a symbol a large red heart, arid his: long ‘beér the occasion for sending romantic, seiitiglental of comic greetings. It might be a good idea to. esta lish the day on your own calendar as one ‘of

‘nificance for your health: Let the lace-édged; vahdy< ‘filled and other heart-shaped valentines

becoming fatal. First, there is the heart: Ne ; known as rheumatic fever. It attacks young chil dren, chiefly. While its exact cause has not yep been identified, it is believed to be caused by & germ of some kind. - Prompt care of colds and sore throats. and care of the teeth; starting in early : Advis to help preven cart, ditesze.

among measures doctors type of heart disease. Syphilis is another cause of 4 damage to the heart from the. ally does not show up until many years after the ‘first There AE She 2aeles to Se prevéniion of this form of disease. One is to lean syphilis is acquired, so as‘to avoid getting it.

is to know that prompt, thorough treatment of Secand | is, by. a physician, iy prevent * damage. to ine pears an “very any cases :

‘itself. ‘This ‘artery hardening, called

vent arias stywhere Jn he body ero While -16 is, error gions to CAPES b © posépgiie it, i, byl erate, easy-going liter” life,