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WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1940
NOTE TO MR. ARMINGTON FTER that long cool spell a while ago, we suppose it is base ingratitude to protest too strongly about the current heat wave. But if it is all the same to vou, Mr. Armington, we'll take some more of what we had just prior to this 90-degree business. And lots of it.
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MORE ABOUT PRECEDENT | TE remarked the other day upon the reverence for precedent displayed by Henry A. Wallace when, being | asked whether he would resign as Secretary of Agriculture now that he is the Democratic nominee for Vice President, he said: “I believe Herbert Hoover remained in the Cabinet when he was campaigning for the Presidency, didn't he?” It seems rather quaint, as we observed, that Secretary | Wallace admire a precedent established by Mr. Hoover, of all men. But if Mr. Wallace really desires to emulate Mr. Hoover, it may be well to recall the precise nature of the precedent. On June 14, 1928, Mr, Hoover was nominated for President by the Republican National Convention. On July 7, he presented his resignation as Secretary of Commerce to President Coolidge, who expressed reluctance to accept it. On July 13, Mr. Hoover completed his work in the Department of Commerce. On Aug. 11, he was formally notified "his nomination. On Aug 21, his resignation from the Cabinet was accepted. The record, in short, discloses that Mr. Hoover displaved no desire to hang on to his Cabinet post while campaigning for a higher office, but on the contrary sought to leave it long before his actual campaign began. low about Mr. Wallace? And, speaking of precedents: On Aug. 6, 1920-—one month after being nominated for Vice President by the Democratic Party and three days before formally accepting that nomination—a young political idealist named Franklin I. Roosevelt thought it proper to resign as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. This is the Mr. Roosevelt who said yesterday that he assumes Secretary Wallace will remain in his Cabinet; the Mr. Roosevelt who, according to. sources close to him, is “unimpressed” by arguments that a candidate should not continue to head a department which disburses hundreds of millions of dollars to farmer-voters, |
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“A LOT OF MONEY”
“IT'S a lot of money,” says Jesse H. Jones, Administrator of the Federal Loan Agency, speaking of the half billion dollars which the President has asked to aid in the trade and economic problems of Latin America. That blunt remark classifies as something of a revolutionary thought in times like these. You can't teach new tric old horse-trader like Jesse. Even after eight years of handling billions of dollars of Government funds he still thinks a mere half billion is “a lot of money.” As the man who has supervisory control over the Ex-port-Import Bank, Mr. Jones will have a hand in the administration of this hali-billion-dollar fund. From what he | sald at his press conference vesterdav, one gathers that Mr. Jones doesn’t knew yet what he will be expected to do with the money. The prospective he said, haven't announced how much they want, nor what for. He doesn’t believe it will be the beginning of what is called the cartel plan of marketing Western Hemisphere surpluses. Myr. Jones doesn’t seem to think much of the cartel scheme. Ile leans to the idea of a freer flow of trade, as does Secretary of State Hull. But it remains to be seen whether Mr. Jones’ hardheaded banker judgment, and Secretary 1ull's concept of commerce, will dominate the Export-Import Bank's lending We hope so, for, dominated by a different judgment and a different concept, the half-billion can easily be used to pave the way toward cartelization. It will only be necessary to fix the lending price high enough, to get control over all the surpluses in question. In such event, of course, the initial half-billion will be speedily exhausted, and Congress will be asked to furnish more and more money for the Export-Import Bank to do more and more lending. (Jesse cautiously promised only that the half-billion would last “until spring.”) We hope that doesn’t happen—but it can. It did happen in our own cotton-loan program. The Government fixed the loan figure at a price higher than purchasers would pay, and as a result a whole year’s crop [ some 11,000,000 bales was kept off the market. There is no telling how it will all end. Jesse Jones has | “a lot of money.” Brazil has a lot of coffee, Argentina has | a lot of beef, and Honduras has a lot of bananas. We hope Jesse doesn’t have an experience similar to that told in the old story of the silk merchant who owned the bank money: “Have vou ever been in the silk business ? asked the bankers. “Well,”
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TWO BILLIONS BEGGING MONG the woozy sights of this wacky world is the spec- | tacle of two billion dollars locked up tight with no! place to go. These are international balances owned by nations or | citizens of nations now occupied by German and Russian | troops. | These funds are a peck of very hot potatoes. The Government has taken the position that just because soldiers have overrun a country that is no reason why the | invader should be able to lay claim to all possessions of | that country all over the world. For the present, while the international situation is still so upset, this is probably the only possible decision. But what when Fascist France comes demanding the money that belonged to Republican France, and what when Communist Esthonia comes demanding what had belonged to her predecessor? Then there will be a new and difficult decision to make,
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Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Recalling Facts of Nazi Aggression Good Antidote to Hitler's New War Weapon, the Oft-Repeated Lie
EW YORK, July 24.—Adolf Hitler has written, as an article of faith of the German nation, that
him helpless. His constant reiteration of the term “warmonger’ constitutes a use of this weapon, and,
been sprayed with the poison should remind themselves of the facts after each attack. Thus may the fumes be neutralized. One of the most important facts, almost forgotten now, is that the German nation, at the height of its old military power and arrogance, was responsible for Bolshevism in Russia. The German nation of Kaiser
erland to Russia so that Lenin and his followers could finally take Russia out of the First World War. This fact should be reduced to handy form as a Bolshevism is a German contribution to the woes and iniquities which plague the
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NOTHER fact which should be squirted about the premises of the civilized races after each attack
of Hitler's new war weapon—the oft-reiterated lie— contains the truth regarding the relative militarism of Germany, on one hand, and the Allies, on the
other. It was Hitler who armed and planned for offense,
war. The French built their Maginot Line as a defense. a solid, immovable barrier intended to with= <tand. not to launch attack. Their whole strategy was defersive, and their arms were pathetic by comparison with Hitler's. This weakness may be attributed to various causes, but it insults intelligence to say In one breath that the Jews hate Hitler and want him destroyed, and unquestionably the) do. and in the next breath to say that thev sabotaged the French’ effort to arm and fight him and to follow that contradiction by calling them warmongers, ii. The truth reveals, also, that the British were pitifully weak in arms and trained soldiers and humili=
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
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ated themselves in an attempt to avert war by appeasing Hitler, and went to war hesitantly and very ineptly only when Hitler invaded Poland in viola- | tion of his promises. $ % 4 | HE truth shows that Hitler impounded the head of the Austrian government and seized that
country, and, in every case of invasion since then, has
been the aggressor. Further, it should be instantly remembered that the despised Bolshevism of Russia, which Hitler has denounced with fury on many occasions, has been his ally in this war, and gave him the “go-ahead” last summer in the Nazi-Bolshevik treaty of alliance. This war would not have occurred at all if Joseph Stalin had not joined Hitler as his ally against the Christian peoples. And if Jewishness actually be Hitier's favorite foe, how odd it is that he joined Bolshevism in war and directed that war against nations which were predominately Christian or, anyway, non-Jewish,
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I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
FAVORS F. D. R. NOW WILLKIE IN 1944 By Terre Haute
Willkie vs. Roosevelt. I am proud of Wendell Willkie. As a resident
Julius Lederer,
of Elwood when Willkie was a boy |
I am proud of Elwood. Still a little advice from an old man would not
Willkie, the
due our
Don’t forget
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Remember well and bear in mind
a faithful President is hard to find
Charlestown's Fears, Sammy Kaye And Camera and a Coming Genius
OME of the people in southern Indiana are worrving already about what will happen to 6000 employees when a million dollar factory, doesn’t even exist, vet, shuts down. The plant, plahs for which were announced only a few dave ago, scarcely is in the blue print stage. But. reason the worried citizens, some day it will be built and hire thousands of workers; hundreds of new homes will be constructed and everybody will be prosperous And then. when evervthing is going nicely, they say, it would be just like Europe to quit fighting. And with the world at peace, there would be no need for the
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big gunpowder plant, so it would shut down and throw |
8000 emplovees on relief and a lot of home builders into bankruptey,
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SAMMY KAYE, whose dance band currently is at the Lyric, is having a lot of fun with a new candid camera, equipped with flash bulb equipment. Sammy, who by the way looks a lot like our Ernie Pyle, has a comfortable suite in a local hotel. But instead of resting in it between shows, he spends his spare time burning up bulbs and films in the hot, stuffy “dungeon” (dressing room quarters) of the Lyric. He gets a kick out of snapping his fellow performers unexpectedly and sometimes when they are in unflattering poses. It's getting so the acrobats are afraid to nap on a trunk because as sure as shooting, they'll be awakened by a flashbulb popping, and Sammy soon will produce a picture of them with their mouths open on the upbeat of a snore. Let one of the Dancing Debs start sewing on a costume and—there’s that man again ; Some of the boys and girls are threatening to gang up and take Sammy's Alashbulbs away from him. But they won't, Secretly they enjoy his capers.
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COMES to entertainment, 4-veai-old can do pretty well without any help from his parents. The other day, Jackie wandered away from his home at 1909 Koehne St. His parents missed him and his father, John Dalton, head of the Allison plant's patrol service, set out in search. Mr, Allison found Jackie seven hours later at Riverside Amusement Park. His arms were loaded with toy balloons which he said people had given him. Asked what he had been doing, he said he had been riding on the amusement devices. “How could you ride them without money?” his father
» WHEN IT Jackie Dalton
replied, Looks like Jackie ought to get along in the world.
‘A Woman's Viewpoint
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
E do so many silly things that our emotional jags over the selection of party candidates ought not to be surprising. Or that Jags in midsummer, the season of insanity Such emphasis 1s placed upon nominees that we somehow lose sight of the fact that, under our svstem of Government, the cnoice of members of Congress is more important to the national welfare, These men are our or should be. And yet
selection of a congressman is before them.
In the United States we base our policies not upon | | the opinions of one man—no matter what qualities of
leadership he may have—but upon the conclusions
reached by a group of men after they have debated |
issues. In times of crisis, such as this one, we must think more seriously than ever about the calibre of the men who represent us in House and Senate. And almost equally important to our economic survival is the wise choice of members to state legislatures, and a firm determination to have decent city governments. When the heart of a tree is rotten, it falls, no matter how green and strong it may appear at the
top, and everybody knows there is far too much rot- | tenness these days in municipal and state govern= | With Federal taxes zooming to speed national |
ments, defense, it becomes increasingly clear that we must
clean house in our cities and states, and relieve the | taxpayers of a great many excessive and useless ex-
penses. Let's get down to the records and read. When we do we shall discover that nations fall before
vasions,
which |
real | a good many loval | Americans, who go into dithers during Presidential | campaigns, remain calm and uninterested when the |
tax | collectors almost as often as they succumb to foreign
—and while we have one kind and true, change not the new. In 1944 I am ready vote for Wendell Willkie for President of the U. S. A. on a Democratic platform,
5 ¥ FEARS U. S. HEADING FOR DICTATORSHIP
By Edward F. Maddox
The signs of the time indicate that this nation is moving in the direction that leads to dictatorship. Maladjustments in our economic system—millions unemployed. great surplus production, loss of our foreign export trade, political confusion and corruption is heading us toward revision in our form of gov- | ernment. | We cannot exist with continual war between ployer and employee. We remain a strong united nation unless we can agree on the mental principles and political policies of democracy. We cannot engender and inflame and practice bitter malice, between the Democrat and Republican Parties. We must realize, and at once, that no man who is not by political philosophy, personal and political record wholly dedicated to American ideals and unless he is a man
ems-
who can be trusted to create har-|
bring peaceable nations he
mony, unity and relations with other
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not qualified to lead this nation in| these dangerous times as out Presi- |
dent. The American people must judge men by their actions, political rec{ord and attitude. If we want peace we must have a President whom we can trust to Keep us foreign wars, who is not at enmity with any nation, Our big job is to rehabilitate and revitalize, our own nation and our | own people. If we want to remain
open
| a free and independent republic we | must strengthen our defense forces, |
| stabilize our economic system, im- | prove our relations and trade with | foreign nations, change the bel-
be harmful to my esteemed friend] respect | vaudeville | jcampaign poking fun at F. D. R. [will not make friends.
as a republic] cannot |
funda- |
hatred and distrust |
out of |
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ligerent and provocative attitude now being pursued, and make our nation a promoter of peace and harmony among men and nations,
the old one for to!
” » OPPORTUNITY TO CONTROL ENVIRONMENT SEEN | By LC. |
Hinchman Since the year 1930, the quantity of extraneous energy, that is energy
| outside the human muscles, used fon this North American continent has been greater than all the extraneous energy used by all the peoples of the world since the dawn of man down to the year 1930. As the extraneous energy is very cheap when compared to manpower, it is oniy obvious that employers should use more and more extranelous energy in place of manpower. In fact competition forces them to do so or go out of business.
if he uses his brain, need ask why purchasing power due to industrial production has declined, making it necessary for the government to be | the savior of all business. | But the government, being all the | people, can only be as generous and | lasting, financially, as the people themselves. { Is business a method of commercial operation for the social welfare of the people today? Or, are the | people to compensate and serve business when business no longer promotes the social welfare? Instead of being mere victims of environs ment, the people now have the opportunity to control their environment. As time marches on, people will finally awaken to the opportunity A n ” "DENIES ROOSEVELT HAS HELPED NEGRO
'By Once a Democrat, Now a Republican
Mr. James Dulin, your article in The Times of Friday, July 19, is amusing to say the least. You said at the time Willkie was 'a little boy the town of Elwood did not treat the colored people fairly. "If this was true, why blame a help-
On the other hand no employer,
demanded. | “Oh, the men just gave me the tickets,” the child |
Side Glances—By Galbraith
we stage such |
the selection of ||
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"Net bad—eh, Pop?"
little attitude
cowardly. | Please give colored people credit for a little sense and reasoning. You won't have to go back 40 years ago to find oppressed colored people. But right today under Roosevelt's Administration. I came from the South where the majority are Democrat Roosevelters. We are afraid to vote down there. You won't even have to go out of Indianapolis to find oppressed conditions either, We are as God made us, and please treat us as human beings.
less boy. Your
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Roosevelt has had eight years in |
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which to change the situation, but |
has done nothing. Now we intend to give the other man a chance. ” on ” THINKS LAFFERTY MISLED ON NEGRO EMPLOYMENT By Samuel Lanier To Clarence F reading convinced that Your Jetter
Lafferty: After I am almost you've been misled. true in parts only. Some colored people do have cars, but what is a car. A few hold political jobs and a very few hold Government jobs. We are not re sponsible for present conditions. We are taking what is forced on us.
your letter
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receive the same wages that your teachers receive, we would serve in the U. S. Marines, the U, S. Navy (and not as mess attendants), the U. S. Air Corps, and all branches of the U. S. Army, It is your people who fused us these principles, don't give up, some day to be full-fledged zens. . . If we were given the opportunity that you seem to believe we've had, there would be less spies and traitors in the American Navy, Army, Air Corps and industry,
have reyet we we hope American citi-
» n ” HAS POOR ESTIMATE OF M'HALE'S ‘HIGH PRESSURE’ By Daniel Francis Clancy From Noble Reed's
| story: ‘Mr. McHale,
convention
quarters, said he high-pressured a
special bargain with the hotel com- |
pany and got the whole thing for $700 for the duration of the convention.” Well, that about tells the story. The Great McHale went to
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Chicago—and the only one he high-!
| pressured anything out of was a hotel manager! n » » ASKS WHO WILLKIE EVER “KNOCKED oUT” By Harry J. Gasper
Say if this guy Windy Willkie ex-
know something about his past record,
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1940 |
Gen. Johnson Says—
Buying Up Our Own Surpluses Can Be Justified, but Financing Trade of Latin America Certainly Cannot Be
ASHINGTON, July 24--Poor Mr. Hoover once set out to help our foreign trade to dispose of our surplus products by loans to “backward and crip- | pled countries.” Loans to bankrupts have a way of turning sour. These did, and what a panning Mr, | Roosevelt in 1932 gave the great engineer for that | suggestion, Mr. Hoover was only proposing a policy of private | loans-——the money of risk-takers for profit. His project | was relatively piker's chickenfeed. Mr. Roosevelt now | wants to take $500,000.000 cut of the Treasury to lend | to Latin-American countries to enable their governs ments to buy up and hold their own surplus of agricultural products. This is a price-pegging plan such as Mr. Wallace has practiced in American farm prod= ucts. It has never worked in the history of the world, although it has frequently been tried-——notably in Bra=- | zilian coffee, East Indian rubber, Canadian grain and | American wheat, corn and cotton. #
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T doesn't work because it is the presence (rather than the mere ownership) of unmanageable surplus and the certainty of oncoming crops that overs hangs the market and depresses price. That was the basic fault with Mr. Wallace's “Joseph” or “ever= normal granary” day dream. Joseph could successfully buy and store the surplus of Egypt for seven fat years and then sell it at hold-up prices during seven lean years until he owned all of Egypt. He could do it because he had a dream-book and a direct wire to the pearly gates. Henry apparently has a dreambook but no direct wire, although the President says we are to underwrite the South American surplus only for one vear. How does he know? In the romantic days. when spices were the only practical food preservative, and therefore invaluable, the Dutch controlled much of the East Indian trade, They had a rougher remedy for market gluts. If too
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much anise, cinnamon, pepper, nutmeg, cloves or what«
| not was congesting on the wharves, they simply sank { the surplus in the sea.
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R. WALLACE has tried variations of that also. That is why he killed the little pigs and cattle, plowed under the cotton, paid farmers for not producing and recently, and more intelligently, through the food-stamp plan sold farm surplus to the poor at a
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{ great discount in price and all the rest of us footed
| the grocery bill. 0
K. for our own people. This column is for a
direct Federal subsidy to a "parity price” to our farms-
| farm
ers for all their products that can be consumed at home and also for the food-stamp or any similar plan to subsidize consumption of our food products to all low-income groups—not merely to help consume our surplus but’ to relieve us of the insufferable
| charge of permitting Americans to starve or be under-
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nourished in the midst of rotting overabundance, But it is absolutely opposed to pouring five hun= dred or any other number of millions of public money
| down any Latin-American rat holes to subsidize our
own competition and possibly to find their way into Hitler's coffers or certainly, in no small degree, into the pockets of various satellites of the assorted dice tatorships of the banana republics.
Business
By John T. Flynn
Our Problem Not Lessened by Fact Britain Is Piling Up Bigger Debt
EW YORK, July 24-—-No one knows, of course, when the war will be over. And no one can say with any definiteness just what course political
| and economic forces will take.
If left with us our teachers would |
| severely affected.
The interventionists have it all doped out, to be sure. Hitler will conquer England. He will then proceed to conquer South America, the United States and all the islands of the sea. Maybe so. But there lies Russia, Italy, and a vast sullen population and all of those populations—Germany, France, Italy and all the others—-victors and vanquished, caught in the dreadful economic consequences of war. What will happen is a little too thick and murky for these handy prophets. At least one thing we know will happen. The victors and vanquished and the whole world will have to sit down, take stock of its possessions and of its money and its debts and face with a terrible realism the problem of its currencies. Mr. Stuart Chase calculates in the New Republic that Britain is spending at a rate which we can under stand if we realize that if America, with her population, spent the same she would be putting out forty billion dollars a year. It is so everywhere, Mr, Chase makes a strange mistake for so intelligent and fair a thinker: That because our spendings are not so great we have nothing to fear. At least the day of reckoning must come for England, Germany and all the nations of the world which have been piling up the debts and the costs until the figures have become meaningless. But they will assume a means ing when the war ends and the pressure of the fever. of patriotism subsides. :
Recognized Authority Needed
1t moment that our economy will he=
It need not be brought to collapse.
is in that
| But it will most certainly be brought down if it is in | hands umamiliar with the grave problems of inter«
national finance and of money as an economic force, It will be no time for the Prof. Warrens and the “$2500
| a year for everybody” boys, for a Secretary of tha
answering | queries about the cost of his heacd- |
Treasury who is an appalling amateur in matters of finance, We can be spared from the repercussions of the general European currency crisis provided we have in authority at the moment a leader whose feet are on the ground, who cannot be sold in a 15-minute talk some weird theory of finance like the Warren gold plan or the social security reserve fund. | Our economic system has suffered four severe shocks in the last 25 years. One was the great war, The other was the speculative orgy of the twenties. The third was the depression itself. The fourth was and is the struggle to make recovery by creating a vast national debt, We cannot afford to have a fifth shock on top of these. Avoiding such a shock is an expert problem | in economics--in the economics of money and finance, | The last hands to deal with it are those of the pro=- | fessional amateur inflationists and money evangelists,
pects to meet the champ I want to| Watching Your Health
It doesn't make any difference! By Jane Stafford
where he went to school, or who ate
dinner with him. or who held him |
on their lap. What I want to know is who did he ever knock out? Personally I like a good fight and when I bet on one,
experienced mine,
Battling Roosevelt for
EPITAPH By JAMES F. MAUK | Lay no roses on this dust, | That it was, this it must, | Speak no lament, shed no tear; | Dust of Happiness lies here,
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| Tears are heavy, dust is light, | Death is ugly to the sight. One has laughed, one has cried, | Remember what lived, forget what died.
DAILY THOUGHT
But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God. are alive every one of you this day.—Deuteronomy 4:4,
EVERY MAN'S life is a plan of God.—Horace Bushnell,
clean | the | ighter's experience has a lot to do with it, so I'll take the tried, true, |
T this season of the vear, the cry of “Mad dog” is likely to be heard, though dogs do not get | “mad.” that is, have rabies, or hydrophobia, any oftener at this season than any other, Dogs are perhaps more likely to be outdoors at this season, and so are children, so there may be more danger of dog bite, Don't shoot a dog suspected of having rabies or one that has bitten someone, unless necessary for pro- | tection. Instead, capture the dog and have it quaran= tined under observation for a 10-day period, so veterinary authorities can tell whether or not the ani- | mal has rabies. This advice was given by Lieut. Col. Raymond A. Kelser of the U. S. Army Veterinary Corps. If the dog is killed, it is often impossible to tell whether it had rabies, he explained, and diagnosis of the disease in man is possible only through diagnosis of the biting dog. When man shows the symptoms of the disease, it is too late for Pasteur treatment, which must begin within four days of the bite to be effective. “The treatment of dog bite,” says the U. 8S. Public Health Service, “consists of immediate and thorough cauterization of the wound with fuming nitric acid on a tapering glass rod.”
Face bites are particularly dangerous and in such cases Pasteur treatment should begin jmmediately. In any case of dog bite it is wise to consult a physieian as soon as possible but it is also important to make sure the dog is put under observation, ; A dog which is developing rabies may show hardly any symptoms except weakness. Usually, however, he shows a marked change in disposition, refuses food, seems frightened and is very restless.