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SEPTEMBER 7, 1940
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SATURDAY,
IF WE WANT TO GO HAYWIRE TRIKE up the band! Oil up the vocal cords of the fourminute orators! Get out the white feathers! Line up the quotas and turn on the heat! Pile emotion on top of emotion already breaking bounds! Substitute feeling for thinking—glands for brains. Throw gasoline on the fire. All that is what we are in for—that and more—if the 60-day “drive” for volunteers is tried out as a preliminary to the selective draft. For the only possible chance for
success of the drive would be to get into action with all the |
old stagings by which the martial spirit is whipped up. Result—a further and highly accelerated shift away from what our vast defense program was all about orig-
Aviation By Maj. Al Williams Prestige and Tradition Enemies of
National Defense in U. S. as They Were in Great Britain and France
ASTERY of the air is mastery of the land and of the sea. That is the plain lesson of this European war. The air is an atmospheric ocean, at the bottom of which we live. Winged warships navigate and fight for supremacy in this atmospheric ocean and A dominate fighting forces on the surface, be that surface sea or land. Winged warships have dominated every European combat zone to date. Clinching this flat claim is the equally flat confession of the United States Navy, made through its recent secretary, Mr. Edison, that warships cannot withstand air attacks. The lay observer, knowing little or nothing of engineering or military machinery, nevertheless knows that warships and armies of millions of men equipped with rifles, bayonets and machine guns, as in 1918, have passed from the picture, Yet many technical experts have failed to interpret the signs. The average citizen enjoys an advantage not shared by the old Army and the old Navy expert. His thinking can be unbiased because he is not protecting his own prestige and is not influenced by tradition. = = ~ UT the Old Guard will not surrender. Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, for many years a member of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee and now
inally—to keep out of, not to get ourselves into, war. Nothing could contribute more toward that hurricane suction which is already drawing on us. If we really want to lose our perspective completely, to get out of focus altogether, to rid ourselves of the last lingering vision of what a vear ago we all saw so clearly as our objective, no better formula could be devised than that which the House of Representatives has cooked up. =
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The very essence of the selective-service idea is to
its chairman, is dyed as deep as any admiral. The other day, he made the following statement: “Our first line of defense (the Navy) . . ond line, airplanes . . equipment . . ” Fighting for this specialty, the Navy's chief spokesman in the Senate maintains that the Navy is our “first line of defense.” And this in spite of all that has happened in the Buropean war. If Senator Walsh were a member of the British Parliament, I doubt seriously whether he would now make such a statement with the war actually over England, brought there by airpower. Now turn to the Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, Rep. Carl Vinson of Georgia. Mr.
. our sec-
avold the pep-meeting technique; to raise a defense force | | through a tried and scientific system rather than by hap- | aes whoopla. To select—each according to where he | best fits, with all possible allowance for the physical, mental | and economic condition of each. Not to ballyhoo. Not to | the unwelcome but vitally necessary task into an | emotional orgy in which every able-looking young man, | regardless of his circumstances, becomes a slacker because |
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he doesn’t dash to the first recruiting stand. And that’s |
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the ultimate of what the House amendment means if what |
turn
it proposes is to be made to work. Only by turning the | nation holy-roller, with the whole congregation shouting, singing and sobbing, can full results be attained by the | “Intensive dri method. | And each day that such a crusade proceeds, we—the | tion—get farther and farther away from that cold, calm | nd efficient appraisal of our danger and our needs which called for at a time like this. | The selective draft, applied through local boards as it | 1917, is our greatest insurance against going hay-
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1S so desperately was in WW 11 e.
Sixty days of whooping it up and we'll all “have reli- |
| ment and people:
| is aircraft. we shall expose ourselves and our
Vinson, too, has been long associated with decisions as to how much money is to be appropriated for the Navy, He has said: “You just wait; if that British fleet is destroyed or if it surrenders, you will be mighty glad we are building a fleet for the Atlantic. . . . That British fleet
has been our protection all during the previous years.” 2 ” BVIOUSLY, Mr Vinson has not caught the true significance of airpower or the evidence of
seapower’s subservience to airpower. No lesson, short | of actual air invasion of America, will ever budge |
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. and our third line, mechanized
some experts from their big Navy spending programs. |
In 1933, Lord Rothermere warned England's Parlia- |
increasing any other form of national In Great Britain as in France, powerful | vested interests, professional and industrial, have | grown up around the Army and Navy. These can pull many strings to divert the nation’s money to | those purposes with which they are identified.
“Not a penny should be spent on | armaments | | until this wide breach (airpower) in our defenses has | been closed.
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{DEMOCRAT BALKS
{AT PLANT DRAFT
pressures must be firmly resisted. The nation’s need By A. B. S.
It can no longer be neglected. Otherwise. disaster.’ Lord Rothermere’s prophetic warning applies to | the United States today.
(Mr. Pegler's regular column will appear Monday)
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I regret very much that Presi-
country to terrible | | dent Roosevelt is sponsoring legisla-
ion to conscript industry in peacetimes. This is a direct road to dic-
tatorship which I am now convinced
he is striving for.
With this authority the President can hatch up any pretense for taknewspaper
ing over any industry, and the radio and they have no re-
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views
“reached the point of saturation”
(fries”
{name . If vou are defending the that attempt to destroy selling
(and wage standards bv underselling
land vou belong to a class of individualis- | tic conservatives who believe in the | |“dog-eat-dog”
undermining those standards,
philosophy of life |
[who would be ready to sacrifice their |
closest neighbor or relative for their own selfish purposes
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CONTENDS DEPRESSION
jsay by letting The Times use my full | Roosevelt
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| would ever { Alf Landon campaign.
Gen. Johnson Says—
F. D. R. Continues to Dominate Campaign and if Willkie Doesn't Start Soon It Will Be Too Late
ASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—You certainly have to hand it to the old master in the White House for his ability to keep his show going all by himself and to conduct a brilliant political campaign with« out even seeming to know that one is going on, He is blithely doing that against such handicaps as the third term, the dragooning of the Chicago con vention not only for himself but for Mr. Wallace, the awful domestic record of his Administration and his constant propulsion of a peace-hungry people into a war which is not necessary and a war dictatorship which is hateful. He is doing it in scintillating fashion. He is getting away with it. He isn't even being seriously challenged by what should be his opposition. Maybe Mr. Willkie is just winding up, but he is taking a painfully long time about it and if he doesn't get in there and pitch pretty soon he will tangle himself in his own stretch and the ball game will be all over. Public enthusiasm is a fickle jade. Mr, Willkie's performance in taking the nomination away from the professionals at Philadelphia was as spectacular a show as Mr, Roosevelt's getting the naval and air bases. It captivated the country but, as the Presi« dent knows so well, a popular figure has got to keep the glass balls dancing. Wonders live only nine days —and then, if you don't pull another the customers first begin to yawn and then depart quietly—"walk, not run’—through the nearest entrance.
T is beginning to look as though perhaps the dis appointed Republican pros of Philadelphia are getting it back at Mr, Willkie, None of the giants are yet running interference. Even Joe Martin seems tw be too busy on the floor of the House to be very ace tive in Rushville. Mr, Willkie, himself, apparently relies more on Orrin Root's amateur Willkie clubs than on the Republican Party organizations in the several states, That is a mistake that Mr. Roosevelt never made. He had all kinds of amateur clubs, too. Since he has been President he has had a lot more—with multi« plied influence. They are Paul McNutt's far-flung social security network. Mr. Wallace's AAA organiza tion in every county, the WPA organization all over the place—not to mention NYA, CCC, NLRB, FHA
and wages and hours, N 5 »
HESE don't have to putter around depending on emergency organization and manufactured en« thusiasm. They depend on dough and, Hatch Act or no Hatch Act, money still talks. Mr, Roosevelt has
| 10 billions to spend. Yet, with all that intricate pat-
decentralized regional organization, Mr, never neglected the good old Democratie political organization. On the contrary, he relied on it, rewarded it, reorganized it and built it up to =a greater strength and on a wider range than any Democratic organization had ever known before. Mr, Willkie may have been nominated in spite of the pro-
tern of
| fessionals, but he certainly cannot be elected without
them, He can't be elected without making election issues, | either. The ammunition is there by the ton—caissons | bursting with it. But no shell is worth its cost with« out a gun to shoot it. I didn't expect that any candidate or any party again make the terrific blunders of the But so far this Republican
SATURDAY, SEPT. 7, 1940 } :
gion.” And the religion will be war. ; a course. As one who has voted the| campaign looks enough like it to be its twin
Democratic ticket for 30 vears, 1 Which is promulgated by some of MAKERS BACK WILLKIE shall vote t straight Republican our expert epiglotisarians from the By 'Wm | ticket this yedr, as my personal re-|Safety and seclusion of a sound-
By John T. Flynn
Lemon Did you ever stop to consider that]
MEDIATION SCORES AGAIN
proof room.
N the morning of last July 12 employees of the Railway Express Agency had been scheduled to strike. But on July 10 President Roosevelt moved into the tion and appointed a three-man board to investigate | the dispute and report its findings. Under the National (Railway) Mediation step automatically deterred the strike.
situa
Act, this
In place of ar ugly transportation tie-up, with losses |
1 labor,
employer and public, there was substituted a
sensible, orderly process of fact-finding and recommen- | dation. Hine now, seven weeks or so later, it is announced that | ispute has been settled with satisfaction to both sides. | Tht 1s is the sort of thing, repeated time and again under | the machinery of the mediation act, that encourages this | newspaper to believe that if Congress were to apply the | railroad formula to other interstate industries, strikes in |
this country might become increasingly rare.
Z00 FOR INDIANAPOLIS AYOR SULLIVAN deserves praise for his open-minded | and receptive attitude toward proposals for a munici- | pal zoo in Indianapolis. Instead of glib replies about funds | and other projects, the Mayor has decided to place the pro- | posals before the Park Board for study and discussion. | We hope that the Board will receive the proposal with the same attitude as that of Mayor Sullivan. Indianapolis should
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have a zoo. Smaller cities like Evansville and Lafavette boast small, efficient permanent animal exhibits. In-
d‘anapolis can do likewise.
MAKING A MILLION THE HARD WAY
EP. ALLEN TREADWAY (R. Mass.), ranking minority member of the Ways and Means Committee, is a seasoned veteran in tax legislation. But he confessed in debate that he did not feel qualified to explain the new socalled exces take “pretty much cn faith” from the drafting experts. “Unless I miss my guess,” he said, “it will result in creating some new millionaires anfong the lawyers and accountants who may regard themselves as competent to advise taxpavers how to make out their returns on this bill.” But any bright young man who may consider taking Mr. Treadway’s hint had better first try out his wisdom teeth on a little of the tax language. We quote below one page from the bill (Page 63, being a portion of Section 759). Any voung man who can explain to a taxpayer, a tax collector and a tax judge exactly what this language means should have no trouble whatever earning million-dollar fees. Here it 1s: (hb) Preferentiad Rate Amount of Transferee.—
(1) Taxable vear of exchange in case of control.—In the case of a transferee upon an exchange after the beginning of the first taxable year under this subchapter of a transferor upon such exchange the transferee's preferential rate amount for the taxable year in which the exchange takes place shall be the sum of—
(A) Its preferential rate amount immediately preceding the exchange or its invested capital (computed as if the taxable year closed on the day preceding the day of exchange), whichever is the smeller, multiplied by the number of days in the taxable year up to and including the day of the exchange, plus
(B) Its preferential rate amount for the taxable year after the exchange mulfiplied by the number of days in the taxable vear remaining after the day of the exchange, divided by the number of days in the taxable vear. For the purpose of this paragraph and subsection (c) of this section ‘exchange’ includes a liquidation described in paragraph (5) of this sub-
| curious mixture of admiration for its efficiency. | continually told by men who shriek against the total- | | itarian
s-profits tax bill, which the committee had to |
Analysis Shows Fascist Systems
Far Less Efficient Than Ours
EW YORK, Sept. 7.—Despite all the hatred that 1s expended on Hitler's Germany, there is a
dictators that, nevertheless, they have |
abolished unemployment and have organized their economic systems efficiently. The magazine Factory Manage- | ment produces some figures that seeem to prove that this is a thoroughly false notion. After all. what is an economic svstem for? Its object is to provide the maxi- | mum of goods to its people. Now compare this great, efficient dicta-
buke to this program
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» LISTS FIVE REASONS FOR
SUPPORTING WILLKIE
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torship machine with the product |
of our own so-called slovenly and slipshod democratic system. In the United States a man must work one hour for 7.5 pounds of bread. In Ger- | many his one hour's work will bring him 2.5 pounds of bread. In Italy it will bring him 28 pounds and in Russia 19 pound. That doesn’t sound so enticing, does it? If a man were paid off in butter in the United States he would get 16 pound for an hour's work: | half a pound in German; a fifth of a pound in Russia. If he were paid in beef he would get 2.1 pounds in
| the United States and less than half that in Ger- |
many. He would have to work over four hours in Italy to earn as much beef as he earns in one hour | in the United States
” AY hours to earn a pair of work shoes. A German workman would have to work eight hours. Our American would have to work an hour and a half for a
woman's housedress, a German workman seven hours and an Italian workman 21 hours. ; A week's food for a family of four, cigarets far the family (140), a work shirt and a pair of silk stockings, all bought in the week, would cost an American workman 13.63 hours of labor, a German 44 hours and an Italian 76 hours. This is the system which, while hating its intoler- | ance, its cruelties, its excesses, we actually talk of imi- | tating. Men do not know they are urging imitation of this system. But nevertheless they are. Because they want to subject industry to corporative controls through trade associations, they want to introduce militarism to eliminate unemployment and they want to confer greater and dictatorial powers on the executive. Would it not be a strange piece of irony if, after they had introduced piece by piece into our system these Fascist elements, they discovered that they had got less bread, butter, beef, clothes along with less liberty and less human dignity? Yet we do play with this fire. Under all the confusion and propaganda to get us mixed up in wars we lose sight of the actual direction in which our economic system is drifting.
Words of Gold
RINTING the Congressional Record costs the taxpayers about $50 a page. Many pages these days are filled with political material having nothing to do with business before Congress. On Wednesday, Sept. 4, the following members of Congress put into the Record the material described below, at a cost approximately as stated: Rep. Sweeney (D. Q.), letter from former Rep. O'Connor (D. N. Y.), a New Deal opponent, congratulating James A. Farley on attaining freedom from the “mental burden” of service to President Roosevelt, $60. Rep. Dickstein (D. N. Y), Farley, $22.50. Rep. Merritt (D. N. Y.), speech praising Mr. Farley, $26. Rep. Alexander (R. Minn), newspaper column about the Presidential campaign, $37.50. Rep. Van Zandt (R. Pa.), letter from a Pennsylvanian “Jeffersonian Democrat” telling why he supports Wendell Willkie, $31.
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speech praising Mr.
section, and such exchange shall be deemed to have taken place on the day such liquidation was completed.
Total cost to taxpayers, $177—the Federal tax on 2723 packs of cigarets.
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iso sadly sense, and executive ability
By X. Democrat
Mike Mattingly is out with his
lantern looking for one good rea- |
son for Wendell L. Willkie being selected as President of the United States. I, [middle class, a farmer, and along 'with Mike and thousands of others, have been trying to arrive at a
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too, belong to the great |
Willkie's family, his farms and even his chewing gum may not be interesting to Some; but to the vast majority they make much more wholesome reading than who of the roval family is to get the next divorce. . According to Mike, F. D. R. has the honey; but who, outside the Social Democrats and the common house fly, wants it? n » TAKES ISSUE WITH
MRS. FERGUSON
Wendell
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[patriotic and sensible decision in |g A. Tern Hurtwiz
regard to casting my vote, and for |
that reason I ask the privilege of | listing some of the have convinced me Willkie is the answer. 1. I do not believe that. any man | born with a golden pacifier in his mouth, and who has never relinis able to understand or
that
middle-laboring class. . 2. Willkie has demonstrated his energy. initiative, and intelligence | by earning his way through one of our great universities. It was not handed to him on a golden platter later in life. 3. He knows his United States to coast from actual contact with the people, working beside them in manual labor as well as in the highest executive positions 4. He has proved himself one of | the outstanding executives in the | business world, and there was never |
American workman must work three and a half (3 time in our history when the | courage
United States so greatly needed nor lacked sanity, common as at this period. . . . 5. He believes our America. posite of the
theory of
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Wendell | guson’s
DOG -FAT-DOG’ | By Clarence F. Lafferty To T. E. B.: When I write to the |
having | Forum I back up what I have to
in the future of | This is the exact op- |
"Please, dear!—| bought a suit and topcoat that you like— how about letting me buy a necktie that | like?"
N~ doubt vou will receive many
“A Woman's Viewpoint”
(Aug. 31, because I know many Christians today that do not need “the reminiscences of scientists to keep up their courage and fait
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There is no doubt but what Mrs. |
(Walter Ferguson, and Henry Thomas Ph. D. need the scientists to help them keep up their courage ana faith because they do not believe the Bible. They believe it took “40 million years for the ape to develop into the ape man, 300 thousand years to learn to walk on two feet, and another process of about 200 thousand more vears for the first hairy ancestor of the human race to appear on the
{face of the earth.” Therefore they
cannot know the fullness of a Chris-
tian's life, who has faith in the liv-| cALLS
ing God and looks to that God for
PUTS CRITICS IN GROUP
Side Glances—By Galbraith
Frederick Stokes |
civilizing |
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the same clique that caused the Wall Street crash in 1928 now con- | trols the Republican Party and its
Presidential candidate? They copied the best points of the Democratic
platform to fool labor and the farm-| =
er and will repudiate it and substitute one of their Wall Street. It means the open shop and Yepsal of legislation that benefits the farmer, free competition for the masses | who will be crucified on the altar of economy for the benefit of the select few. .
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things which | letters concerning Mrs. Walter Fer- URGES SOLDIERS’ PAY BE of RAISED TO §50 A MONTH
there are By a Father Who Has Three Eligible
Would you trade places with the
nh.’ boys in Britain for $30 per? I see in The Times of many Kick-
ing compulsory training. Now to | those who have work and to those who have incomes, I would suggest a 2 per cent income tax to those who are exempt, from the boot~black to the President of the U A., and pay the boys $50 per. That is no better than the average man makes This would last for the] time of training and the duration | of war, if any. Do unto others for what they do for you. J] » 5 WILLKIE “TOOL” OF WALL STREET
By E. §. Brown
Since you have taken Republican | Wall Street” | bombs qn defenseless fellow creatures. Wendell L. Willkie as your political | idol it is plainly evident that you
want some more Wall St. dictator-|
candidate “Turn-coat,
ship in government. Mr. Willkie is a pledged tool of Wall Street. He will “if and when” elected ask Congress to repeal every
[part and parcel of all New Deal
legislation and all of you Willkie supporters know that I am right in
my belief.
Mr. Willkie shows himself to be a bully in challenging the President for a debate, also utter disregard for the sacredness of the highest office | that this country can give to any [ honorable Amer ican citizen when | he issues a challenge to the President for a debate upon the Wall
| Street issues
MY MOTHER By MAIDA L. STECKELMAN
Ah' Don't smooth them out, Those lines in your face— They are lovely, etched there like fragile old lace: They tell such a story, And in beauty they trace Every deed, every heartache Stored in memory's rose vase, They whisper of sorrow, That all mother’s know Who have laid to rest gently a babe neath the snow— They speak of dim dreams— Great thoughts in repose— All woven together—white lace and old rose.
DAILY THOUGHT
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.— Luke 11:34.
EVIL IS wrought by want of thought, as well as by want of heart.
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A Woman's Viewpoint ‘By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
OTHERHOOD is no substitute for intelligence,
foresight and strength. Jay Franklin. eolumn= 1st, savs so, and we heartily agree. He contends further that women love their children through blind | instinct, but that father love is of a higher moral character. Frankly, we think he's off his mental base there. ‘In the normal order of things.” writes Mr. Franklin, “men know that children must face life without the aid of parents.” Okay. But is it in the normal order of things for loving parents to plan conflicts in which their children will have to sacrifice life and comfort and happiness in the future? The masculine and feminine attitude toward war is the point under discussion, as you have probably guessed. Mr. Franklin takes sly pokes at the notion that strong men and women should still believe in Peace or hope for its attainment, It's the popular
| attitude these days.
And woman is the fall guy. Being the fall guy, she is accused of softish and traitorous tendencies if ~he sn much as questions the wisdom of preparations for aggressive war, or of having her children saddled with military regimentation. Yet, soft as they are, women are usually as hard and brave as men in emergencies. Those funny ine stincts which Nature implanted in them for race preservation come in mighty handy when the men
are down and out and have exhausted themselves -
with fighting Mr. Franklin adopts the usual masculine sophistry —that war makes us strong and noble. is refuted at every turn, men go on assuming that the highest test of courage is a willingness to fling
In fact, it is evident we are making ready tn fight Hitler and Fascism by adopting the methods of both—= a sort of dog eat dog idea. This may be a fine plan for emergencies, and we face one. Very well, let's call it that, and not preen ourselves with the delusion that, by taking over the practices of barbarians, we are doing our children a great favor.
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
WOMAN is not likely to tell any one when she passes her 35th birthday, but she should mark the date well in her own mind and it might be a good idea to make the birthday an occasion for a visit to her doctor for a healt® check-up. From the age of 35 years to the age of 54 years, women need especially to be on guard against cancer, This dreaded malady may attack people of any age, but statistics show that it is the chief cause of death among women in the 35-45 year age group If you are a woman in this age group, be warned but do not be frightened. The kinds of cancer which women are most likely to develop, cancer of the breast and cancer of the uterus, are curable in three out of four cases, if taken in time. The reason for a woman's being on guard against cancer after the age of 35 is so that she and her doctor will be able to take the proper steps while there is yet time to cure the cancer. Every woman, and every man, too, should know the following danger signals that may mean cancer: 1. Any persistent lump or thickening, especially in the breast.
2. Any irregular bleeding or discharge from any - ,
body opening. Do not take it for granted that such bleeding is part of the change of life. See a doctor to make sure it is not a sign of cancer, 3. Any persistent and unexplained indigestion. 4. Any sore that does not heal normally, especially about the tongue, mouth or lips. 5. Any sudden change in the form or rate of growth of a mole or wart. Try not to let the appearance of any of these signs throw you into a panic. They may not mean cancer, But only a doctor can tell that. If you give him a chance to find out right away, you will save yourself much needless mental anguish in case it is not cancer, In case it is cancer, you may save your life by going
promptly to your doctor for diagnosis and treatment, :
Although this
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