Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1940 — Page 14

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Give Light and the People Will Find Thetr Own Way MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,,1940

“ON ORDER”

HE War Department has just announced that it has contracted for $51,050,000 worth.of ammunition and smokeless powder from the Indiana ordnance works of Charlestown, Ind., and the Ravenna Ordnance Works at. Ravenna, O. | : Sounds pretty impressive, doesn’t it, to say that more than 50 million dollars’ worth of ammunition and powder is “on order”? But, as with some of our other “on order” defenses, the impressiveness decreases in the light of facts. In this case, the facts are {hat these plants have not even been completed. :

WILLKIE, CHURCHILL AND “THE PURGE”

HE full force of the Willkie San Francisco speech will be appreciated even niore if one turns memory back to that night in Madison Square Garden in October, 1936, and recalls the Rooseveltian boast that in his first Admin- ~ istration the forces or his opposition had met their match and that in his second they would meet their master. Came the so-cailed mandate in November, -~ Then talk of the breathing sp2l!, which never came off.

Reforms necessary to restrain and control the business |

excesses of the lush Twenties had been instituted in the first Roosevelt Administration. The second Administration set out on a punitive crusade to prove who was master. The Supreme Court packing bill was the most conspicuous of the assaults. And there were innumerable flank attacks. Industry had been spanked. Now it had to be flogged. That this was a capitalistic nation and that the business of the country was business, was forgotten in the melee; that only by increased industrial volume could recovery be ‘attained, our idle re-employed and our debt liquidated—that was also forgotten. The victor had to get even with the Liberty League and those who luxuriated in the well-stocked clubs. Class feeling was stirred to a | high pitéch. There was plenty of reason, in view of the unfairness of the 1926 campaign attacks against Mr. Roosevelt, for him to be angry and to seek retribution. That was human. 1t had been a hate-Roosevelt campaign. Perhaps only a man of the stature of Lincoln could have risen above the impulse. o We Giirow in here some quotations from our favorite author—from an editorial appearing .in this newspaper on the day after the. 1936 election: “Whether he lives up to the magnitude of his chance, | as he has in his firsi four years, will be determined, wet ‘believe, in a very large degree by whether he has within | him that rare capacity to rise above those perfectly human

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impulses which prevent most great men from attaining the and (now he stands, |

full measure of their opportunity the victor, with whip in hand, if he wants [to use it. he? Or will he throw.it down?

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and pray for them that despitefully use you.’ .

be in direct ratio to the magnanimity and the objectivity which this much maligned President of ours is able to show. The depression has often been likened in its seriousness to a war. Let there be no dark days in this reconstruction.”

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It’s not much of a strain to recall what happened, and nothing more pertinent was ever spoken than that which ) r. Willkie quoted from a Winston Churchill ‘statement in

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| “The Washington Administration has waged so ruth- |

less a war on private enterprise that the United States, with none of the perils and burdens of Europe upon it, is | actually at the present moment leading the world back ints the trough of depression . . . the effect has|been to range the executive of the United States agains all the great | wealth-producing agencies of the cavitalisti system. both sides blood 1s up, and between them in their fury they | can undoubtedly tear the financial and economic strength of the American people io pieces.” : That is what happened. Recovery didn’t come. Says Mr. Willki=: “The New Deal has spent 60 billion |

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and there is less reai security. failed to break throu most part been close to the level of 1920. In eight years ave will have douhled cur national debt. ‘producing enough to supply our own people, and we are not growing enough to keep up with our own birth-rate.” All because of that “internecine war” of which Mr. Churchill wrote back in the first year of the second Roosevelt Administration, in which the “comrades in the new world” during “years of exceptional and not diminishing danger” did not “set an example of strength and stability.

LIFE IN THE OLD NAG YET

; WE see by the papers that the Army is plabning to buy 19,000 horses and build up “the most powerful horse cavalry in history.” Well, they ought to ‘be able to saddle ’em all right. Rep. Ross’ Collins—one Congressman who usually knows what is going on in the War Department—reported last June that the department still had $200,000,000 worth of " saddles and bridles left over from the World War. Or will it be discovered that this equipment is alt obsolete, and that we must have bullet-proof saddles from which will be suspended machine guns synchronized to fire between the legs of a charging stegd?

failed to respond to such a bid for | vengeance against the ingratitude that is sharper than | the serpent’s tooth, and those who have are the ones who | are of the ages—Linceln, who would ‘treat them as if they had never been away,’ and he who said ‘love your enemies, | bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, | The | speed and sureness with which we move from here on will |

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Yet, as of August, 1940, there were more unem- | ployed than there were in 1936. There is less opportunity | The national income has zh the level of 1926, and has for the |

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Chicago Candidate for Prosecutor Once Sat In on Conference Seeking Leniency for Capone on Tax Charge

BICAGO, Sept. 23—The office of County Prosecutor is the most important fort in the defense of any community against organized crime or racketeering. The County Prosecutor can withhold cases from grand juries or present weak cases which produce no indictments, and when

sake of appearances to indict a crook he can throw the case to the gang by mishandling the trial in such a manner as to. result in acquittal .or reversal of a verdict on appeal. This littl lecture is by way of introduction to the. candidacy of the Hon. Oscar F. Nelson, judge of the Supreme Court, for the of-fice-of State's Attorney or County Prosecutor of Cook County, which includes all of Chicago. Judge Nelson is the Republican nominee, but it is 'my belief that Ed Kelly, the boss of the Democratic gang, will support him in an underhand way in the hope of removing Tom Courtney, the Democratic incumbhent, who is no Tom Dewey, to be sure, but is a most unbiddable and unpredictable problem case.

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OURTNEY is a product of the most primitive : type of precinct politics, but he has an ornery ‘streak, and he has snapped at Mr. Kelly, who is his political elder and patron. Considering the fact that the Republican Party is only a parasite on the corrupt Democratic organization in Chicago and Cook County, the latter being, in turn, a tick on the listless body of the whole civic unit, Mr. Kelly could support Judge Nelson without loss of prestige among his gang. Tre Hon. Oscar F. Nelson began his union career with honest zeal 38 years ago as a postal clerk, working a 12-hour night trick in an insanitary building, with one night off each month, for $600 a year. He helped organize the first union of postal clerks, served for a time without pay as local president and in 1910 sacrificed his job by exposing in the press the wretched conditions of the service. He was fired for doing that. This job was paying him $1200 a year, but Nelson soon was elected national president, legislative agent and editor of the National Union of the clerks at the same salary. . So, to do him justice, it will be admitted that Judge Neison, in his early days, fought and took risks for the cause of labor.

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E appeared in the office of the late Edward Brundage, a Republican leader of the time, in company with two other unioneers, one of them a graduate from the speakeasy business, and conferred with Mr. Brundage in the presence of Al Capone and a Republican state Senator named Dan - Serritella, who is an out-and-out underworld’politician. Brundage said Nelson, Capone, Serritella and the two others called to ask him, as political patron of Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson, to intercede with the judge on behalf of Capone, who was due to be sentenced next day for income-tax fraud. He said the labor leaders promised to withdraw labor's opposition to the elevation of Judge Wilkerson to the Court of Appeals if he would go easy on Capone. Capone got 11 years, and organized labor fought | Wilkerson until his name was withdrawn at his own request.

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lieve that he and his fellow unioneers called on! Brundage on political business and, finding Capone present with Serritella, sat there half an hour discussing intimate party matters without . asking Capone to withdraw. He admits sitting in with the champion criminal of the times at al political conference,

Business By John T. Flvnn Nazi Trade Methods a Failure in

South America Prior to the War

EW YORK, Sept. 23.—One effect of the kind of propaganda now being used in this country by Americans who want to defeat Hitler is to weaken | the confidence of Americans in the strength of their own democracy. At every point Hitler and fascism

told we must imitate some phase of Hitlerism to defeat him. The folly of that is nowhere ‘more obvious than in the world of trade. Americans have been led to believe that, in some way, Hitler possessed some almost devilish

South America and “penetrate” that continent with his industrial products. weapon was propaganda and bar- | ter and subsidies to exporters.

trade with

John Abbink, president of Bus-

iress Publishers International Corp., told a gathering

of Hitler's trade methods and our own from some very | simple figures. Here they are: Germany increased her sales to -South from 1932 to 1938 just 3 per cent. The United States increased her sales 70 per cent. This comparison wisely leaves cut the period since the war began.

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N that time she used barter.

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to South America. She carried on propaganda. She | threatened, made love to, cajoled and menaced South | | American buyers. In spite of all that she made an increase which was negligible. We made an amazing | increase. And, more important, we sold our goods and made a profit out of them. Germany bartered hers and, upon the whole, took a loss on almost every shipload she delivered. How long can such a contest last? Who will win | such a contest in the ena? Which nation will emerge with the greatest dividend of good will—the nation that trades freely, depends upon the good will of its

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customers, sells in a market that it does not attempt |

to hedge arcund with all sorts of strange and difficult conditions, -and enables the buyer; exercisiflg a free | choice, to buy on terms that bring him the most for his money; or the nation, necessarily limited in its exchange by the barter technique, which, for political reasons, must impose all sorts of restrictions on its trade and which renders itself obnoxious by local political agitation, aggressive propaganda and a iruenlent exhibition of its might?

| ning easily before our politicians decided to save us,

we had better take a good look before we leap into any | of their strange schemes to imitate Germany's inferior |

method of trading.

Words of Gold

ANY pages printing of which costs the taxpayers about $50 a page—are being filled, these campaign days. with political material having nothing to do with

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"| business béfore Congress. On Thursday, Sept. 19, the

following members of Congress put into The Record the material described below, at a cost approximately as stated: Senator Brown Miller (D. Ark.) Convention, $120. : Senator Minton (D. Ind.), speech by Secretary Ickes on “The New Deal and National Defense,” $62.50. Senator Guffey (D. Pa.), statement on “Why 1 Am for Roosevelt,” $25. Senator Townsend (R. Del), paper editorial, $80.

(D. Mich.,), speech by Senator

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of his district for renominating him, $35. Rep. Ford' (D. Cal.), anti-Willkie speech, $78. Rep. Sabath (D. Ill), anti-Willkie speech, $300. Rep. Angell (R. Ore.), two pro-McNary newspaper editorials, $43. Rep. Gross (R. Pal), torial, $22. Rep. Jonkman (R. Mich.), pro-Willkie editorial, $20. Total cost to taxpayers, $785.50—enough to pay the interest on the present national debt for about nine minutes. .

pro-Willkie newspaper edi-

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Times have changed, and Judge Nelson with them. |

Nelson says Brundage lied, but he asks us to be-'|

are denounced, and then we are,

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of American advertisers that they could get a measure

man exporters, paying them bbtnuses to sell cheap |

As we are winning in the contest, and were win- |

in The Congressional] Record—the |

to the Arkansas Democratic State’

‘Rep. Coffee (D. Wash.), statement thanking voters |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES A Swell Way to Commit Political Suicide]!

MONDAY, SEPT. 23, 1940

” a - { The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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PREFERS WILLKIE AS {HIS COMMANDER | By Harold Smith

Boy! Oh Boy! Are we young | fellows ever getting taken for a ride? If our great, great, the one | and only, all wise leader, Mr+F. D. [R., could pop off to all and sundry | for two years without any guns, ships fthat is excepting those ‘on order”), or soldiers, what a mess he could stir up with an actual army. . . I was taught in school that the President is the commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy. Now wouldn't it be easy for Mr. Roosevelt to use us in any way he saw fit? Asito Mr. Willkie he volunteered and fought in the last war and knows the full horror of it. I don’t think a man like Mr. Roosevelt who sat behind a desk, in the last war can fully appreciate | those horrors. Therefore I personally prefer another commander. This third- term stuff smells, anyway. Whenev this country with: 135,000,000 lind in it- cant find another man to lead us, our hour is come as it came to millions in Europe.

” ” on TERMS WILLKIE'S INTEREST. IN INDIANA ‘BUNK’ {By George the Hoosier Mr. Willkie is playing this ‘native | son stuff for all -there is in it now | that he is a candidate and needs | | support in the Middle West,

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al- | though up to the time he became {a candidate; he- gave but scant] {notice to Indiana. At the time the newspapers were (telling about Willkie setting up | campaign offices in Rushville, it 1s | well-known that Mrs. and Mr. {Willkie were registered to vote in New York City with all his money! ‘bag (Wall Street) associates. He| {should think that we are big] {enough suckers to take in all this! bunk.

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Roosevelt's statement that Government is above business is an impudence | to logic. Business and trade interrelations come first; then we make laws to keep individuals from hurting each other. Government is the slave of business and {its workhorse rather than Govern-

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ment peing the master and business the slave. All business much of it is

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profit, but is exchange ror the bene- |

fit of both the owners. The Government in Washington, D. C,, is not above us, the people, it is our servant; and without our direct support it will decay and so will we. Kelly, Nash, Hague, Flynn, associated as they are with Roosevelt, are the proof of the pudding. |Our timbers have decayed, but the house hasn't quite fallen yet. Perhaps we had better hire a new contractor, a good solid Hoosier | businessman to do some much needed domestic repair work, and throw in a bomb proof basement too. n.-8 ” CONTENDS WILLKIE GAINING, NOT ‘SLIPPING’

By W. C. S. The Roosevelt campaign managers are using a somewhat unlusual whispering plan lo break {down the strength of the Willkie movement, Everywhere they put out | the word that the movement is spending itself, that Willkie is “slipping.” They give two reasons: (1) Willkie stayed in Indiana too long and ‘didn’t talk enough to the (voters, and (2) Willkie travels about too much and talks too freely. ~So continuously have these whispers of the New Dealers been spread that even a few of Willkie's | supporters have become infected and have doubted whether their candidate's popularity is holding up. But whenever the voters have been heard, it has been another

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All tangible evidence demonstrates that Willkie is gaining, and Roosevelt is losing strength. For example: The Maine eleétion where the size of the Republican majority astonished even the most optimistic Willkie supporters; the nomination of Senator Johnson in California

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by overwhelming majorities on three tickets after the President had publicly opposed him as being no longer a liberal; and the recordbreaking crowds that greet Willkie enthusiastically wherever he goes. Oh! Yes! Willkie 1s. slipping rapidly—toward a |landslide victory in November. u

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{FEARS DRAFT A STEP

BACKWARD FOR U. S. By F. P. 1 I am not prejudiced. ... I am in a position where conscription will not affect me. The trend.of events at present is dangerously close to an encroachment upon those liberties I always held as something that made this| country different. Why we progressed so far and fast in every field. Onee certain dictator items are! established . we shall lose - that in-| tangible claim. Without it . . , with a dictated country we shall surely | let pass the free spirit that made our youth eager for advancement and achievement. Such a thing |is .easy to do with those administrative: heads have their years behind them. . . who have nothing to lose. They (have forgotten to look back . {they are lax. Let them remember how they lived through periods in this country’s struggle the enthusiasm . . . the spirit.

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youth and they! would have more {militia than they could use. o | OFFERS ANOTHER REASON FOR SUPPORTING WILLKIE By J. B. P.

Here's another for Mike Mattingly. Lookee, Mike, can't you see nothing, nohow? A while ago I gave you two reasons why you {should not vote for Roosevelt, which, by all sane reasoning, should

you should vote for Willkie. You know, back in ’32 and ’36,! there was a very carefully cultivated nd circulated story that led a lot of chumps to believe that they

‘or his son. Some of these chumps have come out of it since, but there are a flock of them who still fight for their right to be wrong. “Franklin D. Roosevelt”

Side Glances—By

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COPR. sso NEA seavior: we. ¥ , REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF. “We're playing house, Pop—how-do you get a woman to shut up?"

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mean a thing, but the magic name of “Teddy Roosevelt” turned the trick. And the same old gang of tricksters are working hard, right now, to put over the same old guff —and in very many cases they're succeeding. Some of these days some of these | decent people who have some sense | are going to realize that there are thousands upon thousands of other people who haven't any sense, but each- and every one of these brain-

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SEPTEMBER CHORAL By MARY P. DENNY There’s a throb in the air | And a stir everywhere. { The red birds are flying. ‘The North winds are sighing A far requiem of summer : Through first autumn days. And life lives in September haze. The beech woods are ablaze In glad colors of day. The black walnuts are falling, The brown birds are calling. A choral of life rings in the air And autumn time shines everywhere. For bright September is singing And school bells are ringing.

DAILY THOUGHT

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong - drink: | Lest they drink, and forget the | law, and pervert the judgment of Ea i the atflibted, —Proverbs | 3

WINE invents ni nothing; - 1t only tattles. It lets out all secrets.— Schiller, ¢

Gen. Johnson Says—

Fleming Says Wage-Hour Division Is ‘Blameless in Red Caps' Problem, but Income Loss Is. Due to Their Ruling

ASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—My friend Col. Fleming, Y able Administrator of the Wage-and-Hour Law, has written me calling me on a recent column which discussed the trouncing red cap porters got when the new rule of ‘ ‘10 cents a hag” went into effect. If you want to have your bags carried when you get off the train you must pay the porters at least 10 cents each. The porter accounts for all this to the railroad company. If, at the end of the week, the total does notiequal the minimum wage required by the law; the railroad must | make up the difference. As my column explained, the net result has been a serious slash in red caps’ earnings. column put the loss at betwe 10 per cent and 25 - per cent. That brought a Storm of letters and verbal protests from red caps. They say the loss is “nearer 40 per cent.” Col. Fleming does not dispute all this, i objects ‘to my blaming the Wage-and-Hour Division for this result. He says that the railroads and not his admin“istration “devised” the system. Mebbe so, Philip, but | until you began to “administer,” there wasn’t any sucin system and now there is. : a 2 a = HE device,” writes Col. Fleming, “is purely the work of the railroads and their terminal companies. The wage-and-hour division ruled that tips are not wages and required the red caps’ employers to pay them the statutory minimum wage, 30 cents an hour. Several suits had been filed by both| the di= vision and the red caps’ unions. To compel canforma=tion with the Fair Labor Standards Act, the railroads inaugurated the 10-cent plan, and,

graph as I have seen. If “tips were not wa that wage-and-hour ruling produced all this the porters, how do they suddenly become meeting all the requirements of the law” merely because the railroad company grabs them out of the

business is chickenfeed chiseling. : 8. 8. Nn CAN'T believe that there is “nothing we about it legally.” One thing to do about it is to carry the ruling that “tips. were not wages” through to its, logical conclusion that they do not become wages after the railroad has hi-jacked: them out of the porter and paid part of them back again. When 1 tip a porter, I am making a gift or payment to him—not to the railroad company which has no more right to take it away from him than it would have to take any of his other property. Maybe their “union officials understand our posie tion” but that should not be enough for the Wage and-Hour Division. Porters’ unions are not very strong. It is a joke, for example, to talk about maxie mum.-hours for dining car employees and pullman porters. They do not come under Col, Fleming's ad= ministration, but frequently they work 60 hours a week without overtime. What is the answer? The answer is that they are Negroes and so are many of the red caps. Their unions are afraid to call their souls their own. : This Administration which claims to have done so much for both labor and the colored race should be« stir itself in this direction at least from now until: -election. It is an unfair and even an oppressive exe ploitation of a helpless class.

who | - tooter who rips the peaceful atmosphere.

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A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter ‘Ferguson

T'S so mich more fun to do things yourself than to watch others do them. That's why yours truly has gone back to a popular pastime of youth—piano playing—and is one in spirit with the saxophone

If the neighbors do not murder, me as ruthlessly as I murder the music, it will be a delightful rece reation for the winter. And; in general, things are goe ing very well. It is impossible to explain what soul satisfaction comes from the discords made by one’s own fingers when the poor playing of others is so distasteful, But there we have old numan - nature in- a nutshell. And if my playing is nothgoo for what ails the neighbors, it is decidedly good for what ails me. Strange | as it may seem, my distracted nerves ars soothed. Groping, with stiffened fingers for forgotten chords, the familiar airs become heavenly melodies, One is so easily carried away by self-created artist effort. : With every tune pictures of the past come crowde | ing into memory. Strange how the old songs bring |'back scenes and faces which have beef pushed : linto the background for such a long, long time: That group of college friends who harmonized on “8S eet; Adeline”; the beau who turned the pages while| the girl I used to be executed, with flourishes, “In!the Shade of the Old Apple Tree”; and—best picture of all, my Mother's proud face when I sat down to play my first piece for company. The flashes of departed days are as clear as|the colors in a kaleidoscope, and they stir a nostalgia jie | that felt when we look through an old photograph | album. How sweetly the twilight crept into the home par lor to my accompaniment of “Traumerei.” | After all, nothing in life is ever lost as long 28 it is remembered. Ten fingers straying over keys— | and a bygone world is recreated. The past is line | rolled, becoming a scroll upon which some Divine | artist wisely touches up the happy events with vivid | colors and pastels the sad ones. For a blessed instany, yesterday and today are blended and hegame one, |

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

FTER - Johnny or Sister has recovered from measles or mumps or some other of the communicable diseases that children so often get, mother is likely to ask how she should disinfect the house or the room the small patient occupied. She may

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burned sulfur candles under similar circumstances. This old-time ritual, the U. S. Public Health Service points out, “has taken its place with ths leeches and camphor balls on the shelf of impressive but useless preventive medicine.” . Sun, soap and hot water are among the hest of all home disinfectants, this same authority declares, Mothers should know, however, that day-by-day dise infection while the child is sick is more valuable than |

| terminal disinfection after the child has recovered,

This is true not oniy for measles and mumps but for, all communicable, that is, catching or geri diseases. To accomplish this kind of disinfection, and protect others from getting the disease, the patient should be in a room by himself. Keep all members of the family from contact with the patient excapt one and this should be one who has had the disease. All utensils used by the patient should be put di= rectly after use into a kettle of hot soapy water and then boiled for five minutes. Sheets, napkins, towels, | handkerchiefs and clothes should be given the sams

treatment. _ Paper towels, handkerchiefs, cups ang plates that can be burned are useful at such times.

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