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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-12
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-12
OLORIFYlNG
YOURSELF
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Poor posture IL one Of the chief
causes OF sagging chin muscles,
Stand In front OF q mirror with
head and chest up, chin IN but not
forced downward or strained. The
mirror will tell you whether or
not you look graceful and IL chin
muscles are being held up. Try
TO maintain that position wlfeth-
or you are standing. sitting or
walking. II you're uncomfortable,
the chances are that You aren't
standing correctly. You should be
perfectly easy and relaxed.
II In better to sleep without II
pillow. IL you can't get along
without one, get a tiny baby pill
low which doesn't prop you up TO
mn almost sitting position, putting
q strain on the back Of your neck
and forcing the head down on the
chest, erowdiBg chin muscles. u
may be little difficult for the
first few nights. but you'1l get used
10 the idea and find that you sleep
liz more beneficial,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-12
PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D.

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-12
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articles by Dr f1siilDelD ON "1tOw
Your Doctor WogIs.v
by DIR NORRIS FIsiiBEiN
Editor. journal Of the American
Medical Association, and Of
iiyReia, the Health Magazine
The real sign of the doctor OF 10,
day, instead Of the rod and SER
pent OF q previous period. IN the
etboseope.
This little machine was brought
into medical practice around 1900.
The story Of IT'S development IL oBs
Of the r0maDces OF medical Drac.
tice.
A French physician named Rene
Laennee was treating n young
artstoeratic woman. Doctors used
10 listen 10 the heart beat ind to
the sounds within the chest by put
ting their ears down on the skin
However, In the charity hospitals
many OF ths patients were Infested
with insects, and II was not very
pleasant for ths doctor 10 carry on
the u0desty Of an earlier genera
ton and the relationships OF the
average person 10 the aristocracy
w.
f0rmaBes for the physician 10 per-
form on H. person Of superior cIass,
Doctor Lasnnec WIS anxious 10
listen 10 the heart beats OF the
young woman snd found himself In
n dilemma. He went out 10 walk
In the gardens OF the Louvre.
There he snw two boys playing
with log, On boy listened AT one
end and the other boy scratched or
tapped at the other end,
Lasnnec said, what are you do
iDgT" The boys explained that the
SOUND passed down the log.
Laennee went back 10 his room
In the hospital, rolled up. a sheet
Of cardboard, and walked into the
patients room. He put one end OF
the tube on his patients chest ana
his ear at the other end Of the tube.
He could hear the heart beats dis
tipctiy.
The FIRST ststbOseODs was called.
because Of its shape, n baton, Grad
uaiiy developments were made in
this device 80 that today the famiI-
lar steth0seOpe has q bstl for col
Letting the sound and two rubber
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-12

eifie meaning. but the idea behind
II. Let's seq what the idea IN.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Aeid0sls and AiisaI0sis

You say acid0sis IL not due 10
wrong diet hut that II IL nn effect
or manifestation Of some disease
Or illness. How about atitaiOsis. I
have aIkai0sis. MRS Il. ca.
AnsWef-The same answer q.
plies,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-12
Your Doctor Worts-No -
DOCTOR HEARS HEART
THROUGH BATON"
StethOscOpe Permits Physician Also 10 Tell Action of
Lungs for Detection Of Various Breathing Diseases

This IL tie third Of . series Of
articles by Dr. FisbbeiB on "IiOw
Your Doctor works.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-02
ACHIEVEMENT

TT is little more profitable right now to look
back at 1888 than to look ahead to 1884
What the coming year may hold for us, the
good Lord only knows; what 1888 brought us
is matter of record. the significance of which
begins to be fully apparent as the year ends,
A lot of things happened, a lot of changes
we're made and a lot of experiments were
begun in the last year; but in some ways the
biggest development of al, was the change
that came over our unemployment relief policy.
Starting with the forestry corps, continu-
ing through the NRA codes, and winding up
with the $4OO,O0O,O 600 public works administra-
ton, we set out for the first time in our his
tory to make jobs for our citizens
We shifted, that is to say, to an entirely
new attitude. We accepted as part of our
social philosophy the proposition that society
owes each individual-not merely a living,
but the chance to earn living.
Here is a change of the most profound sig
nifcance. The Declaration of Independence
itself hardly is packed more with consequences.
For this change implies an entirely new con-
cept of the function and the duty of govern
ment itself.
Traditional1y, our government was sup
posed to do little in time of depression except
to keep the tracks clear for such revival as
private industry might be able to bring about.
Now it's responsibility is almost infinitely
greater.
If great numbers of Americans who are able
and anxious to work can't find jobs it is up
to the government to provide jobs for them
no matter what the obstacles or what the cost.
You don't have to think about this very
long to discover that it could contain the seeds
of changes as sweeping as any the country
ever has seen.
Yet there is no reason for us to be afraid
of what this new attitude may bring us 1t
is drastic and unprecedented. to be sure but
it also is very great step forward along the
difficult road which democracy must travel
in this industrialized era. and as such it is
worth all the risks.
For democracy is a mockery unless the
right of self government is accompanied by the
right to work. A government which guaran-
tees the one must guarantee the other.
To this guarantee 1888 brought us; and
the date will loom large in the history books.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-02
FARMS AND THE FUTURE

TNHREE-FOURTHS Of our farmers produce
l. all that we can consume domestically.
One-half of the farmers now tilling the land
could, if the known technique of agriculture
were employed fully, raise all the farm prod
ucts we need.
This means that we have too many COM
mercial farmers. But even the government
can't go around padlocking farms like it once
did speakeasies.
There is another way to meet this prob
lem: Through a national program of land
planning.
Assistant Secretary Of Agriculture Tugwell
has announced that such a program is being
formulated not for the benefit of the present
generation alone, but also for those to come.
This announcement is one of the most prom
Using longtime proposals to come from the
administration.
Such plan does not touch rural jewellers
alone; it intimately affects the city folk as
well, for it involves the problems of industrial
production and consumption of increased pur-
chasing power, of the crusade to put men to
work.
AS purchasing power rises, and the unem-
ployed no longer have to subsist on inadequate
diets as they are able to buy more clothing,
the need for increased production arises. Here
enters the Roosevelt land plan of retiring
eroded. denuded acres; and of plotting the
production from fertile lands.
This whole problem of land planning has
another fundamental aspect: Shall we at
tempt to live alone or seek foreign markets?
If the former, then we must retire even more
acreage from production.
For the first time" said DR.. Tugwell, the
government is thinking of land as whole.
For the first time we are preparing to build
a land program which will control the use of
that greatest of all natural resources.
The assistant secretary seems to realize the
immense implications of such program He
does not overstate when he says that it even
tually must be provided IF our civilization is
to continue on a broad and wholesome base"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-02
HERE'S A RESOLUTION

VXTERE in 1884. It's new year and we all
w tell ourselves we're starting with clean
slate. There is nothing finer than a good
resolution carried out
Here's one resolution: This year I shall
drive my car with caution and with sanity.
I shall think of others as I sit at the wheel of
my automobile. I shall not become an acct
dent -driver.
That's a good resolution There were too
many, far too many lives lost in Indianapolis
and in Marion county during 1888 as the result
of careless driving
Think just moment How would you like
to pick up this newspaper some day and read
on Page that you were being held as the
driver of car which killed a child? It's
dreadful and shameful. But we can avoid lust
that
Don't go so fast! Don't be so careless!
After all, what's the hurry? Wherever
you're going, what's all the speed for? Will
two minutes make that much difference? Sup
pose you lose five minutesP
Wouldn't you rather lose five minutes than
have your car with you at the Wheel kill
some child.
Let's be sensible. Let's drive carefully.
sanely and slowly It pays.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-02

when the latest annexation had to hunt for
stray collar buttons or a lost umbrella
When two people have loved each other
they can't do a brother and sister act. When
a husband and wife stage such a play it is
because they never loved in a high. romantic
fashion. They never upset each other very
much They never had sheer moments Of
ecstasy. OF course they thought that they
had They would swear it on the Bible, Web
ster's dictionary and the classified telephone
directory. But always there was that brother
and-sister cropping toward each other.
If woman is disturbed emotionally over
a man she can't stand to have another woman
play the lead in his play while she takes a
seat in the wings She will get out She'll
go start play Of her own or make scrapbook
of scenes from the one she knew in case
there aren't any more curtain calls
After all, there may be a few people-a few
men and wonSG1 with an ultra sOphistication-
who can live happily together with man who
has been their husband in turn. But most Of
US still are on speaking acquaintance with a
strange little imp with green eyes who passes
as jealousy We would like to be modern. We
all try hard. But we just couldn't do it,
that's all
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-02
WHEN A LIFE is AT STAKE

CTRANGE. how all the attention of busy
- nation can be focused on the plight of one
tiny babyl
When 5-months-old Sue Trammen of
Texas fell i'll Of malady THAT required the
most delicate of operations, the whole coun-
try held its breath until she had been got
to a hospital where that operation could be
performed properly. A visiting noblernan gave
up the use Of his airplane; one of the lands
best aviators dropped everything to pilot the
child on long and perilous flight; officials of
distant cities did all they could to expedite
matters
And the story of this spectacular flight,
meanwhile, occupied newspaper front pages
from coast to coast and millions of people
waited anxiously to learn how it came out
Strange, and revealing, the way in which
the sympathy Of nation can be focused on
one small baby!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-02
THESE DIVORCES

DATHS always cross somewhere sometime.
l. A man and woman who have seen each
other in cold cream and shaving lather, only
to have their nuptial contract Cancelled at
some future date. are quite likely to meet at
somebody's tea party or the night boat train
to Cherbourg They even may remain friends
and arrange to see each other. After all, we
do live in civilized society.
But they never, never decide that they
will live under the same roof when one or the
other annexes new matrimonial partner. He
doesn't say: Now darling the blue room will
always be yours" In fact. the new heart in
terest in a mans life would not have guest
room if she thought her predecessor was going
TO sleep under the scented sheets.
Christa Winsloe. famous author from
whose book the play. "NIaedchen in Uniform"
was made recently has advanced the theory
that a progression of women who liked one
another. all of whom have been married TO
the same man at one time or another, would
not object to having a common roof shelter
them. The flattered gentleman would be act
ing as husband to his current heart interest
only The others would be an auxiliary So
ciety. wives emeritus one might call them.
But after all. what sense would there be
in a lot Of women sticking around after they
had lost interest in the man? Certainly they
wouldn't be there if they still loved him.
They either would be trying to recover him
or forget him. Not loving him, they would be
bored to ennui to have him singing in the
bath tub, sending back his eggs because they
were a minute overdone, running his hand
over the thinning place on the top of his head
They would much prefer to go out and
make newer. gayer conquestS. After all, they
had him oncel OF course the early entries
might CLEAN a small amount OF self satisfaction
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-02
M. E. Tracy Says:

CUMMONED as witness byNLicense Com
~ missioner Levine, who now is investigating
New York news stands, Herman Klein admitted
that he had obtained a news stands license on
the ground of being disabled veteran He
further admitted that until last July he had
drawn an allowance Of SIS month on the same
ground, though his salary was $1,000 year.
When asked II the injury for which he
claimed to be suffering had been received while
in service he said that it had not
When asked why he didn't limp he said that
his was a fair weather injury and did not bother
him at this time of year.
When asked if he thought it was right for
salarled man to receive compensation under
such circumstances, he justified himself with the
explanation that everybody was doing it."
That probably is the most common excuse for
people to do something which they know is
wrong. 1t lends plausible color to all sorts of
acts and practices. 1t is a most convenient
method of sitting conscience and twisting law.
CO-CALLED experts have done much to teach
~ us the art of being technically good
Through centuries of legal sophistry we have
become adept in telling white lies in making
ourselves believe that silence is the truth though
it leads to a fake impression.
THE letter of the law" as we call it, has be-
come vicious influence. especially when and
If it can be juggled to permit evasion of the
spirit.
Everybody knows why the government allows
compensation to disabled veterans Everybody
admits that such compensation is due where
actual injuries were suffered or where real need
exists. Beyond that, everybody knows the gov
ernments financial condition and how taxpay-
ers are being pressed to get the necessary funds
not only for its maintenance, but for the aid
which it is compelled to render millions of I'M
employed people.
Everybody knows that $18 month would go
far toward helping some poor family and that
a man getting $4,000 a year can do very well
without it.
THERE is nothing mysterious about Mr.
l. Kiein's case. He did not need the money,
but he took it for the simple reason that he
could get it. and he took it with the full knowl-
edge that it was subtracting that amount from
the common good. But he said to himself.
"Everybodys doing it." and he argued that if he
didn't get it some one else would.
There are plenty Of attorneys to prove that
he is rght-for a fee. There are plenty of peo-
ole to accept the proof as all wool and yard
wide. especially if it seems to uphold spurious
philosophy to which they hope to get something
for nothing
Not only our law books but other books are
eluttered with the sophistres and Probabilities
Of expert debate, which serve no purpose more
distinctly than to undermine conscience and
common sense To a measurable extent we
have reasoned ourselves into a state of mind
where fundamental dishonesty can be white
washed with smart epigram.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-02
A Woman's Viewpoint :

THE man who pays an income
i tax differs from one who does
not in a single important particular.
He must make living and keep his
family in society at the same time.
John is as cranky as an old bear
every time he has to leave home in
the evening. I tell him he's letting
himself grow old too quickly Such
is the grievance voiced by many
wives who long to shine in their
large or small social constellation
and who suddenly are alarmed to
discover that their husbands are
rather poor sticks at a party.
And John, making his pathetic
efforts to play the role of carefree
gigolo and practice the dissem-
blings fit for drawing room and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-02

If man was unfortunate enough
to have wife incapable Of under
standing what went on in the bust
ness world, he was subjected to a
doubly difficult ordeal.
We shall all agree that men need
a certain amount of social relaxa-
ton. but why not permit our hus-
bands to select their own particular
kind Of recreation? I daresay few
Of them are able to do that Some
men have about as much social free
dom as poodle upon a leash.
When society became a cfession
with married women they apparent
ly forgot that entertainment was
intended to be diversion and not a
task for guests.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-02
KEEP AN EYE ON THEM
CONGRESS- meets tomorrow.

A NO4NGEN1LCO ul6SlS lOlIO4IOW.
~ Everything seems to be quiet and har-
mony is reigning along the Potomac as the
new year gets underway.
But it will be a unique session of congress
if there are no rebels, none who dares spring
up with obsructionist stunts. and tricks to
pull out Of sleeves for greedy vicious special
interests. by no means dead
1t will be well worth while for us in Indiana
to keep a weather eye on our senators and
congressman. We are going through wonder
full period period Of transition from the rule
of tyrannical capitalism to apparently liberal
democracy.
Our indianapolis senators and congressman
have been known in the past to veer from the
Straight and narrow" Perhaps our votes
count Let's watch the gentlemen and then
act accordingly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-02

visions of the motor vehicle oper-
ators law absolutely is erroneous,
both in fact as well as substance.
This law does not apply in any
way to the issuance of automobile
plates and no one is required to
take out this insurance unless he is
participant in an accident in which
property damage is shown or serious
injury to persons is inflicted.
Even in this case the only penalty
that can be enforced is that if the
perpetrator of the accident finan-
cially is unable to meet the pro-
visions of the law, he can be de-
prived Of the use of his car until
he is able to meet the requirements.
This automobile game is getting
to be a big racket, anyway. They
are being taxed almost to the point
of extinction. The owners would
be justified if they were to put their
cars away and let the collectors
figure out the way to find another
golden goose to fleece. For years
the state highway commission was
the main recipients of the gasoline
tax and what they did to the peo-
pie. That makes it nice for the
window trimmers," however, be-
cause the Chevrolet has the largest
volume of sales at the present time.
Ho, hum.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-02
BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

night club, is a figure that would
move the heart Of any one less dis
corning than wife. For wives sell
dom regard their own husbands as
individuals-they think Of them
merely as possessions.
= 4
THE last four years have been
l. trying ones for all our Johns.
Bodies. nerves, hearts have been
subjected to unusual strains. The
process Of preserving a business that
every day appeared to be upon the
verge Of dissolution, and of main
tanning the standard of living
previously set by the family, was
quite enough to send good many
of them to the sanatorium or the
cemetery,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-02
PAN-AMERICAN PROGRESS

COOKING back at the just-fnished Pan
American conference at Montevideo, one
is compelled to admit that State Secretary
Corden Hull deserves to have a few choice
bouquets tossed his way
It isn't often that the United States can
look back on any international conference
with the feeling that anything especially
worth while actually has been accomplished
This conference, however, was different.
better understanding between this ma
ton and its southern neighbors really seems
to have been achieved. The groundwork has
been laid for genuine cooperation in the
future; for a continuance of peaceful rela-
lions, for betterment of understanding. and
for revival of that trade which all the coun-
tries need
In no small measure this is due to the tact
and vision of Mr.. Hull He had rather tick
llsh job to perform, and he performed it we'll.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-02
In Protest
By Arthur Cremin.

BY Arthur Cremin.
I resent exceedingly the implica-
ton suggested in The Jazz Idea, z"
short subject published by your pa
per on my recent lecture Resolved,
That Certain Types of Music Must
Be Censored" I suggest that you
acquaint yourself with the entire
lecture enclosed and publish a full
retraction and apology so that your
readers are made aware of the Sc
robustness of the lecture and the
righteousness of the subject pub
lished.
I hope that in the future state
ments published by your paper are
the result of careful and intelligent
investigation, and not the result of
superficial antagonismS; which when
utilized as such keep your readers
in moods of intense restlessness.
Some newspapers already have
published full retractions or apol-
ogies though the article in question
is a syndicated one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-02
BY Mrs. W. A. Collins.

BY Mrs. W. A. Collins.
After an election, the victorious
Governor always calls a round table
conference, all committeeman, chair
men and loyal workers are invited.
Did Pleas and Paul do that? No.
Pleas ran real Democrats from the
Statehouse.
The Twins were not satisfied be-
cause Paul ran some 10000 votes
behind the national ticket. They
would build up an organization of
staunch McNutt committeeman and
ward chairmen, that would permit
Paul to pick the next city ticket
and by the time another national
election rolled around Paul would
have 100 per cent McNutt backing.
So Pleas, our Hitler, whitfield off
the loyal Democrats who had stood
by the party in its lean years.
Paul promised tax reform. I won
der how many citizens realize that
you pay a three-Way tax on every
dollar you earn. Federal tax, sales
tax, gasoline tax, property and per-
sOnal taxes.
An 80-year-old aunt, who had
reared and educated two school
teacher nieces, once remarked, Book
lernin' makes fool of some peo-
pie" 1t certainly has you buffa-
loed, Paul. The last shreds of de-
cency have fallen from the Demo-
Gratis under your leadership. You