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Your He aIth
-BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBhIN-

"HERE was a time when one would think OF
mentioning a rupture or hernia in polite society,"
let alone INDUCING in scientific discussion OF Its
care But nowadays persons are being educated about
all the different conditions that may disturb their
anatomes.
Much discussion has centered around whether a
hernia or rupture should be treated by surgery or by
the new injection method Opinions vary according
TO the experience of those who doing the work.
One writer on health subjects has constituted
hme!f champion of the so-called injection method
of treating ruptures, basng his arguments appar-
emily on the successful results reported by few
men who specialize in this technique.
A RUPTURE is merely the protruSion of the con-
N tents of the abdomen through a weak place in
the wall. This makes a lump at the point where
the organs force their way toward the surface.
One of the weak spots is in the midline between
the large muscles that pass from the end OF the
chest downward. Another common place for
rupture is in the groin at the bottom of the alb
dominal cavity.
A surgeon operates on these conditions first by
pushing back the organs which eXtrude, then find
ing the weak spot and sewing the tissues together
to make a solid wall.
In the injection method the extruding tissues
are pushed back; then a substance which sets up
inflammation or irritation is injected, to cause in
flammatory reaction in the tissues and cause them
to heal together.
THERE are many causes for ruptures. Sometimes
i they are present at birth, sometimes they
associated with the lifting of heavy objects, or with
exceptional strains such occur with laborers and
athletes.
Sometimes they are associated with excessive
fat and occasionally they from failure to heal
after a surgical operation.
good many persons who have very small rup
lures are able to obtain relief by wearing truss
support which holds the tissue in place and gives OPP
portunity for healing Hernias of long standing
however likely to increase in size if they are
not treated.
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Times Books

lust Machiavell wrote a practical handbook
y for guidance of dictators of his age so now j. H
Wallis has written similar book for modern poll
ticians, He has entitled it The Politician: His
Habits Outcries and Protective Colorings" tSokes;
So, and it is richly cynical bit of work
Citing chapter and from the unlimited rec
ord of American public life, Mr.. Wallis undertakes
to show just how a should behave to succeed
in politics
He takes it for granted that the politicians one
aim is and must be to get elected No principles can
stand in his way; indeed, Mr. Wallis suggests that
complete absence of principle is the best equipment
politician can have. His idea must be to please
the electorate.
How is this to be done? Be of humble birth IL
possible advises Mr.. Wallis; be a sef-made man,
ignore the nicetes of dress and manners, be home
spun and ostentatiously simple
NEVER try to lead the electorate; devote your
y self to following it, learn which national groups
you can safely attack and which you must placate
cultivate the art of denouncing things and people
which every disikes. get the straddle down pat
and so on.
Mr. Wallis quotes literally from the record cit
ing the of practically every politician from
Roosevelt and Hoover down to the late Huey Long,
He says that his favorite politician all things
considered. is Hamilton Fish: he comes the closest
to measuring up to the ideal.
Considering the ideal" that Mr. Wallis sets forth.
that IS about as far from being a compliment it
could possibly be.
This book is a liberal education and it will pro-
woke you TO despairing laughter by Bruce Catton)
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The Gentleman KnOws His Trade

I TSELESS idle. stupid conversation is much the
~ habit of the human breed that people are
amazed at the phenomenon of a Negro boy, pitched
into prominence. who uses just enough speech to
press himself beyond any possibility of misunder-
standing and, having done so, shuts up.
In action, too we'll as in conversation. the
Louis boy knows precisely what he wants to do and
how to do it. Then he does it and is through More
fashy or stylish prize fighters twrl their toes
squat, crouch fail the air with meaningless feints
and pot-shotS.
But Louis uses his hands only for punching, never
wasting stroke or even much as a twitch of
glove, and in both his fights in New York each blow
took perceptible toll of his opponents strength
til finally the big one brought the critter tumbng
down.
1t would have to be a great nation in which every
citizen good at his line of work and the gov
eminent effective Joe Louis is at his and people
with nothing to say could say in less than thou
sand words.
1 am acutey sef-conscious at this point. feeling
that ali this could have been pointed out in much
less wordage.
Copyright 1885 by United Feature Syndicate.
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He's Free of All Risks

OF course, Mr. Mccarthy is a pro, and -reticence
~ in a radio man is not to be expected but Joe
Louis by contrast calling attention to the utter
uSeleSSneSS and worse, of most of the wordage that
falls from the lips of human beings. People we're
given speech to express themselves to one another
but the abuse of that gift starts fights and feuds
disrups friendships provokes riots and bores people
to exhaustion
Joe Louis is happily free of the risks which lie in
the tactleSS jest idle gossip about his friends total
strangers and the one word which leads to another
and finally to atethrowing and divorce His betters
may sit in the cocktail bar lean the back fence
Sitting the Threats of mutual friends with confidential
Understand, I like him, but'-and live to regret
overSpeaking.
But Louis will not True he will never come to
be known ore of the wits of his time, although.
for a fact, he does compress an amazing amount of
meaning and even some humor into the tiny capsules
of his short answers But, on the other hand, most
wits over-rated and rely cruelty to earn their
regulations and their cheap. momentary applause.
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Today S Science
by DAVID DIETZ :

CATURN alone of the planets remains in the night
- skies as summer turns to autumn and the shift
ing consultations that winter is not far be-
hind
Bright Venus glowed with unusual brilliance in
the western sky through most of the summer So
old Jupiter and rudy Mars. But only Saturn
shining with a solemn yellow light remains
When the sun reaches the autumnal equinox it is
then overhead at the earthS equator rising exactly
in the East and setting exactly in the West. Day
and night are then equal in length
Ever since the first day of summer. the longest
day of the year the days have been growing shorter
But day was still longer than night. Now the bal
changes.
The sun is crossing the celestial equator and en-
tering the southern hemisphere. Now days will be
shorter than nights Each day the will rise
little further south of east. climb little less high
into the sky at noon set little further south of
West. This will continue until the sun reaches its
farthest south. the winter solstice,
IF you look to the north in the early part of the
evening, you will note that the Big Dipper is be-
tween the north star and the horizon the two point
ers pointing back upward into the sky to indicate
Polaris, the north star
When the dpper occupies this position in the
early part of the evening. it is a symbol that the
leaves Will be turning red and gold and brown.
that the winds will soon be growing stronger and
colder.
Another sign of autumn shines in the eastern sky.
low upon the horizon. Taurus the celestial bull has
MADE his appearance. Few consultations are
interesting than this one containing it does the
beautiful star Aldebaran, the Hyades and the
Peiaces.
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An ErcLlnnne of Jobs

ATOW while it is true that a subtle kind of stab
~ bling is possible to the book critic and denied
To the dramatic reviewer think it is asking little
two much TO expect the lay subscriber to do most OF
his reading between the lines And, therefore, have
a suggestion to make in order to assure little more
oil for playwrghts and far greater amount of salt
for wounded nOveStS
Let every managing editor in the country shift
critics for a year Let the kindly bookish COM
mentatoIs undertake to nurse the theater oacK 10
health while the Overcandid reporters on dramatic
affairs stiffen the backboneS of our ctioneerS by
somewhat more rigorous massage than they have
been receiving in the last few years.
MY own opinion is that the American theater Is
somewhat in advance of the American novel, al
though I am quite ready to admit that the latter
form is far more eXactng. I do not think that
novelists and short story writer's have proSpered
greatly in this coddling age 1t is time for them to
face the facts.
After all rejection does imply lack OF merit.
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The Butcher and the MatadOr

NTOW it is unlikely that book critics and dramatic
N reviewers vary very much under the skin 1t is
merely that the two groups are dealing with diff
ferent set of catchwords.
If a book column says that Mr. Roe Johns "Des-
pair" Is perhaps the most significant American
novel written in this generation, you have the right
to expect that here will be paSsable bit of light
summer fiction II is only when the critic says that
A book is moderately good" that the reader should
run for his life.
Accordingly the faint damns' of the literary
reviewer may be just Furnishing as brutal barbs
of the dramatic critics once you have learned the
respective vocabuaries rapier thrust between the
ribs can exterminate you successfully as Ratchet
blow between the eyes The book reviewer is the
matador of criticism The dramatic critic is a man
IN the Chicago stockyards.
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Literary Notes

According to James B. Ponds magazine, Program.
Louis Bromfed, who has not done any lecturing for
some time will return to the platform for few,
but choice" lectures this fall
Hugh j. Kelly, assistant to the president and
rowing center of McGraw-Hl has an article called
Right Titles Sell Books" in the current issue Of
Advertising and Selling"
The origin of the use of the word gazette" IN
connection with newspapers can be traced back TO
the sixteenth century in Venice, according TO The
Columbia Encyclopedia" which will be published
Oct IT. In 1856 the Venetian government posted the
"Notize Scritte," for which readers paid small Fee
This fee known "gazetta."
Edward c. Aswell, formerly of the Atlantic
and the Forum has joined the editorial staff OF
Harper g. Bros
Tomorrow Publishers BOB Fourth-av, will soon
issue two pamphlets One written by Walter Wilson.
Ceas with the use of the militia during strikes Inc
ether is a 20 000-word pamphlet by Ben Blake, Har-
ward graduate and associate editor OF New Tneater
Magazine tracing the development of the new thea
ter movement in America.
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War and Self Deception

speakers stoned from the platform. and free speech
stranged by hordes of furious men who in their
secret hearts are still at one with those stoned
speakers-as earlier-but do not dare to say so.
And now the whole nation-pupit and all-will
take up the cry and shout itself hoarse. end
mob any honest man who ventures to open his
mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to
open
Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, put
ting the blame upon the nation that is attacked,
and every man will be glad of those conscience
soothing falsities, and will diligently study them,
and refuse to examine any refutations of Them and
thus he will by and by convince himself that the
war is Just and will thank God for the better sleep
he enjoys after this process of grotesque self
deception
Marx Twain, IN his mysterious Stranger"
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"T~HERE has never been a just one, never an
Il honorable Qne-on the part OF the lnStlgator
of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and
this rule will never change in so many as half a
dozen instances The loud little handful-as usual
will shout for the war.
The pulpit will-warily and cautiously-object
at first the great big, dull bulk of the nation
will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why
there should be war, and will say, earnestly and
Indignantly 1T is unjust and dshonorable, and
there is no necessity for it. Then the handful will
shout louder.
"A few fair men on the other side will argue and
reason against the with speech and pen, and at
first will have hearing and be applauded; but it
will not last long, those others will outshout Them
and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out
and lose popularity.
Before long you will see this curious thing; the
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Enlistment of his happy condi-
ton the Colonel saw mo inSuper-
able obstacle" Indeed, it was
simplicity itself. Once the war
was ended and the necessary
territorial alignments made" Col
House had decided, the "best
guarantee of peace" would lie in
every European nation "guaran-
teeing the territorial integrity of
every other nation"
TN addition it would be we'll to
Il suppress the private man
ufacture of ornaments and to
make sure that "all sources of
national irritation were removed
so that no sore spot can grow into
a malignant disease"
3 Thus did Col. House. seeking to
establish the bases for American
mediation in October, 1914, out
line the central ideas upon which
the Versailles Treaty and the
League of Nations were in fact to
be erected five years later.
By the beginning of December
Col. House was becoming urgent.
The country was really suffering
under the effects Of the war; and
Congress. in which those Southern
and Western sections which
suffered most were heavily rep
resented, was about to convene.
With military stalemate IN
Europe apparently offering the OPP
portunity, the domestic pressure
upon Mr.. Wilson to offer his
services once more as peace
maker was growing severe.
Suddenly on Dec. 20 there APP
peared Sir Edwards answer to the
artful cable which House and
Spring Rice had concocted far
back in September.
The British Foreign Minister
now agreed that 1T would not be
a good thing for the Allies to
stand out against proposal
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American prosperity or to the AL
lied war effort which it would
have been later on.
TTNFORTUNATELY few we're
- alive in those days to the i'm
pOrtance of practical, as distin-
guished from formal, neutrality.
The Morgans we're allowed to set
up their purchasing agency and
our earnest seekers after contracts
to continue unchecked.
The Allies could buy from us;
the Germans could not, and could
not prevent the Allies from doing
so, and that seemed all there was
to it. But suppose the Germans
should react against this Situa-
ton? That they might invent a
way occurred to no one.
And on Nov. 7, just as MIR.
Schwab was happily invading i'm
portant Offices in London, the
chief of the German naval staff
was laying before Grand Admiral
Won Tirpitz "a draft of declara-
ton of the submarine blockade of
the whole coast of Great Britain
and Ireland"
In September the first efforts of
Col. House as a peacemaker had
not turned out we'll, but that only
led him, from october onward, to
enlarge his ideas
In his long letter to Page on
Oct. he had endeavored to re-
view his immense problem, to con-
slider actual peace terms, to pro-
ject some idea of the future which
he should aim to create.
The Allies, he thought, could
readily stand on the general prop
osition that only enduring peace
will satisfy them" and to the es-
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merce with the civil populations
of Germany and Austria unhin-
dered.
This position it was essential for
the Allies to overcome if they were
to apply their economic pressure,
and through a series of ingenious
devices they now proceeded to
overcome it.
The first requisite was to trans
fer to their lists of absolute con-
traband" Specific war munitions)
every article of peace-time COM
merce which they thought could
be included without too much risk
of protest from the United States.
Practically everything else became
conditional contraband."
Conditional contraband could be
conhscated only upon proof of its
destination to the armed forces
of the enemy; it was the British
prize courts, however, which
passed upon the proof .-.
The contraband rules as inter
preted and enforced by the over
whelming Allied command of the
sea lanes, were alone enough to
end practically all the direct trade
into German and Austrian ports.
u
THERE remained the indirect
Il trade by way of the European
neutrals. On this matter the claw"
was more dubious, but the doc
trine of continuous voyage"
which had been stoutly upheld by
the United States in the Civil
War, could be cited to authorize
the enforcement of the contra
band rules against this trade as
we'll
On Nov. 4 Secretary Bryan re-
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which embraced indemnity to
Belgium and satisfactory plan
for disarmament"
House was delighted with such
evidence of progress; he laid the
cable before Mr.. Wilson, who was
"elated" and wanted to know
whether I could go to Europe as
early as the coming Saturday"
DUT two days before Christmas,
- just as House was preparing
to take ship upon his new mission
of peace, Spring Rice brought
word of another cable from Sir
Edward.
In agreeing to consider peace on
the basis of a Belgian indemnity
and disarmament, it now APP
peared, the foreign minister had
been expressing only personal
opinion. He had not taken it up
even with his cabinet, much less
with his allies.
More than that, there were,
after all, certain territorial ques-
lions to be Observation-Disclosures
Lorraine, Constantinople to Russia.
perhaps. =.
Col. House was an amateur in
the hands OF masters. The colonel
and the President, to whom he
took this news. decided to drop it
until they heard more from the
Allies.
For the colonel and the Presi-
dent had resolved not to Offend the
sensibilities of either side" Actu-
ally they had far less fear of
offending German sensibilities
than those of the Allies; but it
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million dollar gate and the era OF
wonderful nonsense. Mr.. Nc
Carthy, a professional chatterbox,
swung out into space, scared.
spun, swooped. turned over on his
back and nestled down to a fluffy
conversational landing, just by
way of asking the colored boy how
he felt.
Fine" said Joe Louis.
Again and again Mr. Mccarthy
took off, on longer and longer
flights to use up his time, hoping
to tempt his subject into a flow
of conversation. but all Joe Louis
had to say was accomplished in a
few SyllableS. They were sensible
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answers the point. brief and sufficient, like the
punches with which he chopped down Max Baer in
the ring Having covered the ground. he said no
more. and this put it up to Mr.. Mccarthy to pro-
vide the persiaee the store laugh and all the jovial
embroidery which constitutes conversation not only
on the radio but in the routine relations of people.
1t was ar anxious 10 minutes for Mr. Carthy,
could detect but the interview progressed it be-
sort Of lesson in efficiency prudence and good
sense.
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EuZnough
BY
WESIBROOK PEGLER

THERE is great establishment over the calm re-
serve of Joe Louis, the sulphur colored Negro
athlete. who does his work without unnecessary con-
versaton or lost motion minds his own business and
hops asleep the instant ne has nothing else to do.
He answers questions Yes" or No" and of the
most puzzling tasks that any interviewer ever tried
was that Of Glenn Mccarthy. the horse park orator.
who undertook 10 engage him in general conversa-
ton on the air few days before the revival of the
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LIOn dnu q HLJIt lot JIlt LItdLtI I
know this to be true. 1t has con-
tributed to my sorrow and my joy.
Indeed, on one occasion it was my
painful task TO pass judgment. on
a one-act play of my own. Being
a dramatic critic at the time, l was
faithful to the tradition and wrote
that it was an effort wholly with
out merit. Now that I am freed
from the vinegar which fills the
veins of conscripted f1rst-nighters I
realize that the little sketch was
not actually as bad as all that. 1t
was only fairly feeble.
When I was a book critic I never
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outright praise of my own products, but 1 did the
next worst thing When it came to the turn of one
of my novels to the gauntlet I refraned from
taking cout at it and permitted the book to pass in
silence.
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ceived official notice from the
British government that there
after the whole of the North Sea
must be considered a military
area"
After declaring the entire North
Sea a military area" the British
went on to warn all merchant
ships of the danger they ran, not
only from mines but also from
Allied vessels searching for "Sus-
piciouS craft" unless they pro-
ceeded in "strict accordance" with
Admiralty sailing directions.
These required all neutral mer-
chant vessels to enter the North
Sea only by way of the Straits of
Dover, where they could be con-
veniently searched in the Downs.
But if the British were thus al
lowed to change the rules Ito the
disadvantage of the United States
in order to escape an entirely le-
Ultimate use Of a new weapon, could
We properly object if the Germans
should change the rules N order
to make that weapon again ef-
fective?
If we acquiesced in a "modifi-
cation" of international law by
one side on account of new con-
ditions not foreseen when the
precedents we're formulated, must
We not acquiesce in a correspond
ing modification by the other side?
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was only by offending both sides,
and pretty sharply, that they
could have hoped for any success
along the pathway of mediation.
CEVEN months later this truth
- was to dawn upon Col. House,
and he was to glimpse the oppor-
tunity which he had squandered.
On Aug. 4, 1915, the first ami
versary of the war, he wrote:
1.-The Presidents judgm ont
was that last autumn was the time
to discuss peace parleys. 1 be-
lieve if one could have started
peace parleys in November we
could have forced the evacuation
of both France and Belgium and
finally forced a peace which would
have eliminated mllitariSm on land
and sea. The wishes of the Allies
were needed with the result that
the war has now fastened itself
on the vitals of Europe and what
the end may be is beyond the
knowledge of man"
In August, 1915, House may have
overrated las statesmen so fire.
quently do the chances Of sue
cess had he followed a different
course; but it is now clear that
the course which he did follow
was a futile one. The opportu-
nifty did not recur.
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II Seems hM
BY
BROlN

D EVIEWING in New York newspapers seems to
- fall into two classificatons. With very few ex-
ceptions New York dramatic critics belong to the
"Ah hell" school of thought while their brother
book reviewers generally members of the oh
look" cult. Thus an indifferent play will be panned
if it we're major crime while feeble novel will
get by with no more severe comment than the mild
assertion Miss x is not quite up to her usual
standard"
As one vino used to write occasionally for publica-