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THE STORY SO FAR: Intelligence
Officer Henning's warning that 200,000
foreign troop* were poised in Mexico for
an attack on the United* State* caused
grave concern in army headquarters,
but the people braqded the statement
a* "war mongwring.” Four large south
ern cities were suddenly attacked from
a a a
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the air; Washington was bombed and
the President killed. General Brill, com
mander of the army la Texas, reported
to General Hagne at Washington that he
was opposed by greatly superior forces.
General Hague told him to resist the
enemy's advance at all costs. Brill or
dered Captain Boll to lead the 11th U. S.
A ji if
Infantry Into position tor battle. Boll's
motor column bravely withstood a terrl
bte strafing from enemy aircraft, but
he ordered the men to abandon their
trucks when he observed twenty more
planes approaching. Further resistance
seemed useless to him.
Now continue with the story.
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CHAPTER VIII—Continued
As Boll's eye went back into
the air, his mind was lifted sudden
ly out of the depths of black despair
by a joyous miracle of develop
ment. Those new planes were clos
ing in and he made, otjt by the
shape of wings and ruselage that
they were not Van Hassek planes.
Boll’s hand flashed .out his field
glasses. He glued theqj tp the skie$.
From under* the *ihg| of Vfese ®
rushing squadrons flashed the glo
rious legend *‘U. S. Army.”
American planes plmrpqeted flowp.
Van Hassek’s hornets now were
droning febout in a Lufberry circle
awaiting the developments of attadk.
In a lipinkling the American bird
men projected an audacious assault.
Planes circled, dove, rolled, darted
in the. throes of combat. A plane
came whistling down. Boll’s jaw
tightened as he saw the first casual
ty was an American plane. But
quickly two of Van Hassek’s bird
men crime tumbling out of the sky.
If the Van Hassek pilots had
stalled for reinforcement?, they now
decided upon precipitate flight
against superior number. Another
Van Hassek plane went down. In a
minute the cloud of darting falcons
passed into the distance behind.
A noon sun was burning the baked
hills and swales when Boll’s sur
vivors rolled in on a Second Division
outpost south of Kirk. Soil’s cheek,.
' caked in blood, was throbbing with
pain, his right arm hung stiff and
useless atdiis side. He climbed frppn
the truck and stolidly checked his
command as it came through the
outpogt. Forty-two moaned ip the
throes of wounds, twenty-nine’ had
been left dead alpng the crimson i
road from Laredo.
The outpost commander came hur
* rying up.
Sarpy to report in with my com
mand phot to pieces like this, Colo
nel,” Boll reported in grim dejec
tion. “But the only choice was—
capture. Where’s the hospital, Bir?
My wounded must have care at
once!”
“Eleventh’s men are being evacu
ated to San Antonio, Captain,” the
outpost commander advised. “Colo
nel Denn was killed, total casual
ties over three hundred men. But
maybe that’s not too bad when you
consider our border cavalry was all
gobbled up. The Twelfth and Fifth
are still fighting it out, bqt they
haven’t any more chance than Cus
ter had. From all reconnaissance
reports, we’ll be attacked in force
here before many hours pass. All
right, Boll, get rolling.”
CHAPTER IX
In Washington, Captain: Benning
spent a sleepless nightmare of a
night on the assignment from Flag
will of observing panic-stricken
streets. , ) , . j
\ Daybreak and exhaustion restored
some degree of reason. People
moved about now as if stuwjpd, but
from time to time lo< in0 fearfully
eito the *■' ng at’every
ori of r eafyefs that
jhad beai p principal
§strA«t|(r - .1
’ Traffic jams Anally had been re
duced, steady. streams of cabs and
■cars wire pouring* out of the city on
sail roads. Thousands flocked about
\he railway station clamoring for
standing space on any train that
led away from Washington.
Extra editions of newspapers burst
Into the streets at frequent inter
vals.
Texas invaded. Extras massed -
black headlines over meager dis?
patches fjjoip San Antbpie. Van Has- ,
sek wqs moving , north in. three col
umns. American infantry and cav*-,
airy were fighting him at the Rip
Grande. American Second Division
was moving south to repel the in
vasion. 0 '-1 3 ' J . 3
Another extra dashed but. Wash
ington safe! Benning read eagerly.
It had been as Flagwill guessed.
The night raiders had planted a re
fueling field. Back of the Tennessee
River, southwest from Nashville.
The thing had been camouflaged as
a new airways enterprise, had even
been fostered by ambitious and un
suspecting chambers of commerce.
When the bombers and their con
voys of fighting craft had put down
to fill their tanks after bombing
Washington, a few mounted ma
chine guns had kept curious natives
away. The aircraft had taken all
personnel off at resuming their flight
back to Mexico. Another raid on
Washington would be Impossible—
unless attack could be launched from
the sea.
That subdued hum of relentless ac
tivity filled the Munitions Building.
Faces were lined and gray from
strain and fatigue, but eyes burned
from smudged sockets with stem
resolution.
The night’s panic had swept the
whole country. In the midwest there
had been incredulity at first. The
whole thing seemed too inconceiv
able. Invasions, bomber raids, were
an intangible atrocity occurring to
distant peoples and recorded in dis
patches. liiose inexplicable atroci
ties belonged to the black pages of
Shanghai, Canton, and Madrid.
Already the hue and cry was ris
ing west of the Alleghenies sharp
on the heels of the , first hysterica 1
;waves of fear What, of fheArmy? '
*Why had our aimed forces been
<caughf dappiiig? Why hadn’t tl>e
raiders been detected and shot ]
dowp? j. ^
The first report ot mobillration
of Ajmy Ind* Nanonat Guan^ were
pourfog in. MObnlfatton Was less '
than one fourth complete. The Reg- <
V?1? Was fa attain for
concentration points from its far
flung network of small garrisons ’
whose lpcation had been dictated by i
mfr 0)f commerce and cop- j
gressmen rather than by the necap- i
slties of military training in the vi- j
tal (team-play of larger imits.
Flans were being laid for a call ]
for 500,000 volunteers. That would
have to wait acfion by CongresjB,
blit Congreis could fee depended upon
now to go the limit A draft army
of a million men would come neip.
As for modem equipment, that
would have to wait. There would
be no such thing as buying it In
France and England, even in Can
ada, as at the time of the World
War. A year, or two years, might
elapse before industrial mobilization,
the country’s own resources, coujd
“I have twd reports that will
interest you.” |
provide anything more than the
crudest necessities of combat. If a
majo* war w*s in the offing, thf
country would have to depend upon
toe massed valor of its manpower
to take unequal red losses and drive
through at all qosts.
It was nine o’clock before Colonel
Flagwill stamped in from the Chitf
of Staff’s office. His face was asheA
and fined, but his. level black eye!
glowed vitality i )
\ VWhat ar^ iitfloiioute ” h^|
finuttfered tcuBe|inidg with a torment!
eg shakl of) hi| head. ;Mwiichj wad
to turn, that’s toe question bedevil*
ing all of us.”
‘Tve been reading the rpporta and
recommendations of the staff seel
tions, sir,” Benning answered. “Mgj!
bilization seems to be moving right
along and the panic is cooling off,
even in Washington.”
"Mobilizing is one thing, fighting
another," Flagwill snapped out. "By
tonight, when the Second gats
craqked at Aqtonia, the whole
cpuntry will be howling tor actlqn.
The howl for anti-aircraft is already
pouring in—‘and every ohe of our
teii regiments of anti-aircraft is
short something, a battery or two, a
full ! battalion, or essential equip
ment. Not to mention ammunition.
“The big trouble,is, we don't know
yet yvhat ^ve‘re up against and we’ve
got to play a cautious game. If all
we had to consider was Van Has
sek, we’d rush troops in there and
give him his lesson in a very few
weeks. What the public will not
be able to understand, nor even Con
gress, Is that we’ve got to use most
of our peace-strength army as a
framework for building a national
army.
“But anyhow, come what may
with the future,” Flagwill went on
with a sardonic grin, “the Chief has
just made one ten-strike of a deci
sion. We’re to make our first real
military stand down around Fort
Worth, which is about as far as
Van Hassek would dare go In any
event.”
Flagwill bolted a sandwich and
washed it down with a cup of coffee,
then pulled himself up to his desk.
’Tve two reports that will interest
you, Benning," he announced
abruptly. "First, we’ve a tip from
London that the Coalition espionage
system in the United States is or
ganized to completely wreck our in
dustrial organization. That merely
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A*toUf\ AUmUhq y*utaUm—U
confirms what we’d guessed long
ago. They also suggest that the
enemy espionage |ia« its headquar
ters in New York, tiisguised as some
large corporation, fid de'taill avail
able. Secohd,T h|ve positive Infor
mation that Van Hassek’s bombers
had ground liaison in Washington
last night. Light signals were flashed
from the area of the White House
during both raids."
Benning started. Into his mind
flashed Captain Fincke’s cryptic
statements at the Shdreham.
Promptly he decided against report
ing this conversation for the time
being. He gave Fiagwill a brief ac
count of his discovery of the Aus
trian captain and Colonel Boggio and
explained his logic In not Immediate
ly causing their arrest.
"All right, Benning,” FlagwiH
said, his eyes snapping. "I’U as
sume you made no mistake in not
arresting th'.m last night. But npw
you forget everything else and get
out after them! Use your own judg
ment about when you make arrests,
but see to it they don't get away
from you. I needn’t tell you that
the Coalition spy net is ten times
more dangerous in the long run than
Van Hassek’s present rotten inva
sion.”
CHAPTER X
General Mole sat in the hot shel
ter £>f his command post which had
bfeA Ada by feAgjnters i*ti thq re
verie dope of a squat ridge. He
puffed glumly at the stub of a cigar
as he observed the arrival of his
regimental and battalion command
ers whotn he had stimtrioned from
over his battle position
Planes soared overhead, Ameri
can combat planes covering bis posi
tion against air attack. From time
to time an observation plane dashed
low with a dropped message report
ing progress of the Van Hassek ap
proach. At last word, the main Van
Hassdk column had cleared the Nue
ces kiver after routing a motorized
battalion strong-point that Mole had
sent out to gain contact and delay
the enemy.
Mole’s plan of battle was shaped;
his formal orders had been distribut
ed. Since morning the men had been
digging in.
All his artillery had been dug in
and camouflaged. Here he had an
immense, hastily organized citadel
of mutually supporting strong-points.
Machine guns bad been placed for
the maximum of destructive effect.
The breaking otf one line yielded the
enemy the grim necessity of attack
ing a new one. Roads menacing his
flanks were strongly covered. It
was not such a position as he would
have selected of his own choice,
but since necessity forced it on him.
he meant to make the most of his
opportunities for stubborn re
sistance.
His senior aide-de-camp came up
to him and saluted.
"Sir, the officers are assembled,"
the captain advised.
There was a greenish hue to the
general's „ lean, cadaverous face,
brought by the stress of the past
few days. Hfs eyes were bloodshot
under puffy black, lids, but they
shone with a s^out, even^gliher, that
proclaimed the mastery of will over
flesh. As be stood up to face his
assembled c.cwnifnders, he.was per
fectly contained.
"1 wanted a few words with you
before we go into action, gentle- j
men,” he began in a calm voice. |
“The decision to fight here was I
made for us General Hague. ,
Therefore, ft beeches «ur decision. |
Let me frarigly 4s|y thjt tHe' Army !
is on the spot, that the people
Wouldn't undeystapd the pimple wis
dom of our f$l8n$ back Wimout a
fight, v
He paused, aih pale, bluish lips
drew down into an expression of
bitterness. 1,\ «
“All right* we’Ugo through! We’(l
hold! We’ll *gfvd the fcofintry a netv
tradition to remember! We’ll fight
Van Hassek with one regiment to
four or five! If we’re attacked this
afternoon we’ll fight until night.
We’ll hold through tomorrow. Then
I’ll make my further decision. When
the time comes I’ll give the order
for withdrawal which must be by
night.”
General Mole paused again to look
about among them and then spoke
in slow, biting words.
"Gentlemen, a find word! We’ll
show the country what our mettle
is. We’ll show the enemy what they
can expect to meet once our armies
are mobilized and organized and
trained. Remember this, if we lost
every last man In the Second Divi
sion, our losses would still be only
a fraction of what the good old Sec
ond took In France, even if nobody
remembers that fact but the Sec
ond’s survivors!”
His voice rose to a furious in
tensity and his clenched hand rose
above his head.
“A new Alamo to remember, gen
tlemen! That’s what we’ll give the
country—a new Alamo to remem
ber! Put that thought into the teeth
of your mpn. That’s all!”
(TO BE CONTINUED
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From Sharecropper to Packing Magnate,
Americans Work Hard for Their Living
By HOPE CHAMBERLIN
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
CHICAGO.—In most Amer
ican homes, the “Mrs.” holds
the purse strings . . less
than 50 per cent of American
houses have bath tubs . . .
The least amount of money
that can sustain life is the
three cents a day per person
that the colored sharecrop
pers in Mississippi live on by
eating flour and molasses in
winter . . .
As much money is spent in
Ice cream and soft drinks as
in building houses . , .
These and other down-to-earth
facts are the findings revealed In
“How America Lives," just oft the
presses of the Henry Holt publish
ing house. The full report on how
Americans make their money—and
spend it; what they eat drink, wear
and talk about; what gives them a
kick; where the shoe pinches the
most, and the least; what they
dream of and what they believe in;
and even what they do on Sunday
afternoons was compiled by special
ists who, after traveling to all parts
of the nation during 1940, wrote the
"How - America - Lives" series for
The Ladies’ Home Journal.
The 16 families range from that
of Henry Bracey, Negro Mississippi
sharecropper, whose cash income
last year totaled $26, to the family of
Thomas Wilson, millionaire head of
tiie Wilson Packing company of Chi
cago.
Summary of Study.
And here’s a summary of the
study which was conducted in the
homes of real, warm, typical Amer
icans:
As against the 1940 U. S. census
statement that $22 a week is the sal
ary of the average man in America,
the survey disclosed that a man with
a family of two children needs to
earn at least $35 a week before he
can own his own home, carry insur
ance, and give his children welcome
advantages. And he can do this only
How America Lives . . . "IFhat shall
l wear?” It’s the daily question of a
whole nation of women who have made
up their minds that they want to look
pretty and stay young. And so Amer
ica is giving them what they wunt . . .
at the price they want to pay. They can
buy a unique value in a simple felt hat,
for example, for about 15, or even $3.93,
and know they are getting quality 1
if there is no sickness and if he has
saved up an initial lump sum for
the down payment on his house.
Dream of all American families
to own a home. Chief hurdle is
saving up down payment.
Low points in American living are
American houses—expensive and in
expensive. Although $3,000,000,000
annually goes into new homes, less
than 40 per cent of the houses in
America are in good condition. More
How America Lives . .. They spend
as much on ice cream and soft drinks
as on building houses■ As a nation,
they like to "eat well," and, particu
larly in these times, do eat better than
any other nation in the world. The
average city family spends one-third of
its annual income, or t508, a year for
food. It thrives on good plain cooking
—three square meals a day. Few fam
ilies keep accurate food budgets. They
don't need to—the women are thrifty
shoppers.
than 80 per cent were built without
help from architects. Functionally
they are Inadequate. Aesthetically,
they are unfortunate. They lack
enough closet space) they are hard
to heat; the roof leaks; and they
are so poorly planned that the home
maker walks an extra hundred miles
a year between the front door and
the kitchen.
Kitchens Best Equipped.
High points in American living are
American kitchens—best equipped,
most modem and most used room in
the house. Living room is shabbi
est, dining room barest and least
used.
Ninety-five per cent of the women
In America employ no household
help. Average American homemak
er’s week (in home where there are
growing children) runs 50 to 60
hours—and 24 hours a day, seven
days a week she is "on call" when
the children are little. (Grandmoth
er’s hours were nearly a hundred!)
American boys and girls still help
with the chores, even if they live
in city apartments.
The typical American family’s
credit is good. Majority of fami
lies "pay as they go,” after saving
with a particular goal in view. In
stallment buying records show 98V4
per cent fulfill their payments. Fore
closures in FHA mortgages over five
years have amounted to less than
half of 1 per cent.
Largest single item of American
families’ yearly spending is food—
14 billions, or 28 per cent of the
national income. Conclusive proof
that America as a whole sets a good
table is the fact that the average city
family spends one-third of its annual
income for food. Ten dollars a week
feeds a family of four adequately,
but without many frills. It can be
done for less ... a Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, woman’s food budget was $7
a week for four people.
Food Budget ‘Touchy.’
Touchiest subject among Ameri
can homemakers is the food budget,
about which they become more de
fensive and passionate than about a
national presidential election.
American homemakers have been
made acutely vitamin conscious.
Per capita consumption of vegeta
bles, other than potatoes, has in
creased from 26.36 pounds in 1919-20
to 1923-24 to 31|.36 pounds in 1934-35i
Production an<? shipment of oranges
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This map illustrates the agricultural situation during March as de
scribed by the U. 3. Department of Agriculture.
Government Defines Proper Use of Flag ill Commerce
WASHINGTON. — The American
flag can’t be displayed promiscu
ously without violating the law even
though it represents the “land of
the free.” To explain and clarify le
gal restrictions in connection with
the use of the flag for advertising or
other commercial purposes, the de
partment of commerce has published
a new handbook entitled, “The Flag
of the United States—Its Use in
Commerce.”
Numerous instances have been re
ported to the department ol com
pierce of the questionable em
ployment of the national emblem for
Commercial purposes. In moit cases
violation of the law was done
unwittingly.
While there is no federal legisla
tion covering the use of the flag,
every state In the Union has passed
lews prohibiting its use for adver
tising purposes. Similar laws ap
pear on the statute books of Alaska.
Puerto Rico and Samoa.
Jumped from 10 million boxes in
1900 to 56 million In 1935.
The big Sunday dinner is passing.
More and more families go on auto
mobile outings Instead. Saturday
night dinner has replaced Sunday
noon as the big dinner of the week.
Gingerbread and baked beans are
still America’s number one choice;
beef, number one meat; apple pic
and chocolate cake, number one des
serts.
When the pinch comes, American
families economize on clothes first.
But American women love clothes
and have a vast choice in inexpen
sive styles (48 million felt hats in
the $3.95 to $5 quality were sold
last year.) There is no more Main
Street of fashion.
Fashion a Fault?
American women's chief fashion
fault—doing a good thing to death.
If veiling Is the fashion, they lose
themselves in the mists. If open
toes are in style, they go for the
most extreme and open styles—and
wear them every hour of the day
and night. They pile on too much
Junk Jewelry ... lack co-ordinat
ing powers when shopping for
clothes.
Two permanents a year, averag
ing from $3 to $5 are fixed charges
in the budget, although weekly trips
to the beauty shop are usually sup
planted by the home shampoo and
bobby pin method.
America is reappraising itself . . .
taken as a whole—some 30 million
How America Lives . . , What does
Mrs. America do on an average day?
She has no help with her housework.
(95 per cent of American women
don’t.) Then it’s likely she's up at 7
a. m., and the light in her kitchen win
dow will he shining long after sun
down. She gets the meals, washes the
dishes, cleans the house, markets, irons
and mends, to mention hut a few of the
deeds which require 60 or more of her
weekly hours.
families—America lives pretty well.
There’s room for improvement, yes.
That, like the new vacuum cleaner,
another pair of shoes for sis or an
addition to the house, will come.
Real6Boom Town9
Rises in Wasteland
HOLLY RIDGE, N. C. — Four
months ago you could have bought
all the land you wanted around here
for three or four dollars an acre—
unless you happened to be dealing
with a native whose conscience
would pot allow hixp to ^c«pt f uch
an e^bdCttitint ^>rlx'<*
sarne land ii feeing Sflldr in *20 foot
lots and for serious money, too.
No, pobodlyjhff discoyercd oil In
these parts. Tills just happens to be
the placd r the” federal gOvertitnent
picked for the army’s new anti-air*
Jcraft training camp, now under conr
struct) on. t , , (
! There is good farm land both tp
tbe.noRtb afad south of I^olly Ridge
jjut the real estate iri this immediate
vicinity is little more than a scrub*
timbered .waste. But the U. S,
army had pther ideas. The section
|s not only easily accessible by high
way and railroad, but offers an ideal
spot over which to shoot anti-air
craft guns without danger of hitting
anyone on land or sea. The shape
of the coast and the lay of the land
is well suited to the army’s pur
pose. Guns will fire out into Onslow
bay, wide coastal indenture many
miles from the lanes of coastwise
Shipping.
Naturally the government didn’t
Suffer from Holly Ridge's new land
boom. In the first place, the price
didn’t rise until the army had acted
and, in the second, the government
has the right of condemnation. So
Its two-mile frontage on U. S. high
way No. 17 and all the territory be
tween hofe ar^d the ocean cam*
Cheap enough, ft's the land adjacent
to the reservation that's suddenly
become so valuable.
In Npvexnber the entire population
of the erpss roads c*f H*lly Ridgo
and for a mile lh every direction
totaled 28. This summer, according
to government plans, there will b«
20,000 troops stationed here. Already
there are several thousand men
building the camp and the trailer
camps in which many of them liv*
stretch up and down the. highway
for miles. Pine plank stores and
bupk houses spring up over night
and business is booming on every
band.
How long It all will last nobody
knows.
Artificial Ear
Now a Valuable
Aid to Hearing
By DK. JAMES W. BARTON
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
THE wearing of glasses to
bring vision within nor
mal limits is now so com
mon, one is surprised to find
anyone with an p——i
eye defect who TODAY’S
is unwilling to UCAI T(|
wear them. Of "ERL li
course, there COLUMN
are some, such
as actors or actresses, to
whom facial expression is so
important, who, (fan be ex
cused for not wanting to wear
glasses. The use of contact
lenses gives good vision with
out hiding or shading the
face.
For years many hard of hearing
individuals have been going without
hearing aid# despite the fact that
the new methods of discovering the
amount and kind ol
hearing lacking now
make it possible to
fit hearing aids just
as eye glasses are
fitted. For those with
a special type of
hard of hearing who
will not wear hear
ing aids, a late in
vention may be of
interest.
m A Swiss physician.
Dr. Barton Dr. Madoleczny-MU
lioud, in the Swiss
Medical Journal, states that an arti
ficial ear drum is now in use in
cases where there are defects in
the ear drum or where hearing in
both ears has been1 lost following
operation or injury. It is hardly
ever used where there is hearing in
one ear.
While the artificial ear drum has
some disadvantages in that it must
be fitted and sometimes refitted by
the ear specialist, nevertheless it
has many advantages. It is not vis
ible from the outside and causes no
distortion or changes in sound.
Effects Personality.
A most important point is the ef
fect upon the patient's personality
in having such a hearing help or aid
that cannot be seen by others. "It
overcomes all self-consciousness be
cause it makes strings and techni
cal devices unnecessary. The pa
tient has no difficulty in keeping up
the conversation in a small group
if the artificial drum fits well. The
ability to hear everyday noises has
a beneficial effect upon the mind."
These ear drums are being made
of tin foil and cellophane.
Remember, these artificial ear
drums are used only where the ear
drums have been damaged, where
ear is dry and scars are present.
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Noise No ‘Nuisance’
But Health Problem
—. .— "1
MORE and more we are learning
of the damage to health by
noise. Formerly noise was consid
ered just a nuisance, but today it
is known to be a real health prob
lem.
The protection of workmen from
the cifects of sound is possible by
the use of substances which isolate
or keep the vibrations away, by
wearing boots with soft soles, and
by using straw mats, felt braid and
special chairs with springs, and
when possible giving "rest’’ periods
from the noise.
However, as it is definitely known
that noise interferes with working
ability, employers themselves are
now doing all they can to lessen
noise in their establishments. In
the National Industrial Review, Dr.
G. H. Ferguson, Ottawa, chief, Pub
lic Engineering Division, states that
it is well to bear in mind that, from
the economical point of view, noise,
even though of slight intensity,
causes a marked decrease of output
which may fall as low as to 40 per
cent of the'normal and an increase
in labor turnover, which in turn
means a decrease in production.
Getting rid of noise will be profit
able to all concerned; to the work
ers because it improves their health
and their enthusiasm, lessens ab
sence from work, and lessens fric
tion between employers and em
ployed, and to employers because it
increases output and lessens cost of
production.
Noise damages health because it
causes constant tenseness of mind
and body. Noise strikes the ear and
thus the brain. The brain sends
out impulses to nerves and muscles
and they continue "tensed,” always
ready to “spring."
Tenseness causes tiredness and
tiredness lessens mental and physi
cal ability.
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QUESTION BOX
Q. What can be the cause of a
constant pain in stomach? What
causes my skin to itch over my en
tire body? I will appreciate your ad
vice.
A.—Any constant pain in pit of
stomach should be investigated.
While most of these pains are due
to gas from sluggish liver and gall
bladder there may be a growth. A
general itching of body is usually
due to some general condition sucb
as diabetes, or sensitiveness to
foods. i