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ot 1st own Mercury readers say and THE POTTSTOWN NEWS Published morning except Sunday bj tti Potutown Dally Publishing Co, Hanover and King Phone 2263. WILLIAM M. HXfvSTER, President SHANDY HILL, General Manager CHARLES D. TRELEVEN. News Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES earrtar 25c per Weelt, $13 per year.

By mail (payable strictly In advance) Six Three One Tear Month Within ISO miles 113.80 $6.90 $3.45 $1.15 All Otbear 15.00 7.50 3.75 1.25 Entered at Pottstown Postofflce as 2nd claaa matter MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Ls entitled exclusively to the vise for republication of all local news printed in this newspaper, as well all AP news dispatches. All rights of special dispatches herein are also reserved. TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1949 The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into Disraeli They're Fooling theJPublic LITICIANS think up nifty ideas on how to pull the wool over the eyes. Usually about as subtle as an elephant. how adroit Pottstown council was the other day when it passed a resolution in a scientific assessment of all borough property by an outside organization.

ThL scientific assessment Has been a MUST on the borough program. Such assessment inequalities existed here for so many years that a citizens committee was appointed to end the glaring faults. This committee did pretty well until a borough toes were tread on, and then its work ended. That is, no more meetings were called by Burgess William A. Griffith, which in effect killed the committee.

Then some progressive borough legislators decided it was time to bring in expert, non-partisan group to make a scientific reassessment of the borough. The Institute of Local and State Government of the University of Pennsylvania proposed to do the work of applying a yard stick on a non-political, non-friendship basis to the assessment. Now, a scientific assessment of this sort might have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars if a professional firm were hired. The neighboring city of Reading paid a staggering sum for work of this kind a few years ago. But the University of Pennsylvania group offered to do the work at actual cost.

be no fee. Just expenses of the men engaged in making the survey. Estimate was $5000, This was such an attractive bargain, several Pottstown councilmen figured, that they afford to pass It up. ----------So council passed a resolution saying that Pottstown borough agreed to pay one- third of the $5000 cost. The Pottstown school district and Montgomery county would be asked to pay the remaining two-thirds, the legislators said.

That sounded pretty good. After all, the school district and the county would participate in the benefits of the scientific assessment. The hitch Is this, and this is how politicians fool the public: Montgomery commissioners advised before the council meeting that they would not pay one-third of the assessment costs. This information was relayed to borough council. So you can see what will happen: councilmen, in an election year, will cry: were ready to pay our share, but the county go make look like martyrs! This being an election year, tell their constituents: wouldn't raise your assessment.

We wanted to keep taxes That sometimes is called talking out of both sides of the mouth. But not fooling the public. The little guy, whose assessment is right up to the hilt, is taking it on the chin. He knows, too. who assuming his fair share of the tax burden! Safe Flying MORE eloquent testimony in behalf of the fine safety record of the would be hard to find than the judgment of the life insurance companies.

The Institute of Life Insurance reports that travel on the scheduled carriers in the United States is no longer a significant underwriting factor. Of 100 companies surveyed this year, 95 accept air travelers as standard risks. Of these, 83 write such insurance without limitation, except applied to all applicants. and 12 with certain limitations, of which the most frequent Ls an expectation of 250 hours of flying annually. None decline such risks.

Yet as recently as 1935, there were but six companies which accepted passengers on scheduled United States airlines as standard risks without limitation. The most frequent limitation at that time was 50 hours of flying annually. The Civil Aeronautics board has just announced that the combined United States carriers, domestic and international, set new safety records for 1948 by flying more than 8.180,000,000 passenger-miles with a passenger fatality rate of 1.3 per 100,000,000 passenger-miles. Actuaries are not sentimentalists. The insurance company business attitude toward flying is a dependable yardstick for measuring the safety progress of the airlines.

and complete address of the author must accompany every contribution but on request will not publlahed. not 250 words wlU receive preference. LATEST NOISE ELIMINATOR Crime Wave Arouses Fears for Safety of Families Keeps Doors Locked Now To the Editor: Never, in the 15 years I have lived in Pottstown, have I felt the need cf locking the doors of our house at night. I always thought that our town was as safe as any against prowlers or burglars. But since this crime wave has been going on in town I am keeping all of the windows and doors in our place locked tight.

Furthermore, I let either of my two of high school out on the streets after 8 p. m. This is a terrible condition under which to live, When a mother lives in constant fear that some horrible crime might be committted upon one of her children, the men who are responsible for police protection are failing in their duty. I help but think of the other mothers who feel as I their homes aren't safe for them and their families any more. If they share my mental suffering, they have my sympathy.

As a newspaper, you can do a lot to help remedy this deplorable situation. Relax not one minute your efforts to bring order out of chaos in the Pottstown police department, for in doing so you will be doing a great public service to those of us who are fraught with fear lest these vicious criminals strike at our homes and our families. May God bless you in your work. Pottstown DISTRESSED Jeers for To the Editor: Hooray for Fairplay Defense against Readers Say, March 26), for getting in a few licks at the dopes who put their dogs above everyone and everything else, including people. written to The Mercury before about this and going to keep writing until the pig-headed, soft-minded, neurotic schmoos who worship their smelly dogs wake up and behave like humans again.

Most people who go nuts about or any other get anyone else to have anything much to do with them, and have to go someplace for a little affection, even if it is dumb. ok, but when these hound-worshipers let their dogs run around all over the countryside and bite the milkman and mailman, going too far. They ought to round these dogs up and their owners, too, and that way take care of two problems at once. Halfway House LEVEL HEADED Enough for Streets To the Editor: A year ago when holes as big as bomb craters filled Pottstown streets, the borough gave the excuse that it had to wait until the frost got out of the ground oefore it could do any -patching. That excuse be good this Spring, since had the mildest Winter in years.

The fact that deep holes are found on a street as heavily traveled as King street means only one thing: Too much time is spent thinking up excuses. No, we raise taxes. Yet we can allow our streets to get in such shape that driving down a railroad track would seem a pleasure. kidding who when we're told that the borough can get along on its present income? The gall of the politicians Pottstown J. J.

R- Intersection Danger To the Editor: I thought that the man who was hit by a car crossing High street at Penn the other night might have been me. On busy nights, when the foot traffic warrant having a policeman a person can wait as long as five minutes and then cross at the risk of his life. done it. It might not be a bad idea to eliminate the crosswalks here unless traffic is controlled. Signs could be erected directing persons to use the traffic light intersections.

Pottstown GEORGE G. For Fair Tax System To the Editor: A front page article in Mercury quoted a court opinion in the Germantown YMCA vs. Philadelphia case as holding the YMCA responsible for payment of taxes. I was happy to see that. If The Hill school should pav taxes to the schools and borough, the YMCA and YWCA should do the same.

These organizations aren't charitable or non-profit in the true sense of the word, such as churches. not hard to see that any such institution can juggle its books to show that it makes no profit. It dispense with any of ts services at cost, so there must be some it goes for higher salaries or investment in a new building. How can an organization like the justify its policy of pushing the tax burden off onto others with its charter of Christian aims and principles? If our tax system is to be a just one, it should hew to the line on these cases. Pottstown R- C.

T. mVtALEO the CAUForm cm CQMtllSS'OH REPORT Hollywood Your Mind? By EDITH WYNN HOLLYWOOD. March 28 Hal WASHINGTON Scheme Boiling to Block Re-election of Truman By RAY TUCKER WASHINGTON, March A Thomson, former New Orleans publisher and a well-known figure in Democratic eircles, has advanced what he regards as a simple and surefire scheme for effecting a coalition between Southern Democrats and Republicans that will block the re-election of President Truman or of any New Dealish nominee. Colonel Thomson is a frequent visitor on Capitol Hill, and he has proposed his plan to numerous Dixiecrats and Dixiecratic sympathizers, although they will not comment on their reaction publicly. He was formerly owner of the New Orleans Item, but he has been living in Virginia since his retirement.

He is the son-in-law of former Sen. Champ Clark, who barely missed the Democratic presidential nomination at Baltimore in 1912, and the brother-in-law of former Sen. Bennett Clark, now a Federal judge at Washington, SON: Colonel Thomson proposes that each Southern State set up a group of electors pledged to vote for a distinguished such as Senator Harry F. Byrd in Virginia, Senator Walter George in Georgia, Senator Allen J. Ellender in Louisiana, etc.

Running on a States Rights Democratic ticket, they would easily win a majority in their respective commonwealths, he believes. Then, if the Democrats named a man of the Roosevelt or Truman type and framed a platform inimical to the South, these electors could throw the contest into the House, or team up with the GOP, it the latter party puts up a satisfactory man. 0 0 0 OPPOSITION: Colonel Thomson relies on his own experience in Virginia for his belief that this strategy would succeed, despite its revolutionary nature. He was a elector, and, although the Byrd machine did not desert Mr. Truman publicly, the Thurmond-Wright ticket polled 43,393 votes.

The GOP got 172,070, and the combined total of the opposition topped the Truman figure by almost 15,000 Colonel Thomson has another reason for his faith in his plan. When he publicly urged that the Democratic bolters rally behind Senator Byrd, the latter received so many letters supporting the idea that he asked Thomson to abandon hii one-man promotion. The Voice of Broadway By DOROTHY KILGALLEN Manhattan Nights I WAS NOT on hand for Humphrey recent encounter with the bouncers at El Morocco isee what I get for going to bed at three!) but I have been thinking about it, and if the incident occurred as reported I have to be on the side of baby. What it boils down to is. simply, the guy wanted to keep his hat- on.

Well, the way I look at it this is supposed to be a democracy, and if you are for rights, I am, got to be for rights, too. I would assume that under a system of even near-equality, an establishment which permits ladies to sit around with feathers, paillettes, embroidered tea strainfers and Turkish veiling on their heads ought to allow a to enter under a hunk of gray felt. pHp Maybe Bogey thought his snap brim and I always understood this was done in model with the'bow on the side was un- the interests of not messing up the joint usually becoming, and he wanted the any more than necessary. Possibly the other boys to dig it. Maybe his head was same technique would apply to suicides by cold Maybe he just rebelled at the idea sharp instruments.

But why the overflow- of relinquishing his lid to a hat check ing tub? Why didn't he turn off the tub before he did himself in? Of course, come to think of it, if thifee spots hadn't appeared on the ceiling, Mr. Odets would have been hours bringing down his third act curtain. The overflowing bath was hard on the plaster, but easy on the playwright. Humphrey Bogart SEVERAL THINGS bothered me about Clifford latest play, Big including the phenomenon that 80 percent of its characters talked as though their mothers had been frightened by Moss parody of Billy Rose as played by Sam Levine. But dialogue aside, I am still scratching my head over a technicality anent the suicide of the central character.

You know the plot. John Garfield finds the life of a successful Hollywood star too dreadful to face for another tortured moment, so he goes upstairs, gets into the bathtub, and slices, stabs or otherwise in three dead. His act is discovered when his wife notices that the ceiling of the rumpus room is getting moist, and other members of the cast rush up the circular staircase to have their worst fears confirmed. Now my question, students is: Why did he leave the water running in the tub? In my early days as a crime reporter, I learned that the most considerate torso murderers customarily used a bathtub for hacking up their victims before putting the component patts into Gladstone bags, Wallis has already signed Cy Howard to go ahead and write a sequel to Friend, even though his current production of that popular radio series is still before the cameras. The follow up will have the same cast now working in the i i al namely; Marie Wilson, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, John Lund et al been able to check, but hear tell the stork Ls on his way to the Virginia Bruce- Virginia Bruce All Ipar mansion Ray Milland has hopped to Manhattan for two weeks of around With Me the world-beater its being on Film Classics must be mighty happy about that quickie it made starring Patricia Morrison some months ago.

Film is and with the publicity gotten srhnitael. THE ANSWER, QUICK! 1. Whose epitaph bears these words, be he that moves my 2. What amendment to the Constitution gives women the right to vote? 3. Who was Cecil Rhodes? 4.

What is the Treaty of Paris? 5. Who bade the sun to stand still? FOLKS OF GUESS THE NAME girl for the seventh time in an evening. Who passed that, ordinance, anyvtfay? I think Humphrey was courageous to accept the heave-ho in preference to weak-kneed capitulation, and in my opinion the history of masculine mores will list him as a martyr to a thrilling cause. The Worry Clinic Li Retrospect Grampaw Oakley PUNKIN CORNERS, Editor, The Mercury, March 28. Dear Sir Brother: Wal, I see by The Mercury where Mrs.

C. Roy Bush, wife of the Pottstown councilman, high in the Pennsylvania Bowling congress. As a bowler, Mrs. Bush throws the ball. As a politician, her husband president of borough council.

DIED: President new for American development of backward countries has died aborning. The government itself may seek to give it life by shipping teams of technical experts to foreign lands, but private capital exhibits an understandable shyness with regard to foreign investment on a large scale. In their talks with Assistant Secretary of State Willard Thorp, Who heads the program, they point out that unstable conditions in South America, the Far East and India prevent them from sinking and money in any new or vast undertaking. So far, Washington has been unwilling to give any secure guarantees against political or economic threats overseas. Even Congress has shown its doubt concerning this venture.

Although the foreign affairs committee approved the use of $272,000,000 to guarante investments abroad, it restricted spending of these funds to Marshall plan countries in Western Europe. It is still doubtful whether even this subsidy will tempt many firms to sink their capital to any great extent. 0 TITO: Yugoslavia better off now that she has cut loose from asks J. F. J.

of New Ulm, Minn. Answer: Washington spokesmen insist that she is better off. Probably any arrangement is better than Russian domination. But alienated from the West and with trade with the Soviet orbit stopped, the little Balkan nation is having a hard time to prevent a collapse in its economy. FLOWERS LIVING A man may be allergic to the feathers in his new hat, a news story.

However, his bank ac- wunt that suffers most. And say; a paradox, mwwmmmw but I understand ihe plunging or low cut BECAUSE she was is nuv, the of elected noble grand of you sir the same, the Lady Wittenmyer CRAMP AM NED OAKLEY For MISS HAZEL MEST Grosstown road, By DR. GEORGE W. CRANE CAROLYN called me on the telephone. am calling about your membership in the Field she gushed.

Field Museum sells annual memberships for $10 and life membership for $100. The money thus obtained goes to finance our educational work in the schools. Every week, you know, we place a new exhibit in each of the schools. we conduct lecture series here at the Museum to which you and your family are admitted free, FOR PROBABLY ten minutes I listened to a monologue without having a chance to answer or sales talk was very good. It covered the salient points.

But I soon sensed that she was either reciting a memorized sales talk or else was reading it directly. For Carolyn lapsed into the sing-song delivery of the child reciting a poem in school. I mention thifs incident today, not to be unduly critical of this young woman who was calling routinely to deliver a sales talk by telephone, but to warn young salesmen of a very dangerous pitfall. For years I was a salesman, myself, and I have also been teaching courses in the of Advertising and for almost a quarter of a century, I make this defense of myself, as you can probably surmise, in order to forestall any criticism that too, am an impractical college professor who theorizes freely about what he doesn't know. A salesman cannot expect to be successful if he gurgles and stammers in uncertainty regarding what to say.

He must have a memorized sales talk so that, in emergencies, he can always be prepared. Most of the large companies today furnish their new salesmen with at least one or more such talks. These have been used by other successful salesmen. They have proved to be valuable. Maybe they perfect but they are usually much better than any the tyro salesman can concoct, so be sure you memorize them! But by memorizing, I mean stop when you can first recite the speech perfectly.

Repeat it again and again until you can look a customer in the eyes and give the sales talk with such enthusiasm and natural expression that it seems like spontaneous conversation. Adapt it to your personality, too. and re-arrange it to meet new situations, but memorize its contents! The star salesmen use canned sales talks. But these never sound like canned talks. They flow along like normal conversation.

A canned talk, properly memorized, eliminates uncertainty and such staring out of the window. Moreover, it sounds natural and spontaneous. And it frees the attention so he can watch his customer's ia.ee and actions. 50 Years Ago March 29, 1899 BEES SWARM-A huge swarm of bees settled at the premises of Howard P. Dampman, Chestnut and Franklin streets, and attracted a lot of interest.

Zepheniah Schaffer, a bee tamer of long experience, succeeded in placing the bees in a hive. BUY Philadelphia Fire company purchased a street sprinkler from the Reading Hose company. Dannie Weidner will operate the machine here. On the committee were Harry K. Lash, Charles Marquette William N.

Scheetz, BLAME in Montgomery and Berks counties blame the P. and R. railroad for the wreck at Exeter the past May 12 when 29 persons were killed. Inadequate signal systems were blamed for the disaster. 25 Years Ago March 29, 1924 of the McClintic-Marshall Construction company held a dance in the Templet show.

Supt. F. T. Cadmus opened the event and Jim Clarey was first on the dance floor. Mrs.

Marion Yohn, Miss Jessie Cloward and William Scherfei formed the committee on arrangements. 0 0 RAPS Rev. A H. Simpson returned from a trip to Washington, D. C.

He said he only saw eight Senators in the chamber, the others being VET Shaner, 84, Berks oldest Civil War veteran, died at his home in Douglassville, 10 Years Ago March 29, 1939 JEWISH fashion show was held by the Jewish Women's league at the home of Mrs. Hyman Stem, 1336 High street. Incidental piano music was furnished by Mrs. Frances Prince Leblang, Easton, and Vivian Cohen, this borough. The committee in charge included Mrs.

Samuel Schwartz, Mrs. Leon Levitz, Mrs. Sidney Pollock and Mrs. Sara Pollock. NONAGENARIAN DIES William S.

Hawk, 91, died at his home, 18 East Fourth street. He was born in Elverson and resided in Pottstown for 59 years. 0 0 0 GENTLEMENS NIGHT A Night program was by the club, with Mrs. J. Russell Yocum in charge.

Group singing was led by Harold Glenney. A quartet composed of D. Hunter Klink, Richard Pawling, Leonard Baker and Robert Von Drach sang. Mis. James C.

Wilks is club president. should prove a gold-mine. WHICH REMINDS US that Hollywood as well as politics, makes strange bed-fellows. Viz: Cole Porter and producer-director-writer Preston Sturges met up at a party the other got to talking, got to admiring each talents, got to planning a new musical show. Result: Sturges has agreed to write the book for next stage extravaganza.

But it be a musical version of the Greek play, as rumored elsewhere. Cole is still in Filmtown, trying to complete the cast for his second company of Me but it look like Janis Paige of the moom pitchers, who auditioned for a top role, is going to be in it. WITH TEXAS and junkets and Just plain junk hogging so much space lately, its almost as boring to note that the tin-pan alley boys think Jo record of the is as controversial a record as was which caused such a furore and a bunch of suicides. An organization called Sons of Texas has already protested the disc as a platter to the heroes of the claiming that debacle cost too many lives to be the title for a gooey loVe song. Coming to think of it, it is about as apt as a torch tune titled would be! Jesse production plans include a lot of celluloid delights other than already covered by this dept.

also going to make a picture based on for a which has just about the highest Hooper of any daytime radio airer. The opus gets rolling some time this Summer. 0 WE ALWAYS GET the most reader reaction (and mail!) from or personality items, obviously more intriguing than just production news some: Most people mention that baseball team as Pittsburgh but actually, the Groaner has only around $200,000 invested in the outfit. a mere minor stockholder Bob Hope only has around $25,000 in Cleveland But the kick that the teams and both Bing and Bob get out of the whole deal, is worth a million all around. 1.

Born on Nov. 9, 1873, in Cobourg, Canada, her early appear- on the stage weft in opera roles.t She supported Lillian Russell in a play in New and later starred and took leading comedy parts in numerous productions. She starred in on the stage and later on the screen, and from then on was a star and leading character actress in the films until her death' in Beverly Hills, July 28, 1934. Who was she? 2. The hero of millions of American small boys in his later life, this frontiersman was born in Iowa in 1846.

When only 16 he became a rider of the Pony Express. When telegraphy put an end to the Pony Express, he became a scout for the United States Army. At the Battle Indian Creek he killed the Cheyenne chief. Yellow Hand, in single combat. In 1883 he organized his Wild West show, making personal appearances with it.

He and his circus were immensely populaf here and in Europe. He died in Denver, Jan. 10, 1917. His real name was William Frederick Cody. By what nickname did he become world famous? (Names at bottom of column) LANGUAGE RECONDITE (REK-un-dite or ree-KON-dite) Hidden from site, concealed, or difficult to comprehend; abstruse; characterized by profound scholarship.

Origin: Latin, reconditus. IT HAPPENED TODAY The first Swedish settlement was made in America, on the banks of the Delaware river. 1918 The French General, Ferdinand Foch, was made commander in chief of the Allied forces in World War I. 1939 Spanish Civil ended, 4 HAPPY BIRTHDAY Howard Lindsay, playwright; War ner Baxter and Dennis O'Keefe, actors, all deserve cakes with candles on this date. 0 0 0 YOU MAKE OUT? 1.

William 2. The 19th. 3. An Englishman who went to South Africa for his health and became a millionaire in the diamond fields and a statesman of that country. 4.

The treaty between American Revolutionists and Great Britain, ending the Revolutionary war. 5. Joshua. IDS oiBjjns i -ajispraja 'I ALL AROUND THE TOWN Slightly Off Quick Clarence Wambold, who lives on North Keim street, Pottstown RD 4, was driving along peacefully near ing Rocks park the other day, minding his own business, when wham a large something cracked against his windshield. Wambold stopped, and found a large, attractively-colored bird had risen from the ground to fly right in the path of his car.

The windshield came out unscathed, but the bird's neck was broken. Observers believed it was a fish crane, a type found occasionally along the Manatawny and other streams. bird had a wingspread of 42 inches, feet 10 inches long and a four-inch beak. The under portion of the feathers were a delicate grey, but the outside was a dark brown, flecked and mottled with hints of gold and orange. The neck feathers were long and soft; Wambold said he expect to have the bird mounted himself, but would be happy to turn it over to a collector.

Soon after the accident he told the local game warden all about it. 0 0 0 Rev. Asa S. sen, who was pastor of Grace Lutheran church here for ten years, cut short evening services in St. Lutheran church in Allentown Sunday night to go to Stroudsburg where his mother had become critically ill.

The Rev. Wohlsen left his Pottstown charge the past Fall. Pottstown pilots who hopped to Salisbury, were greeted by a flyer who had never been to Pottstown but had a few local names in his book. He's an executive of the Pineland company of Salisbury, ships lumber here to contractors. His biggest buyer here, he said, is Allen K.

Davidheiser, Eighth ward builder and councilman, a nine-year-old tabby cat with a record of nine normal litters, surprised her mistress, Mrs. Lewis Skean, Pottstown RD 3, the past Wednesday by giving birth to two days after three of the litter were born dead. After the three kittens had been born dead, Buttercup seemed apparently normal. Then, eight days later while Mrs. Skean was In town, she gave birth to two more kittens which still living, Mrs.

Skean found the kittens on her couch shortly after she returned home. SERVICE STUFF Marine Pfc. Donald A. Rupert, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Clyde Rupert, Douglassville RD 1, is serving with the 1st Combat Service Group, First Marine division, at Camp Joseph H. Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif. Another local leatherneck, Pvt. Kenneth H. Mauger, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Mauger, 4 Walnut street, was one of the top riflemen in his platoon when it fired for record recently at the Parris Island, S. boot camp. He scored 216 of a possible 250 points, winning tht Maltese cross of a rifle sharpshooter and $3 extra pay for one year. What Pottstonian got a blackened eye when he talked out of turn In a Reading organization oveT the weekend? Parker W.

Grow who had been operating the Phyllis Anne dress shop for his mother, is going back to school in the Fall. A graduate of Pottstown High school, Grow decided to matriculate at Muhlenberg college after a year In the outside world. The his ambition! The golf season officially opened at Brookside Country club over the week. It opened with a crash when a powerfully driven golf ball shattered the windshield on the parked of George A. Mercury advertising manager.

The driver admit the accident. -----j Pottstown Sketches pmllips have a very roomy purse. Mrs. Mable High. Did you know that it holds exactly five frogs, two white mice and a handful of angle YOUR HEALTH By HERMAN N.

BUNDESEN, M. D. AS we grow older, most of us can add years to our life as well as life to our years. And it is not a chore either. How a person takes care of himself after the age of 45, both physically and mentally, will be an important factor in determining whether the later years of life will be healthy and happy or marred by chronic sickness.

Perhaps the most important part of this care during and after middle age is to have regular check-up once every six months by the doctor. Such a check-up will help to bring to light such disorders as damage to the kidneys, diabetes, or liver disease, which, with proper treatment, can be kept under control, if not cured. There are a number of danger signs which indicate that all may not be well. For example, the sudden development of constipation, diarrhea, or any abnormal discomfort, such as sickness at the stomach, may be signs of stomach and conditions which should have prompt investigation. By being on the lookout for these danger signs, and then consulting the physician at once, disorders may be detected in their beginning and promptly relieved.

Overweight becomes particularly hazardous after middle age. The extra weight puts an unnecessary burden on the heart, blood vessels, and kidneys. There is no doubt that persons who keep their weight normal can expect a longer and healthier life. Emotional upsets, worry, anger, and fear are all harmful. They not only are a strain on the nervous system may be contributing factors in physical disorders.

Middle-aged or older persons should try to develop the idea of taking things less seriously. Many middle-aged persons seem to forget that during this time of life most of them cannot do as much as they could in their earlier years. They try to keep up with young persons and, as a result, breakdowns occur. The best thing to do is to take things easy, avoid rushing, get to bed a little earlier and, if possible, take a short nap during the middle of the day. There is no need to worry about growing old.

because worry will do no good. However, by taking proper care of yourself you can delay the aging'process 0.