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Pottstown Mercury readers say The name and complete address of the author must accompanv every contribution but on request will not be published. not exceeding 250 words will receive preference HARDY PERENNIALS ARE UP! and THE P0TTST0WN NEWS Published every morning except Sunday by the pottstown Daily News Publishing Hanover and King Phone 2263. WILLIAM HIESTER, President SHANDY HILL, General Manager CHARLES D. TRELEVEN News Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES By carrier 25c per Week, $13 per year. By mall (payable strictly in advance).

Six Three Year Months Month Within 150 113.80 16.90 $3.45 $1.15 All Other 15.00 750 3.75 1-25 Entered at Pottstown Postofflce 2nd matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republlcatlon of all local news printed In this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. All rights of special dispatcher herein also reserved. MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1949 An honest the noblest work of Pope In Praise of Mr. Daly pOTTSTOWN'S Councilman Gerald J. Daly deserves commendation for this quick decision to remedy sewer basin hazards that might have claimed the lives of children.

When the municipality leaves unguarded holes in the street, plain carelessness. But when it manufactures traps by constructing pitfalls that lead directly to cascading runs beneath the street level, then that's super-carelessness. How could an efficient administration allow those conditions to continue even though inherited? The sin of non-feasance (the omission to do what ought to have been done) is just as grievous in law as malfeasance and misfeasance! It is a sad commentary on the efficiency of an administration whose head says he do anything unless he gets complaints! Pottstown should be thankful that it has at least one borough the of Councilman has the interest of the community and its children at heart. Pottstown could stand more councilmen like Mr. are interested more in the community than in their perpetuation ir office and their self-interest.

100 Years of Safety Pins HIS week marked the 100th anniversary of the safety pin in the United States. Actually, it was a few months earlier, in 1848, that Brooklyn inventor Walter Hunt dreamed up the marvelous gadget, but the patent issued until April 10, 1849. In case inclined to shrug off that event as being hardly a bent ask some housewife whether like to get along without safety pins, even in this day of zippers and snaps. Or consider the fact U. 8.

production last year hit a peak of 500 billion pins. Nor should you turn up your nose at bent pins. There was a day when people recognized them for what they were of magical powers as any divining rod, and especially useful for determining whether or not lovers were true blue. Big magic as far as the price of pins In general is concerned has been done by mass production. Once upon a time they cost from $2 to $100 each, and that mean the Tiffany jeweled variety either.

Those were the days when the term had some point to it. Today, of course, big mills turn out little pins at the rate of millions a day, and so far as money alone is concerned they are worth little more than a bent pin. The Hours We Work THE BUREAU of Labor Statistics has sued a breakdown of its March employment figure that brings to the front the half forgotten question of hours of labor. Some of our imposing totals of postwar employment are deceptive because they do not take account of shorter hours. When the Bureau says that 57,647,000 were employed in March, an impression of high productivity is registered that is sharply deflated when it is added that of this total more than one fifth worked less than 35 hours per week.

That the bureau treats 35 hours a week as full time, of course, throws present day employment figures out of tune with those when longer work weeks were customary and makes trends less easy to follow. The hidden root of much of the inflation of the World War II period was in the refusal of the Roosevelt administration to abandon the 40 hour week as a yardstick of over time in war work. The high productivity of the country on a 35 hour week basis makes one wonder what we could turn out under the old 48 hour week standard. But in proposals for abating inflation statesmen apparently never considered longer hours of work as a price reducer. on 1ITOMEN are mobilizing, told, to make Congress repeal the on 20 per cent levy on cosmetics, jewelry, handbags, held over from wartime.

Manufacturers are sparing nothing to arouse members of the fair sex over the unfairness of this on their Beauty-making hucksters declare the federal levy has slowed down sales of their exotic products to the point where the government is losing tax money instead of gaining it. Tut. The idea that a mere government tax could discourage women from buying beauty by the box, bottle, is just a little too much to take. True, taxes on luxuries may slow down sales. But beauty? Man, no luxury, a downright necessity.

Ask any woman. Or, for that matter, any man. Grampaw Oakley PUNKIN CORNERS, Editor, The Mercury, April 17. Dear Sir Brother: Wal. I see by the papers where Russia is reported to have perfected a movie film which gives out odors.

It will have to go some to beat several Hollywood products seen recently. The old silent films may have been hard on the eyes, but, at least they let the ears and nose alone! And say: After returning from an Piaster and weekend auto tour, can report I found a lot of bottlenecks on the highway. also many alongside. you air the same. GKA31.PAW NED OAKLEY Horn Tooters Raise Doubts About Our Civilization Dog Has More Sense To the Editor: Several days ago a dog was crossing High street near Memorial hospital, leisurely taking its time.

Cars zooming by honked their horns noisily (in the hospital zone), but the dog be rushed. But neither would the drivers slow down to avoid hitting the animal. Fortunately, the dog reached the other side of the street safely. It was more luck than anything else. All of this made me wonder about the stage of maturity of our civilization.

People rushing like going where? No one paid any attention to that little dog other than to honk their horns. It just seemed to me that, in all the danger that this animal was facing, it had a darn sight more sense about the way to live than the fools behind the steering wheels of those cars. Pottstown RD 2 MRS. H. J.

Wealth and Taxes To the Editor: Whether the boosts in New Hanover township assessments are exorbitant, srthe protesting landowners claim, or not, not qualified to say, but when I see names of wealthy men on the list of squawkers, I become suspicious. In the first place, they, the wealthiest and most influential men among the complainants, are made of the protesting group. Why should a dairy owner and real estate man think they can buy land at pre-war, maybe depression prices, develop it, make a fortune from it and not expect to pay their share of taxes on it? Personally, I think new schools for the township are more important than low taxes for men who already have more monev than they know what to do with Fagleysville JUST A RENTER Assessment Methods To the Editor: Our present assessor has stated it makes no difference in the condition of your building, its location, in valuation. Is he right? Also, that the State wants us assessed at present day tottering prices. Even when we protest, we will be asked if sell for what it is assessed.

We understand if our mills go below State aid. Since when the State not the people who live in it? Perkiomenville STALIN Notes for Future Hospital To the Editor: A recent inspection for fire hazards was made at one of Pottstown's hospitals, prompted by the tragic fire which took so many lives in an Illinois institution. So it is probably logical to expect that haspitals to be erected in the future may have at least some of the following named features or modifications thereof: 1. Fireproof in reality, not over three floors, and numerous wings spreading from the central building. 2.

Incline leading to underground escape passages large enough for beds to be rolled through to the outside. 3. Large asbestos-lined refuge rooms on each floor, where patients can be directed to await rescue. This will allow firemen to concentrate their rescue efforts on one definite place. 4.

Asbestos-lined clothes chutes and elevator shafts. 5. Obstetricil, pediatric and post-op- erative surgical cases on lower floors. Special guards for fracture patients. 6.

Ambulatory patients and pre-operative cases on upper floors. 7. Smoking prohibited, except in asbestos-lined smoking rooms, under supervision. 8. Direct alarm system from hospital to fire department.

9. Asbestos cover-all suits with headgear at each bed. Pottstown A DOCTOR Babied Veterans To the Editor: With great disgust I am observing the members of Congress wipe the tearful faces of babied veterans. Millions of dollars of moneji Is being bilked for care of teeth, hernias, flat feet and appendicitis, plus many other so-called service-incurred injuries. Deserving veterans with actual service incurred injuries are being deprived of excellent medical care by with postwar appendicitis.

On-the-job training is the most fantastic extortion in history. Ex-service men that know an S.A.E. thread from a standard threat take auto mechanics. Failing at mechanics, they transfer their ditch-digging brain to the watch making trade, still financed by the Government. While we, the taxpaying public, sit glumly on our hands.

In many cases men who never left the states are enjoying disability pensions. And working within a throw of their wives in Government agencies. I know a service man whose combined income totals $600 a month, and this couple have enough yreed to board their two children with strangers. Royersford C. R.

23! Jiip -1 Hollywood: Your Mind? WASHINGTON 81 st Congress Threatens To Hit Filibuster Snag By RAY TUCKER WASHINGTON, April 17 Although the Senate has taken steps to abolish filibusters at this session, the 81st Congress threatens to develop into a legislative filibuster that will necessitate a Summer sitting or a presidential demand for a special, in the Fall. Both sides are exchanging recriminations over the state in cloakroom arguments. The Republicans cite their insistence WBT Bringing up the Civil Rights issue and the allied problem of cloture immediately after the gavel fell in January. In view of the knowledge that action was almost impossible, and that the ensuing debate would make for delay, they charge the leadership with a deliberate attempt to stall. CHARGES: The Democrats, on the other hand, point to the insistence in dragging out discussion of the Marshall Plan, the North Atlantic Pact and the proposal that the United States should rearm the western European nations and other signatories.

The Barkley-Connally group will try to wind up foreign affairs committee hearings as quickly as possible, but they will find it difficult to shorten the floor debate. In making their charges, the Republicans suggest that President Truman is not too unwilling to keep the Congress here for the hot months, or to bring it back after a short vacation. Such a situation would leave him in a place blame for inaction on the opposition. It would at least serve to dramatize the indictment. THEORY: But the Republicans, as well as some Democrats, doubt whether the White House would be able to make the charge stick a second time.

They feel that failure to translate his 1948 campaign pledges into law might react against him on the theory that he did provide forceful or effective leadership. Several groups which voted for him, particularly racial minorities interested in Civil Rights legislation, have already begun to criticize him. TRAIL: Republican bigwigs have made tentative plans to trail President Truman around the country if he makes good on his threat to take to the stump to arouse the people against Congressional inaction. And it may be that a few Democrats will answer him. if and when he assails them for their role in blocking his program.

The GOP-ers will not let the President win an oratorical victory this time, they feel that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey did last Fall. Unless the men on Capitol Hill show unexpected activity before they call it a legislative day, the Taft-Vandenberg- Wherry group believe that the record of the 81st Congress will compare more than favorably with the accomplishments of the current session. They will also make the point, which Mr.

Dewey did not dare to emphasize because of the nature of his owh campaign, that Mr. Truman knew it would be impossible to redeem all his promises, and that he advanced such a comprehensive program only to win votes. TARGET: John L. expected attempt to gain a thirty-hour week for his miners in May-June contract negotiations has made him the target of salesmen for mining machinery. They think he may use his influence to force the operators to install even more of this kind of equipment.

The president of the United Mine Workers, in discussing the economic aspect of the shorter work-week, has been quoted as saying that miners could produce fully as much coal in 30 hours a week as they do now in 35. So the salesmen seek a chance to demonstrate how it can be done. The Voice of Broadway By DOROTHY K1LGALLEN Broadway Bulletin Board DESPITE HIS dates with other beauties, Ronald Reagan tells close friends he'll make one more pitch at a reconciliation with Jane Wyman John competition for Paulette affections is a ranking official in the" lean government. (And if trying to guess, not the Mexican who showered Linda Christian with jewels before she fell for Tyrone) A powerful and experienced political machine is getting behind Gov. Driscoll of New Jersey to push him into the Republican spotlight as a candidate for the Presidency in 1952 Ronald RCagan Murder mystery writer Craig Rice will sue a Santa Monica, Calif, super market for $75,000 damages of an embarrassing incident over an 11-cent bar of soap Sally Rand and her manager, Harry Finklestein, will waltz down the aisle this ablv in June.

He used to be married to Georgia Sothern, a rival stripper. FINANCIER FLOYD Odium (flier Jacqueline husband) can make his choice of several important Washington posts, including Secretary of Commerce and National Security board chairman. The White House word is name it and he can have it Doris Duke is taking her experiments in the field of popular music with increasing seriousness. finished her first set of lyrics, for a ditty titled Out of This and has invited Art Waner, the bandleader at the Latin Quarter, to write the music RCA Victor is holding top secret negotiations with Decca, trying to get latter disc factory over to the process Society polo ace Pete Bostwick, just divorced from his wife of 14 years, will marry Dolly Von Stade, a horsey set belle, in the very near future Benny Goodman, who makes a tour of Europe this Summer, has received an offer to play in Belgrade. If he accepts, his will be the first de-bop behind the Iron Curtain, AVIATION INSIDERS will bet Howard Hughes is readying a big announcement Violin genius Fritz Kreisler is in Hospital for eye treatment This past week ended the possibility of a reconciliation between Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Generalissimo.

He broke a personal promise and she refuses to forgive him for it Hansom cab drivers were raking in between $50 end $60 a night during the early stages of the recent taxi strike Despite all the clamor against radio shows, the net-works plan to use bigger and bigger ones opposite top stars like Jack Benny and Arthur theory being that only colossal prizes can compete with the kingpin personalities Greta Lind, the nightingale now singing at the Iceland, says really Maurice Chevalier's heart interest, no matter what you hear. In Sweden, she's Countess Tatiana Schere- metiew. Elizabeth Taylor FLOWERS LIVING FOR TUB For MISS VIRGINIA EGOLF 417 North York street BECAUSE her engagement to Mr. Richard i East High street, was announced Saturday. The Worry Clinic By DR.

GEORGE W. CRANE FRANK 27, is in charge of the, service department of a large Chicago garage. Crane, how do you explain love at first he inquired. your class last night you said that love is an educational process. I fell in love with a girl last month the first time I ever had set eyes on her.

It was at a dance. A friend of mine introduced us. soon as I looked into her eyes, I knew she was the one woman in the world I had been waiting for. And before our first dance was over, I proposed to her. that one, if you can, Dr.

THERE ARE TWO types of love, and The former is the sort which explains the majority of romances. In it, we find ourselves casually attracted to somebody in our office or neighborhood. We have a few dates. Almost without realizing the fact, we gradually adjust and become more harmonious until we are so happy together that we wake up to the fact we are in love. This adjustment process involves many dates, each of which is tinged with a pleasant emotional Suppose we take the girl to a dance.

The music is romantic; she dances well; and we have a good time. This pleasure of the dance thus becomes attached to the girl whom we had at that dance. We go on a hike and enjoy the Autumn foliage or the Spring flowers. We are happy. But the girl is beside us, so that pleasurable emotional state is linked to her.

This is the type of love and is a good guarantee for marital happiness. It means that the young people have learned each other's likes and dislikes. Now for the type of love, which Frank demonstrates. It is readily apparent that danger lurks in such a situation. Though Frank was enamoured of the strange girl and thought her an angel, she might have been a callous gold digger.

He know if she was nioral or immoral, honest and industrious or a pampered nrima donna. Sometimes such love affairs do lead to perfect happiness in marriage, but this presupposes that both parties happen to be good characters from similar religious, educational and social strata. But how explain such love at first sight? It is easy! Frank realize it consciously, but this girl possessed characteristics of other women whom he loved, such as his mother, his favorite sister, a devoted aunt or a favorite school teacher. So she served as simply the which set off all those diffuse emotions which other good women had previously In Retrospect 50 Years Ago April 18, 1899 PREACHER HAS Rev. L.

J. Bickel, pastor of St. James Lutheran church, was injured when he was thrown from his bicycle on the High street bridge over Manatawny creek. He was carrying a satchel containing a communion set. The satchel got wedged between his left knee and the handle bar of the bike.

PREACHER FARMER The Rev. George H. Melotte, former pastor of the East Nantmeal Baptist church, has purchased from Joseph Milns the former Lloyd farm in Warwick township, near the Bethesda Baptist church. He paid $3750 for the farm of 75 acres. URGES CIVIC SERVICE Herbert Welsh, widely known reform advocate, made an address in Trinity Reformed church.

He urged a careful study by citizens of public questions so there will be more efficient performance of public duties. 25 Years Ago April 18. 1924 HAMMERS CARTRIDGE Blaine Saylor, 12, shot in the abdomen when he hammered a cartridge on a stone. He is a son of Warren Saylor, Schwenkville. He found the cartridge and was investigating it with a hammer.

VETERAN L. Yergey, 88, retired stone mason, died at his home, 71 North Charlotte street. HUGE is estimated 500,000 tons of stone were dislodged by a giant blast of dynamite at the Hopewell hills quarries of the Birdsboro Stone company. Thirty-six tons of dynamite were set off. 10 Years Ago April 18, 1939 VETERAN Rev.

N. F. Schmidt has been pastor of St. James Lutheran church, Limerick and Jerusalem church, Schwenkville, for 50 years and he was given a reception. He is 72.

GOLDEN hospital is celebrating its 50tn aiiliiver- sary. A feature was the presentation by a cast of 60 of an anniversary play, In written by Sam Winters Ettelson, local High school teacher. Dr. J. Elmer Porter and Dr.

W. B. Shaner were among members of the cast. WED 51 and Mrs. Elmer E.

Altenderfer, of 36 Beech street, celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary. Mrs. Altenderfer was Miss Harriet Ludwig, By EDITH GWYNN HOLLYWOOD, April new lad in Elizabeth life, and the reason that Glenn Davis is out of the picture, is 28-year-old William Pawley whose Pa is one of the richest men in America and whom Elizabeth met while in Florida a few weeks ago. Pawley Jr. just arrived in Hollywood to house-guest with Liz and her Ma.

He works for the Miami Transit corporation which is just one of the things Pawley Sr. owns. Watch the paper hop on this because what a match these two young romancers would make! Barry Sullivan was so good in Number Can the new Clark Gable starrer, that Metro has signed him to a long contract. next go into with Audrey Totter and Richard Basehart, another two who are coming right along, career-wise When Joanne Dru (Mrs. Dick Haymes) and John Ireland do the spots together, they act like they care who knows youknowhat Great bunches of people around Hollywood are giggling out loud these days over that hilarous new book, by Lindsay Rogers, a professor at Columbia, and published by Alfred Knopf.

so full of wit and oh! what the man says about the GENE TIERNEY is in the midst of decorating another fifth in the past three years. She never sort of can make up her mind where she wants to what the place should look like. Very indecisive gal, we know! Robert Lord, co- producer with Humphrey Bogart of their jointly owned Santana Productions took a quick trip east to try to tie up Sidney Kingsley's big stage hit, which they want very much and which Bogart would star in when he finishes the jet pilot story now in production at So far, though, these two are having no luck in landing the movie rights. JIMMY STEWART might as well drop all plans for replacing Henry Fonda in on Bway, this Summer. just been signed by 20th-Fox to star in which starts in June.

Studio wants an unknown for the femme lead. This is an Indian story and both Jimmy and leading lady will play Redskins Don wife, Marusia designed such low-necked, sleek hipped gowns for Connie Bennett to wear in Twenty the show with which she is touring the Air Lift area in Germany, make Earl Wilson wish he were in the Army! Harry Lauter, one of the leads in and Barbara Ayres, expect the Stork in the fall Sally contracts specify that theatres must furnish quarters for her adopted eight months'old son while working. She rushes up to take care of the infant between every balloon dance! Paul Douglas has turned down the chance to be the third star in which already has Betty Grable and Vic Mature as the first two. Fox wanted Paul but Paul wanted a New York vacation what he's getting instead. THE ANSWER, QUICK! 1.

Under what president was the Social Security Administration set up? 2. What country is called the Land of Han? 3. Who headed the Russian provisional government in 1917 (before the Bolsheviks took over)? 4. Which is greater in area, Texas or Alaska? FOLKS OF FAME-GUESS THE NAME 1. jOne of the most colorful figures in the American Revolution was a swashbuckling sailor born in the parish of Kirkbean, Scotland, July 6, 1947.

Of matchless courage, his fiery temper led him into many difficulties. Becoming a cabin boy at 12, he soon became chief mate of a slave ship. When the crew of a ship he had purchased mutinied, he killed the ring leader. He fled to the American colonies where he changed his name. He joined the Continental Navy and eventually came in command of the Bon Homme Richard which defeated the British man-o- war Serapis in a great sea fight, Sept.

23, 1779. The Revolution over, he became an admiral of the Russian navy and enjoyed the confidence of Czarina Catherine the Great. He died in France in 1792. Who was he? 2. Bom Feb.

15, 1882, son of a famous theatrical family, this actor made a success of both stage and screen. He made his first stage appearance in in 1903, in 1919, Shakespeare's the following year and of his most successful roles, in 1923. He starred for years in motion pictures, in such films as Dick," and on the stage in 1940 in Dear He was four times wed, was called Great died May 29, 1942. Can you name him? (Names at bottom of column) WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE PARIAH (pa-RI-ah) An outcast; one despised by society. Origin: East Indian.

IT HAPPENED TODAY Revere made his famous ride. T. Washington, great Negro educator, born. Francisco earthquake and fire. and Yokohama bombed by United States planes from the carrier 1945 Ernie Pyle, war correspondent, killed on le Shima.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Leopold Stokowski, orchestra conductor, and Max Weber, painter, are birthday celebrants. YOU MAKE OUT? 1. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1936. 2.

China. 3. Alexander Kerensky. 4. Alaska.

uqof insj uqof ALL AROUND THE TOWN Keep Shirt Dine in THE LIGHTER SIDE (From VOUNGER GENERATION year-old son of a neighbor persisted in running about with his shirt-tail flapping outide his pants. Scoldings did no good. Another woman had four boys. They always wore their shirts neatly tucked in. do you get your boys to keep their shirts asked the troubled mother of the nine-year-old.

quite was the answer. just sew an edging of lace around the bottoms of their MEMORY Ed Brophy, veteran actor, tells this one about the late John Barrymore: A few years back, Brophy stepped into the elevator of a Manhattan hotel and came face to face with the Great Profile. Although appeared as a supporting actor with Barrymore at one time, Brophy refrained from greeting the star, believing the matinee idol know him from Adam. As, Brophy stepped out of the elevator he felt a heavy hand on hts shoulder and heard a voice say: Brophy, you may not remember the face, but the name is POT BUSINESS old was the way quaking salesmen characterized a certain well-known industrialist. The man was a rough, raucous individual, with a habit of loudly shouting his objections whenever anyone attempted to sell him anything.

One day a new salesman called on the old fire-eater, in the hope of obtaining a large order. The subordinates of the fiery industrialist waited expectantly for the storm to break. They were not disappointed. Their fractious boss went at the visitor hammer and tongs. But the latter did not react as the other salesmen had done; he refused to become angered or embarrassed.

Every time the industrialist shouted an objection, the salesman leaned over the desk and whispered his reply. Gradually the hotheaded old dragon calmed down, andfl in a little while he was whispering back. When the salesman departed, he carried a $20,000 order from the mollified Anderson. BASIC Hu the Chinese philosopher and has always insisted on efficiency and economy in speech as well as To help his countrymen express them- salves more easily, he invented a simplified and abbreviated form of his native language. A rich American celebrity-hunter, unaware of his passion for once sent him a cablegram inviting him to visit her Hawaiian estate.

Beginning, sage and honorable sir, give us the high honor of dignifying our humble abode with your presence she continued for some three hundred words. The statesman read the epistle and dictated his reply: do. Hu B. Garrtson. I OVE FINDS A A bright portent of future marital happiness was recently revealed in the tender thoughtfulness of a young bride in a small English village.

The young woman had just been married, and at the conclusion of the ceremony the bridegroom, a bit reluctant and hesitant, signed the parish register with an mark. His charming young bride followed him, and likewise made her in the book. whispered the wife, can write your name. You were one of the best scholars in the parish the young woman replied, John cannot write, and I would not shame him for the world. I will teach him to write, and then I can Join with him in the pleasure of writing our Meredith.

you mind coming up and meeting my says you just a figment of my YOUR HEALTH By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M. D. A COUGH is not only a problem to the person who has it, but often becomes a public nuisance. It is especially disturbing in churches, theatres, streetcars and offices; in any place of public gathering.

Often, the coughing is completely unnecessary, since many nervous persons acquire the habit of clearing their throats or coughing. Under usual circumstances, coughing is needed to relieve irritation and to get rid of material that is excreted by the lining membrane of the throat and lungs. But control of coughing is desirable and often necessary. X-ray examinations have been made of the lungs during coughing attacks which show that during an attack material may be scattered throughout the lung and into the windpipe. Furthermore, continued coughing produces inflammation which allows infection to occur more easily.

Coughing is taken for granted by many persons without knowing just what the coughing is due to. So, it is always well to know the reason for a cough. Coughing is caused by irritation of the membrane of the breathing organs. This irritation may be caused by cold air, irritating gases, and infections. On the other hand, the coughing may be due to pressure from enlarged glands, a heart condition, or to disturbances affecting the lining membrane of the chest cavity.

Patients can be taught to restrain coughing and to cough only at intervals. Bed rest often is helpful in the control of coughing. Of course, in every instance, efforts should be made to find the cause of the coughing and to eliminate it. The medical treatment of a cough is also helpful. At first, quieting- drugs may be employed; later, what are known as expectorants may be used to stimulate the formation of secretion and loosen the cough.

It is surprising how valuable simple measures often are in relieving coughing attacks. Of course, when there are infections present, the sulfonamide drugs or penicillin may be employed to eliminate them A cough should always call for a study by a physician to determine the cause..