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8 BROOKLYN EAGLE, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1940 1 Lack of Vitamin May Cause Allergy Dr. Brady Says: Talk About Bridge- HEFFERNAN says Dr. Gideonse Striving to Make Boro College an Institution of Real Value 0 r- READING THE LOG Dick Gage, sales manager of Dugan Campbell, State Tax Supervisor David F. Soden and Ed Clement, driver, read log of new Mercury car as it stops run. Tour is be ing made throughout the Edgewater territory on gasoline mileage.

International Motor Truck Reports Sales Increasing More than half of the entire population of the country are now subject to allergy, according to experts who have studied the matter care' fully. That does not mean that anything like half of the patients doc tors treat have allergy. Probably less than one of ten persons who do suffer from manifestations of allergy consult a physician about it, An idle thought of the Idle fellow who conducts this column is that a fault In mineral metabolism, espe cially in the assimilation and utlll- sation of calcium, is the main far tor of allergy and the calcium deft ciency in turn is due to insufficient exposure of the body to direct sun light or Insufficient daily intake of sunshine vitamin D. Perhaps faulty potassium metabolism is concerned too, but there Is practically no ac. curate knowledge of the effect of potassium deficiency in man avail' able as yet.

I have some monographs the reader may find help fulsend 3 -cent stamped envelope and ask for High Calcium Diet, Cal cium Feeding, Vitamins Everybody Needs, Relief for Allergy. Snrar Content Lower Hypoglycemia means lowering In the proportion of sugar present in the blood, below the level consistent with health and well being. The entire blood of the body contains only a heaping teaspoonful of sugar at any time, but let that propor tion be reduced as much as one-half and the individual suffers extraordinary consequences. Generally Individuals who become excessively anxious, Irritable, cranky, peevish or oppressed by a sense of Impending danger when the usual or expected meal time la delayed are suffering from hypoglycemia, though often they are scarcely aware that they are hungry. Girls in their teens and young matrons who have hypopituitary obesity, the type of obesity characterized by comparative thinness if not actual gauntness In the face and upper half of the body and accumulations of fat about the hips, thighs, legs and arms, usually are subject to such mild manifestations of hypoglycemia.

For this reason, as well as for controlling overweight, they should have not less than four meals a day, even when dieting to reduce. More pronounced manifestations of hypoglycemia are sudden profuse perspiration, alternate pallor and flushing of the face, vertigo, and seeing double. Still more lowering of blood sugar may cause de lirium or abnormal behavior such as the committing of silly Impulsive acts quite foreign to the Individual's normal manners. In some instances the misconduct of the victim of hypoglycemia has brought about charges of intoxication. When marathon runners collapse and lose consciousness after run ning some distance, it is because their blood sugar has been used up faster than the metabolism can replenish the spoonful required to maintain vital functions.

Quick Pickup Almost any food contains enough starch or sugar to serve the purpose of quickly replenishing the blood sugar when the level of sugar In the blood falls below the normal. Fruit Juice, milk, sweetened beverage, candy, sandwich, some fresh fruit, a chew of wheat, milk chocolate ice cream. One patient set his alarm clock to waken him about 2 a.m. and remind him to take some food (milk, fruit Juice, candy) which served to prevent attacks. Another patient became weak, Prepared at my request a breviary of Dr.

Harry D. Gideonse's personal student contact activities lies before me. It indicates a real effort, I should say, to make our Brooklyn College an educational institution of real value to the young men and women studying there, and not an Incubation oven for the 'production of bizarre politico-social ideas which have never stood the test of human experience and never will. Goal of Modern Education By way of illustration, there is no word more common in scholastic circles today than "democracy." We are told on every occasion that our school system from the kindergarten to the university must function to fit the pupil for life in a "democracy." Never in human history as I have read it has any civilized nation been a pure democracy. Primitive Venice, when its islanders based then- economy on fish and salt, came close to lfc but it soon changed to the republican form and as a republic survived the vicissitudes of seven centuries, until the dictator-product of another democratic revolution, Napoleon, overthrew it.

Ours Best Model Thus Far But why cite example after example In a story so full of them as human history. It can be truly said, considering all the conditions area, population, industrial development, diversity of ethnic elements in the population, expansion of the franchise that the TJ. S. has more closely approximated democracy in practice than any nation of comparable size, and I think Its successful carrying out of the great political experiment has been the result of the republican superstructure resting on the basic democratic control. Wrong Road Ahead We can go from that system, tested by 150 years of stress, with its checks and balances, into a system unchecked and out of balance into democracy unregulated and anarchic, which will result in the future here, as always it has In the past, in dictatorship; as it did in old Rome in Julius Ceasar and the Imperial succession, as it did in modern Russia in a system where of 170,000,000 inhabitants only the 2,800,000 members of the Bolshevik party vote and a Red Czar rules from Moscow.

Particularizing All This Why all this? What has it to do with Dr. Gideonse and Brooklyn College? What is the object of that college? Why are the taxpayers, and that means all of us, paying to maintain this beautiful park with its group of handsome buildings? Why are all these thousands of boys and girls studying there? Is it that they may go forth into the life of the world with the impress of a Red school on them, militating against employment, militating against their success in a world that is competitive and will be always, even under the cloak of socialism, now worn by the despots in Germany and whatever pretext currently serves the parvenu rulers of Red Russia. Or do they not desire to be educated citizens, to fit into the life pattern of a democratic-republican society, intelligent enough to see its advantages and to guard its institutions against the concentration of power in any branch of our tri-branchial government to the detri confused and behaved so oddly thai he was discharged from his work as intoxicated, although he was a total abstainer. Sometimes his attacks of hypoglycemia came as convulsions and unconsciousness. He wM eventually operated on and a cystic tumor removed from the pancreas.

This brought complete relief from all symptoms. May Be Convulsions Hypoglycemia manifesting itself in convulsions has been mistaken for epilepsy. Some readers may recall the case of hypoglycemia described here recently, in which a man with no apparent reason drove his automobile slowly between two lines of traffic and collided with three vehicles on the wrong side of the street. He then collided with a standing truck and skidded to a stop on the pavement. A policeman found him dazed and only partly conscious of what was said to him.

The man was ar rested. He pleaded guilty to driving while under the Influence of drug, was fined $1 and ordered to pay $43 costs and his license was suspended. The police surgeon certified that the man, a diabetic, had been under the Influence of Insulin. A medical expert testified that the man's condition at the time of the accident hypoglycemia might have been due to the fact that Improvement had taken place more quickly than the physician had realized so that what had been a proper dose of insulin was now an overdose. Perhaps some people with nothing to do or think about affect allergic sensitivity to this and that, now that allergy is fashionable.

Although I have felt concern and misgiving over the apparently in creasing prevalence of allergic dis turbances in recent years and on several occasions have deDlored nasal allergy as an obstacle to prophylaxis against the crl. I feared I might have magnified the importance of allergy when I ventured the opinion that 1 In 20 per sons with a fresh ooryza is actually suffering only with nasal allergy. But If as the experts now assert, more than half of the entire population have allergy in one form or another, my estimate may have been a conservative one. ANTIQUES by JANE CORBY Vibrant coloring marks a set of 12 Austrian service plates made in the 19th century shown at the Harry Mark Antique Shop, 753 Fulton SU The borders of all have a mlde mulberry band with a repetitious gold trimmed beetle design. The centers differ, with undersea forms of greens and varying types of fish.

Attractive furniture for the country home is in evidence. There Is a beautiful fruit wood desk with four drawers and slant top. The crude dove tails formed on the top of the desk add a decorative note. The wood is light, with a warm satiny tone, and over 100 years of use have added the proper mellowing that age alone can produce. A pair of unusual wooden chairs are intriguing.

Their comfort would make them useful as a pair of fireside chairs. The legs, arms and supporting rungs are notched In bamboolike form. ADVERTISEMENT HARRY MARK (EST. 1896) Headquarters for Anything fn Antiques. Call at 7.11-753 Fulton St.

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DtTOLT I. ment of the system that has kept our people free? Dr. Gideonse Sums I'p These considerations give sig nificance to the following brief sur vey of Dr. Gideonse's activities In the week preceding Easter. At noon he addressed about 3,000 upper classmen and at two o'clock another 3,000 students.

Including all the freshmen, heard the college executive talk. This was on Thurs day last. Since his appointment, Dr. Glde- onse has personally made every effort to counteract the ill feeling that has grown up concerning the college. He has spoken from two to six times a week since classes opened in September.

He has held a weekly "press conference" with editors of the student newspaper, Vanguard, when he has given his personal and official reaction to items appearing in the paper. One bit of fatherly advice uttered by the president at the assemblies was this: "It is important that earn the privileges provided by the community, and in addition to ac tually earning them, we must ap pear to be earning them." He asked his charges to think over that Item. Too many of them ap parently take the free college education they receive as much for granted as the air they breathe, Direct From Horse's Mouth Dr. Gideonse said that he felt it wise to report to the student body, and to repeat to them "so that you'll hear it directly from the horse's mouth, and not through a garbled version" many of the points he had discussed with small groups and with individuals from the student body. He reaffirmed his desire to have democracy, in the traditional sense, work on the campus.

"The essence of the democratic technique," he stated, "is that instead of control by compulsion or by force from above you employ controls from within the group, guided by a sense of responsibility toward the community as a whole." He referred the students to the comment by DeTocquevllle who, after studying American democracy at work, commented on the influence of moral bonds among the people and their sense of responsibility toward the group as a group. In criticizing Vanguard, Dr. Gideonse insisted that an authorized campus newspaper "must be representative. It is not to be an A. S.

U. (American Student Union) house organ. If the A. S. U.

wishes to publish such an organ I shall be the first to defend their right to It. But it is bad educational policy for me to endorse the buying of G. O. tickets and then to have the money spent by some splinter groups for their own narrow purposes. I am serving the majority's interests in speaking and acting in tills manner." In denying the charge of censorship of the student paper, the college head sardonically remarked that if "any one thinks the paper represents my censoring of it, he doesn't know me." This Is Brooklyn's Institution Every one of us has an interest, if we care for the future of our children, in this great school.

Many have doubted the wisdom and the justice of free higher education, an attitude the present controljing board has done little to soften, and failure of the effort to remove the red label from Brooklyn College might mean a popular demand for its discontinuance. the courtyard in which the young, unmarried women' live is known as the Springtime Bower. Such a pretty name it is, but let us carry that thought a little further to the young couples who are in the first year of their married life. For those sharing Spring tjgether for the first time. 'allowing verses are publishe-' Let in one another's mse, Wiui de' -tntial "No" and courteous Let us take care to hide our foolish moods Behind a certain show of cheerfulness.

Let us avoid all sullen silences, We should find fresh and sprightly things to say; I must be fearful lest you find me dull. And you must dread to bore me anyway. Let us knock gently at each other's heart, Glad at a chance to look within and yet Let us remember that to force one's way Is the unpardoned breach of etiquette. So shall I be the hostessyou the host, Until ail need for entertainment ends. We shall be lovers when the last door shuts But what is better still we shall be friends.

A bouquet of Spring flowers to Carol Haynes, who wrote these fine lines. in Brooklyn on its economy and a caretui check is kept New Dodge Coupe Has a Set of Extra Rear Seats And Engine-Operated Top Is Controlled by a Button on Dashboard Opportunely timed for the opening of the Spring motoring season Is the introduction by Dodge of an Interesting convertible coupe with an engine-operated top that rises Into its protecting position, or folds back and lowers into place, as the driver manipulates a control button in the instrument panel. The power for raiting or lowering the coupe top is provided by engine vacuum applied to a simple, compact mechanism. While major chassis details of the new Dodge convertible coupe such as wlieeibase and power plant featuresare in the main those of the 1940 line of Dodge Luxury Liners, the body structure is marked by a luxurious leather-upholstered interior and by an unuual roominess, for passenger accommodation as well as for the carrying of luggage. An additionally interesting body detail is a set of extra rear seats cleverly arranged to fold completely out of the way or to open to the full width of the car, thus furnishing accommodation for two or three additional passengers riding under the protection of the automatic top.

The wide doors measuring 42 Inches across and carrying large, chromium framed disappearing windows give easy access to the rear seats. Dual sun visors and safety glass ventilator wings are standard equipment. The spaciousness of the body of the new Dodge convertible coupe is such that even with the arrangement of the extra folding seats back of the regular coupe seats the graceful sloping rear deck provides an abundance of room for the spare wheel and tire and for a full complement of Chevrolet Output '40 Units Detroit, March 30 Domestic production of 600.000 Chevrolets since manufacture of the 1940 models began was announced here today by M. E. Coylp, general manager, Chevrolet Motor Division, who de-fa ri'oed this volume as "the required fupply lo meet an unusual demand for this year's car," "At clove of business Tuesday night," Mr.

Coyle, "we had produced M7.20R units. With today's output approximating yesterday's, which was 5.822, sometime around noon we will have turned out the 2.792 additional cars needed to bring the total to 600.000. "The production of 600.000 1940 Chevrolets since the first units were built barely six months atio is an Unusual production record. This Volume is noteworthy because it is a direct reflection of buyer By HABRT J. ROTH Next Thursday Is the date of the much-heralded Bridge Olympic As most of you now know, this consists of a set of 16 arranged hands played at the same time at bridge tables all over the world.

The hands are arranged by some of the leading ex perts, with par set for each hand. Each team captain sends the results of his game back to the committee in charge, headed by Geoffrey Moo ts mi tn, ana valuable prizes are awarded for the best results. There Is still time to enter. Just phone the American Contract Bridge League at the Park Central Hotel In Manhattan and you will be told how to proceed. He Was Too Smart Last week we told you about a player who was trying to catch up on the score sheet by "stabbing" for high scores.

This Is a standby for players who are willing to take a chance on all or nothing if they make their over-ambitious contract they recoup a good part of their losses, while if they are set they lose only a couple of hundred points more. Today's hand was played by one of these chance-takers. He was quite a bit behind on the score and figured that a grand slam would pull him out of the hole. He knew his partner must have a pretty solid heart suit, and gambled that he held both the club and diamond aces. It would have been a simple matter for him to have found out by means of either the Blackwood or Culbert-son slam convention, but he's a player who to Jump to slams, hit or miss.

There Is something of the exhibi tionist in these slam-jumpers, and our friend was no exception. When East doubled and he saw the dummy he knew that East held the ace of clubs, and In order to show off a little he deliberately threw away high clubs on the long heart suit. He had a very good chance to make his contract with the lead he got, as he had a real squeeze on East, but by trying to be too smart he set himself. Before we go fur ther, here is the hand and the bid ding: AQ-2 K-Q-J-10-9-8-7 0 A-K-J 7 A A-K-4 A-6-5 5-2 K-Q-9-6-! North dealer. Neither a.

Jnerable. The bidding: North Sast South West Pass 3 Pass Pass 7 NT. Double Pass Pass Pass West, stuck for an opening lead, led the Jack of spades, the unbld major suit. Our friend turned to East and smilingly remarked, "You'd have liked a club lead, wouldn't you?" He won the trick with dummy's queen and played a small heart to his ace and then another heart to dummy, and started to run toe hearts. On the fourth heart he nonchalantly tossed the king of clubs, and then the queen, nine and six on the next three hearts.

East discarded three diamonds, a spade, and the five of clubs, while West discarded two spades, two clubs, and two diamonds. Declarer then led dummy's spade to his king and i played the ace, and East had to make a further discard. Had South made normal club discards, East would have discarded a diamond and kept his ace of clubs, but fearing that South had thrown all his clubs and was relying on the three diamonds in dummy, East discarded his ace of clubs and kept his diamond queen guarded. South, therefore, had to lose the club to West or the diamond to East. If he had discarded small clubs, this would have been the situation after the play of the last heart: A3 A-K-J 7 A J-i-9 None 0 None A 10-8 noris "one ail None 0 Q-10-9 AA-J A A-K None 05 AK-Q The spade leads would have forced East to discard a diamond and club, or two diamonds or two clubs; In any case, South would have made his contract.

'40 Aufo Travel Record Foreseen Automobile travel of record proportions in 1940 was predicted here Tuesday by D. E. Ahrens, general sales manager of Cadillac-La Salle, en route on a national swing of dealerships. "From the most conservative Government estimates, the automobile is going to be a dominating factor in the disbursement of 6,000,000,000 tourist dollars this year," he said. "Last year's all-time high of will be topped, according to the best authorities, by 18 In the party with Mr.

Ahrens were W. A. Houser, Cadillac-La Salle general parts and service manager, and Charles H. Betts, advertising manager. They were here to discuss their company's Spring campaign with sales representatives.

0 Q-10-9-8- 01-3 8.4 10-8-4-3 aovn I A-J-5 P. V. Moulder, assistant domestic sales manager International Harvester Company, directly In charge of truck sales, noted a decided improvement in general business conditions since the first of the year. He is expecting this improvement to be a factor In increasing International motor truck sales. Figures should even be better than those of 1939, he said, when total International new truck registrations were 66.048 as against 55,836 for 1938 or an increase of 18 29 percent.

In heavy-duty sales (2 tons and over) International continues to lead the procession by a substantial margin. In fact, ever since official new registration figures have been published by R. L. Polk Company in 1931, International trucks have been ahead in the heavy-duty classification. As is stated in current International display advertising, "Again in 1939! For five straight years more heavy-duty Internationals were bought than any other two makes combined." A further check of the figures for the nine years since official figures have been available would show that this statement New Willys Panel Delivery Now in Full Production Toledo, Ohio, March 30 With factory sales to date running 89 percent ahead of the entire 1939 model year for the Willys half-ton panel delivery truck, production of the 1940 cab-over'-engine panel is being stepped up to full capacity to meet the increased demand, Joseph W.

Frazer, president of Willys-Overland Motors, stated today. "Orders for the cab-over-engine panel model are coming in from all sections of the country," Mr. Frazer announced, "as retail merchants are cutting cost corners in their deliveries where possible, without sacrificing high standards of service. "Our complete line of trucks is selling in gratifying volume, as indicated by January registrations being almost double those for the same period last year. At the same time Willys has doubled its percentage share of the light truck market, as compared to the volume achieved la-st year.

An Innovation "This particular panel delivery model has revolutionized the light commercial car field by providing low first cost combined with low cost of operation. In addition, it affords a new maximum load space for commercial units in the half-ton class. Florists, dairymen, grocers, dry-cleaners, launderers and many others requiring bulky light hauling, have reported huge savings through use of single units and fleet operations. could be extended to include all nine years excepting that of 1934. Analyzing these figures for nine years in still another way.

They show an average of one out of every 3.26 trucks In the heavy-duty group was an International for the nine years. Also, to show the improvement in International sales in recent years, these figures show that in 1937 one out of 2.73, in 1938 one out of 2,64, and In 1939 one out of 2.92 heavy-duty sales was an International. With the recent addition of two new multi-stop delivery units and also several new heavy-duty cab-over-engine models, the International truck line now includes models and types to meet every need from quick delivery of extremely light loads to the heaviest types of highway and construction hauling. There are forty-nine basic International models ranging in capacity from the light-delivery units to the biggest six-wheeler, which has a carrying capacity of 42.000 pounds. Powerful truck engines, 161 wheelbases, a variety of rear axle ratios, and multiple-speed transmissions, especially in the heavy-duty models, permit accurate selection of the right truck for specific hauling tasks.

Packard Happy About Contest Picture Competition Judging to Begin Soon Such heavy volume of entries flooded in on the Packard Motor Car Company at the close of its world-wide "Picture Packard" contest that actually selection of prize pictures probably cannot be made for serveral weeks. A large force of clerks still is at work handling details of receiving and entering the photographs. The Packard contest, which began Jan. 15 and ran through March 15, was open to any amateur photographer anywhere in the world. It was provided that 1940 model Packards should be pictured.

Artists and photographic experts nationally famous are the judges. Five new Packard cars, $3,600 in cash and 150 silver and bronze awards of merit will go to the winners. Although the contest closed March 15 entries still are being received. Many of them are eligible a.s the packages in which they were mailed bore postmarks of March 15. Many delayed in thei rarrival at the Packard general offices because they had traveled in some cases more than half way around the world.

Many thousands of pictures were received from foreign countries. For each picture a file card has been carefully prepared and a letter acknowledging its receipt written to the entrant. Each has been carefully filed and made ready for inspection by the judges. Crossword Puzzle Helen Worth I Sow a Crowd, a Host, of Daffodils; Thus I Know Spring Is With Us Once Again Acress 1. First piece aawed from a log 9.

Backbone of an animal 10. Beginning with 14. Long stick 15. Hourly 16. Hindu deity 17.

Always 18. Over IB. Am plant ot the Iris family 20. Depart secretly 22. 8al 24.

Soft mineral 26. Mother of Helen of Troy 27. Pertaining to the stars 31. Sign 3. Topaz hemming bird 36.

Long narrow piece 48. European dormouse 39. Portun 40. Of the sun 42. Southern state: abbr.

43. Lock 46. Fasterlng cords 48. Summit 49. Orderly ar rangement 51.

Fine woolen fabric 53. Ood of war 55. Greek portico 56. Robes 60. Oenllenesfi of treatment 64.

Lopsided 85. East Indian light hat 87. One for whose use a thing Is done or given 68. Talk enthusi astically 69. Assumed name A little door, a green door Is building on the hill.

For weeks I've heard the tapping Of small hammers at the till. And today I saw the door-knob Was a daffodil! Another day, another way, If skies hang blue, The little door will open (You'd best be watching, too), For April is the green door That loveliness comes through. Surprise, surprise! In fact, April fool! for here it is on the last day of March that vagrant bit of verse which through the years has ap peared always in April. But with all sorts of precedents ever known or established broken this past 12 months, with leap year changing the established calendar's order, i why not rash the thought of Spring and its Joys, though the thermom-i eter register at this writing 20 decrees, and a chill North wind be blowing loudly? Spring Tonic Enters Springtime in the Rockies man aged to get itself into song; also Apple Blossom Time in Normandie, and Peach Picking in Delaware, But "a host of golden daffodils" dancing in the breeze, or even a few in a vase, are Spring tonic enough for Winter-wearied souls. Now that Brooklyn's chosen flower is the forsythla, perhaps som- one will be inspired and verses that sing its charms will result.

If, when and as this happens may it meet with the same good fortune that "April's Green Door" did, and also be set to music by Brooklyn's very own organist and composer, R. Huntington Woodman. In faraway China that part of ALL SERVICES INCORPORATED The new home of the Park Slope Chevrolet Co. at 343 4th Avp houses new and used car salesrooms and complete factory service equipment under One roof. Here Is an ordinary crossword puszle minus the diagram.

Definitions are supplied. You draw In a diagram around the answer, It worki without difficulty. Answer en Page.