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m r \ ~ : l <"tJ$ Our Washington t&.iviw*. *-";- •- if-fTi-" Letter n iuifyffii* $-sr$ MMomI idftoriH ••«M Washington, September 3--Though «t is difficult to muster a quorum for voting on major legislation, there is mething about committee investigaons that lures legislators away from . jiheir vacation haunts. It is a human it to look for flaws and blemishes. Legalized curiosity makes the lawf makers welcome this call to duty as &' .^probers. Several investigations are jin full blast this week while business ^~=»Hin the main tent at the Capitol is vir- / * J^tually at a standstill. With vital gov- -f <ernment policies relating to the world ^ Jin turmoil changing ovetnight, heer- J , ^iags smacking of rank politics and , \irnarked by quibbling outrank more ^fS ^important matters nqaiiia^ congres- ' •>/" •- visional attention; •T 'A The reshuffle of defense agencies ter months of bickering and divided ^authority ami responsibility has pro- : i;:^voked widespread comment. The ex- ^^ecutive order consolidating defense activities in a Supply Priorities and - sAHocation Board means something • afide from a new alphabetical agency J "Well-informed opinion basing conclusions on the "brass-hat" personnel is >: to the effect that the revision is all to "th^ advantage of social reformers and jjU.Y. -"to the detriment of the conservative * • wings. The uncertainty as to hoiw r "the radical changes will affect policy "and the lesser officials of defense I , agencies was not cleared up over the f holiday weekend. With a new lend-lease bill calling p v If or additional billions in appropri- |s; " iations, concern is expressed in mili- I Jtary and congressional quarters as to |f the effect on furnishing our own arm- | f ed forces with badly needed equip* • .ment. The opening of a gateway to I ViRussia through the capitulation of 3 -Iran is expected to speed deliveries of & y ; ^essential war supplies to the Russians land the British forces in the Near ' "East. There is a great demand for American tanks, anti-tank guns and airplanes. The U. S. army is crying H - .for the same but obtaining only a ^ small percentage of their immediate ---^requirements. Harry Hopkins, in charge of lease-lend activities, has the ;inside track in any test of strength • with the Army as he lives at the White House and is the President's '» • closest adviser. Even the Cabinet can. not overcome this influence when they protested diversion of supplies to the ^ ^embattled Britons and Russians. Though labor shortages ace reported daily to government agencies, the W. P. A. continues to keep a toe-hold in the picture by providing relief sometimes in competition with defense •industries. Their latest attempt to ^justify spending the huge funds in •their keeping is a program for removal of, abandoned, publicly-owned streetcar rails to salvage the steel for * defense production. Any project which \ might have a "defense" angle is eagerly sought by the W.P.A. The raildigging job will result in pulling up streets over which trolleys once rattled and in which rails are completely -covered by paving materials. The plan • . is made attractive to local communii ties by a deal whereby the recovered rails will be sold as scrap metal. The proceeds will be applied as a sponsor's contribution toward the cost of the W.P.A. project The W.P.A. Is not over-anxious to salvage rails which are completey embedded in permanent pavements unless the town or city intend to restore the street by ^ repaving in the near future. The cost in these cases would be far in excess of the value of the salvage. - It is true, of course, that considerable unemployment will follow the im- : pact of priorities and the undue concentration of defense orders. Shortages of materials for non-defens* work is threatening to close many factories in the near future. Wherever possible, the government endeavors to > make the transition from a civilian to defense project for a reasonable period to permit the absorption of workers whose skills are so limited as to prevent retention. Other factories '". which have closed down because they cotild not obtain materials for their civilian business have other problems. After months of controversy the Office of Production Management has set up the Defense Contract Service to provide regional advisory services for plant owners. One highlight of their program is to spread defense ' work wherever practicable into communities or industries faced with unemployment because they cannot obtain materials for non-defense produc* tion. Big contractors having facilities for quick service and delivery of war materials will be required to "farm- -- --out" sub-contracts whenever possible. This procedure is expected to keep workers in small industries off relief. The public relief agencies would not take over these unemployed until their full compensation had been drawn from state relief funds. Mean- ^ while, machinery has been set up for re-training and re-employing workers displaced from factories which cannot be converted to defense production. Ickes tolling the curfew on gasoline sales along the Atlantic seaboard states has turned people's thinking to the transportation problem. When motor fuels were unlimited few bothered about means of reaching factory and office from home. An O. P. M. study has revealed an acute shortage in local transit and urban and interurban bus service. The sudden en- ' . large ment of defense plants and the 0 • building of new plants have so greatly increased local travel in many cities that the transit and bus companies an unable to meet the current require* ments. The gas 'restrictions have accentuated the transportation in othef localities not in defense areas. Ik* light of Ha* fovcnmcnt t§ take private propeily for public use eroviding just Compensation la patitk Pig Of Value in Anemia Cases By DR. JAMES W. BARTON TWO friends of mine died of pernicious anemia just a few years before Doctors Minot and Murphy (Boston) made this evening ™ th. Mrs. Gsbfge Hf 0» and Mrs. Lester Nelson Juad ddldren of Antloch visited Jefcaie Bacon on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peet attended the fair at Union Grove on "Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh White of Detroit and Mrs. Merritt Cruikshank of Morton Grove spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McCannon. Mr. and Mrs. George Young and Dr. Bartea compensation called eminent domain. startling discovery that death from pernicious anemia could be prevented by the use of liver. Since that time liver extract and extract of hog's stomach have been found effective in this formerly fatal disease. While the cause of pernicious anemia is unknown, I know that severe emotional upsetments and extreme mental work or overwork had undermined the health of these two friends and that this might have been a partial cause of their death by pernicious anemia. Just as mental or emotional strain can ' affect the organs of the body -- heart, blood vessels, stomach, intestine--so' can they also affect the life stream. That more than the quality or quantity of the red blood cells are affected in pernicious anemia is shown by the fact that even after the blood becomes normal in the number and iron content of its red corpuscles, the patient may continue to have symptoms such as pain and exhaustion. Drs. F. Sciclounoff and M. Naville, in the Swi§s Medical Journal state that in a series of cases of pernicious anemia in which the blood was up to normal, the patients continued to have the symptoms. They administered thiamin chloride (vitamin Bl) to 13 of these cases and found that this treatment can relieve and often cure the symptoms due to the disturbances of the nervous system. In favorable cases there was improvement in movement and in sensitiveness, and the pain stopped in a short time. Nerves Prolong Symptoms. The thought then in pernicious anemia is that the nerves are apparently damaged to some extent, thus prolonging the symptoms even after the blood is restored to normal. The treatment to relieve these symptoms is the use of vitamin Bl (thiamin chloride) which, as stated before, enables the oxygen In the blood to get directly to the nerve cells. Foods rich in vitamin Bl and therefore of help in conditions affecting the nerves--neuritis, arthritis, nervous exhaustion--are ham, bacon, peanuts, beef, liver, malted milk, wheat germ and yeast • • • Pain in Chestr Due to Effort J A S YOUNGSTEliB ** played hard a pain would occur in the chest and we would have to stop playing or play more leisurely. This pain was due to the fact that we were playing so hard, or were so excited while playing, that too much waste--carbon dioxide-- from the exercise accumulated in the blood. Today, when adults get this tight or gripping pain in chest or under the breastbone, it is called angina pectoris. This is due, as with youngsters playing hard, to something preventing enough pure blood to flow through the little blood vessels carrying pure or unused blood from the lungs to the heart. When this pain comes on from effort, stopping what you are doing or doing it less rapidly will in moat cases cause the pain to disappear. In speaking of angina (pain) due to effort, Dr. Geoffrey Bourne, London, in the British Medical Journal, states that in the majority of cases rest is not needed; in fact, the patient should be encouraged to take regular exercise to increase the strength of his heart and lungs. If during the exercise pain occurs, exercise may be stopped for a time, but a gradual increase in the amount of work that can be done or exercise taken before the pain appears will be noticed soon. Patients who are overweight, In whom this pain in the chest occurs, can be greatly helped by a reduction Of their weight. * Standing, sitting and walking in an erect position, carrying abdofnen drawn in, will often prevent this pain. When exercise cannot be taken, holding the abdomen in by means of a well-fitted abdominal belt will prevent or postpone the pain. • • • \ QBERION BOX Q.--Could you suggest a remedy for MM Meed? A.--liest eases af mm Meed are dae te a nal vessol Mac Mar tfce surface ef msi, tag mm Is isMalt te Nom Meed mm be doe la Ford Jackson horfte at Johnsburg. Rev. Monroe of Woodstock will conduct the services at the M. E. church on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Smith and family spent Tuesday at Brookfield Zoo. Mrs. C. J. Jepson and Mrs. Joe McCannon spent Thursday in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Merchant and Andrey spent Tuesday evening in the Charles Coles home at McCullom Lake. Art Habeek and Henry Wraage of Chicago spent the weekend with Loren Harrison. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Neal and Marie Neal of Oak Lawn were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neal. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Rauen, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rauen of Kenosha and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bell were guests ta< the George Young hotne Sunday. Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr., and Helen Johnson attended a birthday party in honor of Mrs. Jack Leonard at Fontana on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Harrison and Edyth spent Thursday at Galena. • Miss Doris Dahline of Oak Park was a guest of Virginia Jepson over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jenen, Marion, Raymond and Ralph, of Chicago spent Saturday in the Nick Young home. Rita Mae Merchant spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Merchant. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peet attended the fair at Elkhom on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Malsch of Glenwith the lat- "Johnson of Slgin, Mr. and Mrs. Ken- 'pjfiei&s, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Bobby Brennan an3'fi*ry Ann Wiedrich spent the wijjjt "With their sisters, Mrs. P. E. SMfaausrs- and Mrs. Jack Leonard at Fontana. Mre. Lyle Hopper, Elinor Jane and Dorothy Ann, of Chicago spent Tuesday with Mrs. Ancfrew Hawley. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McCannon' and guests, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh White and Mrs. Merritt Crnickshank attended the fair at Elkhorn on Saturday. Fred Wiedrich, Jr., and Vern Malsch spent Saturday at Janesville. Mrs. Louis Hawley had the misfortune to fall and break a bone in her wrist on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Nick Young attended a reunion at Twin Lakes with her brothers, Nicholas Jenen and family and Henry Jenen and family, on Sunday. Jbc Home CIrde ** the"and Mrs. Ed Bauer were callers home of Mrs. R. J. MeKelvey at Woodstock on Thursday. Greenwood on Wednesday afternoon,' Mrs. Chauncey Hairison, Carol and September 10. I Amy, and Mrs. Frank Wattles of Mc- Mrs. George Yimw and Alfred j Henry spent Friday afternoon In Belspent Tuesday afternoon in the John I videre. Merchant and Alice Howard ot Kenosha spent Monday afternoon in the Ray Merchant home. Miss Eleanor Peterson, G. Carison and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Godsen were Sunday visitors in the Louis Hawley home. Mrs. Frank B. Collins of Wilmette is spending the week with Rev. and Mrs. Collins. Alice and Marion Peet, Elgin, spent the weekend with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Peet. Mrs. Oscar Berg spent Sunday at Lake Geneva. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stephenson, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson and Maude Granger of McHenry spent Sunday at Manitowoc, Wis. John Smith spent from Friday until Monday evening: with friends in Chicago. Mrs. Joe Kattner of Spring Grove in Q.--Where there is an exudative retina condition and a small part ot the vision is lost, can it be restored? for fs»*» aay eye WAN 1 R. Smith home at McHcnry. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Merchant and Audrey and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Harrison and Edyth spent Saturday at the Elkhom fair.. Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Coyne and family who have lived in Rfngwood for the past seven years, have moved to Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Clay and family and Edna Peet of Rockford spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peet. Helen Johnson and Janet spent from Wednesday until Sunday in the Clarence Mortensen home at Harvard. Mrs. Vern Malsch of Glenview spent Saturday with Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr. In the afternoon they visited old friends at Solon Mills. Frances Cooper spent Labor Day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Cooper. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Pearson and Jackie spent Tuesday at Brookfield Zoo. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson, Irene, Arnold and Virgina, and Mrs. Nellie Marion Hawley spent several days in the D. C. Bacon home at Crystal Lake. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Smith, Mrs. Lonnie Smith and family and Katie Freund spent Friday at the Elkhorn fair. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Treon of Crystal Lake spent the weekend in the Harrison - Peet home. Gordon Berg spent a week at ftealsville, Wis. 4 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hawley were visitors in the Louis Hawley home Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bauer called on the latter's father at~the St. Thereto hospital in Waukegan on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hawley and Mrs. Wm. Hoffman of Crystal Lake spent Sunday in the S. W. Smith home. • Mrs. Lonnie Smith and children spent Wednesday in the Wm. ^Vurtsinger home at Woodstock. Oscar and Leland Berg attended the fair at Elkhorn on Sunday. James Harrison of Green Bay, Wis., spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Harrison. Rev. and Mrs. Collins spent from Friday until Saturday night in Wilmette. On Saturday afternoon at four o'clock at the M. E. church in Wilmette, Rev. Collins officiated at the wedding of his granddaughter, Frances Collins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Collins, to Milton Koop, Mrs. D. C. Bacon, Mrs, Frank Haw. ley and Mrs. A. H. Hawley visited Mrs. Louis Hawley on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Hanford of Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Don Fisher of Long Lake were callers in the S. W. Smith home on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bauer and family attended the Spring Qrove carnival on Saturday evening. Mrs. Robert Pix Mid Miss Rose Speck of Chicago were visitors in the Louis Hawley home on Friday. Mr. and Mrs, Clayton Harrison entertained at supper Sunday evening in honor of their son. William Harrison's birthday anniversary. Those who attended were Mr. and Mrs. Wm. 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