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BROOKLYN EAGLE, MONDAY, MARCH 3. 1941 19 IT I I I Brooklyn Women Band Together AUNT JEAN'S COLUMN 4 To Give 'Cardiacs' Chance Rainbow Chapter Sponsors Benefit For National Home in Miami Needed It seems to flourish in cold, damp climates. "They have found that It kills more girls than boys, more city children than country children, more children in the Eastern States than anywhere else In Amerua, more children in poor than in well-off home." Records show that heart disease 1 I Is the chief caue of death among children of school age, and that the majority of case of heart disease among children are rheumatic heart disease. Deaths from rheumatic heart dbea.se outnumbered deaths of children from accident or pneumonia or appendicitis or tuberculosis In New York City, in the years from 1938 through 1938. Only 1 percent of the children who get rheumatic fever die from the first attack, yet about 25 percent tail to live ten years once the heart Involved.

h- vr NEWS BEHIND NEWS IN WASHINGTON By ERNEST K. LINDLEY 1 Farming Out Parts of Defense Orders May Speed Production by 100 Percent CARDIACS CONVALESCING Under tropical sun, Brooklyn children with "heart trouble" convalesce at the National Children's Cardiac Home in Miami. HEFFERNAN says Rear Admiral Woodward Recalls The Battle Scars of Santiago 7 of the harbor and straightened westward for flight along the shor, the Brooklyn, lying outside the American battleship line, had swung in across the bow of the Texas and straightened out to force the fleeing rf ft' Rear Admiral Clarlc H. Woodward, who retired Saturday as Commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, has supervised the construction there of the new battleship North Carolina. He has seen active service in many parts of the world, but I think his baptism of fire came at a battle regarding which he and I matched memories the other evening.

It and the National Children's Cardiac Home. As a result, Mrs. Goldstein veiled the home, and her little daughter is now a patient there. Open to Brooklynites Mrs. Goldstein has become the corresponding secretary of the Rainbow Chapter of the National Children's Cardiac Home, a Brooklyn organization founded by a Brooklyn woman, Mrs.

Grace Fadl-man, mother of Clifton Fadiman of "Information Please" fame. Rainbow Chapter Is holding a luncheon and Mah Jongg at the Cafe Loyale on March IS for the beenflt of the home. "It ts a non-profit, non-sectarian Institution." explained Mrs. Gold- 1 stein. "It is a private undertaking.

and the young patients pay for i their own care if their famine are able, but there are many children enjoying its advantages who are being cared for absolutely free. "Though located In Florida, almost all of the children In the home are Northern joungsiers, since rheumatic heart disease seldom occurs in the South. The children think they are In a boarding school, not a hospital, and live most of their lives out of doors under clear tropical fkies. The home was founded in 1937 ar.rt has provided care for cardiac children since that time. Last June 10 acres of land were purchased, the first unit of an extensive building plan completed, and five acres planted in orange, grapefruit and lime trees, forming a shady parklike setting.

Pioneer in South "The home is a pioneer In the care and treatment of rheumatic fever in the South, and hold out a helping hand to the afflicted youth of the nation. Its purpose is to provide care and treatment, and to accumulate evidence that a sub-tropical climate, such as Miami has to offer, is of assistance in solving the rheumatic fever problem. The children have their pulse and temperature taken every morning, to determine whether or not they are to attend daily classes; they have two hours of rest every afternoon, and rre in bed by 7 p.m. "Plans now in process of completion call for a colony of 10 cottage units, each housing 12 children, an infirmary, and a research laboratory building." Two-Year Minimum The National Children's Cardiac Home accepts children for a minimum two-year period, for protracted after-care is the only known way of successfully combating rheumatic fever. little Florence Goldstein has been there for the last eight months, writes of yachting trips, fishing expeditions and similar exotic recreations.

"The people of Miami take a personal interest in the children of the home, vie with each other to provide treats," said Mrs. Goldstein. "Recently they donated a station wagon for the me of the children." Mrs. Goldstein called attention to a fact noted by doctors about rheumatic fever, that April is the month when this vicious scourge seems to be at Us worst; also that Dr. Brady says: THE EAGLE SERIAL STORY WHO KILLED AUNT MAGGIE? By Medora Field Dear Junior Eagle afemberi: Our good member Marion Martin has written an excellent essay entitled "Why We Should Be Loyal to the United States," which I am certain you will enjoy reading.

I hope many more of you will send in stories on the same subject. Right now this is tike dearest and nearest th.ng to all of our hearts. Happy birthday to Frances Mc-Cullough, Mary Rollins, Mltzi Wur Utzer, Andrew Huff, Henry WUkins, I BASHFUL Drawn by Teresa Gates, 11, of 449 3d St. Dotty Unger and Donva Carpluk, whose personal portrait is printed today! See you in the mail boxl AUNT JEAN. Lovaltv to thfl U.

S. A. Every child in America should be loyal to the United States of Amprira Wp are verv miirh hpft off tnan le Qf lQ They had (ew niges. They vm and nad a very hard life. Today we have much better conditions.

We are not in the war as many other nations. We feel sorry for people who are innocent, especially the little chil dren. We are glad that we don't have to through such dreadful happenings. That ls one reason why we should be loyal. We are very glad that we are free from dictators and we are all proud to be truly loyal to the United States.

MARION MARTIN, 14. 944 McDonald Ave. Me I was born March 1929. This ls my birthday and, of course, I have Just become 12 today. I have brown hair and the same color eyes.

I am 5 feet 2 inches and weigh 88 pounds. I attend West Islip Public School and am in the seventh grade. My ambition is to be a teacher or a stenographer. The sports I like best are basketball, volley ball, baseball and table tennis. My hobbies are sketching, sewing ar.d reading, My dally chores afe dusting the house, washing and drying the dishes, sweeping and helping to take care of the baby.

DONYA CARPLUK. West Islip, L. I. My Dog Rascal My dog's name is Rascal. That ls a very odd name.

But we had no other name for him. He used to put holes in our socks and hide our shoes and be a little rascal. So that's how he got his name. We had him since he was born. Now he ls almost seven years old.

So that's the story of My Dog Rascal" MARY HORGAN, 12. 210 Qulncy St. engine field and Sperry In the air plane and naval Instrument field. Farming out also has general social advantages. It keeps skilled workers occupied in their own communities, Instead of draining them off Into the large centers.

Jt spreads economic benefits during the defense period and reduces population movement both now and after the war. Thus the farming out plan is winning converts not only among officials concerned with expediting defen.se production but among those who are thinking also of the re- adjustments that will have to be made when the present emergency has ended. jet; lr.u-'r.'.'ior.s of and stitches; ma't'iials needed. To ob'ain this pattern send ten in r.in to Brooklyn Eale Hiiiis.el.ol-! Ai ls D'partirent. 2j9 14'ii St M.mliattun 15c sure to wite p.aiii.y mir NAME, AU-I DKUiS and PAT1LKN Nl'MBEfc By JANE CORBY "Cardiacs'' is a comparatively new term, coined to fit those children of whom people say vaguely that they have "heart trouble," and who are placed in special classes in public schools and then more or less forgotten, as far as the public concerned.

Many a child who becomes sick, with pains in the joints, is up and about again in a few days, only to have another attack later on. and parents think nothing of it. even told that the child ha suffered an attack of rheumatic fever, until serious damage to the heart has occurred. Whose fault? Never mind that now it's Just one of those things. After all, even the doctors don't yet know the caiue of rheumatic fever, much less the cure.

The angle that concerns parents right now Is what is to be done for the child victims of rheumatic fever. The Ooldtins the I. M. Goldsteins, Mr. Goldstein has a pharmacy at 115-42 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica have a little girl, Flot-ence, aged 10, who has suffered two attacks of rheumatic fever.

Being Intelligent parents, they did not dismiss the doctor's diagnosis as "ONLY rheumatic fever," In the manner of many fathers and mothers. They realized that their daughter needed long continued, specialized care. But there is no public hospital within the Metropolitan area equipped to give that care, and Irvlngton House in Westchester, which takes as many children as it can accommodate, regardless of race, creed or color, cannot accept all the applicants who come to its doors. St. Francis Sanitarium at Roslyn, L.

another home which accommodates many Brooklyn cardiacs, is also perennially supplied with all the children it can hold. A few other homes which accommodate children cannot begin to care for half the number. Then Mrs. Goldstein had a bit of luck. She met on a train a woman accompanied by three children, and getting into conversation wlh her, found out that the group was bound for Miami, "Looks a little funny," he grumbled, "that key being left In the lock." "But people often do that in the country," Bill reminded him.

"Be' sides, they'll be in everybody's hair, Including your own." "Can't be helped." Nor did he relent when the judge went to him and threatened to have him discharged. "Sorry, sir. I didn't mean to give you the idea you yourself were not at liberty to go. But I do not wish anyone who was on the place at the time of either of the murders to leave. am sure your car will be returned shortly and you will then be free to go or remain as you like." "I've been trying to get the Judge to trade in that car," Mrs.

Warren mourned. "Now it will probably be wrecked and we will be accused of manslaughter or sued or something." Mr. Marshall Inquired of Lieutenant Gregory If he might use the telephone long enough to tell his butler to keep the dinner warm, but that request also was denied. "Got to hold the line open," he was told. "Be funny, if it were not so damn serious," Bill whispered in my ear.

Lieutenant Gregory drew us both aside. "What about our little test?" he a.sked me. "Were you approached by anyone on the subject of our conversation with Mrs. Benedict?" "By practically everybody. Alice asked me about it while we wre having tea and Claire backed her i up.

But, or course, women have so curiosity. I never did say definitely, though, thanks to Mr. Dodson breaking into the conversa tion at the psychological moment." "Then Miss Dunbar may have gone away with the Impression that you had definite Information?" "Perhaps, but lier brother knew differently. At different times, both he and Kirk warned me that such knowledge put me on the spot. I told them both that I knew nothing whoever," Continued Tomorrow TALK ABOUT Bidding Problems Test Your Skill Here are two bidding problems from Sam Fry's Masters Club.

See what responses you would make to the opening bids and the subsequent bidding before looking at the answers that follow. A The bidding has proceeded: North South 1 You, South, hold: A OQJ3 2 9 7 642 What do you bid? With both sides vulnerable, the bidding has proceeded: North East South West 3 1 You. Ea.st, hold: 4AJ5 4 OAKJ963 4.K5 What do you bid? ANSWERS A Pass. There Is nn rensnn to bid on this hand. The very fact that we have only a singleton of our partner's spade suit should de i 1 4.

was the scallght on Santiago de I Cuba in the Spanish War in 1898. Both our memories proved a bit faulty. "That was a long time ago," said the admiral. Battle Scars of '08 Long ago, when I was a reporter on the New York Herald, by which til good Ballormen swore, I went on board the cruiser Brooklyn, which Vat Admiral Schley's flagship In the Santiago affair, to visit some old friends of mine among her officers. She was lying in the Navy Yard baaln.

I met Captain Cook, her commander, as he stood on the deck, a fine portly figure. In view of the Sampson-Schley controversy and the part the cruiser had played in the fight, hi had refused to have his ship repaired and repainted, and her battle scars were manifest. You see the partisans of Admiral Sampson, who had been conferring with Oeneral Shatter at Playa del Est down the coast and came up In his flagship, the New York, too late for participation, had hinted that It was poltroonery on the part of Schley that was responsible for the famous "loop" maneuver of the Brooklyn. So Captain Cook kept the evidence of intrepidity on display. Inspected the Damage "I'm going to have our executive officer, Mr.

Mason, show you the damage done, and our navigator, Mr. Hodgson, describe the maneuver to you," he said. So lieutenant Commander Mason, an upright, alert officer pointed out the scars on smokestack and hull and took me down to the gundeck to show me the gun port through which a Spanish shell had crashed and the bulkhead against which it had burst. And U. Alben Hodgson, the dark Virginian navigator, told me how When Cervera's five ships came out are the part which are going to be "bottlenecks." If he makes the wrong analysis, the "farmed out" parts may pile up, while some of his own facilities remain idle, pending the completion of the "bottleneck" pieces.

Many concerns do not know where to find concerns to which to sub-contract parts. That is. outside of those with whom they deal regularly. If they sub-contract to a machine shop which proves to be unable to deliver the parts on quality, time may be lost instead of saved. On the other side, many small concerns do not know how to get sub-contracts or even what kinds of parts may be within their capacity to make.

Granting the obstacles, Government officials and borrowed experts concerned with "farming out" are sure that it can be uaed successfully on a greater scale than it now is. One of the leading practical enthusiasts for farming out is Francis Trecker of a Milwaukee machine tool making firm, who was brought here to advise the War Department and is now attached to OPM. The Trecker firm Kearney ii Trecker had only 32 production employes In 1932. (This was an abnormally low depression figure.) Now It has about 5,000. Over about two years, beginning In 1938, it increased its output by 400 percent.

It took large orders from the French and other foreign governments, and had to deliver in a hurry. Part of the expanded output came from increasing the size of the home plant. Part came from putting it on a line-production basis, which was considered radical for the machine tool industry. Part came from sub-contracting. Kearney Trecker have about 90 concerns producing for them or.

a sub-contMot bx-is. They larm out about one-third of all their orders. On the average, tiie items which they sub-contract cost $1.53 for every $1 they would cost If produced in the home plant. But, as an offitft, the home concern saves a large capital expansion. And, also, the finished articles come out more quickly.

Trecker said last week at a meeting of the Washington Chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Management that up to about 35 percent of his type of production could be farmed out without financial loss to the primary contractor. But above that there would need to be adjustments prices for the primary contractor. Making allowance for all diffi culties, Trecker and other practical experts are convinced that farming out ls feasible on a great scale. Thev point out that'it is done sue- cessfully by makers of extremely Intricate and refined articles, such as Pratt te Whitney in the airplane Newest Note rf i in Chair Pressure on defense producers to sub-contract parts of their orders is increasing. Officials who have studied the problem think that the time for completing many, perhaps most, of the Items already ordered can be reduced by as much as 50 percent by using facilities which are now idle.

Some ten billion dollars in defense orders has gone to about 13,000 primary contractors. But between 80 and 90 percent of the total has gone to about 1.000 concerns. Orders were piled on the larger concerns for at least two reasons. They usually have the facilities and established managerial ability to handle large orders. It is easier to deal with a limited number of large concerns than with thousands of smaller ones.

It would have taken months longer, probably, to break contracts down Into parts and negotiate with numerous smaller concerns. The inspection staff required by the War Department would have been immense. Many Obstacles In Way War Department policy has been to hold the primary contractors responsible for delivering the goods. If the primary contractors want to get others to make part for them, all right. But the War Department's interest in sub-contracting has been lukewarm, at least until recently.

Every survey has revealed, however, that facilities which are vast in the aggregate have not yet been put to work for defense. The obstacles to their use are numerous, but not insurmountable. On the side of the concerns which already have their contracts with the Government there is a natural reluctance to share their profits. Besides, "farming out" is often more expensive than producing in the home plant. But there are other factors on this side.

There is no saving in time of delivery of the fiiibhed product unless the "bottleneck'' parts are farmed out. These are sometimes hardest to make, not only for the primary contractor but for subcontractors. In machine tool making, in particular, the top contractor may easily misjudge which Way Through Your Life eludes the possibility that it is acted on here by the saliva to any appreciable extent." Salivary Action Old timers assumed, and many still believe, that the action of the derment orenzyne ptvalin In the saliva, which converts starch lio sugar, required an alkaline or neutral reaction and was terminated by the highly acid gastric Juice as soon as the food was swallowed. The truth ls that salivary ri.ges-tlon continues for a considerable time after the food enters the stomach, especially If the food has been well masticated, as all starchy foods (vegetables, cereals, bread-stuffsi should be. Incidentally, it ls well to remember that such foods should be thoroughly chewed.

Whereas such food ss meat. fi.h and eggs may be wolfed in chunks If you like and will dlnest perfectly. Punishing the Ktnmach As much as percent of the starch In a mashed potato or a baked or boiled potato, or make mine French fried or julienne please, is transformed Into maltrv (suRar) by the plyalin in the stomach. Carbohydrates, of which starch Is the most Important, naturally constitute the chief source of calorics In our diet. When we observe people down food In a busy beanery or qulcklunch with Just enough mastication to enable the morsel or mass to pass through the gullet without choking, we can only marvel at the punishment the diKestue organs can take, Spaniards on the beach.

Schley's purpose was to utilize the superior speed of his flagship in order that the battleships might come up for the coup-de-grace. The Admiral Recall "Cook and Hodg.son are said Admiral Woodward the other tvening. ''Mason is retired with the rank of Rear Admiral. I saw him three years ago. He is living in California.

"I don't remember the names of all Cervera's ships. There were the Cristobal, Colon, the Oquendo and the Viscuya." "And the something Maria," I said. "Yes, the Maria-Theresa that makes five." said the Admiral. "We were hit 50 times, the only American ship to take the enemy fire at close quarters," he added. "I remember that we made the loop at 183 degrees.

It was a long time ago." stand It. You've scared her out of her senses and she'll probably I wreck the car and ba killed. If I anything like that happens" he glared at Lieutenant Gregory for a moment, then finished in a voice grown suddenly calm "IH kill you." In all the excitement, I don't know when it was that I missed Mrs. Warren. She was not in the drawing room where I had left her, nor was she with the Judge in the library.

Thinking back again to that offer to buy the place and the possibilities suggested by Kirk, it occurred to tme in my upset state that her movements might bear watching. Perhaps Mrs. Warren knew about the secret room. Perhaps she was even now establishing contact with the person responsible for all our troubles. Looking In one after another of the downstairs rooms, I was on the point of starting upstairs when I saw her coming down the back steps from the second floor.

She looked a shade embarrassed when she first sighted me, but regained her composure, instantly and smilingly explained "I Just wanted to see your dear grandmother's room. I've visited in it so often with her." Then smoothly putting me on the defensive, "But it was in a terrible state of confusion, my dear. I should think you would wish to speak to the servants." "I should think It would be in a state of confusion, "I told her, a little maliciously. "That's where Eve Benedict was killed Just a few hours ao." "Oh," she said. "Well, I wouldnf let the servants be getting slack.

You have to keep right behind them, you know." I stood there, feeling completely baffled. Of course, it was the natural thing for her to come to call when she heard that the grandchild of an old friend was in trouble. It was possible, I knew, that her upstairs tour could have been prompted by nothing more than curiosity to see an old friend's room and incidentally to pry into my housekeeping and whatver changes we had happened to make on the second floor. But my grandmother's room was at the front of the house and she had come down the back stairs. It was a relief to have the Judge appear opportunely and 6ay he thought they should starting home.

And it was then we discovered that Alice had not escaped In Bob's car but in the one driven by the Warrens, which was an identical model. This meant more dashing about and more telephoning to headquarters. It meant, too, that Alice had more than a head start on her pursuers. And It meant that we had the Warrens on our hands Indefinitely. BUI offered to drive them home or to have Andrew do so, but Lieutenant Oregory would not allow It.

Likely one out of every ten persons who have been led to believe they have "weak digestion" and do not "assimilate their food properly" really has oral dyspepsia, that Is, indigestion or deficient digestion in the mouth. The other nine are persuaded by the nostrum vendors to ascribe whatever ails them to poor digestion. If some of them do have a digestive deficiency it is usually a manl- fc Liulmnl (ireiorr the polk ilubbornly klirkt to nil conclusion that Hallr'a red hed nmbend Bill killed ber Aunt Moeiie. Rally and Bill are ilvlni home party to celebrate the enearcment of two Irlendi, Bob and flalre, and now thle function it further disrupted br a second murder. This time the victim la Eve Benedict, and Bill cannot have been the tullty one.

Coroner Oodaon has aue-featod a rehearsal of the Iniuest, and Oretorr has declare a brief recess before beiina. Lieutenant Gregory, already on his feet, went into action like a machine gun, Issuing orders in all directions even before I could answer the questions he asked. "How did she get away? Go after her, Anderson. What sort of car is it. Mrs.

8luart? Maroon sedan. What color Is that? Brownish-red. Anderson. You wouldn't know the license number, would you, Mrs. Stuart.

All right, Anderson if you don't catch her before she reaches the highway, pick up the number when it is broadcast. Roberts, tell headquarters to get the number and have county and State troopers look out for the car." "Bob, would you know the number?" suggested Bill. "Or he would have his ownership certificate." "Never mind," Lieutenant Gregory waved him aside. "I want Anderson to be on the way before we have any relatives messing up things." Threat Of course, Bob went Into a tall-spin when he heard the news. "It's all this damned third degree." he stormed.

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An additional cut Is required from residents of New York In payment of Oily Rales Ts tor I'nemolor-menl Relief. Write name and address, else and atIt ainbtr pWnle, 9 iVir festatlon or result of, and not the cause of, their trouble. If an Important part of the digestion of an ordinary meal does not occur in the mouth It does occur from the action of the saliva upon the food. As an authoritative textbook "Physiological Basis of Medical Practice" (Best Si Taylor) has it "The rapid passage of the food through the mouth pre- BRIDGE HARRY J. ROTH crease rather than Increase our desire to keep the bidding open on this honor-trick holding.

B-Three notruinp. If we double the three-spade bid on this hand, partner, not knowing our spade holding, is almost certain to take out and his takeout of course will nave us beyond the three notrump level. It will furthermore either be in hearts or clubs, which we do not like. If we ourselve overcall in diamonds we are also beyond the three notrump level. Therefore, the only alternative is to bid three notrump ourselves.

We do have what should prove to be a double spade stopper and we have a six-card suit, which we may be able to run Immediately, or by giving up only one trick. We have to gamble on partner's being able to slop the heart suit for us and to help out a bit In clubs and or diamonds. The point Ls that any bid other than three notrump will get us beyond the three notrump 1 level, ill lit Or Sets PATTERN This vae of easy to i rochet, you'll be surprised hi Ikw cjiiii kly It's finished. Djt.e linii. Is lovely as chair si 1 The flowers are the sume muli.l-1 1 in re)eaied.

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