Show II i ii I Where Do They Come From I fy 0 ft EPIDEMICS of hiccoughs have been travelIng travel- travel y c J ing around the country It seems to be a wandering ailment that stays only a few I J- J days or weeks weeks in a community then moves moves moves' ii i on A victim hies for twenty four to sev- sev j two enty-two hours and abruptly recovers Annoying An- An but relatively harmless just harmless just one of those nasty little nuisances that are re for for- forever ji Jever ever ver bothering people What s started arted the hiel hie- hie l epidemics Doctors cannot answer ns Some students of psychology and mental t peculiarities assert that it is all a matter of j imitativeness or suggestion Their theory is t that a. a few a-few f w people h have ve hiccoughs and others I a 1 unconsciously copy them r I Last winter colds ran mn to bronchitis This year the tendency is for colds to cling ding J r to the head hood Here we have more nasty little j i e epidemics A definite type of cold goes the tl b rounds For instance ance the head cold old accompanied i f by an earache Medical Medica sp specialists t r- r observe that each of these epidemics has definite characteristics of its own It indicates indicates indi- indi cates that what we call calla a cold Heald covers thousands thousands thou- thou 4 sands of strange ailments Each as cities become year more congested con- con X Kested and the air more poisoned we have V more and more epidemics of colds and flu As fast as the medical profession makes progress progress f fress ress in curbing a disease like for instance a typhoid or I diabetes nature sends new destroyers destroyers de- de new new ailments to 10 attack acc us Lately her destroyers have been een reinforced by wider widespread wide- wide r P- P spread ad nervous disorders and multitudes of peculiar flus and colds Saw Saw- N Natures Nature's tures ture's system is is to th keep us so that she Mean can strike us down to make room for oncoming gg king ing generations That's why new maladies c dev develop lop as s fast as ras the medical profession gets old bId ones under control And it ft 1 is IS the reason 1 why man will never never find any elixir to enable him to fa live to an extremely old age By Byj right j living we might survive ISO years but somewhere is s a natural deadline to prevent j the the earth becoming overcrowded It It is a a ay V y natural 1 tural law You see it at work everywhere constant t building is balanced up or pr offset constant disintegration j T Orange Ornge and lemon trees for instance b have been aided a lot by science science- Now they tl-e tl yi j. j have a disease called which among I r other things causes fruit to stop growing The scientists are re fighting back by injecting injecting- medicine medi- medi cine cine ine into the sick trees Or take the ani- ani mal IJ I mat mal kingdom Chicken n flu has been going C the rounds rounds so so so severely that a fourth of the thel Jf l chickens delivered to New York died upon t arrival l. l To protect itself New York placed k an tn n embargo against shipments of chickens P fr from m ei eight t. t s states ates that supply it with nine- nine tenths of its live poultry So goes the eternal g program program of destruction |