Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 21 September 1934 — Page 4

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1934,

THE POST-DEMOCRAT J Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County.

Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the Postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879.

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Muncie, Indiana, Friday, September 21, 1934.

Don’t Make Foolish Promises

John C. Hampton, Republican candidate for mayor, was | ciai^. ^tiTgratifying 1 results.

DIATHERMY IS (Continued from Page 1) '•that the electrical treatment of various dijseases and gynecological affecions would not receive more

attention.”

I can verify Dr. Kelley’s statement by many gynecological cases •jpf my own as well as those referred to me for treatment by brother

physcians.

While diathermy is compartively a new method in this country for the removal of tonsils, it has been used abroad for a number of years by a representative group of physi-

swab the throat with some anesthetic of choice—differing with different operators, allowing same to

MOYdES

“Belle of he Nineties” coming Sunday at the Rivoli Theatre the

THE NEW GOAT

The NRA doesn’t press pants but most of the pants pressers through,out the country have given their

come in contact with the tonsils, 'customers to understand that their uvula, base of the tongue, and in-j business is thoroughly controlled side of cheek. In a few seconds, re-[by the Government. The hotel that

+ ,, will not make a trade-deal with a third of the Mae West starring pic-

peat the process, then apply tnei ...... .

i 1 !local newspaper is likely to give ^ *

swab directly to each tonsil, wll “! S ome sort of NRA code excuse. A slight pressure and allow it to i'e-;] 0 j. 0 f manufacturers and jobbers main .in this position for several ,bave been running up their prices, seconds. This proceedure is repeat- an ^ laying it onto the NRA, but ed for some three or four t'.mes. their profits have been increasing.

the principal speaker at a knife and fork meeting of the Ki- j As m uch reading and experience wanis club one day this week and he made public his plat-1 fn order^to Establish som^'bSs form. for a beginning. To attempt to do The candidate cheerfully told his listeners, according to | ^ and k absolutely 6 n°o knowledge local Republican dailies, that if elected he is going* to “give of electrical apparatus appears

the government back to the people.”

Particularizing he explained what he meant by that. He tonsils has become thoroughly es

says he will name his heads of departments and will not in- j

terfere with them in any way.

That, of course, would carry with it the assumption that the mayor has little responsibility of his own, and that the policies of a city administration are to be agreed upon by de-

partment heads appointed after the election.

He is also pledging himself to call in the “best minds” to solve the many problems vital to the proper conduct of the various departments that go to make a successful whole in

the administrations of the affairs of the city. QO „ , . . Thus, when questions involving labor require action he ation, and this paper is, quite nat-

will call in union labor heads. | aarlly ’ addressed to physicians

When business questions are on tap he will consult with anatomy of^the throat 1 but* 1 who

business men; when factories are in deep water he will talk j have a knowledge of the high fre-

it over with captains of industry. c ! lrrent wel) - Now to our way of thinking that is just plain hooey and h IS certainly no reasonable

John certainly had his fingers crossed when he outlined his p e tent physician empio°y f in- ny C ° m "

plan of successful city government. 1 ’ •

We next place a piece of block tin, 10 inches by 6 inches to the bare skin of back between the shoulders, the block tin being conlected by an insulated cord to the

machine.

The tonsils are now ready to be coagulated. The patient is encouraged to breathe naturally and easily. There should be no shock, and

j tablished on a definite scientific

Msis.

Good equipment is very essential for satisfactory results. As a rule, the cheaper machines do not produce a satisfactory current and are not as safe and dependable. To follow the proper technic, it is necessary to have a smooth steady current with a low voltage, to eliminate any possibility of sparking or shock. When all is said, these precautions and limitations, are in essence, the same

tures to come from Paramount, i shows the blonde siren again in a setting of the gay ’90’s, which was the period of her first picture, “She

Done Him Wrong.”

Surrounded by three screen sweethearts, Roger Pryor, John Mack Brown and John Miljan, together with Duke Ellington and his orchestra, Katherine DeMille, Warren Hymer and Stuart Holmes, Mae West essays the role of the country’s most sensational burlesque

queen of the period.

As “American Beauty,” Mae West becomes involved with an ambitious young prize fighter, Roger Pryor, of St. Louis, but, through the plotting of the prize fighter’s manager, the

action, because it adds more fluid [^t Pack as compared with the romance is broken up and Mae

to the very parts you wish to de-1 burdens that are being onto the

hydrate; and you are sure to get ■ P 001 ” °l<i NRA. more reaction from the fluid in- u dci i°

jected than from the diathermy HELPFUL HINTS . method itself. “Don’t throw away your chicken

The things that some people say that they can’t do “on account of the code” are alibis for doing something that they want to do that the NRA never contemplated they would do. In reality most of thes excuses are used to advance prices

to the consumers.

The NRA has little to do with socalled “price-fixing,” hut it is to

little or no gagging or pain. I nev- ihe hoped that it will give more ater inject any anesthetic into or ! tention in the future to the “price-

around the tonsil. It is not nec-lexers.”

essary and it causes too much re- i The original “goat” carried a

Muncie is filled with citizens who are absolutely sure that they can do things better than those who have been elected and if Hampton should be elected and attempt to carry out his elaborately designed policy of taking somebody else’s word for it he would be hankering for solitude on a forgotten isle in the middle of the ocean inside of a month. And “turning the government back to the people” is a bromide that sounds familiar and is susceptible of various interpretations. For instance there is a wide distinction between “the people” and “THE people.” John was mayor of Muncie for the four years immediately preceding the present Democratic administration. We don’t just exactly recall what promises were made by him when he beat Milt Retherford, except one: and that he would hold ward meetings in various parts of the city at stated intervals, to find out what “the people” wanted, ulrid give it to them. As nearly as we can remember two of these ward meetings were held and that was that. He found out that the people didn’t know themselves what they wanted, or at least that there were as many suggestions made as there were people present, and that instead of getting together on whatever it was that they were suggosed to get together on, the net result was a general dogfight. !Dr. Roll Bunch, the Democratic nominee, is slated for a speech before the Kiwanis next week and if he outlines a platform during the eatfest we hope he avoids such nonsense. The best thing Doc could say would be a pledge to Muncie that under his administration he would guarantee a strict adherence to the policies of the present Democratic administration. Also that if he finds he is getting the hooks thrown into him by department heads of his own choosing that he will not hesitate to use the ax. Voters do not care much for executive officers who try to pass the buck back to “the people.” They prefer to elect a man who, when he believes he is right, will stick to his gaps. The people are sometimes mistaken and THE people are always wrong. MAYOR’S CORNER (Continued from Page One) ing with the hope that differences could be “ironed out,” in order that there should be no further delay in starting the

work.

Councilman Parkinson, the self-constituted spokesman for the sewer committee, was given a patient hearing as he objected to this and that and proposed alternative plans which even he himself admitted might not be practical. Even when Bob told me that the council was starting in where I left off in 1931, when, according to Bob I “told the state board of health to go to hell,” I restrained myself and explained, as clearly as possible, that Doc King was then secretary of the state board of health and that the mayor’s attitude now was due to the fact that the Roosevelt recovery plan presented a practical plan now, whereas in 1931 the city would have gone broke if the order had been obeyed. .But the meeting was held on the American plan, with the hatchets buried outside, and vocal arguments with a smile were used instead of the European plan of opposing factions getting together with meat axes and sending for the undertaker to plant the remains of the side that lost the argument. Of course my first impulse, when Bob said the council was starting now where the mayor left off in 1931 was to tell him that he might catch up some time, and to ask him whether he meant by that that he was telling Mr. Geupel and his state board of health to go to hell. But what’s the use of saying unkind things, and breaking up a camp meetin’ when everybody’s getting religion? The meeting broke up at a late hour and it was an answer to the prayer of the Post-Democrat last week that a good time would be had by all. At the conclusion of the conference I paid a high compliment t6 Councilman Parkinson, who met all comers in debate With volleys of meaningless words and hair-splitting argument that meant nothing by assuring him that he was an able dissenter. And believe me he was told plenty by Mr. Logan, Mr. Geupel, Mr. Barr and practically all present. But that didn’t deter him from proposing sdme sort of a plan of financing th6 sewer, which has never been thought of before, he says. “I just feel like going to Washington and taking it up with the PWA people,” said Bob. As mayor I will agree to sanction an appropriation to pay Bob’s expenses to Washington and if Secretary lekes accepts the plan will recommend him for the first vacancy on the brainless trust.

electro-

coagulation diathermy in the removal of tonsils, if he chooses to do so—nothing but the psychological resistance to a new, practical,

and safe mehtod.

There is no operation more frequently performed, or by more operators, than a tonsillectomy and no other type of operation has o varied a technic, i might add, also, that the complications resultant upon the performance of this operation can cause as much worry as from almost any other oper-

ation.

It is safe to say that no operation in surgery is so often botchedup as a surgical tonsilectomy. it is estimated that three out of every four tonsilectomies performed show up faulty on post-tonsilectomy examination. In the first place, too many tonsils are being removed by our ambitious surgeons. They just can’t pass one up. They remove hundreds and thousands of perfecteiy normal tonsils, when the operation is not only unecessary but often harmful to the patient. Many lay organizations engaged in public welfare and school work aie getting to be expert in diagnosing tonsil infection. In fact, they can foresee serious danger ahead whenever thew see a pair of tonsils, and as a result, parents are everlastingly being bombarded with notices to have the offending tissue removed, forthwith. Many of these organizations have “tonsil clinics or “tonsil days”, when these children are rounded up like so many sheep, there to participate in a wholesale “tonsil party”. In Indiana today we have these mass production affairs, the old method being too slow. Some of these tonsil clinics are financially productive to the operating surgeon. In many cases a reduced rate is given in view of the wholesale slaughter. At any rate, it is our opinion after consulting some pathologists of wide experience, that many tonsils are needlessly sacraficed. Many surgical operafTons are being done at the suggestion and advice of some nurses in charge of he school or organization, her examination and judgement being final instead of a careful painstaking examination before hand by the operator in charge, to see and know if it is necessary, or just “customary,” to have the tonsils removed. Therfe are too many instances where the surgeon operates without ever having seen the patient until he is taking the anesthetic. The nurse has made the indictment and surgeon carries out the execution. However, we are pleased to note that the list of conservatives is growing. We note_ an_ increasing number of writers condemning the slaughter of the tonsil. Many overzealous surgeons like to tell how many hundreds of tonsils they have removed, but they do not rush madly into print to tell their fellow physicians, and indirectly, the public, about the severe hemorrhages and lung abscesses they have encountered; of the varying amount of tonsil tissue left in one or both fossae; of the anterior or porterior pillars that have been badly mutilated. or the uvula snipped, or completely removed; or the close calls many patients have had as a result of blood and mucus entering the bronchi. Recently bronchoscopy examinations following hundreds of cases, as a check, showed blood and mucus in almost half the cases where ether was given for the removal of tonsils. i

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But I am to confine myself to the subject of “Electro-coagulation of tonsils.” For Electro-coagulation of tonsils, the machine should he set to produce from 450 to 800 milleampers, depending on the machine used, and the amount of coagulation desired by the operator. The patient is seated in any convenient office-chair ; then spray or

Use a wooden or glass or bakealight tongue depresssr. Have your nurse, if you prefer, hold for- ( ward the anterior pillar with a hard rubber pillar retractor. Never turn on the current unless you can absolutely see what wo are doing and where you are placing the point of your needle, which should be slightly curved, with the point toward the center of the

tonsil.

Depending on the method used, the needle may he inserted from one-fourth (1-4) to one-half (1-2) inch, or less into the tonsil, and then make pressure on the footswitch, and in from one to three seconds, a white ring apepars around the needle-point. The footswitch is now released find the

needle withdrawn.

The number of punctures, about one-fourth (1-4) inch apart, vary with the size of the tonsil. In ragged tonsils, or those which have partially returned after the surgical method, insertions in proportion to the amount of tissue involved will be necessary, but care should be exercised not to unduly overlap the coagulation, or to approach too ne ar the pillars or

other adjacent tissue.

It is best not to repeat the operation until all operative reaction from a previous operation has subsided which will be about ten days, or two weeks. Most tonsils can be completely removed in from

three ot six treatments.

A milder, yet efficient, method is to avoid all insections of needle in tonsil tissue, and simply flash the current at sparking distance, over the tonsil, thus spraying the entire surface of each tonsil, but using care not to spray the pillars or surrounding tissue. This treatment being more superficial, may be repeated within a few days. * * Here are a few reasons why I prefer the electro-coagulation of tonsils to the old orthodox surgi-

cal method:

1. It is a much safer method. There is absolutely no comparison,

when it comes to safety.

2. There is practically no pain. Not enough pain to keep the pa-

tient from work.

3. It Is more economical. Pa-

feet,” advises a govermnent bulletin. Chicken feet, properly cleaned and boiled, have considerable food value and they made a good addition to soup. Kindness pays, even when you are cooking. Boil those potatoes gently and they will he ever so

much better.

Cabbage heads are liable to split, and become damaged owing to the excess moisture and growth when the conditions are very favorable. The splitting can he prevented to some extent by taking

hold of the head with both hands ^ -

and giving it a slight jerk, suffi-1 was fatally injured when the cient to loosen the leaves a little, i wheel of a truck driven by his old-

West accepts an opportunity to leave St. Louis to become queen of a popular gambling palace in New

Orleans.

The men of New Orleans welcome her to the city, and John j Miljan’s gambling house becomes the most popular rendezvous in town. Miljan decides to back a young prize fighter, Pryor, Mae West’s “St. Louis man,” and, in order to get money for this enterprise, induces Pryor to rob Mae West of her diamonds. Pryor gets the diamonds, unaware of the identity of the woman he robs. Mae West frames the fight,' ruins Miljan, and brings back her re-

morseful sweetheart.

An Ohio newsbay, Glenn Keller,

It’s a good time now to mow the weeds in your garden, if you haven’t done it already. Water your ferns with ice water from the refrigerator. Allow mud stains to dry, and then brush off. o The stranger doesn’t mean to insult her. He thinks she is that kind of girl, else she wouldn’t be riding with a stranger.

er brother became detached from the vehicle, rolled down the street and struck the little newsy.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO DISANNEX LANDS AND LOTS FROM THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF MUNCIE

affected by said petition s the pro-

tients undergoing treatment need j perty of the petitioners of the above

named persons.

Said petition and all matters and

not be hospitalized. It is strictly an office procedure. No loss of time from work is necessary. 4. It is unnecessary to take a blood coagulation test for bleeders, since in this method there is no hemorrhage. Patient rarely Jokes

a drop of blood.

5. The field of operation is always clean and clear, and free of blood and mucus,—unlike the sur-

gical method.

6. No general anesthetic, with its resulting dangers and complications is needed. Just a safe topical application is all that is

necessary.

7. There is no age limit, for this method, except among very young

children.

8. There are no voice changes experienced, during or after treatment; therefore, no risk to professional singers or public speak-

ers.

9. Tonsil tabs or scars or ragged condition of tonsils following the surgical method, are easily smoothed up. 10. Electro-coagulation is the method of choice for the many people who through fear, or for some other reason, refuse surgery and the dangers of a general anesthetic. 11. Electro-coagulation is much the safer method in all cases of tuberculosis, goiter, syphilis, all heart conditions, Bright’s disease, diabetes, diphtheria carriers, and after trench mouth or Vincent’s angina, and after strepticocic infections and many other diseases and conditions. 12. If electro-coagulation was found to be much better and safer, after hundreds and hundreds of operations on persons suffering from the above named diseases, why not make it the method of choice in every operation of this nature? If after a careful, painstaking, examination by a qualified physician or surgeon, the tonsils are found to be infected or badly diseased, and it is definitely decided that they should be removed for the best interest of the patient, why not try a newer and safer method?—One practically free of any danger or complication, also, one in which the tonsils can be completely removed without damage or distruction to adjacent tissues, and one by which there is no loss of time or meals during the period the tonsils are being removed. o How much sympathy in a sympathetic strike?—Chicago News.

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Ethey M. Kissel vs. Harry Wm. Kissel. In the Delaware Circuit Court, September term, 1934. Complaint for divorce. No. 9756. Notice is hereby given the said defendant, Harry Wm. Kissel, that the plaintiff has filed her complaint herein, for divorce, together with an affidavit that the said defendant, Harry Wm. Kissel, is not a resident of the state of Indiana, and that unless he he and appear on Saturday, the 10th day of Novemer, 1934, the 54th day the next term of said court, to be holden on the second Monday in September, A. D., 1934, at the court house in the city of Muncie, in said county and state, the said cause will be heard and determined in his absence. Witness, the clerk ond the seal of said court, affixed at the city of Muncie, this 7th day of September, A. D„ 1934. MABEL B. RINGO, (Seal) Clerk. Walterhouse & Mansfield, Sep.7-14-21 Plaintiffs Attorneys.

To the city of Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana the Citizens there-

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