Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1920 — Page 17

RESTORE YOUTH BY FEEDING * BRAIN GLAND University Graduate Upsets Old Medical Theories. USED RODENTS AS TESTS BERKET.KY, CaL. Jun* 5,-Wky bother with an operation to restore the ▼Uror of youth when : process of feeding the hypophysis and thyroid glands will roster® youthful vigor? Going the Paris savant who transferred monkey glands to his patients, the Kansts physician who substituted goat glands for those of his patients, and the San Quentin prison surgeon who transplanted the interstitial glands of dead men to live ones one better the first policeman in the United States to boast a degree of doctor of philosophy has startled the world of science with new overies of the_possibility of glanduHar treatment in rejuvenating men and women. He is Doctor John Augustus Larson, patrolman on the city police force, fingerprint expert and former member of the faculty of the University of California. LOOKING FOR CURE 808 CRIMINALS. Dr. Larson's discoveries were not made while seeking the fountain of youth, however. He is endeavoring to find a cure for criminals and believes he is moving In the right direction. Through _his researches he expects to relegate to the limbo of forgotten things the old-time cranial operations by which surgeons sought to eliminate criminal tendencies. In his experiments, conducted at the University of California. Larson treated the two major glands in the head, the hypophysis, which connects with the brain, and the thyroid, which Is located In the fore part of the neck. His exCiriments conclusively proved that the tter gland could be eliminated and human life continue at a greater advantage In many inst nces through the feed- j fag of the brain-connecting gland. Lar•on proved also that, by feeding th hypophysis, not only did a larger And better developed brain result, but that a general growth of the body followed. More than 300 rats were used by Larson In experiments continuing over almost a year, the rodents being selected because es their similarity In organism to the human system. "While it Is proven conclusively that a more highly developed brain and ! body has resulted from the feeding of j the gland In question,” said Larson, “I • ean not guarantee the same results in humans, although it Is more than likely that they would be the same. “Reasoning along the same line, it te probable also that mental defects In a human being could be overcome In j the same way and a normal, healthy : merson made of a weakling, provided, of > Hhme, there is only a mental situation | ■tat needs correction. It can not be ex- ; Jpected that the results will cure all the ! human ills at once.” MAXES RESPOND MORE READILY. That males respond more readily to ! the experiments than females? Larson declared was shown In his experiments, * larger growth resulting in the former than the latter. Rodents that had one f the glands exterminated and were ; “fed” scientifically developed at a more j rapid pace than did those with both gland? fed in the same manner, disclose* Larson's thesis on the subject, written to obtain his degree. In this latter contention Larson disagrees with recognized experts and probably offers the first proof of Its kind in existence that both the glands are not essential to human life. In summing up his experiments, Larson declares that the administration of food to the anterior lobe of the brain through the hypophysis ‘‘has a very beneficial maintenance and growth” on animals which have had their tyroid .glands extracted. Aside from the ameleffect upon the general eondlRsn of the animal, the life Is definitely prolonged. The beneficial effect might indicate a direct substitution in which the pituitary (autocold or hypophysis i takes the place of the thyroid in a compensatory effort to establish normal metabolism,” or, in unscientific words, to build up a run-down system. Larson's glandular experiments follow other startling disclosures made by him In the world of criminology by which he Is able not only to establish Identification by a single fingerprint, but to definitely tell the race and color of an Individual as well. lie recently completed Investigations also which enabled him to establish connecting links between members of the same family through their fingerprints. Larson is 27 years old and a graduate of Boston university, residing in Berkeley with a widowed mother, whom he has been supporting through all of his studies.

Tiniest Newspaper Just ‘Happened’ NEW YORK. June 9.—How “the sinall••t newspaper In the world," a tiny fourpage folder called Better Times, published In imitation of an ordinary paper, tune Into existence and grew was told teeently by George J. Hecht, its editor, who launched the publication as chairman of the publicity committee of the ■United Neighborhood Houses of New Tork, which is composed of about fifty social service organizations. “When the houses were first organized In April, 1919, In order to focus the attention of the community and government actively upon neighborhood organization, Americanization and child welfare work, a pamphlet explaining the | purposes of the organization, was a I necessity. "**MrThe miniature newspaper with Its 4xb Irch pages was ns?d Instead of a conventional folder, and was made to contain settlement news, editorials, cartoon? and a humorous column, besides an appeal for funds. "So successful was the paper In arousing Interest and raising money that it was soon made the house organ of the •rganizatlon.” Lifting Pencil With Toes Is Walk Test CINCINNATI, June B.— Here's something new! It’s a test to show whether girls walk properly. If a girl can lift up a pencil with her toes she can walk properly, according to Miss Ruth McCoy, physical director of the Young Women’s Christian Association. Lifting a pencil with tha toes —tha Ufa pressing the pencil against the ball •pi the loot—shows that the owner of those toes walks properly, utilizing all the mcacles and making them strong, •ays McCoy. - Demonstrations have convinced Miss McCoy that comparatively few girls can lift np a pencil with their toes because they walk Incorrectly and wear Improper ■hoes. A "sensible shoe" campaign has been launched at Hnghes High school here in an effort to increase the number of Cincinnati women who walk properly.

YOUTH AGED BY GHASTLY SIGHTS 15-Year-Old Lad Is Physical and Mental Wreck. CINCINNATI, June B.—A physical wreck, 15-year-oid Connie Levender, a world war hero, was arraigned In a lunacy hearing before Probate Judge Lenders. The youth looked like a man of 40. Connie’s teeth are those of an old mnn, his sight Is nearly gone. With hair tbln, bis head has the baldness of an old man and bis face and hands are wrinkled—all due, physicians said, to the e---j vere shock received by his entire nervous | system through the war horrors he saw ! and felt. Born in Richmond, ( Va., Dee. 30, 1904, Connie enlisted as a mascot drummer boy five years ago at Sarnia, Ontario, and went overseas with the Princess Pat t regiment. A year later he won a medal as a sniper In Flanders. He went over the top times without number, was bayoneted, gassed twice, wounded with shrapnel and then lay, unconscious, four months in a hospital nt The Hague, a shell-shock yictim. Discharged because of disability in November. 1917, Connie accepted the advice of doctors that hiking was the beat thing for him. Stopping at a home near here, he was suspected of being insane. But Connie had a loyal defender in tourt. Mrs. C. P. Austin of this city heard of Connie’s predicament. She had taken him in for a time when be appealed for shelter a year ago. Court and spectators alike wiped theli eyes while listening to a reading of the lad’s record as written by Canadian authorities. “He was fearless. He had remarkable vision at night—the signt of a eat. He did outpost duty. He was in raiding parties, in big offensive and defensive engagements. I saw him in action, time and time quick, and with the judgment and fearlessness of a man,” wrote one Canadian officer. “I will cars for him,” Mrs. Austin said. “Connie is welcome at my home. I had three sons in the war. Two came back and one didn't, and—” but tho woman's emotions put a stop to further words. Judge Leuders permitted Mrs. Austin to take csre of Connie while the Judge and Dr. Walter A. Jilson of the federa. public health service appealed to the United States government and to the Red Cross to aid the unfortunate wtr hero. “If the great British government can t properly care for such a boy hero a* this. Uncle Sam and the Red Cross will,” Judge Leuders declared. Prohibition Agent Rescued From Snake

WASHINGTON'. Jon* B.—A inake. a rolling pin, a foot that slipped and a yawning pit. They all figured in two minutes' experience of Henry Gardner, of the Internal revenjiC office, at his farm near Vienna, Va. Gardner had been looking at the coffin varnish and fusel oil when it was red. He had been exerting himself to down whisky. Then he saw the snake, tripped, nearly fell Into a well, and was rescued by his wife with the traditional kitchen weapon. And Gardner doesn’t take a drink. He is an employe of the prohibition branch of the revenue burean. The other evening he went to his farm to try to get the rum demon out of his mind, and set to work cutting weed* and clearing brush away from a struggling onion bed. When he had collected a big armful of brush he picked it up and carried it to a point several hundred yards away for burning. As he deposited h!s burden on the ground there was a hiss, and an ugly head shot up from among the weeds, within a few inches of his face. The head snrmounted one of the meanest looking snakes a man could conjure if he had drank all the forty-rod which Gardner had suppressed. Gardner started to run, shouting to his wife to bring some weapon. It was at that moment that Gardner's foot slipped, nearly precipitating him Into thf old well. He recovered himself, however, Just as Mrs. Gardner arrived with the rolling pin. The snake then enacted the part of Jiggs. The reptile was several feet long and as large as a person’s arm. It has since been identified as a member of a poisonous species. Gardner’s friends are asking why a prohibition inspector should hug a snake to his bosom. New Jersey Man Wills Wife to His Brother NEW YORK. June B.—So much did John E. Leikauf. who died at Montclair, N. J.. love his brother Hut he willed him his wife. He provided that Mrs. I.ulu Leikanf, his widow, will lose tbe Income from $40,000 If she marries any one other than “my beloved brother, George L. Leikauf." The brother resides in the testator's home. But the widow's Income is not to ha paid to her unless she excludes from her residence her father, Ernest A. Schmidt. If be resides with her or has anything to do with her children, the trust provision Is revoked. The testator was more kindly disposed toward hie mother-in-law. She Is to be cared for and have all her wants satisfied j from bis estate. After their mother's death the testator's l three children, John 12. Edward 8 and j Herbert 6 are to divide the principal. “It is my wish,’’ the will concludes. ; “that my children meet once each year at 1 my grave, shake bands and make up all j their differences.” Wireless Direction Finding Explained LONDON. June B.—Bpeaking on the "Wonders of Wireless Telegraphy" at ! the Overseas club in London, T. F. i Finueane of the Marconi Wireless* Com- ! pany referred to the wireless direction finder and said that the scheme on which I (his apparatus worked was that the di- ! rectlon of a wireless station could be dlsj covered and- two observations plotted on i a chart. The point of intersection of the two lines of observation gave the position of j the receiver. By means of 'he daily chronometer, signals and astronomical calculations, explorers in an unknown land could discover their position. If they lacked a mast for an aerial, a tree could serve as a substitute, or even a coll of wire, stretched on dry ground. CANADA'S FIRST CONCRETE SHIP. NORTH SYDNEY, Cape Breton. J une 3. —The first ocean-going concrete ship to be built in Canada has been launched here from the yard of the Canada Concrete Shipbuilding Company. The veesel, which has been christened the Permancla, will shortly be placed In the Newfound-land-Cape Breton service, and carry both passengers and freight. She will be equipped with engines of the Bolander j type, burning crude ail, and will have a speed of nine or ten knots. The vessel, which will have Lloyd’s highest rating, has three keels—the main keel and two >llge keels—which are reinforced by steel *ods running the entire length. Steel rods also run through the ribs and the main body of the ship. In the main body the steel rods run both longitudinally and diagonally and are so adjusted as te secure the maximum strength of construction.

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A Fifteen Million Dollar Industry for Indianapolis and Indiana

This is possibly the largest job of industrial financing over undertaken by Indiana in her own right. It is of such magnitude that a syndicate of Indianapolis banks, trust companies and investment dealers has been formed to handle it. To the trained financier, the attractiveness of this issue, from an investment standpoint, is immediately obvious. In the first place, you are putting your money into a great, established industry right here at home —an industry managed by men whom you know, perhaps personally —men with reputations

for doing big things successfully, and for making their successes stick. Into the Midwest enterprise have gravitated leading Indianapolis manufacturers, capitalists and business men—the type of men whor have finally helped to lift Indianapolis out of the overgrown country town class and planted her firmly on an equality basis with the other recognized industrial centers of America. The Midwest Engine Company of Indianapolis is the preface to the industrial history of the greater Indianapolis that is to be. It embodies the new Indianapolis winning spirit and determination and vision. And yet, in policy, it does not depart from precedents of conservatism and steady management established by the older industrial successes of the city. The only essential in which the Midwest Engine Company differs from the half dozen or so other big, notable industrial successes of Indianapolis lies in the manner and circumstance of its origin and growth. The growth of the Midwest Engine Company has been necessarily sudden. It sprang into existence almost over night in response to the country’s war needs. The war history of the Midwest Engine Company should be prized by every loyal Indianapolis man, woman and child. Its original organization was as much a patriotic move as a business move. Somebody had to produce a terrific amount of horse power in an incredibly short time —and Indiana capital and business experience rushed forward to meet the emergency. Three-quarters of a million horse power was produced by the Midwest Engine Com-

pany in record-breaking time. Midwest made good on every commitment. Among all the turbines “produced during the emergency, Midwest turbines made the best showing in governmental tests. Midwest internal combustion engines did trustworthy service on the actual field of battle, and brought world credit to the manufacturing skill of Indianapolis. The war ended as suddenly as it had begun. At the time tbe armistice was signed, the Midwest Engine Company was devoting ninety-eight per cent of its facilities to -war work. ' During the following year, a smooth switch was made to peace production, without loss of time or money. In 3919 the company operated at a profit. Considering the magnitude of the indusrty, skillful change from war to peace production, on a profit basis, was a supreme demonstration of the Midwest Engine Company’s sheer business ability.

INDIANA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1920.

Fletcher American Company Breed, Elliott & Harrison Fletcher Savings & Trust Company Haueisen & Jewett Becker & Overman City Trust Company Thomson & McKinnon Thos. D. Sheerin & Company Newton Todd INDIANAPOLIS, IND. A

Board of Directors and Personnel The officers and board of directors of the Midwest Engine Company will be as follows: John G. Wood - - President F. L. Atwood - - Vice Pres, and Director of Manufacture H. W. Griffith - - Sec.-Treas. Fred S. Robinson - Gen. Mgr. Lon R. Smith - Gen. Sales Mgr. James A. Allison - - Director Capital!*!, Formerly Vic* Tiytldfiit I’r*t-0-Llt Company. J. J. Cole .... Director I’raHldant Colo Motor Car Company. Carl G. Fisher - - Director CapltulUt, Formerly President Pre*t-0-LHe Company. Stoughton A. Fletcher - Director President Fletcher American National Hank. Walter C. Marmon * Director President Nordyke A Marmon Company. Charles B. Sommers - Director President The Gibson Company. Lucius M. Wainwright - Director President Diamond Chain and .Uunufacturlng Company.

The most conclusive demonstration of Midwest ability, however, lies in the judgment and long-headedness displayed by the management in laying out a permanent manufacturing plan for thefuture —in selecting something to make. The present period of market fluctuation and buying restlessness of the country was anticipated by Midwest and prepared for. The terrific demand for the basic necessities made by the Midwest Engine Company proves that in catering to the unwavering demand for food, Midwest policy is fundamentally sound. No matter what happens in this country or in the foreign market, there can never be any disturbance in the marketing of Midwest products—

because the need for Midwest products is basic and founded solely on necessity. As long as men must eat, Midwest htilitors and Midwest Truck and Tractor Engines will sell in greater quantities than they can ever be produced. The safety of your investment in Midwest stock lies in th* following facts: 1. You are putting your money into a big, going institution which has made money from the beginning and ii going to go on making money permanently. 2. You are putting your money in the hands of men you know, men whose ability is a proved quantity, men who have lived with you and who are going to go on living with you and coining in daily contact with you. THIS BEATS BACKING STRANGERS. 3. The most courageous, and, at the same time, the most conservative and safe type of Indianapolis business man can be found on the board of directors of the Midwest Engine Company. These men are the very ones to whom you would go for sound business advice in any important situation. Everything with which they have ever been associated has been successful in a big way. 4. Today there are more than thirty thousand unfilled orders for Utilitors alone on the books of the Midwest Engine Company, and the demand for the new Midwest, high speed, heavy duty truck and tractor engine is even greater. If Midwest made nothing but this engine and the Utilitor, it would be one of the biggest industries in America. 5. But Midwest makes other things besides—notably a standard line of pumps and turbines at the Anderson plant —a line bought consistently and in great quantities throughout America and abroad. 6. Your investment is secured by actual physical assets of surpassing value—a main plant covering sixty-five acres of ground, with floor space totaling 608,000 square feet—-a branch plant at Anderson covering five acres with 98,000 square feet of floor space—acres of the most modern equipment —a merchandise inventory of well over two million dollars over and above the land, building and equipment ap-

praisement of more than five and a quarter millions. And all this leaves out of consideration the good will of a big, going business whose value can scarcely be computed in dollars and cents. 7. The Midwest Engine Company has developed and is marketing a machine that will unquestionably become to the farm what the best-known small car has become to the road. Utilitors will in time be as plentiful as this same noted small car. The man who gets an interest in the Midwest Engine Company now is long-headed. 8. This time you get an allotment of common stock along with your secured 8 per cent,* tax-exempt preferred—and, so far as your common goes, there is no limitations on how much you can make on it excepting the physical limitations of the big Midwest plants. Incidentally, this is the first time you have ever had an opportunity to participate in the earnings of one of Indianapolis’ big industries. 9. Leading banks, trust companies and investment dealers of Indianapolis are offering this issue. This is the roost far-reaching industrial move ever undertaken by the financial interests of Indiana. Are you going to participatet Full particulars on application. y

8 Per Cent Tax Exempt Cumulative Preferred Stock Exempt from state and local taxes in Indiana, and alao from normal . Federal income taxes. Shires SIOO.OO each. Maturity July I, 1930. Callable at any interest paying date on thirty days' notice, at SIIO.OO per share, and accrued dividend. Commencing December 11, 1923, a Sinking Fund of 10 per cent of the Company's annual net profits will be applied to the redemption of this stock. Indiana Trust Company, Indianapolis Reg. letrar and Trustee; Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, Indianapolis, Transfer Agent. Price—sloo Per Share With each two shares of preferred etock the purchaser receives one share of common stock as a bonus.

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