Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 185, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1920 — Page 4

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PUBLIC ASKED TO GET BEHIND HEALTH BILL Dr. Hurty Says 12,000 Hoosiers Die Annually From Preventive Disease. SCORES ASSEMBLYMEN Branding the members of the Indiana Legislature as “penny wise and pound foolish” for their refusal to pass legislation which wi.i provide modern methods of disease prevention, Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the State Board of Health, has issued an appeal to the cltlsens of Indiana to get behind the bill which would establish all-time health officers, and to demand their represen tatlves rote for it. Ninety per cent of the deaths caused from preventable diseases could bo prevented if the Legislature would do Its full duty, according to Dr. Hurty. The .jsgls'.ature will do Its duty, he declares, if the people will demand better health laws, and will cooperate with the board of health In Its efforts to stamp out disease. “Preventable diseases cause 1,000.000 eases of sickness and 12.000 deaths in Indiana each year," said Dr. Hurty. “Con-

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Falls Into Luck CLEVELAND, Dec. 13.—An accident credited Patrolman Kennedy with lac arrest of a burglar. Kennedy fell into a coal hole and landed on and knocked the breath out of “Jlggs” Johnson, police character.

sumption alone kills 4,000 annually and pneumonia, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, typhoid fever. Infantile diarrhea. etc., kill the remaining 8,000. “The 12.000 coffins required would make a train load and the funeral processions, counting ten vehicles to the procession, would reach from South Bend to Cincinnati. These figures could be cut down one-fourth if the Legislature would do its duty, and the people would give their cooperation. “People of Indiana will let the electrician do his work In the manner he thinks best, but they wish their health prevention carried on the way they wish It done. And sometimes they do not wish It done at all. “One old man told me once, ‘I am 76 years old and I never seen a microbe and I don’t believe in ’em.’ Another person, a woman, who, with her three children, two of whom died, were down with scarlet fever, told me ‘I don't wish jour help for God brought me and my kids into this world and He will take care of us.’ ” “Many of tho members of the Assem-

bly say they are In favor of the all-time health officer system If it doesn’t cost too much. “They will stand for economy which very often is simply 'a withholding which causeth poverty.' They do not know there is ‘a spending which bringeth an increase.’ ” The people of Indiana spend each year in sickness and death from preventable diseases a sum which Is three times the cost of their entire State government, Dr, Hurty said. He says the new system of disease prevention under the all-time health officer would cost no more than the present system. “The State Board of Health urges the people to stand up for the public health and to urge their members of the Genera! Assembly to work and to vote for all reasonable measures intended to promote health,’’ Dr. Hurty says in bis appeal. Thugs Raid Gamblers CLEVELAND, Dec. 13. —Seven armed and masked thieves held up two card games in a Woodland restaurant late Inst night, lined up fifteen players and spectators along the wall, stele more than BS.OOO in cash and Jewelry and escaped. Kicked on Shin; Dead CniCAGO, Dec. 13.—Arnold Krause. 8, 3534 Wabans'a avenue. Is dead, suposed)y from the effects of blood poisoning. The lad was kicked on the shin Dec. 7 by a school companion. The wound became Infected.

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2 BOYS HELD IN HOMEROBBERY Another Tries to Sell Clothing—Gets in Bad. James Hoskins, alias Smtih, 20. 460 North California street, and Bari Jones, 20, negro, 857 Colton street, are under arrest today charged with having entered and robbed the home of Eugene Castleman, West Walnut street, the night of Dec. 9. Hoskins, the detectives say, confessed and both youths are charged witb grand larceny and burglary. I-Ie was arrested while selling some clothing alleged to have been stolen from Castleman’s home. James Foster, 22, of 430 North West street, was arrested while attempting to sell clothing which the police say was stolen from the shop of the Two Little Tailors, 115 South Illinois street, where SSOO worth of clothing was stolen. Foster, who 1s charged with grand larceny and burglary, was given a suspended sentence in Criminal Court some months ago, the police say. Hoy Courtney, night watchman at the Central Supply Company, Senate avenuo and Merrill streets, discovered a man in the office of the company early Sunday. The man Jumped through the window and ran. Tho prowler had opened the outside door of the safe, which was unlocked, but nothing was stolen. A. It. Thomas, No. 5 The Alexander Apartments, Vermont and New Jersey streets, told the police his home was

It's Gotta Stop! PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 13.—The annual report of the Humane Society of western Pennsylvania says: “A woman, apparently f>o, called at the office to ascertain If anything could be dqne to stop abusive treatment of her mother. ‘‘‘How old 13 your mother?’ she was asked. “ ‘Eighty.’ “ 'Who abuses her?’ ’* “ ‘Her father. And he makes life miserable for her.' “ ’And how old Is he?’ “ ‘Ho Is 101.’ ’’

entered by a burglar and that money and Jewelry amounting to S6O was missing. Gets SI,BOO for Child Special to The Times. NOBLESVILLK, Ind., ■ Dec. 13 —The ease of Harry Wiggins against the Uniou Traction Company, which was *to have been called for trial In the Circuit Court Saturday, was compromised and dismissed before the Jury was empaneled. Wiggins was suing for damages on account of the death of his child and by the terms of the compromise received SI,BOO. The child was killed several months ago when a runaway car on the traction line Jumped the track in the business section In this city and plowed through the courthouse yard.

Woman’s Assailant Held JPolice Claim Special to The Times. SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Dec. 13—Howard E. Little, 25, Is under arrest here, charged with being the assailant of Mrs. Sain Higgins, a prominent woman of tbls city, who was attacked by a man late Friday night when she was on her nay home. Her screams are said to have frightened him away. Little was arrested from the description given by the woman and is said to have made a confession, In which he accuses Howard Glore of Rusbville being his companion In the attack and the robbery of one home and an attempt to rob another during last week. Glore was arrested at RusUvHle and j brought here Sunday afternoon. He de-

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nled all connection with the affair and said he had not seen Little for ben days. Little is said to have admitted that he and Glore broke into the home of Milton .Minton here. The two men will have a hearing today In Circuit Court. Preachers to Fight ‘Menace of Movie’ WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dev. 13.—The International Reform Bureau has singled out the moving picture industry as one of Its objects of attack. Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts told his associates In the reform bureau here that the first step in removing the “menace of the movie’’ was an appeal for aid to Lie Catholic Church, and, having secured that, to crash Into Congress backed by

every Christian church and reform organization In the country. “That’s the only way we ever will defeat the $40,000,000 slush fund the j movie men have come to Washington | with," Dr. Crafts Bald, i The Rev, Howard E. Clark of the ConI gregationallat Church of Plainfield, N. J., said they wanted to save the movies from ! “their present owners.” ' ACCUSED OF BUYING STOLEN CAB.' RICHMOND, Ind., Dec. 13.—John I. Lennard, owner of a Cigar store here, who is under indictment for alleged I illegal liquor sales, was arrested here I Saturday by Sheriff Clem V. Carr on a charge of knowingly receiving and purchasing a stolen automobile In Hamilton, Ohio. His arrest followed the confession, it is said, of a member of a gang of automobile thieves who have been operating In Dayton, Hamilton and Richmond.